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": ["Erasmus replacement: Welsh students to get new scheme - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh firms looking at flexi-working 'permanently' - BBC News", "Mandelson urges Starmer to begin Labour policy review - BBC News", "Covid: EU should not 'build walls' around vaccines - Wallace - BBC News", "Census 2021 to provide snapshot of life during pandemic - BBC News", "'Sonic boom' in Dorset blamed on 'fireball meteor' - BBC News", "New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables - BBC News", "Covid-19: Record day for UK with 711,156 vaccinations given - BBC News", "Old Firm fans praised for heeding 'stay at home' call - BBC News", "Fireworks thrown in 'unprecedented' Bristol violence - BBC News", "Diversity review under way at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Elon Musk denies Tesla cars are used for spying in China - BBC News", "Women's safety: Police apologise over flasher response delay - BBC News", "Stolen dogs investigation finds 83 pets in Ipswich raid - BBC News", "Uganda: Lions found dead in Queen Elizabeth National Park - BBC News", "In pictures: Kill the Bill Bristol protest turns violent - BBC News", "Covid-19: Record-breaking day with 844,285 vaccine doses given in UK - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Leicester City 3-1 Man Utd: Foxes into FA Cup semi-finals - BBC Sport", "France 32-30 Wales: Late drama as hosts deny Wales Grand Slam at death - BBC Sport", "Foreign holidays: Minister refuses to rule out Covid ban extension - BBC News", "Everton 0-2 Man City: Ilkay Gundogan & De Bruyne goals keep quadruple hopes alive - BBC Sport", "Iceland volcano: Lava-spewing Fagradalsfjall 'subsiding' - BBC News", "Covid: Arrests during anti-lockdown protests in London - BBC News", "Wingate arson: Ex-marine Sean Ivey 'overwhelmed' by generosity - BBC News", "Walrus spotted in Wales, days after one seen off Ireland - BBC News", "Celtic 1-1 Rangers: Alfredo Morelos strike maintains champions' unbeaten campaign - BBC Sport", "Bristol protest: Police attacked as 'Kill the Bill' demo turns violent - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Dying nurse told sister 'follow in my footsteps' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: York food plea nurse Dawn Bilbrough develops symptoms - BBC News", "Covid: Masks and social distancing 'could last years' - BBC News", "West Ham United 3-3 Arsenal: Gunners rescue point from 3-0 down - BBC Sport", "Wingate fire: Ex-marine's home destroyed 'after standing up to yobs' - BBC News", "Covid restrictions: Can music festivals be safely planned? - BBC News", "Mourners line Tanzania streets at ex-President Magufuli's funeral - BBC News", "Newtownabbey: Lives lost to violence an 'absolute tragedy' says justice minister - BBC News", "Covid: Tory MPs question renewal of emergency powers - BBC News", "Old Firm derby: Major police operation as fans told 'stay at home' - BBC News", "Shortage of bouncers could stop clubs reopening - BBC News", "Foreign aid: Government decision to cut budget 'unlawful', says peer - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid-19: Another record-breaking vaccine day for UK - BBC News", "Dawn Bilbrough: Food plea nurse considers quitting after Covid - BBC News", "Covid: Ex-MP's husband 'had do not resuscitate order' - BBC News", "Qantas boss: Governments 'to insist' on vaccines for flying - BBC News", "Liberal Democrats propose 'sovereign green wealth fund' - BBC News", "Lawrence Okolie knocks out Krzysztof Glowacki to land WBO world cruiserweight title - BBC Sport", "Covid: Fines issued for rugby party lockdown breach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Backlash in Spain over princesses getting UAE vaccines - BBC News", "Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague broke rules with Instagram giveaway - BBC News", "Buckingham Palace to investigate claims Meghan bullied staff - BBC News", "Eurovision Song Contest travel 'necessary', organisers say - BBC News", "Rugby World Cup 2021 set to be postponed until 2022, World Rugby announces - BBC Sport", "Covid: Oxford vaccine does protect older people, Europe told - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Covid deaths set to cut state pension costs - BBC News", "Budget 2021: The most important Budget for business in a generation - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Chancellor's statement and reaction in full - BBC News", "Starmer: Budget 'papers over the cracks' - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Million more set to pay income tax by 2026 - BBC News", "Prince Philip 'slightly improving', says Camilla - BBC News", "Beattie Communications chairman resigns over social media post - BBC News", "Covid: Qantas launches 'mystery flights' to boost tourism - BBC News", "Toronto van attack: Minassian guilty of killing 10 people - BBC News", "Harry Dunn: Teen's family can claim against suspect and her husband - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Stamp duty holiday deadline 'may cost us £12,000' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Isle of Man in 'circuit-breaker' lockdown after spike in cases - BBC News", "Budget 2021: The challenge facing Rishi Sunak - BBC News", "Bunny Wailer: Reggae legend who found fame with Bob Marley dies, aged 73 - BBC News", "Covid vaccine being tested in patients with low immunity - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Relief extended for businesses on rates and VAT - BBC News", "Pontins used 'undesirables list' of Irish surnames - BBC News", "Murder and rape arrest in Blackpool hospital death investigation - BBC News", "Salmond inquiry: MSPs sceptical about 'forgotten meeting' - BBC News", "Covid still doing 'profound damage' to economy - Sunak - BBC News", "Japanese billionaire seeks eight people to fly to Moon - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Domestic abuse extra money welcomed, but 'shortfall remains' - BBC News", "Meghan 'saddened' by bullying complaint report - BBC News", "Manchester Arena attack: Firefighters 'felt shame' at being held back - BBC News", "Covid: Labour Oxford councillor has whip removed over 'private' jab - BBC News", "Covid-19: Dolly Parton marks vaccination with Jolene rewrite - BBC News", "Budget: Rishi Sunak set to spend but hopes to return to caution soon - BBC News", "Some UK arrivals waiting nine days for quarantine Covid tests - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Contactless card limit will rise to £100 - BBC News", "Aerial footage of Exeter bomb exploding - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak vows to protect jobs but tax hikes loom - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak warns tax rises to follow spending spree - BBC News", "BBC Three will return to TV screens after six-year break - BBC News", "Brazil variant: Search for mystery case narrows to 379 households - BBC News", "'If the others go I'll go': Inside China's scheme to transfer Uighurs into work - BBC News", "Social care leaders warn of funding 'cliff edge' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca jab reassurance, and the scale of rough sleeping exposed - BBC News", "Energy customers set for refunds when direct debits are too high - BBC News", "Coronavirus exposed 'much larger' rough sleeping issue, says committee - BBC News", "Oliver Campbell: Calls to review 30-year-old murder conviction - BBC News", "Stuart Lubbock: Murder arrest over death following Michael Barrymore party - BBC News", "Does size matter for Britain's shrinking Army? - BBC News", "Covid: NHS warns of 'significant reduction' in vaccines - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Hairdressers to reopen on 5 April as rules ease - BBC News", "John Magufuli: Tanzania's president dies aged 61 after Covid rumours - BBC News", "Demi Lovato says she was raped as a teenager in new documentary - BBC News", "Lothian Buses suspends evening services following attacks - BBC News", "As it happened: Covid-19: UK 'on course' to vaccinate over-50s by 15 April deadline - Hancock - BBC News", "North Belfast: Four women treated for stab wounds and man attacked - BBC News", "Weddings on hold again after 'confusion' over rules - BBC News", "Chip shortage: Samsung warns of 'serious imbalance' - BBC News", "Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab safe, insists Hancock - BBC News", "Democracy is in retreat, warns Dominic Raab - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Bonus payment for NHS and care staff - BBC News", "Prince Philip: Duke of Edinburgh leaves hospital after a month - BBC News", "Chelsea 2-0 Atletico Madrid (3-0 agg): Hosts reach Champions League last eight - BBC Sport", "Covid: People aged 50-54 invited for jab in England - BBC News", "Coronavirus: NI's five-step plan to ease lockdown - BBC News", "Health department was 'smoking ruin' on Covid - Cummings - BBC News", "Syria: The scars left by a school bombing - BBC News", "'Toxic culture of sexism' in police, says former police chief - BBC News", "Covid-19: Foster defends executive's 'cautious' approach - BBC News", "St Patrick's Day: Countries celebrate Ireland's patron saint - BBC News", "Police to record crimes motivated by sex or gender on 'experimental basis' - BBC News", "Football's child sex abuse scandal: Sheldon review finds 'institutional failings' - BBC Sport", "Topical steroid addiction: Patients call for more support - BBC News", "Piers Morgan's Meghan comments break Ofcom complaints record - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon 'refutes' MP's claims about Alex Salmond row - BBC News", "Sabine Schmitz: Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter dies aged 51 - BBC Sport", "P&O Cruises says travellers will need vaccinations - BBC News", "Defence funding boost 'extends British influence', says PM - BBC News", "PMQs: As it happened - PM challenged on women's safety - BBC News", "Sharon Osbourne 'may not return to US talk show' as race row escalates - BBC News", "Covid: Holyhead's schools could shut to curb virus flare-up - BBC News", "St Mary's Grammar scraps academic selection for 2022 - BBC News", "Coronavirus: NI medics working 'as quickly as possible' - BBC News", "Mars: Vast amount of water may be locked up on planet - BBC News", "Scotland's train operator ScotRail to be nationalised - BBC News", "Antony Gormley objects to Aldeburgh beach sculptures - BBC News", "Glenn Quinn: 'Break the silence' urges murder victim's brother - BBC News", "Coronavirus: St Patrick's Day celebrations move online - BBC News", "ATM withdrawals drop by £37bn during year of Covid - BBC News", "St Patrick's Day: Police clear crowds at Belfast's Botanic Gardens - BBC News", "Universities told not to swamp courses with students - BBC News", "Covid: People in Wales 'happy with Oxford-AstraZeneca jab' despite clot reports - BBC News", "Covid: Catch-up tuition not helping poorest pupils, says NAO - BBC News", "Treasury eyes VAT charges for gig economy firms - BBC News", "Covid: Wales vaccine supplies to be delayed 'up to four weeks' - BBC News", "Johnson: Defence reforms 'will help make UK match-fit' - BBC News", "Uber: London cabbies plan to sue for damages - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh Government update 17 March 2021 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Hospitality industry 'is lockdown scapegoat' - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Second post-mortem carried out as first is 'inconclusive' - BBC News", "Regent honeyeater: Endangered bird 'has forgotten its song' - BBC News", "Crime: Thieves, robbers and burglars to be fitted with GPS tags - BBC News", "Alex Salmond complaints were 'encouraged' claims Conservative MP - BBC News", "Coronavirus shielding advice to end on 1 April - Hancock - BBC News", "Plastic pollution: Fairbourne child's bid to ban toys in magazines - BBC News", "Premier League hopes fans can return for final two rounds of games - BBC Sport", "Duchess of Sussex has complained to Ofcom over Piers Morgan comments - BBC News", "Corinne Masiero: Actress protests naked at 'French Oscars' ceremony - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Police remove people at Clapham vigil - BBC News", "Cabinet Office to move 500 jobs to Glasgow by 2024 - BBC News", "Gloucester: Covid-breach party leads to £800 fines - BBC News", "Queen marks British Science Week virtually - BBC News", "NI 100: Northern Ireland centenary commemorations revealed - BBC News", "Italy 7-48 Wales: Seven-try Wales hammer Italy to set up Grand Slam finale against France - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: UK national day of reflection to be held on 23 March - BBC News", "Shoreham sea deaths: Skipper David Marr jailed over trio's drowning - BBC News", "Boris Johnson visits Northern Ireland amid unionist tension - BBC News", "'Private remembrance' for Dunblane 25th anniversary - BBC News", "'Mandalay was a massacre': Security forces fire at protests - BBC News", "FA Cup final and World Snooker Championship on list of pilot events to test return of fans - BBC Sport", "Spanish police seize narco-submarine in Malaga raid - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Met PC Wayne Couzens charged with murder - BBC News", "Microsoft hack: 3,000 UK email servers remain unsecured - BBC News", "Covid-19: 48,000 businesses sign up for rapid testing - BBC News", "House builders 'should drop appalling gagging orders' - BBC News", "Bernardine Evaristo: Husband surprises Booker winner… with a book - BBC News", "Russia opposition: Moscow police raid election forum - BBC News", "Covid-19: Health of 28% needing social care drops in pandemic - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Wayne Couzens appears in court charged with murder - BBC News", "Covid: Judge rules man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated - BBC News", "University of Manchester students pass vote of no confidence in boss - BBC News", "School poverty cash at risk in date switch - BBC News", "Murray Walker: Formula 1 broadcasting legend dies at 97 - BBC Sport", "Catcalling: The sisters who are making a noise to stop street harassment of women - BBC News", "Covid: Wales begins first stage of lockdown easing - BBC News", "Rangers fans gather outside Ibrox despite lockdown - BBC News", "Abbey Wood: Teenager stabbed to death in fight - BBC News", "Covid: Dalai Lama urges others to get vaccinated as he receives first shot - BBC News", "As it happened: Schools reopening intended to be irreversible - Williamson - BBC News", "NHS pay: Nurses 1% pay offer 'a massive slap in the face' - BBC News", "Covid: 'How being a delivery man helps my autistic son' - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must be released 'permanently', says PM - BBC News", "Brexit: Lord Frost accuses EU of 'ill will' over UK exit - BBC News", "Deliveroo to hand riders up to £10,000 in UK float - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: The five years separated from her family - BBC News", "Scottish Conservatives plan John Swinney no confidence vote - BBC News", "Covid-19: Vaccine offers for all those aged 56 or over - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe reaches end of five year Iran jail sentence - BBC News", "Sheikh Mohammed: British Horseracing Authority chief admits Princess Latifa 'concern' - BBC Sport", "Amanda Gorman: US poet says security guard labelled her 'suspicious' - BBC News", "Murder investigation over missing woman Bennylyn Burke and two-year-old daughter - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: The five years separated from her family - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Family 'desperate' to see missing woman - BBC News", "Covid: Gavin Williamson 'looking at' longer school day and shorter holidays - BBC News", "Bata explosion: Equatorial Guinea blasts kill 31 - BBC News", "Priti Patel orders review into Ruth Williams lockdown killing - BBC News", "Covid: UK must prepare for 'hard winter' of flu - expert - BBC News", "Rhondda: Murder investigation into Wenjing Xu's death - BBC News", "Meghan and Harry's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey to air in US - BBC News", "Castlemartin soldier death: Sgt Gavin Hillier's family 'heartbroken' - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: 'Stay local' rule considered for next review - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Four further Covid-19-related deaths in NI - BBC News", "Brighton 1-2 Leicester: Daniel Amartey scores late winner - BBC Sport", "Switzerland referendum: Voters support ban on face coverings in public - BBC News", "Rangers' Premiership win: 'Anger' over celebrating Rangers fans - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Police confirm last sighting of missing woman - BBC News", "Soldier killed at Castlemartin range named as Sgt Gavin Hillier - BBC News", "Rangers: Steven Gerrard says 'more to come' after Scottish Premiership title win - BBC Sport", "NHS pay-rise demo organiser fined £10,000 in Manchester - BBC News", "Nicola Faith: 'Mummy, have they found the red boat yet?' - BBC News", "Covid: Parents worry about lost learning as schools reopen - BBC News", "Cladding rules: 'I would never have bought my flat if I knew' - BBC News", "Ikea boss warns tariffs will lead to higher prices - BBC News", "Covid: Fresh air 'key to safer classrooms' - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson urges caution as England schools to reopen - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Arlene Foster wants more NI-Republic vaccine co-operation - BBC News", "Summer catch-up schools planned for pupils in England - BBC News", "Jessica Walter: Arrested Development star dies aged 80 - BBC News", "Jay Leno sorry for jokes about Asian Americans - BBC News", "Boris Johnson on Covid vaccinations for pub drinkers - BBC News", "Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia - BBC News", "Twitter: Buyer defends paying $2.9m for 'Mona Lisa' of tweets - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh tourism businesses make preparations to reopen - BBC News", "Cornwall plane crash: Red Arrows grounded after Hawk jet crash - BBC News", "Joe Biden pressured on child migrants at border - BBC News", "Suez Canal: Owner of cargo ship blocking waterway apologises - BBC News", "Online red books and 'family hubs' to help new parents - BBC News", "NHS staff in Scotland to be offered 4% pay rise - BBC News", "Firmus energy: Gas prices rising by 14% in greater Belfast - BBC News", "Middle-aged women 'worst affected by long Covid', studies find - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 6,000 'lives saved by vaccine programme' - BBC News", "Brexit: NI Fishermen 'short-changed' in fish quota - BBC News", "Winston Churchill, Kermit and Janet Jackson recordings preserved for posterity - BBC News", "Liverpool twins separated at birth 'cuddle and hold hands' - BBC News", "Government will be 'forced to rely' on BBC licence fee model, MPs suggest - BBC News", "Cornwall plane crash: Two pilots eject from Royal Navy jet - BBC News", "Covid: More than 700,000 vaccine first doses given in NI - BBC News", "Ford says farewell to 'Mondeo man' as car to be phased out - BBC News", "PM's vaccines comments set tongues wagging - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: AstraZeneca updates US vaccine efficacy results - BBC News", "Catalytic converter thefts: Surge in cases reported to Met Police - BBC News", "Covid: Jab passports possible 'after all offered vaccine' - BBC News", "England 5-0 San Marino: Ollie Watkins scores on debut in easy Three Lions win - BBC Sport", "Virginia governor signs bill to abolish death penalty - BBC News", "SNP conference: £500 'thank you' payment for healthcare staff - BBC News", "Lockdown: Boris Johnson unveils plan to end England restrictions by 21 June - BBC News", "Covid: PM drops big hints about post-lockdown life - BBC News", "Covid-19: How would an NHS vaccine passport app work? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Germany's Merkel reverses plans for Easter lockdown - BBC News", "MPs agree to extend Covid powers until September - BBC News", "Japan lights Olympic torch after one-year Covid delay - BBC News", "Santander to close more than 100 branches - BBC News", "Simon McCoy to leave BBC News after 17 years - BBC News", "More big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights - BBC News", "Shrewsbury baby deaths prompt midwife recruitment drive - BBC News", "UK Government buildings to fly union flag every day - BBC News", "Stalking victims 'sitting ducks' in lockdown, say Suzy Lamplugh Trust - BBC News", "Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere' - BBC News", "As it happened: 'Essential' emergency coronavirus powers extended - BBC News", "Covid: How is Europe lifting lockdown restrictions? - BBC News", "Covid: Intensive-care patients moved hundreds of miles - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Prophet Muhammad cartoon sparks Batley Grammar School protest - BBC News", "Contaminated blood scandal victims to get equal support - BBC News", "Libya funds: Father of young IRA victim criticises government - BBC News", "Covid-19: Pubs could require vaccine passports - Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Holyrood election 2021: The intense battle for every vote in Scotland - BBC News", "Iceland: Close-up drone footage of volcanic eruption - BBC News", "England U21 0-1 Switzerland U21: Young Lions lose opening game at Euro U21 finals - BBC Sport", "Coronavirus: Summer foreign travel should be ruled out, says Robin Swann - BBC News", "Kill the Bill Bristol protest: More arrests expected - BBC News", "Reaction as Nicola Sturgeon cleared of wrongdoing - BBC News", "Covid-19: UK daily deaths drop to 17 as downward trend continues - BBC News", "Aretha Franklin's family protest about National Geographic's Genius biopic - BBC News", "Clive Myrie to replace John Humphrys as Mastermind host - BBC News", "Covid: Welsh Government update 22 March 2021 - BBC News", "Old Firm fans praised for heeding 'stay at home' call - BBC News", "B&Q-owner Kingfisher boosted by new 'young DIY-ers' - BBC News", "Scottish independence: Draft bill for indyref2 published - BBC News", "Newtownabbey murders: Police say attacks were horrific - BBC News", "Alex Salmond says there is 'no doubt' Nicola Sturgeon broke ministerial code - BBC News", "Diversity review under way at Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Third wave will 'wash up on our shores', warns Johnson - BBC News", "Jarryd Hayne: Ex-Rugby League star guilty of sexual assault in Australia - BBC News", "Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved - BBC News", "In pictures: Kill the Bill Bristol protest turns violent - BBC News", "Covid-19: Record-breaking day with 844,285 vaccine doses given in UK - BBC News", "Coronavirus vaccines: PM to telephone EU leaders in bid to stop export ban being imposed - BBC News", "The women who hope to break the mould of Scottish politics - BBC News", "Green plan to upgrade homes was 'botched', say MPs - BBC News", "Leicester City 3-1 Man Utd: Foxes into FA Cup semi-finals - BBC Sport", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Turkish lira falls 15% after bank governor sacked - BBC News", "Defence review: British army to be cut to 72,500 troops by 2025 - BBC News", "UK 'heading towards digital skills shortage disaster' - BBC News", "AJ Pritchard's girlfriend Abbie Quinnen burned copying YouTube stunt - BBC News", "Wingate arson: Ex-marine Sean Ivey 'overwhelmed' by generosity - BBC News", "Foreign holidays: Minister refuses to rule out Covid ban extension - BBC News", "Cardiff: 'Serious disturbance' leads to 12 arrests - BBC News", "Bristol protest: Police attacked as 'Kill the Bill' demo turns violent - BBC News", "Yemen conflict: Saudi Arabia puts forward peace plan - BBC News", "A big week ahead for Nicola Sturgeon - BBC News", "Colin Pitchfork: 'Grave concerns' over double child killer's release - BBC News", "Covid: Masks and social distancing 'could last years' - BBC News", "Factory blaze adds to computer chip supply crisis - BBC News", "Sandra Oh gives passionate speech at Stop Asian Hate rally - BBC News", "Nicola Faith: Body confirmed as missing Conwy fisherman - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: US trial of AstraZeneca jab confirms safety - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon cleared of breaching ministerial code over Alex Salmond saga - BBC News", "Covid: Bury councillor hit twice by virus 'still not fully recovered' - BBC News", "Alexander Monson: Kenya police to stand trial over death of British man - BBC News", "Israel election hopes and fears play out in crater town - BBC News", "Katherine Diaz: Tributes paid to surfer killed by lightning - BBC Sport", "Huge fire sweeps through Rohingya camp in Bangladesh - BBC News", "David Dobrik quits app after associate accused of rape - BBC News", "Covid: Guernsey leaves second pandemic lockdown - BBC News", "'Kardashian clones' jibes teacher struck off - BBC News", "Meghan's Mail on Sunday statement on hold - BBC News", "Covid anniversary: Women on the front line reflect on the past year - BBC News", "Fireworks thrown in 'unprecedented' Bristol violence - BBC News", "BBC to screen WSL on TV next season in ‘landmark’ broadcast deal - BBC Sport", "Grammys 2021: Early prizes go to Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Hospitality leaders urge levels rethink - BBC News", "Covid-19: British Airways plans app-based travel pass - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Police remove people at Clapham vigil - BBC News", "Garden furniture shortage no picnic for retailers - BBC News", "Covid-19: Charities urge vulnerable people to book vaccines - BBC News", "The art dealer, the £10m Benin Bronze and the Holocaust - BBC News", "Gloucester: Covid-breach party leads to £800 fines - BBC News", "Covid-19: Dutch police break up anti-lockdown protest - BBC News", "Covid: Call for people with health conditions to have jab - BBC News", "Covid: Sixteen in hospital as Isle of Man cases pass 800 - BBC News", "Italy 7-48 Wales: Seven-try Wales hammer Italy to set up Grand Slam finale against France - BBC Sport", "'Private remembrance' for Dunblane 25th anniversary - BBC News", "'Mandalay was a massacre': Security forces fire at protests - BBC News", "FA Cup final and World Snooker Championship on list of pilot events to test return of fans - BBC Sport", "Pandemic impact 'yet to be felt' on High Streets - BBC News", "Bitcoin surges past $60,000 for first time - BBC News", "Universal credit: Stephen Crabb MP says benefits squeezed too much - BBC News", "'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler: Former undisputed middleweight world champion dies aged 66 - BBC Sport", "Banksy: Street artists wanted for Port Talbot's revamp - BBC News", "Government defends plans for noise limit at protests - BBC News", "Russia opposition: Moscow police raid election forum - BBC News", "Bernardine Evaristo: Husband surprises Booker winner… with a book - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Wayne Couzens appears in court charged with murder - BBC News", "Six Nations 2021: Ireland beat Scotland 27-24 via late Johnny Sexton penalty - BBC Sport", "Covid: Judge rules man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated - BBC News", "Ageing equipment puts Army at risk, MPs warn - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran court on new charge - BBC News", "Murray Walker: Formula 1 broadcasting legend dies at 97 - BBC Sport", "Sarah Everard: What went wrong at the Clapham vigil? - BBC News", "Covid: Call for all homes in Wales to be minutes from green space - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: 'Overhaul system' to tackle violence against women - BBC News", "Stutthof Camp: Holocaust guard Harry S found unfit to stand trial at 96 - BBC News", "Covid: 'Stay-local' rules likely to differ across Wales - BBC News", "Tesco to start recycling bread bags and crisp packets - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: PM demands 'immediate release' of British-Iranian woman - BBC News", "Covid-19: PM says England’s test-and-trace system is helping 'restart lives' - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Block of flats cordoned off in search for missing woman - BBC News", "Grenfell Tower inquiry: Fire predicted a decade before, memo shows - BBC News", "Rhondda: Man, 31, charged with murder of girl, 16 - BBC News", "Covid-19: UK hasn't banned export of vaccines, says PM - BBC News", "Act now on LGBT+ conversion therapy, ministers urged - BBC News", "Everton goalkeeper Robin Olsen and family in machete gang raid - BBC News", "The Restaurant Group: Wagamama owner to raise millions as lockdown bites - BBC News", "Richard Pusey: Australian admits filming taunts of dying policewoman - BBC News", "Liverpool 2-0 RB Leipzig (4-0 on aggregate): Fabinho praised by Klopp as Reds progress - BBC Sport", "Tomahawk Steakhouse returns 500 workers' pay loans - BBC News", "Sellafield nuclear site a 'toxic mix of bullying and harassment' - BBC News", "Ellie's Law: Parents of murdered girl win sentencing fight - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Police announce 'human remains' find - BBC News", "Heathrow says airport border queues at 'unacceptable level' - BBC News", "'Right to repair' law to come in this summer - BBC News", "Analysis: Harry and Meghan rattle monarchy's gilded cage - BBC News", "Trans-row Plaid Cymru politician closes Twitter account - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Family 'desperate' to see missing woman - BBC News", "Covid-19: UK rejects 'false' vaccine export ban claim by EU - BBC News", "A fireball, a driveway and a priceless meteorite - BBC News", "Covid: Women more anxious and overworked amid pandemic - BBC News", "Money launderers 'prey on generation Covid' - BBC News", "George Floyd: First jurors for Derek Chauvin trial chosen - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker cleared of shooting police officer - BBC News", "Meghan racism row: Society of Editors boss Ian Murray resigns - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Sturgeon objective 'to eliminate' virus - BBC News", "Sarah Everard disappearance: Met officer arrested on suspicion of murder - BBC News", "Myanmar coup: 'We were told to shoot protesters', say police who fled - BBC News", "Air passenger duty: Review planned to cut tax on domestic flights - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Human remains found in Kent woodland - BBC News", "Meghan and Harry interview: Palace taking race issues 'very seriously' - BBC News", "Sarah Everard disappearance: Arrest of officer 'shocking and deeply disturbing' - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Police confirm last sighting of missing woman - BBC News", "Glastonbury Pyramid Stage designer Bill Harkin dies - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: 'Increasing concern' for Brixton woman - BBC News", "Boris Johnson accused of lying to MPs over Labour's NHS pay stance - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: FM quizzed on lockdown easing - BBC News", "PMQs: As it happened - PM challenged on NHS pay - BBC News", "Parents urged not to pressure teachers over exam grades - BBC News", "Fake heiress Anna Sorokin: 'Crime pays, in a way' - BBC News", "Sarah Everard disappearance: House and woods in Kent searched - BBC News", "Salisbury Novichok poisoning house to be bought by council - BBC News", "Stalking protection orders: Police 'not using' new powers to protect victims - BBC News", "Lego plans hiring spree for digital growth drive - BBC News", "SNP chief whip steps aside following harassment complaint - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Rules on people meeting outdoors are eased - BBC News", "Census 2021: Judge orders change to sex question guidance - BBC News", "Covid-19: Foster and O'Neill give Northern Ireland update - BBC News", "Covid-19: Backlash in Spain over princesses getting UAE vaccines - BBC News", "Covid-19: Three UK terror plots foiled during pandemic - BBC News", "Budget 2021: 'Scrooge Sunak not levelling with people' on cuts - BBC News", "Buckingham Palace to investigate claims Meghan bullied staff - BBC News", "Food waste: Amount thrown away totals 900 million tonnes - BBC News", "Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak insists Covid-recovery tax rises fair - BBC News", "US suspends tariffs on single malt Scotch whisky - 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carmaker boss addresses reports of security concerns raised by China's military.", "April-Joy Serrant says she was told to wait two days for police to follow up a report of a flasher.", "Officers say they are working to reunite the pets found on the outskirts of Ipswich with their owners.", "The six lions were found with their heads and paws hacked off, surrounded by dead vultures.", "Police vans are set alight and officers are attacked at a protest against the Police and Crime Bill.", "Boris Johnson thanks \"everyone involved\" and calls on people to get the vaccine when they are invited.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Leicester City move into the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1981-82 as they eliminate Manchester United at the King Power Stadium.", "France inflict heartbreak on Wales as they seal a 32-30 victory in dramatic fashion to deny Wayne Pivac's side a Grand Slam in Paris.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warns that booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".", "Late goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne keep Manchester City on course for a quadruple with an FA Cup quarter-final win at Everton.", "The eruption was the first in the area for about 800 years and followed thousands of earthquakes.", "Thousands demonstrate in London as police warn of a \"significant operation\" with 33 arrests so far.", "A campaign raises over £200,000 for the family after a suspected arson attack destroyed their home.", "The RSPCA describe it as \"an incredibly rare sighting\".", "Alfredo Morelos' first goal in 13 Old Firm derbies ensures Rangers remain on course for an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season after draw at Celtic.", "Officers suffer broken bones in scenes the home secretary calls \"unacceptable\".", "Areema Nasreen was one of the youngest NHS workers to die of Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic.", "Dawn Bilbrough, from York, who made a tearful plea for people to stop panic-buying, is self-isolating.", "Measures may remain until jabs roll out across the world, Public Health England's Dr Mary Ramsay says.", "Mikel Arteta says his side's performance will \"give me nightmares\" after Arsenal come from 3-0 down to draw at West Ham.", "Sean Ivey believes he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour in his village.", "A music festival takes place as an experiment in the Netherlands, despite the rest of the country being under lockdown.", "Officials say Covid-sceptic John Magufuli died of heart issues, but critics have blamed Covid-19.", "After two women are killed, the justice minister says early intervention is needed to tackle offending behaviours.", "The Commons will vote on Thursday over whether to grant a six-month extension to emergency measures.", "Fans have been warned to stay at home as the Celtic v Rangers fixture goes ahead in Glasgow.", "The body representing security staff says it may not be able to meet demand when nightlife restarts.", "Last autumn, the government said it would not meet the 0.7% aid target in the coming financial year.", "Boris Johnson says Saturday saw more than 800,000 people receive a coronavirus vaccination in the UK.", "Dawn Bilbrough's tearful plea for people to stop panic buying went viral during the first wave.", "Former Conwy MP Betty Williams says neither she nor her husband gave consent to the decision.", "\"Governments are going to insist\" on vaccines for international travellers, Qantas' boss tells the BBC.", "Sir Ed Davey calls for profits from green projects to be invested into climate action and jobs.", "Lawrence Okolie produces a superb display before knocking out Krzysztof Glowacki to become a world champion for the first time.", "Police broke up a party of 14 rugby fans watching the Wales game and issued fixed penalty notices.", "The sisters say they were offered the jab when visiting their father in the United Arab Emirates.", "The advertising watchdog reprimands the social media influencer over an Instagram prize draw.", "Buckingham Palace is \"very concerned\" by a report that royal staff made a complaint about the duchess.", "Participants from 41 countries will head to the Netherlands for this year's contest under new plans.", "The Rugby World Cup 2021 is set to be postponed until next year following a recommendation by governing body World Rugby.", "A single dose of the Pfizer or Oxford vaccine cuts hospital admissions of older people by about 80%.", "Forecasts suggests inheritance tax receipts will also rise, partly due to over-65s dying of Covid", "Business needs government to go on another spending spree, says BBC business editor Simon Jack.", "The chancellor defends his Budget plans to raise corporation tax and says taxes will be spent on funding \"strong public services\".", "The Labour leader said the UK faced a worse economic crisis because of the chancellor's decisions.", "People who get a pay rise between this April and 2026 may find themselves paying a higher rate of tax.", "Duchess of Cornwall says \"we'll keep our fingers crossed\", after the duke's 15th night in hospital.", "Gordon Beattie apologises after using \"inappropriate\" language in a post on the LinkedIn website.", "Airlines are coming up with different strategies to tackle the pandemic travel slump.", "A judge ruled against Alek Minassian, whose lawyers said he was not criminally responsible due to autism.", "Harry Dunn's family have the go-ahead to proceed with a claim against Jonathan and Anne Sacoolas.", "Homebuyers facing high costs and delays want the tax break to be extended at the Budget.", "The island returns to a three-week lockdown after a sharp rise in unexplained coronavirus cases.", "The BBC looks at the state of the UK economy ahead of the spring Budget.", "The musician was a founding member of The Wailers, alongside his childhood friend Bob Marley", "The race is on to find out if those with cancer and other conditions can be protected as the UK unlocks.", "Pubs and restaurants see VAT cut and rates relief extended as non-essential retail is given more help.", "The holiday firm promises to change after disclosure of a list to screen out Gypsies and Travellers.", "A healthcare worker is held on suspicion of murder as part of a probe into a patient's death.", "Scotland's first minister is told her reasons for forgetting a meeting at Holyrood with a former adviser to Alex Salmond is not satisfactory.", "Rishi Sunak's Budget extends furlough and aims to help the country recover from the pandemic.", "Yusaku Maezawa says he will pay for the entire trip, so those who come on board will fly for free.", "The domestic abuse commissioner says the £19m is \"hugely welcome\", but wants longer-term funding.", "The claims in a newspaper article come days before the duchess's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.", "A crying paramedic asked why crews were not helping at the scene of the bombing, an inquiry hears.", "The Labour party investigates after Jamila Azad claimed to have been vaccinated by a private doctor.", "Singing to the tune of her hit song Jolene, the country star, 75, promotes coronavirus vaccinations.", "The chancellor won't go for austerity in the Budget, but what path can he set for the economy?", "International arrivals from countries not on the UK's \"red list\" must take two Covid tests during quarantine.", "The move, taking effect later this year, will more than double the current limit of £45.", "The controlled explosion of a World War Two bomb in Exeter has left a crater in the ground and properties with \"structural damage\".", "The chancellor says his Budget can rescue the Covid-ravaged economy, as UK faces highest tax burden since 1960s.", "The UK economy is expected to recover six months faster than expected from the pandemic, the chancellor says.", "The channel will make a comeback, after scoring hits with Normal People and Fleabag online.", "The health secretary says 379 households in south-east England are being contacted.", "A high-level Chinese study says a massive work scheme is reducing Uighur population density in Xinjiang.", "With emergency pandemic funding to end in two weeks, care organisations voice long-term cash fears.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Energy regulator Ofgem says customers' overpayments are being used to pay for \"unsustainable business\".", "MPs praise the government's Everyone In scheme, but say it \"exposed the scale of the task\" at hand.", "Oliver Campbell should have his conviction quashed over an unfair confession, his solicitor says.", "The suspect is released on bail after being questioned about the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.", "Brigadier John Clark says the British army will become \"leaner\", ahead of the defence review.", "Local health organisations in England have been told to expect a reduced vaccine supply in April.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says garden centres can also reopen in the days after the stay at home lockdown order is lifted.", "Covid-sceptic John Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks.", "In a new documentary, the singer alleges the offender faced no consequences after she came forward.", "The decision by Edinburgh's largest bus operator follows damage to a number of vehicles over recent weeks.", "Matt Hancock reiterates his pledge as the NHS warns of a \"significant reduction\" of vaccine supplies.", "Three people have been arrested after the incident in York Street early on Wednesday.", "The government says its roadmap setting out when weddings could take place had not changed.", "A global chip shortage has led to disruption in the semi-conductor industry.", "People should \"get the jab\", the health secretary says, after some countries suspend its use.", "Dominic Raab says the UK should use its \"clout\" to be \"a force for good in the world\".", "More than 200,000 will get payment, with most receiving extra £500, says the Welsh government.", "The 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh returns to Windsor Castle following a successful heart procedure.", "Chelsea move into the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in seven years with a 3-0 aggregate win over Atletico Madrid.", "The England rollout comes as figures show nearly half of UK adults have had one dose.", "BBC News NI explains the stages of the executive's plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.", "The prime minister's former aide criticises the department over PPE and procurement at start of the pandemic.", "BBC cameraman Darren Conway has returned to Syria to meet survivors of the Iqra school bombing, the aftermath of which he filmed in 2013.", "A former chief constable says women reporting crimes endure \"endless repeated humiliation\".", "The first minister says she hopes the executive will be able to \"move a little faster\" soon.", "Online events are taking the place of traditional parades due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Ministers agreed to the change on \"an experimental basis\" after calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime.", "A long-awaited report into football's historical child sex abuse scandal finds \"institutional failings\" at the Football Association between 1995 and 2000 left some children unsafe.", "Elin Wade stopped using steroid creams after losing weight and suffering hallucinations.", "More than 57,000 people complain over Morgan's remarks about Meghan on Good Morning Britain.", "The first minister says claims by David Davis are \"the latest instalment in Alex Salmond's conspiracy theory\".", "Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter Sabine Schmitz has died from cancer aged 51.", "Customers will have to prove they have had two coronavirus jabs to get on the company's cruises.", "Boris Johnson says \"the safety of the British people must come first\" as he outlines a new package.", "Boris Johnson said the public reaction to Sarah Everard's death was \"wholly justified\".", "The Talk will remain off air while her dispute with a co-host over Piers Morgan is investigated.", "Holyhead on Anglesey has a case rate of 401.2 per 100,000 compared with a Wales average of 42.5.", "St Mary's Grammar in west Belfast says current P6 pupils face huge mental and emotional stress.", "A total of 16, 938 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests were put off in the pandemic.", "Experts suggest much of the water Mars once had is now contained in minerals.", "The Scottish government says ScotRail will be taken into public ownership in March 2022.", "The artist's agent says the positioning of his works by their owner is a \"misrepresentation\".", "BBC Spotlight examines the murder of Glenn Quinn and the paramilitary gang believed to be responsible.", "There may be no parades or fanfare but events are still taking place to celebrate Ireland's patron saint.", "The number of trips to cash machines has fallen by 43%, but the amount withdrawn on each visit has risen.", "Police were called on Wednesday after young people gathered in Botanic Gardens in south Belfast.", "With uncertainty over teachers' grades for A-levels, a warning against \"over-recruiting\" is issued.", "People \"rightly have confidence in the vaccine\", Wales' vaccine chief Dr Richard Roberts says.", "Fewer than half of pupils who have received tuition are among poorest, says National Audit Office.", "The \"shared economy\" has grown rapidly thanks to technology platforms like Uber and Airbnb.", "It comes as NHS England warns of a \"significant reduction\" in Covid-19 vaccine supplies next month.", "Boris Johnson promises more investment and jobs ahead of his long-awaited update on the military.", "Thousands of the capital's taxi drivers have already signed up to the planned group legal action.", "Details and reaction to a briefing on the pandemic by Health Minister Vaughan Gething.", "Business owners say the Scottish government's easing of restrictions from next month do not go far enough.", "An inquest into the 33-year-old's death is due to take place on 18 March in Maidstone, Kent.", "The natural song of the regent honeyeater has essentially \"disappeared\" in 12% of the population.", "Police will be able to cross-reference data with crime reports to see if offenders were in the area.", "Former minister David Davis uses parliamentary privilege to make the allegation during a House of Commons debate.", "More than 3.7 million people in England will no longer have to stay at home to avoid the virus.", "Ten-year-old Skye's campaign has made it all the way to the House of Commons.", "The Premier League plans to have fans at the final two rounds of matches this season, says chief executive Richard Masters.", "The broadcast regulator says she was among the 41,000 complainants about ITV's Good Morning Britain.", "Corinne Masiero sheds a donkey skin and bloodstained dress at a coronavirus-dominated César Awards.", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.", "An internal letter says the UK government department could establish a secondary headquarters in Scotland by 2024.", "Police found someone hiding in the bath when they broke up the party in Gloucester.", "During the virtual event the Queen was shown a meteorite that fell to Earth and classroom rockets.", "Plans to celebrate NI's centenary include a concert, a special post-mark and a church service.", "Wales score seven tries against Italy in Rome to set up a Grand Slam chance against France in Paris next weekend.", "Politicians back a charity's plan to commemorate a year since the first national restrictions began.", "David Marr sent a WhatsApp message a minute before his trawler swamped a boat, causing three deaths.", "Sinn Féin snubs what it calls a \"PR exercise\" by Boris Johnson, while the DUP raises NI Protocol concerns.", "Services in memory of the victims of the 1996 shooting are being held online due to Covid restrictions.", "Myanmar has \"all the hallmarks of a civil war... but only one side is armed\", says Jonathan Head.", "The FA Cup final and the World Snooker Championship are among the proposed pilot events to test the return of big crowds to venues this year.", "The vessel, able to transport up to two tonnes of drugs, was found in the city of Malaga.", "Wayne Couzens is accused of kidnapping and murdering the 33-year-old who was last seen in south London.", "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre warns that more than 3,000 servers have not been secured.", "All companies in England can register for workplace coronavirus testing until 31 March.", "Developers who carry out repair work should not require non-disclosure agreements, says an MP.", "Author Bernardine Evaristo explains how her husband surprised her with a novel he'd secretly written.", "Officers raided the opposition conference only minutes after it began at a hotel on Saturday.", "A survey for a care charity also says the lives of many older and disabled people have been \"diminished\".", "Wayne Couzens is charged with the kidnap and murder of the 33-year-old who disappeared in south London.", "A judge says a man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated despite his family's objections.", "Critics say Dame Nancy Rothwell's position at the University of Manchester is \"completely untenable\".", "\"Grave concerns\" from schools that a rule change in counting could lower cash for the disadvantaged.", "Former Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker dies at the age of 97.", "Campaigners tell the BBC how they are working to address the root causes of violence against women.", "Up to four people from two different households can now meet up outdoors to socialise.", "Players ran to the gates to celebrate in sight of fans following their win against St Mirren on Saturday", "The 18-year-old victim died at the scene in Abbey Wood having been stabbed in the chest.", "The Tibetan spiritual leader urges others to \"take this injection\" as he gets the AstraZeneca jab.", "The UK education secretary also says longer school days and shorter holidays could help pupils catch up.", "The RCN says nurses in NI could be balloted for strike action if a pay offer mirrors that in England.", "Sarah Carr says since starting to deliver groceries in his village, son Cal feels \"more positive\".", "The British-Iranian's five-year sentence on spying charges has ended, but she faces a separate court case.", "Lord Frost says the EU has \"significantly undermined\" post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.", "The food delivery firm, set to be valued at $7bn (£5bn), will also offer shares to takeaway customers.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "The Scottish Conservatives are pushing for the vote over John Swinney's handling of the Alex Salmond case.", "People in the age group are being invited to book their first vaccine from this week.", "Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, has been told a new court case is scheduled against her.", "The British Horseracing Authority says it has spoken to the government following a BBC Panorama programme detailing allegations about the missing daughter of Sheikh Mohammed.", "The US poet says she was offered no apology after being racially profiled.", "Bennylyn Burke and two children had been missing from South Gloucestershire since 17 February.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "Sarah Everard is thought to have walked home alone across Clapham Common on Wednesday evening.", "A range of measures are being looked at to help pupils in England catch up, the education secretary says.", "Officials say badly stored dynamite at a military base and stubble burning caused the explosions.", "Ruth Williams was strangled by her husband, whose five-year sentence for manslaughter sparked anger.", "The population immunity to viruses other than Covid could be lower than usual, a top medic warns.", "Victim Wenjing Xu helped out in the family takeaway and was described as having \"a gentle soul\".", "Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be broadcast at 01:00 GMT on Monday.", "Sgt Gavin Hillier's wife and two sons say they are \"not ready to say goodbye\" to him.", "Stay at home rules banning all but essential travel could be eased, Wales' first minister says.", "The Department of Health's total is now 2,072, with an additional 171 cases in the past 24 hours.", "Daniel Amartey scores an 87th-minute winner as Leicester come from behind to beat Brighton and boost their bid for Champions League qualification.", "The referendum, brought by a far-right party, could affect Muslim women who wear the burka or niqab.", "Nicola Sturgeon joins criticism of crowds who gathered to celebrate Rangers' Premiership win.", "Sarah Everard has been missing from south London since Wednesday evening.", "The Ministry of Defence names Sgt Gavin Hillier as the soldier killed in a training exercise.", "Manager Steven Gerrard says \"there is more to come\" as Rangers were crowned champions of Scotland for the first time in 10 years.", "Forty people protested against the controversial plan in Manchester and an NHS worker was arrested.", "There is a huge gap on Conwy's quayside after the Nicola Faith left on 27 January and did not return.", "Parents are confident about children returning to school but worry about catching up, says survey.", "Confusion over building safety rules has left many people unable to move home without hard-to-obtain checks.", "Jesper Brodin, who heads the firm, says he fears global trade tensions will mean customers must pay more.", "Knowing which windows to open and having shorter lessons could help when children return to school.", "The PM says the return of schools in England on Monday is the \"first step\" towards \"normality\".", "The DUP leader is \"alarmed\" by the slower pace of the vaccine rollout in the Republic of Ireland.", "A total of £700m will help ensure \"no child is left behind\" due to the pandemic, Boris Johnson says.", "The US actress played the icy matriarch Lucille Bluth, and starred in films like Play Misty for Me.", "The US TV host has admitted that racial gags made for more than a decade were \"a legitimate wrong\".", "The PM says drinkers will not need to prove they have had a vaccine when pubs in England open for outside trade from 12 April.", "The firm now aims to supply others with processors made in factories based in the US and Europe.", "Malaysian tycoon says Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet is \"a piece of human history\".", "Wales' first minister has said tourism could start to reopen from 27 March if case rates stay down.", "The RAF and Royal Navy suspend operations of their Hawk T1 jets after one crashes in woodland.", "At his first press conference, the president called overcrowded conditions “unacceptable” but defended his immigration policies.", "Japanese firm Shoei Kisen Kaisha says dislodging the Ever Given is proving \"extremely difficult\".", "The government unveils plans to boost children's health, but Labour calls them a \"smokescreen\" for cuts.", "The Scottish government praised staff for their \"service and dedication\" during the Covid pandemic.", "Firmus energy says the tariff change next month will affect more than 50,000 consumers.", "Five months after hospital treatment, 70% of patients studied had still not fully recovered.", "The estimate for England comes as the over-50s are urged to book a jab in the coming days.", "A fishing organisation spokesperson said Northern Ireland's fish dividend has been \"plundered\".", "Their recordings are being added to the US National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.", "A mother says her twins \"were cuddling and holding hands\" as they were reunited after two weeks.", "A group of MPs says the infrastructure is not in place for a viable alternative to the licence fee.", "Two pilots are taken to hospital after ejecting from the Hawk T1 jet near RNAS Culdrose.", "No further coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded by the NI Department of Health.", "The car, which became synonymous with a certain type of British motorist, will be phased out next year.", "But Boris Johnson's remarks on \"greed\" and \"capitalism\" were accidental, MPs say.", "The vaccine-maker slightly amends its efficacy rates as it awaits US regulatory approval.", "More than 300 officers took part in raids across east London, Kent and Essex, with three men arrested.", "A review on certificates showing jab status is ongoing but no decisions have been made, PM says.", "Ollie Watkins scores on his debut as England deliver the expected easy win over San Marino in their opening World Cup 2022 qualifying game at Wembley.", "It is the 23rd US state and the first in the South to end the use of capital punishment.", "Nicola Sturgeon says the one-off cash payment is to thank health staff for their \"extraordinary service\".", "Shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April, Boris Johnson says.", "From 'jabs for jobs' to 'papers for pints', proving our Covid status is likely to become a part of our lives.", "There is growing speculation that a certificate scheme could be built into the main NHS app.", "Chancellor Angela Merkel describes the proposed five-day lockdown over Easter as a \"mistake\".", "The health secretary said 'essential' government powers need to stay but other measures have been scrapped.", "It was all supposed to happen in 2020, but Japan has finally kicked off its Olympic torch relay.", "The bank says 840 staff will be affected by the decision although it will try to offer them roles elsewhere.", "The TV news presenter, known for his funny asides, is to join Andrew Neil's new GB News operation.", "Six top UK investors won't invest in the delivery firm over concerns about workers' rights.", "The BBC understands as many as 1,000 more midwives and 80 obstetrics consultants will be hired in England.", "The culture secretary described the flag as \"a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us\".", "Restrictions on movement and a rise in cyber-stalking fuel a surge of calls to a national helpline.", "The UK's biggest building society says it wants to give employees more control over their lives.", "The country was \"not at the finish line yet\", the health secretary said, ahead of the Commons vote.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "More than 2,000 intensive-care patients were moved between hospitals in search of beds from September to March.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A teacher is suspended from Batley Grammar School after the image is shown to pupils during a lesson.", "Victims and families in Wales will receive the same compensation as in the other UK nations.", "Colin Parry says the government's refusal to pay compensation to victims is \"political\".", "But one Conservative MP says \"papers for pubs\" would lead the country into \"a ghastly trap\".", "Polling expert Professor John Curtice looks at the issues that will decide the Scottish Parliament election on 6 May.", "A drone captures spectacular images as lava spews from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano.", "England suffer a surprise defeat to Switzerland in the opening game of their European Under-21 Championship campaign.", "Robin Swann says travel to the Republic of Ireland will also be dependent on its vaccine rollout.", "Police say more arrests are imminent after Sunday's disorder in Bristol.", "A leading Irish lawyer concludes that there was \"no evidence whatsoever\" to show Scotland's first minister was in breach of the rules of her office.", "Although the figures can be lower following the weekend, it is the fewest number of people in months.", "The star's family say they \"do not support\" the TV series, starring British actress Cynthia Erivo.", "The BBC journalist will take over from John Humphrys on the long-running quiz show.", "Details and reaction as Health Minister Vaughan Gething gives a briefing on the pandemic.", "No arrests were made in following Sunday's Old Firm match and police thanked fans for respecting lockdown restrictions.", "Kingfisher says 18-34 year-olds did more home improvements during lockdown than any other age group.", "The SNP wants to hold an independence referendum in the first half of the next Scottish Parliament session.", "The killing of two women in County Antrim has left children without mothers, officers say.", "The former first minister makes the claim during his long-awaited appearance at a Holyrood inquiry.", "The review is looking at improving progress towards greater diversity across royal households.", "Boris Johnson says the UK will \"feel effects\" of growing case numbers in Europe amid a row over vaccines.", "Jarryd Hayne - a high-profile Australian athlete - denied attacking a woman in her bedroom.", "Sapphire Medical in Stirling will start holding virtual appointments after it received official registration.", "Police vans are set alight and officers are attacked at a protest against the Police and Crime Bill.", "Boris Johnson thanks \"everyone involved\" and calls on people to get the vaccine when they are invited.", "EU leaders will hold a virtual summit on Thursday to discuss the fate of vaccines made on the continent.", "There has never been a single woman of colour sitting at the Scottish Parliament in its 22-year history.", "A scheme offering people up to £10,000 for insulation has only reached 10% of its target, MPs say.", "Leicester City move into the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1981-82 as they eliminate Manchester United at the King Power Stadium.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The outgoing central bank chief is the third exit in under two years under Turkey's President Erdogan.", "A review of the UK's defence policy brings new investment in cyber warfare, robotics and drones.", "Demand for AI, robotics and cloud skills is up amid news young people are shunning IT skill courses.", "Pro dancer Abbie Quinnen had seven weeks of \"continuous hospital treatment\" after copying a video.", "A campaign raises over £200,000 for the family after a suspected arson attack destroyed their home.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warns that booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".", "Three men were seriously hurt and police are using stop and search powers in Cardiff's Wentloog Avenue.", "Officers suffer broken bones in scenes the home secretary calls \"unacceptable\".", "The plan aims at ending six brutal years of civil war but rebels said it offered \"nothing new\".", "The findings of two investigations are to be published which could decide the political future of the first minister.", "Colin Pitchfork was jailed in 1988 after DNA linked him to the rape and murder of two 15-year-olds.", "Measures may remain until jabs roll out across the world, Public Health England's Dr Mary Ramsay says.", "The Renesas fire is set to make it even more difficult for car-makers to buy the chips they need.", "The actress speaks at a Stop Asian Hate rally following last week's Atlanta spa shootings in the US.", "Three fishermen went missing on 27 January while aboard the Nicola Faith fishing boat.", "Regulators in America have been waiting for these results to decide on approval.", "An independent report says the first minister's involvement in the Alex Salmond saga did not break the rules.", "A year ago, Tamoor Tariq published a distressing video of himself gasping for breath with the virus.", "A judge ruled the trial over the death in police custody of Alexander Monson, 28, should go ahead.", "For voters in Mitzpe Ramon, Tuesday's poll means keeping or casting out Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu.", "The International Surfing Association pays tribute to El Salvador surfer Katherine Diaz, who died after being struck by lightning.", "Several people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the fire.", "Sponsors have also withdrawn their support for the influencer after his former associate was accused of rape.", "Nearly all coronavirus restrictions are lifted, with border controls remaining in place.", "Alexander Price, 43, made the comments in his anonymous gossip blog about his school in north Wales.", "A notice about the Duchess of Sussex's copyright win is on hold pending a possible appeal by the newspaper.", "Front line workers reflect on the past 12 months as we reach the anniversary of the first UK lockdown.", "\"This is the worst violence in Bristol for many, many years,\" the Police Federation says.", "BBC will show live Women's Super League matches on network TV for the first time as part of a multi-million-pound broadcast deal with Sky Sports.", "Beyoncé picks up her 26th Grammy, while Billie Eilish wins a prize for her Bond theme.", "Industry groups wants Scotland to mirror England's reopening plans by extending opening times and naming dates.", "People who have had both jabs will be able to register their status on BA's smartphone app.", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.", "Supply problems are due to the huge rise in demand last year and rising shipping costs.", "People with underlying health conditions who have yet to get their jab are being encouraged to do so.", "Western museums are under pressure to return looted treasure, but what of those in private collections?", "Police found someone hiding in the bath when they broke up the party in Gloucester.", "Police used water cannon and mounted officers to clear anti-government demonstrators in The Hague.", "Matt Hancock backs the call for people with diseases like cancer and diabetes to have their vaccination", "It marks highest number of hospital admissions during the currrent outbreak as new cases rise by 44.", "Wales score seven tries against Italy in Rome to set up a Grand Slam chance against France in Paris next weekend.", "Services in memory of the victims of the 1996 shooting are being held online due to Covid restrictions.", "Myanmar has \"all the hallmarks of a civil war... but only one side is armed\", says Jonathan Head.", "The FA Cup final and the World Snooker Championship are among the proposed pilot events to test the return of big crowds to venues this year.", "An average of 48 outlets per day closed last year, but there may be worse to come.", "The volatile cryptocurrency extends its record-breaking run to reach a new high.", "Ex-Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb says universal credit was not funded sufficiently.", "Former undisputed middleweight world champion 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler dies at the age of 66.", "Street artists are being invited to paint the town of Port Talbot.", "A bill aimed at strengthening police powers at demonstrations is \"a mess\", says Labour.", "Officers raided the opposition conference only minutes after it began at a hotel on Saturday.", "Author Bernardine Evaristo explains how her husband surprised her with a novel he'd secretly written.", "Wayne Couzens is charged with the kidnap and murder of the 33-year-old who disappeared in south London.", "Johnny Sexton knocks over a late penalty as Ireland survive a surge from Scotland to eke out a hectic Six Nations victory at Murrayfield.", "A judge says a man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated despite his family's objections.", "The British army is likely to find itself \"outgunned\" in any conflict with Russian forces, a report says.", "The British-Iranian woman faces new charges, a week after being freed from a five-year prison term.", "Former Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker dies at the age of 97.", "Maintaining public order at protests is one of the hardest jobs in modern policing.", "One in eight households did not have access to a garden, yard or balcony in lockdown, figures show.", "Violence against women is a \"public health issue\" that needs action, says a government adviser.", "The court says there is a \"high degree of probability\" Harry S is guilty and he must pay legal fees.", "Minister admits Welsh holiday accommodation reopening over Easter not feasible if rule introduced.", "The supermarket is rolling out new recycling points for soft plastics that often end up in landfill.", "The British-Iranian's five-year sentence ended on Sunday, but she faces a separate court case.", "It comes after MPs said the impact of the system is still unclear, despite its £37bn budget.", "Sarah Everard was last spotted by a doorbell camera on the A205 Poynders Road in Clapham.", "The firm that made the cladding was warned of a fire that could kill 60 to 70 people, the inquiry hears.", "Chun Xu is charged with Wenjing Lin's murder and the attempted murder of a 38-year-old man.", "Boris Johnson \"corrects\" the European Council president over claims about the government's stance.", "A string of advisers quit amid concerns ministers are not delivering on a pledge to ban the practice.", "Robin Olsen and his family were confronted in their home by an armed gang of masked burglars.", "The Restaurant Group says its sales dived by 57% last year after its sites were forced to close.", "Richard Pusey pleads guilty to outraging public decency by filming a policewoman as she lay dying.", "Fabinho is \"one of the best in the world at number six\", says Jurgen Klopp after the Brazil midfielder helps Liverpool beat RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.", "The Tomahawk Steakhouse chain asked furloughed staff to loan it 10% of their wages to cover costs.", "Staff described \"shocking stories\" of racial abuse, sexual harassment and disablist bullying.", "The parents of Ellie Gould have succeeded in increasing minimum tariffs for teenage murderers.", "\"What appears to be human remains\" have been found in the search for missing Sarah Everard, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.", "The airport regularly sees queuing times of three hours and on occasion six hours, an executive says.", "Manufacturers will be obliged to make spare parts for appliances available to consumers.", "The couple's interview lays bare the contradictions of the royals' public and private lives.", "Senedd member Helen Mary Jones apologises to the trans community for causing \"pain and hurt\".", "Sarah Everard is thought to have walked home alone across Clapham Common on Wednesday evening.", "An EU diplomat is summoned to the Foreign Office following comments by the bloc's top official.", "The thrill of the Gloucestershire family at the centre of the major UK meteorite discovery.", "They felt more depressed and lonely, and spent more time on housework and home-schooling children.", "Promises via social media to make \"quick cash\" are attracting those struggling for work, banks say.", "Jury selection for the Derek Chauvin trial began on Tuesday with three individuals selected.", "Kenneth Walker was accused of shooting and wounding an officer who stormed his home last year.", "Ian Murray steps down over the group's reaction to Harry and Meghan's comments on media racism.", "Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs that an elimination strategy is the only way to keep the virus under control.", "Londoner Sarah Everard, 33, has not been seen since she disappeared in Clapham a week ago.", "Police officers from Myanmar tell the BBC they defected to India after refusing to carry out orders.", "Boris Johnson says he wants to see air passenger duties on UK flights fall to help neglected areas.", "The 33-year-old disappeared while walking home in Clapham, London, last week.", "The Palace says \"recollections may vary\" but matters in the TV interview will be addressed privately.", "Met Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave speaks after a serving officer was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard.", "Sarah Everard has been missing from south London since Wednesday evening.", "Bill Harkin dreamed of the design which has been a mainstay of the music and arts festival.", "Sarah Everard has not been seen or heard from since Wednesday night, her best friend says.", "Downing Street rejects calls for the PM to apologise to MPs, saying the record has been corrected.", "Scotland's first minister gives evidence to Holyrood's Covid-19 Committee which is examining the government's handling of the pandemic.", "Johnson and Starmer clashed on proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff, and PM hits back at EU claims over vaccine exports.", "Teachers should not be put under pressure by parents over deciding exam grades, says watchdog.", "Con woman Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, tells the BBC she has been misrepresented by the media.", "The search follows the arrests of a serving Met Police officer and a woman in Kent on Tuesday.", "Wiltshire Council to \"rebuild and refurbish\" the home of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.", "A BBC investigation found only two full orders have been granted in Wales since new powers came in.", "The toy giant sees best sales in five years as lockdown spurs growth in Lego sets for families.", "The party's chief whip will relinquish his House of Commons job until an investigation is completed.", "Up to four adults from two different households will be able to meet outdoors in Scotland from Friday.", "Campaign group Fair Play for Women argues the guidance allowed \"self-identification\" as another sex.", "Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill say virus transmission has dropped and nearly 600,000 people have been vaccinated.", "The sisters say they were offered the jab when visiting their father in the United Arab Emirates.", "Police are warning that terrorists have not stopped planning attacks or radicalising people online.", "The Budget leaves the chancellor looking more Scrooge than Santa, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "Buckingham Palace is \"very concerned\" by a report that royal staff made a complaint about the duchess.", "Every year, 23 million truckloads of food go straight into the waste bin, according to the UN.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is accused of hitting the poorest hardest in his Budget plan to balance the books.", "Tariffs on UK cheese and cashmere will also be lifted as the countries try to resolve an old trade row.", "The stamp duty holiday on house purchases was extended in the Westminster budget but will end in Scotland.", "A court began examining the case for a public inquiry in 2013 but there has been no judgement.", "Forecasts suggests inheritance tax receipts will also rise, partly due to over-65s dying of Covid", "It is the first time Elon Musk's space exploration company has pulled off this difficult landing.", "People who get a pay rise between this April and 2026 may find themselves paying a higher rate of tax.", "Noel Fielding, actress Roxanne Pallett and ex-footballer Ally McCoist are among those to settle claims.", "Duchess of Cornwall says \"we'll keep our fingers crossed\", after the duke's 15th night in hospital.", "\"We are seeing a resurgence in central and eastern Europe,\" says the World Health Organization.", "RTÉ reports that Eamon De Valera's son facilitated illegal adoption long after it was made a crime.", "From citizens' rights to trade, Northern Ireland will have a different Brexit to the rest of the UK.", "Gordon Beattie apologises after using \"inappropriate\" language in a post on the LinkedIn website.", "BBC News NI explains the stages of the executive's plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.", "The Duke of Edinburgh will remain in hospital for a number of days, Buckingham Palace says.", "Detectives assessed claims that false documents were used to win Diana's trust before her appearance.", "Mark Drakeford said Wales may be able to reopen some businesses earlier than PM's roadmap.", "Harry Dunn's family have the go-ahead to proceed with a claim against Jonathan and Anne Sacoolas.", "It shares a worrying mutation with the South Africa and Brazil variants of concern.", "Harry draws parallels between the treatment of his mother and wife, in teaser clips of a TV special.", "A healthcare worker is held on suspicion of murder as part of a probe into a patient's death.", "Wales' chief pharmacist says more than 30,000 doses a day could be delivered from next week.", "The shop will stock hundreds of new own-brand items including UK-sourced milk and desserts.", "The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into how Apple's app store is run.", "There could be a \"monumental\" spike in youth unemployment without action, a report says.", "The broadcaster announces the dating show will return this summer, but doesn't confirm the location.", "A series of earthquakes, one of 8.1 magnitude, trigger evacuation orders that are later stood down.", "Mark Drakeford self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid.", "Rapid approval without lengthy tests can happen if new vaccines are needed to fight variants, say regulators.", "Pay will be frozen for at least 1.3 million public sector staff, but low-paid and NHS workers will get raises.", "The former Coronation Street star says he was tired of being rejected for roles and of online trolls.", "Nicola Sturgeon pledges to release a report into whether she breached the code on the same day she receives it.", "The government will face a public backlash if it does not pay staff more, the RCN union warns.", "The Korean boyband beat Taylor Swift and Drake to top the chart.", "It says it will not support the Good Friday Agreement unless changes are made to the NI Protocol.", "The recommendation comes from the Scottish government's Covid advisory group on education.", "Infections fell by two-thirds in lockdown but one in 200 people still have the virus, a study says.", "The Stone Roses man was supposed to headline the Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington.", "Nicola Sturgeon faces questions about the government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond.", "The star's older brother, Morgan Carey, accuses the star of \"malicious falsehoods\" in her memoir.", "The move, taking effect later this year, will more than double the current limit of £45.", "Steve Huffman says he supported the aims of a Reddit group taking on the hedge funds.", "Natalie Queiroz recalls her partner's attack five years ago in which her unborn child was feared dead.", "The chancellor says his Budget can rescue the Covid-ravaged economy, as UK faces highest tax burden since 1960s.", "Political reporter Jayne McCormack and business reporter Richard Morgan will answer your questions.", "Home Office boss Philip Rutnam quit his job over what he claimed was \"vicious\" briefing against him.", "Elon Musk's concept space vehicle completes a test flight but then destroys itself in flames.", "Julie Price says she accidentally failed to submit a tax return, so did not get Covid support.", "The UK economy is expected to recover six months faster than expected from the pandemic, the chancellor says.", "More than one million NHS staff in England will receive the three-year pay deal backdated from April.", "Statistics agency Nisra recorded a very similar number of Covid deaths and excess deaths in the period.", "The street art appeared on the side of Reading Prison, which is under threat of development.", "An actress on Bafta's scheme to improve film and TV diversity claims she was discriminated against.", "The US actress played the icy matriarch Lucille Bluth, and starred in films like Play Misty for Me.", "Max Woosey, 11, is inviting children around the world to join him in a camp-out on Saturday night.", "Many say key risk assessments have either not taken place or have not been acted on.", "The council officer says more people get involved with council meetings when they take place online.", "Paul McKeigue shared information with a man who hinted he was a Russian agent, to discredit an NGO.", "The virus was mentioned on 15 death certificates in the week to Friday 19 March, figures show.", "Wales clinch the Six Nations as 14-man Scotland snatch their first victory in Paris since 1999 to wreck France's title hopes.", "The RAF and Royal Navy suspend operations of their Hawk T1 jets after one crashes in woodland.", "Anne Linton and a man who burgled her swap Christmas gifts and he regularly does her gardening.", "Outdoor furniture and DIY sales were strong, but clothing stores continued to struggle.", "The flightless birds are reported to have attacked dogs and are being compared to the Road Runner.", "The government unveils plans to boost children's health, but Labour calls them a \"smokescreen\" for cuts.", "Infections among secondary school children in England rose slightly, the Office for National Statistics says.", "Maj Gen Nick Welch claimed to live in London rather than in Dorset near his children's schools.", "It looked into whether the former PM should have been registered for the work he did for a financial firm.", "Robert Jenrick defends the right of teachers to \"appropriately\" show images of the Prophet Muhammed.", "Supreme Court rules shop workers are free to pursue fight to gain equal pay with warehouse staff.", "In new testimony, former detainees of China's detention camps describe systematic rape and torture.", "A mother says her twins \"were cuddling and holding hands\" as they were reunited after two weeks.", "The inquest examined the deaths of 10 people in and around the Ballymurphy area in August 1971.", "Claims of rape, sexual abuse and misogyny have been made by pupils at several independent schools.", "The measures will help businesses to recover and allow customers to shop safely, ministers say.", "No further coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded by the NI Department of Health.", "Accommodation provided by groups with no expertise could be dangerous, women's organisations warn.", "Ollie Watkins scores on his debut as England deliver the expected easy win over San Marino in their opening World Cup 2022 qualifying game at Wembley.", "A review on certificates showing jab status is ongoing but no decisions have been made, PM says.", "The medical director for Pfizer UK says it is important people are \"allowed to start living again\".", "An industry source says they expect the government to require hauliers entering the UK to be tested.", "BBC Breakfast has been given a world-first look inside the Covid vaccine factory Boris Johnson called \"the saviour of humanity\".", "Some people have been housed after years on the streets, but others still face uncertainty.", "Five sanctioned parliamentarians say they will continue to campaign for persecuted groups in China.", "The health secretary said 'essential' government powers need to stay but other measures have been scrapped.", "A staff member's integrity was questioned because of his union activities, a tribunal has ruled.", "The former first minister said he would be among the candidates standing for the pro-independence Alba Party.", "The queue has grown rapidly since a container vessel became wedged, a sailor says.", "The firm run by Joe Anderson's son was not on an approved contractors list, a critical report found.", "The stranded mega-container ship is delaying $400m (£292m) an hour in goods that can't be moved east or west.", "Allegations of sex attacks at schools in London are being investigated by the Met Police.", "The decision to scrap this year's event was not \"taken lightly\", the Crufts chairman says.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Alexander Price said pupils dressed \"like Eastern European prostitutes and Kardashian clones\".", "Concerns over Liberty Steel's future have grown after its key backer Greensill Capital went bust.", "Latest figures from the ONS hint at an increase in years 7 to 11 in schools in England.", "Protesters involved in a sit-down demonstration are driven back by police in Bristol.", "Colin Parry says the government's refusal to pay compensation to victims is \"political\".", "Post-Brexit security arrangements are \"complex and untested\", a House of Lords report warns.", "The chancellor urges firms not to scrap offices altogether, warning employees may leave if they do.", "Polling expert Professor John Curtice looks at the issues that will decide the Scottish Parliament election on 6 May.", "Now everyone is presumed to be a donor unless they opt out of the organ donation register.", "The return of Scotland's former first minister to the political fray sends a shockwave through the Holyrood campaign.", "PM insists vaccine supply delays will not stop England meeting its targets for lifting restrictions.", "The warning comes as an estimated 1,600 cancer patients are missed because of the pandemic.", "An LA-based investigator tells BBC News he unlawfully obtained her social security number.", "A punter has won £250,000 from a £5 bet after deciding to cash out on the final leg of his accumulator at Cheltenham.", "The suspect is released on bail after being questioned about the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.", "Engineers have carried out a major engine test of Nasa's Space Launch System.", "Local health organisations in England have been told to expect a reduced vaccine supply in April.", "Covid-sceptic John Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks.", "The four main Churches confirm when they will resume in-person services, following a voluntary break.", "Officials are doing everything to minimise delays caused by reduced supply, says Robin Swann.", "In an unprecedented move, the NI secretary will have power to compel Stormont to implement new laws.", "Three people have been arrested after the incident in York Street early on Wednesday.", "The corporation is expanding out of the capital to \"ensure every household gets value from the BBC\".", "A global chip shortage has led to disruption in the semi-conductor industry.", "Rail worker Asante Campbell was attacked by a group of males on a London estate in 2020.", "Decisions reached by Scottish politicians has implications for the whole of the UK.", "Merthyr Tydfil has a seven-day case rate of 159.1 per 100,000 population compared to a Wales average of 43.3.", "The French capital and various other areas will have movement restricted as cases rise.", "Hiroshi Sasaki had proposed that plus-size entertainer Naomi Watanabe appear at the opening ceremony as a pig.", "Chelsea move into the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in seven years with a 3-0 aggregate win over Atletico Madrid.", "The prime minister's former aide criticises the department over PPE and procurement at start of the pandemic.", "Police said the bodies of Bennylyn Burke and two-year-old Jellica were found in a house in Dundee.", "The 33-year-old vanished as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham on 3 March.", "Nasa's robot rover extends its Martian playlist with a recording made while it was driving over rocks.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wants to restore confidence in business after high profile failures like Carillion.", "Despite the supply issues, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the government expects to meet its mid-April targets.", "The first minister says she hopes the executive will be able to \"move a little faster\" soon.", "Online events are taking the place of traditional parades due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Boris Johnson says he will be receiving the vaccine on Friday and urges people to take up their offers.", "The airline is exploring the sale of its huge Heathrow Airport HQ as part of flexible working plans.", "Evha Jannath's death at Drayton Manor was an \"utterly tragic waste of a young life\", the judge says.", "Ministers agreed to the change on \"an experimental basis\" after calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime.", "A long-awaited report into football's historical child sex abuse scandal finds \"institutional failings\" at the Football Association between 1995 and 2000 left some children unsafe.", "More than 57,000 people complain over Morgan's remarks about Meghan on Good Morning Britain.", "Vanessa Bryant published the names of officers she says shared photos of the site of Bryant's death.", "A government decision to reduce subsidies is criticised by the motor industry and UK businesses.", "Some doctors in Wales had said they have not received any tests at all.", "Labour accuses the government of trampling over the public's right to challenge government decisions.", "The first minister says she stands by all of the evidence she gave to the committee earlier this month.", "The number of offences police record is \"well below\" the estimated number of victims, the ONS says.", "Survivors of childhood sexual abuse say football must not be complacent after a review into historical abuse in the sport was published.", "Some people's human rights may have been breached during the pandemic, the care watchdog for England says.", "Police were called on Wednesday after young people gathered in Botanic Gardens in south Belfast.", "Sanaa Seif criticised the Egyptian authorities' handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in prisons.", "The shadow business secretary tells the BBC the company is too vital for the UK to collapse.", "Regulators give reassurance and advice on rare blood clot symptoms, such as headache lasting days.", "Boss of the home fitness equipment firm warns parents to keep children away from its machines.", "The former US president's fortune slipped to $2.3bn according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.", "An inquest into the 33-year-old's death is due to take place on 18 March in Maidstone, Kent.", "The outgoing chief executive of a London trust warns the health service needs more capacity to avoid crisis.", "Regulator Ofcom will not cap Openreach's fees for full-fibre connections for at least 10 years.", "Three paramedics were held back to treat patients outside the Manchester Arena, an inquiry hears.", "As several countries pause the AstraZeneca jab, six reporters explain what is happening across Europe.", "Researchers say children need \"targeted\" support rather than trying to \"catch up on everything\".", "Bank of England says a rebound is likely in 2021, but it still depends on the \"evolution of the pandemic\".", "More than 3.7 million people in England will no longer have to stay at home to avoid the virus.", "The employment rate among mothers fluctuates until children reach 15 then falls back, new figures show.", "Grace Victory was in an induced coma after giving birth to her first child on Christmas Eve.", "Boris Johnson says the reopening of schools is a \"huge moment\" but warns it may impact spread of virus.", "Amy-Leanne Stringfellow, who died in a \"sustained\" attack, was unlawfully killed, a coroner rules.", "The interview with Oprah Winfrey reveals their struggles with life inside the Royal Family.", "The RCN says nurses in NI could be balloted for strike action if a pay offer mirrors that in England.", "He will bring forward a proposal to scrap the plan to pull P1-P3 children back out of classes on 22 March.", "Ecologist Jamie Kingscott took a photograph of thousands of starlings as they surrounded his car.", "The British-Iranian's five-year sentence on spying charges has ended, but she faces a separate court case.", "Lord Frost says the EU has \"significantly undermined\" post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.", "Drug treatment for fatal genetic disorder will be the most expensive approved in the UK.", "Mark Drakeford is shown criticising Boris Johnson after a Cobra meeting featured in an S4C programme.", "Some care home residents in England are now allowed one nominated visitor, as restrictions begin to ease.", "The Manx government scraps plans to reopen \"hub schools\" on Tuesday for key workers' children.", "The couple's interview lays bare the contradictions of the royals' public and private lives.", "Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a limited easing of some lockdown restrictions at Holyrood.", "A senior officer says the club did not \"take their responsibilities seriously\" over messaging to fans.", "The recommendations aim to reduce the number of safety checks banks request on blocks of flats.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "A range of measures are being looked at to help pupils in England catch up, the education secretary says.", "Will Shu's comments come as the food delivery firm sets out flotation plans but reports another loss.", "Officials say badly stored dynamite at a military base and stubble burning caused the explosions.", "The ex-wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos is one of the world's richest women and a major philanthropist.", "The population immunity to viruses other than Covid could be lower than usual, a top medic warns.", "Victim Wenjing Xu helped out in the family takeaway and was described as having \"a gentle soul\".", "Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be broadcast at 01:00 GMT on Monday.", "Inspectors criticised conditions at Napier Barracks in Folkestone and Penally camp in Pembrokeshire.", "Sgt Gavin Hillier's wife and two sons say they are \"not ready to say goodbye\" to him.", "Police condemn the attack as \"reckless\" as the Sinn Féin MLA says it is the latest in a \"sinister pattern\".", "The temporary hospitals, which were largely unused, are being shut as patient numbers fall.", "Stay at home rules banning all but essential travel could be eased, Wales' first minister says.", "Professor was sacked for gross misconduct over proposed £200m wellness village.", "The Nobel Prize laureate on why she is hopeful about change and representation on screen.", "The piece depicts a young boy discarding his superhero toys in favour of a model of an NHS nurse.", "Nicola Sturgeon joins criticism of crowds who gathered to celebrate Rangers' Premiership win.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "Prince Harry said they were not the ones behind comments on \"how dark\" their baby would be, says TV host.", "Sarah Everard has been missing from south London since Wednesday evening.", "As the couple step away from royal duties, we look at their life together from meeting to marriage and beyond.", "The referendum, brought by a far-right party, could affect Muslim women who wear the burka or niqab.", "The student admits she was not in class when Samuel Paty showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.", "The Duke of Sussex says the \"bigoted\" UK media created a \"toxic environment\" in newly aired footage.", "There is a huge gap on Conwy's quayside after the Nicola Faith left on 27 January and did not return.", "Forty people protested against the controversial plan in Manchester and an NHS worker was arrested.", "Black women in the US respond to Meghan Markle's revelations about racism and Britain.", "Details and reaction to a briefing on the pandemic by Education Minister Kirsty Williams.", "The DUP leader is \"alarmed\" by the slower pace of the vaccine rollout in the Republic of Ireland.", "The Hull West and Hessle Labour MP says the number of people needing help has \"risen dramatically\".", "Ruth Williams was strangled by her husband, whose five-year sentence for manslaughter sparked anger.", "In a deeply personal TV interview, Meghan tells Oprah Winfrey that she did not get help when she asked for it.", "The retailer's expansion into 46 markets marks the latest move to grow its digital business.", "A senior officer wants the Premier League and EFL to act before fans return to stadiums.", "A judge orders the Mail on Sunday to publish a statement about the Duchess of Sussex copyright victory.", "Options include setting up a charity to cover the cost of refurbishments, sources tell the BBC.", "Four people were stopped and fined for driving to \"ghost hunt and view castles\".", "Two men, who suffered serious injuries in Treorchy, were arrested in connection with the incident.", "Some are not being prioritised if they haven't been to hospital recently for the condition.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 26 February and 5 March", "The UK government is taking the step to ease the movement of plants without the agreement of the EU.", "R remains below 1, and a survey of community infections suggest around 1-in-230 people has the virus.", "Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood.", "The £79m forms part of a half-billion-pound pot for all mental health services.", "Mason Fitzgerald's profile said he had a US law degree but he did not graduate from the course.", "The Duke of Edinburgh will remain in hospital for a number of days, Buckingham Palace says.", "Merseyside police to ask why Scotland Yard did not refer false accusers for criminal investigation.", "Detectives assessed claims that false documents were used to win Diana's trust before her appearance.", "Prince Philip, 99, is recuperating after a heart procedure on a pre-existing condition.", "James Bascoe-Smith's mother raced out to find him when he called to say: \"I've been stabbed.\"", "It shares a worrying mutation with the South Africa and Brazil variants of concern.", "The ground \"fell away\" as the man rode across his field, leaving him trapped 60ft below the surface.", "The victim - understood to be a Welsh Guards sergeant - was fatally injured at the Castlemartin base.", "'History will not judge this nation kindly', they say, in a letter to Boris Johnson.", "Staff speak out after it emerges some professionals are being paid five times more for the same roles.", "Mike Ashley's Frasers Group says new business rates measures are \"near worthless\" for large retailers.", "Details and reaction to an update on the pandemic from Health Minister Vaughan Gething.", "Women with the painful condition say they are being given poor advice on dealing with the symptoms.", "Days after the PM said all contracts were \"on the record\", government lawyers admitted many were not.", "Provisional grades will be given to A-level and GCSE pupils in June, ahead of official results days.", "The broadcaster announces the dating show will return this summer, but doesn't confirm the location.", "A series of earthquakes, one of 8.1 magnitude, trigger evacuation orders that are later stood down.", "Pay will be frozen for at least 1.3 million public sector staff, but low-paid and NHS workers will get raises.", "Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are not confined to those on ventilators, a study suggests.", "Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott banned for 12 months, with the last six months suspended, after being found guilty of bringing the sport into disrepute.", "The government will face a public backlash if it does not pay staff more, the RCN union warns.", "New documents detail the meetings that began at Bletchley Park and grew into the Five Eyes pact of today.", "Two reports from MPs cast doubt on the government's approach to meeting its climate change goals.", "The one-tonne robot wiggles its wheels before rolling forwards across Jezero Crater's dusty terrain.", "University students should be given compensation for disrupted studies, says Sir Anthony Seldon.", "Officials believe the missing person quarantined at home but are carrying out extra testing in the area they live.", "Nine in 10 have received one dose, but in London it's much lower, figures show.", "Natalie Queiroz recalls her partner's attack five years ago in which her unborn child was feared dead.", "The National Trust's map plots a worst-case scenario if global carbon emissions are not driven down.", "Where was the help for the environment, social care, renters, and to cover the future costs of Covid?", "Home Office boss Philip Rutnam quit his job over what he claimed was \"vicious\" briefing against him.", "Being a royal was \"different than I think what people imagine it to be\", says the Duchess of Sussex.", "The UK government has faced backlash after suggesting a 1% cap on pay rise for NHS workers in England.", "The businessman is accused of promoting cryptocurrency to his followers to inflate prices.", "The first minister says it will be the first step out of lockdown, but urges people not to get carried away.", "The street art appeared on the side of Reading Prison, which is under threat of development.", "Sarah Everard has not been seen or heard from since Wednesday night, her best friend says.", "Heads say parents are not giving consent for Covid tests for children, ahead of going back to school.", "The medical director for Pfizer UK says it is important people are \"allowed to start living again\".", "From North Pole to Pembrokeshire, a walrus seems to be continuing his trip around the Welsh coast.", "Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Bristol city centre for the third time this week.", "Millions of people across England are preparing for outdoor grassroots sports being allowed again from Monday.", "Scientists say they have worked out how teeth become sensitive and hurt with cold food and drinks.", "A senior law enforcement officer says the UK needs \"a step change\" in its response to fraud.", "Nicola Sturgeon's comments come after Alex Salmond confirmed he would stand for a new pro-independence party.", "The family made the four-hour round trip after being placed in emergency B&B accommodation.", "The large container vessel became wedged across the canal on Tuesday, causing a traffic jam.", "The space agency rules out a 2068 threat to Earth from the \"poster child for hazardous asteroids\".", "Maj Gen Nick Welch claimed to live in London rather than in Dorset near his children's schools.", "Allegations of sex attacks at schools in London are being investigated by the Met Police.", "CBS says her behaviour in an on-air row over the Duchess of Sussex \"did not align with our values\".", "Making a teacher fear for their safety is \"unacceptable\", the equality commission chair says.", "Lockdown begins to be eased in Wales, but travel to other parts of the UK is still banned.", "The SNP call for a by-election in East Lothian and describe his departure as \"somewhat of a relief\".", "Workers were trapped in a hotel when Islamist militants stormed the town of Palma, reports say.", "A \"minority\" of protesters \"showed hostility\" including throwing bottles and bricks, police say.", "An American satellite records a temperature of -111C at the top of a powerful Pacific storm.", "Concerns over Liberty Steel's future have grown after its key backer Greensill Capital went bust.", "Venezuela's president will not be able to post for 30 days for disinformation over a herbal remedy.", "Teenager Lauren James scores as Manchester United beat West Ham in their first Women's Super League match at Old Trafford.", "He tells activists the UK will recover \"jab by jab, job by job\" ahead of May's elections in England.", "Latest figures from the ONS hint at an increase in years 7 to 11 in schools in England.", "The virus was mentioned on 15 death certificates in the week to Friday 19 March, figures show.", "The former first minister said he would be among the candidates standing for the pro-independence Alba Party.", "Boris Johnson says the \"roadmap to freedom\" will continue, even as infections rise across Europe.", "A civilian contractor was injured on the live firing range in Carmarthenshire on Thursday.", "The petition says the Batley Grammar School teacher \"does not deserve such large repercussions\".", "Protesters involved in a sit-down demonstration are driven back by police in Bristol.", "There are no wild celebrations for Wales' players, but that does not diminish Alun Wyn Jones' pride at lifting the 2021 Six Nations trophy.", "The inquest examined the deaths of 10 people in and around the Ballymurphy area in August 1971.", "The first A74 (M) crash involved eight vehicles and the second, on the same road, involved four vehicles.", "Ten people are arrested after a third night of protests in Bristol in the past week.", "At no point does the director Darius Marder let you forget this is a film about the sensation of sound.", "Homeowners were invited to apply for grants to insulate houses but the scheme is being suddenly ended.", "But the Kill the Bill protest in Manchester is described as \"largely peaceful\" by police.", "Wales clinch the Six Nations as 14-man Scotland snatch their first victory in Paris since 1999 to wreck France's title hopes.", "The measures will help businesses to recover and allow customers to shop safely, ministers say.", "Forcing pub-goers to prove their jab status could make vaccine hesitancy worse, a scientist says.", "The family of three-year-old Charlie Hughes had brought a judicial review against NICE guidance.", "Police officers and staff made up a small portion of overall cases but up to half of crimes charged.", "The queue has grown rapidly since a container vessel became wedged, a sailor says.", "Polling expert Professor John Curtice looks at the issues that will decide the Scottish Parliament election on 6 May.", "The Met is investigating allegations of abuse published on the Everyone's Invited website.", "Women who have relocated in the past year tell how difficult it has been to adapt to a new country in a pandemic.", "BBC Money Box reporter Dan Whitworth was phoned by a fraudster and managed to record the call.", "Technology firms have been warned to consider the impact of such apps on vulnerable people.", "The DUP leader praises the \"positive community spirit\" and \"collective effort\" vaccination centres.", "The return of Scotland's former first minister to the political fray sends a shockwave through the Holyrood campaign.", "Labour say the Senedd election leaflets backing Mark Drakeford were sent by the local party group.", "The court says there is a \"high degree of probability\" Harry S is guilty and he must pay legal fees.", "The British-Iranian woman faces a new court hearing this weekend, following a five-year sentence.", "The British-Iranian's five-year sentence ended on Sunday, but she faces a separate court case.", "Chun Xu is charged with Wenjing Lin's murder and the attempted murder of a 38-year-old man.", "Denmark and Austria have halted use of the vaccine as a precaution - but regulators say it is safe.", "A string of advisers quit amid concerns ministers are not delivering on a pledge to ban the practice.", "US president Joe Biden has previously expressed concerns about the situation in Ireland after Brexit.", "Head teachers warn of pushy parents lobbying for higher GCSE and A-level grades in cancelled exams.", "The airport regularly sees queuing times of three hours and on occasion six hours, an executive says.", "Londoner Sarah Everard, 33, has not been seen since she disappeared in Clapham a week ago.", "Ministers say the move will help firms after Covid - but Labour says it \"smacks of ill-preparedness\".", "The 33-year-old disappeared while walking home in Clapham, London, last week.", "Nicola Sturgeon faces questions from opposition leaders and MSPs after confirming the return of more pupils to school will go ahead as planned.", "The search follows the arrests of a serving Met Police officer and a woman in Kent on Tuesday.", "The High Street stalwart will sell items from 11 different clothing brands on its website from spring.", "The lower house passes a bill allowing recreational use, with final approval now almost assured.", "Fabinho is \"one of the best in the world at number six\", says Jurgen Klopp after the Brazil midfielder helps Liverpool beat RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.", "The two taxi apps have faced scrutiny for how they handle incidents of sexual assault and other safety issues.", "The Tomahawk Steakhouse chain asked furloughed staff to loan it 10% of their wages to cover costs.", "Ministers say \"increased\" controversy over the Cumbria mine means a public inquiry is needed.", "The BBC's media editor will become the fifth presenter of Radio 4's flagship news programme.", "The controversial legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found stabbed to death in a park in Wembley last June.", "The 90-year-old investor is part of an elite group of five, although he has given billions to charity.", "A 12-week gap could leave those having two Pfizer jabs vulnerable to Covid-19, researchers suggest.", "Experts say the move reflects the heightened risks from coronavirus for people who are homeless.", "Stirling and Glasgow were the last of the 32 authorities to consider a council tax freeze in meetings on Thursday.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he has yet to speak to his brother Prince Harry following the Oprah interview.", "Hackers linked to China have found footholds inside hundreds of companies after a mass hack.", "Downing Street rejects calls for the PM to apologise to MPs, saying the record has been corrected.", "Wenjing Lin - who was described as a \"gentle soul\" - died at her family's takeaway restaurant.", "A Met officer is being questioned over Sarah Everard's murder, having earlier been taken to hospital.", "Magicians use \"powerful tools\" of psychology to manipulate people's behaviour, say researchers.", "A major study by biomedical database UK Biobank will examine the long-term impacts of coronavirus.", "The firm that made the cladding was warned of a fire that could kill 60 to 70 people, the inquiry hears.", "Ten years on from Japan’s triple disaster, a survivor remembers the day his entire family disappeared.", "The singer will take 'fun and upbeat' track Embers to the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.", "\"What appears to be human remains\" have been found in the search for missing Sarah Everard, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.", "The couple's interview lays bare the contradictions of the royals' public and private lives.", "Kemi Badenoch is criticised by former adviser amid anger over delays to banning conversion therapy.", "The serving Met officer suffered a head injury while in custody but has since returned to a police station.", "A plan for children in primaries one to three to return to remote learning from 22 March is scrapped.", "Claire Boyle, 34, was ordered to carry out community service after being convicted on neglect charges.", "The Dyfed-Powys Police commissioner urged people to take responsibility if Covid rules were relaxed.", "Bill Harkin dreamed of the design which has been a mainstay of the music and arts festival.", "Three cases of the P.1 variant are in South Gloucestershire and the fourth is in Bradford, West Yorkshire.", "Council tax bills are going up by at least twice the rate of inflation across Wales.", "The actress says the painting can help campaigners fighting to turn Reading Prison into an arts hub.", "Griff, Pa Salieu and Rina Sawayama have all been nominated for the award, which recognises new talent.", "The retail giant reports big losses and says it does not expect to reopen all of its shops post-lockdown.", "Checking for tell-tale compounds could help spot the degenerative brain condition, experts say.", "The Mars robot starts using its laser and even records the sounds the instrument makes.", "MSPs reject a motion seeking to remove the deputy first minister from office after the Greens back the SNP.", "Scale of cancelled treatments is revealed with hospitals facing 'dire' backlog after Covid surge.", "Labour urges voters to back it in English local polls to support \"a proper pay rise\" for nurses.", "A Home Office trial with two UK internet providers has logged user activity on websites.", "Ian Murray steps down over the group's reaction to Harry and Meghan's comments on media racism.", "Thousands of women express their anxiety and anger about staying safe when alone in public places.", "The Palace says \"recollections may vary\" but matters in the TV interview will be addressed privately.", "A union claims DVLA's Swansea headquarters has seen the \"worst Covid workplace outbreak in the UK\".", "Interest from potential buyers and number of properties on the market were down, the surveyors body said.", "Beyoncé picks up her 26th Grammy, while Billie Eilish wins a prize for her Bond theme.", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.", "The British-Iranian woman faces new charges, a week after being freed from a five-year prison term.", "All over 50s could be vaccinated ahead of schedule, thanks to good supplies, say experts.", "Senior figures tell the BBC Boris Johnson should have been tougher in the autumn to prevent more deaths.", "Zoe Ley brokered deals with a Hong Kong firm to supply goggles and gowns to UK health officials.", "Several countries suspend use of the jab, but the WHO says there's no evidence it causes blood clots.", "Boris Johnson promises more investment and jobs ahead of his long-awaited update on the military.", "Western museums are under pressure to return looted treasure, but what of those in private collections?", "Disney said the blockbuster film regained top spot over the weekend knocking off Avengers: End Game.", "Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is accused of not disclosing a potential conflict of interest.", "Cleveland Police said those that tried to help the 10-year-old girl were \"heroes\".", "Two of the women at the vigil for Sarah Everard tell BBC News about being handcuffed at the event.", "Police used water cannon and mounted officers to clear anti-government demonstrators in The Hague.", "It marks highest number of hospital admissions during the currrent outbreak as new cases rise by 44.", "Andrew Bailey has been criticised for evidence he gave over a scandal in which 11,000 savers lost money.", "The probationary officer had been deployed to Kent in the search operation for Sarah Everard.", "Alan Rusbridger resigns from media panel after it emerged an ex-columnist supported the IRA.", "Carers of young children are told to toughen online security by GCHQ's cyber-security agency.", "Police investigating the death of the 33-year-old cordon off part of Sandwich, Kent.", "They say it is unfair pubs will have to wait five weeks longer than non-essential retail to reopen indoors.", "A powerful hallucinogen used in shamanic rituals is being trialled as a potential depression cure.", "The chain blames High Street conditions for its decision to shut 61 shops, putting 603 jobs at risk.", "The 17-year-old was hunted down and stabbed nine times after straying into a drug gang's territory.", "It is also a record year for diversity in the acting nominations and for female directors.", "The man who found the plane wreckage carrying footballer Emiliano Sala is assisting.", "Large crowds gather in Parliament Square shortly after Home Secretary Priti Patel warns against such events.", "A bill aimed at strengthening police powers at demonstrations is \"a mess\", says Labour.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening.", "All remaining primary school children, those studying for exams and some college students return.", "Safety concerns raised after Sarah Everard's death shows \"how far we have to go\", a minister says.", "Johnny Sexton knocks over a late penalty as Ireland survive a surge from Scotland to eke out a hectic Six Nations victory at Murrayfield.", "Health Minister Robin Swann says 30,000 people booked a Covid-19 vaccine in just three hours.", "Yo-Yo Ma performs in a waiting room after receiving his second dose of Covid-19 vaccine.", "Loungewear and smart watches are other commonly bought goods now used to measure changes in the cost of living.", "Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will be added when changes come into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.", "Strong winds blowing in from Mongolia have shrouded the Chinese capital in dust.", "Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury's world heavyweight title showdown moves a step closer with Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn saying a two-fight deal has been signed.", "Online footage apparently shows members of an evangelical church meeting without face coverings or full social distancing.", "Maintaining public order at protests is one of the hardest jobs in modern policing.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Education Minister Kirsty Williams and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Chris Jones.", "Wales' first minister earlier said he had been \"disturbed\" by policing at a London vigil.", "Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith says there is no evidence the vaccine is causing blood clots.", "Campaigners had argued changes in approach made by the Crown Prosecution Service were \"unlawful\".", "A jet fuel made from food waste has the potential to reduce emissions from flying, scientists say.", "The families of the missing Nicola Faith's crew have been \"kept informed\", says North Wales Police.", "She was on her way home from the Sarah Everard vigil when she was confronted by a man.", "The investment bank responds to complaints of a long-hours culture, while rival Citi starts Zoom-free Fridays.", "It looks like the viruses that cause colds wins in the battle to infect our cells.", "Ronnie Wallwork, who also played for West Bromwich Albion, admitted an assault charge.", "Thousands of people have retweeted Emmeline Hartley's story after she shared it to warn others.", "Boris Johnson says the UK will \"feel effects\" of growing case numbers in Europe amid a row over vaccines.", "The Twitter founder will donate the money to charity after it was bought by a Malaysia-based businessman.", "More than 200 people were fined in south Wales - many at illegal house parties in Merthyr.", "An independent report says the first minister's involvement in the Alex Salmond saga did not break the rules.", "MSPs take part in an emotionally charged debate on whether Nicola Sturgeon should have resigned over the Alex Salmond saga.", "British artist Sacha Jafri spent eight months creating the work in isolation in a hotel ballroom.", "Sponsors have also withdrawn their support for the influencer after his former associate was accused of rape.", "Former England striker Frank Worthington dies aged 72 following a long illness.", "Police say more arrests are imminent after Sunday's disorder in Bristol.", "A committee of MSPs says the female complainers were badly let down by the Scottish government.", "Campaigners say a massive increase in appeals for help has exposed the scale of the problem.", "Services were held around the UK to remember those who have died from coronavirus.", "The 14 men, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, were among 24 charged following pickets in Shrewsbury.", "The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh is fully operational after a delay of 20 months.", "The retailer will not sell magazines with disposable plastic toys after a campaign by a 10-year-old.", "A gunman has killed 10 people, including a police officer, in the US state of Colorado.", "Fourteen people are arrested at another demonstration in Bristol over new police bill.", "Several people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the fire.", "Alexander Price, 43, made the comments in his anonymous gossip blog about his school in north Wales.", "James Heaton says lessons need to be learnt after the \"sheer hell\" of losing his parents.", "The BBC journalist will take over from John Humphrys on the long-running quiz show.", "A special event to mark 12 months of the pandemic.", "The killing of two women in County Antrim has left children without mothers, officers say.", "The SNP wants to hold an independence referendum in the first half of the next Scottish Parliament session.", "Christopher Christian is handed four weeks in jail after visiting a shop to buy mobile phone credit.", "Congo-Brazzaville's main opposition presidential candidate was being sent to France for treatment.", "The son of singer Bobby Brown was found dead in his home last November.", "MSPs reject a motion of no confidence in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon by 65 votes to 31.", "The Renesas fire is set to make it even more difficult for car-makers to buy the chips they need.", "It comes after Boris Johnson thanked people for their \"courage and patience\" a year after the first lockdown began.", "A team working at the Large Hadron Collider finds signs of new physical laws.", "TV host considers how Draper, who has been badly affected by Covid-19, will be cared for at home.", "A notice about the Duchess of Sussex's copyright win is on hold pending a possible appeal by the newspaper.", "The Duke of Sussex is \"really excited\" to become chief impact officer for coaching firm BetterUp.", "The decline suggests the winter wave of coronavirus deaths has ended, experts say.", "A year into the pandemic, we look at countries that have had some success in tackling the virus.", "It is believed to be a record price for a painting by the elusive street artist.", "We've done more walking and worked more from home this year, according to a BBC-commissioned poll.", "A review of the UK's defence policy brings new investment in cyber warfare, robotics and drones.", "The number of workers on UK company payrolls climbed by 200,000 in the three months to February.", "The plan aims at ending six brutal years of civil war but rebels said it offered \"nothing new\".", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The investigation relates to the seizure of more than one kilogram of cocaine found in two cars in 2020.", "US cinemas will reopen in April followed by the UK in May, with theatres getting exclusivity over streaming.", "Covid rules force keepers to move 14 birds across four countries to get to their new home.", "A ship the length of four football pitches is wedged across one of the world's busiest trade routes.", "But Boris Johnson immediately retracts the comments made during a Zoom meeting with Tory MPs.", "A judge ruled the trial over the death in police custody of Alexander Monson, 28, should go ahead.", "An Abu Dhabi investment fund agrees to pay £800m into UK life sciences, with more expected to follow.", "Karen Dakin, from Nacton near Ipswich, plans to finally buy a home after renting for years.", "Two men posing as police officers tied an elderly lady up in her own home and stole cash and a safe.", "The Education Policy Institute says they take fewer qualifications at a lower level than more affluent peers.", "Medical officials in California say they will investigate surgeon Scott Green.", "Catalan police make four arrests after searching the offices of La Liga side Barcelona.", "The makers of Love Island South Africa promise more diversity after its starting line-up was criticised by some viewers because of the number of white contestants.", "The hunt is on for the fireball fragments that probably fell to Earth over England on Sunday night.", "Travellers complain of having to queue for up to seven hours because of new Covid measures at border control.", "The UK will soon be in a \"very different world\", government scientists promise after the success of the jabs.", "Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott is temporarily banned from racing in Britain after being pictured sitting on a dead horse.", "Leading Irish racehorse trainer Gordon Elliott says a photo circulating on social media of him sitting on a dead horse is real.", "Jim Ashworth-Beaumont needs the prosthetic after being involved in a cycling accident last year.", "Foreign ambassadors say Boris Johnson's tacit support for the mine prompts accusations of hypocrisy.", "The UK has 7.3 critical care beds per 100,000 people, compared to Germany's 33.8 and the US's 34.3.", "Mark Drakeford and Sir Keir Starmer say UK government needs to do more to strengthen borders.", "Travellers from Leeds and Manchester are turned away from a Merseyside beauty spot, police say.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford gives a live televised briefing.", "It is the first ban of its kind in the UK but a step too far say smokers' rights group.", "Protestors were from anti-vaccine and far-right groups, says Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.", "The actor, who played Mike Baldwin in the soap, died after a long illness, his family said.", "Boris Johnson's comments come as Tory MPs lobby the Chancellor to cut rates for business in the budget", "An \"organised fight\" in a yard in County Tyrone was a clear breach of Covid-19 rules, say police.", "Rule breaking is \"incredibly frustrating\" for officers, says chair of the South Wales Police Federation.", "The health secretary for England welcomes the reduction in hospitalisations following the jab rollout.", "A long-awaited report says the US president should ignore calls for a ban on autonomous weapons.", "The GMB Union says employees say they were told to sign a loan agreement or face possible dismissal.", "The chancellor is to provide more funding for the programme, which has now given 20m first doses.", "Social media users reported seeing a 'flash' with a 'tail of orange light' in the night sky.", "Six cases of the variant first detected in Brazil have now been found in England and Scotland.", "Viewers are asking why most contestants in the reality show are white in the majority-black country.", "The bank currently has 28 branches in Northern Ireland and says it will close 15 of them.", "Ahmed, blind since birth, stands in for teachers who don't make it in to their ruined school in Yemen.", "Ryan Fischer is expected to make a full recovery after a dognapper shot him in the chest.", "A couple with a child had set up camp on a cliff edge in an area known for landslips.", "The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, will undergo testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition.", "Chloé Zhao becomes the second woman ever to win best director at Hollywood's Golden Globe awards.", "The rock and metal festival had been due to take place at Donington Park at the start of June.", "Indy Bains says it has been \"devastating\" losing his mother and sister to the virus.", "The deputy first minister was facing a vote of no confidence over the government's advice from Alex Salmond's civil case.", "The family had pitched their tent in a \"perilous position\" in a landslip-prone area, officials say.", "Canary Wharf expects people to return to the office but may choose home working some of the time.", "But the chancellor says he wants \"to be honest\" with the public about the shock suffered by the economy.", "The milestone is a \"huge national achievement\" and \"every jab makes a difference\", Boris Johnson says.", "The study measured infection rates in school staff and pupils in November and December.", "Copying content without consent could be a breach of copyright, lawyers say.", "Former Watford, West Ham, Newcastle and Norwich manager Glenn Roeder dies aged 65, says the League Managers Association.", "Harry draws parallels between the treatment of his mother and wife, in teaser clips of a TV special.", "The Treasury Committee says \"significant\" measures may be needed later to improve public finances.", "Three Scottish oil workers tested positive while in isolation after flying to Aberdeen from Brazil.", "The monogrammed, midnight blue slippers sold for more than double the guide price at auction.", "Grace Victory was in an induced coma after giving birth to her first child on Christmas Eve.", "Pressure grows on Buckingham Palace to respond to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Oprah interview.", "Amy-Leanne Stringfellow, who died in a \"sustained\" attack, was unlawfully killed, a coroner rules.", "Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons have seen demand rise after more people bought pets during lockdown.", "The actor who played the lovable but bumbling Jim Trott dies from a dementia-related illness.", "The party's shadow health secretary says yearly drills would help the UK prepare for future threats.", "Faith leaders will also be banned from relationships with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care in England and Wales.", "The domestic abuse victims were pictured online next to an image of Liverpool FC boss Jurgen Klopp.", "A study suggests the NHS online Covid service tells some seriously-ill people to stay at home.", "The PM's stance would have been almost impossible to imagine this time last year.", "The parents of Ellie Gould have succeeded in increasing minimum tariffs for teenage murderers.", "Some care home residents in England are now allowed one nominated visitor, as restrictions begin to ease.", "The Manx government scraps plans to reopen \"hub schools\" on Tuesday for key workers' children.", "Jury selection is under way for the trial of a US ex-police officer accused of killing a black man.", "The couple's interview lays bare the contradictions of the royals' public and private lives.", "Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a limited easing of some lockdown restrictions at Holyrood.", "An EU diplomat is summoned to the Foreign Office following comments by the bloc's top official.", "The thrill of the Gloucestershire family at the centre of the major UK meteorite discovery.", "Major and Champ are sent back to Delaware after several instances of aggressive behaviour.", "The government says it is \"committed\" to ending the practice, but campaigners want action quickly.", "Working from home could also be expected to continue until next winter, says Sir Patrick Vallance.", "Jury selection for the Derek Chauvin trial began on Tuesday with three individuals selected.", "The \"extremely rare\" paperwork for a gig in 1994 also requests \"quality lager\".", "Fragments are recovered from the blazing fireball that lit up the sky above England last month.", "Kenneth Walker was accused of shooting and wounding an officer who stormed his home last year.", "His personal wealth soared as the video conferencing platform became a household name during the pandemic.", "Sixteen of the 24 acting nominees this year come from ethnic minority groups.", "Inspectors criticised conditions at Napier Barracks in Folkestone and Penally camp in Pembrokeshire.", "Owners of non-essential shops look forward to a review of Wales' lockdown measures on Friday.", "The temporary hospitals, which were largely unused, are being shut as patient numbers fall.", "NI's chief scientific adviser challenged an inquiry relating to his role after the death of Claire Roberts.", "The Palace says \"recollections may vary\" but matters in the TV interview will be addressed privately.", "The Nobel Prize laureate on why she is hopeful about change and representation on screen.", "A murder investigation began after Wenjing Xu, 16, died at a restaurant in Ynyswen on Friday.", "The chief medical officer says that means those not vaccinated could become ill, go to hospital, or die.", "The student admits she was not in class when Samuel Paty showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.", "The Duke of Sussex says the \"bigoted\" UK media created a \"toxic environment\" in newly aired footage.", "The singer says she's \"wholeheartedly sorry\" for comments made on comedian Mo Gilligan's podcast.", "Teachers should not be put under pressure by parents over deciding exam grades, says watchdog.", "Lockdown in England and Scotland will be lifted in stages - what are the risks associated with relaxing certain restrictions?", "The lawyer for Anne Sacoolas also says her client is willing to meet the teenager's family.", "Former Wales rugby player Nic Evans has no memories of her first appearance at Twickenham.", "The owner of Dove and Vaseline will remove the word from about 200 products in a push for inclusivity.", "Sarah Everard was last spotted by a doorbell camera on the A205 Poynders Road in Clapham.", "The Hull West and Hessle Labour MP says the number of people needing help has \"risen dramatically\".", "Up to four adults from two different households will be able to meet outdoors in Scotland from Friday.", "Campaign group Fair Play for Women argues the guidance allowed \"self-identification\" as another sex.", "An infection \"probably\" linked to a children's hospital was the \"primary cause of death\" of a cancer patient.", "Reece was bullied at school, leaving him with depression and anxiety, but now he's helping others.", "Wellerman has gone from 19th Century seafaring song to viral sensation to 2021 chart-topper.", "An LA-based investigator tells BBC News he unlawfully obtained her social security number.", "Young Uighur children are taken into orphanages without parents' consent, Amnesty International says.", "The motorist was stopped by police for driving at 122 mph on the M5 in Somerset.", "Only 18 cases have been recorded since the start of flu season, compared with 1,657 last winter.", "Engineers have carried out a major engine test of Nasa's Space Launch System.", "A spokeswoman said the president is \"doing 100% fine\" after slipping while boarding Air Force One.", "Officials are doing everything to minimise delays caused by reduced supply, says Robin Swann.", "The scammers took over the accounts and used them to pretend to sell PlayStation 5 consoles.", "In an unprecedented move, the NI secretary will have power to compel Stormont to implement new laws.", "Timothy Brehmer strangled Claire Parry after she exposed their secret relationship to his wife.", "And the Duke of Cambridge thanks the public for its \"compassion and generosity\" as £52m is raised.", "The cherry-knocking bird was caught on camera on a residential road.", "Bernard McGovern had previously admitted to attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly.", "One offender who has been in prison all his adult life says he has been \"left to rot\".", "Rangers' Glen Kamara insists he was subjected to \"vile racist abuse\" by Ondrej Kudela and says the Slavia Prague player's denial is \"a complete utter lie\".", "The updated coronavirus control plan gives a timetable for reopening, if cases remain low.", "Decisions reached by Scottish politicians has implications for the whole of the UK.", "The PM had his vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital, where he spent time in intensive care with Covid last year.", "Six other countries were worse affected during the second wave of the pandemic, according to ONS figures.", "The French capital and various other areas will have movement restricted as cases rise.", "Annabelle Smith, who has lost three jobs during the pandemic, is offered a job by a panellist.", "The government announces first stages of plans to get superfast broadband to the majority of UK homes.", "Police said the bodies of Bennylyn Burke and two-year-old Jellica were found in a house in Dundee.", "Her Majesty and the Duchess of Cornwall took part in a call with members of the Royal Voluntary Service.", "As a way around Covid restrictions, the soap has had real-life romantics standing in for actors.", "Boris Johnson says he will be receiving the vaccine on Friday and urges people to take up their offers.", "Oliver Banfield's victim says she thought he was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\".", "The airline is exploring the sale of its huge Heathrow Airport HQ as part of flexible working plans.", "Former Crewe manager Dario Gradi apologises for \"not recognising signs of abuse\" carried out at the club by paedophile Barry Bennell.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she stands by \"every word\" of her evidence to the Alex Salmond committee.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says plans to allow holidays in Wales will not be made until the 11th hour.", "The first minister says she stands by all of the evidence she gave to the committee earlier this month.", "Sgt Kam Hare says some people injured in the Manchester Arena attack \"didn't have anyone with them\".", "Meteorologists say the last known eruption in the area was about 800 years ago.", "Ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman is struck off the medical register permanently.", "At least 13 officers died in the attack by a suspected criminal gang in the State of Mexico.", "Frances, 53, is due to have the vaccine after the virus left her \"fighting for her life\" in February.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Boris Johnson says he \"cannot recommend it too highly\" as he urges the public to get vaccinated.", "Anthony Williams was found not guilty of murdering his wife but admitted manslaughter.", "Support for pupils varies according to which school you attend and where you live, report suggests.", "First-year analysts have reported 95-hour working weeks plus poor physical and mental health.", "Cancelled tests, lost lessons and new cars left idle - the aspiring motorists stuck in neutral.", "Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk.", "Details and reaction to a briefing on the pandemic by First Minister Mark Drakeford.", "Boss of the home fitness equipment firm warns parents to keep children away from its machines.", "Aung Thura was taken away by plainclothes men, as eight more people reported killed by security forces.", "Pupils will learn about historical and current diversity under the new curriculum.", "Boris Johnson will receive his first dose while European countries resume use of the Oxford vaccine.", "One worker who had to sleep at her job argued she should be paid minimum wage for the whole shift.", "The government borrowed £19.1bn last month, the highest figure for February since records began.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 March.", "Compelling Stormont to implement laws would be a \"serious breach of the devolution settlement\", Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says.", "Plans for the new building on green open land have prompted protests.", "Players ran to the gates to celebrate in sight of fans following their win against St Mirren on Saturday", "There is \"strong evidence\" services for female patients in England need improving, ministers say.", "A judge orders the Mail on Sunday to publish a statement about the Duchess of Sussex copyright victory.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "People in the age group are being invited to book their first vaccine from this week.", "The US poet says she was offered no apology after being racially profiled.", "The British Horseracing Authority says it has spoken to the government following a BBC Panorama programme detailing allegations about the missing daughter of Sheikh Mohammed.", "A councillor says a pilot's 40-mile trip to get a sandwich is a \"flagrant abuse\" of lockdown rules.", "Bennylyn Burke and two children had been missing from South Gloucestershire since 17 February.", "Two men, who suffered serious injuries in Treorchy, were arrested in connection with the incident.", "Mass testing using lateral flow devices is being carried out to get secondary schools in England back to class next week.", "Sarah Everard is thought to have walked home alone across Clapham Common on Wednesday evening.", "The child died in hospital after firefighters rescued them from a fire in flat in south London.", "Police have not previously disclosed that Woods lost consciousness in last month's crash in LA.", "The head of the Office for National Statistics say the gains made so far need to be protected.", "Victim Wenjing Xu helped out in the family takeaway and was described as having \"a gentle soul\".", "It is hoped the wider rollout of workplace testing will mean more asymptomatic cases are detected.", "The Department of Health's total is now 2,072, with an additional 171 cases in the past 24 hours.", "Daniel Amartey scores an 87th-minute winner as Leicester come from behind to beat Brighton and boost their bid for Champions League qualification.", "An estimated 2,000 people in Wales have lupus, which can take an average of six years to diagnose.", "The businessman is accused of promoting cryptocurrency to his followers to inflate prices.", "Televised briefings will \"increase public accountability and transparency\", the Cabinet Office says.", "Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott banned for 12 months, with the last six months suspended, after being found guilty of bringing the sport into disrepute.", "The Ministry of Defence names Sgt Gavin Hillier as the soldier killed in a training exercise.", "The victim - understood to be a Welsh Guards sergeant - was fatally injured at the Castlemartin base.", "'History will not judge this nation kindly', they say, in a letter to Boris Johnson.", "Pubs in England report high demand bookings from the 12 April opening date for beer gardens.", "Sarah Everard has not been seen or heard from since Wednesday night, her best friend says.", "The one-tonne robot wiggles its wheels before rolling forwards across Jezero Crater's dusty terrain.", "Confusion over building safety rules has left many people unable to move home without hard-to-obtain checks.", "Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood.", "It is the 23rd US state and the first in the South to end the use of capital punishment.", "The rise of livestreaming platforms is making it easier for paedophiles to target children, experts say.", "The Duke of Sussex announces another new role at a US-based think tank which is carrying out a study.", "Oliver Banfield's curfew sentence for assaulting Emma Homer sparked criticism he was not jailed.", "The Scottish government praised staff for their \"service and dedication\" during the Covid pandemic.", "The investment bank responds to complaints of a long-hours culture, while rival Citi starts Zoom-free Fridays.", "Firmus energy says the tariff change next month will affect more than 50,000 consumers.", "Services were held around the UK to remember those who have died from coronavirus.", "The firm now aims to supply others with processors made in factories based in the US and Europe.", "Staff from the University and College Union are taking action in a dispute over pay and workload.", "Ronnie Wallwork, who also played for West Bromwich Albion, admitted an assault charge.", "More than 2,000 intensive-care patients were moved between hospitals in search of beds from September to March.", "Thousands of people have retweeted Emmeline Hartley's story after she shared it to warn others.", "Natasha Asghar's video showed her pretending to interview Sachin Tendulkar and David Beckham.", "A modified dog wheelchair gets Steven, who lost the use of his back legs, up and running once again.", "A joint statement says Brussels and London want to expand vaccine supply for all citizens.", "More oil and gas wells are to be drilled in the North Sea, the UK government announces.", "Labour describes proposals being considered by the government as \"unconscionable\".", "MSPs reject a motion of no confidence in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon by 65 votes to 31.", "Chancellor Angela Merkel describes the proposed five-day lockdown over Easter as a \"mistake\".", "Gwent Police boss Pam Kelly says officers should be prioritised for the Covid vaccine.", "Paul Henderson spent 30 days in ICU and was put in an induced coma when he caught Covid a year ago.", "Boris Johnson faced questions about the UK defence spending, the government’s response to Covid-19, and the economy.", "Bronwen Newbury found her car covered in graffiti at the end of a 12-hour night shift.", "More than 400,000 frauds and other cyber-crimes have been reported to police during the pandemic.", "A judge rules Scottish government ministers acted beyond their powers when places of worship were closed for lockdown.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening.", "Zara and Mike Tindall announce the birth of their first son, who is 22nd in line to the throne.", "Highland League Brora Rangers knock last season's beaten finalists, Hearts, out of the Scottish Cup in a huge second-round shock.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The Ingenuity chopper will get to showcase its capabilities on the Red Planet early next month.", "The investigation relates to the seizure of more than one kilogram of cocaine found in two cars in 2020.", "Commissioners will oversee parts of Liverpool City Council, the local government secretary says.", "The former first minister is to launch fresh proceedings over the conduct of the country's top civil servant.", "Six top UK investors won't invest in the delivery firm over concerns about workers' rights.", "A ship the length of four football pitches is wedged across one of the world's busiest trade routes.", "But Boris Johnson immediately retracts the comments made during a Zoom meeting with Tory MPs.", "A fall in the price of clothing and second-hand cars offset a rise in fuel costs last month.", "But one Conservative MP says \"papers for pubs\" would lead the country into \"a ghastly trap\".", "A 39-year-old man has been arrested after the incident at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.", "But Boris Johnson's remarks on \"greed\" and \"capitalism\" were accidental, MPs say.", "A bereaved MP asks Boris Johnson to commit now to a full public inquiry in the handling of the pandemic.", "The culture secretary described the flag as \"a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us\".", "A drone captures spectacular images as lava spews from Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano.", "Fourteen people are arrested at another demonstration in Bristol over new police bill.", "British artist Sacha Jafri spent eight months creating the work in isolation in a hotel ballroom.", "An Abu Dhabi investment fund agrees to pay £800m into UK life sciences, with more expected to follow.", "Karen Dakin, from Nacton near Ipswich, plans to finally buy a home after renting for years.", "The Duke of Sussex is \"really excited\" to become chief impact officer for coaching firm BetterUp.", "A BBC investigation into one suspect discovers he may also have worked for British secret services.", "Robin Swann says travel to the Republic of Ireland will also be dependent on its vaccine rollout.", "Tracey Davies says supermarket staff are exhausted at abuse from customers over social distancing.", "The PM says hauliers coming from France to the UK could have Covid tests amid concern over variants.", "In his first prime-time speech, the US president says he is boosting efforts to vaccinate Americans.", "The Premier League plans to have fans at the final two rounds of matches this season, says chief executive Richard Masters.", "Gardeners are being urged to be on alert for the stink bug and other pests predicted to arrive in the UK.", "The pop star, who was snubbed in this year's awards, will no longer submit his music to the Grammys.", "The broadcast regulator says she was among the 41,000 complainants about ITV's Good Morning Britain.", "The British-Iranian woman faces a new court hearing this weekend, following a five-year sentence.", "A Met Police officer is still being questioned on suspicion of murdering the marketing executive.", "Up to four adults from two different households are now able to meet up outside, including in gardens.", "The drop in claims is not mirrored in cheaper premiums, but insurers say motorists have been supported.", "A major study by biomedical database UK Biobank will examine the long-term impacts of coronavirus.", "Sir Tim Berners-Lee says too many young people do not have internet access, and calls for investment.", "An internal letter says the UK government department could establish a secondary headquarters in Scotland by 2024.", "During the virtual event the Queen was shown a meteorite that fell to Earth and classroom rockets.", "But door to door canvassing for the Senedd polls - taking place on 6 May - will remains illegal.", "One in every 42 children is born a twin and much has changed over the past 30 years, a report finds.", "The two taxi apps have faced scrutiny for how they handle incidents of sexual assault and other safety issues.", "Plans to celebrate NI's centenary include a concert, a special post-mark and a church service.", "Fans say it was \"the best UK topical comedy show\", but others said it was \"liberal sanctimony\".", "David Marr sent a WhatsApp message a minute before his trawler swamped a boat, causing three deaths.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 March.", "Sinn Féin snubs what it calls a \"PR exercise\" by Boris Johnson, while the DUP raises NI Protocol concerns.", "One shop owner said it will \"take years\" to recover from the impact of Covid-19.", "A Met officer is being questioned over Sarah Everard's murder, having earlier been taken to hospital.", "Ministers say \"increased\" controversy over the Cumbria mine means a public inquiry is needed.", "The body reassures states after some halted their rollouts over unproven fears the jab causes clots.", "Head teachers warn of pushy parents lobbying for higher GCSE and A-level grades in cancelled exams.", "The new programmes will help support both pupils and teachers across the UK.", "A plan for children in primaries one to three to return to remote learning from 22 March is scrapped.", "A militant Islamist insurgency has forced half a million people to flee, amid fears of beheadings and abductions.", "A vigil planned in Cardiff on Saturday will now be held online, after an event in London was banned.", "Wayne Couzens is accused of kidnapping and murdering the 33-year-old who was last seen in south London.", "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre warns that more than 3,000 servers have not been secured.", "The UK's latest R number - 0.6 to 0.8 - suggests the outbreak is still shrinking overall.", "The controversial legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups.", "The Met is facing questions over its response to an alleged case of indecent exposure involving the 33-year-old's suspected killer.", "The equalities minister makes the remark after a week of backlash from LGBT+ campaigners.", "Critics say Dame Nancy Rothwell's position at the University of Manchester is \"completely untenable\".", "The veteran MP says she did not realise her mic was on but had apologised to colleague Laura Pidcock.", "The way officers held a man in a mental health crisis contributed to his death, a jury finds.", "A union claims DVLA's Swansea headquarters has seen the \"worst Covid workplace outbreak in the UK\".", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford outlines changes to lockdown rules in Wales.", "Former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman is found guilty of ordering banned testosterone in 2011 \"knowing or believing\" it was to help dope a rider.", "Three cases of the P.1 variant are in South Gloucestershire and the fourth is in Bradford, West Yorkshire.", "The star says she \"panicked, felt blindsided [and] got defensive\" on her US chat show The Talk.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he has yet to speak to his brother Prince Harry following the Oprah interview.", "The postal service will make deliveries for major retailers as online shopping continues to grow.", "Hackers linked to China have found footholds inside hundreds of companies after a mass hack.", "Under-fire Education Secretary Gavin Williamson tells heads how he has dealt with personal pressure.", "It comes as Scotland relaxes rules on outdoor socialising and Wales begins \"phased\" exit from lockdown.", "Users of the betting company say they have lost thousands of pounds after the operation was suspended.", "She was on her way home from the Sarah Everard vigil when she was confronted by a man.", "Eleven countries have paused AstraZeneca vaccinations - despite reassurances from experts.", "Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury's world heavyweight title showdown moves a step closer with Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn saying a two-fight deal has been signed.", "Dame Rachel de Souza wants help for children after the pandemic to be like post-war reconstruction.", "The director of Malcolm X and Da 5 Bloods was due to preside in 2020, but Covid cancelled the event.", "The 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh returns to Windsor Castle following a successful heart procedure.", "Hospital inpatient rates fall and vaccination rates rise as NI edges closer to an easing of lockdown.", "The failure of the betting site raises serious questions about regulation of the gambling industry, MPs say.", "All over 50s could be vaccinated ahead of schedule, thanks to good supplies, say experts.", "Oliver Campbell should have his conviction quashed over an unfair confession, his solicitor says.", "Boris Johnson promises more investment and jobs ahead of his long-awaited update on the military.", "Mike Hill, MP for Hartlepool, was due to face a tribunal into claims of \"sexual harassment\".", "Brigadier John Clark says the British army will become \"leaner\", ahead of the defence review.", "BBC News NI explains the stages of the executive's plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.", "The bakery chain is confident of long-term recovery despite sales being hit amid the pandemic.", "People are urged to look out for signs family members are viewing illegal images online.", "Inspectors branded the site \"unsuitable\" and asylum seekers said it was a Covid risk.", "Boris Johnson says \"the safety of the British people must come first\" as he outlines a new package.", "The probationary officer had been deployed to Kent in the search operation for Sarah Everard.", "The reassessment of security and defence also paves the way for the UK to increase stocks of nuclear weapons.", "Bea Jones has been left \"distressed\" by the similarities with the murder of her daughter Moira in 2008.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says garden centres can also reopen in the days after the stay at home lockdown order is lifted.", "The chain blames High Street conditions for its decision to shut 61 shops, putting 603 jobs at risk.", "Mark Drakeford's comments come on the anniversary of first death with Covid reported in Wales.", "Mark Rees and wife Katy say they've had worried calls from staff after the chocolate maker said all stores would close.", "It is also a record year for diversity in the acting nominations and for female directors.", "Police will be able to cross-reference data with crime reports to see if offenders were in the area.", "The actor played Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die, and was also a crew member in Alien.", "Met officer Wayne Couzens will next appear at the Old Bailey on 9 July for a plea hearing.", "First official figures show school return has been \"smooth\" so far, with pupils back in the classroom.", "The company says the move will help to safeguard jobs at the site, which currently employs 1,900 people.", "A total of 16, 938 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests were put off in the pandemic.", "Former minister David Davis uses parliamentary privilege to make the allegation during a House of Commons debate.", "The lowest level of restrictions will operate across Scotland by the end of June - that could mean physical distancing rules remaining along with table service in hospitality.", "Experts suggest much of the water Mars once had is now contained in minerals.", "Health Minister Robin Swann says 30,000 people booked a Covid-19 vaccine in just three hours.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "Nearly 50 cancer charities send a stark warning about the impact Covid-19 has had on UK cancer care.", "Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will be added when changes come into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.", "The Scottish first minister is to set out proposed dates for the easing of Covid-19 restrictions at Holyrood.", "People should \"get the jab\", the health secretary says, after some countries suspend its use.", "Moves include a pilot scheme to put plain-clothes police in clubs and extra funding for lighting.", "The artist's agent says the positioning of his works by their owner is a \"misrepresentation\".", "There may be no parades or fanfare but events are still taking place to celebrate Ireland's patron saint.", "Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith says there is no evidence the vaccine is causing blood clots.", "Dominic Raab says the UK should use its \"clout\" to be \"a force for good in the world\".", "A jet fuel made from food waste has the potential to reduce emissions from flying, scientists say.", "Wales' first minister and police chiefs urge fans to stay home as Wales bid for rugby's Grand Slam.", "More than 26.8 million first and 2.1 million second doses have now been given in the UK since December.", "Leeds United's all-time record goalscorer Peter Lorimer dies aged 74.", "Ministers hope extra money and easing of rules will help areas reopen safely as lockdown eases.", "It follows reports by the Daily Mail that £60,000 of party funds went towards the refurbishments.", "School hours could be changed and the summer holiday shortened, an academic suggests.", "Boris Johnson says he \"cannot recommend it too highly\" as he urges the public to get vaccinated.", "The Republic's health minister says administration of the Covid-19 vaccine will resume this weekend.", "Business owners and engaged couples say they are still anxiously waiting to hear when receptions will go ahead.", "Wales seek their fifth Grand Slam of the Six Nations era on Saturday but the experience will be very different from previous years.", "The electric carmaker boss addresses reports of security concerns raised by China's military.", "Dozens of people are rescued from floodwaters, as torrential rains batter the country's east coast.", "The motorist was stopped by police for driving at 122 mph on the M5 in Somerset.", "No international fans will be permitted at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer because of the pandemic.", "Police believe a man stabbed his mother and girlfriend at separate properties before killing himself.", "David Howells' family were denied access, despite some compassionate hospital visits being allowed.", "The six lions were found with their heads and paws hacked off, surrounded by dead vultures.", "A spokeswoman said the president is \"doing 100% fine\" after slipping while boarding Air Force One.", "The health secretary says the country carried out more vaccinations on Friday than any previous day.", "A widely shared TikTok that contrasted conditions for men and women players has provoked outcry.", "Late goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne keep Manchester City on course for a quadruple with an FA Cup quarter-final win at Everton.", "The eruption was the first in the area for about 800 years and followed thousands of earthquakes.", "Thousands demonstrate in London as police warn of a \"significant operation\" with 33 arrests so far.", "The RSPCA describe it as \"an incredibly rare sighting\".", "The 68-year-old was vaccinated two days ago and is said to be isolating at home.", "Paris police this week claimed a major drugs haul - but it wasn't what it first seemed to be.", "Her Majesty and the Duchess of Cornwall took part in a call with members of the Royal Voluntary Service.", "England lose the Twenty20 series decider to an India side that followed a batting masterclass with some wonderful bowling in Ahmedabad.", "The Manchester City winger took a month to realise his bank card was being used, a court hears.", "Meteorologists say the last known eruption in the area was about 800 years ago.", "As a way around Covid restrictions, the soap has had real-life romantics standing in for actors.", "Bill Nelson, 78, is a former astronaut and senator with a long history of working on space issues.", "Sean Ivey believes he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour in his village.", "Oliver Banfield's victim says she thought he was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\".", "Officials say Covid-sceptic John Magufuli died of heart issues, but critics have blamed Covid-19.", "Ireland produce an outstanding display to overcome an ill-disciplined England 32-18 in the Six Nations despite Bundee Aki's red card.", "And the Duke of Cambridge thanks the public for its \"compassion and generosity\" as £52m is raised.", "Vaccine production proposals are being stalled, WHO documents leaked to BBC Newsnight show.", "Former Crewe manager Dario Gradi apologises for \"not recognising signs of abuse\" carried out at the club by paedophile Barry Bennell.", "Bernard McGovern had previously admitted to attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly.", "The Ministry of Defence says the \"massive bang\" is not thought to be linked to any RAF aircraft.", "Protests are not listed as a \"reasonable excuse\" for leaving home in current lockdown legislation.", "Police are investigating after a multi-dose vial was taken from a vaccination centre in Edinburgh.", "Compelling Stormont to implement laws would be a \"serious breach of the devolution settlement\", Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she stands by \"every word\" of her evidence to the Alex Salmond committee.", "More than 30 Dundee University students test positive after a gathering at a private residence.", "Friends of Sarm Heslop, from Southampton, query the length of time it took to inform the coastguard.", "Aerial footage shows lava snaking its way down after the eruption.", "The singer's family wants to put a sculpture of Dame Vera looking out over the English Channel.", "Rangers' Glen Kamara insists he was subjected to \"vile racist abuse\" by Ondrej Kudela and says the Slavia Prague player's denial is \"a complete utter lie\".", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The hunt is on 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says BBC business editor Simon Jack.", "Batch of home testing kits identified and each household being contacted, Matt Hancock tells MPs.", "The broadcaster confirms he won't be taking part in future series of SAS: Who Dares Wins.", "Within months of joining Ipswich Town at 16, Swansea midfielder Lewis Reed says he felt suicidal.", "Further evidence is being heard by MSPs investigating the Scottish government's mishandling of complaints against former first minister Alex Salmond.", "Midfielder Peter Whittingham, 35, suffered a traumatic head injury at the pub nearly a year ago.", "Former Liverpool and Scotland forward Ian St John has died at the age of 82.", "More support for jobs is expected in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget, but will it be enough?", "Months after being sold to buyers from outside the UK they were sold on as scrap.", "As part of the phased return of pupils across Scotland, children in P4-P7 will also return full time.", "The Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, owned by 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"Scotland politics", "London", "Scotland", "UK", "Entertainment & Arts", "Birmingham & Black Country", "Bristol", null, "UK", null, "Business", "Northern Ireland"], "content": ["The new scheme aims to help 15,000 people from Wales to study overseas in the next four years\n\nA new international study programme for students at Welsh universities will start next year, ministers have said.\n\nIt will be developed by Cardiff University in collaboration with education and youth sector partners ahead of its launch in 2022.\n\nThe UK government chose not to continue with the EU's Erasmus scheme as part of the Brexit deal, and developed its own Turing programme.\n\nThe Welsh government said its scheme would \"fill the gaps Turing leaves\".\n\nWhile £110m has been allocated for the first year of the Turing scheme, the Welsh government is allocating £65m up until 2026.\n\nStudents and staff across universities, further education, adult education, youth work settings and schools will be able to \"benefit from international exchanges in a similar way to the opportunities that flowed from Erasmus+, not just in Europe but also further afield,\" the government said.\n\nThe new scheme - called the New International Learning Exchange - aims to enable 15,000 participants from Wales to go overseas over the first four years, with 10,000 participants coming to study or work in Wales.\n\nThe programme also aims, where necessary, to fund costs so that international students, teachers and young people can travel to work and study in Wales.\n\nWhile Welsh institutions will be able to participate in the Turing Scheme in 2021-22, they will also continue to benefit from Erasmus+ exchanges deferred from last year due to the pandemic.\n\nThe new programme will then fill the gaps Turing leaves, including the commitment to long-term funding, the retention of the principle of two-way exchanges and the inclusion of youth work.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had recently said the only way Wales could continue with the Erasmus scheme was if the \"whole\" of the UK rejoined.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said: \"Our students and staff are vital ambassadors for us overseas, promoting the message that Wales is an inviting destination for students and partners across the world.\n\n\"Their education and cultural awareness are improved in many ways as a result of spending time abroad - just as our education providers are enriched by students and staff visiting Wales to study and teach.\"\n\nShe said the \"main beneficiaries of the new scheme will be young people in upper secondary, for whom the challenges of learning from home over the last year have been particularly profound\".\n\n\"We owe it to this next generation of students and learners to have the same opportunities previous years had,\" said Ms Williams.\n\nProf Colin Riordan, Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University, said: \"We are sure that the scheme will be of huge benefit both for the learners and for raising the global profile of Wales as a connected, open and inviting country.\"\n\nBecky Ricketts, National Union of Students Wales President, said: \"Students in Wales deserve the opportunity that many people have had before them, and the chance to learn, grow and develop themselves on a global scale is one that many feared that they had lost.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the Turing Scheme aimed to give more students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, the chance to study abroad.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Backed by £110m for the first year alone, up to 35,000 students from across the UK will be able to work or study abroad from September.\n\n\"The Turing scheme will fund UK participants to go abroad, and we anticipate other countries will do the same.\n\n\"The benefits of the exchanges will be kept under review, and the learnings used to build on future schemes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many organisations said they were looking at a mixture of home and office working once the pandemic was over\n\nSome of Wales' major employers say they are considering a permanent shift to flexible working after the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh government, Cardiff University and Admiral Group say they are all consulting with staff about a hybrid of home and office working.\n\nHowever, experts say there will always be a place for office working - especially for those starting careers.\n\nThey say many major organisations will instead have smaller offices and allow more flexible working.\n\nInsurer the Admiral Group, based in Cardiff, currently has the majority of staff working from home with a very small number working from offices.\n\nThe company's head of people, Rhian Langham, said staff were telling the company how they wanted to \"embrace all of the best bits of working from home whilst preserving our amazing culture\".\n\nShe said they were looking at a hybrid of working in the office and from home once buildings could reopen more widely.\n\n\"Our key considerations are our commitment to great customer service and ensuring we keep our unique culture alive and thriving, and we believe we can do both in a hybrid working environment,\" she added.\n\nFigures from the commercial property sector show that, on average, over the past 10 years, office take-up in Cardiff city centre was 350,000 sq ft a year.\n\nIn 2020 the total was 235,680 sq ft, with 120,000 sq ft of that taken up by Legal and General's new building at Central Square, due to be completed by November 2022.\n\nLegal and General's new 120,000 sq ft Interchange Building is due to open in Central Square in November 2022\n\nCardiff University's five-year lease on its Friary House offices in the city is also up for renewal this year. The university has not confirmed whether it will renew.\n\nA spokesman said feedback from staff showed many would like to keep some of the working practices they have had to adopt because of Covid.\n\n\"As part of our thinking, we are also exploring our estate's footprint and the carbon emissions associated with our buildings and commuting to work,\" the university said.\n\n\"In doing so, we aim to do our part to help reduce Cardiff University's carbon footprint and address climate change.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has said it wants to give workers more flexibility to work remotely.\n\nIt is not yet known if Cardiff University will renew its lease on Friary House\n\nA network of community-based working hubs within walking or cycling distance of people's homes are being considered and could be used by public, private and third-sector employees.\n\nA spokesman for the government said it was consulting with staff and unions over long-term remote working with \"ambitions\" of having up to 50% of staff working remotely at any one time.\n\n\"Allowing more staff to work remotely will be key contributor to our carbon reduction aims and result in a fairer distribution of jobs across Wales,\" they said.\n\nEarlier this month, oil giant BP told office-based staff they would be expected to spend two days a week working from home after lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nAnd last week Blaenau Gwent council set out plans to vacate and demolish its headquarters in favour of hubs and homeworking.\n\nDr Martin James from Swansea University's School of Management said any recession could contribute to encouraging firms to embrace home working to help reduce costs.\n\nHowever, he said it was too early to declare \"the death of the office\", although research showed productivity had increased with home working.\n\nDr Martin James said roles that became fully remote were in danger of being outsourced\n\nBut Dr James said roles that became fully remote and \"don't require the office dynamic\" were in danger of being outsourced.\n\n\"A lot of research is going to be happening and strategic thinking at the moment because even relatively minor shifts can lead to profound changes.\"\n\n\"[That can be] where companies are located and what spaces they are going to retain and - while companies may be holding off from making big decisions in the short term - there is a concern that won't go away and will result in a review, particularly in terms of real estate and commercial property and where they're going to be locating their staff.\"\n\nCommercial property consultant Chris Sutton said he believed there would always be a place for office working for those starting out in their careers.\n\n\"One of the casualties of working from home has been personal development and people learning on the job,\" he said.\n\n\"If you're highly-experienced, you can work remotely but it's difficult for people at the first stages of their career.\"\n\nMr Sutton said office space had been a key driver of the economy over the past decade, particularly in Cardiff which had seen a total of 1.5 million sq ft of office space developed.\n\nHe added: \"Those large-scale developments have been a driver of growth for the city centre - it feeds the bars, restaurants and retail and theatre - and the whole city is losing not having staff at full capacity.\n\n\"We won't see a cliff edge of a large-scale vacation of floor space simply because organisations are tied into long leases, but in time, we will see major organisations having a smaller-scale footprint and allowing more flexible working.\"\n\nDirector of CBI Wales Ian Price said once lockdown was eased there would need to be a continued collaboration between remote workers and those in the office.\n\nHe said: \"While Covid-19 has undoubtedly caused real damage across the Welsh economy with too many jobs and livelihoods lost but there has also been real innovation.\n\n\"Firms have done amazing things to keep operations going and deliver for customers - some that will continue well into the future.\"", "The former cabinet minister Lord Mandelson, a key architect of New Labour, is urging Sir Keir Starmer to begin a review of the party's policies.\n\nThe Labour peer said Sir Keir needed to start the process as \"he still has the 2019 manifesto around his neck\".\n\nThe manifesto, written under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, advocated nationalisation of key industries.\n\nIn the 2019 general election, Labour suffered its worst election result since 1935.\n\nThe party won 203 seats, and saw its vote share fall by eight points.\n\nLord Mandelson said \"it would be wrong to make too many specific commitments early in the parliament\", but his party needed polices which were \"radical, credible, affordable\".\n\nHis comments come as Sir Keir's first anniversary as Labour leader approaches next month.\n\nWhen Lord Mandelson was Labour's director of communications, a previous Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, launched a two-year review in 1987.\n\nIt led to the party ditching its support for unilateral disarmament.\n\nNeil Kinnock, pictured at a Sheffield rally in 1992, led Labour in the general election that year\n\nLord Mandelson was instrumental in changing Labour's image and in moving its policy offer towards the centre ground.\n\nHe has been talking to members of Sir Keir Starmer's team who want to chart a route from opposition to government.\n\nLord Mandelson said Sir Keir \"radiates competence\" and praised his stance in some of the internal battles during his first year as Labour leader.\n\nHe said he had shown courage by suspending Jeremy Corbyn but that his leadership will be \"tested and tested again\" and he had to be willing to take \"a lot more risk\".\n\nLord Mandelson argued that the Covid crisis had overshadowed normal politics.\n\nHe said: \"Covid eclipsed everything else. Without it, Keir would have been able to do more in day-to-day politics. We have lived through abnormal times, and although he has been tested by it, there is clearly a lot more to do.\n\n\"He needs to now pick up speed and work out a real argument and point of difference with the government\"\n\nHe played down expectations for the forthcoming local elections in England adding: \"I am not expecting a seismic bounce as people are still focussed on putting Covid behind us.\"\n\nBut he remained optimistic for the party's future, describing Sir Keir as \"a great asset\" and said under his leadership Labour is \"now firmly back in the ring\".\n\nMany on Labour's Left are concerned that the party will try to move away from some of the radical policies which were adopted under Jeremy Corbyn who remains suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nThe former MP Laura Smith, who lost her Crewe and Nantwich seat in 2019, told the BBC she blamed Brexit, rather than the party's last manifesto, for the election defeat.\n\nShe argued it would be wrong to move away from policies that were a clear alternative to those offered by the government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mairead McGuinness told the BBC that all sides needed to \"calm down\" over Covid-19 vaccine row\n\nThe European Union should not \"build walls\" around the distribution of vaccines and should seek to meet its contractual \"obligations\", Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has told the BBC.\n\nHis comments follow a threat by the European Commission to block vaccine exports to countries including the UK.\n\nEU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said all sides needed to \"calm down\".\n\nOn Saturday, a record 873,784 combined first and second doses of Covid vaccines were given in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to thank \"everyone involved\" in the rollout.\n\nDespite the vaccine progress, Mr Wallace did not rule out extending a ban on overseas holidays amid rising cases in other countries.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the bloc \"will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate\".\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that both the EU and the UK should live up to their contractual \"obligations\".\n\nThe defence secretary said: \"The European Union stands for the rule of law... and that means we should all abide by our contracts. We are legally all obliged, both the buyer and the purchaser.\n\n\"The European Commission also recognises that the world is watching.\"\n\nMr Wallace said the language being used by the European Commission was \"counterproductive\", adding: \"Trying to... build walls around this would only damage both EU citizens and United Kingdom.\"\n\nEarlier this month, European Council President Charles Michel said the UK had imposed an \"outright ban\" on the export of vaccines and their components.\n\nHowever, there is no ban and his claim was dismissed by the British government as \"completely false\".\n\nMrs von der Leyen said the EU is still waiting for exports from the UK, and it wants reciprocity.\n\nMs McGuinness told Andrew Marr: \"I think all of us should put our hands up and say we were not prepared for this global pandemic. We did not do our best at the beginning but we are doing our best now to protect our citizens.\n\n\"I think we all need to, if you like, calm down, look very... dispassionately at the situation around the raw materials for vaccines, around where they are produced and how we might ramp up that production.\"\n\nAlso on Marr, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said it was \"right to calm down\" tensions over the issue.\n\n\"We do better when we work together - if we don't defeat the virus everywhere we are not going to defeat it anywhere. And there are new strains of the virus that are currently emerging.\n\n\"We may not be out of the woods with Covid yet and so we have to work together... cool the rhetoric,\" Ms Nandy said.\n\nSome 41 million vaccine doses have been exported from the EU to 33 countries in six weeks, Mrs von der Leyen said, including more than 10 million which have gone to the UK.\n\nFollowing comments by government adviser Dr Mike Tildesley that summer holidays overseas are \"extremely unlikely\", Mr Wallace refused to rule out an extension to the foreign holiday ban.\n\n\"I think we will play it by ear. I'm not going to rule anything in or anything out,\" he said.\n\nMr Wallace added that it would be \"premature\" to book a trip abroad while we are \"seeing growing variants\".\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said that restrictions could last for \"quite a long period of time\".\n\nShe told Marr: \"We may eventually get back to a much more normal situation.\n\n\"But people have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place.\n\n\"So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation.\"", "A snapshot of life in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is to be captured later when millions of people take part in the once-a-decade census.\n\nPeople are being asked to complete an online questionnaire about every person living at their property.\n\nFor the first time it also includes voluntary questions in England and Wales for over-16s on gender identity and sexual orientation.\n\nBy law, you must complete or be accounted for in the census.\n\nThose who fail to fill it in or give false information can be fined up to £1,000.\n\nOn one day every 10 years, households are asked to fill in a questionnaire about every person living at the property, including their age, race, occupation and relationship status.\n\nThe information gathered provides a snapshot of the population, including its size and the age of people, and is used by charities and hospitals, schools, universities and job centres to plan and fund services.\n\nBecause of the pandemic, this year people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being asked to complete the survey online, with unique access codes being sent out to households. In Scotland, the census has been delayed to March 2022 as a result of Covid restrictions.\n\nIain Bell, deputy national statistician at the ONS, which is organising the census in England and Wales, said: \"It helps us understand what our society needs now and what it will likely need in the future.\n\n\"We've already had a fantastic response to the census through our engagement work across the country.\n\n\"Now I'd encourage everyone who can, to complete their questionnaire, whether that be on your laptops, phones or computers.\n\n\"It takes around 10 minutes per person and if you can't get online, there are paper forms available for those who need them. Now is the time to make your mark on history.\"\n\nIn addition to new voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity, for the first time people will be asked about whether they have served in the armed forces.\n\nCampaigners have welcomed the inclusion of a question on gender for the first time as a \"good first step\".\n\nThis month a High Court judge ruled that a part of the census guidance for England and Wales accompanying the question on a person's sex should be withdrawn, following a legal challenge.\n\nCensus field officers will follow up with households after Census Day on 21 March if people have not completed their questionnaire.\n\nResults will be available within 12 months, although personal records will be locked away for 100 years, kept safe for future generations.", "The meteor was captured streaking across the Jersey skyline on Saturday afternoon by the O'Prey family\n\nAn \"extremely rare\" meteor known as a daytime fireball has been blamed for a sonic boom-type noise heard across parts of England.\n\nPeople in Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Jersey reported hearing a loud bang and seeing a streak of light in the sky on Saturday afternoon.\n\nAfter analysing pictures and videos, experts confirmed they showed a meteor.\n\nThey have urged people to keep an eye out and report any fallen fragments of the space rock.\n\nSimon Proud, a specialist in aviation meteorology at the University of Oxford, captured the meteor - which appeared as a bright flash - flying over the UK on a weather satellite.\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\nRichard Kacerek, from the UK Meteor Observation Network of amateur astronomers, said only the brightest \"bolide class\" meteor could produce a rare \"daytime fireball\".\n\nHe added that the one seen on Saturday would have needed to be \"very large\" to be visible during day.\n\nDr Ashley King from the UK Fireball Alliance - a group of experts and enthusiasts who hunt for freshly-fallen meteorites - said the fireball \"would have been going faster than the speed of sound\".\n\n\"Normally when you hear that it's a good sign that you have got rocks that have made it to the surface. It's incredibly exciting and I'm a bit stunned,\" he said.\n\nThe meteor was seen hurtling through the sky at about 15:00 GMT on Saturday\n\nThe group has asked people in the Devon, Dorset or Somerset areas to report finds of any fragments - believed to be small blackish stones, or a mound of dark dust.\n\nData from cameras is also being analysed to give details of the meteor's journey.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Somerset, astronomer and science journalist Will Gater, who was among the first to link the sonic boom to a meteor, said: \"If somehow the location can be pieced together who knows - the thought that something could be recovered is quite exciting.\"\n\nFollowing the \"huge bang\", which people said shook their homes and windows, an earthquake was ruled out by The British Geological Survey.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence also said the \"massive bang\" was not linked to any RAF aircraft.\n\nA campsite near Weymouth captured the loud noise on a security camera.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn February a meteor flying across the sky at night was caught on lots of doorbell cameras across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It blows your mind\": The people of Winchcombe react to the meteorite discovery\n\nSeveral rocky fragments were recovered from the fireball - they came down in the Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire.\n\nBecause it happened at night cameras were able to record the rock coming through the atmosphere creating a huge fireball in the process.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new Royal Navy surveillance ship is to be built to protect \"critical\" undersea cables.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace warned \"the lights could go out\" if national infrastructure was lost, and the cables were \"incredibly important\".\n\nHe also told the BBC's Andrew Marr that Russia had \"taken a deep interest\" in the cables and the UK would be \"deeply exposed\" without further measures.\n\nIt comes ahead of Monday's publication of the defence command paper.\n\nThe document will give more detail for the armed forces on the conclusions of the integrated review of the UK's foreign and defence policies.\n\nBut some parts were already announced this week, including the lifting of the cap on the number of nuclear warheads the UK holds in its stockpile.\n\nThe government had previously committed to reducing the level to a maximum of 180 by the middle of the 2020s, but the move would allow the number to reach 260.\n\nMr Wallace said it would ensure the country's nuclear deterrent was \"credible\", and would still be lower than other nations - pointing to France, which has 300.\n\nBut Labour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the proposal had \"baffled\" opposition parties and they would not support it until the measure had been justified by the government.\n\nHundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables circle the globe, providing internet and communications links between nations and continents.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said they are \"vital to the global economy and communications between governments\" and are at \"risk of sabotage\" due to \"submarine warfare\".\n\nThe new Multi Role Ocean Surveillance ship will be fitted \"with advanced sensors and will carry a number of remotely operated and autonomous undersea drones which will collect data\".\n\nThe vessel, staffed by 15 people and due to come into service in 2024, will carry out operations in both UK and international waters.\n\nThe MoD added it will also \"be able to support with other defence tasks, including exercises and operations in the Arctic which will become an increasingly contested area\".\n\nUndersea cables carry more than 90% of the world's communications - including trillions of dollars worth of financial transactions every day.\n\nThere's growing concern these underwater arteries could be vulnerable to attack.\n\nBritish and US military and intelligence officers have recently warned of Russian submarines \"aggressively operating\" near Atlantic undersea cables.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence says there's a risk of sabotage - which presents an existential threat to the UK.\n\nAs part of a wider defence review - the MoD will order a new Royal Navy surveillance ship to monitor this critical infrastructure.\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC: \"The lights could go out if we lose our critical national infrastructure across the board. Cables are one part of that critical national infrastructure and incredibly important.\n\n\"Russia has certainly taken a deep interest in those cables, not only to the United Kingdom but obviously to the continent of Europe.\n\n\"[The vessel's] job is going to be to protect not only critical national infrastructure, but other things. It will be able to do other surveillance functions around the sea and everything else and I think it is really important that we invest in t hat because otherwise we are deeply exposed.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised his plan for modernising the armed forces and foreign policy will help make the UK \"match-fit\".\n\nThe Integrated Review, first announced in 2019, will set out the UK's defence and foreign affairs priorities for the next decade or so, during which cyber warfare in particular is expected to become a greater threat.\n\nBroader foreign policy from the review was announced this week, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab pledging to boost alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, describing it as \"increasingly the geopolitical centre of the world\".\n\nBut more on how the Armed Forces could be overhauled will be announced on Monday, following a boost in funding late last year.\n\nThe defence secretary was pushed by Andrew Marr on what the new command paper would mean for the size of the forces, but Mr Wallace said that was a decision for Parliament.\n\nHe added: \"What I can give you is the assurance that we have had a record settlement, so I am making decisions, not in an environment of falling tide like in previous cuts, but in an environment where I am going to make the decision to have the right Armed Forces to match our ambition and meet the threat.\"", "Friday was a record day for Covid vaccinations in the UK, with a combined 711,156 first and second doses given to members of the public.\n\nIt means that half of all UK adults - some 26,853,407 people - have now received a first dose of a vaccine.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the latest milestone in the rollout marked a \"phenomenal achievement\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - one of those to receive a first dose on Friday - also hailed the landmark.\n\nA total of 2,132,551 people have also received their second dose of a vaccine, government figures show.\n\nAnother 96 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have also been recorded in the UK, as have a further 5,587 cases.\n\n\"Vaccinating over half of all adults is a phenomenal achievement and is testament to the mammoth efforts of the NHS, GPs, volunteers, local authorities and civil servants in every corner of the UK,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\nThe news comes after the government confirmed a shipment of about five million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab would be delayed, resulting in an expected reduction in the number of first doses - including for the under-50s - given during April.\n\nMeanwhile, European countries, including France, Germany and Italy, have begun offering the Oxford jab again after a pause over safety fears.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to reveal the UK had reached the vaccination milestone.\n\nHe added: \"It's a huge success and I want to say many, many thanks to all those involved, including the half of all adults who have come forward.\"\n\nMr Johnson - who received his first dose on Friday - added he was \"immensely proud of the progress we have made so far in rolling out vaccinations\".\n\n\"There is still further to go and I encourage everyone to take up the offer when asked to do so,\" he said.\n\nDespite the progress of the UK's vaccine rollout, a scientist advising the government has warned overseas holidays would be \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk of travellers bringing Covid variants back to the UK.\n\nThe UK faced a \"real risk\" if people travelled abroad in the summer, Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, which feeds into Sage, said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"too early to tell\" when holidays abroad would be allowed.\n\nUnder the current roadmap for easing restrictions, the earliest date people in England could holiday abroad would be 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"The 17th of May is the very earliest for international travel\"\n\nWith all over-50s now able to take up the offer of a vaccine dose, the vaccination programme approaches a target to offer a vaccine to the top nine priority groups, as determined by scientific advisers, by mid-April.\n\nThese included frontline health and care workers, people who were clinically vulnerable and those with an increased risk of hospitalisation - covering 99% of those at risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland and some areas of Scotland, people in their 50s were already being offered a Covid vaccine. Parts of England may already have started offering it to this age group too, with Wales targeting an offer of one dose to all over-50s by mid-April.\n\nThe most-recent issues with supplies meant the vaccine rollout would be \"slightly slower than we might have hoped but not slower than the target we had set ourselves\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said on Friday.\n\nThose with appointments for second doses should attend as normal and it is expected April could see more second doses than first doses for the first time.\n\nAlongside the Oxford vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, the UK has also approved a third vaccine - from Moderna - which is due to start being rolled out in late spring.\n\nA vaccine from Novavax has shown promising results and will be made in north-east England, and a single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has also been shown to be effective.", "Celtic and Rangers football fans have been praised for sticking to lockdown restrictions.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed there had been no arrests made following the Old Firm fixture as fans heeded warnings to \"stay at home\".\n\nThe message was heavily promoted ahead of Sunday's match at Celtic Park.\n\nDespite a significant police presence at both Parkhead and Ibrox, police said the warning was observed by the vast majority.\n\nHowever, while Glasgow appeared quiet, a crowd of Rangers supporters gathered in West Lothian.\n\nSocial media posts showed fans celebrating in the street in Armadale.\n\nA police spokesperson said: \"Officers are currently in attendance managing a crowd who have gathered in Armadale.\n\n\"Local road closures were put in place for a short period of time and roads have since reopened. Police remain in the area.\"\n\nPolice were ready to be deployed outside Ibrox Stadium\n\nPolice Scotland mounted a major operation in a bid to prevent a repeat of celebrations by fans two weeks ago.\n\nThousands of Rangers supporters broke lockdown rules to gather at Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square following the team's league title win.\n\nTop officers warned similar behaviour would not be tolerated and there would be arrests if advice was ignored.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said: \"I'd like to thank the vast majority of fans from both clubs who took responsibility to prevent the spread of coronavirus by staying at home and not gathering at Celtic Park or anywhere else.\n\n\"Where small groups of people did gather, officers engaged and encouraged them to disperse and return home.\n\n\"The clear message to all supporters as the football season continues over the coming weeks is to stay safe by staying at home and please do not gather in large groups.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm grateful for the co-operation and support from all clubs and we will continue to work with them and the Scottish government to ensure the season can be completed safely.\"\n\nThe match, which took place behind closed doors at the Celtic Park stadium, ended in a 1-1 draw.\n\nIn a moment of solidarity, Celtic captain Scott Brown put his arm around Rangers midfielder Glen Kamara, who was the target of alleged racist abuse during his side's Europa League tie with Slavia Prague on Thursday.\n\nThe league fixture was only given the go-ahead on Friday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to proceed followed \"extensive engagement\" with the clubs, the SPFL, Police Scotland and Glasgow City Council.", "\"It's really unprecedented violence,\" said the chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation Andy Roebuck.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nCampaigners have staged a string of protests against the bill, which would give the police more powers to deal with non-violent demonstrations.", "Buckingham Palace is reviewing diversity policies across all royal households.\n\nThe work is looking at improving diversity at Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and Kensington Palace.\n\nRoyal sources have stressed that the Palace already has policies, procedures and programmes in place but has not seen the progress it would like.\n\nThe work began before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made allegations of racism within the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey included claims they had been asked how dark their son's skin would be before his birth.\n\nThe duchess said there had been \"concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he was born\".\n\nBoth Prince Harry and Meghan refused to say who made the comment - but Harry later clarified to Oprah that it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe issue of race was the one of the most difficult aspects of the interview for the Royal Family.\n\nIn response, Buckingham Palace described those issues as particularly \"concerning\", saying they would be \"taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge later said the royals were \"very much not a racist family\" in response to questions about the interview.\n\nComments made by the Sussexes will now form part of the diversity review, which was first reported by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday described the work as a \"major drive\". It will take place in collaboration with people from minority backgrounds, disabled people, and gay and transgender communities.\n\nBuckingham Palace is seeking independent views and is looking at new ways of approaching all issues of diversity within the royal households.\n\nPossible changes being considered include the appointment of a \"diversity chief\", but sources said they accept more can be done and improvements made.\n\nRoyal sources stress that the Royal Family has a strong track record on diversity through their charity projects and engagements, but add the whole family has given this project their full support.\n\nA source said they were listening and \"wanted to get this right\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William says Royal Family is \"very much not racist\"", "Tesla CEO Elon Musk questioned the wisdom of companies spying on foreign governments\n\nElon Musk, the chief executive of the US electric carmaker Tesla, says his firm would be \"shut down\" if its vehicles were used for spying on China.\n\nHis comments came in response to reports that China's military had banned Tesla cars from its facilities.\n\nThe military had raised security concerns about the data collected by cameras installed in the cars.\n\nChina is Tesla's largest market after the US, accounting for about a quarter of the firm's global sales in 2020.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Musk said if a business did engage in spying on a foreign government, \"the negative effects for that company would be extremely bad\".\n\n\"There's a very strong incentive for us to be very confidential with any information,\" Mr Musk told an influential Chinese business forum via video link. \"If Tesla used cars to spy in China or anywhere, we will get shut down.\"\n\nTesla CEO Elon Musk played down Chinese and American concerns over commercial espionage\n\nThere has long been unease about the presence of big American companies operating in China and vice versa.\n\nRelations between China and the US - the world's biggest two economies - are at their most strained for years.\n\nEarlier this week, officials from both countries traded angry words in the first high-level talks between the Chinese government and the administration of US President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Musk urged greater mutual trust between China and the US, where Tesla is based in California.\n\nHe sought to downplay concerns over companies sharing sensitive data with their home governments, referencing the case of the Chinese-owned video platform TikTok.\n\nLast year, former President Donald Trump threatened to ban TikTok in the US over concerns that users' data could be handed over to the Chinese government.\n\n\"Even if there was spying, what would the other country learn and would it actually matter?,\" Mr Musk said.\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\nChina is the world's largest car market and its government has been heavily promoting the adoption of electric vehicles. This demand helped Tesla make a profit of $721m (£519m) in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The Model 3 could be a make or break product for Tesla", "April-Joy Serrant: \"I always fear running on my own but I do it. I do it with my headphones and I do it proudly\"\n\nA woman who was told to wait two days for police to call her back after she reported a flasher has received an apology.\n\nApril-Joy Serrant said she was running along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal on Friday when she saw a man performing a sex act in public.\n\nShe reported it straight away but was told no-one was available to handle the complaint.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it \"wasn't dealt with as it should have been\".\n\nTwo men, aged 49 and 29, have been arrested and remain in custody, the force said.\n\nMs Serrant said she was left \"shaken\" after seeing \"a man with his trousers down\" while she was alone on \"the lonely stretch of canal\".\n\nMrs Serrant said she was left \"shaken\" after seeing \"a man with his trousers down\" while she was running alone\n\nWithin 10 minutes of reporting the incident, she said, she received a call telling her no officer was in the area and she would have to wait until Sunday to give details.\n\nShe said she was \"amazed\" that the response was not quicker, given recent high-profile coverage of women's safety issues.\n\n\"Would you not think it would be high enough priority to send a flipping police car to the woods?\" she wrote.\n\n\"I cannot believe and I am saddened that we have got no police officers available\".\n\nShe said she wanted \"to be able to run safely\" and police forces to take such reported incidents \"seriously\".\n\n\"I won't stop coming to the canal, however I wouldn't be coming to run on my own again.\"\n\nMrs Serrant was running by herself on \"a lonely stretch of the canal\"\n\nIn a statement, Bradford District Commander Ch Sup Daniel Greenwood apologised and said he would review the matter.\n\n\"I am sorry. An officer has been to see April-Joy and we are now actively investigating this incident,\" he said.\n\nHe said one of the detained men, aged 49, was also being interviewed in connection with two further reports of indecent exposure.\n\nOne took place on Wednesday in Roberts Park, Saltaire, and the other at lunchtime on Friday in Shipley Glen Woods, he said.\n\nThe 29-year-old is being interviewed in connection with the canal report, the force 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.", "Officers spent almost 10 hours searching West Meadows on the outskirts of Ipswich\n\nEighty-three dogs believed stolen have been seized in a police raid.\n\nThe animals were found during an almost 10-hour search of West Meadows travellers' site in Ipswich on Saturday.\n\nOfficers, who found dogs of various breeds and ages, arrested six people at the site on suspicion of conspiracy to steal.\n\nSuffolk Police said it was working with other forces to reunite pets with owners as soon as possible.\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Bridger said such thefts had \"become a particular problem across the entire country since the first lockdown began 12 months ago\".\n\n\"I know many victims of these crimes will be anxious to know whether or not we have recovered their pet.\n\n\"I would like to reassure them that we are working as quickly as possible to identify who all the dogs belong to and aim to reunite them with their owners as soon as we can.\"\n\nTwo men aged 34, a 38-year-old man and three women aged 35, 41, and 46 remain in police custody.\n\nOfficers also found \"multiple breaches\" of Covid-19 regulations at the site, and issued fines to four people, with several others given dispersal notices.\n\nA dispersal order is now in place to \"minimise the likelihood of any further crime or disorder\", the force said.\n\nThe order gives officers the power to exclude a person from an area for a period of up to 48 hours.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A resting lion... The lions at this park are known for their ability to climb trees\n\nSix lions have been found dead and dismembered after a suspected poisoning in one of Uganda's most famous parks.\n\nThe lions were found in Queen Elizabeth National Park with their heads and paws hacked off, and their bodies surrounded by dead vultures, officials said.\n\nThe Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said it \"cannot rule out illegal wildlife trafficking\".\n\nAn investigation has now been launched, with conservationists working with local police at the scene.\n\nThese particular lions are known for their ability to climb trees.\n\nIn a statement, UWA's communications manager Bashir Hangi said they were \"saddened\" by the killings.\n\nHe added that nature tourism is an important part of Uganda's economy, contributing about 10% of its GDP, and plays a vital role in the conservation of animals.\n\n\"UWA strongly condemns the illegal killing of wildlife because it does not only impact negatively on our tourism as a country, but also revenue generation, which supports conservation and community work in our protected areas,\" he said.\n\nThere have been a number of previous incidents where lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park were believed to have been poisoned.\n\nIn April 2018, 11 lions - including eight cubs - were found dead after a suspected poisoning. A similar incident led to the deaths of five lions in May 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2018, the BBC looked at why lions were being poisoned in Uganda", "Police officers have been hurt during a protest in the centre of Bristol that turned violent.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nWindows of a police station were smashed, riot vans and police cars were set on fire amid tense scenes in the centre of the city.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees said: \"Smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the Bill going through.\n\n\"On the contrary, the lawlessness on show will be used as evidence and promote the need for the Bill.\"\n\nThe protest centred around New Bridewell police station in the centre of Bristol\n\nSeveral riot vans and police cars were set on fire during the protest that started peacefully\n\nProtesters scaled the police station roof and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nPolice in riot gear pushed back against the crowd of thousands in Bristol city centre\n\nRioters smashed the windows of the building\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill\n\nRiot officers pushed the protesters back away from the police station\n\n\"You don't campaign for the right to peaceful protest by setting police vans on fire\", Bristol North West MP Darren Jones says\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel says \"Thuggery and disorder by a minority will never be tolerated\"", "The number of daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the UK has hit a record high for a third consecutive day.\n\nA combined total of 844,285 first or second doses were given on Saturday, up from 711,157 on Friday.\n\nMore than 27.6 million people in the UK - more than half the adult population - have now received at least one dose of a vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson, who received his first dose on Friday, said: \"A huge thank you to everyone involved and please come forward to get your jab when you are invited to do so.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, added: \"In just one day we vaccinated the equivalent of the entire adult populations of Liverpool, Southampton and Oxford combined.\"\n\nA slightly higher daily total of 873,784 was initially reported by the PM and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who added later the figures from Scotland had \"been revised down slightly\" but it was \"still our record day\".\n\nOf the vaccinations administered on Saturday, 752,308 were first doses and 91,977 were second, meaning 2,228,772 people in the UK have now been fully vaccinated.\n\nA further 33 deaths within 28 days of a positive test have also been recorded, taking the UK's total by that measure to 126,155.\n\nThere have also been another 5,312 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe new vaccine record comes after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned the EU not to \"build walls\" around the distribution of vaccines.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show after a threat by the European Commission to block vaccine exports to countries including the UK, Mr Wallace said: \"The European Union stands for the rule of law... and that means we should all abide by our contracts.\n\n\"We are legally all obliged, both the buyer and the purchaser.\"\n\nEU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said all sides needed to \"calm down\".\n\n\"I think all of us should put our hands up and say we were not prepared for this global pandemic,\" she said. \"We did not do our best at the beginning but we are doing our best now to protect our citizens.\n\n\"I think we all need to, if you like, calm down, look very... dispassionately at the situation around the raw materials for vaccines, around where they are produced and how we might ramp up that production.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mairead McGuinness told the BBC that all sides needed to \"calm down\" over Covid-19 vaccine row\n\nDespite the success of the vaccine rollout, Mr Wallace did not rule out extending England's ban on overseas holidays amid rising cases in other countries.\n\nMr Wallace said booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".\n\nIt comes after a scientist on a government advisory body said summer holidays overseas are \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk that travellers will bring coronavirus variants to the UK.\n\nThe earliest date people in England could holiday abroad is 17 May.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments also said international travel will not be possible before 17 May, while Northern Ireland has not set a date.\n\nMeanwhile, a leading epidemiologist has predicted that people may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years before a return to normality.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll-out jabs.\n\nShe said people \"have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place\".\n\n\"So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Leicester City reached their first FA Cup semi-final for 39 years with a fully deserved win over Manchester United at King Power Stadium.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side will face Southampton at Wembley with Chelsea and Manchester City meeting in the other semi-final.\n\nLeicester, who lost to eventual winners Tottenham in the 1982 semi-final, were the more vibrant and positive team against off-colour United as manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer once again tasted defeat in the latter stages of a cup competition, his ploy of resting the likes of Bruno Fernandes and Luke Shaw failing to produce the desired result.\n\nThe Foxes' hero was in-form striker Kelechi Iheanacho, who struck twice and now has nine goals in nine games.\n\nHe took advantage of Fred's awful backpass to round Dean Henderson to score in the 24th minute after the hapless Brazilian was played into trouble by captain Harry Maguire.\n\nMason Greenwood crowned a crisp United move to equalise before half-time but Youri Tielemans restored Leicester City's lead with a fine low shot seven minutes after the break before Iheanacho took advantage of shocking marking at a free-kick to head in Leicester's third after 78 minutes.\n• None 'It is in Man Utd manager's job description to win trophies'\n• None Can you name Leicester and Man Utd starting XIs from 2016?\n\nInjuries have robbed Leicester of the creative edge provided by James Maddison and Harvey Barnes, as well as the defensive excellence of James Justin, but they still had too much for miserable Manchester United here.\n\nAnd it was fitting that the two players who got the goals to secure that precious semi-final place, and only their second win over United in 23 years, were Iheanacho and Tielemans - the Foxes' two most influential performers.\n\nIheanacho has had mixed fortunes since his £25m move from Manchester City in August 2017 but it is testimony to the player's own attitude and persistence, alongside the patience and coaching of manager Rodgers, that he has re-emerged as such an influential figure.\n\nHe has always had the natural scorer's instinct but here he provided goals and link-up play while the cultured Belgian Tielemans was the architect of most good things.\n\nLeicester City will now face Southampton - the team they beat 9-0 at St Mary's last season - but the prize at stake is now so enticing it is unlikely there will be a hint of complacency from Rodgers and his players.\n\nThere could have been nerves when Jamie Vardy missed the sort of opportunity he normally gobbles up at 2-1 but there was no wavering in self-belief and Iheanacho's second sealed the deal.\n\nLeicester are in a very favourable position in the Premier League's top four and now have an FA Cup semi-final to look forward to in what is shaping up to be a potentially memorable season.\n\nSolskjaer rolled the dice with his team selection, leaving two of his outstanding recent performers Bruno Fernandes and Luke Shaw on the bench.\n\nIt backfired as United produced a lacklustre, error-strewn display, the flaws in Solskjaer's plan made clear by the desperate decision to introduce four substitutes - Fernandes, Shaw, Edinson Cavani and Scott McTominay - in one full hit after 64 minutes.\n\nHe kept faith with Fred amid all this despite the Brazilian being central to their struggles, especially when he gifted Iheanacho his first - although he was put out of his misery later.\n\nUnited have shown progress this season but Solskjaer can now add an FA Cup quarter-final loss to his four semi-final defeats since taking charge at Old Trafford - and he can have no complaints here.\n\nSolskjaer's team were uninspired, with captain Maguire having a torrid time with the pace and running of Iheanacho and Vardy. Maguire must also take his share of the blame for a high-risk pass that played Fred into a measure of jeopardy for Leicester's opener.\n\nUnited look safe in the Premier League's top four and have a favourable Europa League quarter-final draw against Granada from Spain but this was once again a very disappointing performance when the prize for the winners was an FA Cup semi-final against Southampton.\n\nLeicester's first win over United in more than six years - the stats\n• None Leicester City have reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1981-82 - they had lost five consecutive FA Cup quarter-final matches before today.\n• None Manchester United have lost an away match against English opposition for the first time in 30 matches, with the previous such defeat coming against Liverpool in January 2020.\n• None This was Leicester's first victory in 14 attempts against Manchester United, since beating them 5-3 in a Premier League match in September 2014.\n• None Leicester City have beaten both Manchester United and Manchester City in a single campaign for the first time since 1975-76.\n• None Brendan Rodgers took charge of his 100th match as Leicester manager, earning his 53rd win; his 53% win rate as Leicester boss is his best for any English side.\n• None Since the start of last season, Mason Greenwood has scored 22 goals in all competitions, the most by a teenager for clubs in the top five European leagues over this period.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has scored 16 goals in 22 starts in English domestic cup competitions, including 11 in 11 in the FA Cup.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has scored 13 goals in 18 FA Cup games, the most of any player in the competition since making his debut in January 2016.\n\n'Two games from history' - what they said\n\nLeicester City manager Brendan Rodgers to BBC Sport: \"I'm obviously delighted. It was a great team performance. Every aspect of the game was complete. We showed courage to play football against one of Europe's greatest teams. I'm so happy for the players. I thought we thoroughly deserved it.\n\n\"Kelechi has always contributed. Maybe his confidence was lower but he works so hard every day and always comes in and gives his all. You see his confidence now. He's at the top of his game. It's a different structure [up front]. Kelechi is probably best with someone up there with him. Those two are working very well.\n\n\"Our solidity and intensity of press was very good. When we dropped into our shape we denied them space. To beat Manchester United 3-1 you have to be complete in all aspects of the game and the players did that.\n\n\"[The semi-final] is a way off yet. I told the players they were three games from history. Now it's two. We're making the right steps, we're on the right path. We're very ambitious to be the best we can be. That's the challenge and it's the test we're enjoying.\"\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to BBC Sport: \"We didn't have the spark tonight - but it's understandable. This team have been fantastic in the last three or four months. We played every three days and been on a great run. It just caught up with us - all the games and travels. Thursday night in Milan was a big night and took a lot of out of us physically. We didn't have the extra zip, authority and confidence.\n\n\"We tried to get on the front foot and start well because sometimes you can get that adrenaline boost and confidence if you get a goal and that can carry you over the line. We've got too many players that have played too many games and too many that haven't really had much football; Anthony Martial, Donny van de Beek, Paul Pogba and others are trying to get in who haven't had enough football. We didn't have enough against a tough team.\n\n\"When we win, we win together and when we lose, we lose together. We're not pointing fingers and blaming - the second one is a good goal by the boy but maybe with a zip of energy we could've got to him and wouldn't have been done as easily in the middle.\n\n\"We've got the Europa League and Premier League to concentrate on - yes, we would've liked to go to Wembley but now the focus is on the games we have. We're in a good position in the league and we want to keep improving. Of course Leicester are just behind us so it won't be easy but we want to keep going and get as far as possible in the Europa as well.\"\n\nOn changing the line-up, Solskjaer added: \"I would've done the same again, the changes were necessary to do. We knew Paul [Pogba] wouldn't last more than an hour and I don't think I would do anything differently. What goes on behind the scenes isn't always known.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Kelechi Iheanacho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 3, Manchester United 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) header from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFrance inflicted Grand Slam heartbreak on Wales in a Parisian thriller to keep alive their Six Nations title hopes.\n\nBrice Dulin crossed in injury time to clinch an epic bonus-point win and take the tournament to the final match next weekend, when they play Scotland.\n\nWales are five points clear at the top, but have now played their final game.\n\nFrance were down to 14 men after 68 minutes when Paul Willemse was red carded but two Welsh yellows helped them erase a 10-point deficit to win.\n\nWales picked up a losing bonus point, which means to have any chance of winning the title France must defeat Scotland in Paris next Friday with an attacking bonus point.\n\nIt would then come down to points difference, which currently favours Wales 61 to 41.\n\nA fantastic first half saw the two sides locked at 17-17 with Romain Taofifenua and Antoine Dupont's tries matched by Dan Biggar and Josh Navidi scores.\n\nThe second half was even more astonishing, with France second row Willemse red carded for sticking his fingers into the eye of Wales prop Wyn Jones as he savagely - and illegally - cleared him out at a ruck.\n\nBut France actually finished with a man advantage for the final eight minutes after Taulupe Faletau and Liam Williams were sin-binned in a pulsating and chaotic finale.\n\nAnd Wales' 10-point lead was not enough, as tries from captain Charles Ollivon and Dulin left Wayne Pivac's side stunned, and relying on Scotland if they are to win the title.\n\nThe tournament finale as France host the Scots was due to take place in February, but was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the French camp.\n\nThe late indiscipline proved Wales' undoing after being outstanding in this department during the tournament with yellow cards shown to the side for the first time in a Six Nations game since 2018.\n\nThe defeat is particularly cruel for Wales, who have turned things around in fine fashion under Wayne Pivac after the New Zealander had only won three out of 10 games in his first season in charge.\n\nWales on the brink of glory\n\nWales had arrived in Paris with four victories and the Triple Crown in their possession after beating Scotland, Ireland and England.\n\nThey fielded a starting side containing 987 caps, their most experienced in history, with 14 of the players having already won a Grand Slam under Pivac's predecessor Warren Gatland.\n\nFrance were never going to roll over though. Team manager Raphael Ibanez stated his side were glad to have returned to Paris and this was epitomised by the hosts' ferocious start.\n\nProp Cyril Baille was driven over the Wales line, but scrum-half Gareth Davies managed to deny the prop. This only delayed events, as Taofifenua crossed and Matthieu Jalibert converted.\n\nWales responded immediately with a brilliant up-and-under and catch from full-back Williams, laying the foundations for the attacking scrum from which Gareth Davies and Louis Rees-Zammit exchanged passes from a clever set move.\n\nScrum-half Davies was tackled brilliantly over the line by Ollivon to deny a try, but Wales remained patient as they scored their record 18th try in the tournament.\n\nBiggar crashed over following a clever angle, with the fly-half also converting.\n\nFrench flair flourished when Dulin's chip was collected by Jalibert, who released the imperious, supporting scrum-half Dupont for the second score.\n\nThe stunning start continued, Wales retaliating as flanker Navidi burrowed over after relentless attacking from the visitors to level the scores after a frantic first quarter.\n\nThe visitors' ability to retain possession in attack was rewarded when a France transgression allowed Biggar to slot over a penalty.\n\nJalibert was forced off with a head injury to be replaced by Romain Ntamack, whose first contribution was to level the scores at 17-17 on the stroke of half-time to complete a fantastic first 40 minutes.\n\nBiggar extended the lead with a penalty before replacement scrum-half Tomos Williams was immediately involved in Wales' third try.\n\nAfter a clever chip from Justin Tipuric, Adams skilfully hacked on before Williams gathered to release winger Adams to cross.\n\nReferee Luke Pearce gave an on-field try decision and television match official Wayne Barnes said he could not overrule that after deeming there was no Williams knock-on and that Adams had grounded the ball.\n\nBiggar's conversion opened up a 10-point advantage before Ntamack reduced the deficit with his second penalty.\n\nRees-Zammit almost scored a spectacular try in the corner, but Barnes decided his flying finish had seen the ball grounded on the base of the corner flag.\n\nHowever, prop Mohamed Haouas had collapsed a driving maul in the build-up and was yellow-carded, although Pearce did not believe the offence merited a penalty try. Biggar slotted over three points instead.\n\nTMO Barnes was a busy man. First he was called on again with France hooker Julian Marchand held up by the defensive efforts of Adams, Tomos Williams, Navidi and Faletau.\n\nThen, after Dulin had appeared to cross for France's third try, Barnes alerted referee Pearce to foul play by Willemse on Wales prop Jones.\n\nThe replays showed the France lock had made contact with Jones' eyes during a ruck clear-out to earn his red card.\n\nFrance refused to submit and the chaos continued with Faletau and Williams yellow-carded as the hosts held a one-man advantage going into the final eight minutes. Faletau was punished for being offside, while Williams dived off his feet at a ruck.\n\nOllivon crossed with four minutes remaining, Ntamack converting to reduce the deficit to three points.\n\nWales fans were desperately hoping their side could hold on, but replacement lock Cory Hill conceded a penalty in the final minute as Dulin eventually broke the hearts of a nation.\n\nReplacements: Chat for Marchand (69), Gros for Baille (59), Atonio for Alldrit (60-70), Rebbadj for Taofifenua (22), Jelonch for Cretin (51), Serin, Ntamack for Jalibert (30), Vincent for Thomas (57), Serin for Dupont (74).\n\nReplacements: Dee for Owens (68), Smith for W Jones (77), Brown for Francis (68), Hill for Beard (57), Botham for Navidi (77), T Williams for G Davies (49), Sheedy for Biggar (68), Halaholo for J Davies (68).\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn extension to the ban on foreign holidays in order to control the spread of coronavirus cannot be ruled out, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC that booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".\n\nIt comes after a scientist on a government advisory body said summer holidays overseas are \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk of travellers bringing variants to the UK.\n\nThe earliest date people in England could holiday abroad is 17 May.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments also said international travel will not be possible before 17 May, while Northern Ireland has not set a date.\n\nWhile the devolved nations issue their own guidance on international travel, they have been broadly in line with Westminster.\n\nNon-essential travel is currently banned from the UK and those coming to the UK must quarantine.\n\nA government taskforce will report to the prime minister on 12 April detailing when and how international travel can resume.\n\nPeople can currently travel abroad for a limited number of reasons, such as education or work.\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that he had not booked a holiday abroad, adding it would be \"premature\" to do so while we are \"seeing growing variants\".\n\nWhen asked whether the ban on foreign holidays could be extended, Mr Wallace said: \"I think we will play it by ear... I'm not going to rule anything in or anything out.\n\n\"I think the first thing is we are not going to do anything that puts at risk this national effort to control this pandemic. All the indications are in the right direction at the moment and let's take it step by step.\"\n\nWhen asked about trips abroad, Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, told Andrew Marr it was \"too early to say\".\n\n\"I think everyone has to wait and see. We really don't know. The situation changes so quickly. Numbers are going up at the moment in continental Europe and that's very concerning,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she hoped countries on the continent can get their vaccine programmes \"on track\" to mitigate the rise in cases.\n\n\"But obviously the safest thing is to stay where you are. And to avoid anything that increases your risk and I think it's really too early to say what sort of summer we might be able to experience,\" Dr Ramsay said.\n\nShe added that even those who have been vaccinated could potentially still transmit the virus, saying that restrictions could last for \"quite a long period of time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told Andrew Marr that she will not be booking a foreign holiday.\n\n\"I know everyone is desperate to go on holiday but we have got to proceed with caution.\n\n\"We can't allow the good work that has been done from the vaccine rollout to be unravelled by unlocking too quickly or by failing to secure our borders.\"\n\nMs Nandy added: \"We do need to be careful, we do need to be cautious, and frankly I haven't booked a foreign holiday for this summer and I won't be doing so because I don't think we're there yet.\"\n\nHalf of all UK adults have now received a first dose of a vaccine, with Friday being a record day for Covid jabs - a combined 711,156 first and second doses were given.\n\nBut Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, said despite the vaccine rollout, the UK should not become \"complacent\".\n\n\"We know that new variants have recently appeared in France, in California, in the Philippines and in Brazil. And in the UK there are now already 300 cases of the South African variant.\n\n\"I don't think that we can be complacent about any of this because we don't know what the vaccine efficacy is with these new variants. So we need to be very, very cautious in the management of the travel business.\"\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, which feeds into the Sage group of government science advisers, said on Saturday the UK faces a \"real risk\" if people travel abroad, adding that international travel for the summer was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nSeparately, Mr Wallace said the EU should not \"build walls\" around the distribution of jabs following a threat by the European Commission to block vaccine exports to countries including the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLate goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne broke Everton's resistance as Manchester City kept their quest for the quadruple on course by reaching the FA Cup semi-finals for a third successive season.\n\nA fiercely contested quarter-final looked like it was heading for extra time as Carlo Ancelotti's side defended resolutely and went close in the first half when Yerry Mina's header was cleared off the line.\n\nDespite dominating possession at Goodison Park, City struggled in front of goal for most of the game, with Raheem Sterling's poorly hit shot tipped round the post by Everton's third-choice keeper Joao Virginia.\n\nAfter Pep Guardiola brought on Riyad Mahrez and De Bruyne, they finally breached Everton's well-marshalled defence when Gudogan headed in with six minutes remaining after Aymeric Laporte's shot was tipped onto the bar.\n\nDe Bruyne then fired in with a crisp shot to ensure their progress in the 90th minute, meaning City have won 25 out of their past 26 games in all competitions.\n\nFor Everton, who still threatened despite having little of the ball, it was a sterling attempt to try and stop the City juggernaut.\n\nDespite missing out on a first FA Cup semi-final since 2016, they will now focus on their league campaign in an attempt to reach Europe next season.\n\n\"We competed well for 80 minutes against, in my opinion, the best team in the world,\" said Everton boss Ancelotti.\n\n\"The fact we competed, the fact we defended really well and didn't concede great opportunities to them for 80 minutes, I'm proud of my players.\n\n\"Manchester City is not a normal team, they are the best.\"\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola said: \"When you have won a lot of games in four months, you are able to adapt and adjust and that is what I am pleased about the most, it is the most difficult thing.\n\n\"It is the mental strength to be ready for every single game. November to March is the toughest period in England and what we have done is more than remarkable, it is incredible.\n\n\"It is one of the greatest achievements we have done together for a long time.\"\n\nCity's pursuit of an unprecedented quadruple has looked seamless at times this season and the late substitutions showed the armoury they can call upon.\n\nHaving cruised through the previous stages of the FA Cup, scoring three goals in each of the previous three rounds, Guardiola's side found it hard to break down a resolute Everton defence, who were missing Michael Keane and had Virginia making only his second start in goal because of injuries to Jordan Pickford and Robin Olsen.\n\nPhil Foden looked most likely to make a breakthrough as he battled it out with Lucas Digne on the right wing, and was perhaps too honest when staying on his feet as he rode a first-half tackle by Mason Holgate. A brilliant take and shot by the winger was inches wide of the post after 65 minutes.\n\nCity, who made six changes to the team which beat Borussia Monchengladbach to reach the Champions League last eight, did not trouble Everton for much of the game despite enjoying 74% possession.\n\nWith the clock ticking into the final stages, and Everton digging in, Guardiola was able to bring on Mahrez and De Bruyne to change the game.\n\nDe Bruyne had a hand in Gundogan's opener, as he powered into the box before Laporte let fly, with the German midfielder nodding in his 16th goal in a brilliant season.\n\nWith Everton then chasing an equaliser, the game opened up, allowing De Bruyne to make City's progress safe.\n\nA third successive FA Cup semi-final for the first time since 1934 is a fine achievement, but Guardiola's team will not be happy unless they finish their campaign with silverware.\n\nGiven they are 14 points clear at the top of the Premier League, and face Tottenham in next month's League Cup final, a domestic treble is now a step closer.\n\nEverton's abject home form in the league has amounted to losing five of their past seven games, but it has been boosted by FA Cup successes including a thrilling 5-4 win over Tottenham in the fifth round.\n\nThis was a more tactical battle, with the hosts picking three centre-backs and attempting to pick off a dominant Manchester City on the break or via set-pieces.\n\nIt is a formula which has worked for Ancelotti's side this season and after defending deep and remaining patient, they had the best chance of the first half when Mina's header from a corner was cleared off the line by Oleksandr Zinchenko just before the break.\n\nIn the surprising absence of unused substitute Keane, the Colombian was colossal in defence, and he marshalled Holgate and Ben Godfrey either side of him, and Allan, who was also impressive in front of the backline.\n\nGiven their threat from set-pieces, it was the type of performance that looked like it might bring success, or at least take the game to extra time. From two centres, the ball fell to Richarlison, who fired wide when well placed, while Andre Gomes hit a clean shot over the bar from outside the box.\n\nAs Everton tired, the difference in the respective teams' benches was made clear as Mahrez and De Bruyne were introduced to turn the tie City's way.\n\nWith Ancelotti's team seventh in the Premier League, their quest for Europe will motivate a team that lost a seventh home game in 12 in all competitions.\n\nHowever, Everton's wait to win a trophy for the first time since 1995 goes on.\n• None Everton have lost their past seven meetings with Manchester City in all competitions, their longest losing run against an opponent since a run of nine v Manchester United between 1999 and 2004.\n• None Everton have lost five of their past six FA Cup games against fellow Premier League opponents.\n• None Everton's possession figure of 26% was their lowest in a single game in all competitions since March 2018, when they registered 18% against Manchester City in a Premier League match.\n• None Ilkay Gundogan has scored 16 goals in all competitions this season, at least three more than any Manchester City player. He's scored in three consecutive matches for the Citizens for the first time.\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been involved in nine goals in his past eight FA Cup appearances, scoring four and assisting five.\n\nAfter the international break, Everton return to Premier League action on Monday, 5 April at home to Crystal Palace (18:00 BST). Manchester City travel to Leicester City on Saturday, 3 April (17:30).\n• None Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodrigo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson.\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 1. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None André Gomes (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows lava flowing from the volcano south-west of Reykjavik in Iceland\n\nA volcano which erupted on Friday night near Iceland's capital Reykjavik seems to be subsiding, scientists say.\n\nLava at Fagradalsfjall burst through a crack in the Earth's crust hundreds of metres long and a series of small fountains turned the night sky red.\n\nIcelanders had been bracing themselves for an eruption for several weeks, after the island nation recorded more than 50,000 recent earthquakes.\n\nMeteorologists said the eruption was small and no-one was in danger.\n\nThe last eruption there was some 800 years ago.\n\nIn 2010, the eruption of another volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, brought air traffic to a halt across Europe.\n\nHowever, the eruption of Fagradalsfjall has not spewed out much ash, so no major disruption is expected.\n\nThe biggest threat was pollution from the gases that had been released, and nearby residents were asked to keep their windows shut.\n\nBut the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said in a report on Saturday that the pollution was likely to have little effect on the health and well-being of the area's inhabitants.\n\nOfficials quoted by AFP news agency said that the area of the eruption was open to the public, but could only be accessed by a difficult hike of several hours from the nearest road.\n\nThe lava burst through cracks in the Earth's crust\n\nThere is also a potential danger from sulphur dioxide gas.\n\n\"Currently gas pollution is not expected to cause much discomfort for people except close up to the source of the eruption. The gas emissions will be monitored closely,\" the IMO said.\n\nThe IMO said the eruption of Fagradalsfjall began at about 20:45 GMT on Friday, and was later confirmed via webcams and satellite images.\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to survey the area, about 30km (19 miles) from Reykjavik.\n\nIt then sent first images of the lava snaking its way down after the eruption.\n\n\"I can see the glowing red sky from my window,\" said Rannveig Gudmundsdottir, who lives in Grindavik, 8 km (5 miles) from the eruption.\n\nA magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 1.2 km from Fagradalsfjall just several hours earlier.\n\nIceland frequently experiences tremors as it straddles two tectonic plates, which are drifting in opposite directions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are taking part in the protests, police say several arrests have been made\n\nThousands of people have attended anti-lockdown demonstrations in London, after MPs urged the government to allow peaceful protest during lockdown.\n\nCrowds marched from Hyde Park to Westminster, with at least 33 arrests by police, mostly for Covid breaches.\n\nScotland Yard said the number of people attending Saturday's demonstrations exceeded expectations.\n\nThe Home Office said it was still illegal for people to attend protests under the current coronavirus rules.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor told the BBC more people than previously expected were at Saturday's protests, but the Met has not given a formal estimate of the number in attendance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Assistant Commissioner said the intention is always to balance the right to protest with public health requirements\n\nBBC correspondent Marianna Spring, reporting from the anti-lockdown protests, said the atmosphere was \"animated\" and a number of people appeared to be angry about restrictions on peaceful protest.\n\nLater, in Hyde Park, police officers were forced to run back to their vans, as protesters threw bottles and cans at them.\n\nPA Media reported that some members of the public then left the park, with small children carried by their parents.\n\nSome protesters carried signs against the current lockdown restrictions\n\nThe march disrupted traffic on Park Lane, near Hyde Park\n\nThe anti-lockdown protests came after a vigil following the death of Sarah Everard in south London last week resulted in arrests, as police enforced Covid and public order laws.\n\nEarlier, more than 60 MPs and peers wrote to the home secretary calling for laws to be changed to allow peaceful protests during lockdown.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey blamed the scenes at the Clapham event on a lack of clarity putting police \"in an impossible position\", adding that the right to protest was a \"basic freedom\".\n\nThousands of tightly-packed anti-lockdown protesters marched up Whitehall with some chanting \"freedom\" to the beat of a drum.\n\nOne man carried a placard bearing the words \"no more NHS and Gov lies\".\n\nI have seen very few demonstrators wearing masks and there's no attempt at social distancing. So far the police - who are here in large numbers - have been taking a hands-off approach, though I have seen at least one arrest on Whitehall.\n\nAmong the crowd there are undoubtedly some conspiracy theorists, with some accusing the mainstream media of pushing fake news. But that is by no means everyone here.\n\nOne woman, who did not want to be named, told me she knew Covid was bad. \"I had it myself last March,\" she said. \"But this lockdown is too much.\"\n\nThe letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, organised by campaign groups Liberty and Big Brother Watch, urged her to issue guidance to police forces on \"facilitating\" protests.\n\nThe initial organisers of the Sarah Everard vigil effectively lost a High Court battle to hold it lawfully the day before, resulting in its cancellation.\n\nBut hundreds attended Clapham Common to gather around tributes left on a bandstand - the Met Police said the gathering became unlawful after people began delivering speeches to the crowd.\n\nThe event also increased interest in plans to give officers more precise powers to restrict demonstrations in a new sweeping Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill debated by MPs.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, told MPs earlier this month that protests elsewhere had not resulted in a spike in infections and that outdoor gatherings were safer than indoors, though not risk free.\n\nHe said: \"It is the case that it is difficult to see how things like large beach gatherings and so on can cause a spike. The same was the case in a protest march in New York; they did not really see any spikes after that.\n\n\"It is lower risk, but the other thing that can happen with outdoor events, and so on, is that, when indoor things are also open, you start to get people congregating indoors around that. That can increase risk, but outdoors itself is lower risk.\"", "Sean Ivey believes he was targeted for standing up to anti-social behaviour\n\nAn ex-Royal Marine whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson attack is \"lost for words\" after more than £200,000 was raised to help his family.\n\nSean Ivey, from Wingate, County Durham, fled to safety with his wife and two children after a fire on Thursday, with a second blaze starting a day later.\n\nMr Ivey, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, believed he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arson.\n\nMr Ivey, who works as a teacher at Hartlepool College of Further Education, told the BBC he felt \"totally overwhelmed\" if not \"a bit embarrassed\" by the generosity he has received.\n\nThe online campaign, which had an initial target of £2,000, was set up by former 45 Commando colleague Kevin Miller, after the family home and all their possessions were lost.\n\nMore than £200,000 has been raised in a matter of days to help the family start again\n\nThe bungalow was destroyed by the fire which police believe was arson\n\nMr Ivey had spoken out in recent days about anti-social behaviour in his local area and had posted on social media that his parents had been robbed.\n\n\"I can't just let this go, because it has hit a nerve with people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's happening right across the country and not enough is being done.\"\n\nThe 38-year-old is married to Kate, 35, a nurse, and they have two young children.\n\nSean served in the Royal Marines for 15 years before suffering a head injury\n\nThe fundraising campaign took Mr Ivey, a former sergeant, by surprise.\n\n\"It's a few years since I saw Kev but that's the great thing about the Royal Marines and how veterans come together when any situation like this occurs.\"\n\nThe first blaze broke out during the early hours of Thursday, which saw a fire spread from the family car to a caravan on the drive way, and then to the roof of their home. The family was inside at the time but managed to escape.\n\nA second fire, on Friday morning, destroyed the remainder of the bungalow.\n\nMr Ivey captured the blaze on camera as it raged\n\nThe aftermath of the caravan\n\nMr Ivey, who suffered a head injury while serving in the military, had forgotten to renew an insurance policy on his home. He said \"his heart dropped\" when he realised.\n\nThe father-of -two said he would continue to live in the village where he grew up and it was not in his nature \"just to back down\".\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable, nobody should be frightened in their own home,\" he said.\n\nDurham Police are treating the fires as suspected arson. Two men, aged 22 and 25, were arrested and a 48-hour dispersal order was issued in the area.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Family home destroyed 'after dad hit out at yobs'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I did a double take,\" said Cleopatra Browne of Welsh Marine Life Rescue\n\nA walrus has been spotted at the bottom of a Welsh cliff, just days after one was seen off the coast of Ireland.\n\nThe creature was seen near Broad Haven South beach, Pembrokeshire, on Friday before it managed to get back into the sea.\n\nIt is thought the animal may have been the same one that was seen off the County Kerry coast.\n\nCleopatra Browne of Welsh Marine Life Rescue was called to the scene where the walrus was \"sat there, chilling\".\n\n\"It was about the size of a cow,\" said Ms Browne, of St Davids, Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"It was a whopper. I've seen them on telly and the news but it was huge.\"\n\nShe said it looked \"underweight\" possibly because it had \"just swam miles across the ocean.\"\n\nWalruses are more often seen in the Arctic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West said the \"big, beautiful animals never usually venture so far south\"\n\n\"I did a double take,\" Ms Browne said.\n\n\"You go around the coast path and go, 'woah'. It's not what you expect - it would be like seeing a penguin in your lounge.\"\n\nMs Browne watched the walrus from about 40m (130ft) away and believed it was a young animal as its tusks were \"about 3in long\".\n\n\"There is a tale going around that it fell asleep on an iceberg and ended up drifting across and woke up in Ireland,\" said Ms Browne.\n\n\"And then ended up in Wales on the way home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Browne's colleague Terry Leadbetter said: \"Hopefully he is heading toward Cornwall. It's been to Ireland and Wales.\"\n\nPhotographer Amy Compton said she \"couldn't believe\" what she was seeing, adding she had \"definitely\" not seen anything like it before.\n\nThe RSPCA urged people to keep away from the animal if they see it\n\nRSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West, who checked the animal, said: \"He was resting and, although appearing slightly underweight, thankfully he wasn't displaying any signs of sickness or injury.\n\n\"This is an incredibly rare sighting and these big, beautiful animals never usually venture so far south. We believe this may be a juvenile who has travelled down this way in search of food.\"\n\nShe urged people to \"keep their distance\" and not approach the animal.\n\n\"I will certainly never forget this day, in fact it's still sinking in that I've been monitoring a walrus on the Pembrokeshire coast today,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been absolutely amazing. As a keen rugby fan, it's possibly the only reason I would miss the rugby.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nAlfredo Morelos' first goal in 13 Old Firm derbies ensured champions Rangers remain on course for an unbeaten Scottish Premiership season after drawing at Celtic.\n\nThe Colombian striker stooped to head in after Mohamed Elyounoussi had done similar earlier in the first half to deservedly put Celtic in front.\n\nIn the second half, neither side could create many chances and it ended level, meaning that five matches now stand between Rangers and an undefeated league campaign.\n\nHowever, their inability to win means Steven Gerrard's men can no longer match Celtic's 106-point haul in their unbeaten 2016-17 campaign under Brendan Rodgers.\n• None 'Fireworks after derby that fizzled out'\n\nBoth sets of players opted not to take the knee before kick-off and instead stood together against racism, after Rangers' Glen Kamara was allegedly racially abused by Slavia Prague's Ondrej Kudela in Thursday's Europa League tie.\n\nIn a nice touch, Celtic captain Scott Brown approached Kamara as the teams were warming up to offer his support, as both clubs sent a clear message of unity on the issue.\n\nAfter the events of Thursday, it was perhaps expected that Rangers would be physically and mentally drained, while Celtic had not played since relinquishing their title a fortnight ago.\n\nHowever, the home side also started tamely before Elyounoussi's terrific header sparked them into life.\n\nThe goal came down Rangers' right-hand side - where Leon Balogun was regularly exposed as a right-back before being replaced in the 55th minute - with Callum McGregor's brilliant through ball finding the lively Odsonne Edouard, whose delicious cross invited Elyounoussi to thump home.\n\nEdouard was booked for diving shortly after the opener but, that aside, the French striker turned in a fine performance, and only two terrific saves from Alan McGregor stopped him scoring.\n\nBut Celtic were pegged back against the run of play in typical fashion, as their set-piece frailties were exposed.\n\nBalogun - marked by the much smaller Brown - flicked on Borna Barisic's corner to the back post, where Morelos was lurking to nod into the net, ending four years of personal frustration in this fixture.\n\nRangers were far from their best and created few other chances, the best of them a spectacular volley from Ryan Kent from a tight angle which Scott Bain pushed away before the break, and the Celtic goalkeeper almost kicked the ball in off Stephen Welsh later on.\n\nCeltic looked the more threatening in a tight second half, with Edouard, Elyounoussi and Welsh all heading over. But it wasn't to be for the once dominant force of Scottish football, though they did at least prevent a fourth straight derby defeat.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nIt's difficult to take much from a dead-rubber derby. From a Celtic point of view, Edouard's link-up with Elyounoussi was the source of their best play, but it faded in the second half, like many of their performances this season.\n\nThere were encouraging signs, for sure, but they still lack conviction in the final third, at times in this game overplaying rather than making more direct runs and passes, or having a shot. Defending set-pieces is an issue that pre-dates this season, but was once again exposed.\n\nAs for Rangers, their job for the season is done having clinched the title with plenty to spare, and a draw suits them in their quest for an 'invincible' league campaign.\n\nAfter the tumultuous scenes on Thursday and the emotional toll it must have took on the whole squad, it is perhaps unsurprising that Gerrard's side were below par.\n\nOne issue of continued concern is right-back, as Balogun was again unconvincing. With James Tavernier injured and Nathan Patterson facing a lengthy ban for a Covid breach, the Rangers boss may need another solution in that area.\n\nBoth sides switch their focus to the Scottish Cup, as Celtic host either Arbroath or Falkirk in the third round on the weekend of 3/4 April, and Rangers are up against Cove Rangers.\n• None Offside, Celtic. Jonjoe Kenny tries a through ball, but Leigh Griffiths is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Connor Goldson (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Borna Barisic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Connor Goldson (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Borna Barisic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kemar Roofe (Rangers) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Patterson with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jonjoe Kenny (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Rangers. Allan McGregor tries a through ball, but Kemar Roofe is caught offside. 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. Protesters clashed with police and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nProtesters have attacked police after thousands of people turned up to a demonstration that officers had \"strongly advised\" against attending.\n\nOfficers suffered broken bones and police vans were set alight as angry scenes unfolded in Bristol city centre.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nDemonstrators scaled a police station, threw fireworks into the crowd and daubed graffiti on the walls.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the events as \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"Thuggery and disorder by a minority will never be tolerated,\" she said. \"Our police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us all.\"\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said what had started \"as a peaceful protest\" had been \"turned by a small minority into a violent disorder\".\n\nTwo police vehicles were set on fire, damage was caused to a police station, one officer suffered a broken arm and another suffered broken ribs, the force added.\n\nAt the beginning of the night the mood was generally lively but not aggressive.\n\nThere was broken glass across the road and some people had climbed on top of traffic lights but there was no police intervention.\n\nThe dense crowd eventually splintered, with some moving away to carry on drinking and listen to music.\n\nThe atmosphere among those who remained became more volatile.\n\nRiot police in full protective gear formed a barricade in front of the station, but the officers didn't engage with the protesters at all.\n\nThey stood by as their shields and vans were daubed with graffiti - some of it profane and some of it hostile towards the police themselves and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nThen the atmosphere took a marked turn when the first police vehicle was set on fire. Huge plumes of black smoke rose up from Bridewell Street.\n\nA small number of protesters jumped on to the roof of a second police van, thumping on the glass as the officers tried to reverse.\n\nObjects were being thrown by protesters into the crowd and still the police did not move from their positions.\n\nAs well as the police vehicles set on fire, others were smashed up and their tyres let down as the crowd chanted \"shame on you\".\n\nPolice said perpetrators would be \"identified and brought to justice\".\n\nIt is not clear if any arrests have been made but a spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said there would be \"significant consequences for behaviour such as this\".\n\nPolice in riot gear pushed back against a crowd in Bristol city centre\n\nProtesters scaled the police station roof and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nFireworks exploded in the middle of the demonstration\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Federation chairman Andy Roebuck said: \"This is the worst violence in Bristol for many, many years.\n\n\"It's really unprecedented violence. Between four and six or possibly more officers are seriously injured and some have broken bones.\n\n\"No-one had any indication it would erupt this way.\"\n\nBristol mayor Marvin Rees said he recognised \"the frustrations\" with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill but said that \"smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the bill going through\".\n\nThangam Debbonaire, shadow housing secretary and MP for Bristol West, added: \"The scenes of violence and direct attack on the police in Bristol city centre will distress most people, including anyone who believes in defending the right to peaceful democratic protest.\"\n\nDarren Jones, Labour MP for Bristol North West, tweeted that the scenes in the city were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"You don't campaign for the right to peaceful protest by setting police vans on fire or graffitiing buildings,\" he said.\n\nVideos on Twitter showed protesters rocking and kicking a police van while officers on horseback were pushed by the crowd.\n\n\"Officers are continuing to deal with a smaller number of protesters in Bridewell Street,\" a police spokesman said earlier.\n\n\"They've had projectiles thrown at them, including a firework, and have been verbally abused.\n\n\"This is unacceptable behaviour and those responsible for offences will be identified and brought to justice.\"\n\nProtesters climbed on top of a police van which was later rocked by a crowd of demonstrators\n\nGraffiti was daubed on police vehicles and fireworks thrown\n\nCampaigners have staged a string of protests against the bill, which would give the police more powers to deal with non-violent demonstrations.\n\nMany attendees in Bristol wore face masks and carried placards with slogans such as: \"Say no to UK police state\", \"Freedom to protest is fundamental to democracy\", and \"Kill the Bill\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police had encouraged people to stay away from the demo and attend virtual protests instead.\n\nMass gatherings are currently banned under coronavirus legislation and anyone breaching regulations could be fined, though some MPs have said the law should change to allow protests.\n\nThis weekend has seen a number of protests and demonstrations, with campaigners gathering in support of various causes.\n\nThe day started with thousands turning up to protest against the Police and Crime Bill despite mass gatherings being against current lockdown rules\n\nThe protest began peacefully before later turning violent\n\nUnder coronavirus legislation, people can only leave their for a small number of permitted reasons and police point out that attending a protest is not among them\n\nHave you witnessed the protests? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNurse Areema Nasreen was one of the youngest NHS workers to die from coronavirus at the start of the pandemic. Almost a year on from her death, her sister reveals how Areema's last words changed the course of her life.\n\nThe last time Kazeema Afzal saw her sister alive, she was getting ready to go on to a ventilator at the hospital where both had worked since they were teenagers.\n\n\"She waved and said I love you,\" Kazeema recalled of the moment the 36-year-old nurse disappeared behind the double doors.\n\nBut Areema had one last message to pass on, which she told a colleague moments before she was sedated.\n\n\"She said, 'my sister... make sure she works hard. I want her to follow in my footsteps',\" Kazeema said. \"That was the last thing she said.\"\n\nThe two were inseparable growing up in Walsall, West Midlands, together with their younger sister Ash. Areema was only three years older than Kazeema, but \"she was like a mum to us,\" she said. \"Mum knew she could go to another country and Areema would be there to look after us all.\"\n\nTheir lives mirrored each others'. When Areema and Kazeema were still teenagers, they travelled to Pakistan where their families intended them to marry.\n\nAreema, right, had a wicked sense of humour, her sister said, and the two were always making people laugh\n\nThey were wed on the same day to two brothers and lived together for six months. \"We grew up quickly,\" Kazeema said. \"We had children very soon after.\" The sisters had three children each and even had the same due date for their youngest child.\n\nBoth were keen to work. When Areema started as a housekeeper in their home town's Manor Hospital in 2003 aged 19, her younger sister soon followed suit.\n\nBut it was always the eldest sister's dream to be a nurse. With her husband Fasil Tahseen's support, she became the first member of her family to attend university. In 2019, she became a staff nurse at the hospital that was her \"second home\".\n\n\"That was her childhood dream,\" said Kazeema, who praised her brother-in-law for helping his wife achieve it.\n\n\"For an Asian girl to get married and study after.. it's very hard for a partner who has come from another country. But he helped her until the end. He said, 'you do what you want to do'.\"\n\nAreema was a teenager when she married her husband, whom she called Faz\n\n\"She got such a buzz out of looking after people,\" her sister said. \"She was always sending money home [to Pakistan]. \"If someone needed water, she'd buy them a pump. She paid for the family of a severely ill child to go on a pilgrimage and she went with them.\"\n\nUnsurprisingly then, Areema was a popular figure on the acute medical unit (AMU). She had been working there for three months when she began complaining of backache.\n\nHer family thought it was purely the strain of her house move.\n\n\"She was never ill,\" Kazeema said. \"When she said she was tired and lethargic, we just thought she'd overdone it. The cough came right at the end.\"\n\nAreema graduated from the University of Wolverhampton; she was the first in her family to study in higher education\n\nIt was March 2020 and little was known about many of the symptoms of Covid-19. Areema kept on working, assuming she would turn a corner.\n\n\"The last shift was the worst ever,\" recalled her sister. \"We told her to go home but she wanted to stay. She was gasping for breath.\"\n\nWhen she continued to deteriorate, her family sent for an ambulance. A test two days later confirmed their fears.\n\n\"She sent me a text saying 'I've got Covid' with crying emojis.\" Areema remained in hospital. A few days later, a message came through in the early hours.\n\n\"My lungs are full,\" it read. She was being sent to ICU.\n\nKazeema left her home and ran to the hospital just a short distance away.\n\n\"I fell, I tripped, but I kept on running,\" she said.\n\nThe two sisters sat together until the 36-year-old was put on the ventilator.\n\nKazeema shared a screenshot of the last texts her sister sent to her\n\nAt first it looked as though she was improving. But as the pandemic has proved, coronavirus can hit its sufferers in waves and Areema's condition plummeted.\n\n\"I just got a phone call and they were saying 'I'm so sorry' - and I said, 'what are you trying to say, my sister's dying?'\n\n\"She died in her husband's arms.\"\n\nKazeema said she was not surprised by her sister's final words. \"Straight away, I knew she would say that. She was the type of person to put someone else first at the end.\"\n\nThe two women had discussed many times the younger sibling's hope of following the same career path. But because she did not complete her GCSEs, she never thought she had a hope.\n\n\"I'd say, 'I can't do it, I'm not that clever', and she'd go 'come on Kaz!'\n\n\"She kept saying 'trust me, you can do this'.\"\n\nThe words have stuck in her head ever since. Even though the pain of losing her sister has seriously damaged her mental health, Kazeema has found the strength to become a healthcare assistant - on the very ward where Areema worked.\n\nAreema had dreamed of being a nurse since she was a child\n\nAnd this week, she is starting an apprenticeship at Walsall College which will pave the way for her to get a nursing qualification.\n\n\"I've got my pencil case and my calculator - I was so excited to get them, I was like a schoolgirl picking them up,\" she said.\n\nWorking on the AMU has been a tonic for Kazeema; with her sister's photographs on the walls, her spirit lives on, not least in the memories of her close-knit colleagues.\n\nA scholarship has been set up in Areema's memory, to fund a degree in nursing for someone who dreams of a career in healthcare but cannot afford the fees. The first recipient is soon to be announced.\n\n\"Areema's legacy is going to live on,\" said Kazeema. \"She always wanted to be a nurse and we were all so proud of her.\n\n\"I want people to be inspired by her - people who don't think they can do something, they can.\"\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. Critical care nurse Dawn Bilbrough was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers\n\nA nurse who made a tearful plea for shoppers to stop panic-buying is self-isolating after developing coronavirus symptoms.\n\nDawn Bilbrough recorded an emotional video message after finding supermarket shelves empty at the end of a shift.\n\nAfter she shared the clip online, the medical director of NHS England urged shoppers to think of health workers.\n\nMs Bilbrough, of York, believes she has now contracted Covid-19, although she has not been tested.\n\nShe has called on members of the public to follow government advice to stay at home and save lives.\n\nShe said: \"We need to protect the NHS and we need to save lives.\n\n\"I'm concerned that people don't seem to be appreciating how serious this actually is and listening to the guidelines.\n\n\"It seems to be that the younger generation don't seem to understand how significant and dangerous this crisis actually is.\n\n\"We all need to do our bit.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Bilbrough went to the supermarket after working for 48 hours. Once there, she found there were no fruit or vegetables.\n\nIn the video, filmed in her car immediately after leaving the supermarket, she told panic-buyers: \"You just need to stop it.\"\n\nMs Bilbrough said: \"No woman wants her face beamed around the world when they are upset but I think it got the message out there.\"\n\nSince making the video, she received offers of help from friends as well as concerned strangers.\n\nMs Bilbrough is currently resting at home after experiencing symptoms including chest discomfort, ongoing nausea, a persistent headache and breathlessness.\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.", "People may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years until we return to normality, a leading epidemiologist has predicted.\n\nMary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll out jabs.\n\nShe also said a return of big spectator events required careful monitoring and clear instructions about staying safe.\n\nThe defence secretary has not ruled out the foreign holiday ban being extended.\n\nBen Wallace told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that booking a break abroad now would be \"premature\" and \"potentially risky\".\n\nThe UK set another record for the number of coronavirus vaccine doses given in a single day on Saturday, with 844,285 jabs.\n\nDr Ramsay said restrictions such as face coverings in crowded places and social distancing had become accepted by many and still allowed the economy to function.\n\nShe said \"people have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place\".\n\n\"So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation,\" she added.\n\nWarning it was \"very important that we do not relax too quickly\", Dr Ramsay said any circulating virus would inevitably pick on those who are vulnerable.\n\n\"We have to look very carefully before any of these restrictions are lifted,\" she said.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, told MPs earlier this month that it was hoped \"simple interventions like washing hands, face masks where appropriate, test-and-trace, and above all vaccines\" would keep the virus controlled beyond the summer.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, has also said face masks could be needed in certain situations if the number of infections rises in the winter, but that it was possible people will naturally behave in a way that promotes social distancing.\n\nA group of government scientific advisers said last month that \"maintaining a baseline of policies which reduce transmission\" will be necessary for some time to come.\n\nThose experts said these could include continuing test-and-trace, self-isolation, and public messaging that encourages \"voluntary actions to reduce risks\".\n\nThe government's roadmap for easing lockdown in England states all legal limits on social contact will be removed no earlier than 21 June.\n\nIn a second release of restrictions on Monday 29 March, people will be able to mix outdoors with up to five others in a return to the so-called \"rule of six\".\n\nOutdoor sport and leisure facilities can also reopen, organised outdoor sports are allowed once more, and outdoor parent and child groups with up to 15 parents can meet.\n\nIn Scotland, communal worship resumes on 26 March. In Wales, supermarkets can sell non-essential items from Monday, and garden centres can open. And in Northern Ireland, six people from two households can meet in private gardens from 1 April.\n\nThe government established a review of measures to control coronavirus from the summer onwards last month.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, has told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend there should be a rapid investigation into what happened during the first months of the pandemic.\n\nHe said he believed there was a \"slowness in political response - almost casual really - suggesting a failure of scientific and medical advice reaching political power\".\n\n\"We should have a rapid investigation of the first part of the pandemic - January to June - so we can learn the lessons and be bettered prepared for the future,\" he said.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, suggested last week that a public inquiry into the pandemic now would be an unwelcome distraction to those tasked with controlling the virus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta said his side's performance will \"give me nightmares\" after the Gunners came from 3-0 down to draw with West Ham in the Premier League.\n\nThe Hammers raced into a three-goal lead at London Stadium through Jesse Lingard, Jarrod Bowen and Tomas Soucek, who touched in a Michail Antonio header.\n\nBut forward Alexandre Lacazette headed a late equaliser after own goals from Soucek and Craig Dawson set up an unlikely comeback.\n\n\"This game is going to give me a few nightmares because it is really difficult to stop some of the things we have been doing to hurt ourselves.\" Arteta told BBC Sport.\n\nThe result leaves the Hammers fifth, two points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, while Arsenal move above Aston Villa into ninth.\n• None Reaction to thrilling draw between West Ham and Arsenal\n\n'We cannot have two faces'\n\nArteta was full of praise for his side's second-half performance, declaring it \"the best [Arsenal have] played all season\".\n\nAt 3-0 down, Arsenal looked almost certain to lose further ground in the race for European places.\n\nLacazette gave the Gunners hope when found the net with a volley which took a deflection off Soucek for Arsenal's opener just before the break.\n\nAnd Dawson turned in Calum Chambers' cross in the 61st minute to further cut the deficit, before the France striker rose highest to level the game late on after good work from Nicolas Pepe.\n\n\"That is the level we can show,\" Arteta added. \"We could have scored six or seven goals and won the game, but we cannot have two faces.\n\n\"We stuck to the plan we had because we were getting further away from it. We had the belief we could do something.\"\n\nA defeat would have opened up a 10-point gap between the two sides and arguably ended Arsenal's hopes of qualifying for a European competition through a top-six finish.\n\nAnd while questions will be asked about their poor first-half performance, Arteta will take heart from his side's superb reaction against a disciplined West Ham.\n\nWhen they led 3-0, David Moyes' West Ham looked certain to finish the day level on points with Chelsea.\n\n\"It's still a good point,\" Moyes told BBC Sport. \"It would have been nice to take another two points but we haven't lost too much ground today.\"\n\nManchester United loanee Lingard opened the scoring with a stunning volley and just 98 seconds later set up Bowen with a quick free-kick, as the winger's strike went through Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno.\n\nSoucek seemed to have given West Ham total control but even as Arsenal's comeback picked up steam, the hosts created regular openings.\n\nAntonio diverted Said Benrahma's cross on to the base of the post and Arsenal defender Kieran Tierney blocked a goal-bound effort from Bowen with the score at 3-2.\n\n\"We were playing a really good team,\" added Moyes. \"Sometimes people forget what we're up against. We had chances to move out of sight but we weren't able to take them.\"\n\nWest Ham have not finished above Arsenal in the league since 1985-86, but remain seven points ahead of the Gunners.\n\nA European place in any form would be a significant achievement for a club that finished only five points clear of the relegation zone last season. Despite the disappointment of dropping two points on Sunday, a top-four finish remains a possibility with nine games to go.\n\nAnother own goal double benefits Arsenal - the stats\n• None West Ham failed to win after being three goals ahead in a Premier League game for the first time since September 1998 (4-3 defeat against Wimbledon).\n• None This was the third time in the Premier League this season a team has led by three goals and failed to win (also West Brom 3-3 Chelsea and Spurs 3-3 West Ham) - the most instances in a single Premier League campaign since 2010-11 (also three).\n• None West Ham have only won one of their past 11 games against Arsenal in the league (D3 L7), failing to win any of their four meetings in the past two campaigns (D1 L3).\n• None This match against Arsenal (32 minutes) was the earliest from the start of a Premier League match that West Ham have scored three goals since May 2007 against Bolton (29 minutes).\n• None Jesse Lingard scored his fifth goal against Arsenal in all competitions - the most he has netted against any opponent in his professional career.\n• None West Ham are the first team to score two own goals in a single Premier League game since Swansea in January 2017, which was also against Arsenal.\n\nWest Ham travel to Wolves on Monday, 5 April (20:15 BST) after the international break in the Premier League, while Arsenal host Liverpool on Sunday, 4 April (16:30 BST).\n• None Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ryan Fredericks (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Michail Antonio (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Martin Ødegaard.\n• None Attempt saved. Declan Rice (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Soucek (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "The fire on Thursday spread from the family's car to a caravan and then to the roof of their home\n\nA teacher and ex-Royal Marine said his family is lucky to be alive after a suspected arson attack which destroyed their home in County Durham.\n\nSean Ivey, from Wingate, fled to safety with his wife and two children after a fire broke out early on Thursday.\n\nMr Ivey, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, believed he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour.\n\nTwo men have been arrested and Durham Police issued a 48-hour dispersal order in the area.\n\nThe family's home was destroyed by the fire\n\nMore than £50,000 has been raised to help the family start again\n\n\"I just woke up in bed and felt the need to look out of the window,\" Mr Ivey said.\n\n\"I shouted to my wife that the car was on fire, go and get the kids.\"\n\nIt broke out around 01:45 GMT. Flames from the car then spread to a caravan parked on the driveway, before spreading to the roof of the bungalow.\n\nA second fire broke out during the early hours of Friday. Nobody was inside at the time.\n\nDurham Police are treating them as suspected arson.\n\nSean Ivey believes he was targeted for standing up to anti-social behaviour\n\nMr Ivey, who served with 45 Commando, said young people had been spotted riding around the area on quad bikes wearing balaclavas, \"terrorising\" other road users.\n\n\"[There have been] burglaries, car fires, this is quite extreme but these aren't isolated incidents,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm just absolutely fed up of the anti-social behaviour, the lack of respect, the lack of discipline, and where does it stop?\"\n\nFootball memorabilia as well as Mr Ivey's Royal Marines medals perished\n\nOn Wednesday, hours before the first fire, Mr Ivey posted on social media that his parents had been robbed when four men burst into their home.\n\nHe said he had a run-in last weekend with a young biker \"riding like a lunatic\" and saw another in the main street of the former mining village pulling wheelies and mounting the paths.\n\nHe also called out gangs gathering outside a local takeaway.\n\nA fundraising campaign has raised more than £50,000 to help the family, whose home was not insured because a policy had run out.\n\nPhotographs, medals and Mr Ivey's Royal Marines uniform have also been lost.\n\nMr Ivey woke up to find his car on fire before fleeing from the property with his family\n\nTwo men, aged 22 and 25, have been arrested. Police said they were continuing to carry out lines of inquiry in relation to the second fire.\n\nInsp Emma Kay said it had had \"a huge impact\" on the family and the wider community.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone with information no matter how small it may be to come forward and help us bring the offenders to justice,\" she said.\n\nPatrols are being increased and the dispersal order will be in place over the weekend, meaning anyone failing to leave when asked will face arrest.\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 music festival is taking place in the Netherlands, despite the rest of the country being under a lockdown.\n\nThe two-day experiment aims to see if there's a safe way to allow large-scale social gatherings to restart, without increasing the spread of the virus.\n\nThe BBC's Anna Holligan went to the festival in Biddinghuizen near Amsterdam.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mourners gathered in Dar es Salaam as President Magufuli's body was transported to lie in state\n\nThousands of mourners have been filing past the coffin of Tanzania's ex-President John Magufuli, who died on Wednesday aged 61.\n\nHis coffin, draped in the national flag, is lying in state at the Uhuru stadium in the main city Dar es Salaam.\n\nOpposition politicians say that Magufuli contracted Covid-19, but this has not been confirmed.\n\nHe was a Covid sceptic who at times denied the virus had affected Tanzania.\n\nA requiem mass has been held for the late president\n\nMagufuli's coffin was brought to the stadium on Saturday in a procession that was led by his successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan.\n\nIt will be taken to several different locations for public viewing before his burial in his hometown of Chato on Friday.\n\nPresident Magufuli's coffin was carried through the streets of Dar es Salaam\n\nMagufuli was the son of a peasant farmer and went on to became Tanzania's president in 2015.\n\nSome residents wept and threw flowers on the coffin which was pulled by a military vehicle on Saturday.\n\nPresident Samia, who was sworn into office on Friday, led the government procession in which many wore black or green and yellow to represent the colours of the ruling party.\n\nShe is Africa's only current female national leader - the Ethiopian presidency is a largely ceremonial role - and joins a short list of women on the continent to have run their countries.\n\nMourners wept at the state funeral procession of Magufuli\n\nThe government announced on Wednesday that Magufuli had died from a heart condition after he had been missing from public for several weeks.\n\nHis position on coronavirus ranged from stating it did not exist in Tanzania to saying the country had beaten the pandemic through prayer.\n\nBut in February, after a number of senior politicians died from the virus, he conceded it was circulating in Tanzania.\n\nKnown as the \"bulldozer\", before the pandemic Magufuli was praised for his no-nonsense approach and hailed for his anti-corruption stance and his distinct dislike for wasting money.\n\nOn Friday President Samia spoke of the \"heavy load\" on her shoulders and urged for the \"burying of differences\" and unity during the mourning period.", "One woman and a man were discovered by police at this house on Glenville Road\n\nEarly intervention is needed to tackle \"offending behaviours\" in the perpetrators of violence, the justice minister has said.\n\nNaomi Long said it was an \"absolute tragedy\" to see women losing their lives to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice believe a man murdered his mother and girlfriend at separate homes on Friday before killing himself.\n\nThe women have been named locally as Karen McClean and Stacey Knell. The man was Karen's son Ken Flanagan.\n\nRev Billy Davison, from Newtownabbey Methodist Mission, said the community was \"stunned\" by the tragedy.\n\n\"When things like this happen the community of Rathcoole tend to rally round and offer their support,\" he said.\n\n\"On behalf of the local community I want to offer sympathy to the bereaved.\n\nRev Billy Davison from Newtownabbey Methodist Mission said the local community will rally round\n\n\"We are here and if we can be of any assistance please come along and we will try to help,\" he added.\n\nA double murder investigation was launched on Saturday, but police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nMrs Long said she hopes to put a paper before the NI Executive this week on a strategy to protect women and girls from violence.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a specific strategy.\n\nThe justice minister told the BBC NI's Sunday Politics that it is \"an absolute tragedy when we see violence like this occurring and when we see women losing their lives, when we see anyone losing their lives\".\n\n\"I think it is hugely important at this time that we focus on these issues, it is something that I have made a priority in my time in the justice department,\" she added.\n\n\"What we need to do, I believe, is move the focus upstream so that we start to tackle why offending behaviours occur so we start to deal with perpetrators.\n\n\"That's something we do through the criminal justice system, but we'd like to do that earlier, in terms of early intervention.\"\n\nForensic officers attended a flat in Derrycoole Way where one woman was killed\n\nMrs Long said the issue needed to be tackled across all executive departments.\n\n\"Not all violence against women and girls is direct violence, it is to do with discrimination and societal attitudes,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to see progress made, for example, in education. In terms of relationship and sex education, in terms of dispelling rape myths, in terms of dealing with attitudes around victim blaming.\n\n\"To do that, what we need is a cross-executive strategy and that's what I'm proposing to the executive.\"\n\nCEO of Women's Aid in Belfast, Kelly Andrews, said \"what we've been doing has not been good enough\" and said a gender neutral strategy was not sufficient.\n\n\"Seventy percent of domestic abuse victims are female and that really needs to be recognised.\n\n\"We need to be looking at workplace policies, we also need to focus as well on perpetrators and reducing reoffending.\n\n\"We need to get men involved in the conversation to call out misogynistic behaviour when they see it as well,\" she added.", "Conservative MPs have criticised the government's plan to renew emergency coronavirus powers for six months.\n\nA Commons vote will take place on Thursday and the government has said only necessary and proportionate measures will remain to tackle Covid.\n\nThe vote is expected to pass, with Labour's Lisa Nandy saying her party \"won't be standing in the way\".\n\nBut Tory MP Mark Harper said the plan \"raises justifiable concerns\" about further restrictions in the autumn.\n\nThe backbencher - who leads the lockdown-sceptic Coronavirus Research Group of MPs - tweeted: \"The burden is on government to clearly justify to Parliament each measure they wish to retain and explain why they are proportionate, reasonable and grounded in evidence.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Act was brought in back in March 2020 at the start of pandemic.\n\nThe law gave the government wide-ranging powers unlike others seen before - from shutting down pubs through to detaining individuals deemed at risk as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nIt has to be approved every six months, but has been given a two-year lifespan, with the option for the provisions to be extended, or expired early.\n\nWhen it was brought in, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the powers in the bill would only be used \"when strictly necessary\" and would remain in force only for as long as required to respond to the crisis.\n\nWhile this latest \"yes or no\" vote on the law is expected to pass, some Conservatives have raised concerns about the need for a further six months of emergency powers, and some rebels could vote against it.\n\nMr Harper said extending the Coronavirus Act was not \"compatible\" with the prime minister's pledge of a \"one-way road to freedom\" as promised in his roadmap out of lockdown - which would see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June, if strict conditions are met.\n\nThe MP tweeted: \"If we are really to believe that the government's roadmap will be 'reclaiming our freedoms' by 21 June, why would Parliament be asked to extend the Coronavirus Act all the way until October?\n\n\"That is the question MPs must consider and ministers must answer this week.\"\n\nAnother member of the Coronavirus Research Group, Conservative MP Steve Baker, also raised questions about specific aspects of the law, saying the ability to detain someone was \"disproportionate, extreme and wholly unnecessary\".\n\nAnd he said if it remained illegal to stay overnight in another household over Easter, Mr Johnson \"must make clear that these laws will be properly and consistently policed and enforced\".\n\nMr Baker said if the PM did not make a statement restating the \"severe rules\" for the Bank Holiday, then the restrictions should be lifted, adding: \"They are immensely damaging to people's welfare, health and livelihoods.\n\n\"The time has come for this dark chapter in our history to come to an end and for us to reclaim our freedoms once and for all.\"\n\nAsked for his response to critics within his party, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that compliance with the rules was important.\n\nHe said: \"My constituents have sacrificed a huge amount... they have followed the rules, they have done everything to preserve the NHS, to protect life, they have sacrificed economically.\n\n\"We do not want to throw that away.\"\n\nLabour is not expected to vote down the legislation.\n\nMs Nandy told Andrew Marr there were \"certainly powers on the statute book that haven't been used in the last 12 months\" and it was important to \"have that debate in the Commons about whether it is necessary they remain\".\n\nShe added: \"But nevertheless, what the vote is this week is about the roadmap, about easing lockdown, it is about statutory sick pay, it is about banning evictions, it is about all measures we have pushed for.\n\n\"We certainly won't be standing in the way of the government getting this legislation passed.\"", "Police were at Celtic Park early on Sunday ahead of the noon kickoff\n\nLarge numbers of police remain on standby in Glasgow as Celtic and Rangers fans were told to stay at home to watch the Old Firm derby.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said officers were ready to be deployed to prevent a repeat of celebrations by fans two weeks ago.\n\nThousands of Rangers supporters broke lockdown rules to gather at Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square.\n\nPolice Scotland warned there would be arrests if the advice was ignored.\n\nThe match, which took place behind closed doors at the Celtic Park stadium, ended in a 1-1 draw.\n\nFans had been told by both police and their own clubs to stay home to avoid putting each other, members of the public and frontline police officers at risk.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Higgins told the BBC: \"For the past week we have been heavily engaging with the fans groups - sending out a consistent message to stay at home. The response has indicated this is what they will do.\"\n\nHe said the potential for fans to gather illegally was there, but that a \"significant policing operation\" was in place to deal with that.\n\nA fan makes their feelings known about the closed doors game outside the Parkhead stadium\n\nHe said: \"Hopefully we won't have to deploy the assets we have available.\"\n\nHe issued a warning: \"If you come out to Celtic Park, George Square, Ibrox Stadium or anywhere else in Glasgow on Sunday, be prepared to be engaged by my officers. We will encourage you to leave and if you don't heed that warning then potentially you are opening yourself up to being arrested.\"\n\nHe said that the policing of a major event which had no fans formally attending was still new to police, but that plans were based on intelligence from previous matches and certain risk groups.\n\nOfficers had also worked with both sets of supporters who were asked to \"spread the word\" on the stay-at-home message to their networks and social media followers.\n\nHe said that there was \"no doubt\" what police wanted fans to do and should they ignore the warnings, plans were in place to deal with that.\n\nFans are locked out of Celtic Park for the Old Firm derby due to coronavirus lockdown measures\n\nThe Celtic v Rangers league game was at risk of postponement after large numbers of Rangers fans breached Covid lockdown rules.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the scenes as \"disgraceful\" and police said there had been a \"lack of support\" from the club.\n\nOfficers made 28 arrests following the mass gatherings and also handed out fixed penalty notices for offences including assaulting police officers, sectarian-related breaches of the peace, breaking Covid rules and the use of pyrotechnics.\n\nCrowds gathered in George Square to celebrate Rangers winning the Scottish Premiership\n\nIt emerged on Saturday that dozens of police officers had been forced to self-isolate due to some positive Covid cases among officers who policed the incident.\n\nThe Parkhead league fixture was only given the go-ahead on Friday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to proceed followed \"extensive engagement\" with the clubs, the SPFL, Police Scotland and Glasgow City Council.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Higgins said fans should think beyond potential repercussions for the clubs if anything went wrong.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins says officers will be out in large numbers\n\nHe said: \"This isn't about a single game of football. It's not even about the next Old Firm game at Ibrox. It's about not jeopardising and compromising the Scottish government's plan which will see the restrictions gradually lifted.\n\n\"We don't want a mass outbreak of the disease in Glasgow or the surrounding areas because people have acted irresponsibly which then leads to a review of the route out of lockdown plan.\"\n\nNational clinical director Jason Leitch told the BBC he was hoping people would do the right thing.\n\nHe said: \"We have been talking to the clubs for 10 days now, and I have been very impressed with their response. Captains, managers, police, all putting out the same message which is pretty straightforward.\n\n\"Stay at home, watch the game on the TV and don't go out to celebrate or commiserate. Just stay at home.\"", "Venues such as bars and nightclubs may not be able to open as planned if they cannot find enough bouncers to supervise them, the body representing security staff has said.\n\nAfter a year of closure many security staff have moved into other work.\n\nSome staff who are not UK nationals have returned to their home countries following Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nMore than half of positions may not be filled, the UK Door Security Association (UKDSA) said.\n\nThe UKDSA is calling for new, more rigorous training regulations, due to come in in April, to be postponed to help agencies recruit new security staff more quickly.\n\n\"I imagine it's going to be more pressured when we reopen,\" said Stuart Glen, who runs The Cause, a nightclub in north London.\n\n\"When we go back on 21 June every operator in our field, every festival, nightclub, bar, restaurant, theatre, every event has been gagging to get back on track and suddenly everyone is going to say we need security staff.\"\n\nStuart Glen is concerned it could be hard to find enough security staff to re-open\n\nHaving the correct ratio of security staff is a condition of holding a licence to operate, he added.\n\n\"If we can't find the staff then we physically can't open. It's a major issue,\" Mr Glen said.\n\nFrom 1 April security staff must have first aid qualifications before taking the training required to be a door supervisor, according to the Security Industry Authority, the government's regulatory body for the sector.\n\nThere are additional training requirements related to terror threats and emergencies, the use of body-worn video recorders, and breathalysers. Some of the new requirements start in April, some in October.\n\nThe UKDSA said it supported the additional elements in the new training regime but said it was \"deeply concerned about the timing of these changes and the impact on front-line staffing levels\".\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association, said: \"We rely heavily on licensed door supervisors to keep staff and customers safe.\n\n\"With the additional responsibility of public health… it is even more important that we remove barriers to ensure that we are able to fulfil the resource requirement.\n\n\"This will need a government intervention to ensure that the industry has the ability to provide enough staff. While the training is welcomed, it is not timely given the current economic situation across most of the sector, and consideration needs to be given to it being pushed back to 2022.\"\n\nThe extent to which non-UK nationals working the industry have returned overseas, further reducing the pool of available staff, is hard to quantify.\n\nHowever academic studies have found there was a significant exodus of foreign-born UK residents between 2019 and 2020.", "The government's decision to cut foreign aid without passing new legislation has been called unlawful by an ex-director of public prosecutions.\n\nLord Macdonald of River Glaven said No 10 acted outside the law when it ditched its policy of spending 0.7% of national income on aid.\n\nHis formal legal opinion was commissioned by senior Tory MPs campaigning to reverse the aid cut.\n\nThe advice says No 10's decision could be tested in court via judicial review.\n\nHowever, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said the government had acted in accordance with the International Development Act 2015 - a piece of legislation that enshrines the 0.7% target in law - and remained a world-leading aid donor, spending £10bn on aid this year.\n\nLast autumn, the government said it would not meet the 0.7% target in the coming financial year and cut spending to just 0.5% of national income - a move that would save about £4bn a year.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak claimed the cut was needed to save money during the pandemic, and would be \"temporary\".\n\nBut opponents claimed the decision was politically motivated and designed to attract voters in so-called \"red wall\" constituencies held by Conservatives in the north of England.\n\nLabour's Preet Kaur Gill said cutting the aid budget would \"strip life-saving support from millions of people leaving them to die\".\n\nShe called on the government to put the change to a vote in Parliament, adding: \"Failure to do so will diminish Britain's claim to be a global force for good and weaken our credibility and ability to defend the rule of law around the world.\"\n\nAlthough the 0.7% is enshrined in law, ministers have claimed the legislation allows them to miss the target, just so long as they explain to parliament why they have done so.\n\nBut Lord Macdonald's legal advice - which was first reported by the Sunday Times - disagrees and says the law does not give Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab any right to change the 0.7% target, which is different from missing it.\n\nThe crossbench peer, who was previously affiliated with the Liberal Democrats, is one of the best known names in British legal circles of the past 25 years.\n\nAs Ken McDonald, he was a co-founder of London-based Matrix Chambers with other leading lawyers at the start of this century, including Tony Blair's wife Cherie Booth. The newly-established barristers' chambers specialised in a number of high-profile human rights cases.\n\nHe later became the first defence lawyer to be appointed to the role of director of public prosecutions.\n\nThe current advice is issued by Matrix Chambers and states: \"The Secretary of State's decision is unlawful, not because of a (mere) failure to meet the 0.7% GNI target, but because the secretary of state has proceeded on the erroneous assumption that he has some power to alter the target itself.\"\n\nIt adds: \"The illegality of the…decision is clear: the secretary of state proceeded on the erroneous assumption that he was free to establish a \"target\" for official development assistance which is below 0.7% GNI.\n\n\"In truth, no such discretion was open to him. For that reason, his decision is arguably ultra vires the 2015 Act.\"\n\nLord Macdonald's legal advice says the law does not give Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (pictured) any right to change the 0.7% aid target\n\nAndrew Mitchell, a former international development secretary, is urging the government to put the change to the aid target up for a House of Commons vote.\n\nThe Conservative MP said: \"This legal opinion, finding that the government's decision is 'unlawful' and that the government's 'illegality is clear', is not unexpected.\n\n\"The foreign secretary told the Commons that his own legal advice required a change in the legislation, in order to change the 0.7% target. That's why I have been urging ministers to address this in parliament.\n\n\"I still believe that it is not too late to change course, before the start of the new financial year in April.\"\n\nBaroness Sugg, the former international development minister who quit her role over the cut to the aid target, said: \"Britain, as a force for good, sets global standards and defends the rules based international system.\n\n\"Legal opinion like this risks undermining our credibility on the world stage at the very moment we need to strike trade deals, negotiate communiqués and agree ambitious legally binding climate targets.\"\n\nOxfam GB's chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said: \"The decision was clearly immoral, now it appears to have been unlawful as well.\"\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office insisted the government had acted in accordance with the International Development Act - which explicitly envisaged circumstances when the 0.7% target was not met.\n\nIt added the government had sought legal advice throughout the process and remained a world-leading donor, spending £10bn on aid this year.\n\nA statement from the FCDO said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"The UK government has acted in accordance with the International Development Act 2015 throughout this process.\"", "Video caption: Critical care nurse Dawn Bilbrough was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers in March 2020 Critical care nurse Dawn Bilbrough was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers in March 2020\n\nA critical care nurse who tearfully urged the public to stop panic buying in the first wave of the pandemic last year has said she is considering leaving her profession.\n\nDawn Bilbrough says the past year has been \"relentless, incredibly traumatic and emotionally and physically exhausting\".\n\nThe 52-year-old, from York, tells BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend nothing in her 20-year nursing career could have prepared her for the last 12 months.\n\n\"There have been times when I've come home and had a good cry, because we have witnessed so much… we're at the patient's bedside 12 hours a day and they haven't had that usual psychological support from their families.\n\n\"So we've been there… and got to know them as people, their likes and dislikes, their dreams; and then they've become really unwell and been placed on ventilators and quite often they haven't got through that.\n\n\"And that's been difficult because personally I've felt a bond to my patients, and to witness them not progress as we would wish, that's been really hard.\"\n\nMs Bilbrough says she and others medical staff needed support for the long-term stress, anxiety and depression those in her profession are experiencing.\n\n\"There's just this overwhelming sense of sadness that creeps in… and I think we have to kind of bury that because we're professionals and we can't explore that too deeply when we're at work,\" she says.\n\n\"So we're…carrying it around with us and for me, it's starting to come up a little bit and it needs to be addressed and processed, and it's going to take some time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dawn Bilbrough: \"Long-term I don't think I'll be in nursing\"\n\nA critical care nurse who tearfully urged the public to stop panic buying last year has said she is considering leaving her profession.\n\nDawn Bilbrough said the past year had been \"relentless, incredibly traumatic and emotionally and physically exhausting\".\n\nHer video message in March 2020 went viral after she found supermarket shelves empty following a 48-hour week.\n\nMs Bilbrough told the BBC the \"burden\" of seeing patients die had been \"hard\".\n\nThe 52-year-old, from York, told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend that nothing in her 20-year nursing career could have prepared her for the last 12 months.\n\nSpeaking as the anniversary of her video approached, she said: \"There have been times when I've come home and had a good cry, because we have witnessed so much… we're at the patient's bedside 12 hours a day and they haven't had that usual psychological support from their families.\n\n\"So we've been there… and got to know them as people, their likes and dislikes, their dreams; and then they've become really unwell and been placed on ventilators and quite often they haven't got through that.\n\n\"And that's been difficult because personally I've felt a bond to my patients, and to witness them not progress as we would wish, that's been really hard.\"\n\nIn the viral video, taken following a visit to a supermarket after she finished her working week, Ms Bilbrough pleaded with people to stop panic buying so she could purchase food.\n\n\"There's no fruit and veg, I had a little cry in there,\" she said.\n\nMs Bilbrough later went on to develop coronavirus symptoms.\n\nShe has now described seeing coronavirus patients die as a \"burden\" she has to bear. In normal times, she might lose a patient in intensive care once every two weeks, but during the pandemic several were dying every day.\n\nIn the last wave over winter, she said more died than survived.\n\n\"I was once working in a pod where there were four patients with Covid,\" she said.\n\n\"I left my shift at 20:00 in the evening. When I returned the next day all the patients had died, and were replaced with different people… although it's hard bearing this burden, you don't become desensitised - if you do, it's time to give up the profession.\"\n\nMs Bilbrough warned the pandemic was not over and that it was \"shocking\" that those on ventilators now are often in their 50s.\n\n\"What we have at the moment is an awful lot of patients that remain on ventilators that have been on them since January... we've got young people that are still needing that support. So it's quite shocking,\" she added.\n\nAmid calls for a better pay rise for nurses, Ms Bilbrough said the public has \"huge respect for the profession, and I do hope it will continue when people go back to their normal lives… I hope they remember the sacrifices and the burdens that people within the profession have made over the past year and will continue to make for a little while longer\".\n\nMs Bilbrough said she has not dealt with the emotions of the most challenging year of her career because she has had to get on with her job.\n\nShe expressed her hope for support for the long-term stress, anxiety and depression those in her profession are experiencing.\n\n\"There's just this overwhelming sense of sadness that creeps in… and I think we have to kind of bury that because we're professionals and we can't explore that too deeply when we're at work,\" she said.\n\n\"So we're…carrying it around with us and for me, it's starting to come up a little bit and it needs to be addressed and processed, and it's going to take some time.\"", "Betty Williams' husband Evan died at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor last April\n\nA former MP is calling for an investigation following her husband's death amid growing concern over the use of do not resuscitate orders.\n\nFormer Conwy MP Betty Williams' husband Evan died at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor last April after contracting Covid.\n\nShe said she had not been told about the decision on a DNR order - which she said was made the day he died - despite speaking to staff before his death.\n\nThe health board said it was unable to comment on individual cases.\n\nIn a statement, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board chief executive Jo Whitehead said: \"I would like to offer my deepest condolences to Mrs Williams following the loss of her husband.\n\n\"Due to patient confidentiality, we are unable to comment on individual cases.\n\n\"We would urge her to contact us directly if she has any concerns.\"\n\nBut Ms Williams told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement she had already written to the new chief executive to highlight her concerns.\n\nFormer Conwy MP Ms Williams said the last time she saw her husband was when paramedics took him to hospital from their home\n\nIt comes as the care watchdog for England said individuals' human rights may have been breached in more than 500 cases where DNR decisions were made during the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Williams, 79, died on Good Friday - 10 April - after being diagnosed with acute pneumonia.\n\nTwo tests for Covid had been returned negative but a third result came back positive following his death.\n\nThe last time Ms Williams saw her husband of 52 years was when paramedics took him to hospital from their home.\n\n\"I had a telephone call from a doctor telling me that his condition has deteriorated,\" she said.\n\n\"Nothing at all was said to me about DNR instructions,\" she said.\n\nShe said a DNR order was signed by two consultants.\n\nMs Williams, who stood down as a Labour MP more than a decade ago, said she wrote to the health board asking about the DNR order on 27 April and whether he had given his consent.\n\nShe said she received confirmation on 12 June that he had not.\n\n\"It's like pulling teeth,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to drag this information out.\"\n\nBetty Williams' husband called her two days before his death to say how unwell he felt\n\nMs Williams said she would again be writing to the chief executive asking her to \"conduct an investigation into how she's going to deal with this\".\n\nMr Williams had a lung condition as a result of working in a factory producing mining equipment in Penygroes.\n\n\"He was in hospital when he fell ill but was having physio in preparation for coming home,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a very sad occasion two days before he died. He rang me at 09:15 on the Wednesday and said to me in Welsh 'I've never been so ill in my life'.\"\n\nMrs Williams said he was \"a wonderful husband and was brilliant with our disabled son\".\n\n\"He carried so much of the burden when I was back and forth to London. His two grandsons in Groeslon miss him dearly. They thought the world of him.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford stopped short of saying a review would be held into DNR orders when asked during an interview on BBC Politics Wales.\n\nHe said guidance had been given to the health service in Wales \"early on in the coronavirus crisis\" by the chief medical officer after a GP practice sent an \"unfortunate letter\" to patients last April asking them to sign DNR consent forms.\n\n\"If there's more to find out then we will definitely want to find out. I completely agree with that,\" he said.\n\n\"But I also want to be clear that, because we had an early incident, we were on top of this issue from right at the start of the pandemic.\"\n\nFollowing the publication of the Care Quality Commission's report into cases in England, the Welsh Conservatives said they \"pressed for clarity over this issue in Wales\" because they felt \"none has really been forthcoming\".\n\nAngela Burns MS, the party's health spokeswoman, said: \"It's now essential that we have transparency over this matter, which mean some difficult and uncomfortable questions will need to be asked, and answered, including how many DNR notices have been applied in Wales without consultation - and how many, if any, have been acted on.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Qantas boss Alan Joyce says governments will insist on coronavirus vaccines for travellers\n\nThe boss of Australian airline Qantas has told the BBC that \"governments are going to insist\" on vaccines for international travellers.\n\nCoronavirus vaccines are seen as crucial to reviving an industry that saw worldwide passenger numbers fall 75.6% last year.\n\nChief executive Alan Joyce said many governments were talking about vaccination as \"a condition of entry\".\n\nEven if they weren't, he thought the airline should enforce its own policy.\n\n\"We have a duty of care to our passengers and to our crew, to say that everybody in that aircraft needs to be safe,\" Mr Joyce said.\n\nHe believes that would justify changing the terms and conditions on which tickets are booked.\n\nA Qantas 737-800 takes off from Sydney to celebrate the airline's 100th birthday during the pandemic\n\nAnd Mr Joyce thinks passengers would be willing to accept the change. \"The vast majority of our customers think this is a great idea - 90% of people that we've surveyed think it should be a requirement for people to be vaccinated to travel internationally.\"\n\nBut some powerful voices are among those who disagree, including the World Health Organisation. Its director of digital health and innovation, Bernardo Mariano, told the BBC: \"We don't approve the fact that a vaccinations passport should be a condition for travel.\"\n\nPassengers are temperature checked after arriving in Perth on a Qantas flight from Brisbane\n\nHe added that - regardless of what the private sector wanted - a unified approach from governments would be needed to make such a change work.\n\nAviation is vital to the global economy. The International Air Transport Association (Iata) estimates that it supports $1.8 trillion (£1.3tn, A$2.3tn) in global economic activity.\n\nBut government restrictions and fears of catching coronavirus have led to an unprecedented fall in passenger numbers in an industry which carried 4.5 billion people in 2019.\n\nAustralia's government has closed its borders to almost all foreigners and has also periodically closed internal borders.\n\nQantas CEO Alan Joyce says Australia will have to manage the risks of coronavirus\n\nEven with vaccines, Mr Joyce thinks that \"once we open up our international borders, we're going to have the virus circulating\".\n\n\"And that's going to be a big change for a lot of Australia, to find that acceptable,\" he said. \"We need people to understand they can't have zero risk with this virus. We manage risk in so many different other ways for other parts of life.\"\n\nThe lack of passengers means that in the last six months of 2020 Qantas lost $800m (£580m, A$1.03bn). That compares with a profit of $596m (£430m, A$771m) in the same period of 2019. It's also meant 8,500 job cuts from a pre-pandemic staff of about 29,000.\n\nAnd thousands of others are on furlough, with the Australian government paying their wages. Other international carriers have seen similar reversals in their fortunes.\n\nIn response, airlines have cut their capacity, with huge numbers of aeroplanes put into storage. For Qantas that was about two-thirds of their 314 aircraft.\n\nAmong them are the airline's fleet of giant, double-decker Airbus A380s, one of which was being refurbished when the pandemic took hold. It \"went from Dresden in Germany where the reconfig took place straight to the Mojave Desert, and nobody sat on those seats\", Mr Joyce said.\n\nMany aeroplanes have been put in storage facilities such as this one in Alice Springs, Australia, because of the fall in demand\n\nHaving less supply of any product normally means that prices climb in response to an increase in demand. However, Mr Joyce doesn't think the combination of fewer seats and the easing of restrictions will lead to higher prices.\n\n\"In some cases, we think the airfares could be half of what they were pre-Covid,\" he said. \"And that will be there to stimulate demand.\"\n\nIt could be that way for some time. \"Internationally it's going to take a while for it to recover to 2019 levels,\" the airline boss said.\n\nIncreased use of digital check-ins is one of many changes because of the pandemic, says Qantas\n\nWhen flights do get going again, the priority will be bringing money in and any surge in demand can be dealt with by bringing more aircraft back into service.\n\n\"So we're very confident that it's not going to be higher airfares,\" Mr Joyce insisted.\n\nLast month Qantas pushed back the date at which it expects its international flights to resume from July to the end of October. That's the point at which the Australian government hopes to have vaccinated all adults and the date for which the airline is now selling international tickets.\n\n\"The number one flight by a significant amount is Perth to London non-stop,\" says Mr Joyce. The demand for the ultra-long haul flights is, he says, \"a good indication\" that after pandemic passengers will try to avoid changeovers in airports filled with other people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On board a non-stop test flight from London to Sydney in 2019\n\nThat desire to travel direct means \"the business case is probably going to be stronger\" for what Qantas calls \"Project Sunrise\". It is likely to eventually involve direct flights \"from Sydney and Melbourne non-stop into Europe and non-stop to the east coast of the United States\", he said.\n\nTests have already taken place but the launch has been delayed, and is now not expected until 2024.\n\nAviation is responsible for about 2.5% of global carbon emissions.\n\nBut Qantas claims to have the \"world's biggest airline carbon offset programme\". It is also investing $38.7m (£28m, A$50m) in a partnership with BP to develop a sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia. In addition, it said it was looking at technology such as more fuel-efficient planes as well as electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles.\n\nSome Qantas aeroplanes have been used for repatriation flights, most have been idle, like these at Sydney Airport\n\n\"I think you have to do it,\" Mr Joyce said. Spending money to cut emissions, he says, shows \"it's not just a focus on the bottom line\".\n\n\"You have to actually do the right thing by the environment, do the right thing by society. Otherwise, you don't have a social licence to operate in the future.\"\n\nTo keep the finances on course during the pandemic Qantas has raised $770,000 (£560,000, A$1m) by selling bar carts that in-flight drinks were served from on its now-retired Boeing 747s, as well as wine in plastic bottles and a stock of the quintessentially Australian chocolate biscuit, Timtams.\n\nMr Joyce says: \"You just have to have that flexibility, that adaptability, to survive.\"\n\n\"It's the reason why Qantas survived for 100 years\" and is the oldest continuous operating airline in the world, he said.\n\n\"That's part of our DNA. That's why we're going to survive for at the least the next 100 years.\"\n\nYou can watch Alan Joyce's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend on BBC World News at Saturday 2330 GMT, Sunday 0530GMT, 1630 GMT, Monday 0730 GMT, 1130 GMT and Tuesday at 1330 GMT.", "Cash raised from wind farm auctions could be invested in green projects, says the Lib Dem leader\n\nThe Liberal Democrats want the government to use profits from green infrastructure projects to create a new fund for climate action and green jobs.\n\nLeader Sir Ed Davey put forward his \"sovereign green wealth fund\" proposal at his party's spring conference.\n\nHe said the government raised £9bn last month from auctions to build wind farms on the coasts of England and Wales.\n\nSir Ed wants money from projects like this to be invested \"to grow our green wealth even further\" in the UK.\n\nThe party leader told the conference: \"This green wealth doesn't belong to Rishi Sunak, or the Tories. It belongs to the British people.\n\n\"So I say, let's invest it in a sovereign green wealth fund. Let's invest this windfall from wind power into more climate action, to build new infrastructure and attract more private investment.\"\n\nHe said by using the money to invest in green technologies - such as tidal power and hydrogen - the UK could \"grow our green wealth even further\" and create \"thousands of manufacturing jobs\".\n\nThe Lib Dems also proposed a new tax break for small businesses to support new jobs as part of the Covid economic recovery.\n\nSir Ed called on the chancellor to slash National Insurance contributions for smaller firms by quadrupling the annual Employment Allowance from £4,000 to £16,000 .\n\nEmployers would not have to pay any National Insurance for their first five employees, he said.\n\nHe called it a \"tax cut to back small businesses, create jobs, and put recovery first\".", "Great Britain's Lawrence Okolie delivered a punch-perfect display before landing a sixth-round knockout of Krzysztof Glowacki to become WBO world cruiserweight champion.\n\nIn just his 16th professional fight, Okolie used his height and reach to never allow Poland's Glowacki close.\n\nHe started unloading his right hand in the fourth and looked completely at ease against a former world champion.\n\nA pinpoint right ended matters, giving Okolie, 28, his first world title.\n\n\"I think I might cry in my hotel room, but not in front of anyone. It's a blessed feeling. It's crazy,\" Okolie told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's important that I become one of Britain's best cruiserweights and I have the opportunity to do that. This was a good win but there are more tests ahead.\"\n\n'So many people I can inspire'\n\nThe Hackney fighter has come a long way in every sense. Bullied in his teenage years, he used boxing to build self-esteem and shed weight. After an Olympic appearance in 2016, his early years as a professional were the focus of harsh words and ridicule when a run of fights descended into drab, scrappy affairs.\n\nBut Okolie's work ethic in the gym and desire to improve have impressed and a run of slicker displays thrust him into a world-title fight that he dominated from start to finish.\n\nGlowacki - 34 and only beaten twice by Oleksandr Usyk and Mairis Briedis previously - simply had no answer. Those who back Okolie speak of the awkwardness his huge frame causes opponents and believe he will go on to prove a menace at heavyweight.\n\nHere, his size allowed him to work at distance and his power shone through when called upon.\n\nA smart hook in the first, crisp jabs in the third and a succession of hard right hooks in the fourth left the bloodied Glowacki in no doubt that his opponent was more than capable of dealing with a gulf in experience.\n\nAnd in the sixth, when Glowacki crouched in search of an opening for a second too long, a right hand to the jaw left him unable to make the count and secured the world title Okolie believes will allow him to inspire children on the estate on which he grew up.\n\n\"Doing all these interviews, realising how much this means - not just to me but to so many people that I can inspire - it feels amazing to go in and actually get it done,\" added Okolie.\n\n\"I'm coming into my own, starting to believe in boxing. I used to just believe in my physical strength, the fact I can hit someone hard and stop them. Now we're getting into boxing. Keeping it long, moving it fast… I'm just happy that there's progress.\"\n\nSome may point to Glowacki's 21 months out of the ring - including a spell suffering with Covid-19 - as evidence of a fighter who was vulnerable.\n\nBut the poise Okolie showed, the ease with which he handled the occasion and the destructive finish served up all point to a fighter going places.\n\nA world title seemed a distant dream when he worked in McDonalds less than a decade ago and when criticism flowed his way for ugly displays in 2018.\n\nNot for the first time, Okolie has emerged from testing times and can now add world-champion status to the British, Commonwealth and European honours he has already collected.\n\n'Unify and hit heavyweight' - what they said...\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live Boxing analyst Steve Bunce: \"There's one or two people in British boxing who tend to think Okolie is cocky, that he is too flash.\n\n\"He's got a touch of Naseem Hamed about him. That's confidence, not arrogance. He's a really decent man. That's pure confidence.\n\n\"We saw it in this fight - he never once took his eye off what he had to do. Every moment he was thinking, learning. He could have tried to force it but he didn't. That's what I like about him.\"\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn: \"That was one of the great performances to win a world title. Krzysztof Glowacki is one of the top five cruiserweights in the world.\n\n\"He is a novice and he has stepped in tonight with 15 fights, and you just wonder if he is good enough? My goodness, that was as good a performance to beat any cruiserweight. That's what we want to do, to unify the division and then step up to heavyweight.\"\n\nBritish heavyweight Joe Joyce on Radio 5 Live: \"Okolie is improving all the time, it's only going to go strength to strength. Long range, devastating power. I'm looking forward to some big fights for him.\"\n\n'As awkward as they come' - social reaction\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "Police broke up a party of 14 rugby fans watching the Wales game and issued fines for breaching Covid rules.\n\nIt was one of 1,500 incidents dealt with by South Wales Police, making Saturday \"one of the busiest days of 2021\", a tweet by an officer said.\n\nAt least 32 fines were issued by police in Merthyr Tydfil with fans found watching Wales' Six Nations defeat to France.\n\nHouseholds are not allowed to mix indoors due to current Covid 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 Superintendent Attwell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficers in Swansea said they were also called out to reports of parties due to the rugby match and Cardiff City's game at Swansea City.\n\nRugby fans had been reminded to watch Wales' Grand Slam decider at home to avoid a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The sisters said they were \"offered\" the vaccine while visiting their father\n\nA revelation that two sisters of Spain's King Felipe VI were vaccinated during a trip to Abu Dhabi last month has sparked a political backlash.\n\nMedia reports revealed Princess Elena, 57, and Princess Cristina, 55, had got the jab whilst visiting their father.\n\nThe former King, Juan Carlos, left the country in 2020 amid mounting scandals.\n\nBoth princesses, who do not yet qualify to get a vaccine under Spain's roll-out, defended and explained their decision on Wednesday.\n\n\"My sister and I went to visit my father and in order to be issued with a medical certificate which will allow us to continue to visit him regularly, we were offered the chance to get vaccinated, which we accepted,\" they said in a statement to El Mundo on Wednesday.\n\n\"Had it not been for these circumstances, we would have waited for our turn to get vaccinated to come around in Spain,\" they added.\n\nJuan Carlos has been living in self-exile in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since last August.\n\nAlthough he denied wrongdoing regarding mounting corruption allegations, his departure heightened debate and scrutiny about the royal family.\n\nEquality Minister Irene Montero was among the politicians who criticised the princesses after the revelation was first reported by online news website El Confidencial.\n\n\"The vaccination of the princesses is more news which contributes to discrediting the monarchy. For the public, this constitutes preferential treatment and privileges,\" the minister told the public TVE network.\n\nThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vaccinated more than 30% of its population\n\nLabour Minister Yolanda Diaz described the matter as as \"very unpleasant, very ugly\".\n\n\"We, the people who exercise some sort of representation, must lead by example,\" she added.\n\nA royal palace source declined to comment on the reports to Reuters on the basis that the sisters are not formally part of the institution but said the king, Queen Letizia and their daughters would get the vaccination when it was their turn.\n\nSpain has only administered about 4m vaccines so far, with over-80s and essential workers currently being prioritised.\n\nA similar scandal rocked the country in January, when some senior figures including the country's top military chief resigned after they were implicated in \"queue-jumping\" allegations of their own.", "Molly-Mae Hague appeared on series five of Love Island\n\nMolly-Mae Hague has fallen foul of the UK's advertising watchdog for a second time.\n\nThe Love Island star has been reprimanded for running an £8,000 online prize draw that failed to follow the rules for such competitions.\n\nThe watchdog said she had been unable to provide evidence the winners had been randomly and fairly picked.\n\nOne lawyer said it suggests the authority is now pursuing a wider range of cases against influencers.\n\nUntil recently, its focus has been on those who simply failed to flag paid-for posts as being ads.\n\nMs Hague previously had a complaint upheld against her for failing to make clear one of her posts was an advert for an online clothing retailer.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to prominence after appearing on ITV's dating reality show Love Island in 2019, when she was one of the runners-up.\n\nShe has more than five million followers on Instagram, and close to 1.5 million on YouTube.\n\nLast September, she ran the offending giveaway. Its prizes included tanning foams, sold under her own brand.\n\nPrizes included tubes of Ms Hague's tanning products among other items\n\nThe original post was liked close to 1.2 million times and attracted almost three million comments.\n\nTwelve people subsequently contacted the Advertising Standards Authority, challenging whether Ms Hague had included all the entrants in the draw to give them an equal and fair chance of winning - a relatively high number of complaints.\n\nMs Hague subsequently told the authority she had been overwhelmed by the response.\n\nThe ASA said she claimed a member of her management team had manually selected 100 entrants at random and assigned each a number. It said she added that another independent party had then used Google's number-picking tool to choose a winner.\n\nBut the regulator noted that an Instagram Story she had published after the competition's close stated that the winner had actually been picked from a smaller shortlisted group of 25 people.\n\n\"We were concerned by the inconsistencies,\" it said, adding that in any case she had failed to provide any evidence that the narrowed-down group had been chosen randomly.\n\n\"The promotion was not administered fairly,\" it concluded.\n\nMs Hague did not respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nThe ruling came a month after the watchdog acted against two other tanning brands which had used influencers.\n\nIn those cases it said that digital photo filters should not be applied to social media ads if they exaggerated a product's effect .\n\nOne observer said the ASA was making it clear that the rules concerning influencer-led promotions went beyond labelling ads as such.\n\n\"Targeting someone like Molly-Mae sends a message to other influencers, who may have smaller followings, to remind them that they are under the same requirements as any other brand,\" Nick Breen from law firm Reed Smith told the BBC.\n\n\"So, as they do more sophisticated campaigns - beyond copying and pasting marketing from an advertiser - they need to take even more care.\"", "Buckingham Palace says it will investigate claims the Duchess of Sussex bullied royal staff, adding that it was \"very concerned\" by the allegations.\n\nIt follows a report in the Times newspaper that Meghan faced a bullying complaint when she was a working royal.\n\nHer spokesman said the duchess was \"saddened\" by the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nThe palace said it \"does not and will not tolerate bullying or harassment\".\n\nIt will speak to the members of staff involved \"to see if lessons can be learned\", a statement added.\n\nAccording to the story in the Times, the complaint was made in October 2018, while the duke and duchess were living at Kensington Palace.\n\nA leaked email sent from a staff member, which was published by the newspaper, alleges that Meghan drove two personal assistants out of the household. The report claims she undermined the confidence of a third member of staff.\n\nIn a statement, Buckingham Palace - which is responsible for the hiring of royal staff - said: \"We are clearly very concerned about allegations in the Times following claims made by former staff of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\n\"Accordingly, our HR team will look into the circumstances outlined in the article. Members of staff involved at the time, including those who have left the Household, will be invited to participate to see if lessons can be learned.\n\n\"The Royal Household has had a Dignity at Work policy in place for a number of years and does not and will not tolerate bullying or harassment in the workplace.\"\n\nAn earlier statement issued by Meghan's spokesman said: \"The duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma.\n\n\"She is determined to continue her work building compassion around the world and will keep striving to set an example for doing what is right and doing what is good.\"\n\nOn one thing everyone is agreed: the interview that Meghan has given Oprah Winfrey - that will be broadcast in the US on Sunday - is concentrating minds.\n\nPalace staff have for some time itched to get their side of the story out; some feel that they went out of their way to help Meghan after the wedding only to be treated rudely or later dismissed as uncaring or worse.\n\nTeam Sussex were braced for the story. \"It's a fairly extensive list of things that has been pulled together,\" one source told the BBC. \"The timing is not coincidental.\"\n\nMeghan's side do not dispute the existence or content of the email; and it is pretty strong stuff. It makes flesh the rumours and allegations that swirled around the duchess when a number of staff left some months after the 2018 wedding.\n\nThe duchess' people have pushed back. The people named in the leaked email knew nothing about the complaint, they say, and it never turned into a formal issue.\n\nBut now it has; the inquiry announced tonight is a clear indication that Buckingham Palace is treating the matter seriously.\n\nWhatever the truth, it ratchets up the tension - and publicity - around the interview to come in just a few days' time.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nHarry has previously said the decision to step back was in order to protect himself and his family from the press.\n\nLast month, it was announced the couple would not return as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nOprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will air in the US on Sunday\n\nIt comes ahead of Meghan and Prince Harry's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, which will be aired on CBS in the US on the evening of Sunday 7 March.\n\nIn the UK, the interview will be screened on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday 8 March.\n\nCBS has said 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 US last year and their future plans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eurovision's Martin Osterdahl said travelling to Rotterdam \"wouldn't be a holiday trip\"\n\nArtists from 41 countries will appear live at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands under plans set out by the event's organisers.\n\nExecutive supervisor Martin Osterdahl told the BBC it was \"necessary\" for participants to travel to Rotterdam.\n\n\"This isn't a holiday trip, this is actually a job that needs to be done,\" he said, adding that a decision had yet to be made on a possible live audience.\n\nLast year's event was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe contest is due to take place in Rotterdam in May this year. Dutch singer Duncan Laurence won the competition in 2019 with the song Arcade.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, Mr Osterdahl said the latest plans were developed following discussions with organisers of other international live events.\n\n\"We have been in close contact with organisations like Formula 1, the tennis tour, the golf associations, and learned from best experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"We've compared our plans to the likes of the IOC [International Olympic Committee].\"\n\nMr Osterdahl said it had not yet been decided if an audience should attend the live event, but that organisers were hoping for \"the most normal Eurovision song contest that we can\".\n\n\"Hopefully we'll have some audience, it makes a huge difference to the atmosphere of the broadcast if we have some people present.\"\n\nHe said, however, that delegations would be smaller than usual - limited to 20 people, down from an average of 38 - and that health and safety measures to be put in place were \"very thorough\".\n\nEurovision presenters like Graham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC coverage, will broadcast from ventilated commentary booths under the plans.\n\nContestants had earlier been asked to produce a \"live-on-tape\" performance ahead of the competition, with the videos to be used if artists were unable to travel due to the pandemic, or forced to quarantine at the venue.\n\nDuncan Laurence, representing the Netherlands, won the contest in 2019 in Tel Aviv\n\nAll 41 countries who were scheduled to compete in 2020 will return this year, as will many of the contestants who were supposed to take part last year. However, all artists will be required to perform a different song.\n\nReturning entrants include Ireland's Lesley Roy and Iceland's Dadi Freyr, who was tipped as a potential winner.\n\nNew coronavirus cases have been falling in most European countries, however some are seeing a rise in infections.\n\nLockdown measures - including travel restrictions and quarantine requirements - were tightened in many of the worst-affected countries over the winter, but some restrictions are now being lifted.\n\nThe Netherlands has recorded more than a million cases of Covid-19 and 15,775 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nThe Rugby World Cup 2021 is set to be postponed until next year following a recommendation by governing body World Rugby.\n\nThe tournament is currently scheduled to be held in New Zealand between 18 September and 16 October.\n\nA final decision is expected after the Rugby World Cup board and World Rugby's executive committee consider the recommendation on 8 and 9 March.\n\nWorld Rugby said the \"challenging Covid landscape\" influenced its decision.\n\nIt added: \"It has become clear in recent discussions with key partners including New Zealand Rugby, the New Zealand government and participating unions, that, given the scale of the event and the Covid-19 related uncertainties, it is just not possible to deliver the environment for all teams to be the best that they can be on the sport's greatest stage.\"\n\nThe country's borders are currently closed to almost all travellers and cases have recently emerged in Auckland, one of the country's host cities.\n\n\"We are naturally disappointed but understanding of the decision,\" said Nicky Ponsford, the Rugby Football Union's head of women's performance.\n\n\"Player welfare has to be prioritised and ensuring teams both qualify on the pitch and can perform to their best at the tournament is also vitally important for the game.\"\n\nAnthony Eddy, Irish Rugby's director of women's rugby, added: \"We're obviously disappointed.\n\n\"We have always put player welfare at the heart of everything we do and that's never been as important as it has over the past 12 months.\"\n\nCharlotte Wathan, the Welsh Rugby Union's general manager, women's rugby said, \"We're obviously very disappointed for the players and staff who have supported the development of the programme towards RWC 2021.\n\n\"Ultimately, player welfare and public health must come first at this time.\"\n\nNew Zealand has always been viewed as one of the best places on the planet to be hosting a major sporting event in 2021, with some of the lowest Covid numbers in the world.\n\nHowever, hosting an additional 11 arriving Test sides and agreeing suitable quarantine arrangements has proved too much.\n\nIt is the first time the women's tournament has been hosted by a southern hemisphere nation, and it's thought the event will be rearranged for 2022.", "A single Covid vaccine dose gives high levels of protection against severe disease, even in the oldest age groups, more evidence shows.\n\nA study on patients in two Bristol hospitals found both Pfizer BioNTech and Oxford AstraZeneca jabs prevent 80% of hospital admissions among over-80s.\n\nSome European countries are refusing to use the Oxford jab on older groups because of a lack of convincing data.\n\nLead researcher Prof Adam Finn said the findings should change their minds.\n\nFrance agreed to offer the vaccine, which is easier to store than the Pfizer jab, to over-65s only recently, while Germany still isn't doing so.\n\n\"This study is much more important for non-UK countries than it is for the UK,\" said Prof Finn, who is running the study at the University of Bristol.\n\nIn the UK, this age group has now been immunised, he said.\n\n\"But there are lots of doses of AstraZenena vaccine available in European countries and they are not being given to people over the age of 65 - in some countries over the age of 55 - for lack of data.\n\n\"Well here are the data... showing that you can save lives in elderly people by giving them a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and those countries need to get on and start doing that as fast as possible.\"\n\nThe Bristol findings support figures from other studies, including those run by Public Health England and Public Health Scotland, which looked at whole populations.\n\nThe England study found a 57% and 63% reduction in the risk of symptomatic infection in over-80s with the Pfizer and Oxford jabs respectively, 14 days after a single dose.\n\nAnd both jabs reduced hospital admissions by more than 80%.\n\nIn Scotland, one dose of Pfizer appeared to provide an 85% reduction, and Oxford 94%, in admissions in this age group, over a slightly longer period - 28-34 days after a first dose.\n\nBut the researchers recommended not focusing too closely on small differences in numbers.\n\nThe studies look at slightly different things and all have fairly wide margins of error.\n\nAs more time passes and more people are vaccinated, more data will emerge, so these margins of error will shrink. This should allow scientists to be more confident in their estimates.\n\nThe overall message from all the data coming out so far is both vaccines provide very good protection from illness.\n\nThis study was slightly different from the other two mentioned.\n\nIt focused on the oldest and frailest people at two major hospitals in Bristol, rather than looking at a whole population.\n\nWe would expect these people to respond least well to a vaccine, because their natural immunity is weaker.\n\nAnd the researchers looked not at their chances of mild or moderate disease, as with other studies, but at how many vaccinated people still became severely ill and needed to go into hospital.\n\nThey were also able to look in more detail at patient records, including how long after having symptoms they were admitted to hospital.\n\nThis meant the team could identify and exclude from their sample people who had symptoms for more than 10 days before having a test, to reduce the chance of false negatives which could affect their findings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVaccine clinical trials generally enrol younger people and measure whether any of them develop symptoms.\n\nThis is good at telling us how well that group is protected against mild and moderate disease.\n\nBut Prof Finn said what we really want to know is:\n\nThe Siren study of healthcare workers published last week suggests the vaccine stopped 70% of infections, even in those without symptoms, meaning those people could not transmit the virus.\n\nNow, this Bristol study adds to our understanding of the first question - the biggest driver of loss of life and pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe study will continue for another two years to monitor the effectiveness of the vaccine on different groups.\n\nFor example, the team hopes to identify specific factors that \"make people at increased risk of not responding well to these vaccines,\" said Dr Catherine Hyams.\n\nThat doesn't mean the vaccine will harm those people, but that those with compromised immune systems may not be able to benefit from the protection the jab is supposed to confer.", "The amount the government has to spend on state pensions will fall by £1.5bn by 2022, partly because of over-65s dying of Covid, forecasts suggest.\n\nThe government will also receive an extra £0.9bn from inheritance tax, partly due to Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe figures have been published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - the government's fiscal watchdog.\n\nIt said it had \"revised up our assumption for excess deaths this year and next relative to November\".\n\nMore than 144,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have occurred in the UK since the start of the pandemic, figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show.\n\nThe majority of coronavirus deaths have been among people aged over 65, many of whom will have been receiving the state pension.\n\nThe OBR estimates spending on the state pension will fall by £600m in 2020-21 and £900m in 2021-22 compared with forecasts made before the pandemic.\n\nThe watchdog said the forecast for lower state pension spending was partly because of the weaker outlook for average earnings growth, which lowers the effect of the yearly triple lock uprating.\n\nBut it added that excess deaths due to the pandemic have also reduced the number of people receiving pensions.\n\n\"With virus-related deaths rising sharply again in recent months, we have revised up the number of excess pensioner-age deaths in 2020-21 from 90,000 in our November forecast to around 100,000 in this one,\" the OBR said in its Economic And Fiscal Outlook, which is published alongside the Budget.\n\nIt has increased its forecast because: \"Higher virus-related deaths in the current wave of the virus have outweighed the effect of lockdown reducing deaths from other causes, particularly from influenza and other respiratory diseases\".\n\nMeanwhile the Treasury predicted that inheritance tax receipts will increase from £5.1bn in 2019-20 to £6bn in 2021-22, before falling to £5.8bn the following year.\n\nThe rise in inheritance tax receipts is partly due to the freeze of inheritance tax thresholds until April 2026 announced in the Budget and the growth in the value of estates, but higher Covid-19 deaths will also contribute, the OBR said.", "There has arguably never been a moment in living memory where business and government need each other more than now. Clinging together like the passengers in the front car of a rollercoaster - this Budget is the moment the photo is snapped after the sickening plunge, grimaces fixed for the ride ahead.\n\nBusiness needs the government to go on another massive spending splurge to get us to the other side of lockdown.\n\nIn many ways, the \"roadmap\" out of lockdown already told us the most important stuff that will be in the Budget. Furlough, the business rates holiday, additional grants and VAT deferrals and cuts for hospitality are all pretty much guaranteed to the end of June, when the government hopes firms will be able to operate with few restrictions.\n\nAfter that, the roles start to reverse.\n\nWestminster will need help from businesses to preserve and create millions of jobs. Companies will need incentives to invest, build, hire and train - particularly younger workers who have suffered the most and on whose economic future the success of this moment may be judged for decades.\n\nGovernments can encourage, but ultimately it is businesses which create.\n\nIncreased capital allowances, the expansion of youth training programmes and subsidies like the Kickstart Scheme are all expected in a speech behind which the mantra \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" will be almost audible from the Treasury building.\n\nThe tight embrace between government and business seems a long way since the concerns of business were swatted away with a four-letter \"swish\" by a prime minister who saw them as an irritant in the project of getting Brexit done.\n\nThe UK is in more debt than it's been in for more than 50 years. At over £2 trillion, it is equivalent to 100% of its entire annual income for the first time since the early 1960s, when debt was still on a downward trajectory from spending on World War Two.\n\nBy far the most powerful weapon against debt is growth: it has a doubly positive effect. It increases the denominator (the bottom number) of the debt to GDP ratio, while reducing the numerator (the top bit) by keeping the bill for benefits like Universal Credit lower.\n\nThat is why the next twist on this rollercoaster ride is the most perilous. No-one really knows how many of the almost five million workers still on furlough have a job to go back to. More than anything, this Budget is about how many of them can return to, or find new, work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors could shape Rishi Sunak's thinking in his 2021 Budget?\n\nThere will be some eye-catching whizzes and bangs as the government experiments with ideas like freeports, drums up extra funding for start-ups and proposes looser stock market listing rules to grow new firms and attract international investors.\n\nBut sooner or later - and I suspect the emphasis will be later than recent headlines suggest - the government will need businesses help to pay off some the UK's enormous debts.\n\nCorporation tax will rise slowly. But this is perhaps a good example of how little politics figures in this Budget. The chancellor arguably has more to fear from his own backbenches than he does from a Labour party, who find themselves in the unusual position of siding with the very MPs in their opposition on tax rises on businesses - who already enjoy the lowest rates in the G8.\n\nBut corporation tax is pretty small beer anyway. It contributes less than 8% of all tax collected by the government, compared with the 45% it receives from income tax and National Insurance from individuals who have - you guessed it - jobs, jobs, jobs.\n\nThe government is also scared that the \"free money\" window may be closing. Ever since the financial crisis, governments have been able to borrow at close to zero rates of interest.\n\nThere are signs that is changing. A 1% rise in borrowing costs will cost the government five times more than it will get by raising the corporation tax rate by 1%.\n\nThat is why the government and businesses will need to hold each others' hands on a ride they really are in together.", "There has been a lot of give, and there will be a lot of take.\n\nBusiness will, in time, pay billions more. More than a million people will have to start paying income tax, and a million extra will pay at a higher level.\n\nThe deeply strange circumstances of the pandemic have turned the party with a theoretical love of low taxes into a government that will crank them up significantly in practice.\n\n\"Honest Rishi Sunak\", as he hopes to be represented, has chosen his determination to start dealing with the cost of Covid-19 over the Tories' traditional backing for low taxes.\n\nBoxed in by election promises, he has chosen two huge future money raisers.\n\nDespite those hikes, and the hundreds of billions spent on Covid-19, public spending overall is still set to contract.\n\nRishi Sunak has done much more than extend the emergency lifelines - the modern-day Conservatives will raise taxes to a proportion of national income not seen since the 1960s.\n\nEven before the pandemic, the prime minister had little appetite to pare back public spending.\n\nBut the past year has ended any Tory dreams of a lean and low tax economy.\n\nAnd with any flicker to the cost of borrowing, or an even more prolonged pandemic, what is already a grim picture for the country's books may become tougher still.", "The Labour leader said the UK faced a worse economic crisis because of the chancellor's decisions.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the Budget did not contain plans \"to fix the NHS and social care\" and noted that the chancellor did not mention inequality.\n\nLive coverage of PMQs and the Budget", "More than one million people are set to start paying income tax in the next five years, official forecasts say, due to a move announced in the Budget.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said that the threshold at which the tax starts being paid will be frozen until 2026 after a rise this April.\n\nIt means getting a pay rise could pull people into a higher rate of tax.\n\nCommentators have called it an increase in an individual's tax burden \"by stealth\".\n\nThe chancellor said that he wanted to be honest with the British public about the way in which money would be raised to pay for support schemes during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt present, people start paying 20% income tax when they earn £12,500 a year, known as the personal allowance.\n\nThe first £12,500 they earn is tax-free with the 20% rate only being charged on everything they earn above that amount, up to the higher rate tax threshold.\n\nThe starting point for paying the higher 40% rate is £50,001.\n\nThese thresholds will go up to £12,570 and £50,270 in April, but will then be frozen until April 2026.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility, the government's official but independent forecaster, said this policy would bring 1.3 million more people into paying income tax and one million more into paying at the higher rate. This is known as fiscal drag.\n\nWhile the Scottish government has the ability to vary tax rates and bands under its devolved powers, the tax free personal allowance threshold is set by the chancellor and applies to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe OBR said that, when taking the rise in the cost of living into account, it would effectively bring the personal allowance in 2025-2026 to the level it was in 2014-2015.\n\nThe Budget documents show this hits middle to higher income earners the hardest.\n\nThe policy will bring an extra £8bn a year into the Treasury coffers, compared with what it would have received if it had raised the thresholds in line with inflation.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto pledged that the main rates of income tax, national insurance and VAT would not rise, and this does not break that pledge.\n\n\"The next few years will see the burden of tax on individuals rise quietly by stealth,\" said Jason Hollands, from financial advisers Tilney.\n\n\"But given pre-Budget fears of a potential Viking-like raid on personal wealth, middle-class Britons - particularly those with savings and investments - can sleep a little easier tonight.\"\n\nBecky O'Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, said: \"Freezing allowances is a back-handed way of raising taxes, as wage inflation and asset price inflation increase the number of people pushed over the thresholds at which they have to pay more tax.\n\n\"Frozen allowances and thresholds have a habit of remaining fixed for many years, dragging more people into tax charges over time.\"\n• None Ten ways the Budget will affect you", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We'll keep our fingers crossed\": Camilla gave an update to staff at a vaccination centre\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh is \"slightly improving\", the Duchess of Cornwall has said after his 15th night in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, who was being treated for an infection, moved to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on Monday for tests and observation on a pre-existing heart condition.\n\nCamilla provided the update when a volunteer at a Covid vaccination centre in Croydon asked about the duke.\n\nShe added: \"We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nCamilla was visiting the community vaccination centre at St Paul's Church on Wednesday morning.\n\nAnne Sheehan, a receptionist at a GP practice, confirmed she asked the duchess how Prince Philip was, in an exchange that was filmed during the visit.\n\nCamilla said: \"We heard today that he's slightly improving. So, that's very good news. We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 100 in June, travelled by car from Windsor to King Edward VII's hospital in Marylebone, central London, on 16 February as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission has not been disclosed, but was not related to coronavirus.\n\nOn 1 March, Buckingham Palace announced he had been transferred to Barts by ambulance.\n\nThe palace said \"doctors will continue to treat him for an infection, as well as undertake testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition\".\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall met volunteers at the vaccination centre in south London\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father at King Edward VII's Hospital, the weekend after his admission.\n\nThe Queen and other members of the royal family have continued to carry out official duties while the duke has been in hospital.\n\nSt Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London is an NHS hospital and home to Europe's largest specialised cardiovascular unit.\n\nIn 2011, Prince Philip was taken to hospital by helicopter from Sandringham after suffering chest pains as the royal family was preparing for Christmas.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire and had a stent fitted.", "The Scots founder of one of the UK's biggest public relations companies has been forced to stand down after a \"tone deaf\" social media post.\n\nGordon Beattie, chairman of Beattie Communications, published a LinkedIn post saying his firm would not hire \"blacks, gays or Catholics\".\n\nHe added that he only hired \"talented people\" and did not care about colour, sexual orientation or religion.\n\nMr Beattie said he was \"truly sorry\" for his \"inappropriate\" language.\n\nBeattie Communications said in a statement that Mr Beattie was \"standing down as a consequence of a tone deaf social media post\".\n\nA former journalist, Mr Beattie founded his public relations and corporate communications company in Motherwell 40 years ago, before expanding it across the UK.\n\nGordon Beattie published the post on LinkedIn last week\n\nHe said the post had been issued with the \"best of intent\" but did not take account the \"complexities of creating a level playing field\".\n\n\"The language I used was inappropriate. I am truly sorry for the embarrassment I have caused the wonderful team across the business and our clients, and for the offence it has clearly caused,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always hired people based on their potential, talent and ability, and done my best to equip them with the skills to succeed.\n\n\"It's a wrench to step down as chair but I feel I have no alternative. The time is right to go.\"\n\nThe LinkedIn post, which was uploaded on Friday, provoked an angry reaction from anti-racism campaigners and was also strongly criticised by others in the communications industry.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Beattie Communications, Laurna Woods, said Mr Beattie and the entire team had been devastated by the consequences of the LinkedIn post.\n\n\"There can be no excuses for the language he used or provocation exercised and he acknowledges that his actions, however well intentioned, were not only reckless, but out of touch,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm personally saddened that he has chosen to resign as I have worked closely with him for 25 years and I can testify that he does not have a prejudiced bone in his body.\n\n\"But he was determined to draw a line in the sand so that the agency can look to the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Qantas is launching \"mystery flights\" in an effort to boost domestic tourism across Australia and spark nostalgia.\n\nThe day-trips, where passengers don't know the destination when boarding, were popular in the 1990s.\n\nAirlines across the region are coming up with different strategies to tackle the pandemic-induced travel slump, with Thai Airways announcing this week it will slash its workforce by 50%.\n\nThe downturn has led to government bailouts, collapses and huge job cuts.\n\nCarriers are dealing with a severe drop in passengers amid \"the uneven roll-out of vaccinations across the world which will only delay the full reopening of borders\", according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).\n\nAAPA figures released this week showed that passenger numbers for January were just 4% compared to the same month last year, when 33.5 million passengers flew across the region.\n\nOn Tuesday, Thai Airways International said it planned to cut its staff numbers in half in the next few years, as part of the troubled national carrier's rehabilitation plan.\n\nThe airline plans to have 13,000 to 15,000 employees on its books by 2025, having announced last month it will also slash hundreds of management positions and supervisors.\n\nQantas was one of the first airlines to offer flights to nowhere, which take off and land at the same airport after low-level fly-bys of iconic Australian landmarks.\n\nThe mystery flights are the Australian airline's latest tactic to woo more passengers into flying.\n\nFlights will be on one of three Qantas Boeing 737 planes from Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney with economy fares beginning at A$737 (£413, US$577).\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\nThe all-day package includes activities that range from wine-making and gourmet lunches, to snorkelling on tropical islands.\n\nWith international borders unlikely to reopen until 2022, Qantas has asked the government for certainty over domestic travel now that Australia's Covid-19 vaccine rollouts are under way.\n\n\"What we are looking for is an assurance that at a point in time, or at a point in the vaccine rollout, further border closures will be ruled out,\" Qantas group executive Andrew Parker said.\n\n\"Travellers are confused by a patchwork of rapidly changing restrictions and are understandably worried about being locked out of their own home state or intended destination,\" he said.", "A Canadian man who killed 10 people by ploughing a van into pedestrians in Toronto has been found guilty on all 26 charges related to the 2018 attack.\n\nAlek Minassian had admitted the attack, but his lawyers argued he was not criminally responsible due to his autism spectrum disorder.\n\nJustice Anne Malloy has dismissed this claim, saying the attack was the \"act of a reasoning mind\".\n\nMinassian faced 10 charges of murder and 16 charges of attempted murder.\n\nThroughout the ruling, Justice Malloy refused to name the attacker, 28, referring to him instead as John Doe, and said she would not give him the notoriety \"he sought from the start\".\n\nMs Malloy accepted his diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but ruled that he was capable of understanding his actions on April 2018 were both legally and morally wrong.\n\nAt trial, defence lawyer Boris Bytensky said ASD had left his client without the ability to develop empathy, saying in closing arguments the attacker had no conception of the damage his actions caused.\n\nOn Wednesday, Justice Malloy rejected this line of argument.\n\n\"Lack of empathy for the suffering of victims, even an incapacity to empathise for whatever reason, does not constitute a defence,\" she said.\n\nPolice arrested Alek Minassian within half an hour of the attack\n\nMinassian rented the van some three weeks before he used it as a weapon on a major Toronto street. He told investigators he had set out to kill as many people as possible and that he drew inspiration from the misogynistic \"incel\" movement of mostly online groups of young men who blame their lack of sexual activity on women.\n\nAsked by investigators how he felt about the harm he had caused, the attacker replied: \"I feel like I accomplished my mission\".\n\nWitnesses described seeing a white van mount the pavement on Toronto's busy Yonge Street on 23 April 2018 and run down pedestrians. Victims of the attack ranged in age from 22 to 94.\n\nDelivering the verdict on Wednesday, Justice Malloy said the killer had selected the van with a particular goal in mind - picking a vehicle small enough to be mobile, but large enough to inflict \"maximum damage\".\n\nMinassian was arrested shortly after crashing the van near the scene of the attack.\n\nHis victims included 80-year-old grandmother Dorothy Sewell, 45-year-old single mother Renuka Amarasinghe and Ji Hun Kim, 22, a student from South Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People gather the day after the attack to remember the victims", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA judge has given Harry Dunn's family the go-ahead to proceed with a claim for damages against the teen's alleged killer and her husband in the US.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nSuspect Anne Sacoolas later returned to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA Virginia court heard Mr Dunn's family brought a claim against her husband due to a law in the US state which suggests he is liable for allowing his wife to use the car which killed the teenager.\n\nJudge Thomas Ellis said the issue of Jonathan Sacoolas's \"vicarious liability\" could be revisited in the future, but he denied a motion to dismiss that part of the claim at a hearing on Wednesday.\n\nShould there be no settlement, the next legal step would be a \"deposition\", in which Mrs Sacoolas and her husband would be forced to provide their account of events outside of court.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nDunn family's spokesman Radd Seiger said they were \"very pleased\" with the judge's ruling \"and that their claims have been allowed to proceed in full\".\n\nHe added: \"They are also pleased that Mr Sacoolas will also have to be deposed so that they can learn the full account of what happened on the night Harry died.\"\n\nThe ruling opens the way for pre-trial discovery to begin - during which both sides seek documents and factual records from one another.\n\nIt also allows for face-to-face depositions which could see the Dunn family in the same room as Anne Sacoolas for the first time.\n\nTypically in Virginia the discovery phase of such cases takes between two and four months.\n\nConcluding the hearing, Judge Thomas Ellis, reminded both sides that settlement was an option - a process overseen by a magistrate in which the parties agree an outcome without the need for a trial.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service has charged Mrs Sacoolas with causing the teenager's death by dangerous driving but an extradition request was rejected by the US government in January last year.\n\nA court hearing previously heard Mrs Sacoolas's work in intelligence was \"especially a factor\" in her departure and that she \"fled\" the UK for \"issues of security\".\n\nThe news comes as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has again raised the case with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\n\nMr Raab had already spoken to Mr Blinken in January about the case but a State Department spokesman said the decision to refuse extradition was \"final\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Simon Ashley and his twin boys - Ralph and Henry - need more room\n\nSpeculation is rife about a possible extension of the stamp duty holiday in England. Tens of thousands of property buyers have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to offer help. Earlier this month the BBC spoke to some of them.\n\nWith twin boys approaching the age of two, Simon Ashley and his wife Katie soon realised they needed more space at home.\n\nSo the family decided to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday and move to a bigger property just outside Harrogate.\n\nThe chain was quickly settled, and they thought they would be in their new home by Christmas.\n\nBut, with many thousands of people also planning to move during the pandemic, they now face a race to beat the tax break deadline at the end of March.\n\n\"The stamp duty holiday is a big thing for us. To put it bluntly, the impact is just over £12,000,\" said Simon, aged 34. \"It is making us nervous.\n\n\"The problem we have being in a chain is that we don't know how it will affect the people below us. It could stop it all, which will be terrible.\"\n\nThe tax concession in England and Northern Ireland means no stamp duty is paid on the first £500,000 of a property sale.\n\nIn Scotland, where the equivalent levy is called the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, and in Wales, where buyers pay Land Transaction Tax, there have been temporary tax breaks too.\n\nAll are set to return to their pre-pandemic thresholds on 1 April.\n\nFor buyers - particularly those in more expensive areas, or buying larger properties - that will mean the end of a tax saving of up to £15,000.\n\nData from property portal Zoopla, for the BBC, suggests that between 70% and 82% of sales would be stamp duty free if they completed by the end of March.\n\nThat, and savings at the higher end of the market, created a surge in activity. In turn, that meant professionals in the sector, from surveyors and solicitors, to local councils and estate agents, were all busy.\n\nThe extra workload, at a time when many faced Covid-related staff shortages and practical working restrictions, meant delays in the house-buying process.\n\nNigel Moore and Fergus the border collie are moving to the coast\n\nThat affected families like the Ashleys and many thousands of others, like Nigel Moore.\n\nHe is typical of a trend as people look to move out of the city to the country or coast, with regular working from home set to continue.\n\nPlans to move to the north Norfolk coast with wife Ashley-Jane and border collie Fergus have been brought forward by years, but then delayed too by the stamp duty rush.\n\nHe says he is \"looking closely at the diary\", hoping to complete in time, but - as he works in the mortgage industry - he knows others will not be so lucky.\n\nEstimates suggest that as many as 300,000 sales could fall through because the stamp duty break will expire - although there is no way of knowing yet how accurate that prediction will be.\n\nZoopla predicts that there will be a sudden drop-off in sales, with an expectation of 20% fewer transactions between April and June compared with the first three months of the year.\n\nThat so-called cliff-edge has prompted lobbying of ministers - and particularly of the chancellor, Mr Sunak - to extend the tax breaks.\n\nA petition, set up by a buyer whose new home will not be built in time, is calling for a six-month extension to the stamp duty holiday. It has been signed by nearly 150,000 people.\n\nSome in the housing sector suggest that will just create another cliff-edge, but six months later, and so they want the chancellor to think a little more imaginatively.\n\nBeth Rudolf, from The Conveyancing Association, said: \"What we'd really like is for anybody who is already in a transaction to still receive the stamp duty concession when they complete. It is all about trying to bring fairness back.\"\n\nThis so-called tapering, to allow buyers ready to complete to benefit, could stop the sudden drop in activity seen after stamp duty concessions used by previous chancellors. It may also stop pressure on sellers to drop their price to ensure a sale.\n\nFinance ministers in Scotland and Wales have confirmed their plans to cancel the tax break at the end of March, giving people time to prepare, and there is still little sign of Mr Sunak doing things any differently at next month's Budget.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"The temporary stamp duty cut is helping to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs which rely on the property market by stimulating economic activity.\n\n\"Its time limited nature is what has encouraged people to take advantage of the scheme.\"\n\nFor people like Simon Ashley, who says the money he has saved would be pumped back into the economy, that time limit may be coming a bit too soon.\n• None What are the new stamp duty rates?", "Restrictions will come into force at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday\n\nA 21-day \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown has been announced to limit the spread of Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, the chief minister has said.\n\nThe island has seen a rise in cases in recent days, with some stemming from an infected ferry crew member.\n\nHoward Quayle said an increase in other - unexplained - cases indicated there was transmission \"that we cannot see and do not understand\".\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight.\n\nUnder the new measures, people are required to stay at home unless for exercise or essential travel, avoid mixing with other households and socially distance when outside.\n\nSchools are shut to most pupils and non-essential businesses are required to close.\n\nAnd all hospitality and leisure venues have also shut their doors to customers although takeaway and delivery services are still allowed.\n\nPeople are required to stay at home except for exercise or essential travel\n\nEdward Cox, who owns the Front Porch bar in Douglas, said the lockdown was the right decision but it was \"absolutely gutting\".\n\nHe added that he felt the government was not \"prepared enough\" for another outbreak and the island \"should never have got to this position\".\n\nThe £1,500 in government support offered would \"not touch the sides\" and he would be forced to throw out large quantities of fresh food, he added.\n\nUnlike the January lockdown, construction work is allowed to continue provided it is outdoors or in a vacant property.\n\nFinancial support measures, which were put in place during the island's previous two lockdown periods, have been reactivated.\n\nIn recent days, the island has seen a small number of confirmed Covid-19 cases where the source is not known, one of them in a school.\n\nBill Shimmins MHK said the government's response to the current cluster of cases was \"akin to a slow-motion train crash\".\n\nHe added that, had measures been imposed earlier, it would have avoided \"this incredibly damaging lockdown\".\n\nMore than 40 Covid-19 cases have been linked to the cluster involving the ferry crew member, who tested positive for the virus on 18 February.\n\nOfficials believed it was largely under control, but five unexplained cases have been identified since Friday.\n\nMr Quayle said there was insufficient data to support measures being taken earlier and the response had to be \"proportionate\".\n\nThere are currently 52 active cases of Covid-19 on the Isle of Man.\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.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget will be one of the most-closely watched in years, as the government grapples with the enormous economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic, and as he charts a financial roadmap for the country.\n\nIn his 3 March statement, the chancellor will outline the state of the UK economy and its outlook for the future - and give details of the government's plans for raising or lowering taxes.\n\nSo how is the UK economy faring under the twin impacts of coronavirus and Brexit? In the following charts, we take a snapshot of the nation's economic health - highlighting some of the economic challenges facing the chancellor.\n\nThe UK's national debt has reached its highest level since 1963 - reflecting the huge cost of pandemic support measures such as the furlough scheme. National debt here means the total amount the government owes to its lenders - it is the accumulation of borrowing over many years.\n\nSo far this year, the annual total for government borrowing - the amount the government borrows to make up for the gap between what it spends and what it raises in taxes - has reached £270.6bn, which is £222bn more than a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates that this figure could reach £393.5bn by the end of the financial year in March. This would be the highest amount in any year since the Second World War.\n\nBut it is also worth pointing out that this figure has been above 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or annual national income in 131 of the last 320 years.\n\nThe 21st Century so far has been one of rising levels of public sector net borrowing (how much both central and local government have borrowed to carry out their spending programmes). Last month's figure was £8.8bn, the highest January borrowing amount since monthly records began in 1993.\n\nAs a result of the pandemic, public sector net debt has risen by £316.4bn over the 10 months since last April to an all-time high of £2.1 trillion.\n\nUnemployment is currently 5.1%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is the highest figure for five years, and shows the effects of lockdowns on the economy due to the pandemic, with many workplaces forced to close their doors.\n\nSo far, this hasn't resulted in a rapid rise in unemployment, as the furlough support scheme has helped to protect jobs, but this could change if the scheme ends as planned in April. Most economists expect the unemployment rate to continue rising in 2021.\n\nHowever, the roll-out of Covid vaccines is happening quickly and this may help to keep unemployment down if it allows a staged re-start of the UK economy.\n\nYoung people have been hit particularly hard by the labour market fallout from coronavirus, with workers aged under 24 accounting for nearly half of the total fall in employment during the economic slump, according to research by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES).\n\nAt the same time, more people are chasing fewer jobs, so young people are struggling to enter the employment market.\n\nSignificantly, young people account for 46% of the overall fall in employment during the pandemic - even though they only account for just one in nine of the workforce.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has hinted that furlough support for workers will continue beyond April, as he pledged not to \"pull the rug out\" from under the UK economy when he unveiled plans to ease the national lockdown in four steps.\n\nIf the government does not extend the job support schemes, then the latest forecast from the Bank of England suggests that UK unemployment will reach 7.75% during the summer.\n\nFull-time work has risen during the pandemic, despite the impact of Covid on the labour market. However, the numbers of those in part-time jobs or self-employed have dropped, as freelancers and those in precarious work bear the brunt of the crisis.\n\nCampaign groups are calling on the chancellor to plug gaps in schemes such as the self-employed income support scheme (SEISS) to support millions of self-employed people and other workers excluded from furlough. The Resolution Foundation think tank says that 2.3 million workers are missing out on help because they are not covered by SEISS.\n\nUK house prices climbed 8.5% last year - that's the highest annual growth rate since October 2014 - with the average UK house price reaching a record high of £252,000 in December 2020.\n\nThe North West had the highest growth of 11.2%, while London rose just 3.5%.\n\nOne of the factors behind the rise has been the stamp duty holiday in England that was introduced last July. However, if the tax break ends on 31 March as planned, sales and house price rises are likely to slow afterwards.", "One of reggae's most important voices, Bunny Wailer, has died at the age of 73.\n\nThe musician, from Kingston, Jamaica, was a founding member of The Wailers alongside his childhood friend, Bob Marley.\n\nTogether, they achieved international fame with reggae classics like Simmer Down and Stir It Up, before Wailer left to go solo in 1974.\n\nHe went on to win three Grammys and was given Jamaica's Order Of Merit in 2017.\n\nHis death was confirmed by manager Maxine Stowe, and Jamaica's Culture Minister, Olivia Grange.\n\nThe cause of death is unknown, but he had been in hospital since having a stroke in July 2020.\n\nTributes have already poured in for the musician, with fans and fellow musicians describing him as a legend.\n\n\"This is one of the lowest moment in the history of our culture,\" wrote dancehall artist Shaggy on Facebook. \"You have made us proud king. Rest well.\"\n\n\"Oh man, god bless Bunny Wailer,\" wrote Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea. \"What a true rocker and noble man. I love him.\"\n\nAndrew Holness, Jamaica's prime minister, also paid tribute, calling his death \"a great loss for Jamaica and for reggae\".\n\nThe original incarnation of The Wailers, circa 1964 (L-R): Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh\n\nThe star, whose real name was Neville O'Riley Livingston, had been the last surviving member of The Wailers, following Bob Marley's death from cancer in 1981, and Peter Tosh's murder during a robbery in 1987.\n\nBorn on 20 April 10, 1947, Livingston spent his earliest years in the village of Nine Mile, where he was raised by his father, Thaddeus, who ran a grocery store.\n\nThat was where he first met Marley, and the toddlers soon became firm friends, making their first music together at Stepney Primary and Junior High School.\n\nFollowing the death of Marley's father in 1955, his mother, Cedella, moved in with Livingston's father. The boys were essentially raised as step-brothers, especially after Cedella and Thaddeus had a daughter together, Pearl.\n\nAfter moving to Trenchtown in Kingston, they met Peter Tosh and formed a vocal group called The Wailing Wailers - because, Marley said: \"We started out crying.\"\n\nThe area was poor and afflicted by violence. Livingston later remembered building his first guitar from \"a bamboo staff, the fine wires from an electric cable and a large sardine can\".\n\nBut singer Joe Higgs, aka \"the Godfather of Reggae\", lived nearby and took the boys under his wing. Under his tutelage, they refined their sound, adding vocalist Junior Braithwaite and backing singers Beverly Kelso and Cherry Green before shortening their name to The Wailers.\n\nIn December 1963, the band entered Coxsone Dodd's infamous Studio One to record Simmer Down, a song Marley had written calling for peace in the ghettos of Kingston.\n\nFaster and harder than the music The Wailers later became known for, the song was an immediate hit, reaching number one in Jamaica. They followed it up with the original version of Duppy Conqueror, before releasing their debut album The Wailing Wailers, in 1965.\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 Nelson Reggae 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\nSoon after, the band went on hiatus as Marley got married and moved to the USA, and Livingston served a year in jail for marijuana possession. But they still managed to release 28 singles between 1966 and 1970, before releasing their second album, Soul Rebels.\n\nTheir international breakthrough came three years later with Catch A Fire - the first record they made for Chris Blackwell's Island Records.\n\nThe collaboration came about almost by accident. The Wailers had been touring the UK with Johnny Nash - who'd had a hit with a cover of Stir It Up - but found themselves unable to pay for their trip home.\n\nBlackwell offered to sign the band to Island, paying them an advance to cover their air fares and cost of recording an album in Jamaica.\n\nMuch to the band's displeasure, some of the songs were overdubbed to make them more palatable to an international audience.\n\n\"I felt the way to break the Wailers was as a black rock act; I wanted some rock elements in there,\" Blackwell later told Rolling Stone. \"Bunny and Peter didn't want to leave Jamaica, so Bob came to England when we did the overdubs.\"\n\nThe album was not a major seller and failed to chart in both the US and UK - but it has become widely recognised as a classic. Rolling Stone magazine recently placed it at number 140 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, writing \"the Wailers' ghetto rage comes across uncut\" in songs like Concrete Jungle and Slave Driver.\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 Bob Marley 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\nCommercial success followed with 1973's Burnin', which featured classic cuts like I Shot The Sheriff, Small Axe and Get Up, Stand Up.\n\nHowever, it was to be the Wailers last album to feature the original Wailers line-up.\n\nTensions already present were exacerbated by Island marketing their albums under the name Bob Marley and The Wailers, and a touring schedule that kept Livingston away from his family.\n\nHe eventually left in 1973, saying the touring lifestyle clashed with his Rastafarian beliefs - citing the pressure to eat processed foods and play \"freak clubs\". He later said fame was the enemy of creativity.\n\n\"Music is based on inspiration and if you're in an environment where you are up and down, here and there, that's how your music is going to sound,\" Livingston told The Los Angeles Times in 1986.\n\n\"People get taken away in getting themselves to be a star and that is a different thing from getting yourself to be a good writer, musician, producer and arranger.\"\n\nThe star was known as an elder statesman of reggae\n\nFree from the band, he began to work on his solo album Blackheart Man, which included classic songs like Dreamland and Fighting Against Conviction, which was inspired by his stint in prison.\n\nHe went on to release several acclaimed albums, including 1981's Rock 'n' Groove and 1980s's Bunny Wailer Sings The Wailers, which saw him revisit some of the band's classic material.\n\nIn the 1990s, he won the Grammy award for best reggae album three times - with each of those records extending and preserving the legacy of Marley and the Wailers: 1991's Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley, 1995's Crucial! Roots Classics, and the 1997's all-star Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary.\n\n\"I'm satisfied with knowing that I'm serving the purpose of getting reggae music to be where it's at,\" he told the Washington Post in 2006. \"I'm proud to be part of that.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People with low immunity due to health conditions, including cancer, are being recruited to a study to urgently find out if coronavirus vaccines will still offer them high protection.\n\nAs the UK comes out of lockdown, it is important to know the virus risk for all populations.\n\nTrials and real-life data show the shots work very well for most adults, including the very elderly.\n\nBut there is little evidence on efficacy in immunocompromised patients.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccines approved by UK regulators are safe and still recommended for people with weakened immune systems due to underlying health conditions or prescribed medications, including those having chemotherapy or stem-cell transplants.\n\nIn the Octave study, up to 5,000 of these patients, from around the UK, will be vaccinated as part of the NHS mass rollout.\n\nBut blood tests before and after will check their immunity levels and see how well protected they are against Covid.\n\nThe researchers should have some findings within a few months.\n\nFull results are expected much later this year or early next.\n\nLead researcher Prof Iain McInnes, from the University of Glasgow, said: \"We urgently need to understand if patient populations with chronic conditions such as cancer, inflammatory arthritis and kidney and liver disease are likely to be well-protected by current Covid-19 vaccines.\n\n\"The Octave study will give us invaluable new data to help us answer questions of this kind from our patients and their families.\"\n\nThe British Society for Immunology said: \"While Covid-19 vaccination might provide a lower level of protection in people who are immunosuppressed or immunocompromised compared with the rest of the population, it is still very important that you get vaccinated, as it will offer you a certain amount of protection.\n\n\"It is important that you receive two doses of the vaccine to maximise the protection that vaccination offers you.\"\n• None Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80%", "Pubs are among business allowed a loan of up to £18,000, as they are among last to open\n\nPubs, restaurants and other non-essential retail businesses have been given further help in the Budget.\n\nMeasures include extending the VAT cut for the hospitality sector, seen during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nGyms and other non-essential retail premises in England will also see the year-long business rates holiday extended for another three months.\n\nHospitality businesses including restaurants and pubs have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic.\n\nThe Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, exempted them from paying business rates last year, but that tax holiday was due to end this month.\n\nThey will now be exempt until the end of June. After that they will be discounted to one third of the normal charge for the rest of the financial year, up to a maximum of £2m for closed businesses.\n\nThe chancellor called it \"a £6bn tax cut for businesses\".\n\nMajor supermarkets and other retailers which had been allowed to stay open as essential businesses said they would repay the rates relief they received last year, giving back £2bn of the estimated £11bn it cost the Treasury.\n\nAsda, Tesco and Sainsbury's said they would do it again this time.\n\nSainsbury's said in a statement: \"Despite significant ongoing costs associated with protecting colleagues and customers from Covid-19, we expect that the vast majority of Sainsbury's stores will remain open this year.\n\n\"We will therefore forgo the business rates relief on all Sainsbury's stores again this year. We will also forgo the business rates relief on all standalone Argos stores once they reopen.\"\n\nThe VAT discount to 5% for food and drink sold in pubs and restaurants will last until the end of September. After that it will increase to 12.5% - which is still below the normal rate of 20% - for a further six months.\n\nMr Sunak pointed out there were 150,000 hospitality and tourism businesses employing 2.4 million people.\n\nOther measures announced in the Budget include a business restart scheme, which allocates a total of £5bn in funding for small business grants of up to £18,000.\n\nUnder the scheme, non-essential retail businesses will receive grants of up to £6,000 per premises, as they will be allowed to open first. Hospitality and leisure businesses, including personal care and gyms, will get grants of up to £18,000, because they will stay closed for longer and will be more affected by restrictions.\n\nMr Sunak said some businesses would still need loans despite the restart grants. He said he was introducing a new recovery loan scheme which would allow businesses of any size to apply for loans from £25,000 up to £10m.\n\nChristian Mole of business services group EY said the industry still faced serious challenges, even once it opened up fully in May: \"Outdoor services will only be profitable for a small portion of the sector.\n\n\"Even after the scheduled 17 May full reopening, social distancing measures are likely to continue to limit operating capacity in restaurants and pubs. Across all hospitality, many operators also face significantly increased debts and deferred rental obligations.\n\n\"Hospitality businesses will need ongoing government support as long as these challenges remain in place, so it is encouraging to see the sector-specific support being offered.\"", "The Pontins at Southport has been used for mass Covid testing during lockdown.\n\nPontins has agreed to change its working practices after disclosure it had a list of Irish surnames it used to screen out bookings for its holiday parks from Gypsies and Travellers.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigated after being contacted by a whistleblower.\n\nA spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said such discrimination was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nPontins said it had agreed with EHRC change in its working practices.\n\nNews of the investigation was first reported by the i news website.\n\nThe EHRC said Pontins had an \"undesirable guests\" list on its intranet of mainly common Irish names to identify people it did not want at its parks.\n\nAccording to the i, there were 40 names on the list, including Boyle, Keefe, Gallagher, O'Donnell, McGuiness, Murphy, and O'Reilly.\n\nIt said staff monitored calls and refused or cancelled bookings made by certain people with an Irish accent or surname, and Pontins' commercial vehicle policy excluded Gypsies and Travellers from its holiday parks.\n\nBy declining to provide its services to guests of a certain race or ethnic group, Pontins was \"directly discriminating on the basis of race\" and breached the 2010 Equality Act, the EHRC said.\n\nPontins, which is owned by Britannia Jinky Jersey, has six holiday parks across England and Wales.\n\nThe EHRC declined to say how long Pontins had the policy in place, but according to the i, the list was used for at least six years.\n\nAlastair Pringle, executive director at EHRC, said: \"It is hard not to draw comparisons with an 'undesirable guests' list and the signs displayed in hotel windows fifty years ago, explicitly barring Irish people and Black people.\n\n\"Banning people from services based on their race is discrimination and is unlawful. To say that such policies are outdated is an understatement.\"\n\n\"It is right to challenge such practices and any business that believes this is acceptable should think again before they find themselves facing legal action.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it is: \"Completely unacceptable to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity. It is right EHRC and Pontins have investigated this.\"\n\nThe Traveller Movement, a charity that promotes inclusion for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, said the Pontins policy was \"truly shocking\" but that it was \"not surprised\".\n\n\"We frequently hear of Gypsies and Travellers being turned away from holiday parks because of their ethnicity,\" said its chief executive Yvonne MacNamara.\n\n\"This happens across the country on a regular basis; it is unlawful and completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe charity hopes the agreement between the Pontins owner and EHRC leads to better practices, \"and we also hope other holiday providers will think twice about enacting similar policies,\" Ms MacNamara added.\n\nSarah Mann, director at charity Friends, Families and Travellers, said it was \"shameful\" for Pontins to have acted in this way.\n\n\"Our thanks go to the Pontin's whistle-blower for doing the right thing and to the Equality and Human Rights Commission for using their powers.\n\n\"We all have a choice when we see discrimination - to stand by or to challenge it. Nobody should be treated differently because of their ethnicity.\"\n\nResearch by the charity suggested that nearly half of adults in the UK express negative attitudes toward Gypsies, Roma and Traveller people with hate crime being the most common issue reported to the police.\n\nThe Pontins owner said it would \"enhance staff training and procedures\" at the firm, and would take measures \"to promote equality throughout its business\".\n\nAs part of the agreement, Pontins must investigate the \"undesirable guests\" list, take appropriate action and ensure lessons are learned.\n\nIt must commission a review into its booking and commercial vehicle policy and consider any recommendations, and provide equality and diversity training for staff each year.\n\nThe EHRC started a probe in February 2020 after complaints from the whistleblower and Travellers. Its Pontins agreement is binding from 22 February 2021.\n\nIn 2017 EHRC said that Gypsies and Travellers were \"one of the most deprived groups in the Britain\" in terms of health and education.\n\nIt said in some areas of the UK \"local authorities have pioneered ways of meeting the needs of these nomadic groups to preserve their traditional lifestyle, while accessing health and education services and maintaining good relations with other communities.\"\n\nHowever, in other areas of the UK \"Gypsies and Travellers continue to be the focus of social tension with accommodation issues at the core. People living near unauthorised sites often object to developments without planning permission or where the environment is being damaged.\"", "The arrested man has been suspended by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust\n\nA healthcare professional has been arrested on suspicion of murder and rape as part of an investigation into a patient's death at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, police have said.\n\nLancashire Police said the man was arrested as part of the investigation into Valerie Kneale's death in 2018.\n\nMs Kneale, 75, died from a haemorrhage caused by a \"non-medical related internal injury\", a spokesman said.\n\nThe arrested man has been suspended by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nThe force spokesman said the man was being held on suspicion of murder, two offences of rape and one offence of sexual assault.\n\nA post-mortem examination on Mrs Kneale, who died on 16 November 2018, was one of a number carried out as part of an investigation launched at the time into allegations of mistreatment and neglect on the hospital's stroke unit.\n\nA murder investigation was launched when the cause of her death was found.\n\nThe spokesman said investigating officers had received information about other allegations of serious sexual assaults against two patients, as well as the sexual assault of a healthcare professional working on the stroke unit.\n\nA separate investigation into suspected poisoning of patients on the unit, which has previously seen seven hospital workers arrested, remains in progress.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jill Johnston said the force was \"committed\" to thoroughly investigating the \"complicated and sensitive allegations\".\n\nShe added that those involved were receiving specialist support and were being \"updated throughout the process by trained officers\".\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.", "In eight hours of evidence from the first minister, a lot of ground has been covered by this committee.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has given a long, detailed defence of her actions and those of her government.\n\nIt boils down to this: she admits mistakes were made, but says people were trying to do the right thing in investigating Alex Salmond.\n\nBut today is unlikely to put some of the big questions to bed.\n\nMs Sturgeon still faces big questions over whether she broke the ministerial code. She has denied it – but an independent investigation is taking place.\n\nThe committee is still to see messages which Mr Salmond believes show a plot against him.\n\nThere have been twists and turns in this story. I wouldn’t rule out more.", "The Catholic Church in Tanzania has been outspoken about what it sees as a hidden epidemic Image caption: The Catholic Church in Tanzania has been outspoken about what it sees as a hidden epidemic\n\nSixty nuns and 25 priests have died in Tanzania in the last two months after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Catholic Church in the East African nation says.\n\nThe church, which has been outspoken about coronavirus before in one of the few countries in the world not to publish its virus data, warned Tanzanians to take Covid-19 precautions more seriously.\n\nPresident John Magufuli has previously played down the virus and refused to take measures to curb its spread - and last month the health minister said that Tanzania had no plans to vaccinate.\n\nBut Father Charles Kitima, secretary of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference, an official assembly of Catholic bishops, said the Covid-19 threat was alive in Tanzania.\n\nHe told a news conference in Dar es Salaam that the church could not say whether the deaths of the clergy had been caused by coronavirus as they had not been tested, though they had all shown signs of Covid-19, including “respiratory challenges”.\n\n“People are not tested. That’s a big challenge. The church has about 500 health centres across the country but we are not allowed to test and we don’t have the equipment to do so,” Kitima said.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has pleaded with Tanzania to report its cases and review its position on the vaccines currently being rolled out through the international Covax distribution scheme.", "Yusaku Maezawa wants eight members of the public to join him on a trip around the moon\n\nJapanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has invited eight members of the public to join him for a trip around the Moon on Elon Musk's SpaceX flight.\n\n\"I want people from all kinds of backgrounds to join,\" he said in a video via Twitter, where he also shared a link to application details.\n\nHe said he will pay for the entire journey, so those who come onboard will fly for free.\n\nThe mission, called dearMoon, is scheduled to fly in 2023.\n\nApplicants need to meet two criteria: they should advance \"whatever activity\" they are in to \"help other people and greater society in some way\", and are \"willing to support other crew members who share similar aspirations\", he said.\n\n\"I have bought all the seats, so it will be a private ride,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Maezawa, a fashion mogul and art collector, previously said that he planned to invite \"artists\" for the voyage on the Starship rocket, but the adjusted project \"will give people from around the globe the chance to join this journey\".\n\n\"If you see yourself as an artist, then you are an artist,\" he said.\n\nLast year, he also launched a documentary search for a new girlfriend to join him on the trip, before cancelling due to \"mixed feelings\".\n\nIn 2018, Mr Maezawa was named as the first private passenger due to be flown around the moon by SpaceX, the company owned by Elon Musk.\n\nThe price Mr Maezawa agreed to pay for his ticket to space has not been disclosed, but according to Mr Musk it was \"a lot of money\".\n\nPlanned for 2023, the mission would be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'Why I've bought a ticket to fly to the Moon'\n• None The billionaire who wants to fly to the Moon", "Domestic abuse schemes in England and Wales will receive an extra £19m from the government over the next two years.\n\nMost of the money will go towards programmes working with abusers, to reduce the risk of reoffending.\n\nThe domestic abuse commissioner said the money was \"hugely welcome\" but called for longer-term funding.\n\nCharities said more detail was needed on how the extra money would be used, and that a £200m \"shortfall\" remained in funding domestic abuse services.\n\nThe announcement is in addition to the £125m allocated last month to help councils in England give therapy and support to survivors and their children in the year 2021-22.\n\nMost of the £19m, announced on Wednesday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as part of his Budget, will be delivered over the next year to programmes working with perpetrators.\n\nWomen's Aid said working with perpetrators was important but \"must never come at the expense of funding lifesaving support for survivors\".\n\nThe charity added that an estimated funding \"shortfall\" of more than £200m would mean \"women and children will be turned away from the lifesaving support they need\".\n\nTracy Blackwell, from the charity Refuge, added that the Budget had not addressed the \"huge gap\" in funding faced by many refuges for those seeking emergency help.\n\nDomestic abuse has increased across the UK and the world during Covid lockdowns, organisations have reported.\n\nThe United Nations has called the global increase in domestic abuse a \"shadow pandemic\".\n\nIn the UK, charities say there has been a surge in demand for services. Police forces have also recorded a rise in incidents.\n\nSome £4m of the new funding will help to pilot a network of so-called \"respite rooms\" to give specialist support to vulnerable homeless women in England in 2022-23.\n\nJohn Plummer, co-ordinator of London Prisons Mission, said the pilot was a \"step in the right direction\" to help women who become homeless after leaving prison.\n\nBut he said the respite rooms must \"support women into long-term safe and secure accommodation, not just provide emergency accommodation, in order to help them rebuild their lives\".\n\nDomestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs said Mr Sunak's announcement of the £19m was \"hugely welcome\" and would \"make a significant difference\" to domestic abuse survivors.\n\nHowever, she also said longer-term funding was needed for community-based support services.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse, the following organisations may be able to help.", "The Duchess of Sussex is \"saddened\" by a report she faced a bullying complaint during her time at Kensington Palace, her spokesman has said.\n\nThe Times newspaper says Meghan allegedly drove two personal assistants out of the household and undermined the confidence of a third member of staff.\n\nMeghan's spokesman said it was the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nIt comes before Meghan and Prince Harry's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey is due to be aired in the UK on Monday.\n\nThe duchess lived at Kensington Palace for nearly a year after her marriage to Prince Harry in May 2018.\n\nAccording to the story in the Times, the complaint was made in October 2018.\n\nBuckingham Palace, which is responsible for the hiring of royal staff, has not commented on the report. Kensington Palace has been contacted for a comment.\n\nA statement issued by Meghan's spokesman said: \"The duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma.\n\n\"She is determined to continue her work building compassion around the world and will keep striving to set an example for doing what is right and doing what is good.\"\n\nOn one thing everyone is agreed: the interview that Meghan has given Oprah Winfrey, and that will be broadcast in the US on Sunday, is concentrating minds.\n\nPalace staff have for some time itched to get their side of the story out; some feel that they went out of their way to help Meghan after the wedding only to be treated rudely or later dismissed as uncaring or worse.\n\nTeam Sussex were braced for the story. \"It's a fairly extensive list of things that has been pulled together,\" one source told the BBC. \"The timing is not coincidental.\"\n\nMeghan's side do not dispute the existence or content of the email; and it is pretty strong stuff. It makes flesh the rumours and allegations that swirled around the duchess when a number of staff left some months after the 2018 wedding.\n\nBut the duchess' people are pushing back. The people named in the leaked email knew nothing about the complaint, they say, and it never turned into a formal issue.\n\nWhatever the truth, it ratchets up the tension - and publicity - around the interview to come in just a few days time.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nLast month Buckingham Palace announced the couple would not return as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nOprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will air in the US on Sunday\n\nThe two-hour interview with Meghan and Prince Harry will be screened on CBS in the US on the evening of Sunday 7 March, and on ITV in the UK at 21:00 GMT on Monday 8 March.\n\nCBS has said 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\nThe Duke of Sussex drew parallels between the treatment of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, in a trailer clip for the interview.\n\nHarry said he feared history was \"repeating itself\" before he and Meghan decided to step back as senior royals.", "A fire officer has told an inquiry he \"felt ashamed to be a firefighter\" after being held back from responding to the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nThe first fire engine did not arrive at the scene until two hours after the explosion that killed 22 people.\n\nDuty command officer Alan Topping said firefighters were \"angry\" they were not able to help in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nHe said crews felt they \"let the people of Greater Manchester down\".\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\nOn the night, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) crews were sent to Philips Park Fire Station, two miles (3km) from the arena.\n\nWatch manager Andrew Simister told the inquiry it was a \"massive decision error\".\n\n\"We wanted to go the arena because that's our job, ride a fire engine. We have got first aid capabilities. After an explosion people are in distress and it's our job to go.\n\n\"I thought we were going there (Philips Park) because they had a plan. There was no plan.\"\n\nCounsel to the inquiry, Paul Greaney QC, read a statement from a firefighter who recalled a paramedic who was \"pleading with us to go and help\".\n\nIn tears, the paramedic asked firefighters why they were \"stood around\" at the station instead of helping casualties at the arena.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack and hundreds more were injured when a bomb was detonated at the arena\n\nMr Topping, who was a group manager for GMFRS, said he was shocked when he found \"a lot of firefighters hanging around\" at Philips Park fire station.\n\n\"They were impatient, they wanted to go,\" he told the hearing.\n\nAfter the attack, Mr Topping said he attended a de-briefing where some firefighters turned their backs on a senior officer who had been unable to explain why they had been held back.\n\nHe said some firefighters were brought to tears because they felt \"such shame and disappointment\".\n\n\"I had never seen firefighters cry at a debrief,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't respond and we didn't do our jobs to make a difference. It took me a couple of days to put my shirt back on such was the strength of my feelings.\n\n\"I felt ashamed to be a firefighter. I felt we had let the people of Greater Manchester down.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing is hearing evidence covering the emergency response\n\nThe inquiry has heard previously that police declared a marauding terrorist firearms attack amid erroneous reports of gunfire but failed to inform the fire and ambulance services.\n\nAnd none of the three blue light services met at a rendezvous point to discuss a planned response.\n\nMr Topping said senior incident commanders were not working properly together and were \"too secretive\".\n\nWhen he arrived at the scene, he wrote in his feedback he felt like he was \"gate-crashing\".\n\nMr Topping, who worked for GMFRS for 32 years, said he did not believe that things within the service had improved sufficiently when he retired in September.\n\nHe agreed with John Cooper QC, representing the bereaved families, that the scene at the fire station a mile from the arena \"felt wrong\" because important resources and services his colleagues could have provided were \"simply wasted\".\n\nHe said there was \"a lot of anger, upset, confusion\" among the crews who were impatient at being kept away from the scene.\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 post showed Jamila Azad and another woman receiving injections from a man in medical scrubs and PPE\n\nA Labour councillor has had the whip removed by the party after claiming on social media to have received a Covid vaccination from a private doctor.\n\nJamila Azad, who has been elected to both Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council, has since removed the post from her Facebook page.\n\nThe government said jabs were only allowed to be administered by the NHS.\n\nMs Azad said she did not want to comment. However, her family said she received the vaccine through the NHS.\n\nLabour has said she has not been suspended from the party but will effectively sit as an independent councillor while an investigation is carried out.\n\nThe original Facebook post showed Ms Azad and another woman receiving injections from a man in medical scrubs and PPE, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nThe comment said it was a \"Private Care Doctor for Covid 19 vaccine\"\n\nIt added: \"A long wait for NHS waiting list. We had take away from Akber take away.\"\n\nMs Azad declined to comment about the issue\n\nIt is unclear where Ms Azad may have received the vaccine.\n\nAccording to The Department of Health and Social Care, it would be illegal to administer vaccines outside of the NHS.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which would be responsible for any enforcement action, said it was investigating.\n\nLynda Scammell from the agency said: \"Vaccines that are not authorised for use in UK, and if purchased from outside the legitimate NHS supply route, cannot be guaranteed to meet standards of quality, safety and effectiveness.\"\n\nCouncillors Susan Brown and Liz Brighouse, the leaders of the Labour groups at Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council respectively, issued a joint statement in relation to the post.\n\nIt said: \"Following a recent post on her Facebook account about her Covid-19 vaccination, Councillor Jamila Azad has been suspended by the whips of both the Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council Labour groups, pending further investigation.\n\n\"Councillor Azad has now removed the post in question.\n\n\"We will be making no further comment on this matter until formal investigations into it have been completed.\"\n\nCouncillor Craig Simmons, who leads the Greens at Oxford City Council, said Ms Azad would have breached the authority's code of conduct if she had paid for the vaccine privately.\n\n\"If [she] did indeed bypass the NHS and secure a vaccine from a private medical facility through illegal means then her position is untenable,\" he said.\n\n\"Principles such as selflessness, honesty and integrity are core to the code and Councillor Azad's behaviour, should the allegations be proven, would fall far short of what is expected and required of all councillors.\"\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\nCountry star Dolly Parton has been given a Covid-19 vaccine dose, after urging others to follow her example by reimagining one of her hit songs.\n\nParton, 75, sang an adapted version of Jolene before receiving the shot at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday.\n\n\"Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I'm begging of you, please don't hesitate,\" Parton sang in a video.\n\nShe was injected with a vaccine developed by Moderna.\n\nParton was credited with helping fund the Moderna vaccine after donating $1m (£716,000) to Vanderbilt University Medical Centre.\n\nA portion of the singer's money went towards funding an early stage-trial of the Moderna vaccine. In trials, the Moderna vaccine was found to offer nearly 95% protection against severe Covid-19.\n\nDolly Parton was vaccinated with a jab developed by Moderna\n\nThe Grammy-winning musician said she had been \"waiting a while\" for her vaccination.\n\n\"I'm old enough to get it and I'm smart enough to get it,\" the singer told fans in a video posted from the university.\n\nLast month Parton told the Associated Press she wanted to wait until vaccines were more widely available because \"I don't want it to look like I'm jumping the line\".\n\nNow vaccine supply has increased - in the US at least - Parton said she \"wanted to encourage everybody\" to get theirs.\n\n\"I just want to say to all of you cowards out there - don't be such a chicken squat. Get out there and get your shot,\" she said.\n\nThe 9 to 5 singer is the latest star to promote coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nOther celebrities who have had a Covid-19 vaccine include:\n\nThe naturalist and broadcaster, 94, received the Covid-19 jab in January, months after speaking of the \"immense suffering\" caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe Academy Award-winning actress, 83, shared the news of her jab in an Instagram post in February, posting: \"It doesn't hurt\".\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 janefonda 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 veteran actor, 81, was vaccinated at Queen Mary's University Hospital in London, saying afterwards that he felt \"euphoric\".\n\nThe former politician and action hero, 73, had his jab in January in Los Angeles and nodded to one of his best-known movie lines when he said: \"Come with me if you want to live.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Broadway singer and actress, 75, announced she got the Pfizer vaccine on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live in February.\n\nThe pair urged the public to get vaccinated against coronavirus in an National Health Service (NHS) advert released in February.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elton John This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The never knowingly under-hyped Rishi Sunak will give what he has already described as a \"Budget like no other\".\n\nThe Covid crisis has certainly led him to do things that no other Conservative chancellor has.\n\nThe government shut down much of the economy, meaning shops were shuttered, tills were empty, incomes collapsed.\n\nIt filled much of the gap with an alphabet soup of what the Treasury would drily term \"interventions\" - CBILS, CJRS, SEISS, the CCFF, and so on - essentially different ways of filling people's pockets with enormous amounts of cash in a time of crisis.\n\nAlongside that there have been the huge costs of PPE, the test-and-trace programme and vaccines.\n\nSome people, some of the self-employed for example, have not been caught by the safety net stitched together at high speed.\n\nBut there is no doubt that it has made a huge difference in the last year. One senior minister, perhaps not that modestly, suggests: \"One day we will be through this, and we will look back and realise that we prevented mass unemployment.\"\n\nThere was a feeling at the start of the pandemic that there was no choice. And, with the country still in lockdown, that logic persists.\n\nSo, however the chancellor presents his decisions on Wednesday, extending emergency support is a political no-brainer, over which he has simply had not much choice.\n\nAnd this time, perhaps, he has to get out ahead of the argument, rather than risk being dragged there as schemes get close to their end dates.\n\nGeorge Osborne was a rather different chancellor, at a rather different time\n\nMr Sunak's warm-up slogan is \"We're using the full measure of our fiscal firepower to protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British people\".\n\nThe Budget won't just be about carrying on the emergency support, however, with a hefty dollop of Brand Sunak, with a TV press conference and sofa chat on Wednesday evening, on top of the traditional red box doorstep and green bench moments.\n\nIt will also be about how he hopes to return the Tories to their more traditional trademark - being careful with the country's cash.\n\nThere won't be a return to the kind of political argument over the deficit and the debate that David Cameron and George Osborne dominated in the early part of the last decade.\n\nAs one Treasury minister said: \"Austerity? You just can't do it now.\" That's partly because the Tories made lots of pricey commitments in their election manifesto, and partly because Boris Johnson is, for a Conservative, a spender not a saver (even hypothetical bridges don't come cheap).\n\nBut the economic conversation is different this time. Interest rates are rock-bottom. Much of the debt the government has run up has been bought by the Bank of England.\n\nAnd governments around the world have been spending and borrowing eye-watering amounts to get through this emergency. There's a really good explanation of how it all works here.\n\nIn short, there isn't unbearable pressure on the chancellor to start saying how, and when, he'll start trying to close the gap between what the government's been spending, and what it takes into its coffers.\n\nAnd no-one, not even the self-described hawk former Chancellor Lord Hammond, thinks that the overall debt will be paid off for decades.\n\nBut, conscious of the Tory trademark, Mr Sunak will start talking about how to start balancing the books too.\n\nThere has been a lot of speculation (it's the Budget) about raising taxes, and in particular corporation tax - the tax firms pay on their profits.\n\nThat's notable because it would be a reversal of one of his predecessor Mr Osborne's flagship policies.\n\nBut also he would face a lot of opposition in his party, and outside, not just on the principle of raising taxes on business from Conservatives, but for doing so during what is still a huge economic emergency.\n\nOne prominent economist even told me it was \"economically bonkers\" to consider raising taxes now, in the hope of then cutting them in a couple of years.\n\nIt is indeed, despite public protestations that he hasn't said this to his MPs, at least part of the Treasury's calculation that it would be better to increase taxes soon, to ensure that 2024's is a tax-cutting, pre-election Budget.\n\nOne Treasury minister suggests that raising taxes, while also looking like you are concerned with balancing the books in the long term, neutralises Labour: \"If we take all the New Labour clothes, where do they go?\"\n\nLabour's angst over what to tax and when in the last few days bears some of that out.\n\nBut, as with any Budget, the calculations are not just for the carefully choreographed \"grid\" of announcements and speculation in the run-up to the moment itself, not even for the speech itself and the spreadsheets that get pored over in the hours after, but for setting a path, political and economic, for months - and years - to come.", "Some international arrivals to the UK have waited nine days for Covid test kits that should be taken on day two of a 10-day quarantine period.\n\nTravellers from countries not on the UK's \"red list\" must purchase a £210 testing kit, with a test taken on day two and day eight of isolation.\n\nThose who do not take the tests may face penalties of up to £2,000.\n\nA government spokesman said there were \"no specific issues\" with the deliveries or fulfilment of test kits.\n\nThey advised that customers should receive the test kits, providing the correct details are given at the point of booking.\n\nHowever, several passengers have told the BBC that despite ordering the tests, they never arrived.\n\nThe social media pages for the testing provider, Corporate Travel Management (CTM), contain other comments complaining about delivery delays.\n\nYury Babin travelled to the UK from Moscow for work. He purchased the test kit on Friday on his arrival. Although he received an email confirming his order, he is still waiting for his tests four days later.\n\n\"When I called the line said: 'We are experiencing high volumes of calls', before dropping,' says Mr Babin. \"I have emailed too, but had no response. I can't go to the pharmacy to buy the test, what are my options?\"\n\nMr Babin describes the situation as \"very frustrating\".\n\n\"Of course I'm concerned that I might get a fine, but if I do I will challenge it. Why are the government making policies that they can't administer?\"\n\nHe has now been told by the test provider, CTM, that his kit will be resent.\n\nLorenzo Calonghi lives in France, but returned to the UK in February to study engineering. He booked his tests on 20 February, but became worried when he hasn't received the first test by his second day in quarantine at home.\n\nLorenzo Calonghi returned to the UK recently to study engineering\n\n\"On day three (of home quarantine), I called the company multiple times and was unable to reach them,\" says Mr Calonghi. 'I continued to call every day but still never received a call back - nor was my call ever picked up.\"\n\nHe eventually found out by contacting the company on Twitter that his order had been declined, although he had already received a confirmation email and been able to go through UK border controls.\n\nHe says that the company did not tell him that there was an issue with his payment and nine days on, he still has not received the tests.\n\nOthers have had similar problems. Tasadaq Hussain booked the testing package for his wife who was returning from Pakistan. When the tests did not arrive, they tried to reach the company.\n\n\"I was on hold for an hour and a half without an answer,\" he says. \"We kept trying every day.\"\n\nMr Hussain eventually created a Twitter account and eventually received a response from the firm after eight days.\n\nAnyone experiencing a delay in their test kit being delivered is advised to call 119.\n\nBBC News has approached the testing provider CTM for comment.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology will rise to £100 later this year, the Treasury has confirmed.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated a move away from cash, with shoppers often being encouraged to use contactless in many stores for public health reasons.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nRegulators say businesses could still decide themselves whether to accept the higher limit.\n\nFears have also been raised regarding fraud risks involved in the use of cards.\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurants and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the latest data from UK Finance, which represents banks.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"As we begin to open the UK economy and people return to the High Street, the contactless limit increase will make it easier than ever before for people to pay for their shopping, providing a welcome boost to retail that will protect jobs and drive growth.\"\n\nHowever, there have been worries raised about contactless limits being raised further.\n\nIan Johnson, managing director, Europe, at payment business Marqeta, said: \"The problem with increasing limits on physical contactless cards is if they are stolen or cloned, it will now be even easier for a fraudster to spend large sums of the victim's money in one go.\n\n\"Physical cards provide very little security and a fraudster could continue to use their contactless function until they are cancelled.\"", "The controlled explosion of a World War Two bomb in Exeter has left a crater in the ground and properties with \"structural damage\".\n\nThe 2,200lb (1,000kg) German bomb was blown up on Saturday after thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.\n\nDoors and windows of nearby properties were blown out of their frames, while further damage was done to roofs as debris was fired more than 250m (820ft) through the air.\n\nAll residents were allowed to go back to their homes on Tuesday but some of the properties were \"uninhabitable\" according to Exeter City Council.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor sets out a three-part plan to “protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British people”.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled more support for workers and businesses struggling with lockdown in his first Budget since the pandemic was declared.\n\nThe furlough scheme will be extended to September - along with higher universal credit payments.\n\nBut taxes on large company profits will rise in 2023 and a million more people will start paying income tax.\n\nIt will take the UK's tax burden to its highest level since the 1960s, said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Budget measures to salvage the UK's Covid-ravaged economy were \"nowhere near ambitious enough\".\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Sunak said unemployment will be lower - and growth higher - than previously thought as the UK emerges from lockdown later this year, citing forecasts from the OBR watchdog.\n\nBut he warned that repairing the long-term economic damage \"will take time\", with the economy in five years' time predicted to be 3% smaller than it would have been without the pandemic.\n\nDespite the £280bn of support already committed to protecting the economy, the harm done by coronavirus had been \"acute\", he told MPs.\n\n\"Our economy has shrunk by 10% - the largest fall in over 300 years. Our borrowing is the highest it has been outside of wartime.\n\n\"It's going to take this country - and the whole world - a long time to recover from this extraordinary economic situation. But we will recover.\"\n\nThe headline rate of corporation tax will go up from 19% to 25% from 2023, although smaller firms will be exempt.\n\nAnd the freeze on income tax thresholds is expected to bring 1.3 million more people into paying income tax - and a million more into paying at the higher rate.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the Budget is set to raise an extra £29bn by 2025-26, which was \"big by recent standards\".\n\nAnd it added that the UK's tax \"burden\" is set to rise to its \"highest sustained level\" ever.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said: \"Mr Sunak made much of his desire to be honest and to level with the British people.\n\n\"The fact that he felt constrained to raise taxes by hitting companies and through freezing allowances, rather than through more explicit rises in people's taxes, suggests there are limits to how far he wants to level with us, as he attempts to raise the overall tax burden to its highest sustained level in history.\"\n\nThere has been a lot of give, and there will be a lot of take.\n\nBusiness will, in time, pay billions more. More than a million people will have to start paying income tax, and a million extra will pay at a higher level.\n\nThe deeply strange circumstances of the pandemic have turned the party with a theoretical love of low taxes into a government that will crank them up significantly in practice.\n\n\"Honest Rishi Sunak\", as he hopes to be represented, has chosen his determination to start dealing with the cost of Covid over the Tories' traditional backing for low taxes.\n\nBoxed in by election promises, he has chosen two huge future money raisers.\n\nDespite those hikes, and the hundreds of billions spent on Covid, public spending overall is still set to contract.\n\nThe chancellor extended the furlough scheme to September, paying up to 80% of people's wages - and announced further grants for self-employed people, with the scheme widened to include 600,000 who were not previously entitled, including many newly self-employed people.\n\nHe also extended the £20-a-week top-up to universal credit for six months.\n\nAll alcohol duties will be frozen, which Mr Sunak said would help pubs and restaurants recover, and there will be no increase in fuel duty. But duty on cigarettes will go up by 2%, plus inflation.\n\nThe reduced 5% VAT for the hospitality and tourism sector will be extended for six months to 30 September, and will not return to the full standard rate of 20% until April next year.\n\nMr Sunak also announced that 750 civil service jobs at the Treasury will be transferred to Darlington, in the north-east of England, and there will be more than £1bn shared out among 45 struggling towns in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Budget 2021: Who is Rishi Sunak and what does he believe?\n\nAt a post-Budget Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak vowed to protect people and businesses \"well beyond the end of lockdown\", and to build a \"fairer and more just\" country in the memory of those who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as the latest government figures on Wednesday showed a further 315 people had died with coronavirus in the UK within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis, and there were another 6,385 confirmed cases.\n\nMr Sunak hit back at critics who say the business tax hike will choke off recovery, saying it will \"still be the lowest out of the G7 economies,\" including the US, France and Germany.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Budget did nothing to \"fix the NHS and social care\", reduce inequality or create more affordable homes.\n\n\"The scale of what the chancellor announced today is nowhere near ambitious enough,\" he told MPs, and he claimed Mr Sunak was \"itching to get back to his free-market principles and to pull away support as quickly as he can\".\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said furlough should be in kept place \"as long as businesses and devolved governments need it\".\n\n\"This Budget is carefully laying the ground for more Tory austerity, a decade more of Conservative cuts,\" he told MPs.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine warned that the universal credit top-up will end at the same time as furlough, meaning people could lose their jobs and not receive the extra help they will need.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was a \"Budget of half measures and quick fixes\", and not making the universal credit uplift permanent would \"lead to 26,000 families in Wales not being able to afford essentials in six months' time\".\n\nHow will you be affected by this year's Budget? 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.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned that a spending spree to support workers and spur investment will be followed by tax rises as the economy recovers.\n\nThe UK's rapid Covid-19 vaccine rollout is expected to help the economy get back to its pre-pandemic size six months sooner than previously expected.\n\nOfficial forecasts expect growth to hit 4% this year, while an extension of the furlough scheme will limit job losses.\n\nMr Sunak said future tax hikes were needed to stop \"irresponsible\" debt.\n\nThe government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said the UK had been at the \"vanguard\" of the discovery of new and effective vaccines.\n\nIt said this will foster a \"swifter and more sustained\" economic recovery, with the pace of growth expected to strengthen to 7.3% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the highest growth rate since official records began in 1949 and help the economy to return to its pre-pandemic size in the middle of next year.\n\nMr Sunak unveiled plans to spend tens of billions of pounds more over the next two years to support the economic recovery, including tax breaks designed to encourage business investment.\n\nHowever, the chancellor said tax rises were also needed to help repair the public finances.\n\nMr Sunak announced that corporation tax will rise from 19% to 25% for large companies in 2023, while day-to-day spending by government departments will be cut by a further £4bn a year.\n\nMr Sunak said it would be \"irresponsible to allow our future borrowing and debt to rise unchecked\".\n\nChris Sanger, head of tax policy at EY, described the Budget as \"three years of support, followed by three years (and more) of pain\".\n\nMr Sanger added: \"Time [is] the Chancellor's friend in his aim of replenishing the Government's coffers.\"\n\nThe government's target to have all adults vaccinated this summer is expected to pave the way for the lifting of public health restrictions.\n\nThe OBR noted that British households had built up a savings war chest of around £180bn in the past year.\n\nIt expects a quarter of this to be spent as lockdowns end, saying there could be a \"degree of euphoria\", especially among better-off households who \"treat themselves\" when the economy opens up.\n\nThe main thrust of this Budget is significant extra immediate crisis support, both in terms of the furlough scheme and self employed support, and a radical \"super-deduction\" policy to encourage business investment right now.. That is £60bn extra in one year and it comes from borrowed money. That leaves borrowing in the coming financial year significantly higher than expected. A much larger proportion of the exceptional world war-style borrowing over the past year will stay in place in the coming year.\n\nThe happy result of this is that unemployment, though rising, peaks at a much lower level than previous expectations, just over 6%, rather than, say, 10%. This is a consequence of both the vaccine rollout and the support package, leading to a reopening of the economy over summer.\n\nThe jabs and then the jobs. But then the payback, with a massive rise in £16bn corporation tax and the £8bn changes to thresholds for the last two years of the Parliament. The Conservative manifesto commitments on not increasing VAT, income tax or national insurance are binding here.\n\nSo Rishi Sunak is left with the first rise in corporation tax since Dennis Healey's 1974 Budget. It turns a careful strategy of using corporation tax as a lever for foreign investment on its head. For many in the vanguard of the Conservative Brexit movement, very low levels of this tax were one of the building blocks of \"Singapore-on-Thames\". Singapore is staying in South East Asia.\n\nThe timing of this tax rise at the end of a Parliament is not the normal order of things. But the Covid pandemic is far from normal.\n\nHowever, the watchdog warned that economic uncertainty remained \"considerable\", and would depend on controlling variants of the virus.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the chancellor was \"betting on a recovery fuelled by a consumer spending blitz\".\n\nHe added: \"The chancellor may think that this is time for a victory lap, but I'm afraid this Budget won't feel so good for the millions of key workers who are having their pay frozen, for the businesses swamped by debt, and the families paying more in council tax.\"\n\nUnemployment is expected to peak at a lower rate of 6.5%, keeping it well below levels seen during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nHowever, this means half a million more people are expected to be out of work by the end of this year.\n\nGovernment borrowing is expected to rise to a peacetime high of £354.6bn this year to help pay for economic support measures.\n\nThe size of the UK's debt pile is also expected to remain larger than the economy until at least the middle of the decade.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"It's going to take this country - and the whole world - a long time to recover from this extraordinary economic situation. But we will recover.\"\n\nFrom April, he will also freeze the amount of money employees earn before paying income tax at £12,570 until the middle of the decade.\n\nThe OBR estimates an extra 1.3 million people will start to pay income tax by 2026 as a result of the freeze.\n\nThe level at which employees start paying the higher, 40% rate of tax will also be frozen at £50,270 from April, dragging an extra million people into the band within five years.", "BBC Three is set to return as a TV channel\n\nBBC Three will return as a fully-fledged TV channel in January 2022, six years after it moved online.\n\nThe channel has since been responsible for major hits including Fleabag, Normal People and Killing Eve - prompting calls for its resurrection.\n\nLast year, BBC research concluded there was a \"strong case\" for it to come back as a regular TV channel, focusing on younger audiences.\n\nMP Julian Knight said the move showed the BBC had \"failed\" those viewers.\n\n\"I question whether putting the clock back five years is the right way to win over 18-35s,\" said Mr Knight, who chairs the select committee for the department for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS).\n\n\"The BBC needs to back success and make sure its programmes reach as many young people as possible wherever they live in the UK,\" said the BBC's chief content officer, Charlotte Moore.\n\n\"So regardless of the debates about the past, we want to give BBC Three its own broadcast channel again.\"\n\nAs announced in the BBC's Annual Plan last year, the channel's budget will also be doubled over the next two years - a decision that was also criticised by Mr Knight, who accused the BBC of putting extra investment into programmes while \"those over 75 are being chased to pay up for their TV licences\".\n\nThe BBC ended the provision of free TV licences for most over-75s last year, after the government decided to stop paying for the benefit.\n\nRuPaul's Drag Race UK, currently in its second season, has proved a runaway success\n\nWhen it returns, BBC Three will be targeted at audiences aged 16-34, broadcasting from 19:00 to 04:00 each day.\n\nAs a result, CBBC's broadcast hours will revert to closing at 19:00 - as was the case before 2016. It currently runs until 21:00.\n\nThe move will still need approval from media regulator Ofcom before it can go ahead.\n\nSeven years ago the BBC announced that BBC Three would become digital only. The main reason given was the need to save money. The public narrative was: Young audiences congregate online rather than watch linear TV, so there's no point providing a linear service.\n\nSince then, three things have happened. The flight of young audiences to digital platforms, and away from scheduled TV, has accelerated. BBC Three has produced a big range of huge, global hits. And the pressure on the BBC, not least from Ofcom, to prove that it still appeals to young people has grown sharply.\n\nThis last point is critical. The BBC commissioned research showing that there is still a market of young people - albeit smaller than years ago - on linear platforms. Given the success of the shows commissioned by BBC Three, the feeling at the top of the organisation was that putting them back on a linear platform would create upside in terms of audience numbers, for relatively low cost.\n\nDespite the need for more savings today, that cost can be justified because when the BBC negotiates with the government over the future of the licence fee, it needs the strongest possible argument on its relevance and universal appeal.\n\nBBC Three was originally taken off air in March 2016. The corporation said the move would save £30m a year, helping it to reduce its spending after cuts imposed by the government in 2010.\n\nMuch of the budget was reallocated to fund drama on BBC One, while BBC Three was expected to target younger audiences online.\n\nBut the plans caused controversy, prompting the Save BBC Three campaign which saw more than 300,000 people sign a petition to keep it on air.\n\nJournalist and founder of the campaign Jono Read said the channel's return was \"great news\".\n\n\"It became clear that the decision to to take it off air was a counter-productive move that bosses had taken to sacrifice the station under the guise of budget cuts, and one that was deeply unpopular with its audience.\n\n\"Nonetheless the online move has shown real potential for BBC Three and I think it will thrive when it is once again given the chance to combine traditional and new media when it returns to TV in 2022\", he says.\n\nMany of BBC Three's commissions have ended up on linear TV, with shows like Killing Eve and Fleabag attracting huge audiences on BBC One.\n\nNormal People, about the tangled love lives of two Irish teenagers, also became the breakout hit of the first lockdown. It was requested on the BBC iPlayer 62.7 million times last year, more than any other programme.\n\nOther hit shows on the channel include Man Like Mobeen, This Country, Ru Paul's Drag Race UK and the Jesy Nelson documentary Odd One Out.\n\nIn its online incarnation, BBC Three has won a raft of awards, including RTS Channel of the Year in 2017 and Digital Channel of the Year 2019 at the Edinburgh TV Festival. It is currently Broadcast Digital Channel of the Year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The search for an individual infected with the Covid variant first found in Brazil has narrowed to 379 households in south-east England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe said the batch of home testing kits in question had been identified and each household was being contacted.\n\nIt is one of six cases of the P.1 variant found in the UK in February.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs the UK's current vaccines had not yet been tested against this variant.\n\nBut work is already under way to tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of these new \"variants of concern\".\n\nUpdated vaccines could be ready within months, enabling people to get a booster shot in the autumn.\n\nPreliminary data from Manaus - the Amazonian city hit hard by the P.1 variant - suggest it is more contagious and may evade immunity provided by past Covid infection.\n\nThis raises questions about how well current vaccines, which were designed around earlier versions of the virus, might work.\n\nMr Hancock said the variant had caused \"significant challenges\" in Brazil.\n\nHe added: \"We're doing all we can to stop the spread of this new variant in the UK, to analyse its effects, and to develop an updated vaccine that works on all these variants of concern and protect the progress that we've made as a nation.\"\n\nThe search comes as the UK recorded 6,391 new coronavirus cases, down 33% on last Tuesday.\n\nThe number of daily deaths reported has also fallen to 343 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, down 60% on last week.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the government was \"on track\" to meet its target of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top nine priority groups, including all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions, by 15 April and all adults by the end of July.\n\n\"Although the day-to-day figures of supply are lumpy, we have some bumper weeks ahead later this month,\" he added.\n\nIt almost went unnoticed with all the focus on the Brazil variant, but during his statement to the House of Commons Mr Hancock made an uncharacteristically confident prediction about vaccine supply.\n\nHe said there are some \"bumper\" weeks to come. It contrasts with the policy to date, which has been to not talk about supply or, when pushed, to keep referring to it as lumpy.\n\nSo why the change of tack? It is mainly related to production at AstraZeneca's two UK plants which are now both fully up-to-speed.\n\nIt could mean around four million doses a week could be given in the second half March - compared to between two and three million in recent weeks. Soon after that supplies of a third vaccine, Moderna, may start arriving in the country.\n\nMinisters often refer to the programme as a race - the vaccine against the virus. Well, if that's the case, the vaccination programme could soon be at full throttle.\n\nThe person infected with the variant who has not been traced used a home testing kit but did not complete their contact details, Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"Incidents like this are rare and only occur in around 0.1% of tests,\" he added.\n\nNews of the mystery case prompted an appeal for anyone without a result from a test on 12 or 13 February to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nThe case is not linked to five other cases of the Brazil variant in the UK and Mr Hancock said all these individuals quarantined at home as they were legally required to.\n\nTwo of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire. They tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February - five days before the government's hotel quarantine rule came into force for arrivals high-risk countries.\n\nEveryone in five postcode areas of South Gloucestershire is now being invited to take a Covid test, even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nMr Hancock said testing and sequencing in South Gloucestershire was being stepped up \"as a precaution\" and there was \"no information to suggest the variant has spread further\".\n\nTwo other people in the same household have also since tested positive for Covid - but tests are still ongoing to check if it is the same variant.\n\nPHE has said officials are tracking down passengers who were on the same flight - from Sao Paulo to Heathrow, via Zurich - as the two South Gloucestershire cases.\n\nA BBC reporter, Juliana Gragnani, was on another flight arriving at Heathrow from Brazil around the same time on 10 February.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she had been has been sent a Covid test kit, along with other passengers on her flight.\n\n\"After quarantining for more than two weeks, just to make sure, this afternoon I got a call from Test and Trace,\" she said. \"They're sending me a Covid kit and said this is being done with all passengers in my flight - AF1580.\n\n\"They also asked if I had taken a test after arriving in England.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said tougher border controls should have been in place sooner.\n\nHe asked: \"How on earth can a test be processed that doesn't collect the contact details and what mechanisms will be put in place to fix this in the future?\"\n\nThe other three cases are Scottish residents who flew to Aberdeen from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said there was no reason to believe the variant is in circulation in Scotland.\n\nHowever, she urged all those who were on board the BA1312 flight from Heathrow to Aberdeen on 29 January to contact the NHS National Contact Tracing Centre, because the correct details were not available for all passengers.", "China's policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs often far from home is leading to a thinning out of their populations, according to a high-level Chinese study seen by the BBC.\n\nThe government denies that it is attempting to alter the demographics of its far-western region and says the job transfers are designed to raise incomes and alleviate chronic rural unemployment and poverty.\n\nBut our evidence suggests that - alongside the re-education camps built across Xinjiang in recent years - the policy involves a high risk of coercion and is similarly designed to assimilate minorities by changing their lifestyles and thinking.\n\nThe study, which was meant for the eyes of senior officials but accidentally placed online, forms part of a BBC investigation based on propaganda reports, interviews, and visits to factories across China.\n\nAnd we ask questions about the possible connections between transferred Uighur labour and two major western brands, as international concern mounts over the extent to which it is already ingrained in global supply chains.\n\nIn a village in southern Xinjiang, hay is being gathered in the fields and families are placing fruit and flatbreads on their supas, the low platforms around which Uighur family life has traditionally revolved.\n\nBut the warm wind blowing across the Taklamakan desert is bringing with it worry and change.\n\nThe video report, broadcast by China's Communist Party-run news channel, shows a group of officials in the centre of the village, sitting under a red banner advertising jobs in Anhui Province, 4,000km away.\n\nAfter two full days, the reporter's narration says, not a single person from the village has come forward to sign up, and so the officials begin moving from house to house.\n\nWhat follows is some of the most compelling footage of China's massive campaign to transfer Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities in Xinjiang into factory and manual labouring jobs, often considerable distances from their homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 2017 TV report from China's state broadcaster illustrates how the policy works in practice\n\nAlthough it was broadcast in 2017, around the time the policy began to be intensified, the video has not featured in international news reporting until now.\n\nThe officials speak to one father who is clearly reluctant to send his daughter, Buzaynap, so far away.\n\n\"There must be someone else who'd like to go,\" he tries to plead. \"We can make our living here, let us live a life like this.\"\n\nThey speak directly to 19-year old Buzaynap, telling her that, if she stays she will be married soon and never able to leave.\n\n\"Have a think, will you go?\" they ask.\n\nUnder the intense scrutiny of the government officials and state-TV journalists she shakes her head and replies, \"I won't go.\"\n\nStill, the pressure continues until eventually, weeping, she concedes.\n\n\"I'll go if others go,\" she says.\n\nThe video has not featured in international news reporting until now\n\nThe film ends with tearful goodbyes between mothers and daughters as Buzaynap and other similarly \"mobilised\" recruits leave their family and culture behind.\n\nProfessor Laura Murphy is an expert in human rights and contemporary slavery at the UK's Sheffield Hallam University who lived in Xinjiang between 2004 and 2005 and has visited since.\n\n\"This video is remarkable,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The Chinese government continually says that people are volunteering to engage in these programmes, but this absolutely reveals that this is a system of coercion that people are not allowed to resist.\"\n\n\"The other thing it shows is this ulterior motive,\" she said, \"that although the narrative is one of lifting people out of poverty, there's a drive to entirely change people's lives, to separate families, disperse the population, change their language, their culture, their family structures, which is more likely to increase poverty than to decrease it.\"\n\nA marked shift in China's approach to its governance of Xinjiang can be traced back to two brutal attacks on pedestrians and commuters - in Beijing in 2013 and the city of Kunming in 2014 - which it blamed on Uighur Islamists and separatists.\n\nAt the heart of its response - in both the camps and the work transfer schemes - has been a drive to replace \"old\" Uighur loyalties to culture and the Islamic faith with a \"modern\" materialist identity and an enforced allegiance to the Communist Party.\n\nThis overarching goal of assimilating Uighurs into China's majority Han culture is made clear by an in-depth Chinese study of Xinjiang's job-transfer scheme, circulated to senior Chinese officials and seen by the BBC.\n\nBased on field work conducted in Xinjiang's Hotan Prefecture in May 2018, the report was inadvertently made publicly available online in December 2019 and then subsequently taken down a few months later.\n\nWritten by a group of academics from Nankai University in the Chinese city of Tianjin, it concludes that the mass labour transfers are \"an important method to influence, meld and assimilate Uighur minorities\" and bring about a \"transformation of their thinking.\"\n\nUprooting them and relocating them elsewhere in the region or in other Chinese provinces, it says, \"reduces Uighur population density.\"\n\nA dormitory building at the Huafu Textile Company, where Buzaynep was taken to work\n\nThe report was discovered online by an overseas-based Uighur who passed it to Dr Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington.\n\nBefore the university realized its error, Dr Zenz saved the report (in Chinese) on a web-archive site and has now written his own analysis of it, which includes an English translation of the full document.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented, authoritative source written by leading academics and former government officials with high-level access to Xinjiang itself,\" Dr Zenz told the BBC.\n\n\"The excess surplus population that somehow has to be dealt with, and labour transfers as a means to reduce the concentration of those workers in their own heartlands is, in my opinion, the most stunning admission of this report.\"\n\nHis analysis includes a legal opinion from Erin Farrell Rosenberg, a former senior advisor to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, that the Nankai Report provides \"credible grounds\" for the crimes against humanity of forcible transfer and persecution.\n\nIn a written statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said, \"The report reflects only the author's personal view and much of its contents are not in line with the facts.\"\n\n\"We hope that journalists will use the authoritative information released by the Chinese government as the basis for reporting on Xinjiang.\"\n\nThe Nankai report authors write glowingly of an effort to combat poverty underwritten by a \"guarantee of voluntariness\" in the work placements, and with the factories allowing the workers to \"leave and return freely.\"\n\nBut those claims are somewhat at odds with the level of detail they provide about the way the policy works in practice.\n\nThere are \"targets\" to be reached, with Hotan Prefecture alone - at the time the study was undertaken - having already exported 250,000 workers, one fifth of its total working age population.\n\nThere is pressure to meet the targets, with recruiting stations set up \"in every village\" and officials tasked to \"mobilize collectively\" and \"visit households,\" just as in 19-year-old Buzaynap's case.\n\nAnd there are signs of control at every stage, with all recruits put through \"political thought education,\" then transported to the factories in groups - sometimes as many as hundreds at a time - and \"led and accompanied by political cadres in order to implement security and management.\"\n\nFarmers unwilling to leave their lands or herds behind are encouraged to transfer them to a centralized government scheme that manages them in their absence.\n\nAnd once they arrive in their new factory jobs, workers themselves are put under the \"centralized management\" of officials who \"eat and live\" with them.\n\nBut the report also notes that the profound discrimination at the heart of the system is getting in the way of its effective functioning, with local police forces in eastern China so alarmed by the arrival of trainloads of Uighurs, that they are sometimes turned back.\n\nIn places, it even warns that China's policies in Xinjiang may have been too extreme, for example, stating that the number of people placed in the re-education camps \"far exceeds\" those with suspected connections to extremism.\n\n\"The entire Uighur population should not be assumed to be rioters,\" it says.\n\nThe Huafu Textile Company is located on the edge of a grey industrial estate in the city of Huaibei, in China's eastern province of Anhui.\n\nIt was to this factory that Buzaynap, featured in the state-TV report, was sent.\n\nWhen the BBC visited, the separate, five-story Uighur dormitory showed few signs of habitation apart from a pair of shoes placed by an open window.\n\nAt the gate, the security guard said that the Uighur workers \"have gone back home,\" adding that it was because of the country's Covid controls, and in a statement Huafu told us that, \"the company does not currently employ Xinjiang workers.\"\n\nThe BBC was able to find pillowcases made with Huafu yarn on sale on Amazon's UK website, although it is not possible to confirm if the product is linked to the particular factory we visited, or one of the company's other facilities.\n\nAmazon told the BBC that it does not tolerate the use of forced labour and that where it finds products that do not meet its supply chain standards, it removes them from sale.\n\nThe BBC worked with a group of international journalists based in China, visiting a total of six factories between us.\n\nThe entrance to the Dongguan Luzhou Shoes factory in Guangdong\n\nAt the Dongguan Luzhou Shoes factory in Guangdong Province, one worker said the Uighur employees used separate dormitories and their own canteen, and another local told reporters that the company makes shoes for Skechers.\n\nThe factory has previously been linked to the US company, with unverified social media videos purportedly showing Uighur workers making Skechers product lines, and references to a relationship in online Chinese business directories.\n\nIn a statement, Skechers said it had \"zero tolerance for forced labour,\" but did not answer questions about whether it used Dongguan Luzhou as a supplier.\n\nDongguan Luzhou did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nInterviews recorded at the scene suggest the Uighur workers were free to leave the factory during their leisure time, but at other factories visited for the research, the evidence was more mixed.\n\nIn at least two cases, reporters were told of some restrictions, and at one facility in the city of Wuhan a Han Chinese employee told the BBC that his 200 or so Uighur colleagues were not allowed out at all.\n\nThree months after Buzaynap was shown leaving her village to begin her political education training, the Chinese state-TV crew meet her again, this time in the Huafu Textile Company in Anhui.\n\nThe theme of assimilation is, once again, central to the news report.\n\nIn one scene, Buzaynap is close to tears as she is scolded for her mistakes, but eventually, a transformation is said to be taking place.\n\n\"The timid girl who didn't speak and kept her head down,\" we are told, \"is gaining authority at work.\"\n\n\"Lifestyles are changing and thoughts are changing.\"", "Gerry Smith (L) is tested for the virus every time she visits her mother's care home\n\nLeading care organisations in England are warning of a \"cliff edge\" when emergency funding to support infection control and visits during the pandemic runs out in two weeks.\n\nSome providers fear the financial pressure could force them to close.\n\nThey say the budget was a missed chance to tackle the short- and long-term funding crisis in adult social care.\n\nIn 2019, on his first day as prime minister, Boris Johnson committed to 'fix the crisis in social care'.\n\nMinisters say they will bring forward proposals this year.\n\nThe emergency funds are to help care homes and home care services with additional Covid costs, including infection control, visiting measures and extra staffing.\n\nThe Victory Care home in Chatham, Kent, which normally cares for 60 people, has used some of its emergency money on staff to organise visits and testing.\n\n\"Everything from extra newsletters, Zoom calls, the telephone calls, and then there will be additional resources put into ensuring people are tested, ensuring the tests are logged so that we know what our team's results are,\" says Raina Summerson, chief executive of Agincare, which runs the home.\n\nGerry Smith, whose mother Julia moved there last October, is tested every time she visits.\n\n\"We haven't got out of the pandemic yet, so we still need to keep the precautions going for a bit longer until everyone's had the vaccine that's going to have the vaccine and the numbers have dropped,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nCare home running costs have spiralled during the pandemic, says Agincare chief executive Raina Summerson\n\nBut if emergency funding stops in two weeks, there are fears about the impact on care home visiting, testing and even the survival of some providers.\n\nMs Summerson says whilst Agincare is secure, the care homes and home care services she runs have seen wage bills rise between 10% and 18% during the pandemic.\n\nBut, she says, fee rates offered by councils and the NHS for the year ahead are mainly staying the same or increasing by 1-2%.\n\n\"We will still have costs related to additional staffing for visiting, we will still need to be doing testing regularly, we will still need to be doing robust - more so than usual - infection control procedures,\" she says.\n\n\"Who will suffer through this lack of funding? People who desperately need services, and our workforce who have given so much over this last year. It feels like a real slap in the face for them.\"\n\nThe seven organisations which signed the statement call themselves an \"unprecedented alliance\" of local politicians, council social service directors, care providers and people who need support.\n\nThey say the absence of social care in the Budget was \"disappointing and a missed chance to provide much-needed certainty\".\n\nThey want the government to publish its long-promised social care reform plan by the summer.\n\nThree years ago, Christie Michael and her mother Maria moved from one area where they were both eligible for council support to another with a very different approach.\n\nChristie has a rare condition that means her joints dislocate very easily.\n\nChristie Michael and her mother Maria say lack of long-term investment in social care has affected them directly\n\nBut once they moved, Christie was not entitled to local authority funded help, and rather than four hours support a day, her mum was offered an hour and 15 minutes.\n\nThey say the council told them they would have to pay £75 a week towards the care.\n\n\"We decided to stop the care, we just could not afford it.\n\n\"We already needed food banks before when we were getting free care,\" says Christie.\n\nShe is now her mother's full-time carer.\n\n\"I feel like I owe her and I want to do it, but it means that I don't have a life and it means that my physical health and my mental health is declining as well.\"\n\n\"I absolutely do not think you should get social care according to your postcode.\n\n\"It should be nationwide, available to everyone.\"\n\nThe full list of signatories is:", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\n\"Listen to the regulators\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock urges and tells people to \"get the jab\" as soon as they get the opportunity. He insists the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe after some European nations paused its use amid concern over blood clots. The UK's medicines watchdog, the MHRA, says evidence \"does not suggest\" the jab causes clots but some 13 countries have suspended use of the vaccine while they seek further clarification on its safety.\n\nA government scheme to house rough sleepers during the pandemic \"exposed the scale\" of the issue, say MPs. More than 37,000 people were taken off the streets by January 2021 as part of the Everyone In initiative, brought in due to Covid. This was praised by the Public Accounts Committee which said the number was nearly nine times official estimates of rough sleepers, showing a \"much larger\" issue than the government had \"acknowledged\". The government says it has \"ambitious plans\" to end rough sleeping.\n\nThe government's programme to help pupils who have missed school time catch up may not be reaching the most disadvantaged children, a report says. The National Tutoring Programme was launched last year to give extra tuition to the UK's poorest pupils and so far the Department for Education said it has invested £2bn to help pupils. However, fewer than half of pupils who have already received tuition as part of the scheme are from the poorest families, a National Audit Office report found.\n\nWithdrawals from cash machines in the UK have fallen by £37bn during the 12 months of the Covid pandemic, renewing the debate over the future of cash. Link, which oversees the UK's cash machine network, says the number of visits to ATMs has fallen by 43% compared with the previous 12 months. But the amount withdrawn on each cash machine visit has gone up, from an average of £67 to £84. Less demand and Covid restrictions mean 4,000 fewer free ATMs are in operation.\n\nDoctors and nurses in intensive care departments have shared their experiences throughout the pandemic, but what of the army of staff who have worked behind the scenes to keep hospitals running? The BBC spoke to three people about the highs and lows of the past year. Here are their stories.\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.", "Customers who pay too much to their energy supplier through their monthly direct debit payment should receive automatic annual refunds, Ofgem says.\n\nFor years, customers have complained that energy firms can hoard thousands of pounds of overpayments and would only return it on request.\n\nNow the regulator has proposed balances are cleared once a year, claiming suppliers held a surplus of £1.4bn.\n\nIt said some were using the money for \"unsustainable business practices\".\n\nEnergy UK, which represents suppliers, said direct debits evened out bills even though domestic gas and electricity use varied considerably during the year.\n\nFor the millions of customers paying by direct debit, energy firms set a sum to be collected each month. The amount is based on predictions of how much gas and electricity will be used, taking previous records into account.\n\nOften the balances go into credit in the summer, when less energy is used, before moving back closer to parity during the colder months.\n\nHowever, meter readings may show that direct debits have been set too high, meaning a customer has consistently overpaid.\n\nThis can build up, in some cases, to thousands of pounds. In 2016, the BBC reported how one customer was shocked to discover that his energy supplier owed him £3,049 - with similar complaints having been made for years.\n\nCurrent rules state the onus is on the customer to request a refund of the money. The process can take months.\n\nNow, Ofgem has proposed that, from next year, companies automatically refund customers on the anniversary of the start of payments or their contract.\n\nThat would mean a customer who signed up with a firm in April, for example, would see their excess balance the following April automatically refunded into their bank account.\n\nOfgem estimates that people would receive £65 on average, under the latest calculations.\n\n\"These new proposals would ensure that suppliers are not holding onto more of customers' money than absolutely necessary, potentially returning millions of pounds of customers' money,\" said Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem.\n\n\"This is an important step in making the retail energy market fairer for consumers at a time when many are facing financial hardship.\"\n\nThe regulator said it had evidence that excess payments were being used by some suppliers to prop up parts of the business that would otherwise be unsustainable.\n\nTo prevent firms simply increasing direct debits during a year, the regulator is proposing a threshold for these payments. The methodology will be discussed during consultation.\n\nAny customers who owe money at the end of the year will, as is currently the case, receive a catch-up bill or see regular direct debits increased over the following year.\n\nThe Energy Ombudsman received 1,000 complaints about credit balances last year.\n\n\"Just as people are expected to pay their energy bills on time, we think it's fair to expect energy suppliers to do the same with refunds,\" said Ed Dodman, director of regulatory affairs at the Energy Ombudsman.\n\n\"We know from looking at complaints that suppliers can sometimes take too long to issue refunds, which can be stressful for consumers.\"\n\nOn behalf of suppliers, Energy UK said: \"Paying by direct debit helps customers budget by ensuring they pay a regular amount each month even though their actual energy usage varies significantly over the year.\n\n\"Some suppliers already refund credit balances automatically so we now need to look in detail at Ofgem's proposals.\"", "A government scheme to house rough sleepers during the pandemic \"exposed the scale\" of the issue, say MPs.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee praised the Everyone In initiative, brought in due to Covid, which took over 37,000 people off the streets by January 2021.\n\nBut they said the number was nearly nine times official estimates of rough sleepers, showing a \"much larger\" issue than the government had \"acknowledged\".\n\nThe government said it had \"ambitious plans\" to end rough sleeping.\n\nHowever, the committee expressed concern that the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government \"still does not have a plan\" to achieve this commitment.\n\nIn January, the National Audit Office called on the government to review its rough sleeping strategy in light of the figures from Everyone In, claiming it was \"out of step\" with the problem.\n\nEveryone In was an emergency scheme launched in March 2020 as the pandemic hit the country.\n\nIt saw local councils in England given an initial share of £3.2m to provide accommodation for rough sleepers, often in hotels or hostels.\n\nOverall, councils in England have received over £700m to help tackle homelessness during 2020-21, including providing accommodation for rough sleepers.\n\nThe Everyone In programme received widespread praise for helping the vulnerable group and protecting them from coronavirus - with the committee saying it helped avert more than 20,000 infections.\n\nBut the group of MPs said it also showed how serious a problem rough sleeping was in the country.\n\nThe latest official estimate from the government of the number of people sleeping rough was 2,688, down from 4,266 in autumn 2019.\n\nBut the figure is based on a snapshot survey 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\nThe number also does not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could miss people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nThe estimate was far outstripped by the number of homeless people given accommodation through the Everyone In scheme over the course of the crisis, which hit 37,430 in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAhead of the 2019 election, the Conservative Party pledged to end rough sleeping in England by the end of the Parliament in 2024.\n\nBut with the reality of the situation laid bare, the committee is concerned whether that target will be met, claiming a plan is not yet in place.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said: \"Everyone In was a success with local authorities and voluntary organisations working to help people living on the street into hostels and hotel rooms in a matter of days.\n\n\"But the Everyone In initiative has exposed the scale of the task the Ministry of Housing faces to meet the government's commitment to end rough sleeping in three years.\"\n\nThe committee also questioned whether a government target to provide 3,300 homes for people sleeping rough by the end of March 2021 would be reached, accusing it of \"disappointing evasiveness\" around the plan.\n\nAnd it raised concerns over long term funding of local authorities, especially giving them permission to help people with no recourse to public funds - a term used for some immigrants who are not entitled to certain government benefits.\n\nMs Hillier added: \"Rough sleeping was a massive public health issue long before the pandemic, and much larger than government has previously publicly acknowledged.\n\n\"[The ministry] now has a huge opportunity to capitalise on this success in the pandemic response and begin to reverse its long record of failed and abandoned housing targets and policies.\n\n\"People without recourse to public funds are still left exposed and risk losing support. Support for these people is urgent.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said it rejected the \"unfounded criticisms in this report\" arguing that the committee \"misuses different data to provide an inaccurate picture\".\n\nShe added that the government was providing \"over £700m this year and £750m next year\" to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Campbell talks to BBC Newsnight about his case.\n\nA man with learning difficulties who admitted to a murder 30 years ago should have his conviction quashed because he confessed to police without a lawyer present, his solicitor says.\n\nCampbell, who was 19 at the time, says he was \"put under pressure\" to \"admit to something that I didn't do\".\n\nPolice say the interviews were fair, while a judge ruled them admissible.\n\nMr Mullinger believes officers failed to tell him that his client - who was accused of shooting dead a London shopkeeper - had waived his right to a solicitor because they realised that he would try to change Campbell's mind.\n\nHe told Newsnight: \"The police did not have anything like sufficient evidence, probably even to get a prosecution off the ground, let alone a conviction without something more. And the more was going to be a confession.\"\n\nCampbell, 50, who suffered a brain injury when he was eight months old, has always protested his innocence and has been fighting his conviction for many years. He was released from prison on life licence in 2002.\n\nOn 22 July 1990, two men entered a shop in east London intent on robbery. The owner, 42-year-old Baldev Hoondle, pressed a panic alarm before one of the men pulled out a gun and shot him in the head at close range.\n\nNewsnight approached Mr Hoondle's family but they did not wish to participate in the programme.\n\nShopkeeper Baldev Hoondle was murdered in his off-licence in July 1990\n\nCampbell - a local teenager - was arrested on suspicion of robbery and murder and brought in for questioning at Hackney police station.\n\nOn 1 December 1990, Mr Mullinger attended a police interview with his client alongside an appropriate adult from social services who was there because the police accepted that Campbell was mentally vulnerable.\n\nMr Mullinger and the appropriate adult left at around 6.30pm thinking interviews were over for the day, with Mr Mullinger saying that police officers had agreed to call him back if that changed.\n\nThe police say Campbell then decided to confess to murder and had waived his right to a solicitor.\n\nOfficers then brought his foster mother in to the police station and she agreed to become the appropriate adult for the new interview, which went ahead without Mr Mullinger's knowledge.\n\nHe told Newsnight he was misled and believes the police realised that getting a confession would be less likely if Campbell was legally represented.\n\nHe said: \"The officer should have telephoned me and said, 'I think Oliver wants to speak to me. Will you come over to be part of the interview?' And I would have said, 'yes, of course'… And we would have had the interview.\n\n\"I don't know how that interview would have panned out, but it would have been undoubtedly a fair interview.\"\n\nArthur Mullinger believes Campbell's conviction should be quashed because the confession would be ruled inadmissible today\n\nCampbell's foster mother, who was a magistrate, was so shocked by his confession to murder that she was physically sick. She said at the time that she felt manipulated by the police.\n\nNewsnight obtained the original tapes of the police interviews conducted and traced the senior officer who interviewed Campbell in 1990.\n\nThe officer, who the BBC is choosing not to name, denies that the interview was unfair and told Newsnight he suspects Campbell is \"in denial of murder\", adding: \"When he was interviewed by me, he had the assistance of a solicitor or an appropriate adult to look after him...\n\n\"It is correct he did not have a solicitor present when he confessed. However, his appropriate adult was present throughout and he had waived his right to have his solicitor.\"\n\nHe added: \"His interview tape recordings were played at his trial and the jury had ample opportunity to consider whether or not his confession was genuine\", and said this was \"not the only evidence which incriminated him\".\n\nThe officer said the interviews were tape recorded and conducted in accordance with the Codes of Practice issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act which applied at that time.\n\nBut Mr Mullinger and Campbell's current legal team say his conviction should be quashed because the confession would be ruled inadmissible today.\n\nGlyn Maddocks and Michael Birnbaum have been fighting to clear Campbell's name for the past 20 years.\n\nOliver Campbell was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder in 1991\n\nMr Maddocks said: \"Oliver Campbell is a mentally disabled person who was no match for a group of experienced and manipulative police officers.\n\n\"The 'admissions' Oliver made were inconsistent, varied noticeably from the evidence and in some places were quite absurd.\"\n\nMr Birnbaum QC said: \"I can't prove this - this is a strong suspicion [but] I think they realised that they were never going to get an admission from him if a solicitor was present.\"\n\nCampbell's confession statements were ruled admissible at his trial in 1991. Mr Birnbaum QC told Newsnight: \"The trial judge conducted a hearing about whether to admit that statement - declare it admissible - and said that there had been no impropriety by the police.\n\n\"But I don't believe the defence counsel brought up any of these to my mind pretty obvious points that could be made about the unfairness of the police conduct.\"\n\nThe prosecution relied on three main strands of evidence apart from Campbell's confession:\n\nBut Campbell's lawyers say his confession was key, and there was no solicitor present for that.\n\nCampbell was released from prison after serving 11 years in 2002 and is now living in sheltered accommodation in Suffolk. He is still a convicted murderer, a label he says is ruining his life.\n\nHe told Newsnight that the police questioning was unfair, adding: \"I was put under pressure… to say things that I didn't want to say at the end of the day… to admit to something that I didn't do. And I felt scared at the time.\"\n\nSome of the police interview tactics were later described by an independent psychologist as \"highly manipulative and relentless\", while one of the questions lasted almost three minutes.\n\nThe case is now being reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) for the second time. In 2005, it decided not to refer it back to the Court of Appeal. A key reason for this was that it argued that many of the apparent weaknesses in evidence had already been considered by the courts.\n\nMr Birnbaum QC says there are fresh grounds today, both on the detail of the evidence and the circumstances surrounding Campbell's confession.\n\nHe said: \"The law and practise in regard to the way that mentally challenged suspects and defendants are treated has changed very considerably in their favour.\n\n\"Today his interviews would never be heard by a jury because of the unfairness of the police questioning and because I don't think the prosecution could prove that he understood the implications of being interviewed without a solicitor.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said: \"The case was fully investigated at the time with a range of evidence brought before a jury who convicted the defendant in 1991.\n\n\"We are aware this matter is with the Criminal Cases Review Commission and therefore it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nWatch the full report on Newsnight at 22:45 GMT on Tuesday 16 March on BBC 2 or later on iPlayer.", "Stuart Lubbock was found dead in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool in March 2001\n\nA 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the indecent assault and murder of Stuart Lubbock at the home of Michael Barrymore.\n\nMr Lubbock, 31, died in hospital after being found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex.\n\nHe had been attending a party at the home of Mr Barrymore, 68, with eight other people in March 2001.\n\nThe man, who was arrested in Cheshire, has since been released on bail, Essex Police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Lubbock had suffered \"horrific\" injuries prior to his death, police said.\n\nAlcohol, ecstasy and cocaine were found in his bloodstream.\n\nDet Supt Lucy Morris, Essex Police's head of major crime, said the arrest was made after \"significant new information\" came to light following a renewed appeal in February 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"This information has led to us making an arrest and over the coming days we will be contacting all those who were present at the party at the time as well as others who may have information,\" she said.\n\n\"As we stated last February and have continually stated over the last 20 years, we believe someone or some people at that party know what happened.\"\n\nDet Supt Morris said the investigation had been \"extremely lengthy and complex\", adding: \"We have never given up on finding out what exactly happened to Stuart and we will not stop in our pursuit of justice for him and for his family and friends.\"\n\nMr Lubbock, a butcher from Harlow, was described by neighbours at the time of his death as a \"pleasant, sociable\" man.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged with any offence in relation to his death.\n\nStuart Lubbock's father Terry said he had been living \"to get justice\" for his son\n\nReacting to news of the arrest, Mr Lubbock's father Terry said: \"There is just so much going on in my head. I can't get my head around it.\n\n\"Of course I'm happy. Of course this is good news. But it's been 20 years. This has nearly killed me.\"\n\nIn February, the 76-year-old from Harlow said he had only months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\n\"All I've been living for is to get justice for Stuart,\" he said.\n\nMr Barrymore and two other men were arrested in 2007 on suspicion of sexual assault and murder, but were later released without charge.\n\nThe TV personality, who was known for shows including Strike It Lucky, has always denied involvement in the death.\n\nSpeaking last year, he said: \"I have had nothing to do with this whatsoever and yet I keep getting bashed and bullied by the media.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a spokesman for Mr Barrymore said it would be inappropriate to comment following the arrest.\n\nMr Barrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Mr Lubbock died\n\nAn inquest into Mr Lubbock's death, in 2002, recorded an open verdict.\n\nThree years ago, the then-attorney general, Jeremy Wright, refused to let Terry Lubbock make a High Court application for a second inquest.\n\nIn 2009, the police watchdog published the findings of a review of the investigation into Mr Lubbock's death, concluding that officers missed crucial evidence and did not ensure vital forensic tests were completed until six years later.\n\nLast year's police appeal coincided with the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary about Mr Lubbock's death.\n\nThe death of Stuart Lubbock was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary in 2020\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The British army is already the smallest it's been in 400 years. And it's about to get even smaller.\n\nA cut in the number of troops is expected in a defence review, due to be published next month.\n\nOptions include losing up to 10,000 soldiers from the regular Army's notional strength of 82,000 in order to help fund its modernisation.\n\nMinisters have made clear there will still have to be painful decisions for the armed forces, despite the extra £16.5bn given to the Ministry of Defence over the next four years.\n\nA senior Army officer has told the BBC that technology will allow the Army to become \"leaner and more agile\".\n\nBut it comes amid warnings that the Army is already too small, and that more cuts will worry allies and limit its ability to fight.\n\nOver the past year the Army has been preparing for a radical transformation.\n\nIt wants to embrace new technologies - from drones and robots to artificial intelligence.\n\nBrig John Clark, the head of Army strategy, insists no decision on troop numbers has yet been made.\n\nBut he says by harnessing technology \"you're able to achieve the same effect with fewer people\".\n\nHowever, Jack Watling, of London's Royal United Services Institute warns of \"the excitement of new capabilities coming at the expense of traditional hard military power\".\n\nRemember, the majority of soldiers in a modern army are there to support and sustain a fighting force.\n\nThe tip of the spear, the combat element, is often about a third of an army's total strength.\n\nThe rumours in Whitehall suggest the Army will be losing several infantry battalions, part of the fighting force.\n\nMr Watling says an army of just 72,000 should still be able to take and hold \"a small town\", bearing in mind the British army struggled to secure the Iraqi city of Basra, when it was 100,000 strong.\n\nIt might appear to be a contradiction, but the Army believes even if it's smaller, it can still have a bigger presence around the world.\n\nIt's embraced the government's mantra of \"global Britain\".\n\nFor the Army it'll mean operating from a number of \"global hubs\" in parts of the world where it already has a presence - such as Kenya, Oman and Brunei.\n\nBrig Clark says: \"We see those as launchpads through which we can routinely send more of the British army out to train, develop and demonstrate.\"\n\nHe says by being forward-deployed the Army will be able to respond and manage threats \"more rapidly and decisively\".\n\nHe describes it as prevention rather than cure.\n\nIt signals a shift in the way the Army wants to operate.\n\nBrig Clark talks of \"smaller teams that can go out there and compete beneath the threshold of conflict\" - the so-called \"grey zone\" where militaries operate discreetly in the blurred lines between war and peace.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said: \"I see a clear aspiration to do more with the Army further away, but forces cannot be everywhere at once.\"\n\nThere are certainly questions as to whether a smaller army, spread around the world, will be able to meet its existing commitments to Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).\n\nIn theory, the UK can deploy a war fighting division to defend Europe.\n\nMr Watling of Rusi says among the components of a division would be around 200 main battle tanks.\n\nThe British army is likely to have half that number.\n\nMr Barry, of the IISS, says allies in eastern Europe are left wondering whether the British army of the future will be sending \"armour and infantry or aggressive algorithms\" to help defend them.\n\nThe Army's plans do include updating increasingly obsolete armoured vehicles and the addition of more potent long-range artillery systems.\n\nBrig Clark insists the Army will still be able to field a warfighting division.\n\nBut the Army's definition of a division appears to be changing.\n\nThe UK already has one of the smallest armies of any major European nation.\n\nAnd that worries its closest military ally, the United States.\n\nUS General Mark Milley's plea to the British army at a London conference just a few years ago was that \"you don't get any smaller\".\n\nKim Darroch, the former British ambassador to Washington, recently said the message from the Pentagon was \"…do not go down any further and expect to retain your current credibility\".\n\nThe truth is that the British Army's credibility had already been damaged in the eyes of the US.\n\nAmerica had to come to the rescue of the British army in both Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nMr Barry and Mr Watling also question whether an army of 72,000 could do another Helmand - a long, enduring campaign.\n\nBut the British army has a recent history of biting off more than it can chew.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said vaccine supply is \"always lumpy, but we're on course\"\n\nThe NHS has warned of a \"significant reduction in the weekly supply\" of Covid vaccines in England next month in a letter to local health organisations.\n\nThe letter says there has been a \"reduction in national inbound vaccines supply\" and asks organisations to \"ensure no further appointments are uploaded\" to booking systems in April.\n\nThe health secretary said it was a \"standard\" letter.\n\nThe BBC understands no-one who has booked a vaccine should lose a slot.\n\nAsked about it during a Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said the NHS regularly sent out \"technical letters\" that explained the \"ups and downs\" of supply.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there would be fewer AstraZeneca vaccines than expected because of issues with the company's international supply.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said he understood that the vaccine supply issue related to a consignment from a manufacturer in India, with half of the order delayed by four weeks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hugh Pym This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for the AstraZeneca said: \"Our UK domestic supply chain is not experiencing any disruption and there is no impact on our delivery schedule.\"\n\nWe were always warned supply was fragile - and these developments are a reminder of that.\n\nThe UK has its own plants that are supplying one to two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine each week.\n\nThere are also stocks coming from Pfizer's Belgium plant - these would be the ones that would be susceptible to any restrictions on exports the EU is threatening.\n\nThe Indian supplies were supposed to give the UK the \"bumper\" end to March, allowing the government to push ahead with vaccination of the under-50s within weeks.\n\nThis has now been put on hold, given significant numbers will need their second doses from the start of next month.\n\nThe government is still on track to hit its target to offer all adults a vaccine by the end of July.\n\nBy late Spring the first doses of Moderna - the third vaccine to have been approved in the UK - should start arriving.\n\nBut the delay to the second shipment from India means rollout is going to take a little longer than hoped at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter from the NHS in England says that \"over this next period it is vital\" that health organisations focus on vaccinating those in the priority groups one to nine, who are most vulnerable to coronavirus.\n\nIt advises vaccination services to work with local authorities, voluntary community and faith organisations \"to put in place reserve lists\" of people eligible for the vaccine - as well as targeting areas of lower uptake.\n\nThe NHS says vaccination centres and community pharmacy-led services should close unfilled bookings from the week commencing 29 March.\n\nEarlier, it was announced that almost half of British adults have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - more than 25 million people.\n\nAround 1.7 million people have also had a second dose.\n\nDuring Wednesday's briefing, Mr Hancock said the UK was \"ahead of schedule\" to offer a first dose to all over-50s by 15 April.\n\nHe also reiterated a commitment to ensuring that all adults in the UK are offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam encouraged people to get a vaccine when offered one\n\nSpeaking alongside the health secretary, Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said \"every day we vaccinate more people we are preventing more deaths\".\n\nAnd England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said there was \"no evidence\" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine causes an \"increased risk\" of blood clots.\n\nThe EU's medicines regulator has said it remains \"firmly convinced\" that the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks, after several leading EU states paused their rollouts.\n\nProf Van-Tam added that all medicines have both side effects and benefits, and listed some of the rare side effects of paracetamol as examples, pointing out that most people had no issue with taking it.\n\nBBC politics correspondent Jonathan Blake said the hold-up would have an impact on the momentum of the vaccine rollout and possibly the government's targets.\n\nLabour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tweeted that people \"across the country\" would be \"anxious and worried\" about the news of delays.\n\n\"Matt Hancock must explain what the issue is with supply and what efforts are being made to resolve them,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU \"will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate\".\n\nThe EU and the UK have been engaged in a diplomatic row over the export of the vaccines, exacerbated by post-Brexit disagreements.\n\nAlso during the briefing, Mr Hancock confirmed that shielding guidance in England would end on 31 March - meaning that more than 3.7 million vulnerable people in England will no longer have to shield.\n\nA further 141 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive test, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard. A further 5,758 people have tested positive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hairdressers and garden centres set to open in Scotland\n\nHairdressers and garden centres will be allowed to reopen in Scotland from 5 April, days after the \"stay at home\" lockdown order will be lifted.\n\nPeople will still have to stay inside their own local authority areas until 26 April, when the travel ban will be lifted within Scotland.\n\nThat date will also see all shops, gyms and tourist accommodation reopen, as well as some indoor hospitality.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that \"brighter days are ahead of us\".\n\nThe \"stay at home\" order, which has been in place since December, will be lifted on 2 April - although Ms Sturgeon said people would be encouraged to \"stay local\" for a further three weeks.\n\nOther changes - including the reopening of hairdressers, click and collect services and homeware shops and the resumption of outdoor contact sports for 12 to 17-year-olds - will be phased in from 5 April.\n\nAll children should return to school full-time after the Easter break, which for some will be from 12 April.\n\nThe first minister said the government was on track to hit the target of giving a first dose of vaccine to all priority groups - including \"a significant majority of Scotland's adult population\" - by mid-April.\n\nShe said this would \"give us confidence to ease restrictions much more significantly from 26 April\".\n\nIt is expected that all areas which are under level four restrictions will move down to level three from that date, and that:\n\nA decision has not yet been taken on whether people will be allowed to meet indoors from 26 April, with Ms Sturgeon saying the situation would be kept \"under ongoing review\".\n\nShe told MSPs that four people from two households would be allowed to meet indoors from 17 May at the latest.\n\nOther changes from mid-May could include the return of cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls, along with adult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercises.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said that to come up with precise dates for other changes - like \"normal family gatherings where we can hug our loved ones, sporting events, gigs and nightclubs\" - would involve \"plucking it out of thin air\".\n\nHowever, she said she was \"optimistic\" that these things could be possible by summer, particularly as the vaccine programme continues.\n\n\"This is certainly the most hopeful I have felt about the situation for a long time,\" she said.\n\nRestrictions on journeys between Scotland and other parts of the UK are likely to be lifted on 26 April, or \"as soon as possible thereafter\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that international travel would not be possible until at least mid-May due to the risk of importing new cases of the virus.\n\nShe said that \"our view is that it may well not be possible for a further period after that\" - and that pre-departure and post-arrival testing would likely remain in place \"for some time to come\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the statement was overdue, but welcome.\n\nHowever, she said there had been no mention of measures like reopening more court services and certain NHS treatments.\n\nAnd she called for the reopening of gyms to be brought forward so women in particular can \"get out of the house and do basic exercise without fear\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the current lockdown must be the last one, and that the government needed \"effective testing and tracing\" systems to keep infections low.\n\nHe called for more backing for businesses to recover from the pandemic, saying that \"transitional support must be available over the longer term to avoid businesses having to close\".\n\nData not dates was to be the key to lockdown easing in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister now seems confident enough in the trend in coronavirus suppression data to give indicative dates for when traditional freedoms should be restored.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson did this a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon was criticised by some for being overly cautious and insufficiently optimistic.\n\nToday, there's caution still - all easing depends on keeping down the virus and keeping up the vaccination programme.\n\nBut the first minister said this was the \"most hopeful\" she had felt for a long time and that \"something much closer to actual normality\" might be achieved as we move into summer.\n\nThe change in tone feels significant and this timetable comes just a week before the first anniversary of the original lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government had to make \"careful, cautious, sensible and sometime unpopular decisions\" to make sure the exit from lockdown kept moving \"steadily and in one direction\".\n\nThe final payments of a range of business support grants are due to be paid in March and April, but Ms Sturgeon acknowledged the \"need for medium term-support\". She said the government had continued rates relief for the worst-hit sectors for the whole of the coming financial year.\n\nScottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone said the lifting of restrictions was \"most welcome for everyone\", but voiced a concern about a slight increase in daily cases and called for more testing on university and college campuses.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"any time we open up and people start to come together there is greater opportunity for transmission\", and that \"we need to get all of the pieces of this in balance as much as we can\".\n\nScottish Lib Dem Willie Rennie pressed for more information about the \"indicators that will allow people to understand when they will be moving from one level to the next in their area\".\n\nThe first minister said everything was \"predicated on the data going in the right direction\", and that \"all bets are off\" if case numbers rise sharply again.\n\nShe told MSPs that her \"hope and ambition\" was that all of Scotland could be in level one by early June, and then the bottom tier - level zero - from the end of that month.", "The 61-year-old president died from heart complications on Wednesday\n\nTanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced.\n\nHe died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television.\n\nMr Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours had been circulating about his health.\n\nOpposition politicians said last week that he had contracted Covid-19, but this has not been confirmed.\n\nMr Magufuli was one of Africa's most prominent coronavirus sceptics, and called for prayers and herbal-infused steam therapy to counter the virus.\n\n\"It is with deep regret that I inform you that today... we lost our brave leader, the president of the Republic of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli,\" Vice-President Hassan said in the announcement.\n\nShe said there would be 14 days of national mourning and flags would fly at half mast.\n\nAccording to Tanzania's constitution, Ms Hassan will be sworn in as the new president within 24 hours and should serve the remainder of Mr Magufuli's five-year term which he began last year.\n\nMr Magufuli was last seen in public on 27 February, but Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa insisted last week that the president was \"healthy and working hard\".\n\nHe blamed the rumours of the president's ill-health on \"hateful\" Tanzanians living abroad.\n\nBut opposition leader Tundu Lissu told the BBC that his sources had told him Mr Magufuli was being treated in hospital for coronavirus in Kenya.\n\nMagufuli was first elected president in 2015\n\nWhen Covid-19 arrived in Tanzania, Mr Magufuli called on people to go to churches and mosques to pray. \"Coronavirus, which is a devil, cannot survive in the body of Christ... It will burn instantly,\" he said.\n\nHe declared Tanzania \"Covid-19 free\" last June, saying the virus had been eradicated by three days of national prayer.\n\nHe also mocked the efficacy of masks, expressed doubts about testing, and teased neighbouring countries which imposed health measures to curb the virus.\n\n\"Countries in Africa will be coming here to buy food in the years to come… they will be suffering because of shutting down their economy,\" he said, according to the Associated Press.\n\nTanzania has not published details of its coronavirus cases since May, and the government has refused to purchase vaccines.\n\nOn Monday, police said they had arrested four people on suspicion of spreading rumours on social media that the president was ill.\n\n\"To spread rumours that he's sick smacks of hate,\" Mr Majaliwa said at the time.\n\nThe country is in a sombre mood - for the first time in its six decades of existence, Tanzania has lost a sitting president, John Pombe Magufuli.\n\nThe news of his death was received with shock and disbelief - although there were rumours of his illness, the authorities reassured the country that all was well with him.\n\nFrom his home district of Chato to the capital of Dodoma to the business hub of Dar es Salaam, most Tanzanians have been mourning Magufuli.\n\nThere are those with a different view, especially on social media led by exiled opposition politician Tundu Lissu, who has been speculating that President Magufuli had contracted Covid which led to his death, however the authorities have insisted the death was caused by heart complications.\n\nTanzanians are now turning their minds to the succession, which should see current Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan become the country's first female president.\n\nMr Magufuli was declared president on his 56th birthday in October 2015. He was elected for a second term following a disputed poll last year.\n\nHe was hailed for his anti-corruption stance during his time in office, but he was also accused of cracking down on dissent and curtailing certain freedoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: John Magufuli, the son of a peasant farmer who became Tanzania's president\n\nHis critics agree that Mr Magufuli contributed to Tanzania's development. He invested in large infrastructure projects such as a standard-gauge railway to connect the country with its neighbours, major highways, and a bus system in the commercial hub of Dar es Salaam.\n\nHe also increased electricity production, reducing the need for power rationing.\n\nBut it is his approach to Covid-19 that many analysts say will define his legacy.\n\nIn Tanzania, people have reacted with grief and disbelief to the news of Mr Magufuli's death.\n\nOne, Joseph Petro, told the BBC he thought Mr Magufuli was a \"caring\" leader, adding \"he was helping people in one way or another\".\n\n\"I am really pained. I am personally pained,\" he said.\n\nTanzania has declared 14 days of national mourning for the president\n\nAnother, Illuminata Abel, offered similar sentiments: \"He was not my relative, but he was someone who listened to people's problems, and he was down to earth.\"\n\nAfrican leaders have also come out to pay tribute.\n\nKenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said: \"I have lost a friend, colleague and visionary ally,\" and declared a seven-day period of national mourning in Kenya.\n\nFormer Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called Mr Magufuli a \"partner in democracy\" and a \"patriot who loved his country\".\n\nBut Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu told the BBC that Mr Magufuli's \"politics, policies and Covid denialism\" had \"driven the country towards disaster\".", "Demi Lovato has said she was raped as a teenager while working for the Disney Channel.\n\nThe 28-year-old revealed in her documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil that the person faced no consequences after she came forward.\n\nThe singer does not say who the offender was, only that she \"had to see this person all the time\" afterwards.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat has contacted the Disney Channel for comment.\n\nThe documentary was shown at the South by Southwest virtual festival.\n\nThis article contains details of an alleged rape.\n\n\"My MeToo story is me telling somebody that someone did this to me and they never got in trouble for it,\" says Demi Lovato in it, according to Variety's review.\n\n\"I've just kept it quiet because I've always had something to say, and I'm tired of opening my mouth.\"\n\nThe YouTube docuseries tackles issues in Demi Lovato's life such as trauma, addiction and her relapse into a drug overdose in 2018.\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 Demi Lovato 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\nShe speaks about her alleged rape saying: \"We were hooking up but I said - hey, this is not going any farther.\n\n\"And that didn't matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalised it and I told myself it was my fault because I still went in the room with him.\"\n\nShe says she coped through self-harm, and going through the eating disorder bulimia.\n\nIn the series, she also talks about a \"promise ring\" which was worn by some young stars including herself and the Jonas Brothers, as a commitment to only have sex after marriage.\n\n\"So what, I'm supposed to come out to the public after saying I have a promise ring? Six months later, I'm supposed to say, well I had sex, even though it was rape? Some people aren't going to see it that way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe series also shows the damage Demi's drug overdose had in 2018. She was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at her Los Angeles home.\n\n\"My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes.\"\n\nAfter suffering three strokes and a heart-attack, she's previously said she had been \"left with brain damage and I still feel the effects of that\".\n\nThose effects include blurry vision that means she can't drive and made reading difficult.\n\nWeeks before the incident, she released a song titled Sober, in which she revealed that after six years of sobriety: \"I'm not sober any more.\"\n\nDemi has previously been open about her struggles with addiction and bulimia, including in her 2017 YouTube Originals documentary Simply Complicated.\n\nShe re-launched her singing career at last year's Grammy Awards and sang the national anthem at the 2020 Super Bowl.\n\nIn January, she sang on a TV special which marked US President Joe Biden's inauguration.\n\nDemi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil will appear on YouTube from 23 March.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Lothian Buses said it had suffered months of attacks on its buses\n\nEdinburgh's biggest bus operator has suspended evening services in the capital and Lothians following months of attacks.\n\nLothian Buses, which operates hundreds of buses, said its vehicles would not run after 19:30 except its NightBus service which starts after midnight.\n\nIt said it had taken the unprecedented step following months of incidents of antisocial behaviour.\n\nPolice have charged 18 people in connection with the recent attacks.\n\nLothian Buses said it would decide on Thursday if it would continue the measure.\n\nLarge stones were thrown at the windows of eight moving buses in two areas of Edinburgh on Monday evening.\n\nPolice have charged 18 people in connection with the recent attacks\n\nServices were suspended following the attacks on the vehicles in Gilmerton Road and Old Dalkeith Road. And services into Clermiston were suspended for a weekend following a serious attack in Drumbrae on 5 March.\n\nThe driver of the bus from the Drumbrae attack, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: \"I saw a youth coming to my side and he banged the side of the bus.\n\n\"Then I could see the rock coming towards my driver's window and it just shattered.\"\n\nThe driver was given an emergency appointment at the eye hospital and doctors said he had some abrasions to his cornea.\n\nHe added: \"That night I couldn't sleep. I kept hearing the noises, the bang especially.\n\n\"Normally, I am a very confident person but this has wiped me out and even the thought of going on a bus is now causing me quite big problems.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nSarah Boyd, Lothian Buses operations director, said: \"It is with pride that Lothian serves at the heart of our local communities and after the challenges of the last year it's frankly appalling that the actions of a few can directly impact on so many.\n\n\"However, driver and customer safety is our absolute priority and so it is with deep regret that we have to take this action.\n\n\"We understand that we provide a critical service for key workers and those for whom travel is essential and we can only apologise to these customers who we know will be inconvenienced by this decision.\"\n\nLyn Turner, Unite regional industrial officer said: \"Our members have the right to work without fear and we stand by Lothian's decision to withdraw services from areas in which they cannot operate safely. The safety of our members is paramount.\n\n\"We would urge communities to come together and provide information on those responsible for these dangerous acts of criminal behaviour which are putting the safety of our members and that of the public at serious risk.\"\n\nLesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Council's transport convener, said she was \"completely behind\" Lothian Buses' decision and urged anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Are dates for easing lockdown set in stone?\n\nThe final question comes from Emily Ashton from Bloomberg. She asks if the dates for easing lockdown are absolutely set in stone, or if they can be brought sooner if the vaccine roll-out continues to be ahead of schedule. She asks what he wants to say to people who are going out and playing sport after their vaccines. Hancock says playing football in the park with your family \"is absolutely fine\" and most people are being \"unbelievably supportive of the rules and doing their bit\". Professor Jonathan Van-Tam adds that \"it takes quite a while for antibodies to become measurable in the blood stream after vaccination\". He says that looking at data, vaccine effectiveness continues to improve after 21 days but protection is not immediate after a vaccine dose. He asks for people to \"hold the line\" so the UK only has to have one successful rollout of vaccines, rather than further lockdowns. Dr Mary Ramsay says people must continue to follow the rules and keep their distance. Mr Hancock finishes by saying the government is following the dates in the UK's roadmap out of lockdown.", "The incident happened in York Street in north Belfast\n\nFour women have been treated for stab wounds after an incident in north Belfast early on Wednesday.\n\nPolice received a report just after 02:00 GMT that a woman had been stabbed and a man attacked in the York Street area.\n\nWhen officers arrived, four women reported injuries as a result of being stabbed.\n\nTwo of the women, one in her teens and the other in her 20s, remain in hospital.\n\nThe other two, both in their 20s, were treated at the scene by the ambulance service.\n\nA man in his 20s suffered a minor injury to his hand.\n\nTwo women, aged 26 and 27, were later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.\n\nPolice at the scene on Wednesday morning\n\nA 20-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and attempted grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThey all remain in custody.\n\nDet Sgt O'Flaherty said: \"Our enquiries into this incident, which we are treating as attempted murder, are continuing and we are working to establish exactly what happened.\"\n\nHe appealed for witnesses to contact police.", "Some couples planning to marry between mid-April and mid-May face disappointment after confirmation of England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nWeddings can go ahead again from 12 April, but only in places of worship and public buildings.\n\nOther venues had hoped to reopen too, but have been told they must wait until indoor hospitality reopens in May.\n\nThe government said the roadmap had set out which events could take place when and this plan had not changed.\n\n\"At Step 2 - no earlier than 12 April - weddings can take place in premises that are permitted to open or where a broader exemption applies such as places of worship or hotel function suites,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"Wedding receptions can take place outdoors only. There has been no change to this plan.\"\n\nHowever, the industry is warning thousands of weddings will have to be cancelled or postponed following this \"confusion\".\n\n\"The roadmap indicated weddings and receptions could resume on 12th April. We have now discovered, not by being offered the information but by analysing the small print and repeatedly seeking clarity, that this is not the case,\" said Sarah Haywood, spokeswoman for Weddings Taskforce, a group set up to represent the sector.\n\nShe said 70% of England's weddings took place in licensed venues that would not be permitted to open under the rules, but that the government had failed to explain that clearly when it outlined its plan for reopening the economy in February.\n\nWeddings Taskforce estimates around 7,000 couples will be affected.\n\nWhen the country first went into lockdown last year, Hannah Graham and Joe Higgs, from Bedford, realised it was inevitable their April wedding would be postponed.\n\nBut after a lot of stops and starts in between, they thought they'd finally got the go ahead for a small wedding with 15 guests this April.\n\n\"There was no suggestion it was going to be limited to certain locations,\" says Hannah. \"If we'd been made aware at that point, we could have worked around it.\"\n\nThe wedding venue and the registrar who would marry them were happy with the booking, so they printed invitations with new dates.\n\n\"It looked like it was going ahead, so we got the ball rolling,\" says Joe. \"Now we've had to stop it and roll it in another direction.\"\n\nThey'll be paying more rebooking fees on top of the £300 they've already parted with over the past year.\n\n\"There's a part of us just wants to go to Gretna Green,\" he says.", "The previous model, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20, was released last August\n\nSamsung, the world’s biggest computer-chip manufacturer, has warned of a “serious imbalance” in the semiconductor industry, as global shortages cause disruption.\n\nIt also said it might skip the launch of the next Galaxy Note smartphone, to streamline its lineup.\n\nThere are growing fears market shortages could slow economic recovery after coronavirus.\n\nEU, US and Chinese governments are seeking to boost production.\n\n“There’s a serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally,” Samsung's co-chief executive and mobile chief, Koh Dong-jin, said at a shareholder meeting.\n\n\"It is hard to say the shortage issue has been solved 100%.\"\n\nSamsung was working with overseas partners to meet demand, he added.\n\nThe semiconductor shortage began last year, as the pandemic hit.\n\nSuffering from poor sales, car manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nIn response, the chip supply from factories was transferred to other sectors that had high demands.\n\nAnd unable to retrieve cancelled orders when demand for cars grew, Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota and General Motors all had to reduce production.\n\nMeanwhile, as technology sales boomed, with people staying at home, the other sectors were also affected.\n\nNew graphics cards were scarce, Apple staggered the release of some iPhones, and the latest models of Xbox and PlayStation consoles are selling out each time a new stock is announced.\n\n\"The semiconductor manufacturers are working hard to fill the gaps in supply,\" Counterpoint Research partner Peter Richardson said.\n\n\"But it will take time before investment translates to more supply.\n\n\"This means that shortages for some products may continue for several months - possibly even in to 2022.\"\n\nHowever, most consumers were unlikely to feel the impact, unless buying a new car, he added.\n\nSamsung's release of a new Galaxy Note smartphone may now be delayed until 2022, Mr Koh signalled.\n\nAs a high-end model, “it might be difficult to release”, he said.\n\nAnother popular model, the Samsung Galaxy S21, was launched in January.\n\n“It could be a burden to unveil two flagship models in a year,” Mr Koh added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\nQuilter Cheviot research analyst Ben Barringer said: \"Growing trade tensions between the US and China put the semiconductor industry in uncertainty, even before the pandemic.\n\n\"This shortage illustrates how important certain countries have become in terms of supply chain - and how important access to semiconductors is.\"\n\nAnd last month's closure of its chip-fabrication plant by adverse weather conditions in Texas had exacerbated Samsung's problems.\n\nTaiwanese research firm TrendForce estimated the shutdown could reduce global smartphone production by 5% in the second quarter of this year.\n\n\"They are trying to differentiate between absolute demands and nice-to-haves,\" Mr Barringer added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"If you get the call, get the jab\"\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe, the health secretary has said, after some European nations paused its use amid concern over blood clots.\n\nMatt Hancock urged people to \"listen to the regulators\" and to \"get the jab\" as soon as they got the opportunity.\n\nSome 13 countries have suspended use of the vaccine while they seek further clarification on its safety.\n\nBut the UK's medicines watchdog, the MHRA, has said that evidence \"does not suggest\" the jab causes clots.\n\nThe EU's regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is expected to release the findings of its investigation into cases of blood clots in vaccinated people on Thursday.\n\nHowever, it said previously that it was still \"firmly convinced\" the benefits of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine outweighed the risks and there was \"no indication\" the jab causes blood clots.\n\nAbout 17 million people across the EU and the UK have received a dose of the vaccine, with fewer than 40 cases of blood clots reported as of last week, the manufacturer AstraZeneca said.\n\nIt said the number of cases of blood clots reported was lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population.\n\nIn a bid to reassure the British public, Mr Hancock stressed that the MHRA, the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency all believed the vaccine was safe.\n\n\"We keep the effects of these vaccines under review all the time and we know that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is saving lives in the UK right now so if you get the call, get the jab,\" he said.\n\nAsked if there had been evidence of people declining the jab after the European suspensions, the health secretary said there were still \"huge numbers of people vaccinated every day\" and that \"enthusiasm for getting the vaccine is incredibly strong\".\n\nDowning Street has also defended the safety of the vaccine, with the PM's official spokesman insisting that Boris Johnson would be happy to take it when it came to his turn.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duchess of Cornwall revealed on Tuesday that she had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab earlier this year.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a pop-up vaccination centre in London with the Prince of Wales, Camilla joked that it \"didn't matter\" which jab she was given because \"I hate injections so much\".\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall revealed she received the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab during a visit to a vaccination centre on Tuesday\n\nIt was announced in mid-February that Prince Charles, 72, and the duchess, 73, had received their first Covid jabs. Their ages meant they were included in the fourth priority group for the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nThe latest government figures show that 24,839,906 first doses of a Covid vaccine have now been given in the UK, with some 1,663,646 people receiving a second dose.\n\nCountries across Europe are seeking further clarity on the jab's safety, amid criticism of their decision to suspend its use.\n\nDenmark was first to pause its use of the vaccine, followed by Norway and Iceland. Germany, France, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Latvia and Sweden are the latest to follow suit.\n\nGermany, France and Italy have said they are awaiting the outcome of the EMA investigation.\n\nThey said they had opted to pause their use of the drug as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nOther countries, including Austria, have halted the use of certain batches of the jab, while Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine said they would continue to administer it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's damaging confidence in the vaccine\"\n\nDr Phil Bryan, vaccines safety lead at the MHRA, said that people \"should still go and get their Covid-19 vaccine when asked to do so\".\n\n\"We are closely reviewing reports but given the large number of doses administered, and the frequency at which blood clots can occur naturally, the evidence available does not suggest the vaccine is the cause.\"\n\nThe WHO, which is also investigating the reports, says there is no evidence that the clots were linked to the vaccine and it has urged countries not to pause their vaccination programmes.\n\nProf Jeremy Brown, a member of the UK government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said concerns about blood clots were \"overblown\" as they were unlikely to be linked to the jab.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme pausing its use would cause more illness and deaths than would be prevented \"by the unlikely situation that there's an increased risk of a very rare event occurring as a consequence of the vaccine\".\n\nSir Kent Woods, former chief executive of the MHRA and former chair of the EMA, told BBC Breakfast there would have been a \"denting of public confidence because of the disorderly situation in Europe\" and by suspending the use of the jab countries were \"increasing the risk to the population\".\n\nDr Jess Harvey, a GP in Shropshire, said she had received several calls from patients concerned about the possibility of blood clots linked to the vaccine.\n\nShe said she had not had any appointments cancelled yet but was worried about no-shows.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health England said on Tuesday that it was investigating a new coronavirus variant previously reported by the Philippines, after two cases were identified in England.\n\nIt said one case was linked with international travel, while the other was still under investigation.\n\nPHE also said that two cases of the P.1 variant of concern first found in Brazil had been identified in England - with one in the West Midlands and another in Haringey, London.\n\nThis variant has a mutation - known as E484 - that means it can escape some of the immune response, which may mean vaccines work less effectively against it.\n\nBoth cases were linked with international travel to Brazil, PHE said, and bring the total number of UK cases of the variant to 12.", "The foreign secretary has warned democracy is \"in retreat\", in a speech setting out his vision for the UK's role in the world.\n\nDominic Raab argued democracies face their greatest threat since the end of the Cold War.\n\nHe said that is why countries like Britain should try to be a \"force for good in the world\".\n\nIt comes as the government faces criticism over the UK's future relationship with China.\n\nThe Integrated Review of foreign and defence policy set out by the government yesterday plans to increase the cap on the UK's stockpile of nuclear weapons.\n\nIt also said Britain would shift its focus towards Indo-Pacific countries, while pledging to tackle the \"systemic challenge\" of China.\n\nSpeaking to the US Aspen Security Forum, Mr Raab predicted in the next decade, the combined wealth of autocratic regimes is likely to exceed that of the world's democracies.\n\n\"Think about what that means for a second,\" he said.\n\n\"Tyranny is richer than freedom, and that matters to us here at home.\n\n\"Because stable, freedom-respecting democracies are much less likely to go to war, house terrorists or trigger large scale flows of migrants and they are generally, not always, but generally easier to trade with, and easier to cooperate with to solve our shared problems.\"\n\nHe said the UK has \"a moral responsibility and an indivisible stake in our planet, our global economy, our global ecosystem and the conditions of peace and stability that underpin them\".\n\nAnd he argued that the UK \"can and should help alleviate the worst suffering in the world\".\n\nResponding to the review on Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the Conservatives of overseeing an \"era of retreat,\" with armed forces cuts \"every year for the last decade\".\n\nAnd he also said the UK's policy towards China had been \"inconsistent\" and accused the government of turning \"a blind eye\" to human rights abuses in the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Raab has faced criticism after apparently telling officials the UK should trade with countries not meeting European Convention on Human Rights standards, in a leaked clip obtained by HuffPost UK.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the recording was selectively clipped to distort the comments of the foreign secretary who, it said, had emphasised the importance of promoting human rights.\n\nThe government is facing internal Conservative pressure to harden its stance on China over issues including its clampdown on Uighur Muslims and democratic rights in Hong Kong.\n\nThe review said the UK should \"continue to pursue a positive trade and investment relationship\" with the country - prompting some criticism from backbenchers.\n\nSenior Tory Julian Lewis took issue with its description of China as a \"partner,\" adding it suggested suggested the \"grasping naivety\" of the party's approach under David Cameron and former chancellor George Osborne, when it actively sought Chinese investment, \"still lingers on\".\n\nBut giving evidence to a Lords committee on Wednesday, Mr Osborne defended his approach, arguing the UK should not take a \"dramatically different\" stance on Chinese investment.\n\nHe told peers the UK was \"more likely to get a hearing\" over its human rights concerns by \"engaging\" with China economically.\n\nHe added that forcing China to \"engage with the world\" was likely to improve British security in the long-run.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng also defended the government's approach, arguing that to \"pull up the drawbridge\" would not be \"productive\" when it comes to rights issues.\n\n\"You can trade with a country and at the same time make very strong representations about their mistreatment of minorities and their human rights abuses,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.", "NHS workers in Wales will get the bonus payment for the first time\n\nA bonus payment will be paid to all NHS and social care workers in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would pay nearly 222,000 people the equivalent of £735 each, with an element to cover tax and National Insurance deductions.\n\nIt means most would get £500, Health Minster Vaughan Gething said, adding it \"expresses our gratitude\" to those working in those jobs.\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing warned \"a one-off Covid-19 bonus is not a significant and substantive pay rise\".\n\nIt is the second bonus for social care staff, and the first for NHS workers.\n\n\"Nurses have gone above and beyond in the past 12 months,\" said Helen Whyley, director of RCN Wales.\n\nShe called for fair pay that encouraged nurses to stay in the profession and attract more staff.\n\nThe RCN union says the bonus does not represent a pay rise\n\nHowever, the announcement was welcomed by the trade union Unison Cymru Wales, which said it was \"in contrast to the insulting approach of the Conservative UK government\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has recommended a 1% pay rise to an independent panel examining salaries of NHS staff in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said it was as much as ministers could give. The £735 payment is separate to NHS pay.\n\nThe Welsh Tories' Janet Finch-Saunders called for \"longer-term pay recognition\" for staff, while Plaid Cymru said the difference in health care and social care pay needed to be addressed.\n\nBoth parties backed a minimum wage for social care workers of £10 an hour in the Senedd on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe bonus award, the Welsh government said, will benefit an estimated 221,945 people.\n\nThey include 103,600 social care staff, 90,000 NHS Wales staff, 2,345 deployed students and 26,000 primary care staff, including pharmacy, GP, dental and optometry workers.\n\nLast year a £500 payment was made to social care staff, but it did not cover any element of tax that would need to be paid on it.\n\nWelsh ministers argued the Treasury should cover it. Plaid had called the handling of the matter \"baffling\".\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working with councils - which fund social care - and trade unions to finalise how the new payments would work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt a Covid briefing on Wednesday Mr Gething said the Welsh government would not set an \"arbitrary cap\" on a pay rise for NHS staff.\n\nThe issue of NHS pay rises is considered by independent pay review bodies who recommend how much staff should earn.\n\n\"For NHS staff it really does feel like a kick in the teeth for the UK government to say there would only be a 1% pay raise and that's what they want the pay review bodies to agree to,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"That isn't what we've done here in Wales, I've released the evidence and the letters that I have sent to those pay review bodies, we are not setting an arbitrary cap.\"\n\nThe announcement came ahead of a Senedd debate, where Plaid Cymru said it would call for social workers to receive £10 an hour.\n\nDelyth Jewell, Plaid Cymru Senedd member, said: \"This is a one-off recognition, it's a bonus because of the sacrifices that everyone in these sectors have had to make this past year\n\n\"The wider conversation we should be having is about the fact that there is this huge disparity between what health workers, and what care workers receive.\"\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders, for the Welsh Conservatives, told BBC Wales she wanted to see \"longer-term pay recognition\" for staff, but said the payment was \"welcome news\".\n\nAsked what she would want to see in terms of a pay rise, she said: \"I don't think you can quantify or put in an actual percentage figure, but I just hope that here in Wales with the money that they now have that they actually do reward our health and social care workers.\"\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 Duke of Edinburgh is said to be in good spirits on leaving hospital after a month-long stay for treatment.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, was admitted to King Edward VII's hospital in central London on 16 February after feeling unwell.\n\nHe later underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at another London hospital - St Bartholomew's.\n\nThe duke has now returned to Windsor Castle.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Buckingham Palace said the duke was discharged \"following treatment for an infection and a successful procedure for a pre-existing condition\".\n\n\"His Royal Highness wishes to thank all the medical staff who looked after him... and everyone who has sent their good wishes,\" the statement said.\n\nPrince Philip left through a side entrance of the hospital in a wheelchair and was helped into the rear passenger seat of a waiting car.\n\nSpeaking during a visit with the Duchess of Cornwall to a pop-up vaccination centre in London, Prince Charles, who visited his father during his stay in hospital, told reporters it was \"very good news\" and he was \"thrilled\" that his father had gone home.\n\nHe also confirmed that he had spoken to the duke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles said it was \"very good news\" that the duke had left hospital\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson \"continues to wish Prince Phillip a speedy recovery,\" his spokesman said, adding the PM was \"of course\" pleased to see the duke return to Windsor.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, 94, have spent the most-recent lockdown in England living at the Berkshire residence with a small group of household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThe couple, who have been married for 73 years, received their first Covid-19 jabs in January.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission to hospital was not disclosed, but the Palace said at the time it was not related to coronavirus.\n\nAfter being admitted to King Edward VII hospital, Prince Philip was transferred to Barts for specialist treatment and underwent a heart operation on 3 March.\n\nHe later returned to King Edward VII's hospital - a private clinic which has treated the Queen on several occasions as well as the duke and other senior royals.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family continued with their official duties during his 28-night stay - his longest-ever in hospital.\n\nThe duke, who retired from royal duties in 2017, has received treatment for other health conditions over the years, including a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nPrince Philip returned to Windsor Castle where he has been living with the Queen during the recent lockdown\n\nThe Queen performed her first face-to-face event of the year last month when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\n\nShe also attended numerous virtual meetings, including with scientists, members of the armed forces, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, and kept up her weekly audience with Mr Johnson via telephone.\n\nPrince Philip's hospital stay coincided with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which allegations of racism and a lack of mental health support were levelled at the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace said in a statement afterwards that the issues were concerning, and while \"some recollections may vary\", the matter was a family one that will be dealt with privately.\n\nIn the interview, Meghan told Oprah that she phoned the monarch directly \"just to check in\" after hearing the duke had been taken to hospital.\n\nUS TV presenter Gayle King said on Tuesday that she had spoken to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and was told discussions between Harry and his brother, Prince William, and father, Prince Charles, were \"not productive\".\n\nMs King told CBS This Morning that despite the talks not bearing fruit, the couple were \"glad\" that conversations had begun.\n\nShe added: \"I think what is still upsetting to them is that the Palace keeps saying they want to work it out privately, but yet they believe these false stories are coming out that are very disparaging against Meghan still - no one in the Royal Family has talked to Meghan yet.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in seven years with a 3-0 aggregate win over Atletico Madrid.\n\nHaving established a slender first-leg lead, Emerson Palmieri's late strike sealed the win after Hakim Ziyech had earlier put the hosts firmly in control with a low effort after good work from Kai Havertz and Timo Werner.\n\nUntil then their dominance in possession had not translated into chances in front of goal, and in a nervy opening they also appeared fortunate to survive a penalty appeal after visiting winger Yannick Carrasco was pulled back by Blues captain Cesar Azpilicueta.\n\nItalian official Daniele Orsato waved away the claim, and the incident was not examined by VAR.\n\nAtletico knocked Liverpool out of the competition in dramatic fashion at the same stage last term, but the La Liga leaders rarely looked capable of recovering after Ziyech's goal.\n\nInstead Chelsea, who remain unbeaten in 13 games since Thomas Tuchel took charge, had opportunities to extend their lead before Emerson's stoppage-time effort and deservedly progressed against an Atletico side that had Stefan Savic sent off late on for elbowing Antonio Rudiger.\n\nThe Blues join Premier League rivals Liverpool and Manchester City in the draw for the quarter and semi-finals on Friday at 11:00 GMT.\n• None It is like having 'half a man more' - is Kante back to his best?\n• None How Tuchel harmonised Chelsea - now can he find more goals?\n\nEfficient rather than entertaining has been the mantra since Tuchel took charge at Chelsea, with the club's defensive solidity contributing to 11 clean sheets in their 13 matches in all competitions.\n\nAnd while this performance can also be filed away under that description, it delivered a fine result against seasoned European campaigners.\n\nDiego Simeone's side may not be known for their flair or invention but they showed at Anfield just over a year ago how dangerous they can be.\n\nHowever, Tuchel set his side up perfectly with N'Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic stifling the space in midfield and using the ball intelligently when in possession.\n\nForwards Ziyech, Werner and Havertz were also integral in that regard, with one of the trio often triggering the Chelsea pressing game and setting the tone as they stifled their opponents.\n\nWerner, who has endured a difficult time in front of goal since his switch to Chelsea, was particularly impressive.\n\nExhibiting pace and composure, the German forward accelerated onto a Havertz pass before superbly playing the ball into Ziyech's path for the opening goal.\n\nIt proved a pivotal moment on the night and laid the platform for the assured way in which the Blues saw out the tie.\n\nWhile Atletico can now turn their attention to holding off Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, this was another disappointing exit for a club that has reached the final twice in the past decade.\n\nSimeone and his side have been known for revelling in these occasions, using their energy and application to often emerge as winners when tagged as the underdogs.\n\nHowever, this performance exhibited few of those qualities and there was also a noticeable vulnerability in defence whenever Chelsea attacked with pace and purpose.\n\nThey were no better in attack. Luis Suarez, the man they had hoped could unlock Chelsea's defence, was withdrawn before the hour mark after getting little change from Kurt Zouma, Rudiger or Azpilicueta and looking like a player very much in final stages of his career.\n\nThey were restricted to just a single chance of note in added time - when Joao Felix saw home goalkeeper Edouard Mendy save his fierce drive - underlining the gulf between the sides.\n\n'You need to feel it' - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: \"The most important thing is that we feel we deserve this.\n\n\"It's most important you feel it and that no one has to convince you - you need to feel it.\n\n\"They play with a special bond and performances and results like this give you a certain edge and glue to achieve special things. You can only achieve this through results and experiences.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure no one wants to play against us. It's a super difficult challenge ahead because we are already in the last eight. It's a big step, but no need to be afraid, we take what we get and prepare as best as possible.\"\n• None After a run of four consecutive eliminations when appearing at the last-16 stage in the Champions League, Chelsea have progressed to the competition's quarter-finals for the first time since 2013-14 under Jose Mourinho.\n• None Atletico Madrid have lost three consecutive knockout stages games in the Champions League/European Cup for the very first time, also losing both legs of a two-legged knockout tie in the competition for the first time.\n• None Chelsea are yet to lose in 13 matches under Thomas Tuchel in all competitions (Won nine, drawn 4), making this now the longest unbeaten start to a tenure by any manager in the club's history, overtaking Luiz Felipe Scolari's 12 games in 2008.\n• None Chelsea are yet to concede a goal in six home games under Tuchel in all competitions; indeed, the Blues have kept 11 clean sheets in 13 games under the German, more than any other Premier League club since his first game in charge in January.\n• None Chelsea became the first English club to eliminate Atletico Madrid from the knockout stage of a major European competition since Gary Megson's Bolton Wanderers in the 2007-08 Uefa Cup last 32.\n• None Atletico Madrid have now lost more Champions League games against Chelsea (four) than any other opponent.\n• None Hakim Ziyech scored his first home goal in 12 appearances at Stamford Bridge for Chelsea; four of his seven goals in the Champions League have come against Spanish sides (2 v Real Madrid, 1 v Valencia, 1 v Atletico Madrid).\n• None In all competitions, Timo Werner (10 goals, 7 assists) has been directly involved in more goals this season than any other player for Chelsea.\n• None Atletico Madrid defender Stefan Savic received his third Champions League red card; only Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edgar Davids and Sergio Ramos (all four) have had more in the competition's history.\n\nChelsea host Sheffield United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Sunday, 21 March (13:30 GMT) in a game that will be broadcast live on BBC One. Atletico Madrid face Alaves in La Liga on the same day (17:30 GMT).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Atletico Madrid 0. Emerson (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Saúl Ñíguez (Atletico Madrid) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. João Félix (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic.\n• None Stefan Savic (Atletico Madrid) is shown the red card for violent conduct. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "People aged 50 and over in England are now being invited to book their appointment for a Covid vaccine.\n\nThis is the final group on the priority list, which covers 99% of those at high risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nEveryone in the top nine priority groups should be offered a second dose by mid-July, up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nNearly half of the UK adult population has had one vaccine dose - more than 25 million people.\n\nAround 1.7 million people have also had a second dose.\n\nIn Northern Ireland and some areas of Scotland, the over-50s are already being offered a Covid vaccine. Parts of England may already have started offering it to this age group too, with Wales targeting an offer of one dose to all over-50s by mid-April.\n\nIn total, the number of people who have had one vaccine dose is:\n\nThe number of vaccines given this week in the UK is expected to top four million - nearly double what has been achieved per week recently - thanks to a large shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India.\n\nThis could mean all those aged 50 and over will be offered one dose by the end of March, putting the NHS rollout two weeks ahead of schedule.\n\nAfter that, the rest of the adult population will be vaccinated, with people prioritised by age.\n\nAll adults in the UK are expected to be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July.\n\nIt is 100 days since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the UK to be vaccinated against Covid outside of clinical trials.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I'm determined no-one should miss out on the chance to protect themselves and urge everyone who is eligible to come forward.\"\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS England's primary care director, said vaccine supplies would go up and down over the next few months linked to manufacturers' ability to supply their jabs.\n\n\"But this week and next we have larger supplies, so we want anyone in the top priority groups - people aged 50 and older as well as those working in health and care and anyone with an underlying health condition - to come forward soon to protect themselves and their loved ones,\" she said.\n\nTwo million text messages are being sent out to those aged 50-54 in England with a link allowing people to book an appointment through the national booking service website.\n\nPeople who cannot go online can call the service on 119.\n\nThe expansion of the Covid vaccine rollout comes after government reassurance that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - one of two being given to people in the UK - was safe, after 13 countries paused their use of it.\n\nExpect a surge in vaccinations in the next week or so. Extra supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived from abroad to supplement existing stocks.\n\nThe target to offer a vaccine to all those aged 50 and over by mid-April will almost certainly be met ahead of schedule. It will then be the turn of younger adults.\n\nThe progress means the UK is easing restrictions as parts of Europe face new waves of infection.\n\nConcerns have been raised about safety of the AstraZeneca jab - the European regulator is investigating cases of blood clots, focusing on a rare type that affects the brain.\n\nEvidence from 10 million doses given in the UK show there have been three cases - none fatal.\n\nThis is not above the level you would expect to happen normally, suggesting coincidence rather than cause.\n\nIn Germany the numbers are higher - but because these events are so rare, it's easy for a couple of cases to raise alarm.\n\nIt's understandable they are being investigated, but what has baffled experts is why some nations have paused rollout in the meantime.\n\nAfter all, this vaccine saves lives. That's why authorities here say it's safe and even the European regulator says vaccination should continue.\n\nThe EU's regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is expected to release the findings of its investigation into cases of rare blood clots in a tiny number of vaccinated people on Thursday.\n\nBut the UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, and Downing Street has said there is no evidence to suggest the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is linked to the clots.\n\nMr Hancock urged people to \"listen to the regulators\" and to \"get the jab\" as soon as they got the opportunity.\n\nA vaccine safety panel of the World Health Organization said it was \"carefully assessing the latest available data\" for the vaccine but, in the meantime, recommended that vaccinations should continue.\n\nA further 141 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive test, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard. A further 5,758 people tested positive.\n• None Vaccines now available in NI to over 50s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a five-step plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nUnlike plans announced in England and Scotland, NI's blueprint does not include a timetable.\n\nProgression for each of the nine pathways - across social and business settings - will depend on certain public health criteria being met.\n\nThe executive must review its coronavirus restrictions regularly, with the next due on 16 March.\n\nThe Executive Office said the plan - Moving Forward: The Executive's Pathway Out Of Restrictions - was a \"gradual easing of the current restrictions\".\n\nHowever it does not include specific detail on how the executive will measure when it is safe to reopen certain sectors.\n\nStep one represents the current lockdown restrictions, with steps two to four allowing an easing of the rules and the final step entitled preparing for the future.\n\nHere are the details of the plan and what it means for different sectors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings tells MPs the deal he struck to work at Number 10\n\nThe prime minister's former aide, Dominic Cummings, has criticised the Department of Health as \"a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe said that was why Boris Johnson had taken direct control of the vaccine programme.\n\nHe also told MPs Mr Johnson approached him about working in Downing Street the week before he took office.\n\nHe said he asked him to \"help sort out the huge Brexit nightmare\".\n\nMr Cummings said he agreed but one of his preconditions was that science funding should be doubled.\n\nHe was giving evidence to MPs on the Science and Technology Committee about the creation of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency know as Aria.\n\nBut in his first public appearance since leaving office, he also criticised the health department's response to the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"In spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department for Health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE and all of that, you had serious problems with the funding bureaucracy for therapeutics on Covid.\"\n\nHe said the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, had advised Number 10 that the vaccine rollout should not be run out of the Department for Health and that a separate task force should be created.\n\n\"It's not coincidental that the vaccine programme worked the way it did. It's not coincidental that to do that we had to take it out of the Department of Health,\" he added.\n\n\"We had to have it authorised very directly by the prime minister and say strip away all the normal nonsense that we can see is holding back funding.\"\n\nBut a source at the health department told the BBC's chief political correspondent Adam Fleming that getting the vaccine programme established was a \"massive team effort\".\n\nThey added: \"Everyone in DHSC was and is spending their time focused on saving lives, expanding the world leading vaccine rollout and getting through this pandemic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Vaccine Taskforce is a team of almost 200 people at the Department for Business that was established to make sure the UK got promising vaccines.\n\nMr Cummings said as the country emerges from lockdown there needs to be an \"urgent very, very hard look\" by Parliament at \"what went wrong and why\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"One of the most obvious lessons is the incredible value potentially of getting science and technology stuff right, the disaster that can come if you don't get it right.\"\n\nIt was this \"horrific Whitehall bureaucracy\" he wanted to strip away when he championed the new \"high risk\" Aria scientific research agency, he told MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The prime minister came to speak to me the Sunday before he became prime minister and said: 'Would I come in to Downing Street to try and help sort out the huge Brexit nightmare?'.\n\n\"I said, yes, if first of all you are deadly serious about actually getting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum; secondly, double the science budget; third, create some Aria like entity, and fourth support me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works because it is a disaster zone. And he said 'deal'.\"\n\nAnswering MPs' questions about science funding, Mr Cummings said scientists had been lobbying for the creation of a body such as Aria that would have \"extreme freedom\" but he said he was aware that this was \"completely hostile to normal bureaucracy\".\n\nThe government says Aria will fund \"high-risk, high-reward\" scientific research and \"help to cement the UK's position as a global science superpower\".\n\nIt 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\", ministers say.\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, the government has allocated £10.36bn for its research programmes and bodies.\n\nLabour said there needed to be greater transparency around how the agency would operate.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler, who sits on the science committee, said because Aria was exempt from freedom of information requests this would undoubtedly \"raise alarm bells\" about how taxpayers' money would be spent given \"the recent PPE scandals\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng insisted the \"corporate governance arrangements are very robust\".\n\nHe added he would be responsible for reporting to Parliament on Aria and that the agency would have to submit accounts that would be scrutinised by MPs.\n\n\"I think there will be a great deal of transparency and oversight,\" he added.\n\nAt the start of the hearing, chair Greg Clark said Mr Cummings had agreed to give evidence on the Covid pandemic to a joint inquiry by the science and health committees.", "Thousands of schools have been destroyed during the Syrian conflict, which began ten years ago. Iqra School in the Aleppo Countryside was bombed by a Syrian fighter jet in 2013. A BBC team was filming in a local hospital when the casualties started to arrive. Eight years on, BBC Cameraman Darren Conway has returned to speak to survivors and the relatives of those who didn't make it.", "Susannah Fish is a former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police\n\nA former police chief has said she would think \"very carefully\" about reporting a crime committed against her because of how she would be \"judged\".\n\nSusannah Fish, former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, said there was a \"toxic culture of sexism\" in significant parts of policing.\n\nBut the police chiefs' body said women who came forward would be listened to.\n\nIt comes after the killing of Sarah Everard sparked concerns for women's safety in public.\n\nDuring an interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Ms Fish was asked how she felt about reporting a crime to the police as a woman.\n\nShe replied that while reporting a crime against property was \"not an issue\", for a crime against herself she would \"probably struggle for how I would be judged\".\n\nMs Fish added that while some officers would be \"sensitive\", others would not.\n\n\"I also know in terms of conviction rates and the challenges of going through the criminal justice system, as a woman, it's thankless,\" she said.\n\n\"Endless repeated humiliation, telling your story over and over again, worrying whether you're ever going to be believed, putting yourself through that repeatedly, as well as the shame of what's happened to you.\"\n\nShe added that victim-blaming had become \"endemic\" and \"trying to then explain yourself and justify yourself, just feels to me to be incredibly difficult\".\n\nHowever, Olivia Pinkney, chief constable of Hampshire Police and representing the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the programme: \"When women have the courage to come forward to anyone, including the police, then they will be listened to, they will be heard, they will be supported.\n\n\"I know that happens, because I know that we follow up every case.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm sure that we get stuff wrong. But if we get it wrong, then we'll hear about it and we'll fix it.\"\n\nThe Met Police were criticised for how they handled a vigil for Sarah Everard over the weekend\n\nOn Monday, Ms Fish described the Met Police response to a vigil for Ms Everard last weekend as \"institutional\" misogyny.\n\nThe force faced criticism over its handling of the vigil, where officers handcuffed women and removed them from crowds on Clapham Common in south London.\n\nThe home secretary has commissioned an independent investigation into the force's decisions, which were taken in the light of Covid restrictions.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said she agreed on the need for a \"sober review\" but defended how officers responded to the \"really big crowd\".\n\nMs Everard, 33, went missing while walking home alone in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in Kent woodland and a Met Police officer has been charged with her kidnap and murder.\n\nAsked what she meant by institutional misogyny in the way the police handled the vigil, Ms Fish told Woman's Hour that while there were \"many good people\" in policing, it was about the \"mindset\" and \"culture\" of the institution and how decisions were made.\n\n\"I think there is still significant parts of policing where there is a very toxic culture of sexism, of misogyny that objectifies women,\" she added.\n\nUnder Ms Fish's leadership, Nottinghamshire Police was the first force to record misogyny as a hate crime in 2016.", "Retail groups are unhappy that no dates for reopening have been set\n\nArlene Foster has said she knows people want Covid restrictions eased faster, but the last thing she wants is to have to \"step backwards\" again.\n\nThe first minister was speaking after the executive announced the first key changes to the restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nBusiness groups have criticised the lack of dates provided for when they will be able to reopen.\n\nIt comes as Northern Ireland's four main churches will return to public worship in time for Easter.\n\nThe Church of Ireland, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in Northern Ireland will resume in-person services from Good Friday, 2 April.\n\nThe Catholic Church has confirmed there will be a \"cautious\" return a week earlier, from 26 March.\n\nMeanwhile, the Health Minister Robin Swann on Wednesday addressed a reduction in vaccine supplies announced by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nMr Swann tweeted that \"we are currently considering what impact if any\" the announcement would have on vaccination plans in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Our vaccination programme will continue in the coming weeks and more people will continue to receive first and second doses,\" he said.\n\n\"As has been the case since the programme began, the number of vaccinations carried out over time will vary due to supply however our programme is presently ahead of schedule and as ever we will be able to adapt to any changes in circumstances as they arise.\"\n\nEarlier, on Good Morning Ulster, Mrs Foster said it was vital that coronavirus was kept under control in Northern Ireland and that restrictions have to be lifted \"in a slow way\".\n\n\"We are in a five-party executive; from my perspective we would like to move in a more steady way, others are more cautious.\n\n\"However I do think it is very important that we do need to protect all of our services in our healthcare - and the best way to protect all of our services and our healthcare system is to make sure that we don't see another rise in Covid cases.\"\n\nMrs Foster added: \"I know that there is a great desire to open up in a faster fashion. Our taskforce in the executive will not just look at the health data, which of course is important, but the economic and societal data as well\n\n\"We're doing that on a rolling basis.\n\n\"Last year, when we had that flexibility built into our plan, it allowed us to move a little faster that some other jurisdictions and my hope and desire is that that will be the case in this case as well.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December.\n\nMeasures announced on Tuesday to ease the lockdown include the return of all primary school children to school from Monday, other school groups from 12 April and more people allowed to meet outdoors from 1 April.\n\nGarden centres can resume click-and-collect services from 1 April and other non-essential shops from 12 April.\n\nRetail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" that the executive had given \"no dates, no timeframes, no nothing\" for businesses to reopen.\n\n\"It is exceptionally frustrating when we are putting forward ideas on how we can make our high streets safe, cut down transmission levels of the virus and reassure consumers, but nothing is being done,\" Mr Roberts said.\n\nArlene Foster said she would have liked to see more restrictions eased but caution was necessary\n\n\"If we don't get some indication of when our economy is allowed to reopen, then we're going to off-the-scale unemployment, business failure, huge off-the-scale levels of mental health problems in our society.\"\n\nDawn McLaughlin, chief executive of Derry Chamber, said some business felt like they are no further forward.\n\n\"What we would ask the executive is to provide a bit of hope to our members and to businesses throughout NI, give them some clarity in terms of indicative dates, not necessarily actual dates, but at least give them time to plan, time to organise,\" she said.\n\n\"A bit of clarity, a bit of time - we all understand if the numbers go the wrong way it'll have to be postponed, but give them that hope and that clarity.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lisburn Chamber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Montgomery, who runs a garden centre in County Armagh, said the return of click and collect was a small but welcome step.\n\n\"Realistically we're probably only going to be looking at 10%-15% of sales probably that we would normally do at this time of year,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will get us through, it will get rid of some stock that we have there that currently we can't sell.\"\n\nNo new Covid-19 related deaths were reported in NI on Wednesday.\n\nThe Department of Health said there had been 161 new coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland the Irish Department of Health announced 17 more deaths related to Covid-19 on Wednesday.\n\nNine of those deaths occurred in March, four in February, and four occurred in January or earlier bringing the total to 4,566 deaths overall.\n\nThere were 557 more confirmed cases bringing the total number to 228,215 to date.", "Countries around the world are celebrating St Patrick's Day on Wednesday, with online events replacing traditional parades.\n\nLandmarks across the globe turned green for the day in honour of Ireland's patron saint.\n\nLarge gatherings were ruled out in many parts of the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTraditional parades in Belfast and Dublin were cancelled for the second year in a row.\n\nHowever events marking the day took place across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which are being streamed online.\n\nThey included an online disco and live music events in Belfast, while more than 100 online events were held in the Republic of Ireland and broadcast around the world.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nTraditionally, a bowl of shamrock is presented to the US president every year on 17 March by the visiting taoiseach (Irish PM).\n\nThe bowl was placed on President Joe Biden's desk during his meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders discussed, among other things, combating Covid-19 and supporting political and economic stability in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey might not have been in the same room but President Biden and the taoiseach were still able to virtually wish each other a Happy Saint Patrick's Day.\n\nIt was a day of a firsts - a first for Joe Biden as president who pledged his support for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nReferring to the Good Friday Agreement he said: \"We strongly support y and think it is critically important that we maintain it. The political and economic stability of Northern Ireland is very much in the interest of all our peoples.\"\n\nAnd it was also Mr Martin's first St Patrick's Day as taoiseach.\n\nHe said he wanted to move forward with a \"positive relationship with the UK.\"\n\n\"That means standing by what has been agreed and working together to make a success of it.\n\n\"That in turn then can help maintain peace and promote greater reconciliation on our shared island - goals I know you support,\" he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers also held a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nA range of issues were covered during the meeting including progress on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recovery, as well as highlighting regional strengths and priorities.\n\nMichelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster Ministers also expressed hope that President Biden and Vice President Harris would visit Northern Ireland at some point in the future.\n\nHundreds of extra police officers were on duty in Northern Ireland for a \"robust\" response to St Patrick's Day rule breakers.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster had warned that St Patrick's Day \"must be different\" in Northern Ireland this year, to ensure progress made during the coronavirus lockdown continues.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Gardaí (police) had a significant operation in place to deal with planned protests in Dublin city centre.\n\nSixteen people were arrested in the city for failing to comply with directions from garda to abide by Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIrish dancers at the Sailortown Regeneration St Patrick's Day festival in Belfast\n\nThe Irish Guards' new mascot, Irish Wolfhound Turlough Mor, getting ready for his shamrock at his London barracks\n\nThe Queen extended her best wishes to the people of Ireland for St Patrick's Day, 10 years after she visited.\n\nIn her message to Irish President Michael D Higgins, she said: \"We share ties of family, friendship and affection, the foundation of our partnership that remains as important today as 10 years ago.\"\n\nSince 2010, landmarks around the world have gone green in honour of St Patrick and this year, with a record number of places taking part.\n\nSome 690 sites in 66 countries will take part in Tourism Ireland's Global Greenings initiative.\n\nAlongside more famous landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Leaning Tower of Pisa were more quirky ones such as an abandoned sauna tilted on its side beside a lake in Finland, and a solar power-generated giraffe in Mozambique.\n\nSydney Opera House was one of the first landmarks to take part in the Global Greenings Initiative, which is in its 12th year\n\nThe Tilted Sauna in Kirkkonummi, Finland, joined in the fun\n\nGwrych Castle in north Wales has gone green for the first time this year\n\nIn Chicago, officials had cancelled the annual colouring of the Chicago River but the city's mayor decided to continue with the tradition, minus the fanfare.\n\nSt Patrick lived in the 5th Century and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nSt Patrick's Day started as a religious feast to celebrate his work, but it has grown to be an international festival of all things Irish.", "The death of Sarah Everard has triggered conversations about women's safety\n\nThe government has said it will \"on an experimental basis\" ask the police to record crimes of violence motivated by a person's sex or gender.\n\nThe announcement is a concession to campaigners who have been calling for misogyny to be made a hate crime.\n\nWomen's groups have argued this would help provide \"critical data\" on violence against women and girls.\n\nThe Law Commission has carried out a review of hate crime legislation.\n\nIt is expected to make its official recommendations to the government in 2021.\n\nHome Office Minister Baroness Williams said the change would \"inform longer term decisions\" while the government awaited the outcome of the commission's review.\n\nThe Labour MP Stella Creasy said it represented \"success\" for those who'd been campaigning on the issue, adding that changes to legislation were needed to make sure such crimes could be prosecuted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 hate crime is deemed to have been committed when someone is assaulted or harassed because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.\n\nSeven police forces in England and Wales have already introduced their own misogyny hate crime policy - including Nottinghamshire Police.\n\nAn evaluation of the policy in Nottinghamshire said the move had led to \"shifting attitudes as a result\".\n\nHowever others have urged caution including minister Victoria Atkins who said in 2018 that: \"Women are not a minority, and I would be hesitant to put us forward as one.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Lords, Home Office Minister Baroness Williams said \"On an experimental basis we will ask police forces to record and identify any crimes of violence against the person including stalking and harassment, and sexual offences where the victim perceives it to have been motivated by a hostility based on their sex\".\n\nShe said data collection would \"help us find solutions\" to the problem of violence against women and girls.\n\nHowever she added it was important \"to ensure the law itself is coherent\".\n\nResponding to the announcement, Fawcett Society chief executive Felicia Willow said: \"This is a major step forward in changing how we understand, address and prevent violence against women - and one that we hope will help change attitudes towards women.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has recently passed a hate crime law which extends protection for vulnerable groups, but an amendment that would have included women as a protected group was defeated.\n\nThe government in Edinburgh has instead set up a working group to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\n\"Significant institutional failings\" by the Football Association meant it \"did not do enough to keep children safe\" - according to the findings of an independent review into historical child sexual abuse in the game.\n\nIt found the FA was \"too slow\" to have sufficient protection measures in place between October 1995 and May 2000.\n\nIt said there was no evidence the FA knew of a problem before summer 1995.\n\nThe report focused on the abuse of children between 1970 and 2005.\n\nIt said: \"The FA acted far too slowly to introduce appropriate and sufficient child protection measures, and to ensure that safeguarding was taken sufficiently seriously by those involved in the game. These are significant institutional failings for which there is no excuse.\"\n• None Survivors say game 'must learn from mistakes'\n\nIn a statement, FA chief executive Mark Bullingham offered \"a heartfelt apology\" from the English game's governing body to all survivors and added there was \"no excuse\" for its failings.\n\n\"No child should ever have experienced the abuse you did,\" he continued in an address to those affected.\n\n\"What you went through was horrific and it is deeply upsetting that more was not done by the game at the time, to give you the protection you deserved.\"\n\nThe long-awaited 710-page review, led by Clive Sheldon QC and commissioned by the FA in 2016, found:\n• None Following high-profile convictions of child sexual abusers from the summer of 1995 until May 2000, the FA \"could and should have done more to keep children safe\".\n• None There was a significant delay by the FA in putting in place sufficient child protection measures in football at that time. In that period, the FA \"did not do enough\" to keep children safe and \"child protection was not regarded as an urgent priority\".\n• None Even after May 2000, when the FA launched a comprehensive child protection policy and programme, \"mistakes were still made\" by the FA.\n• None The FA failed to ban two of the most notorious perpetrators of child sexual abuse, Barry Bennell and Bob Higgins, from involvement in football.\n• None There were known to be at least 240 suspects and 692 survivors, yet relatively few people reported abuse and the actual level was likely to be far higher.\n• None Where incidents of abuse were reported to people in authority at football clubs, their responses were \"rarely competent or appropriate\".\n• None Abuse within football was \"not commonplace\". The overwhelming majority of young people were able to engage in football safely.\n• None While several of the perpetrators knew each other, there was not evidence of a \"paedophile ring\" in football - Sheldon says: \"I do not consider that perpetrators shared boys with one another for sexual purposes, or shared information with one another that would have facilitated child sexual abuse.\"\n\nSheldon, whose review made 13 safeguarding recommendations, said: \"Understanding and acknowledging the appalling abuse suffered by young players in the period covered by the review is important for its own sake.\n\n\"Survivors deserve to be listened to, and their suffering deserves to be properly recognised. As well as recognising and facing up to what happened in the past, it is also important that this terrible history is not repeated, and that everything possible is done now to safeguard the current and future generations of young players.\"\n\nBullingham said the report was \"a very important piece of work\" made possible by \"survivors bravely\" coming forward.\n\nHe added that \"today is a dark day for the beautiful game\" and a \"critical moment\" for English football, which he admitted had been \"too slow to act\".\n\n\"We must acknowledge the mistakes of the past and ensure that we do everything possible to prevent them being repeated,\" he continued.\n\n\"Thankfully there have been huge strides in safeguarding in sport and football over the past two decades, and the report recognises that English football is in a very different place today.\"\n\nHow did this start?\n\nOn 16 November 2016, former footballer Andy Woodward waived his right to anonymity to talk about how he was sexually abused by Bennell at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11 to 15.\n\nSeveral other people contacted police in the following days, before former England and Tottenham player Paul Stewart said he was abused as a child by a coach, later named as Frank Roper.\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC set up a hotline with the FA, dedicated to footballers who had experienced sexual abuse - more than 860 calls were received in the first week.\n\nAfter investigations involving several police forces started, the FA announced an independent inquiry into non-recent child sex abuse, led by Sheldon.\n\nThe independent review made its first call for evidence in January 2017, writing to all football clubs in England and Wales, amateur and professional, asking for information about allegations between 1970 and 2005.\n\nSheldon's review said the FA was not aware that abuse had actually occurred in football prior to the summer of 1995, before Bennell had been convicted in Florida in connection with a football-related tour.\n\nThe report found the provision of child protection guidance was \"not something which was happening widely within sport\".\n\nWho are the offenders?\n\nBarry Bennell - the former Crewe Alexandra and Manchester City coach is serving a 34-year sentence after being convicted of child sexual abuse five times.\n\nHe has been convicted of sexual abuse against 22 boys in total, although it is believed more than 100 victims have come forward to say they were abused by Bennell.\n\nGeorge Ormond - the former Newcastle youth coach was jailed in 2002 for six years after being found guilty of abusing seven boys under 16 between 1975 and 1999.\n\nOther victims subsequently came forward and Ormond was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2018 after being found guilty of 36 counts of sexual abuse against 18 victims between 1973 and 1998.\n\nEddie Heath - Chelsea announced in November 2016 they were investigating allegations of sexual abuse by former chief scout Heath, who died in 1983.\n\nEvidence from 23 witnesses detailed how Heath groomed and abused young boys aged 10 to 17 in the 1970s. An external review said some adults at Chelsea must have been aware of Heath's abuse but \"turned a blind eye\". Chelsea apologised unreservedly after the review was published in 2019.\n\nBob Higgins - the former Southampton and Peterborough youth coach was jailed for 24 years and three months in 2019 on 45 counts of indecent assault against 24 boys.\n\nHiggins went on trial in the early 1990s but was acquitted. Multiple former players came forward with allegations of abuse by Higgins in 2016 and 2017.\n\nMichael 'Kit' Carson - the 75-year-old killed himself by crashing into a tree on the first day of his trial in 2019. He was accused of sexually abusing boys under 16, from 1978 to 2009. Carson had worked for Peterborough United, Cambridge United and Norwich City.\n\nTed Langford - the former Aston Villa and Leicester City part-time scout was jailed in 2007 for the sexual abuse of four boys between 1976 and 1989.\n\nFrank Roper - worked as a scout in the north west of England. Roper, who died in 2005, sexually abused young footballers while recruiting players to Blackpool's school of excellence.\n\nPhil Edwards - former Watford physio who died in 2019 while on bail for an alleged child sex offence. Hertfordshire police were subsequently contacted by 16 people who made complaints about Edwards.\n\nSome of the former players affected\n\nAndy Woodward - was abused by Bennell as a junior Crewe player from the ages of 11 to 15. He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the abuse had a \"catastrophic\" impact on his life.\n\nChris Unsworth - the ex-Manchester City youth player was abused by Bennell from the age of nine. Unsworth told the BBC he had been \"raped between 50 and 100 times\".\n\nSteve Walters - was abused by Bennell and said it began at the age of 12 when he would stay at the former coach's house in the town during the school holidays. He told the BBC the abuse was \"absolutely petrifying\".\n\nPaul Stewart - the former Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool player was abused by Roper daily for four years up to the age of 15.\n\n\"He was threatening that he would kill my parents and my two brothers if I ever spoke out. I was just absolutely frightened,\" Stewart told the BBC.\n\nPaul Collins - played briefly for Charlton Athletic and was groomed by Heath with free boots and holidays. The trauma Collins suffered led to him quitting the game early in his career. Watch the interview here.\n\nGary Johnson - the ex-Chelsea player joined the club as an 11-year-old in 1970 and said he had been groomed by Heath from the age of 13. He said the club paid him a £50,000 settlement that included a confidentiality clause.\n\nDavid Eatock - the former Newcastle United player told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show he had been groomed by Ormond from the ages of 18 to 21. He said he \"froze\" with fear during an assault in Ormond's van.\n\nTony Brien - said he was abused by Langford from the age of 12 when he was playing for a local youth team Dunlop Terriers in the early 1980s - a feeder team for Leicester and Aston Villa.\n\nFormer Villa manager Graham Taylor is alleged to have discouraged Brien from going public with his allegations. Taylor died in January 2017.\n\nWhat about the individual football clubs?\n\nThe report said that for much of the period the review covered:\n• None club staff and officials were generally unaware of child protection issues;\n• None they were not trained in child protection issues;\n• None they did not identify or respond to signs of potential abuse;\n• None and if they were aware of the signs, they did not examine them with curiosity or suspicion.\n\nIn March 2019, Manchester City set up a multi-million pound compensation scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse carried out by former coaches.\n\nThe report said that City senior management were aware of rumours and concerns about Bennell's conduct in the early 1980s.\n\nIt added: \"The club did not investigate these rumours. It should have done so. The club should also have investigated the arrangements for boys staying at Bennell's house.\"\n\nCity commissioned an independent review in November 2016, led by Jane Mulcahy QC, that was also published on Wednesday.\n\nIn addition to personal apologies made by the club to survivors, City said its board of directors wished to \"apologise publicly and unreservedly for the unimaginable suffering experienced by those who were abused as a result of the club's association\" with Bennell and two other convicted abusers, John Broome and Bill Toner.\n\nIt added: \"The club also extends its heartfelt regret and sympathy to the multiple family members and friends affected by these traumatic events, the ramifications of which are felt by so many to the present day and will continue to be felt for a long time to come.\"\n\nCrewe Alexandra have reiterated they were not aware of any sexual abuse by Bennell until 1994 when he was convicted of sexual assault, and did not receive a single complaint about sexual abuse by him.\n\nThe Sheldon report said: \"It is likely that three directors of Crewe Alexandra FC discussed concerns about Bennell which hinted at his sexual interest in children.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the advice of a senior police officer to the club's former chairman to keep a 'watching brief' on Bennell was heeded.\n\n\"The club should also have ensured that there were appropriate arrangements in place for boys staying overnight at Bennell's house.\n\n\"The boys should have been spoken to periodically to check that they were being properly cared for. Had such steps been taken, this might have led to boys making disclosures to the club.\"\n\nSheldon said former Crewe manager Dario Gradi \"should have done more\" to investigate concerns about Bennell but was not involved in a cover up.\n\nGradi, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is also criticised in the report for not doing more when a claim of abuse by Heath was reported to him while assistant manager at Chelsea in 1975.\n\nThe report states that Gradi \"did not consider a person putting their hands down another's trousers to be an assault\", but that he changed his mind after Sheldon insisted it was.\n\nGradi, 79, was suspended in 2016 pending an FA investigation and retired from his position of director of football at Crewe three years later.\n\nBullingham said on Wednesday that Gradi was \"effectively banned for life\" from football but could not go into the reasons.\n\nThe FA's director of legal and governance Polly Handford said it was \"for safeguarding reasons\" but that was \"as far as we can go\".\n\nStoke City were \"also aware of rumours about Bennell\" during his time associated with the club in the early 1990s, said the report, and steps should have been taken to monitor his activities.\n\nPremier League clubs Aston Villa and Leicester paid damages to five victims of Langford in March 2020. The report said Aston Villa should have reported disclosures about sexual abuse by Langford to the police when his role as a scout was terminated in July 1989.\n\nAnd on Wednesday, Southampton admitted \"considerable failings\" and said they were \"deeply sorry\" to young footballers abused by Higgins.\n\nThe report found Southampton and Peterborough United FC were also aware of rumours about the inappropriate behaviour of Higgins, and were aware that boys were staying at his home.\n\n\"This awareness should have resulted in greater monitoring by the clubs. Had Higgins been properly monitored this might have prevented some of his abuse of young players,\" the report added.\n\nAt Chelsea, in relation to Heath, the Sheldon report said steps should have been taken to protect the young player who had made a disclosure about abuse in or around 1975.\n\nNewcastle United should have acted more quickly following disclosures of abuse by Ormond at the youth club Monty's in early 1997.\n\nOrmond was only removed from the club many months later, and after he had been permitted to travel abroad with young players.\n\nThe report found that despite being aware of the allegations, no additional safeguards were put in place by the club.\n\nIn a statement, Newcastle expressed their \"sincere apologies and sympathy to all individuals affected by historic abuse in football and commend the bravery of those who have come forward and shared their stories\".\n\nThe club added that they now have \"comprehensive and robust safeguarding measures in place to protect and support young people throughout the football club\".\n\nWhat are the review recommendations?\n\nAmong Sheldon's recommendations are the introduction of safeguarding training at several levels in the game, including all players and young people as well as the FA board and senior management team.\n\nHe also recommends there should be safeguarding officers employed by all Premier League and English Football League (EFL) clubs.\n\nBoth league governing bodies say they and associated clubs have safeguarding leads at board level, as well as dedicated safeguarding staff.\n\nThe Premier League said it accepted the report's \"findings and insight it provides\", and added the recommendations \"will further strengthen safeguarding arrangements across the game\" as \"there is no room for complacency\".\n\nThe EFL also said it accepted the advice and would work with the FA, clubs and other stakeholders \"to ensure [the recommendations] are implemented as a minimum [standard], where they have not been already\".\n\nBoth the Premier League and EFL said they were \"well placed to meet all the recommendations\" and that the findings would inform a review of safeguarding governance, support and awareness arrangements.\n\nThe Offside Trust, the organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in sport, said the recommendations were \"blindingly obvious to anyone\" after the scandal broke in 2016.\n\nIt added it was \"disappointed not to see anything stronger in terms of mandatory reporting\" and it would have liked to have \"seen more on wealthy clubs supporting grassroots safeguarding\".\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said: \"The failure of the FA to keep children safe is truly shocking.\n\n\"There can be no excuses for the critical delays to act or provide guidance to those working on child protection. We could be looking at the biggest safeguarding scandal in football's history.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City junior player Gary Cliffe was among the survivors of Bennell's abuse. He said the ex-coach abused him hundreds of times between the ages of 11 and 15.\n\nCliffe told BBC Sport this was an \"absolutely monumental day\" because of of the publication of the findings.\n\n\"It matters so much because it's impacted on my life and numerous other people's lives,\" he added. \"We are hoping and looking for answers and culpability within that report.\"\n\nBut Cliffe said he was disappointed with the suggestions in the report that suspicions of abuse were not acted upon.\n\n\"I don't think he's gone far enough,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout the whole report that I've read, there's a theme that people knew or suspected, but none of the officials had the gumption to raise it with anyone - police, social services - anyone at all.\n\n\"It's a theme running through it, so it's disappointing from that respect.\"\n\nIan Ackley was a youth player when he was abused and raped by Bennell over a four-year period.\n\nNow working as an abuse survivor support advocate for the Professional Footballers' Association, he said it would be \"naive\" to believe abuse had been eradicated.\n\n\"Make sure your children are safe,\" he said. \"Don't assume that just because someone has got a badge, whistle or tracksuit that they're OK to leave your children with.\"\n\nFormer England international Paul Stewart, who was abused by Roper, told BBC News that there were \"suspicions and rumours\" of abuse, but they were \"totally ignored\".\n\n\"It caused a lot of survivors a lot of damage as we got on through adult life,\" he added. \"I don't think the report has shown how damaging the effects of abuse have been to individuals.\n\n\"We have to make sure we don't get complacent and the abuse doesn't happen again.\"\n• - a three-part series examining historic child abuse in youth football all across England between the 1970s and the 1990s, airs on BBC One, from Monday, 22 March.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Elin Wade had a bad reaction to the creams she was using for eczema\n\nA woman who lost three stone (19kg) and had hallucinations while using topical steroids has called for more support for people reacting to skin treatments.\n\nTeacher Elin Wade, from Swansea, had bad reactions after using creams prescribed for an eczema flare-up.\n\nThe 29-year-old said she was made to feel like a \"fraud\" as topical steroid addiction is not recognised as an official condition by the NHS.\n\nThe Welsh government said serious reactions were \"uncommon\".\n\nAbout 10% of adults and 20% of children in the UK have eczema, with topical steroids considered a safe and effective way in most cases to manage it.\n\nThe creams and ointments come in various strengths, and are usually meant to be used in short courses.\n\nBut some people react badly to the creams, either while using them or when they stop - a condition which has become known as topical steroid addiction.\n\nIn January the British Association of Dermatologists and the National Eczema Society published guidance acknowledging topical steroid withdrawal for the first time.\n\nElin Wade has had mild eczema since childhood, but had a bad flare up in her twenties\n\nIn February 2019, Ms Wade stopped using her steroid creams after she lost weight, had hallucinations and her hair fell out.\n\n\"I went from being a perfectly healthy 25-year-old woman to being a 29-year-old injecting incredibly potent drugs into my system just to get some sort of relief,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was \"exhausting\" and \"frustrating\" trying to tell doctors she believed the creams were driving her symptoms, and that she was made to feel like a \"fraud\".\n\nElin Wade believes it was topical steroid addiction that led to her losing weight\n\n\"It's always been made very clear to me that I should be using topical steroids, that they don't cause addiction, they don't cause withdrawal and it's impossible to get addicted to them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been so traumatic, the suffering is so intense, there's no way I'd put myself through this if I didn't see other people get better.\"\n\nMs Wade said she had been tested for HIV, lymphoma and leukaemia but she still did not have a diagnosis as the condition is not recognised.\n\n\"It'd just be a lot less stressful because you're suffering so much anyway, just to have somebody acknowledge that this is a condition that actually is happening,\" she added.\n\nEmily Banks described the reaction of doctors as \"disheartening\"\n\nLecturer Emily Banks, 30, from Cardiff, also decided to stop using topical steroids after the ointments she was prescribed stopped working.\n\nDesperate to find answers about why her skin was so bad, she made a \"cry for help\" on social media, sharing photos of her skin.\n\nShe said being disbelieved by doctors was \"really disheartening when you're in pain and you just want help\".\n\nGeorge Moncrieff, a GP in Oxfordshire, said he \"couldn't imagine practicing medicine\" without topical steroids.\n\nThe former chairman of the Dermatology Council of England believes they are so integral to the treatment of skin conditions, sometimes the medical community \"don't want to hear bad news\" about adverse reactions to them.\n\nEmily Banks turned to social media to try and find out what was wrong\n\nDr Moncrieff said because some patients were reluctant to use topical steroids in the first place - so-called \"steroid-phobia\" - doctors can sometimes assume people with genuine concerns about bad reactions to steroid creams could be ignored.\n\n\"If doctors think something's uncommon they don't recognise it and they don't discuss it. It's therefore never diagnosed and it continues to be assumed to be uncommon,\" he added.\n\nResearch suggests the average medical school offers about two weeks of dermatology training during six years of study, while nine out of 10 patients with skin issues were not seen by a skin specialist.\n\nJulie Keeley from the Welsh council of the Royal College of GPs said patients should not be afraid to consult their doctor if they were worried they had signs of the condition, and to ask for the second opinion of a dermatology specialist if necessary.\n\nBut she also said GPs needed more specialist training on skin so they could distinguish the signs between normal skin conditions that will respond to steroid creams, and topical steroid addiction.\n\n\"I think it's a good way forward to have more education for dermatology based in Wales and more readily available to healthcare professionals,\" she added.\n\n\"And also integrating it more into the medical school curriculum so people have a better awareness of these conditions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe author of the new guidance, Celia Moss, said labels like \"topical steroid addiction\" and \"red skin syndrome\" were not helpful for doctors because they are not recognised medical terms.\n\nHer work breaks down topical steroid withdrawal into recognisable and treatable diagnoses for doctors.\n\nShe said she hoped it would go some way to ending the \"friction\" and \"open up channels of communication\" between doctors and patients.\n\nDr Moss also wants to see better labelling of steroid creams so doctors and patients understand how strong they are and how they should be used.\n\nThe Welsh government said topical steroids played an important role in the treatment of some conditions, but longer-term use should be monitored carefully.\n\n\"More significant reactions following withdrawal of topical steroids are relatively uncommon, however anyone concerned about side effects should discuss this with their doctor,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Piers Morgan has defended his \"right to be allowed to have an opinion\"\n\nPiers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom.\n\nSome 57,000 complaints have been made about the show's coverage of the Oprah Winfrey interview on 8 and 9 March.\n\nOn 9 March, Morgan said he \"didn't believe\" a word Meghan had said. He left the ITV programme later that day.\n\nThe total of 57,121 complaints is 12,600 more than those made over a race row on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007.\n\nThe duchess herself is among those who have complained to the watchdog.\n\nMorgan responded on Twitter: \"Only 57,000? I've had more people than that come up & congratulate me in the street for what I said. The vast majority of Britons are right behind me.\"\n\nOfcom, which has regulated British TV since 2003, has already launched an investigation into Good Morning Britain. On Wednesday, a spokeswoman said the investigation was ongoing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson gives the lowdown on Piers Morgan's departure from GMB\n\nA further 4,398 complaints have been made about the Oprah interview itself, which was broadcast on ITV on 8 March. Some objected to the duke and duchess' claims about the Royal Family, some about the timing given the Duke of Edinburgh's ill health, and some about the use of allegedly misleading press headlines in the programme.\n\nOfcom said: \"We're assessing the complaints against our broadcasting rules, before deciding whether or not to investigate.\" The regulator did not say which aspect of the interview had attracted the complaints.\n\nIn the in-depth interview, Meghan told Oprah her mental health became so bad she \"didn't want to be alive any more\", that she did not receive the help she asked for from Buckingham Palace, and that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had queried \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe day after its UK broadcast, Morgan said he did not believe her, adding that \"the fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our Royal Family I think is contemptible\".\n\nHe briefly walked off the programme after clashing with weather presenter Alex Beresford, and he was criticised by mental health charity Mind.\n\nMorgan later conceded that it was \"not for me to question if she felt suicidal\", but has defended his \"right to be allowed to have an opinion\".", "David Davis was the first guest to appear on Alex Salmond's Edinburgh Fringe show in 2017\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she \"strongly refutes\" allegations by a Conservative MP about her government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond.\n\nFormer Brexit secretary David Davis used parliamentary privilege to claim there was a concerted effort in the SNP to encourage women to make complaints.\n\nThe first minister rejected this as \"the latest instalment in Alex Salmond's conspiracy theory\".\n\nShe said she would leave the Holyrood inquiry to consider the evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was repeatedly asked about the row at her Covid-19 briefing, but said she did not want the briefing to be \"sidetracked\" from health matters.\n\nThe intervention from Mr Davis at Westminster on Tuesday was the latest development in a long-running dispute between Ms Sturgeon and Mr Salmond, her predecessor as first minister and SNP leader.\n\nMr Salmond took the Scottish government to court in 2018 over its investigation into two internal harassment complaints against him, with the government ultimately conceding ahead of a judicial review that the way it conducted the probe was \"unlawful\".\n\nHe was later charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, but was cleared of all of the allegations against him after a High Court trial in March 2020.\n\nIn his evidence to the Holyrood inquiry that was set up to examine what went wrong with the government investigation, Mr Salmond said there had been a \"malicious scheme\" among senior SNP figures to damage his reputation in the wake of the judicial review case.\n\nMr Davis, who is a longstanding friend of Mr Salmond, told the House of Commons on Tuesday evening that he had been passed evidence by a whistleblower, in the form of messages from a senior SNP official.\n\nHe read some messages out in the Commons and said they \"show that there is a concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints\" after the criminal investigation into Mr Salmond had started.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she did not want to discuss the claims at a Covid-19 briefing\n\nAsked about this on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not able to add anything\" to the evidence she gave in a lengthy session in front of the inquiry earlier this month.\n\nShe said: \"Other than to say I refute - strongly refute - the suggestions and insinuations from David Davis in the House of Commons last night, I am not going to have this Covid briefing sidetracked by the latest instalment of Alex Salmond's conspiracy theory.\n\n\"I have given eight hours of evidence to the parliamentary committee looking in to this.\n\n\"They are able to assess the evidence - they have a job of work to do and I am going to allow them to do that while I get on with my job, of leading this Covid briefing.\"\n\nMr Davis also told MPs that he had it \"on good authority\" that there were messages between civil servants \"suggesting that the first minister's chief of staff is interfering in the complaints process against Alex Salmond\".\n\nHe said this showed the chief of staff - Liz Lloyd - had been aware of complaints as early as February 2018, whereas Ms Sturgeon has insisted she only learned of them that April.\n\nWhen asked whether she still had full confidence in her chief of staff, Ms Sturgeon replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, a statement on behalf of one of the nine complainers from Mr Salmond's criminal trial was published by Rape Crisis Scotland.\n\nThe woman said that she had been approached by Scottish government HR about an investigation into Mr Salmond's behaviour in January 2018, and had spoken to Ms Lloyd \"to gain advice and an understanding of my obligations\".\n\nShe said Ms Lloyd had offered to convey her thoughts to senior civil servants, and that \"this was not 'interfering', but acting in line with my wishes\".\n\nDavid Davis told the Commons an unnamed whistleblower supplied the information he released using the special freedom of speech privileges MPs have.\n\nThat a former Conservative minister should do this in apparent sympathy with a former SNP leader and first minister is not as surprising as it might first appear.\n\nDespite their political disagreements, Alex Salmond and David Davis are old friends with Mr Davis appearing as a star guest in Mr Salmond's show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017.\n\nMany of the messages between senior SNP officials discussing the criminal case against Alex Salmond have already been released to the Holyrood committee of inquiry for consideration.\n\nThe BBC understands the document alleging interference by the first minister's chief of staff in the earlier Scottish government investigation of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond has now been passed to the committee by the Crown Office, which handles prosecutions in Scotland.\n\nMSPs on that committee are currently preparing their report into this saga which is expected to be published next week, just before Holyrood breaks for the election.\n\nIn her evidence to the committee, Ms Sturgeon said claims of a plot against Mr Salmond were \"absurd\".\n\nShe said her government had made a \"very serious error\" in its internal investigation process, but said it had nothing to hide and no reason to want to \"get\" Mr Salmond.\n\nFollowing Mr Davis's speech, a spokesman for the first minister said that \"as with Mr Salmond's previous claims and cherry picking of messages, the reality is very different to the picture being presented\".\n\nHe added: \"Every message involving SNP staff has been seen by the committee previously. Their views have been widely reported as dismissive of them.\"\n\nThe first of a number of expected reports about the row was published on Tuesday, in the form of an independent review of the government's recently-devised complaints handling process.\n\nLaura Dunlop QC recommended that investigations of harassment complaints against former ministers like Mr Salmond should be independent of government, saying that \"the risks of perception of bias, either in favour of or against the person complained about, are obvious\".\n\nThe report of the Holyrood inquiry committee and another into whether or not Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code in her dealings with Mr Salmond are expected to be published in the coming week.", "Former Top Gear presenter Sabine Schmitz - famous for being the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours - has died aged 51.\n\nSchmitz said last year that she had been diagnosed with cancer in 2017.\n\nSchmitz had become synonymous with the Nurburgring Nordschleife, the 14-mile circuit in Germany that is renowned as the toughest in the world.\n\nShe won the 24-hour touring car race at the track twice, in 1996 and 1997, driving a BMW M3.\n\nShe became known as the \"Queen of the Nurburgring\" and estimated she had driven around the track more than 20,000 times.\n\nSchmitz later gained acclaim for an appearance on Top Gear in 2004 in which she drove a van around the track, and subsequently became a presenter on the show alongside Chris Evans in 2016.\n\nThis Sunday's episode of Top Gear will be dedicated to Schmitz, with Clare Pizey, executive producer, saying: \"Sabine was a beloved member of the Top Gear family and presenting team since 2016, having first appeared on the show in 2004, and everyone who had the pleasure of working with her on the team is in shock at this news.\n\n\"Sabine radiated positivity, always wore her cheeky smile no matter how hard things got - and was a force of nature for women drivers in the motoring world.\n\n\"Like everyone else who knew her, we will truly miss her - Sabine really was one of a kind. Our thoughts are with her partner Klaus, who was always by her side and who we welcomed to Dunsfold many times, and her family in Germany.\"\n\nTop Gear presenter Chris Harris said Schmitz was a \"wonderful, powerful, hilarious person\" while the show's former presenter Jeremy Clarkson paid tribute by tweeting she was \"such a sunny person and so full of beans\".\n\nFormula 1 said Schmitz was \"a force of nature\" who inspired \"a new generation of motorsport enthusiasts\".", "Cruises were first paused in March due to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nP&O Cruises has said that anyone wanting to take its cruises around the British Isles this summer will need to be vaccinated first.\n\nTravellers will have to prove that they have had two coronavirus jabs to take the trips which depart from June.\n\nSaga Cruises and Virgin Voyages in the US have made similar moves recently.\n\nIt comes amid renewed fears about the damaged travel industry, with airports warning that summer 2020 passenger numbers were their lowest since 1975.\n\nP&O Cruises, which is part of the Carnival group, will run trips on two ships this summer. The Britannia will cruise from Southampton along the south coast of England for three or four days, and the Iona will travel up to Scotland from Southampton for seven-day trips.\n\nCarnival said that passengers wishing to board would have to have had both vaccination jabs at least a week before departure.\n\nGuests will also have to have travel insurance that \"must include medical and repatriation cover\" and medical expenses related to Covid-19.\n\nGuests and crew will be expected to respect social distancing rules and wear masks when appropriate.\n\nAnd should anyone test positive on board, they will be isolated and quarantined.\n\nPaul Ludlow, the president of P&O Cruises, said Carnival expected a government-approved way to prove people had been vaccinated by the summer.\n\n\"This is moving at pace,\" he said. \"We anticipate by the 27 June, which is our first sailing, there will be a government-accredited scheme to prove your vaccination, but at the very least, then of course, a letter from your GP would suffice.\"\n\nHe said that P&O Cruises was \"in close conversation with government every day\" about travellers being able to prove their vaccination status.\n\n\"At the moment we're stipulating that all guests of all ages must be vaccinated to come on board with us,\" Mr Ludlow added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said it was leading efforts \"to develop a framework that can safely facilitate international travel when the time is right, while still managing the risk from imported cases and variants\".\n\nCarnival follows Saga cruises, which said in January that all customers had to be vaccinated. British Airways also plans to let people register when they have had two vaccinations on a smartphone app.\n\nCarnival has not run cruises for a year due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe cruise industry was brought to its knees after regulators around the world stopped ships from sailing to try to limit outbreaks.\n\nThere were a number of deaths from Covid-19 after people were infected on board Carnival ships early last year. The first UK citizen to die of coronavirus was infected on the Carnival-run Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.\n\nAt the time, the outbreak on the ship was the largest outside mainland China, with more than 600 people infected.\n\nSimon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, said \"a lot is unusual\" about the \"staycation\" cruises P&O is planning.\n\n\"Because the voyages are 'cruises to nowhere', the captains will look at the weather forecast and aim to sail where it is warm and sunny,\" he said.\n\nHe added the P&O concept is \"you can look but you can't touch\".\n\n\"On a voyage around the Scottish islands, for example, Iona will anchor off Iona, the magical island after which she was named, but you can't step ashore,\" he said.\n\nDoing this circumvents all kinds of problems, he said.\n\n\"There are concerns about shore excursions. Some ports of call may not welcome hundreds of people from a wide range of locations wandering around, and conversely some cruise lines do not want their passengers to mingle with locals - MSC Cruises has made it a condition of travel,\" he said.\n\nCarnival has been burning through cash and last quarter said it had made a net loss of $2.2bn.\n\nAirport operators have also been on the ropes due to the coronavirus crisis. They said on Wednesday that passenger numbers travelling through UK airports last summer plunged to their lowest level since 1975.\n\n\"Despite dealing with the biggest crisis in their history, most airports remain operational to support vital public services, such as Royal Mail, air ambulances, Coastguard and the National Police Air Service, as well as other critical services such as freight, including PPE and vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Unite union also called for tailored support, saying that more than 5,100 UK aviation and related jobs have been lost every month since February 2020.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary for transport Diana Holland said: \"It has been heart-breaking to see so many UK jobs go in aviation when we know that demand will come back.\n\n\"A staggering number of workers in the sector are now unemployed but when we look across the Channel, we see that a different approach from governments actually saves these jobs.\"\n\nThe government has previously said that it has provided unprecedented support to businesses across sectors of the economy including aviation.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC the government was committed to restarting cruise travel when it is safe to do so, and is working closely with the sector to prepare for a safe and successful restart.\n\n\"We have put in place an unprecedented package of business support and recently extended government-backed loans and furlough payments to businesses, including in the travel industry.\n\n\"Around £7bn has been pledged to the aviation sector since the start of the pandemic, and through the Global Travel Taskforce we are working hard to restart international travel when it is safe to do so,\" the spokesperson said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Defence spending a boost for \"safety of the British people\"\n\nA \"once-in-a-generation modernisation\" of the armed forces is required to extend British influence and protect the public, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs a new four-year funding deal would protect \"hundreds of thousands\" of jobs and create 40,000 new roles.\n\n\"I have decided that the era of cutting our defence budget must end, and it ends now,\" he said.\n\nLabour welcomed more defence spending but asked how it would be funded.\n\nOutlining the new package in the Commons, the PM - speaking over video link as he is self-isolating - said the benefits \"will go far beyond our armed forces\".\n\nMr Johnson described the increase in defence spending as being worth £16.5bn in new money over four years.\n\nHowever economist Ben Zaranko, from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said that while this represented a big rise in spending, the figure of £16.5bn was a \"misleading way to present this announcement\".\n\nHe continued: \"It would be more accurate to say that by 2024-25, defence spending will be £7bn higher than it would have been under previous plans.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Our plans will safeguard hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry, protecting livelihoods across the UK and keeping the British people safe.\"\n\nThe PM pledged to end defence budget cuts, protect shipping lanes that supply the country, press on with renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent and restore Britain as \"the foremost naval power in Europe\" with a \"renaissance of British shipbuilding across the UK\".\n\nHe also said the funding would allow investment in new technology such as:\n\n\"From aerospace to autonomous vehicles, these technologies have a vast array of civilian applications opening up new vistas of economic progress, creating 10,000 jobs every year - 40,000 in total - levelling-up across our country and reinforcing our union,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nThis is a big win for Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who's been fighting hard for a significant increase in defence spending and a long-term financial settlement to end what he calls a cycle of overambitious, under-funded defence reviews of the past.\n\nThe Treasury had been arguing for a much smaller annual increase. But Mr Wallace found an ally in the PM, who says his first priority is defence of the realm.\n\nBoris Johnson also believes it'll boost Britain's place in the world and create jobs.\n\nThe extra money will be used to modernise the armed forces with more spent on robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nDespite the palpable relief inside the MoD it still has to fill a £13bn black hole in its equipment budget. Difficult decisions about cutting old equipment to fund the new are still to be made.\n\nThe MoD, which doesn't have a strong track record of balancing its books, now has to prove it can spend wisely.\n\nAnd good news for defence might also mean bad news for other government departments - there's already speculation the international aid budget could be cut.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of making a \"spending announcement without a strategy\" and asked whether the money would be raised through cuts or tax rises, or both.\n\nMr Johnson did not respond to the question but said Sir Keir's record of support for the armed forces was \"very thin indeed\".\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt urged Mr Johnson \"not to listen to any voices in his ear\" saying that cutting international aid could help to fund the increase in defence spending.\n\nAnd Labour MP Sarah Champion, chairwoman of the international development committee, asked Mr Johnson to \"quash rumours and confirm his manifesto commitment\" of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, \"now and going forwards\".\n\nThe PM responded by telling the Commons: \"I think we can all be proud of our record on overseas aid and that will continue.\"\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the announcement.\n\n\"But of course we're also conscious that living through this Covid crisis, the armed forces have stepped up to the plate to provide some of the resilience that the nation has needed,\" he added.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said the \"extraordinary announcement\" would be very good for morale\n\nEarlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"letting go\" of some older weapons would create \"headroom\" for new investment.\n\nHe added: \"When I looked across at the armed forces today I saw them with equipment that was out-of-date, I saw our adversaries across the world having better equipment, the ability to attack us and harm us getting wider and wider from our capabilities.\"\n\nThe funding announcement is part of the first conclusions of the government's Integrated Review which looks at security, defence, development and foreign policy.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said the extra money would give \"a welcome and long-overdue upgrade to Britain's defences after a decade of decline\".\n\nConservative MP and defence select committee chairman Tobias Ellwood said: \"This is a lot of money but ultimately there are still huge financial pressures facing our armed forces.\"\n\nBut he said the \"key takeaway\" for him was the \"message this sends to the British people, to the MoD as well, that we want to be back as a strong power capability\".", "Crime Bill has higher sentences for damaging statues than rape - Starmer\n\nSir Keir Starmer says the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill presented last night has longer sentences for damaging statues, rather than rape cases he gives examples of. He says Labour are about to publish a load of ideas and practical changes that could take place in order to help victims. He says he \"doesn't care\" if this becomes a government bill or not, he says he wants to work together in order to address this problem. Mr Johnson says it is \"entirely right in these circumstances\" that Sir Keir is offering to work together with the government on these issues. But, he says, until women feel they are being heard \"we will not fix this problem\". He says if he wants to work with the government on this, he should be voting in favour of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.", "Sharon Osbourne has said she may not be wanted back, or want to go back, on US chat show The Talk after clashing with one of her co-hosts about Piers Morgan.\n\nShe said she had \"got too personal\" with co-presenter Sheryl Underwood and that she feared the row had escalated too far for her to return to the show.\n\nThe Talk has been taken off air and has extended its hiatus until next week.\n\nMeanwhile, Osbourne's spokesman has dismissed accusations of racism made against her as \"lies\".\n\nThe row on The Talk followed Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Morgan's subsequent departure from Good Morning Britain after saying he \"didn't believe a word\" she had said.\n\nOsbourne was one of the first people to voice support for Morgan, claiming he had the right to express his own opinion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Osbourne: He has a right to his opinion\n\nHer comments were challenged on Wednesday's edition of The Talk, leading to an angry exchange with Underwood.\n\n\"I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist,\" Osborne said.\n\nShe later issued an apology, saying she had \"felt blindsided\" and had let her \"fear and horror of being accused of being racist take over\".\n\nIn an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, Osbourne reiterated her apology and said she should have appreciated that Underwood was \"hurting\".\n\n\"I own up to what I did,\" she told the programme. \"I can't not own up. I said what I said. I got too personal with Sheryl.\"\n\nBut Osbourne also claimed she had been \"set up\" as a \"sacrificial lamb\" and had not been sufficiently prepared by The Talk's producers.\n\n\"I wish we could go on and have a adult conversation calmly and work it out but I don't know whether we can,\" she continued. \"I don't know whether it's gone past that.\n\n\"I would love to, but I don't know whether I even want to go back. I don't know whether I'm wanted there.\"\n\nMorgan has stood by his criticism of the Duchess of Sussex\n\nThe Talk was due to return on Wednesday after US network CBS cancelled its Monday and Tuesday editions. However, the broadcaster has now said the show will not be back until next week while an internal investigation is carried out.\n\nCBS said it was \"committed to a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace\" and was \"very mindful of the important concerns expressed and discussions taking place regarding events on The Talk\".\n\nIts statement said: \"This includes a process where all voices are heard, claims are investigated and appropriate action is taken where necessary. The show will extend its production hiatus until next Tuesday as we continue to review these issues.\"\n\nOsbourne, who is married to rock star Ozzy and has appeared as a judge on The X Factor and other shows, has been a panellist on The Talk throughout its 11 years on air.\n\nFollowing her comments last week, some former colleagues have come forward to make accusations about her.\n\nLast week, former co-presenter Holly Robinson Peete claimed Osbourne had complained she was too \"ghetto\" for the show, and that her job on the presenting line-up ended soon afterwards. Osbourne has denied making those comments or engineering her dismissal.\n\nUS journalist Yashar Ali has since reported allegations that Osbourne made racist remarks about former co-host Julie Chen.\n\nOsbourne's representative Howard Bragman issued a staunch defence. \"The only thing worse than a disgruntled former employee is a disgruntled former talk show host,\" he said.\n\n\"Sharon is disappointed but unfazed and hardly surprised by the lies, the recasting of history and the bitterness coming out at this moment. She will survive this, as she always has.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The town is Anglesey's largest, and home to the UK's second busiest passenger ferry port\n\nA town's schools could be closed in a bid to curb \"extremely concerning\" Covid-19 infection rates.\n\nIn Holyhead, on Anglesey, there have been 43 positive tests in the past seven days. The town had an average case rate of 401.2 per 100,000 over that period.\n\nOver the past seven days, the rate for Wales was 42.5.\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi Huws said \"all options\" were being considered in discussions with schools.\n\nShe told Dros Frecwast, on Radio Cymru, that as well as the idea of closing schools discussions included whether there was a need for a local lockdown around Holyhead.\n\nLlinos Medi Huws says people with a wider range of symptoms will be able to get a test\n\n\"We're looking at all options but we need to look at how realistic it is to enforce them because we're dependent on the local people complying with the new restrictions,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to Newyddion S4C on Wednesday evening, Ms Huws said the council had decided to widen testing to include people with a wider range of symptoms.\n\nThe authority would also extend the opening hours of the testing centre in Holyhead and allow people to turn up without an appointment, she said.\n\nSo far this month, 54% of the 174 positive coronavirus cases on Anglesey - identified through the Test, Trace and Protect team - have been in and around Holyhead.\n\nStaff at Ysbyty Gwynedd, in Bangor, were caring for 32 patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday morning - 15 of whom had become infected in hospital, according to Alyson Constantine, acute care director at the hospital.\n\nShe added there were also 31 recovering patients who had had Covid.\n\nThe council said although some cases had links to the recent outbreak at Ysbyty Gwynedd, household, cross-household and workplace transmission in the Holyhead area were \"also increasing and a significant cause for concern\".\n\nPrevention and Surveillance Group chairman and deputy council chief executive Dylan Williams said: \"The situation in Holyhead and recent increase in cases is extremely concerning.\n\n\"We must all play our part now by following the all-important guidance - sticking to social distancing, wearing a mask when we need to and not mixing with family and friends.\n\n\"We understand that these measures are tough on everyone it is the only way we can return to some sort of normality.\"\n\nWelsh government officials say they are monitoring the situation on the island\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh government was \"concerned\" about growing rates of the virus in Merthyr Tydfil, Conwy and Anglesey.\n\nHe said in the case of Anglesey in particular, it was important to gain an understanding of why case numbers were rising.\n\n\"We are concerned about those three authorities in particular, because we're aware they have the most visible rise in case rates\", he said.\n\n\"If they'd followed the national trend overall then we would have seen a further reduction, so they do make a difference to the overall figure.\n\n\"In the one sense, it makes it much more visible, because the rest of Wales has been able to behave collectively together in such a way where we've been able to keep coronavirus rates low.\"\n\nDr Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, said: \"Where you have small populations like Anglesey, like Merthyr for example, any movement in the numbers because of clusters of cases, due to household mixing or whatever, small changes in the numbers can lead to big changes in the rates because the population is quite small. So we're seeing a bit of that in Anglesey, I think.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"Although the rates have been falling, and falling very well, they do seem to be bottoming out - the message still has to be, whilst we get the vaccine rolled out we have to be cautious as a nation, particularly avoid mixing with households.\"\n\nWhen asked if we would see more local lockdowns, he said: \"The experience last year with local lockdowns wasn't very encouraging, we found that a once-for-Wales approach is more effective in bringing rates down.\n\n\"Local outbreaks can be managed locally - if we see spikes or occurrences in a local authority area or based on an employer then that will be managed locally. If the rates overall across Wales start to go up, then who knows - we can't rule out the fact we might have to reverse that.\"\n\nWhen asked about the flare-up on Anglesey, Conservative member of the Senedd (MS) Janet Finch-Saunders said: \"I do not agree with local lockdowns.\"\n\nThe Aberconwy MS added: \"I think it's about finding out exactly how this happened, but it is fair to say that people are becoming very tired now of restricted movement.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"closely monitoring the situation\" and would \"consider whether further measures are needed\".", "A west Belfast grammar school has become the first to abandon academic selection for 2022.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, the governors of St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar School said they would not take part in transfer tests this autumn.\n\nThe governors said this was due to the \"unprecedented mental and emotional stresses\" faced by Primary 6 children.\n\nSt Mary's is an all-boys grammar on Belfast's Glen Road.\n\nIt has more than 1,100 pupils and admits about 180 young people every year.\n\nIn previous years, it has used the transfer tests run by the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) to select pupils.\n\nThe separate tests run by the PPTC and AQE were cancelled in 2021 due to disruption caused by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThat has meant the vast majority of more than 60 grammar schools are using non-academic criteria to select pupils for September 2021.\n\nSt Mary's has become the first grammar school to decide not to use transfer tests for a second year.\n\nFollowing a decision by the NI Executive on Tuesday, Primary 6 children are due to return to school on Monday, 22 March.\n\nHowever, those children have only been taught in school for about four months in the past year.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, the board of governors of St Mary's Grammar said the school had continued to offer its \"traditional high standard of teaching\" during the \"unforgiving pandemic\".\n\n\"For a significant number of years, the school has been oversubscribed and has utilised an academic selection criterion in allocating places available for its Year 8 intake,\" they continued.\n\n\"However, in the light of the current unprecedented mental and emotional stresses on both pupils and parents, the board of governors wish to focus on the health and well-being of the current Primary 6 cohort.\n\n\"Due to the current challenges faced by these young people, the board of governors have decided it will not take part in the PPTC transfer tests and will not use an academic selection criterion for 2022/23 school year.\"\n\nThe governors said the school would use other entrance criteria for 2022, which would be \"published in due course\".\n\nBBC News NI previously revealed that PPTC had asked schools to consider whether to use verbal reasoning tests to decide which pupils to admit in 2022.\n\nMore than 30 - mainly Catholic - grammars have been asked to consider what PPTC called a \"radical change\" to the tests this autumn, instead of tests in English and Maths.\n\nHowever, St Mary's has now decided to scrap academic selection for 2022 instead.", "Almost 17,000 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests have been cancelled during the pandemic to date, the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann told the NI Assembly that between 17 March 2020 and 5 March 2021, 16,938 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests had been postponed.\n\n\"It's important to note that includes cancellations for all reasons, not just Covid-related,\" he said.\n\n\"Procedures are often cancelled for a myriad of other reasons.\"\n\nMr Swann said these included clinical circumstances, patients cancellations or staff pressures.\n\nBut he added: \"I am assured that every attempt is made to protect the most urgent appointments where this is achievable, and the postponed test procedures and operations will all be rescheduled as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMore than 4,000 red flag cancer procedures were among the cancellations.\n\nThese are operations that can have an impact on a person's outcome from treatment.\n\nMr Swann said that the five health trusts were currently compiling three-month plans for April to June which, it is hoped will be published shortly.\n\nHe said the department hoped to publish \"activity projections\" alongside the plans.\n\nThe health minister also told Stormont that he had been \"blindsided\" by the manner in which he found out about the Republic of Ireland's decision to pause the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine following reports of a small number of cases of blood clots.\n\nMr Swann said he heard this through the media and he had asked the chief medical officer to engage with his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland \"to make sure that we realise the full operational value of that memorandum of understanding\".\n\n\"It doesn't help either of us when either of us are actually blindsided by a decision that has been taken in either jurisdiction,\" he said.\n\nHealth officials in Northern Ireland have said they will continue to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nEarlier, Mr Swann stressed the importance of avoiding a \"free-for-all\" situation as coronavirus restrictions are eased and recommended a gradual approach.\n\nThere was also a stark message about signs of \"increased harmful alcohol consumption, more snacking and increased sedentary behaviour as a result of the pandemic\".\n\nHe said as society begins to re-open, he said he would encourage people to spend more time outdoors and agreed \"the risk is very much lower outdoor than indoors\".\n\nHowever, the minister added that potentially associated activities such as sharing cars to deliver children to sporting activities do pose a greater risk of transmission.\n\nThe Executive was told that research carried out by Ernst and Young indicated that watching and participating in sport were two of the top nine things people missed during the initial lockdown period.\n\nMr Swann said evidence gathered to date highlights concerns around mental health and domestic violence.", "The Curiosity rover has found extensive evidence of hydrated minerals at Mars' Gale Crater\n\nIt's a longstanding mystery: how Mars lost the water that flowed across its surface billions of years ago.\n\nScientists now think they have an answer: much of it became trapped in the planet's outer layer - its crust.\n\nThe ancient water exists in the form of minerals contained within Martian rocks.\n\nThe findings have been discussed at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and are published in Science journal.\n\nThe study used measurements gathered from Mars-orbiting spacecraft, rovers and meteorites.\n\nResearchers then developed a computer simulation of how water was lost from the planet over time.\n\nMore than four billion years ago, Mars was warmer and wetter - possibly with a thicker atmosphere. Water coursed through rivers, cutting channels in the rock, and pooled in impact craters.\n\nThe Red Planet could have held enough water to cover its entire surface in a layer measuring between 100m and one kilometre deep.\n\nAround a billion years later, Mars had made the transition to the colder, desolate planet we recognise today.\n\n\"We have known for a long time that Mars was much wetter in its early history. But, the exact fate of that water has been an ongoing problem,\" said planetary scientist Dr Peter Grindrod, who was not involved with the latest study.\n\nDr Grindrod, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News: \"We already know from studies of the atmosphere of Mars that some of that water was lost to space, and ice deposits on and just below the surface tell us that some water became frozen.\"\n\nEarth has a magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, that helps prevent the atmosphere from escaping. But Mars' magnetic shield is weak and could have allowed elemental components of water to escape from the planet.\n\nBut the rate at which hydrogen - one chemical constituent of water - escapes from that atmosphere today suggests this can't be the whole story.\n\nIf it's assumed that the current loss rate for hydrogen was the same in the past, \"it's a pretty small amount of water that you would have lost through this escape process\", said co-author Eva Linghan Scheller, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.\n\nIn other words, most of the water must have gone elsewhere.\n\nNasa's latest rover will explore a geological feature called a delta, laid down in the presence of flowing water\n\nThe results of the team's computer modelling work show that between 30% and 99% of Mars' initial water was incorporated into minerals and buried in the planet's crust.\n\nCo-author Prof Bethany Ehlmann, also from from Caltech, explained that, \"by studying data from Mars missions, It became clear that it was common - and not rare - to find evidence of water alteration\".\n\nShe continued: \"When the crust becomes altered, it takes water - like liquid water - and sequesters it in a hydrated mineral that has water in its structure so that it is effectively trapped.\"\n\nThe authors suggest that most of the water was lost between about 4.1 and 3.7 billion years ago - during a stretch of Martian history known as the Noachian Period.\n\nDr Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars exploration program, said: \"The original overarching role of Mars exploration has been to follow the water, since it plays such a central role in the geology, climate and life of the planet.\n\n\"This is a very important paper to understand how much water was on Mars, how it might have been lost and where it might be today.\"\n\nDr Grindrod added: \"What this new study tells us is that a lot of that water, possibly the majority, could have actually been locked into the rocks on Mars. This process of hydration is capable of storing large volumes of water, up to an amount equivalent to a global layer a kilometre deep.\"\n\n\"Although most of the liquid water had probably disappeared after about one and a half billion years after Mars formed, we see evidence of hydrated minerals at the surface today, in areas like Jezero Crater, which is currently being explored by the Perseverance rover.\n\n\"The early climate of Mars remains one of the most important topics in planetary science, and this study will help our understanding of the processes responsible for water loss.\"", "Scotland's train services are to be run by a public sector body, the Scottish government has announced.\n\nDutch firm Abellio will stop running the ScotRail franchise at the end of March next year.\n\nAfter this an \"arms-length\" Scottish government company will take over the running of services.\n\nAbellio has been running the franchise since 2015 but had its contract ended early amid criticism over cancellations and performance levels.\n\nAll ScotRail staff will transfer to the new Scottish government-owned entity.\n\nThe arrangement is being made under powers which allow the Scottish government to take over the rail franchise without a bidding process.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said he was not able to say how long these \"operator of last resort\" arrangements would last for.\n\nHe said: \"I have decided that it would not be appropriate to award a franchise agreement to any party at this time, either through a competition or a direct award.\n\n\"That is why I have confirmed that, from the expiry of the current franchise, ScotRail services will be provided in public hands through a company wholly owned and controlled by the Scottish government.\n\n\"This approach will provide a stable platform for ScotRail services and certainty for passengers and staff.\"\n\nMr Matheson told MSPs that taking ScotRail into public hands was the right thing to do in the face of the challenges created by Covid\n\nScotland's railways have already been temporarily nationalised since March last year to help the service cope with the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe Scottish government has spent £452m in support for ScotRail, along with the Caledonian Sleeper, after passenger numbers dropped dramatically as a result of lockdown restrictions.\n\nMr Matheson described Abellio's time in charge of ScotRail as \"a difficult period\" which had confirmed the franchise system was \"broken and not working in the taxpayers' interest\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"There have been periods where they have under-performed, which has resulted in us having to take direct action.\n\n\"It's also a time when we have seen our rail network expand, with more new trains... and a greater range of services to the travelling public.\n\n\"So it's been very much a mixed report card that we would give to Abellio, but one that we did not believe lived up to our aspirations.\"\n\nMr Matheson said passengers would get better value for money under the new set-up \"because it will effectively cut out the company\" which has been running the system.\n\nThis includes the company's \"considerable\" management costs, he said.\n\nKevin Lindsay, Scottish organiser of train driver union Aslef, said: \"We welcome the beginning of the end of the failed franchise system here in Scotland.\n\n\"However, never again should people's railway ever be in the hands of the privateers.\n\n\"It's now for all us in the railway to build a railway that's accessible, affordable, and safe for the people of Scotland.\"\n\nThe TSSA union said: \"This announcement is long overdue - much like many ScotRail trains were whilst Abellio was in charge.\"\n\nThe RMT union said public ownership would deliver significant benefits for Scotland's rail workers, passengers and taxpayers.\n\nThe \"operator of last resort\" model that the Scottish government will use is currently being used by the UK government to run the East Coast franchise by means of the arms-length London North Eastern Railway company.\n\nIn Wales, day-to-day services are being run by a publicly-owned company after a significant fall in passenger numbers during the Covid pandemic.\n\nScottish Tory transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: \"The SNP government must be entirely honest about how much this will cost taxpayers and clear about what demonstrable benefits it is expected to bring to passengers.\n\n\"It is important that this is being motivated by pragmatism not ideology.\n\n\"This is the same government that can't even build a couple of ferries which hardly instils confidence in them having the competence to run a rail service.\"\n\nScottish Greens transport spokesman John Finnie said the announcement was \"welcome progress\".\n\nHe said: \"Given Wales brought railways into public ownership last year, this has been a long time coming.\n\n\"Nationalisation of services is just the first step towards a greener, integrated public transport system which serves communities not shareholders.\"\n\nScottish Labour's transport spokesman Alex Rowley said: \"When SNP ministers awarded the contract to Abellio they told us we would have world leading services but for far too many that was not the experience.\n\n\"The Scottish government could have acted on this much earlier, and it is their repeated failures that have led us to this point.\"\n\nA statement from ScotRail posted to Twitter said: \"We want to reassure you that we'll keep operating a reliable service to support the vaccine rollout and the opening up of the economy over the coming months.\"We'll work closely with Transport Scotland to ensure a smooth transition to the new operator, to deliver stability for customers and railway staff.\"\n\nPrivatisation of the railways in the 1990s was both radical and controversial.\n\nEven some who had supported the privatisations of other state-owned assets such as BT and the electricity companies questioned whether breaking up British Rail and offering businesses franchises to run services would actually work out for the best.\n\nThey seemed to be proved right. The company that owned the lines, Railtrack, was brought back into public ownership as Network Rail. Some franchises proved unsuccessful or unviable so the state stepped in to keep the trains running.\n\nThe ScotRail franchise, despite plenty of controversies, was relatively free of trouble and has been operated by three separate companies over the years - Abellio now looks set to be the last.\n\nIn many ways though, Scotland's railways were more like a public private partnership than a business simply driven by the market. The Scottish government supported big improvements to the line between Glasgow and Edinburgh and the reopening of the Waverley Line in the borders.\n\nFor some, the renationalisation of Scotland's railway service will be seen as right or wrong as a mere point of principle. But the test for many passengers will be whether it results in better services or a greater degree of accountability.", "Caroline Wiseman applied for retrospective planning permission for placing the sculptures on the beach\n\nArtist Sir Antony Gormley has formally objected to a set of his sculptures being displayed on a beach, saying their positioning is a \"misrepresentation\" of his work.\n\nThe four iron bollards were placed on the beach at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, by owner Caroline Wiseman, in August.\n\nShe retrospectively applied for planning permission last month, to which Sir Antony has objected.\n\nMs Wiseman said if the plans were rejected she would have to sell them.\n\nPublicity about the planning application last month led to mixed reviews about the artwork on social media.\n\nWhile their owner described them as \"fine works\" in her application to East Suffolk Council, some compared the works to \"sex toys\" or \"giant dog poo\" .\n\nOwner Ms Wiseman described them as \"fine works\"\n\nIt was brought to the attention of their creator, Angel of the North sculptor Sir Antony, whose representative lodged an objection with the council, as first reported in the Telegraph.\n\nThe four artworks - titled Oval, Peg, Penis and Snowman - were bought from an official Gormley exhibition in 2001 by art collector Ms Wiseman.\n\nLast year, she moved them to the beach in front of her gallery.\n\nSir Antony Gormley's agent said the placement of the sculptures \"compromises their purpose as a piece of street furniture\"\n\nThe Gormley sculpture is made up of four cast iron pieces, half buried in the shingle beach\n\nHer retrospective application was submitted as she said she had not realised permission might be needed to place them there.\n\nA letter from Sir Antony's representative stated the artist objected on the grounds that the bollards were \"functional pieces of urban design\" and were meant to \"stand upright\".\n\n\"The change of orientation and configuration of the bollards completely compromises their purpose as a piece of street furniture and the artist's original intention behind the work,\" the letter said.\n\nMs Wiseman said she had tried to stand the 220lb (100kg) pieces upright, \"but the pebbles wouldn't support them\".\n\n\"We laid them down, instead, and people have said how beautiful they are,\" she added.\n\nThe design has been named Quartet (Sleeping) by Ms Wiseman\n\nSir Antony also objected to Ms Wiseman changing the name of the group to Quartet (Sleeping), 2001 - which Ms Wiseman said was done partly because they were displayed lying down.\n\nShe said: \"When you buy a work of art you're able to display it how you want it - it's called an 'intervention' in the art world.\"\n\nIf permission to keep them on the beach was refused, she said she would have to auction them and thought they would sell in the region of £5,000 a piece.\n\n\"But they are there for the enjoyment of all the people of Aldeburgh and Suffolk, and it will be a very sad thing if they have to go,\" she said.\n\nSir Antony is most famous for his Angel of the North sculpture in Gateshead\n\nEast Suffolk Council's planning committee is due to consider the application at a later date.\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.", "Martin Quinn says the family has been threatened by the South East Antrim UDA for speaking out\n\nThe brother of a man found murdered in his home in Carrickfergus last year has appealed to the public to help \"break the silence\".\n\nMartin Quinn made his remarks as part of a BBC NI Spotlight programme about his brother's unsolved murder, and the paramilitary gang believed to be responsible.\n\nGlenn Quinn was terminally ill from a blood condition when he moved into a flat in the town just weeks before Christmas 2019.\n\nThe 47-year-old had no connections to any crime or paramilitary gang but was threatened after he privately made a throwaway remark when he criticised an attack by the South East Antrim Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on a friend's business.\n\nThe South East Antrim UDA is one of Northern Ireland's largest paramilitary gangs.\n\nAccording to a recent MI5-police intelligence assessment shared with Spotlight, the gang \"has access to arms\" and is \"heavily involved in drugs supply, community coercion, intimidation and other criminality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Next time it might be your son'\n\nIn December 2019, Glenn Quinn was first assaulted and threatened after he parked his car outside his flat.\n\nFearful for his safety, he told his brother Martin what had happened to him.\n\n\"The window was down, and the guy approached from the rear of the car, put his hand in through the window and shoved Glenn back and basically grabbed him by the throat,\" he said.\n\n\"He was really concerned because at the end of that assault, he was told that the UDA were coming back to sort him out.\"\n\nGlenn told his brother, and others, the name of the man who assaulted him.\n\nSecurity and loyalist sources have confirmed to Spotlight that person is known to them as a member of South East Antrim UDA.\n\nGlenn Quinn's body was found in Ashleigh Park in the Woodburn area of Carrickfergus on 4 January 2020\n\nJust days later, the threat against Glenn Quinn was borne out.\n\n\"Glenn had just walked into the hallway of the block of apartments and as Glenn was opening the door, he was attacked from behind.\n\n\"There were three people, and these three people, then, gave him a terrible beating.\n\n\"They went at him with weapons. He just tried to get into a ball and protect himself as best he could.\"\n\nMartin is aware of some of the details of the attack because his brother managed to ring him in the minutes afterwards.\n\nHowever, Martin was not fully aware of the critical nature of Glenn's injuries.\n\n\"He was quite lucid and by no means did I think that Glenn had been assaulted as badly as he had been.\n\n\"The next was Glenn couldn't be contacted and that's when Glenn's body was found.\n\n\"I still blame myself that I didn't act, didn't phone an ambulance.\n\n\"I wish I'd spoke longer to him, I wish I'd have said so many other things and if I had knew this was the last conversation I was going to have with Glenn. Tell him how much I loved him... talk about old times, and I didn't have that opportunity.\"\n\nThe Ulster Defence Association, formed in 1971, had tens of thousands of members at its peak.\n\nIt killed hundreds of people during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and often claimed responsibility for sectarian murders using the cover name the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).\n\nThe UDA had remained a legal organisation until it was banned in August 1992.\n\nNotorious attacks by the UFF included the shooting dead of five Catholics at a Belfast bookmakers in 1992 and the Greysteel massacre the following year.\n\nRead more here: Loyalist paramilitary groups 'have 12,500 members'\n\nGlenn Quinn was beaten to death for passing a remark about the South East Antrim UDA.\n\nWhen his family appealed for help with the PSNI investigation, they were also threatened by the South East Antrim UDA.\n\n\"I personally have been threatened three times, my mother's been threatened... They're threatening to shoot a 76-year-old woman.\n\n\"And that's part and parcel of how this organisation operate, they try to put people in fear.\"\n\nGlenn Quinn's death shocked Carrickfergus and beyond, but many locals remain too scared to speak out.\n\nThe murder, they say, is what happens when a ruthless criminal gang is effectively out-of-control and perceives itself to be above the law.\n\n\"I want people to search their hearts,\" said Martin.\n\n\"Because, next time, and there will be a next time, it might be their brother, it might be their son, and I'd ask them to do something to stop this.\n\n\"To break the silence. And help us.\"", "The last St Patrick's Day parade in Belfast was in 2019\n\nSt Patrick's Day celebrations will once again be different this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTraditional parades in Belfast and Dublin have been cancelled for the second year in a row, with many events across the island again moving online.\n\nPolice have warned that anyone breaking Covid-19 regulations in NI will face a \"robust\" response.\n\nBut while large gatherings are mostly ruled out, attempts have been made to celebrate in style around the world.\n\nWhen the Global Greenings initiative was first launched, just the Sydney Opera House and the Sky Tower in Auckland took part\n\nSince 2010, landmarks around the world have gone green in honour of St Patrick and this year, a record number of places are taking part.\n\nSome 670 sites in 66 countries will take part in Tourism Ireland's Global Greenings initiative.\n\nThe quirkiest additions to this year's list include an abandoned sauna in Finland and a Smurf statue in Brussels.\n\nHere's how other places in Northern Ireland and further afield are planning to mark the occasion:\n\nBelfast has an array of virtual events for people to enjoy from the comfort of their own homes throughout the month of March.\n\nAn online disco, Irish language festivals and a virtual guided tour of the city's street art are just some of the events on offer.\n\nSeveral live music events will also be streamed throughout St Patrick's Day, showcasing the city's talent.\n\nSt Joseph's Church in Sailortown is one such venue celebrating with an eight-hour live-streamed event.\n\nThe St Patrick's Centre in Downpatrick, County Down is celebrating with a number of online events for St Patrick's Day and also to mark its 20 year anniversary.\n\nA new show about St Patrick, a children's virtual art competition and a series of podcasts from former BBC politics correspondent Martina Purdy and ex-barrister Elaine Kelly, who are pilgrim guides on the new St Patrick's Way, are just some of the events on offer.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Ms Purdy said that some of the guests involved on the podcast are journalist and presenter Eamonn Holmes, as well as Irish cellist Patrick Dexter, who has found online fame with his open-air recitals, shot outside his cottage in County Mayo.\n\n\"I was probably less aggressive than I was previously with some politicians,\" she said.\n\nIt is claimed that St Patrick is buried outside Downpatrick Cathedral. A large granite stone marks the spot, placed there in the early 20th century.\n\nThe council's Spring and St Patrick's Day programme promises to \"bring some colour\" to the city and district, according to mayor Brian Tierney.\n\nHe thanked event organisers for a programme that \"strikes a balance between giving the public something to look forward to and celebrate, while also keeping everyone safe\".\n\nEvent organiser Jacqueline Whoriskey said: \"While we will not be holding any public events or gatherings, we have focused in on how we can creatively bring the spring spirit to our streets with artwork and installations, with fairy dwellings and artistic sculptures that can be enjoyed by everyone when out getting some fresh air and exercise\".\n\nArmagh's At Home With St Patrick Festival includes events such as online wreath making and an Irish dancing master class.\n\nAll events are free of charge, however, some do require registration in advance.\n\nThe council is marking Irish Language Week and St Patrick's Day with a series of online performances and storytelling.\n\nAll events have moved online and the festival includes music and dance performances, streamed live from the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh and the Ardhowen Theatre in Enniskillen.\n\nThe council is streaming a series of craft workshops, musical entertainment and dance performances live on social media channels throughout the day.\n\nHundreds of extra PSNI officers are set to be deployed across Northern Ireland for St Patrick's Day\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland have appealed for anyone celebrating St Patrick's Day to ensure that they adhere to all public health regulations.\n\nHundreds of extra PSNI officers are set to be deployed across Northern Ireland on Wednesday, through to the early hours of Thursday.\n\nThe substantial policing operation will see officers patrolling beauty spots and the Holyland area of south Belfast.\n\nPolice said that a number of gatherings have already been broken up by officers in south Belfast ahead of St Patrick's Day.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said that people know the rules and those breaking them could face fines.\n\nSaint Patrick lived in the 5th Century AD and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nWhile St Patrick really existed, and some of his writings survive, his value does not really come from historical details but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nThe city's St Patrick's Festival runs from 12 to 17 March, with more than 100 online events around the theme of Awaken Ireland.\n\nOrganisers have partnered with Irish national broadcaster RTÉ for the virtual parade.\n\nThe celebrations will be broadcast around the world to a potential audience of 80 million people, organisers said.\n\nThe Queen has extended her best wishes to the people of Ireland for St Patrick's Day, 10 years after she visited.\n\nIn her message to Irish President Michael D Higgins, she said: \"We share ties of family, friendship and affection, the foundation of our partnership that remains as important today as ten years ago.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The bowl will be placed on President Joe Biden's desk during his meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders will discuss, among other things, combating Covid-19 and supporting political and economic stability in Northern Ireland, according to the White House.\n\nJoe Biden posing for a photo with residents in Ballina, County Mayo, in 2016\n\nMr Biden, who has strong links to Mayo and Carlingford, will no doubt want to celebrate his Irish roots.\n\nBefore a visit to the land of his forefathers in 2016, the then US vice-president said: \"Being Irish, without fear of contradiction, has shaped my entire life.\"\n\nIn Chicago, officials had cancelled the annual colouring of the Chicago River event but the city's mayor was determined to continue with the tradition, minus the fanfare.\n\nChicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted: \"Happy St. Patrick's Day Weekend, Chicago! Although we didn't gather, we were able to honor long-standing tradition by dyeing the Chicago River green, thanks to the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mayor Lori Lightfoot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Withdrawals from cash machines in the UK have fallen by £37bn during the 12 months of the Covid pandemic, renewing the debate over the future of cash.\n\nLink, which oversees the UK's cash machine network, said the number of visits to ATMs had fallen by 43% compared with the previous 12 months.\n\nBut the amount withdrawn on each cash machine visit has gone up, from an average of £67 to £84.\n\nLess demand and Covid restrictions mean 4,000 fewer free ATMs are in operation.\n\nSome may be restored, such those at a busy supermarket which may have temporarily cordoned off for social distancing, but other cost pressures will still exist for providers.\n\nIt still remains likely that further cuts to the 41,000 free-to-use machines will come in the next few years, prompting concern that some vulnerable people will be unable to access their favoured way to pay.\n\nMany shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nThe first national lockdown starting in March 2020 led to a massive cut in cash machine use, according to the Link data.\n\nATM visits were down by 80% in some areas.\n\nThis recovered to a degree when restrictions were eased, and particularly when some hospitality venues such as pubs reopened.\n\nHowever, there is little doubt that shops, consumers, and venues have become more accustomed to taking cards rather than cash.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced in the Budget that the limit on a single contactless card payment would rise from £45 to £100 later this year.\n\nThis was met with a mixed response, ranging from those celebrating the added convenience to warnings about theft and fraud.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who chaired an independent review on access to cash, recently said that cash refusal by retailers was \"creeping into the UK economy\".\n\nShe said that much would depend on whether old habits will return to places such as pubs and hairdressers, which have traditionally seen high cash use.\n\n\"It is crucial to understand that cash remains vital for millions of people. Not everyone has a bank account and not everyone can use digital,\" she said.\n\n\"Cash allows you to budget to the last penny. Fewer ATMs, bank branch closures and shops going cashless may be seen as progress to some, but there are still a lot of people out there where it makes life more difficult, expensive and uncertain.\"", "Crowds in Botanic Park were cleared in less than an hour\n\nPolice were called to clear crowds of young people from Botanic Gardens in south Belfast on Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of young people had gathered in the open park on St Patrick's Day.\n\nHowever, when officers were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon, it took less than an hour for the area to be cleared.\n\nPSNI Ass Ch Con Alan Todd had urged parents to ask their children and young adults to \"return home\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme he said: \"There have been people out and enjoying themselves - by and large, people have heeded the messaging from ourselves, from politicians and civic leaders in terms of how they've conducted themselves.\n\n\"While places have seen steady footfall and traffic flows, by and large the vast majority of people have done so responsibly.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course a few haven't, we've had to turn a number of people away at different points, we've had to introduce traffic controls just to manage traffic flows in some areas and regrettably we've had a couple of early days in terms of house parties and a small number of tickets have been issued there as well.\n\nOn Wednesday evening there was a heavy police presence patrolling the Holyland in Belfast's university area to ensure Covid regulations are complied with and to break up house parties.\n\nPSNI patrolling the Holyland in Belfast on Wednesday evening\n\nMeanwhile in the Republic of Ireland, 21 people were arrested at anti-lockdown protests in Dublin.\n\nIt comes as part of a Gardaí (Irish police) operation to prevent planned lockdown protests, which were being planned on social media.\n\nThirteen men and three women arrested by 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nTen people have been charged and were due to appear before a sitting of Dublin District Court on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMore than 2,500 Gardaí have been deployed at checkpoints and arterial routes across the country.", "Universities in England are being warned against admitting too many students and swamping courses with \"inflated\" numbers this year.\n\nThe Office for Students (OfS) has told universities not to \"sacrifice quality\" by \"over-recruiting\" students.\n\nThere is uncertainty about how many students might get good A-level grades, with teachers' grades being used for exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nUniversities UK said admissions decisions would be \"fair and flexible\".\n\nNick Hillman of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) said \"rather than beating up on universities\", there should be an acceptance of an \"unstoppable\" rising demand for university places this year - and that capacity should be expanded.\n\nAs well as the possibility of higher A-level results from teachers' grades, there has been an 8% increase in university applications this year - raising the prospect of a surge of well-qualified students looking for places.\n\nThe OfS has warned universities against accepting too many, which could leave students facing \"further disappointment because the quality of their course is reduced by over-recruitment and poor organisation\".\n\nHead teachers have raised concerns that pushy parents - with \"pointy elbows and lawyer friends\" - will try to pressure teachers into boosting their children's grades for university places.\n\nAnd the OfS has cautioned that an increase in pupils with top A-level grades should not lead to universities cherry picking high-flying applicants in a way that is socially exclusive.\n\nAn extra 12,000 places were created in selective universities last year\n\n\"Universities and colleges are likely to have many well-qualified students to choose from,\" said OfS chief executive Nicola Dandridge.\n\n\"We can't have a situation where talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose out as a result.\"\n\nThe university watchdog also highlighted a form of \"unconditional offer\" being used this year.\n\nIt warned that universities had promised \"large numbers\" of places on the basis of teachers' predicted grades - and if predicted grades were high enough that would guarantee a place, regardless of the outcome of exams.\n\n\"We will be investigating these instances further and have powers to impose fines where our rules have been breached,\" says the OfS.\n\nThis year will see teachers both deciding A-level predictions for university applications and then submitting grades for the results.\n\nUniversities will be expected to honour any offers made to students - even if more students get the required grades than expected.\n\nIn the confusion of last year's replacement exams, there was a significant increase in high A-level grades - and the Ucas admissions service said it meant the \"most selective universities accepting over 12,000 additional students\".\n\n\"Clearly there is further uncertainty this year, but universities are aware that grade outcomes may be more generous than previous years,\" said a Ucas spokeswoman.\n\nA report from the Social Market Foundation also highlighted tensions over places between universities and further education colleges - and the risk of \"head-to-head student recruitment battles\".\n\nThe think tank report warned of \"turf wars\" over vocational courses below degree level - and called for more clarity over the roles of higher and further education.\n\nUniversities UK said admissions decisions this year would take into account \"the disruption students have faced and recognise the disadvantage that different groups of students have experienced\".\n\n\"University admissions teams have worked incredibly hard throughout the pandemic and they are continuing to pull out all the stops,\" said a spokeswoman.", "Just over 36% of the Welsh population has been vaccinated with a first dose\n\nThe head of Wales' vaccine programme says concerns elsewhere over the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab are not putting Welsh people off having it.\n\nA number of countries have suspended use of the vaccine following a few reports of people developing blood clots after being vaccinated.\n\nBoth the UK and European medicine approval agencies support the vaccine.\n\nDr Richard Roberts said people in Wales \"rightly have confidence in the vaccine\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he was \"concerned\" some people who were \"50-50\" might decide against getting the vaccine, but added there was no evidence of that happening \"as yet\".\n\nDr Roberts, head of the vaccine programme at Public Health Wales, told BBC Radio Wales: \"We're seeing no signs that people are not coming forward for a vaccination.\n\n\"People rightly have confidence in the vaccine.\n\n\"If I was offered that vaccine today, I would go forward and have it- I would have no concerns whatsoever.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says the regulatory agencies are constantly monitoring side effects reports on the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nThe UK government's health secretary Matt Hancock - responsible for the NHS in England - has urged people to \"listen to the regulators\" and get the jab.\n\nDr Roberts reiterated that the vaccine had backing at all regulatory levels.\n\n\"The European Medicines Agency and our own MHRA both say it's safe to continue using the vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"These are the organisations that look on a daily basis at the reports coming in of side effects, and then they look at the background rates to see if its increased for safety signals.\n\n\"They both say it's safe to continue.\"\n\nHe compared a hypothetical risk of the vaccine increasing the chance of getting a blood clot with dying from Covid, saying getting the vaccine would be 1,000 times safer.\n\n\"In the first wave [of coronavirus last spring], the death rate from Covid was around 1%,\" he continued.\n\n\"So you have this known risk of Covid, and then this possibility, based on a very few cases, according to the European medicines agency.\n\n\"We don't know that these small number of cases are associated with the vaccine.\"\n\nHe found it \"difficult to understand\" decisions taken by governments to pause the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\n\"You have these national decisions to suspend a batch or suspend the programme in the middle of a pandemic,\" he said\n\n\"[But] if the agency's are saying it's safe to continue, that's really important to listen to.\"\n\nMark Drakeford says the uptake of vaccine has been \"remarkably good\" in Wales\n\nMr Drakeford said the figures for uptake of the vaccine in Wales remained \"remarkably good\" despite a slight reduction on Sunday, which he put down to it being Mother's Day and the easing of restrictions.\n\nBut the first minister said the figures had recovered very strongly on Monday.\n\n\"I'm very glad of that, because all the advice that we have is that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe. There is no reason for anybody not to come forward for their appointment,\" he added.\n\n\"Come forward, you will be much better protected with it than you will be without it - the balance of harm is entirely in favour of having the vaccine.\"", "The government's programme to help pupils who have missed school time catch up may not be reaching the most disadvantaged children, a report says.\n\nThe National Tutoring Programme was launched last year to give extra tuition to the UK's poorest pupils.\n\nBut fewer than half of pupils who have already received tuition as part of the scheme are from the poorest families, a National Audit Office report found.\n\nThe Department for Education says it has invested £2bn to help pupils.\n\nChair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier, said the Department for Education's \"failure to do its homework\" had hit children who were already most disadvantaged.\n\nThe Labour MP said: \"DfE must now ensure its support is properly targeted to prevent the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers from widening even further.\"\n\nIn June last year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a £1bn catch-up fund to help pupils in England.\n\nThe package included £350m for the National Tutoring Programme to help the most disadvantaged pupils, as well as £650m for schools to help children from all backgrounds catch up.\n\nAlthough the tuition scheme is aimed at disadvantaged children, the Dfe has not specified what proportion of children accessing it should be disadvantaged.\n\nThe report found that of the 125,200 children who had been allocated a tutoring place by February, 41,100 had started to receive tuition. Of those, 44% were eligible for pupil premium funding - a grant given to schools in England to help disadvantaged children.\n\nThat raised \"questions over the extent to which the scheme will reach the most disadvantaged children\", the report said.\n\nAcademic mentors are also being placed in schools serving poorer communities to help provide intensive catch-up support. But demand had \"outstripped supply\", the report added.\n\nMentors had been placed in 1,100 schools by February, but it had received requests from 1,789 eligible schools - meaning more than 600 had not received one.\n\nSmall-group tuition has been shown to boost pupil attainment\n\nThe report says the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had been an \"unprecedented challenge\" for the DfE.\n\nBut it says aspects of its response could have been better and done more quickly. The DfE had no pre-existing plan for managing mass disruption to schooling, it added.\n\nIn April last year, the DfE considered providing 602,000 laptops or tablets and 100,000 4G routers to ensure vulnerable children and those in priority year groups had access to digital devices.\n\nBut due to the practical difficulty of supplying so many devices, it decided to instead focus on children with a social worker and care leavers, alongside disadvantaged pupils in Year 10 - a total of 220,000 laptops and tablets, and 50,000 routers.\n\nThe report said \"substantial amounts of equipment did not reach local authorities and academy trusts until June\", meaning many children may not have been able to access remote learning until well into the second half of the summer term.\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said it was \"crucial that the department monitors the impact of its catch-up arrangements, particularly on disadvantaged children, and acts on the results\".\n\nAnd Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government had \"been the cause of a great deal of unnecessary confusion and upset\" and had \"prioritised good press over good practice\".\n\nCllr Judith Blake, chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said it was \"vital that catch-up support is strictly targeted to avoid any further widening of education gaps between disadvantaged pupils and their peers\".\n\nA DfE spokesperson said it had \"acted swiftly at every turn to help minimise the impact on pupils' education and provide extensive support for schools, colleges and early years settings\".\n\n\"We have invested over £2bn into schemes to provide pupils with devices for remote education and ambitious catch-up plans - with funding targeted at disadvantaged children and young people who need support the most.\"", "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.", "A record number of second doses were given in Wales on Tuesday - but that could soon slow down\n\nVaccine supplies which were due to arrive in Wales by mid-April will be delivered up to four weeks late, the Welsh government has confirmed.\n\nIt comes after NHS England warned of a \"significant reduction\" in Covid-19 vaccine supplies next month.\n\nBut BMA Cymru chairman David Bailey said it \"looks like supplies will increase again the following month\".\n\nA record number of second doses of a vaccine were given out in Wales on Tuesday, according to latest figures.\n\nThe reduction in supply was announced by NHS England in a letter to local health organisations.\n\nIt said there had been a \"reduction in national inbound vaccines supply\" and asks organisations to \"ensure no further appointments are uploaded\" to booking systems in April.\n\nThe BBC has learned no-one who has booked a vaccine should lose a slot, and BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been told that fewer AstraZeneca vaccines are available than expected.\n\nA spokesman for the Welsh government said: \"We are able to offer vaccinations to as many people in Wales as supply allows. If we have more we could do more.\n\n\"We have been informed by the Vaccine Task Force that additional supplies of vaccine, which we were expecting to arrive in the UK before mid-April will now be delivered up to four weeks later than originally planned.\n\n\"Significant supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to vaccination centres and GPs last week and additional supplies are being delivered this week.\"\n\nDavid Bailey, chair of BMA Cymru, says supplies should increase again the following month\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, Dr Bailey said Wales and the UK had \"done significantly better than most of the rest of Europe\".\n\n\"We need to make sure we can do the second vaccines for people who were vaccinated early on in January as that will be an issue. But I think we'll still be well ahead,\" he added.\n\n\"The whole issue is around supply and it's important we try and maintain that.\n\n\"The longer-term outlook looks like supplies will increase again the following month and we are still on track for vaccinating all adult population significantly earlier than we hoped.\n\n\"We're still on track to do two-thirds of the population by the summer.\"\n\nTuesday's vaccination figures mean a total of 1,157,251 people in Wales have been given a first dose while 289,185 have had the second dose - the full vaccination course.", "Boris Johnson has promised to help make the UK \"match-fit\" when he unveils his plan for modernising the armed forces and foreign policy.\n\nThe prime minister said there would be \"more investment\" in infrastructure and skills around the country.\n\nHe also announced that 500 Foreign Office jobs would be moving from London to East Kilbride.\n\nThe government publishes its Integrated Review of the UK's defence and foreign relations capabilities on Tuesday.\n\nBut a group of MPs has warned that \"general ineptitude\" over the last 20 years has undermined attempts to re-equip the Army.\n\nThe Integrated Review, first announced in 2019, will set out the UK's defence and foreign affairs priorities for the next decade or so, during which cyber warfare in particular is expected to become a greater threat.\n\nSome details are being pre-released, including the plan to move 500 jobs to the Foreign Office's East Kilbride hub - which follows news that the Cabinet Office will transfer at least 500 civil servants to nearby Glasgow by 2024.\n\nThe government has promised \"further commitments\" to \"strengthening the UK's core industrial base\" in the Integrated Review, including building ships in Scotland and armoured vehicles in Wales.\n\nThere will also be a focus on lithium mining in Cornwall and manufacturing satellites in Northern Ireland, it added.\n\nThe Integrated Review is billed as the most radical reassessment of Britain's place in the world since the end of the Cold War.\n\nBut the prime minister wants the new strategy to make a difference at home as well as abroad. He is promising new investment in domestic industries such as defence, science and technology.\n\nAnd, crucially, he argues that this will provide jobs across the United Kingdom.\n\nMinisters argue it's only by combining the resources of the union that the UK is able to respond to global challenges and project its influence abroad.\n\nThe test will be whether that argument is accepted by those calling for a fresh independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The foundation of our foreign policy is who we are as a country: our values, our strengths and - most importantly - our people.\n\n\"So I am determined to ensure we have a foreign policy that delivers for those people.\"\n\nHe added that the UK's \"international ambitions must start at home\", with investment in regional industry \"ensuring the UK is on the cutting-edge of innovation and creating an entire country that is match-fit for a more competitive world\".\n\nThe government has said \"further jobs\" will be created outside London by the establishment of the National Cyber Force HQ in the North of England.\n\nIt has also promised an increase in spending on defence of 2.6% above the rate of inflation between 2019/20 and 2020/21, with the overall figure expected to rise to £41.5bn during this time.\n\nFrom 2010 to 2017, annual defence spending fell by £6.6bn in real terms, but, since then, it has increased by £3bn in real terms.\n\nA report by the Commons Defence Committee, published on Sunday, warned that the Army was at \"serious risk\" of being outmatched by the UK's adversaries.\n\nIt described efforts to modernise its fleet of armoured fighting vehicles as \"woeful\" and criticised what it called \"bureaucratic procrastination\" and \"general ineptitude\" over the past two decades.\n\nIn a speech last month, Labour's shadow defence secretary, John Healey, said the Integrated Review should \"refocus our defence efforts on where the threats are\".\n\nHe added that unless it confirmed a reduction in potential dangers to the UK, it would be \"very hard to accept the case for reducing the strength of our full-time forces\".", "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.", "Never mind the zebra crossing - where's the goat crossing? Image caption: Never mind the zebra crossing - where's the goat crossing?\n\nOne unexpected side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been an outbreak of frisky goats in a north Wales resort.\n\nThe Kashmiri goats of the Great Orme mountain in Llandudno hit the headlines last year after they were filmed wandering the deserted streets of the town during the first lockdown, looking for food.\n\nThe goats are occasional visitors to the town even without a pandemic in place.\n\nNow, thanks to a delay in giving them their usual contraception shots to keep the numbers under control, their numbers have boomed, and they are back on the streets in the search for food, and roaming further than usual.\n\nHowever much people might enjoy the sight of the horned (and horny?) visitors, there are fears for their safety as the amount of traffic on the roads rises with the easing of the current lockdown.\n\nLouise Emery, Conwy councillor for the Great Orme ward, said: \"There seems to be a rogue herd of goats that have wandered across the town into a completely new area where they have never been.\n\n\"It's a great concern at night time, actually, because they tend to wander more at night and the roads have been very quiet.\n\n\"Drivers can literally come round the corner and be faced with eight or nine goats in the road.\"", "The hospitality industry is being \"scapegoated\" by the government as it moves to ease lockdown restrictions, business owners have said.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a plan which will see hairdressers and garden centres allowed to reopen from 5 April.\n\nAll shops, gyms and tourist accommodation can return from 26 April.\n\nBut indoor hospitality including pubs, restaurants and wedding venues will still face some restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon confirmed on Tuesday that cafes and restaurants will be able to open outdoors until 22:00 from 26 April and sell alcohol.\n\nHowever, indoor hospitality can only open until 20:00, alcohol will not be allowed and people must meet in groups of up to four people from two households.\n\nAlan Henderson, of the McGinty's group which runs pubs, restaurants and a hotel in Aberdeen, accused the government of double standards.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It is the one industry again that has been scapegoated. There are restrictions which are unnecessary.\n\n\"We keep getting told it's based on data rather than dates, but when they don't have the data they still pick on our industry.\n\n\"The hospitality industry is happy to stick to the data - but unfortunately the Scottish government is not.\"\n\nUp to 50 people will be able to attend weddings and funerals under the new plans.\n\nWedding venues will continue to face some restrictions\n\nHowever, Duncan McConchie of the Wedding Industry Alliance said a continued ban on alcohol sales would \"turn venue owners into police\".\n\nHe said: \"People will drink, but they will go to their cars and drink. They will go to the toilets and drink.\n\n\"Whereas, if we are allowed to sell alcohol, we are then in charge of the alcohol that those guests consume.\"\n\nMr McConchie said the industry was \"broadly accepting and happy\" with Tuesday's announcements, \"but the devil is in the detail that comes back to bite us\".\n\nJulia Eeeles, who owns The One Lounge hairdressing and beauty salon in Glasgow, said partial reopening without allowing for beauty treatments would leave her worse off.\n\n\"The problem for me - and I think there will be a lot of beauty salons like this - is that I've got two hairdressers but 10 other members of staff.\n\n\"So I am actually under financial strain having to open up just for two people.\n\n\"It means I have to run the salon, run reception and use all my gas and electricity. It doesn't help me as a business owner.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced that the \"stay at home\" lockdown order will be lifted from 5 April.\n\nPeople will still have to stay inside their own local authority areas until 26 April, when the travel ban will be lifted within Scotland.\n\nAll children should return to school full-time after the Easter break, which for some will be from 12 April.\n\nThe first minister said the government was on track to hit the target of giving a first dose of vaccine to all priority groups - including \"a significant majority of Scotland's adult population\" - by mid-April.\n\nShe said this would \"give us confidence to ease restrictions much more significantly from 26 April\".\n\nIt is expected that all areas which are under level four restrictions will move down to level three from that date.\n\nOther changes from mid-May could include the return of cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls, along with adult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercises.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said that to come up with precise dates for other changes - like \"normal family gatherings where we can hug our loved ones, sporting events, gigs and nightclubs\" - would involve \"plucking it out of thin air\".", "Sarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nA second post-mortem examination is being carried out on Sarah Everard's body after the first proved inconclusive, police have said.\n\nThe 33-year-old vanished as she walked home in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nThe second post-mortem comes ahead of an inquest which is expected to take place in Maidstone on Thursday.\n\nThe Met said it continues to search parts of London and Kent.\n\nLarge portions of the historic town of Sandwich are still cordoned off.\n\nSpecialist divers have been called up from Devon and Cornwall to search a small stretch of water.\n\nOn Monday, officers were seen searching a shopping trolley shelter outside a Co-operative supermarket and looking under vehicles.\n\nOfficers continue their searches along The Rope Walk in Sandwich, Kent\n\nPC Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with the murder and kidnap of Ms Everard.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on 9 July ahead of a provisional trial in the autumn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the sound of the regent honeyeaters' song\n\nA rare songbird has become so threatened that it has started to lose its song, say scientists.\n\nThe regent honeyeater, once abundant in south-eastern Australia, is now listed as critically endangered; just 300 individuals remain in the world.\n\n\"They don't get the chance to hang around with other honeyeaters and learn what they're supposed to sound like,\" explained Dr Ross Crates.\n\nHis findings are published in the UK Royal Society journal Proceedings B.\n\nDr Crates, a member of the Difficult Bird Research Group at the Australian National University in Canberra, is now trying to preserve the birds' song by teaching captive honeyeaters the songs of their wild relatives.\n\nThe researchers had not set out to study the song of the regent honeyeater, but simply to find the birds.\n\n\"They're so rare and the area they could occupy is so big - probably 10 times the size of the UK - that we were looking for a needle in a haystack,\" said Dr Crates.\n\nDuring this painstaking search, he started to notice birds that were \"singing weird songs\".\n\nHe recalled: \"They didn't sound anything like a regent honeyeater - they sounded like different species.\"\n\nSongbirds learn their songs the same way that humans learn how to speak.\n\nBirds use song to establish territory and find a mate\n\n\"As young birds, when they leave the nest and go out into the big wide world, they need to associate with other, older males so they can listen to them sing and repeat that song over time,\" said Dr Crates.\n\nThe regent honeyeater, which has lost about 90% of its habitat, now has such a small, sparsely distributed population that young males are simply unable to find other males and hear their songs.\n\n\"So they end up learning the songs of other species,\" Dr Crates explained.\n\nThe natural song of the regent honeyeater has essentially \"disappeared\" in 12% of the population, the research revealed.\n\nDr Sue Anne Zollinger, an expert in animal communication from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, said the research demonstrated how songbirds need the chance to listen to and learn from others, \"the same way that human children need a rich linguistic experience when young in order to speak fluently as adults\".\n\n\"This study shows how damaging population declines and habitat fragmentation might be to this critical process in the life of songbirds,\" she commented.\n\nIn a note of conservation hope, the scientists are using their recordings of wild birds to teach captive honeyeaters their own song.\n\nThe researchers think that teaching captive-bred birds to sing could help conservation efforts\n\nThere is already a project to release captive-bred regent honeyeaters into the wild every few years, to boost the population.\n\n\"But if those male birds are singing a weird song, the females might not mate with them,\" explained Dr Crates. \"So we hope that if they hear what they should be singing, they will learn to sing it themselves.\"\n\nThe scientist added that, in trying to conserve species, we have to think of these \"cultural traits\" like birdsong and other natural behaviours that are essential for animals to survive and thrive in the wild.", "Police will be able to cross-reference data from the tags to new crimes\n\nProlific burglars, robbers and thieves are to be tagged with GPS trackers in a bid to stop them reoffending.\n\nOffenders will be automatically tagged for up to 12 months after being released from prison, under a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) pilot.\n\nGwent, Avon and Somerset, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Humberside and West Midlands police forces are all taking part.\n\nThe MoJ said tracking offenders 24 hours a day would act as a deterrent.\n\nIt estimated 250 offenders, who have served a year in prison, will be fitted with the tag in the first six months of the scheme, as part of their licence conditions.\n\nPolice will be able to cross-reference the GPS data with reports of new thefts, robberies and burglaries to see if offenders were in the area at the time.\n\nDiane Titmus says she has stopped claiming on her insurance\n\nBurglars broke into Diane Titmus's hair salon, stealing about £2,000 of stock and all of her stylists' hairdryers and straighteners, in December last year.\n\nThe break-in was the 12th time the Newport salon had been broken into in 30 years.\n\n\"They just took the most expensive items, they knew what they were doing,\" said Ms Titmus.\n\n\"The first time it happened was some years ago. I came in on the Christmas weekend, our biggest weekend, they had taken every single item.\n\n\"I had to run around to all my friends and borrow dryers, scissors, just to be able to work that day.\n\n\"I was really very, very upset, but also angry. How dare they? I worked really hard all my life to have this, just for someone to come in and take it.\"\n\nMs Titmus said it had happened so many times she no longer made claims on her insurance because of the increase it would mean to her premium.\n\n\"Other times they've cost me £500 when they break a window and they probably had about 30p in pennies that were left in the drawer,\" she said.\n\n\"We just have to write it off as a loss. We work hard for a week to pay the burglar - that's how it works out.\"\n\nMore than half of those convicted of theft reoffend within a year of being released\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, the number of theft and burglary offences in England and Wales fell as many people stayed at home.\n\nMinister for Crime and Policing Kit Malthouse said, with levels expect to return to those seen before Covid-19, the tagging pilot was \"critical\".\n\n\"We want to make sure we help those offenders get back on the straight and narrow,\" he said.\n\n\"We think 24-hour-a-day supervision, through this tag on their ankle, will help them to realise that they're effectively being watched, and therefore choose something else to do, other than go back to their former crime.\n\n\"It's a rigorous supervision in a way that we haven't really seen before and we think it will have a big impact.\"\n\nKit Malthouse said the tags would help catch repeat offenders\n\nMore than half of those convicted of theft reoffend within a year of being released from prison, according to MoJ figures.\n\nIt said these types of crimes cost the public an estimated £4.8bn a year, yet 79% of theft cases and 62% of robbery cases resulted in no suspect being identified - compared with an average of 24% in all other cases.\n\nFollowing the pilots, the MoJ said it planned to roll out the scheme, run by the National Probation Service, to a further 13 forces in September.\n\nTags have already been introduced in parts of England and Wales to monitor whether offenders who who were convicted of committing crimes while fuelled with alcohol, have been drinking.\n\nThe \"sobriety tags\" monitor sweat levels of the wearer every 30 minutes to see whether they have drunk alcohol. The probation service is then alerted if they have had a drink.\n\nAmanda Blakeman said she hoped targeting serial offenders would reduce crime in the area\n\nGwent's Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman said a small number of offenders were committing thefts, burglaries and robberies.\n\n\"Offenders tend to be serial offenders doing quite a lot of these types of crime over a short period of time, that can be very forensically aware, they can locate premises that aren't overlooked so there aren't any witnesses and then it becomes very difficult to pull those clues together to solve that particular crime.\n\n\"Obviously with the ability to be able to tag our persistent offenders it means we're able to see where they are and if they're in proximity of offences that have occurred,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis used a special freedom of speech power to make the claims in the House of Commons\n\nConservative MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to criticise the Scottish government's handling of allegations against Alex Salmond.\n\nThe former minister told MPs during a Commons debate that there had been a \"concerted effort\" by SNP officials to encourage complainers to come forward.\n\nMr Davis also suggested Scottish government officials knew earlier than previously acknowledged of the claims.\n\nA spokesman for Nicola Sturgeon has dismissed the allegations.\n\nMr Davis accused the Scottish government of ignoring its own procedures and \"actively withholding information\" from the Holyrood inquiry which has been tasked with looking at the issue.\n\nDuring the debate he also said: \"I have it on good authority that there exists from 6th Feb 2018 an exchange of messages between civil servants suggesting that the first minister's chief of staff is interfering in the complaints process against Alex Salmond.\n\n\"If true this suggests the chief of staff had knowledge of the case in February, not April as she has claimed.\"\n\nMr Davis said he had been passed messages from the telephone of a senior SNP official by a whistleblower.\n\nHe read some of the messages out in the Commons and said they \"show that there is a concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints\" after the criminal investigation into Mr Salmond had started.\n\nAlex Salmond took the Scottish government to court, and won, over its handling of harassment complaints against him\n\nThe intervention from Mr Davis came on the day a leading QC asked to examine the government's procedures - after it conceded its handling of complaints against Alex Salmond was \"unlawful\" - published her findings.\n\nLaura Dunlop made a range of recommendations about how complaints against serving ministers could be investigated but said probes concerning former ministers should be independent.\n\nMs Dunlop's report came ahead of two other keenly anticipated reports relating to the bungled civil action against Mr Salmond.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into what went wrong and an independent investigation of whether Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code in her contact with her predecessor are both due to report back in the coming weeks.\n\nA spokesman for First Minister Ms Sturgeon said: \"As with Mr Salmond's previous claims and cherry picking of messages, the reality is very different to the picture being presented.\n\n\"Every message involving SNP staff has been seen by the committee previously. Their views have been widely reported as dismissive of them.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Holyrood inquiry committee published a further submission from a former government staffer, Lorraine Kay, supporting Mr Salmond's claims.\n\nThe former first minister has said he was passed the name of one of the complainers during the investigation, while meetings between himself and Ms Sturgeon were being arranged.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she does not accept that this happened, but Ms Kay told MSPs that she was also told the name by Mr Salmond's former chief of staff, Geoff Aberdein.\n\nTwo other allies of the former first minster - Kevin Pringle and Duncan Hamilton - have also backed this account, which opposition MSPs say would be an \"extraordinary breach of confidentiality\".\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon told the inquiry that she believed Mr Salmond was already aware of who the complainers were, and that what was said to Mr Aberdein was \"a matter of contention\".", "More than 3.7 million vulnerable people in England will no longer have to shield from the coronavirus from 1 April.\n\nIt comes as the numbers of Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions have declined for the past couple of weeks.\n\nLetters will be sent out to this group in the next two weeks.\n\nIn them, people will still be advised to keep social contacts at low levels, work from home where possible and stay at a distance from other people.\n\nSince 5 January, they have been asked to stay at home as much as possible to reduce their risk of being exposed to the virus.\n\nBut at a Downing Street press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed shielding guidance, which had been extended to 31 March for all those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, would end on 1 April.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries recommended the change based on the latest scientific evidence and advice.\n\nShielding guidance has applied to people thought to be at very high risk of serious illness from coronavirus.\n\nAnd they were all entitled to priority access to a Covid vaccination before the general population.\n\nThey include people who have had stem cell transplants or are having chemotherapy treatment for cancer and adults with chronic kidney disease.\n\nAnd in February, another 1.7 million people in England were added to the list, based on the clinical judgement of their GP or hospital doctor.\n\nThe four nations of the UK can decide who should be shielding in each country.\n\nShielding guidance is also due to end on 1 April in Wales, where more than 130,000 people are staying at home.\n\nMeanwhile, the NHS has warned of reductions in vaccine supplies during April, saying no extra appointments should be added to the national booking system next month.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said vaccine supply was \"always lumpy\" and the focus should be on vaccinating those in the top nine priority groups, who are most vulnerable.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Skye is concerned about the impact of plastic on the environment\n\nA 10-year-old girl is campaigning to stop plastic toys being included in children's magazines amid concerns about the impact on climate change.\n\nSkye, from Gwynedd, launched a petition after becoming fed up with being sent \"cheap plastic rubbish\" with her favourite magazine.\n\nShe was concerned the toys were creating a large carbon footprint and ending up in landfill.\n\nThe Welsh Government said her bid could help Wales to become waste free.\n\nIt comes after Burger King stopped including plastic toys in their children's meals and McDonald's gave children options of books with Happy Meals, after a campaign by two sisters.\n\nSkye, who often litter picks in her village near Fairbourne, wrote to publishers to urge them to stop using single-use plastic in one of her favourite magazines Horrible Histories.\n\n\"It's utter rubbish,\" she said, \"it not only comes in a plastic bag, it has plastic blister packaging and there are the free gifts.\"\n\nSkye said many of the plastic toys, were \"pointless\", including a skeleton pen, which \"you can't even write with\", a rubber tongue, brain, rats, maggots or slime that breaks.\n\nSkye said many children's magazines came with toys which could not be recycled\n\nIn a response to her letter, Kennedy Publishers, said they were \"working very hard to make their magazines environmentally friendly\", and the magazines were made from paper from sustainable forests, while the packaging was made using recyclable materials.\n\nIt said the plastic toys were recyclable in \"some areas\" and were an important part of the magazine and not intended for single use.\n\nBut Skye said she would like to see the toys removed altogether and all magazines made from paper, unwrapped or wrapped in paper, to reduce excess packaging.\n\n\"If you saw it in a toy department you wouldn't buy it,\" said Skye, who keeps the toys in a box to show people how many she is sent, rather than throwing them away.\n\n\"I've got gazillions of fake teeth and rubber maggots... they're not good for playing a prank, they don't look real. I've had three pots of slime and it's rubbish, it breaks.\"\n\nPeppa Pig, LOL Dolls, My Little Pony and Mr Men are just some of the children's magazines which often come with free plastic toys.\n\n\"These toys will be made in China, wrapped in plastic, put on a pallet wrapped in more plastic, sent across the world, unwrapped, stuck on a magazine and covered in more plastic, and then shipped to houses,\" Skye said.\n\n\"The carbon footprint is big and you are putting it straight in the bin to pollute the planet.\"\n\nSkye's campaign has been supported by politicians, Surfers Against Sewage and Kids Against Plastic\n\nSkye's father Dave, a postman, said he was also concerned about the amount of plastic wrapping used on magazines aimed at adults which he delivers on his rounds.\n\n\"I just remember Skye getting this [magazine] through the doors and she said \"that's it\" and then writing to the publisher,\" he said.\n\n\"We try to recycle everything we can... if we see litter we pick it up. We just want the publishers to do their bit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough says the response to plastic pollution has been encouraging\n\nAfter her petition calling for the toys to be scrapped attracted almost 3,000 signatures, politicians have stepped in to help and her campaign has been raised in Parliament.\n\nSkye is now preparing to write to every school in Wales to highlight the issue.\n\nWelsh Government minister Eluned Morgan has written to magazine publishers, while Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts raised the matter in the House of Commons.\n\n\"These toys are marketed at children, whose environmental future we are trying to protect,\" said Ms Morgan.\n\n\"Some plastics can last decades - if not centuries - in our environment. They should be environmentally friendly and serve an educational purpose.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fairbourne residents say they could become \"climate change refugees\"\n\nMs Morgan said the campaign was especially \"poignant\", coming from a child living in a coastal community threatened by climate change.\n\nSea defences at Fairbourne will stop being maintained in the 2050s and Gwynedd council has said it may begin moving out villagers before then.\n\nThe Welsh Government has committed to \"phasing out unnecessary single-use items, especially plastic\", in a bid to become a zero waste nation by 2050.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Young people like Skye can help to change attitudes, so we can all start making the changes needed for us to reach our goal of becoming a zero waste nation by 2050.\n\n\"We are also working alongside other administrations in the UK - including the UK government - on proposed reforms for extended producer responsibility (EPR), under which packaging producers would be required to pay net costs for managing any plastic waste they create.\n\n\"This would include plastic wrapping used to package magazines.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League plans to have fans in grounds at the final two rounds of matches this season, says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nUp to 10,000 supporters will be allowed into stadiums from Monday, 17 May provided the government is able to stick to its scheduled roadmap.\n\nTo maintain a competitive balance and ensure all 20 clubs get to play a home game with fans present, a round of fixtures will be shifted to 18-20 May.\n\nThe final round of games is on 23 May.\n\n\"Hopefully the final two fixtures of our season will have up to 10,000 supporters in them all,\" said Masters.\n\n\"We've got to go past those first initial steps in the government's roadmap to get there, so hopefully that will be a fantastic finale to end the season.\"\n\nThe Premier League has two realistic options for the fixture shuffle.\n\nOne would be to shift the 36th round of games from Tuesday, 11 May and Wednesday, 12 May to the following week.\n\nThe other would be for those matches to be moved to the following weekend - which coincides with the FA Cup final on Saturday, 15 May - and the 37th round being nudged on by a few days to become a midweek round.\n\nSupporters returning to grounds would be a positive end to what has been a tough period for the Premier League.\n\nMasters said the absence of fans for what is going to be virtually a full season plus a quarter of the 2019-20 campaign - added to the rebate that had to be given to broadcasters due to last term's late finish - is coming at a heavy cost.\n\n\"Towards the end of this season we'll get towards £2bn lost since the start of the pandemic in matchday and broadcast revenue,\" said Masters.\n\n\"Clubs have continued to invest in competitive match-day squads and the Premier League has continued to make good all of its contributions throughout the pyramid and wider football.\n\n\"But the ramifications are that ultimately if there's less money coming into football, then there'll be less money going out in the short term.\"\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Morgan said he \"didn't believe a word\" the duchess had said in her interview with Oprah\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has complained to Ofcom about Piers Morgan's comments about her on Good Morning Britain, the UK broadcast regulator has confirmed.\n\nOn the ITV breakfast show on Monday, Morgan said he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had told interviewer Oprah Winfrey about life in the Royal Family.\n\nThe duchess spoke about having suicidal thoughts and said she got no support.\n\nMore than 41,000 others have also complained to Ofcom about Morgan, who left the programme the following day.\n\nAn Ofcom spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm receipt of a standards complaint made on behalf of the Duchess of Sussex.\"\n\nThe watchdog has already opened a formal investigation into Monday's episode of Good Morning Britain. The duchess is also reported to have complained to ITV directly.\n\nOn the programme, Morgan picked up on Meghan's claim in the interview that her request to senior Buckingham Palace officials for help was rejected, after she told Oprah she had experienced suicidal thoughts.\n\n\"Who did you go to?\" he said. \"What did they say to you? I'm sorry, I don't believe a word she said, Meghan Markle. I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.\n\n\"The fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our Royal Family I think is contemptible.\"\n\nOn Tuesday's episode, Morgan briefly walked out of the studio after clashing with weather presenter Alex Beresford during a discussion about the interview.\n\nThe controversial host's permanent departure was announced that evening. Morgan stood by his comments the following day, saying: \"Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.\"\n\nIt was also announced on Friday that the duke and duchess have donated to a new charity that aims to help young people from diverse backgrounds get into journalism.\n\nThe PressPad Charitable Foundation has been set up to \"improve social mobility\" in the British media through bursaries, mentoring, networking and accommodation.\n\nThe duke and duchess's Archewell Foundation is among the first donors, but it is not known how much money the couple have contributed.\n\nPressPad founder Olivia Crellin told BBC News the charity had been approached by the Sussex's team \"very recently\".\n\n\"They just wanted to give a gift as a part of a couple of organisations that they are donating to,\" she said. \"They felt that our mission and our values aligned with theirs.\"\n\nPrince Harry told Oprah the UK tabloid press was \"bigoted\" and creates a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\".\n\nThe couple's interview has sparked scrutiny of the media and the role race has played in its coverage of Meghan.\n\nMeanwhile, Daily Mail and Mail Online owner Associated Newspapers is reported to have written to ViacomCBS, the makers of the interview, to complain that there was \"deliberate distortion and doctoring\" in a \"misleading\" montage of British newspaper headlines that was used in the programme.\n\nMeghan recently won a High Court privacy case against Associated Newspapers over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Corinne Masiero (left) was invited to Friday's socially-distanced ceremony to present an award\n\nA French actress protested naked at a César Awards dominated by demands the government do more to support culture during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCorinne Masiero, 57, wore a donkey costume over a blood-stained dress before stripping on stage at France's equivalent of the Oscars.\n\nCinemas have been shut in France for more than three months.\n\nThe best film award at the ceremony went to Albert Dupontel's dark comedy Adieu Les Cons (Goodbye Morons).\n\nThe film - which depicts a desperate search by a seriously ill woman for her child - won seven Césars, including one for the best director.\n\nBest foreign film went to Denmark's Another Round, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, which shows a group of friends trying to improve their lives by maintaining a permanent level of alcohol in their blood.\n\nMasiero was invited to Friday's socially-distanced ceremony to present the award for the best costumes.\n\nBut she shocked those present in the concert hall by stripping naked on stage to reveal the message \"No culture, no future\" written across her torso.\n\nAnd appealing to French PM Jean Castex, Masiero had another slogan on her back which can be translated as: \"Give us back art, Jean\" - or in an alternative phonetic reading: \"Give us our money back.\"\n\nOther actors and directors made similar demands during the show.\n\n\"My children can go to Zara but not the cinema... it's incomprehensible,\" said Stephane Demoustier as he accepted a screenplay award, referring to a high street clothes chain.\n\nLast December, hundreds of actors, theatre directors, musicians, film technicians and critics, and many others from the world of French culture protested in Paris and other cities against the government's shutdown of culture venues.", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.\n\nOfficers branded the gathering as \"unsafe\", and urged people to go home. A number of people were removed.", "The Cabinet Office is to move at least 500 civil servant jobs to Glasgow by 2024 to work at a new secondary headquarters, the BBC understands.\n\nAn internal letter at Michael Gove's department said it would \"strengthen its commitment to Scotland\".\n\nThe jobs include senior roles and ministers would be expected to spend \"some time\" in Scotland.\n\nIt comes amid ongoing efforts by the UK government to bolster support for the union.\n\nThe Financial Times reported one official as saying the move would \"bring the engine room of the UK government to Scotland\".\n\nA number of other government offices are expected to set up headquarters in other parts of the UK.\n\nThese include offices for the Treasury in Darlington and for Housing, Communities and Local Government in Wolverhampton.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Decision makers should be close to the people they serve and we want to see opportunity, jobs and investment fairly distributed across the country.\n\n\"That's why we've committed to relocating civil service roles out of central London, building on the thousands of civil servants we already have working across the United Kingdom.\"\n\nDetails of the move to Glasgow came in a letter to staff from Alex Chisholm, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe department, which has the role of supporting the prime minister and cabinet, currently employs about 8,500 staff.\n\nA large number of civil servants already work close to Glasgow, as the Department for International Development (now part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) has for many years been based in East Kilbride.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' conference is taking place this weekend, as the party prepares for the Holyrood election on 6 May.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is expected to visit Scotland next week", "Some of those at the party had travelled from as far away as Durham said police\n\nPolice who broke up a party which breached lockdown rules found guests had travelled hundreds of miles to attend.\n\nOfficers arrived at a house in Gloucester to find \"loud music, flashing lights and drunken singing\".\n\nThey found a man hiding in a bath and guests who had travelled from Durham, 250 miles (402km) away.\n\nIt was the first time Gloucestershire Police handed out £800 fines under new powers to crack down on parties.\n\nPolice arrived at the house at around 04:00 GMT on 27 February. Loud music and singing can be heard on bodycam footage, with one officer commenting \"there's a full-blown party going on inside\".\n\nGloucestershire Police have issued £800 fines to those who attended the party\n\nWhen the occupants opened the door, officers went inside to find several people hiding in the bathroom, including a man lying in the bath.\n\nGloucestershire Police said it had issued more than 700 fixed penalty notices since the pandemic began but the people at the party were the first to be fined for being in a gathering of more than 15.\n\nChief Constable Rod Hansen said: \"The majority of incidents we're attending still relate to gatherings of more than two households and most of the fines issued since the new lockdown - 348 - have been for that reason.\n\n\"We've also issued 424 warnings during this lockdown.\"\n\nGloucestershire Police added that its policy was to \"engage, explain and encourage\" but they would move straight to enforcement for \"a flagrant breach like this\".\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.", "To mark British Science Week the Queen has taken part in a virtual event with experts and schoolchildren.\n\nDuring the video call, hosted by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, she was shown pictures from Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, a meteorite that fell to Earth and rockets made by schoolchildren as part of their science project.", "Belfast City Hall will be the venue for an event marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament\n\nOfficial events to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland will include a special post-mark, an international church service and a plan to plant a tree at every school.\n\nThe programme of events also includes an investment conference, a concert and a centenary rose.\n\nThe prime minister said the events would reflect on what makes Northern Ireland \"the great place it is today\".\n\nNorthern Ireland was created in May 1921 after the partition of Ireland.\n\nA total of £1m has been awarded to 39 community projects connected to the centenary, through a shared-history fund in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nThere will also be a number of academic events at Queens' University Belfast, examining the historical context of the centenary.\n\nThe centenary rose will be a mix of rose pink, ivory and yellow\n\nHe said: \"The UK government's centenary programme of events provides an opportunity for us all to reflect on the history of Northern Ireland and to take pride in all this fantastic place has to offer the UK and the world.\n\n\"In its 100th year, the people of Northern Ireland can build on their spirit of togetherness and recognise their enormous achievements over past decades.\"\n\nThe events will reflect on the past and the people of Northern Ireland, says Boris Johnson\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"2021 marks 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland, which has paved the way for the formation of the United Kingdom as we know it.\n\n\"Our centenary programme will reflect on the past and on the people and developments that make Northern Ireland the great place it is today.\n\n\"The activities will pay tribute to all those who have worked tirelessly to support Northern Ireland throughout the pandemic, and will champion the incredible young people in Northern Ireland who offer so much to the shared success of our United Kingdom.\"\n\nOn the same day as the international church service, some historic buildings across the UK are set be lit up.\n\nThe colour of the centenary rose is a blend of rose pink, ivory and yellow.\n\nA decorative rose pin has been designed, to be worn by VIPs at centenary events and given to programme participants.\n\nFull details of the programme, including dates, have yet to be finalised due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said a proposal for the House of Commons to hold a sitting in Northern Ireland would be \"terrific\".\n\nAccording to a Daily Telegraph report, Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg is considering plans for MPs to meet in a devolved region each September.\n\n\"It would be a historic occasion, it would be wonderful to see that happening in our centenary year if it were possible,\" Sir Jeffrey told BBC NI's The View programme on Thursday.\n\n\"I would certainly be making a bid for Northern Ireland to have first crack of the whip and to host a meeting of the House of Commons here in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe Lagan Valley MP said it would be \"good for the United Kingdom\" for parliament hold proceedings outside London.\n\nHowever former SDLP leader Mark Durkan described the proposal as a \"gimmick\" which would come with cost and logistical challenges.\n\n\"This is just the latest in this game of uber-unionist leapfrog that is being played by ministers in London,\" he told the programme.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales set up a Grand Slam encounter against France in Paris next Saturday by clinically disposing of hapless Italy 48-7 in Rome.\n\nHooker Ken Owens crossed for two tries, with further scores from Josh Adams, Taulupe Faletau, George North, Callum Sheedy and Louis Rees-Zammit.\n\nItaly only managed a try through wing Monty Ioane in response.\n\nWayne Pivac's side can complete the Six Nations clean sweep by winning at the Stade de France next weekend.\n\nFrance and Scotland will still have a match to play after their third-round game was postponed because of coronavirus cases in the French camp.\n\nBut Wales have the chance to create their own 'Super Saturday' with victory in Paris, where they could secure a second Grand Slam in three tournaments.\n\nThe omens are good. Wales have already won their fifth Six Nations Triple Crown since 2000 and on each of the previous occasions they have done so, they have gone on to seal the Grand Slam.\n\nIt represents a remarkable turnaround from a side that finished fifth in Pivac's first tournament in charge and managed only three wins in 10 games in 2020, although we have grown used to the boom-and-bust nature of Welsh rugby.\n\nIt might also be a special day for captain Alun Wyn Jones, who could become the first Welshman to celebrate four Grand Slams.\n\nWales have now matched their record of 17 Six Nations tries in one tournament with a game remaining.\n\nThis was Wales' 16th successive victory over Italy, with the last defeat coming in 2007, and also represents their longest winning run against one opponent, overtaking a run of 15 victories against France from 1908-1927.\n\nAnother heavy defeat will again raise the inevitable questions about Italy's position in the Six Nations and whether there should be relegation, with the likes of Georgia being given the chance to join the tournament.\n\nThe facts are damning. It was a 31st successive defeat for the Azzurri in the competition, with their last victory coming against Scotland in 2015. They have not managed a home Six Nations win for eight years, with 20 successive losses.\n\nItaly have conceded 187 points and 26 tries in four games this year. Yet events off the field this week have actually strengthened their hand.\n\nThe £365m CVC private equity deal secures Italy's status as an equal partner for the next five years, with Six Nations boss Ben Morel saying the championship is \"precious\" and any changes \"would need to be extremely carefully studied\".\n\nBefore the match Pivac had warned not to expect any \"razzle dazzle\" from his Wales side, but that is exactly what the visitors provided in the Stadio Olimpico sunshine.\n\nIt was one-way traffic after Wales opened the scoring through a Dan Biggar penalty, before Italy captain Luca Bigi was yellow carded by referee Wayne Barnes for cynically stopping scrum-half Gareth Davies taking a quick tap-penalty.\n\nDavies had been one of two changes in the Wales side for injured Kieran Hardy, who had scored from a similar move against England.\n\nFrom the resulting scrum, Wales made their numerical advantage tell as wing Adams, who claimed a hat-trick against Italy last year, dived over from a long Biggar pass. The fly-half converted.\n\nWales' dominance continued and searing breaks from Rees-Zammit and Adams allowed the visitors to move the ball in both directions before number eight Faletau crashed over as 12 points were scored with the extra man.\n• None As it happened & reaction: Wales cruise to win in Rome\n\nWales also demonstrated their forward power when hooker Owens was driven over for his fourth international try from an attacking line-out.\n\nBarnes then looked at television replays about a possible illegal tackle by Biggar on Italy flanker Johan Meyer.\n\nThe English barrister deemed there was no case to answer, although a later challenge by Biggar at the following ruck was not looked at.\n\nThe bonus point came in the 30th minute when Owens stretched over from another line-out for his second score.\n\nWales appeared to have scored a fifth try through Rees-Zammit but television match official Tom Foley picked up a final forward pass from Biggar as the visitors led 27-0 at half-time.\n\nThe onslaught continued after the break with Jonathan Davies releasing co-centre North, who sprinted away to equal Shane Williams' Wales record of 22 Six Nations tries.\n\nItaly responded with a fine individual effort from wing Ioane that Paolo Garbisi converted, while Adams was denied a second score after failing to ground the ball in time.\n\nWales made a raft of replacements, including Scarlets second-row Jake Ball coming on for his 50th cap, before Italy replacement prop Marco Riccion was yellow-carded for dangerous use of the elbow.\n\nWales took advantage with a first international try for Bristol fly-half Sheedy, before Rees-Zammit sped away spectacularly following an 80-metre interception to complete the scoring.\n\nReplacements: Fabiani for Ioane (7-18), Lovotti for Fischetti (65) Riccioni for Zilocchi (33), Lazzaroni for Cannone (52), Mbanda for Meyer (26-36), Violi for Varney (63), Mori for Garbisi (54) Padovani for Trulla (44).\n\nReplacements: Dee for Owens (54), Carre for W Jones (57), Brown for Francis (45), Ball for AW Jones (54), Wainwright for Faletau (51), L Williams for G Davies (52), Sheedy for Biggar (52), Halaholo for North (46)\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "A minute's silence and a national doorstep vigil will form part of a day of reflection to mark the anniversary of the UK's first Covid lockdown.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is backing charity Marie Curie's plan for Tuesday 23 March, when those who have died in the pandemic will be remembered.\n\nThere will be a minute's silence at 12:00 GMT with people encouraged to light up their doorsteps that night.\n\nProminent buildings and landmarks will also be illuminated across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson announced the first national stay-at-home order on 23 March 2020, days after warning many families would \"lose loved ones before their time\".\n\nThe total number of recorded deaths linked to coronavirus in the UK stood at 335 on that date. There have now been 143,259 deaths, according to the latest figures.\n\nSince then there have been three periods of national restrictions, as well as the introduction of levels and tiers of measures in all four nations.\n\nThe past 12 months have also seen coronavirus vaccines developed from scratch, with 23.3m people in the UK having now received a first dose.\n\nThe prime minister said he would observe the minute's silence at noon privately.\n\nOther senior politicians have given their support to the event, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford all saying they would take part.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"This has been an incredibly difficult year for our country. My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones, and who have not been able to pay tribute to them in the way they would have wanted.\n\n\"As we continue to make progress against the virus, I want to thank people for the sacrifices they continue to make, and hope they can look forward to being reunited with loved ones as restrictions are cautiously eased.\"\n\nAlongside the minute's silence and doorstep vigil, the day will also see community-led activities take place, such as virtual assemblies, choirs, services and yellow ribbons being wrapped around trees.\n\nA series of free online talks organised by the Good Grief Festival will also take place, featuring experts, bereaved families and celebrities.\n\nIt is hoped people will help create a nationwide \"beacon of remembrance\" on their doorsteps by beaming phones, candles and torches into the night sky at 20:00.\n\nMarie Curie chief executive Matthew Reed said it was \"important that we all come together to reflect on our collective loss, celebrate the lives of the special people no longer here, support those who've been bereaved and look towards a much brighter future\".\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive", "The captain of a trawler which swamped a small boat, causing it to sink and three men to drown, has been jailed.\n\nMircea \"Mitch\" Ilie, 40, Irinel Popovici, 41, and Treaiam Dumitrache, 50, died on an overnight fishing trip on the James 2 in August 2017.\n\nWater engulfed their boat when it was passed by a vessel skippered by David Marr, off Shoreham, West Sussex.\n\nMarr, from Aberdeenshire, was jailed for 12 months after being convicted of not keeping a proper lookout.\n\nThe 55-year-old, from Peterhead, was sentenced following a trial at Lewes Crown Court, which was sitting at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nA boat tracking systems shows the two vessels on a collision course\n\nSole survivor Elvis Cojocariu was found alive by a fisherman after the sinking, suffering from hypothermia.\n\nThe four Romanian friends had been on board the James 2, when Marr's trawler, called the Vertrouwen, \"passed extremely close to it\", the jury was told.\n\nThe Vertrouwen, a scallop trawler, left the port of Shoreham at 00:07 BST on 6 August 2017, with four crew on board.\n\nMarr, who had 35 years of experience, took the first watch.\n\nMircea Ilie (left), Irinel Popovici (centre) and Traiam Dumitrache (right) all drowned off Shoreham\n\nAt 00:24 he sent a WhatsApp message to a friend, and a minute later, unknown to Marr, the trawler passed the James 2, swamping it and causing it to sink.\n\nMr Cojocariu told the court the crew had seen the Vertrouwen from about 1km (0.6 miles) away, and all four had been signalling \"like mad\" as it approached, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nHowever the trawler carried on in the same direction and at the same speed and the boat was swamped by waves, a CPS spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Cojocariu described having a \"clear view of the Vertrouwen's deck as she passed by and that he couldn't see anyone there,\" she said.\n\nDavid Marr, who was on watch on the Vertrouwen, sent a WhatsApp message one minute before it swamped the smaller boat\n\nMarr claimed he had not seen the smaller vessel's navigation or cabin lights, or the head torches of the men on board.\n\nThe jury was told Marr had been unaware that the boat had sunk until a crew member told him \"there was an incident off Shoreham the night before\".\n\nLibby Clark, from the CPS, said: \"Instead of constantly checking to ensure he knew what was out there, it appears [Marr] was doing other things and, even after his actions caused the James 2 to sink, he continued to sail on, oblivious to the fact that three men were about to die as a result of his not keeping a proper look out.\n\n\"The evidence showed that he would have been able to see the lights on the boat for six minutes before the near-miss, yet he continued to sail directly towards the boat with tragic consequences.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin has refused to meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party described his trip on Friday as a publicity stunt.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"always happy to meet all sides\" but had been told Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin was \"otherwise engaged\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster urged him ditch what she called the \"intolerable\" post-Brexit arrangements known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIt came into effect in January as part of the Brexit deal and means Northern Ireland remains in the EU's single market for goods, while the rest of the UK has left, so checks are required on some goods crossing the Irish Sea.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Mrs Foster said the protocol was unworkable, had the backing of no unionist parties and created societal division and economic harm rather than protecting the Belfast Agreement that effectively brought to an end Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nArlene Foster says she urged Boris Johnson to \"stand up\" for Northern Ireland\n\n\"Whilst grace periods have been extended unilaterally, we need a permanent solution so business can plan and the integrity of the United Kingdom internal market can be restored,\" said Mrs Foster, speaking after meeting the prime minister at a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.\n\nMr Johnson said the government's action to postpone the full implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol was \"lawful and indeed right in view of the impact on the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement and the need to have consent from both communities\".\n\n\"The most important thing about the protocol is that it should guarantee the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement,\" he said.\n\n\"There's got to be an east-west consent... as well as a north-south consent so that's what we're doing.\"\n\nMs O'Neill, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, said she and her party's president Mary Lou McDonald had a \"long-standing request\" to meet Mr Johnson.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived at the vaccination centre at Fermanagh Lakeland Forum with NI Secretary Brandon Lewis\n\nThey wanted to discuss \"commitments which he and his government have reneged on\" as well as his \"reckless and partisan approach to the Irish protocol\", she said.\n\n\"He did not facilitate the meeting,\" added Ms O'Neill. \"I have no plans to meet with him today.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP John Finucane went further, describing the prime minister's visit as a \"very superficial PR exercise\".\n\nThis visit feels like the first step in the prime minister's own pathway to recovery as he seeks to repair badly damaged relations with unionists.\n\nIt was no surprise that pathway included an early trip to Fermanagh - the home of Arlene Foster.\n\nEven before he arrived, his advance party had set the stage releasing details of events to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nBut it will take more than a special postmark, a concert and a centenary rose to heal the unionist hurt.\n\nFar from being the union's chief cheerleader, Boris Johnson is regarded by many unionists as the prime minister who betrayed Northern Ireland by agreeing to the protocol which created the Irish Sea border.\n\nIt is going to be a tricky visit for the prime minister labelled a \"lousy unionist\" by an Orange Order leader.\n\nIt is no surprise that much of the visit's focus was on the battle against Covid-19 and the successful rollout of the UK's vaccine programme.\n\nBut until he comes up with a political vaccine to eradicate the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Boris Johnson pathway to unionist recovery will not be smooth.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the success of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccine programme \"shows the strength of the union\".\n\nBut the UUP MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) warned that the Northern Ireland Protocol had brought challenges, particularly in terms of medical supplies.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Johnson commended the military and emergency response teams at Aldergrove in County Antrim for their work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe PM met military personnel in his first engagement of the day\n\nArmy medics were deployed to hospitals in Northern Ireland to assist staff dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases over the winter.\n\nMr Johnson thanked them for their \"incredible\" work in Belfast's Nightingale Hospital, where some of them gave patient care.\n\nThe prime minister also met scientists involved in vaccine research at Queen's University Belfast.\n\nHis last engagement in Northern Ireland was at medical 3D printing company Axial 3D in Belfast on Friday evening.\n\nThe prime minister last visited Northern Ireland in August - his first trip since power sharing was restored in January 2020 after a three-year hiatus.\n\nOn that trip, he held talks with Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill at Hillsborough Castle and also addressed criticism of plans to celebrate Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nBefore his visit on Friday, Mr Johnson announced official events to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the events would reflect on what made Northern Ireland \"the great place it is today\".", "Floral tributes left at the memorial fountain at Dunblane Cemetery\n\nThe 25th anniversary of the Dunblane tragedy is being marked privately by residents of the town this weekend.\n\nChurch services in memory of the victims are being held online due to Covid lockdown restrictions.\n\nTeacher Gwen Mayor and 16 children were murdered by gunman Thomas Hamilton when he opened fire at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996.\n\nIn a tribute, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the victims were \"forever in our hearts\".\n\nRev Colin Renwick, of Dunblane Cathedral, said people in the town will remember the events \"quietly, privately and with respect for those who lost their lives\".\n\nHe said: \"Some will light a candle in their home, spending time in quiet reflection, prayer and remembering.\n\n\"As is the case every year, the people lost, and those affected most profoundly, will be remembered in prayers in churches throughout the community.\"\n\nPrayers for the victims and their families will be heard during Dunblane Cathedral's online service on Sunday.\n\nThe stained glassed memorial window at St Blane's church in Dunblane\n\nDunblane's Holy Family Church is streaming an online mass in memory of the victims on Saturday evening.\n\nCanon Basil O'Sullivan said: \"My thoughts and prayers continue to be with those who suffered and lost so much 25 years ago.\"\n\nFlags at Scottish government buildings were lowered to half-mast on Saturday.\n\nOn social media, Nicola Sturgeon was among many who shared an image of snowdrops to remember those who died in the town.\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 1996 shooting led to the Snowdrop campaign, which saw the UK enforcing some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world.\n\nMs Sturgeon wrote: \"This day, 25 years ago, was one of the darkest and most heartbreaking in Scotland's history.\n\n\"Thinking today of 16 little children, their teacher and all those who still live with the pain.\"\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The brutal murder of sixteen primary school children and their teacher shocked not just Scotland, but the whole world.\n\n\"We must never forget all those who lost their lives on that terrible day. We must continue to tell their story.\"", "Security forces have shot dead eight people, and injured many more, as civilians continue their peaceful protests against a coup in Myanmar.\n\nThe worst of the recent violence appears to have taken place in the city of Mandalay. A large rally was just winding down, say eyewitnesses, when high-velocity rounds sent protesters running for cover.\n\n\"There's no particular, obvious objective to it except to terrorise people\", said the BBC's Jonathan Head, adding that Myanmar has \"all the hallmarks of a civil war... but only one side is armed.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe FA Cup final - potentially in front of 20,000 fans - and the World Snooker Championship are among the proposed pilot events to test the return of big crowds to venues this year.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) says it will stage \"around a dozen\" sporting and cultural events this spring.\n\nThe FA Cup final takes place at Wembley on 15 May.\n\nThe DCMS said the number of spectators at the pilots is yet to be decided.\n\nBut BBC Sport understands the possibility of having 20,000 fans at the FA Cup final is being explored by DCMS and the Football Association. The proposals would need to be agreed with Brent Council.\n\nUnder the four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown, announced in February, the government said \"up to 10,000 people\" could be allowed in stadiums for sporting events if the pilots are successful, but not before 17 May.\n\nHowever, the FA Cup final could still see a crowd of that size or larger attend, with the DCMS adding that \"a number of pilots will include spectators and fans not socially distanced\" while others will have social-distancing measures in place.\n\nThis year's World Snooker Championship is set to take place from 17 April to 3 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.\n\n\"These test events will be crucial in finding ways to get fans and audiences back in safely without social distancing,\" said Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.\n\n\"We will be guided by the science and medical experts, but will work flat out to make that happen.\n\n\"We want to get the people back to enjoying what they love and ensure some of our most important growth industries get back on their feet.\"\n\nThe pilots are part of the Events Research Programme (ERP) and will inform the government's decisions on step four of roadmap out of lockdown, which will begin no earlier than 21 June, when it hopes to lift all legal limits on social contact.\n\nThe events will provide data on how large-scale crowds could be able to return to stadiums safely after this point.\n\nAttendees will have to return a negative test before the event and will also be tested afterwards.\n\nThe non-socially distanced events will also test a range of \"non-pharmaceutical mitigating interventions\" such as the \"layout of the venue, face coverings and ventilation\", while the ERP will also look at factors including travel to and from events.\n\nThe Premier League plans to have fans in grounds at the final two rounds of matches this season, by moving a round of fixtures to 18-20 May before the scheduled final round of games on 23 May.\n\nThe English Football League has said it is \"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• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "The submarine was found in an industrial warehouse\n\nPolice in Spain have seized a homemade submarine capable of transporting up to two tonnes of drugs.\n\nThe nine-metre (29.5ft) blue vessel was discovered in an industrial warehouse in the southern city of Málaga.\n\nThe seizure was part of a wider operation involving five other nations and the EU's crime agency Europol.\n\nThe police say 52 people were detained during raids across Spain, and a big haul of cocaine and hashish seized. A drugs lab was also dismantled.\n\nPolice believe the fibreglass and plywood submarine was being readied to smuggle drugs but had not yet been used.\n\nIn 2019, a submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine was seized in north-western Spain after the vessel ran aground. Two people were detained.\n\nThat submarine was believed to be from Colombia, and police launched an investigation to establish it sailed all the way with the drugs.\n\nNarco-subs have been used to smuggle drugs from Latin America into the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA serving Met Police officer has been charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, who disappeared as she walked home in south London.\n\nThe 33-year-old's body was found in woodland in Kent more than a week after she was last spotted on 3 March.\n\nWayne Couzens, 48, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later charged with her murder.\n\nDurham University has paid tribute to Ms Everard, describing her as a \"beloved graduate\".\n\nMs Everard was last seen walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear whether she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nHer body was found by police searching woodland near Ashford, Kent, on Wednesday.\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said Ms Everard's family had been \"informed of this development and remain supported by specialist officers\".\n\n\"I would like at this stage to pay tribute to Sarah's family for their fortitude and forbearance through what can only have been the most intensely difficult few days, our thoughts remain with them as this matter progresses,\" he said.\n\n\"The investigation continues, of course, supported by hundreds of officers from across the Met, as well as colleagues in Kent Police.\"\n\nBefore the charges were confirmed, Mr Couzens was taken to hospital for a second time in two days after being found with head injuries inside his cell.\n\nHe has since been discharged and returned to his cell, the Met said.\n\nEarlier on Friday evening, Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick took part in a walkabout on Clapham Common.\n\nShe walked with police officers and spoke to members of the public in the park close to Clapham Common Tube station.\n\nA vigil planned by Reclaim These Street, due to take place on Clapham Common later, near to where the 33-year-old was last seen alive, has been cancelled.\n\nAnna Birley, from the group, said it could not bear the personal risk of Covid-19 fines or prosecution.\n\nFlowers have been laid at Clapham Common near to where Sarah Everard was last seen\n\nMs Everard's disappearance when she was walking home along a main road in Clapham on 3 March has prompted a public debate on women's safety.\n\n\"Sarah was a popular and lively member of our college community and retained a large Durham University friendship group,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nMr Couzens joined the force in September 2018 and was initially based in the Bromley area, the Met said.\n\nIn February last year he moved to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was uniformed patrols, mainly at a range of embassies in the capital.\n\nOn Thursday, a woman in her 30s who was arrested at the same time as Mr Couzens on suspicion of assisting an offender, was bailed to a date in mid-April.\n• None Sarah Everard murder case: What happens next?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 3,000 UK email servers remain at risk from the global Microsoft Exchange email flaw, officials believe.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre said it estimated 7,000 servers had been affected by the flaw in the UK and only half had been secured.\n\nIt said malicious software had been detected on 2,300 machines but it had helped businesses remove it.\n\nThe agency said it was \"vital\" that all affected businesses took action to secure their email servers.\n\nThe announcement reveals the scale of the problem among UK companies for the first time since the global security flaw emerged last week.\n\nRansomware groups have begun using the flaw to install their malicious programs, the NCSC warned - though there was no evidence of widespread ransomware attacks on UK companies so far.\n\nOnce installed, ransomware locks away a user's data behind strong encryption, making the computer system unusable. The group then demands payment to unlock it - and if demands are not met, will steal or delete the data.\n\nThe security flaw affects Microsoft's widely-used Exchange email system, which powers the email of major corporations, small businesses and public bodies worldwide.\n\nThe NCSC is particularly concerned about small and medium-sized businesses that may not have heard about the issue.\n\nInitially, the flaw was being exploited by a hacking group to gain remote access to email servers, from which it could steal sensitive data.\n\nBut after Microsoft warned the world it had identified the problem, and urged all its users to download the latest security updates, other hacking groups quickly became familiar with the flaw.\n\nThe result is a widespread free-for-all as multiple hacking groups all try to find unpatched email servers to attack.\n\n\"We are working closely with industry and international partners to understand the scale and impact of UK exposure, but it is vital that all organisations take immediate steps to protect their networks,\" NCSC's director for operations Paul Chichester warned.\n\n\"While this work is ongoing, the most important action is to install the latest Microsoft updates.\"\n\nHe also urged all organisations to \"familiarise\" themselves with the guidance surrounding ransomware attacks - and to search for any signs of their systems already being compromised.\n\nThe true scale of this problem is still emerging with thousands of systems vulnerable in the UK alone.\n\nWhat is not yet entirely clear is the overall impact.\n\nWhile many systems are still at risk and thousands had malicious software installed, the number of cases where we know this was actually used to steal emails or lock people out with ransomware is still fairly low.\n\nThat may change in the coming days as more reports come in.\n\nWhat is clear is that multiple hacking groups have piled in to exploit the vulnerability and those working on the defensive side are likely to stay busy for some time to come.", "More than 48,000 businesses in England have signed up for workplace Covid testing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nMr Hancock said it marked a \"huge step forward\" in getting businesses \"back on their feet\" and keeping people safe.\n\nBusinesses of all sizes can register to order lateral flow tests for their workers until 31 March.\n\nThe rapid tests can give results in less than 30 minutes, and they will be free to businesses until 30 June.\n\nThe hope is that asymptomatic cases can be detected quickly, thereby preventing workplace outbreaks.\n\nRegular testing is \"essential to bearing down on the virus\", the health secretary added.\n\n\"I strongly encourage all businesses to register their interest before the 31 March deadline,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThe wider availability of the rapid flow tests is part of government policy to ensure all kinds of workplaces are able to operate safely as lockdown measures continue to be eased.\n\nAnd it comes in conjunction with the increased use of testing as schools reopened on Monday - in the first step of the government's road map out of lockdown. Pupils and staff at secondary schools and colleges - plus their family members - are now being tested twice a week.\n\nThat schools programme, combined with the wider use of workplace testing, has seen the total number of Covid tests carried out in the UK jump from about 500,000 a day in mid-February to more than 1.5 million on three days this week.\n\nInitially, only businesses with 250 or more employees were eligible to access lateral flow tests. This was reduced to 50 last month.\n\nThe scheme was then expanded last week to all businesses in England, including those with fewer than 50 employees.\n\nMike Cherry, national chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said helping businesses to introduce testing was \"fundamental to bringing the coronavirus under control\", while Matthew Fell, Confederation of British Industry chief UK policy director, said businesses appreciated the role mass testing could play \"in a safe re-opening\".\n\nMost businesses in England can register via an application form on the government's website. Charities and other organisations, including those who are a building society, a partnership, a sole proprietor or an Act of Parliament, will need to register by email, with details listed on the same web page.", "Clive Betts MP says house developers should stop using \"appalling\" gagging orders\n\nHouse builders that carry out repairs on newly built homes need to be more open about what work has been required, according to the chairman of Parliament's Housing Committee.\n\nSome home owners say they were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as a condition of repairs being done.\n\nThe Home Builders Federation said NDAs were \"not widely used\" by developers.\n\nMr Betts said housebuilders should be obliged to inform home owners when systematic defects were identified that might affect their property, which he said would be normal practice in other areas.\n\n\"If this kind of thing happens in the car industry, for example, car companies have to tell their customers, issue a recall and get the problem fixed.\n\n\"I don't see why it should be any different when it comes to buying houses,\" he said.\n\nIt is hard to establish an accurate, independent picture of how common such NDAs are. People who have signed them are worried about speaking out because of the threat of legal action.\n\nBut Money Box spoke to several industry experts who said these gagging orders were used regularly.\n\nChris Blythe, former chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Building, said it was \"quite common\" for developers to use them.\n\n\"Unfortunately, because of the nature of the agreement, ie non-disclosure, no-one knows very much about it,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's done for commercial reasons, because if it became known on a particular development that there are problems, other house buyers would be asking the house builder to do remedial work [for them too].\n\n\"So they use these to silence people... and it's a despicable practice.\"\n\nAbout 250,000 new houses were built in Britain, according to the latest annual figures, and defects in new-build houses are common.\n\nMany are minor and fixed without any problems, but serious defects can cost thousands of pounds to put right.\n\nThese include things like poor brickwork, faulty foundations, problems with windows and external doors, structural weaknesses with roofs and issues with plumbing and sewerage systems.\n\nWhen remedial works cost such large sums of money, developers sometimes delay carrying out work, Money Box was told. The programme was also told of cases where developers fought home owners for years and refused to carry out remedial works at all.\n\nGeoff Peter is a solicitor and founded Wingrove Law to help homeowners who bought houses and later discovered serious defects with their properties.\n\n\"Non-disclosure agreements... are of no practical benefit or use to homeowners,\" he said.\n\n\"The effects of them when they're used at scale, as they are in the [house building] industry, is really just to keep a lid on the true nature and scale of problems.\n\n\"So it's really impossible for... the buying public, to have any real idea of the risks they are taking when they buy a new build property... because there's no reliable source of information as to the nature and scale of the problems that they're likely to encounter.\"\n\nWhen asked about NDAs industry body, the Home Builders Federation, said: \"Settlement Agreements are legal contracts that are used by businesses across all sectors.\n\n\"They are not widely used by housebuilders and when they are, it tends to be with regards to details of compensation payments, sometimes at the request of the customer.\"\n\nIf you've been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of getting repair work done to your newbuild house email us in confidence at moneybox@bbc.co.uk and tell us about your experience.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme on Saturday at 12pm on Radio 4 or by listening again here shortly after broadcast.", "When author David Shannon's debut novel was accepted by a leading literary agent, it came as a big surprise - not just to him, but also to his wife, the Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.\n\nShe knew he'd spent hours in their study but thought he was up to something else…\n\nListen to the full interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russian police raided a Moscow hotel this month while opposition figures were at a conference\n\nRussian police have broken up an opposition conference and detained 200 people including high-profile opposition figures.\n\nThe weekend forum had just begun in a Moscow hotel when police burst in and said they were detaining everyone.\n\nAccording to police, coronavirus rules were broken and the event was arranged by an \"undesirable organisation\".\n\nThe incident comes as authorities continue to crack down on opposition activity as elections loom.\n\nLast month Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, was jailed. He was accused of breaking the terms of a suspended prison sentence while recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.\n\nOpposition figures from across Russia were taking part in the Moscow conference to discuss strategy ahead of local and parliamentary elections in September.\n\nPolice said \"a significant portion of participants lacked personal protective equipment\" in contravention of coronavirus rules.\n\nThe \"undesirable organisation\" behind the conference was Open Russia, police said.\n\nOpen Russia was established in the UK by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned opponent of President Vladimir Putin.\n\nKhodorkovsky spent 10 years in jail on charges his lawyers dismissed as fabricated before being pardoned by Mr Putin and moving abroad.\n\nOpen Russia is accused by the authorities of breaking a Russian law which prohibits foreign groups deemed political and is among several organisations described as undesirable.\n\nBut one of the opposition figures at the conference, Andrei Pivovarov, said it had in fact been organised by a group known as the United Democrats.\n\nHe said the raid had been staged \"to intimidate us\".\n\n\"No-one promised us freedom on a silver platter - Russia will still be free,\" another opposition politician at the conference, Ilya Yashin, said on Facebook.\n\nCommenting on the arrests, associates of Mr Navalny said it was clear \"the authorities are afraid of any competition during elections\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Navalny is a consolidation point for dissenters of Putin\"\n\nThose detained are expected to be fined or face a short spell in police detention.\n\nThe mass arrests come as officials increasingly refer to opposition activists as anti-Russian, supposedly backed by hostile forces in the West, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.", "The health of more than a quarter of people who need social care in England has worsened during the pandemic, a survey by a care charity has suggested.\n\nMany struggled with daily tasks and one in seven questioned needed hospital treatment due to insufficient support.\n\nThe lives of many older and disabled people have been \"diminished\", the Care and Support Alliance (CSA) said.\n\nThe government has said it is committed to social care reform and will set out plans later this year.\n\nBut older and disabled people have been left struggling with daily activities and even missing medical appointments during the pandemic, the CSA said.\n\nMore than 4,000 people with social care needs and carers took part in the survey.\n\nOf these, 28% said their health had deteriorated in the past year.\n\nA quarter of those who need day-to-day support said they asked for help from the authorities, but had not received it.\n\nAnd 14% of respondents said they needed hospital treatment because they did not have enough assistance.\n\nSome 17% of unpaid carers said that their health had deteriorated because of their caring responsibilities.\n\nSocial care is a wide remit. It often involves supporting older people with washing, dressing and eating, and helps younger adults with learning disabilities with day-to-day activities and tasks.\n\nOf the respondents, 15% said they felt neglected and 18% reported feeling scared about the care they received during the pandemic.\n\nOf people with learning disabilities, 34% said they felt lonely or isolated and 25% had not been able to leave the house due to a lack of support.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, CSA co-chairwoman and charity director at Age UK, said: \"Our new survey shows how a lack of social care during the pandemic has diminished the lives of many older and disabled people, and their unpaid carers, and put their health at risk.\n\n\"This has piled further pressure on the NHS when this was the last thing our over-stretched health services needed.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has promised a \"sustainable\" plan for the sector with long-lasting reforms.\n\nIn July, the head of NHS England warned that plans to adequately fund the social care sector needed to be put in place within a year.\n\nServices in the sector have been stretched over the years due to government funding cuts and growing demands linked to an ageing population.\n\nSocial care is not usually provided for free, with the UK nations differing in their approach.\n\nIn England, anyone with assets over £23,250 is expected to pay for some or all of their costs.", "Wayne Couzens spoke only to confirm his name and address during the brief hearing\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer has appeared in court charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nWayne Couzens, 48, was arrested on Tuesday after the 33-year-old disappeared when walking home to Brixton from Clapham in south London last week.\n\nMs Everard's body was found in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.\n\nMr Couzens wore a grey tracksuit as he appeared for the brief hearing.\n\nHe appeared to have a red wound on his head and spoke quietly when asked to confirm his name, date of birth and address.\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring remanded him in custody to appear again at the Old Bailey on 16 March.\n\nSarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nThe court heard the officer, of Deal, Kent, is accused of kidnapping Ms Everard in the Poynders Road area of Clapham.\n\nProsecutor Zoe Martin said Ms Everard was reported missing by her boyfriend on 4 March.\n\nShe had visited a friend in the Clapham Junction area on 3 March and left at around 21:00 to make what was roughly a 2.5 mile (4 km) journey home.\n\nShe called her boyfriend for around 14 minutes, and was seen alone on CCTV at 21:15 GMT and again on a camera at 21:28, Ms Martin said.\n\nHer body was found on Wednesday inside a builder's bag and later identified through the use of dental records, the hearing was told.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place but no cause of death was given in court.\n\nA marquee has been set up as police continue their search near Great Chart, Kent\n\nMr Couzens joined the Metropolitan Police in 2018, most recently serving in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, an armed unit responsible for guarding the Parliamentary estate and embassies in London.\n\nHis main job was uniformed patrol of diplomatic buildings and Scotland Yard said he was not on duty at the time of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for a second time in 48 hours on Friday for treatment to another head injury suffered in custody, before he was discharged and returned to a police station.\n\nMr Couzens was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, also sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.\n\nMeanwhile, police in dry suits were seen continuing to search around the area where Ms Everard's body was found near Ashford.", "The judge said the man's father just wanted to do the best for his son\n\nA man with severe learning difficulties should have a Covid-19 vaccine, despite his family's objections, a judge ruled.\n\nSpecialists said the man, who is in his 30s, was \"clinically vulnerable\" and in a \"priority group\" for vaccination.\n\nBut the man's parents objected and raised a number of concerns about alleged side-effects.\n\nJudge Jonathan Butler agreed with NHS Tameside & Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group that vaccination was in his best interests.\n\nThe judge, who is based in Manchester, considered the case at a hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions are analysed.\n\nHe did not name the man in his written ruling, published on Friday.\n\nA number of specialists involved in the man's care all thought he should be vaccinated but his father claimed the vaccine had not been tested sufficiently and did not stop people contracting Covid-19.\n\nHe added the long-term side effects on people with severe health issues were unknown.\n\nJudge Butler said the man's father had outlined his concerns with \"conviction and great clarity\".\n\nHe added: \"I have no doubt whatsoever that his objections are founded on a love for (his son) and a wish to ensure that he comes to no harm.\n\n\"His objections were not intrinsically illogical. They were certainly not deliberately obstructive.\n\n\"They were made upon the basis as to what he regards as being in the best interests of (his son).\n\n\"That concern for his son does him credit.\"\n\nBut he said the family's objections had \"no clinical evidence base\".\n\nHe said the man was vulnerable and said there was \"overwhelming objective evidence of the magnetic advantage of a vaccination\".\n\nThe judge said he had ruled that vaccination was in the man's best interests, but had not authorised \"physical intervention\".\n\nHealth authority bosses had said the vaccine would not be administered if any \"form of physical intervention\" was required.\n\nA Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group spokesperson said: \"Our primary concern will always be the best clinical interests of our patients and we work closely with patients, families and clinicians and care providers to understand any concerns or judgements made about their care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students at the University of Manchester have passed a vote of no confidence in its vice-chancellor.\n\nDame Nancy Rothwell faced opposition over the university's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAbout 89% of the students who took part in the non-binding vote agreed the student body had \"no confidence\" in the vice-chancellor and other leaders.\n\nThe university said the vote had a 13% turnout and said it had \"full confidence\" in Dame Nancy.\n\nA spokesperson for the student-led campaign group said the positions of the vice-chancellor and her team had become \"completely untenable\".\n\n\"It's apparent to anyone that the mistreatment of students and mishandling of the pandemic by the university over the past year has become an exemplar of how not to run a university,\" they said.\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) general secretary Jo Grady said the \"overwhelming vote\" was \"no surprise\" and said Dame Nancy had treated students \"shamefully.\"\n\n\"She irresponsibly brought students back to campus to secure income from fees and rent and then locked them in their accommodation,\" she said.\n\nStudent relations with the university hit a low when fences surrounded Fallowfield campus\n\nIn November, Dame Nancy told BBC Newsnight she had apologised in writing to 19-year-old student Zach Adan, who was allegedly racially profiled by security guards as he returned to his halls of residence.\n\nWhen it emerged that this had not happened, she apologised again, saying she was \"devastated that I made the wrong remark on national television\" and had \"written to sincerely apologise to the student\".\n\nThe incident came amid ongoing protests by students who were campaigning for rent reductions after their face-to-face classes were halted.\n\nProtests also erupted on campus during the autumn term as the second lockdown began when a wire fence was erected overnight around accommodation without students being consulted.\n\nStudents pulled down the barriers on the University of Manchester's Fallowfield campus in protest.\n\nThe referendum was held by the students' union after a petition met the threshold number of signatures to trigger a vote.\n\nIn a statement, the university's board of governors said it had \"full confidence\" in the senior leadership \"to lead the university forward\".\n\n\"Whilst our senior leaders haven't got everything right, where that has been the case, they have led from the front by apologising and have always taken action to ensure lessons are learnt and improvements are made,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are warnings that school funding measures could miss rising levels of need in the pandemic\n\nSchools in England face a \"significant cash loss\" from a change in the date for counting disadvantaged pupils eligible for extra support, says the Education Policy Institute.\n\nThe think tank warns using an earlier cut-off date to count free school meal pupils will miss many who have since become eligible in the pandemic.\n\nThis could lower schools' allocations of \"pupil premium\" funding.\n\nThe Department for Education says an earlier date helps budget planning.\n\nBut head teachers have raised \"grave concerns\" that the change in timing will mean schools serving some of the poorest pupils will miss out on millions in funding, despite rising levels of need.\n\nInstead of using January as the annual point for measuring numbers of pupils eligible for free school meals, the government has used October 2020.\n\nThis has prompted warnings that the earlier date will miss many families caught up in recent months of rising job losses and financial pressures.\n\nIf children are not counted, schools could lose out on pupil premium funding, which is mostly based on their number of pupils eligible for free meals.\n\nPupil premium funding is targeted to help disadvantaged children and provides schools with an extra £1,345 per pupil in primary and £955 per pupil in secondary.\n\nIn 2020-21, more than two million children were supported with pupil premium funding worth £2.4bn. This is expected to rise to £2.5bn next year - but there are concerns the change in the date could undercount the need.\n\n\"This policy change looks to be poorly timed and is likely to have huge ramifications,\" said Natalie Perera, Education Policy Institute chief executive.\n\n\"Given that there was a likely rise in pupil premium eligibility during this period due to the recession and rises in unemployment caused by the pandemic, this could represent a significant cash loss for schools,\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the National Association of Head Teachers said this was of \"grave concern to school leaders across the country\".\n\n\"We expect the consequences of this change to be significant,\" she said.\n\nThe impact would not be evenly spread - as pupil premium funding is a much bigger factor in more disadvantaged areas.\n\nIn parts of inner London, Birmingham, Manchester, Merseyside and Teesside more than 40% of pupils are eligible, based on deprivation. In Buckinghamshire it is about 13%.\n\nPupil premium was worth about £95m to schools in Birmingham last year, compared with £3.6m in Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, has backed the warnings.\n\n\"It is imperative that no school should lose out in receiving pupil premium funding as a result of this administrative change,\" said Judith Blake, chair of the LGA's children and young people board.\n\nShe said this was particularly important \"in the context of the pandemic and the need to ensure pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are supported to recover lost education\".\n\n\"There will be many schools with children who will have become eligible for pupil premium between October and January who will now not qualify for this extra funding for a whole year,\" said Cllr Blake.\n\nThe Harris Federation academy trust, with 50 schools mostly in and around London, said more than 500 of its pupils became eligible for pupil premium funding in the gap between the two dates.\n\nLast month, Tony Foot, the Department for Education's director of strategic finance, told the Education Select Committee that he did \"not recognise\" claims the change in date would save £150m - and said: \"I do not have a figure for savings that are associated with that change.\"\n\nHe told MPs it would align pupil premium with core funding, which operates on an October census, and would provide certainty on funding at an earlier point.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: \"We are committed to ensuring all children have access to good quality education, no matter their background.\n\n\"Using the October census for pupil premium allocation means schools will know their budget earlier in the year, helping them to plan ahead and we expect pupil premium funding to increase to more than £2.5bn in 2021-22.\"\n\nSchools will also have extra support from £1.7bn in catch-up funding to help recover from the disruption of the pandemic.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLegendary Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker has died at the age of 97.\n\nWalker commentated on his first grand prix for the BBC at Silverstone in 1949 and became a full-time F1 commentator in 1978.\n\nHe became synonymous with F1 through his commentary, first with the BBC and then ITV, before retiring in 2001.\n\n\"Murray has been with me for my whole life and I don't think anybody thought this day would come, but sadly it has,\" said 1996 F1 champion Damon Hill.\n• None Murray Walker at 90 on James Hunt and Ayrton Senna\n\nOne of Walker's most famous lines was, \"I've got to stop now, because I've got a lump in my throat\" as Britain's Hill won the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix - and with it his only World Championship.\n\nHill added: \"Maybe old soldiers never die? His legacy and his memory is so strong, and what he gave to so many Formula 1 fans and number of people he affected, he became bigger than the sport, so we have got a lot to be thankful to Murray for.\n\n\"He could emote the events that happened in our sport. The shocking moments and the dramatic moments all have Murray's reaction to them and he made those events stick in your mind forever.\n\n\"And he allowed himself not to be the know-it-all commentator, but the fan who, at times, got over excited.\"\n\nWalker, who is survived by his wife of more than 60 years Elizabeth, was appointed an OBE in 1996 for his services to broadcasting and motor racing.\n\nHis co-commentators included the late James Hunt, who was F1 world champion in 1976, and the pair built up a memorable partnership.\n\nHe also had a popular partnership with former grand prix driver Martin Brundle, who paid tribute on social media.\n\n\"Wonderful man in every respect,\" said Brundle. \"National treasure, communication genius, Formula 1 legend.\"\n\nThree-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart said he spent a lot of time with Walker, who served in a tank regiment during World War Two, as their fathers both knew each other.\n\n\"He was a very special man in every respect,\" the Scot told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was lucky enough to know him well. In fact, I spoke to him several weeks ago where he was in a home.\n\n\"He was the perfect gentleman, a man who had great style and great skills with the English language.\n\n\"As a racing driver, from my own point of view, Murray was always the best.\"\n\nStewart added: \"He was very good at making mistakes. He made wonderful mistakes. He so much enjoyed the realisation of his error, he was such a character.\n\n\"A mistake didn't mean anything wrong for Murray. It was something else to make a joke of.\n\n\"He was full of energy, he never sat to do a commentary. He stood up for the whole time.\"\n\n\"He was so well prepared,\" added Jordan. \"He was very nonchalant about it, he didn't give that impression but he had the knowledge.\n\n\"When he was doing the commentary, he had every single angle covered. He was brilliant at it.\"\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"Over decades, no-one conveyed the excitement and passion of motorsport like Murray Walker.\n\n\"For millions, he was quite simply the voice that captured the spirit of Formula 1. Respected by drivers and fans alike, he will be hugely missed.\"\n\nThe iconic voice of our sport and a great man, thank you for all you did, you will never be forgotten\n\n\"He was to so many of us fans of F1 the voice that epitomised the sport we love,\" said Stuart Pringle, Silverstone managing director.\n\n\"Knowledgeable beyond words and with a passion that occasionally got the better of him in commentary, he brought the sport and some of its greatest moments to life in a way that ensured they remained seared in our memories for ever.\"\n\nA statement from the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) said: \"It's with great sadness we share the news of the passing of BRDC associate member Murray Walker OBE.\n\n\"We thank Murray for all he has done for our community. RIP our friend.\"\n\nReigning world champion Lewis Hamilton also paid tribute, saying: \"So sad to hear of Murray's passing. I remember growing up hearing your voice over the races. You made the sport so much more exciting and captivating.\n\n\"The iconic voice of our sport and a great man, thank you for all you did, you will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.\"\n\nAn F1 statement said: \"We are immensely sad to hear that Murray Walker has passed away.\n\n\"His passion and love of the sport inspired millions of fans around the world. He will forever be a part of our history, and will be dearly missed.\"\n\nReigning world champion constructor Mercedes echoed the view that Walker was \"the voice of F1 to millions\" and added that \"his love, passion and positivity for our sport were unmatched\".\n\nMcLaren said: \"He brought our sport to generations by sharing his passion and knowledge with humour and humility. Our thoughts are with all who had the fortune to know him.\"\n\nJames Allen succeeded Walker in the commentary box at ITV and told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He was so just much fun.\n\n\"The age difference between us was 45 years or something but he was so young in his mind.\n\n\"His career was in advertising, he was always aware of the audience.\n\n\"He was such a laugh. He didn't like driving much on the continent so, at all the foreign grands prix, I drove him around everywhere.\n\n\"One of my favourite stories, I drove him to a restaurant and when we came out there was a bunch of kids outside and one of them said 'that's Murray Walker's driver'.\n\n\"He had a life incredibly well lived.\"\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Maya Tutton and her sister Gemma campaign against street harassment\n\nThe case of Sarah Everard has prompted many women to share their experiences of feeling unsafe while walking the streets.\n\nAs the 33-year-old was last seen walking home in the dark from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, it has sparked discussion on social media about the precautions women are taking when they go out alone - from not wearing headphones to telling friends where they are going.\n\nBut how can we help women feel safer without them having to change their own behaviour?\n\nMaya Tutton, 22, says that her first experience of street harassment was when she was still at school, recalling: \"I remember one particular incident when I was 14 and several men pulled up next to me with two friends and they made some of the most sexually threatening comments I had heard in my life.\n\n\"And I remember just being so scared and never feeling the same way in public spaces again.\"\n\nBut it was her younger sister Gemma's experiences that pushed her to take action.\n\n\"At the age of 11 she was out on a summer day and a man pulled up and shouted horrible sexual comments about her body and her legs and she came back to me and she spoke to me about it,\" she says.\n\n\"And I had to explain to her firstly that this had become a normal part of being a girl - that this was unremarkable somehow and that this probably wouldn't be the only incident. And on top of that, this probably wouldn't be the worst incident.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maya and Gemma want public sexual harassment to be a criminal offence\n\nTwo years ago the pair, who live in south-east England, founded Our Streets Now, which campaigns for public sexual harassment to be a criminal offence as well as for the issue to be part of the secondary school curriculum.\n\nThe group has also created free lesson plans and resources for teachers to educate girls - and boys - about public sexual harassment.\n\nEngaging boys and men is crucial, Maya says, adding: \"We cannot continue to place the onus on the victim's shoulders.\"\n\nWhen women are told to change their behaviour to stay safe, perpetrators are still a danger to others, she explains.\n\n\"The onus should never be on us to change things,\" Maya says. \"We're not tackling the root and the root is male violence.\"\n\nChris Green founded White Ribbon UK, which works to end male violence against women\n\nThe importance of men in tackling violence against women is also central to the work of the White Ribbon UK charity.\n\n\"It is men's responsibility to challenge other men and ourselves in our behaviours,\" says founder Chris Green.\n\nThe global movement began in Canada in the 1990s and works to engage men and boys across society to make a stand on the issue.\n\n\"It is a pledge never to commit the violence, never to excuse the violence and never to remain silent about the epidemic levels of violence in our society,\" Chris, 67, explains.\n\nThe charity works with organisations including schools, councils, police forces and universities to provide resources to raise awareness and educate men about violence against women.\n\nChris noticed there was a \"groundswell\" of reaction on social media from women since the Sarah Everard case started being talked about - with some asking why more men weren't \"shouting about\" the issue of women's safety.\n\n\"It just says to me we should be doing more,\" he adds.\n\nKerry Lindeque is campaigning for parks in Sheffield to have better lighting\n\nIn Sheffield, Our Bodies Our Streets campaigns on practical ways to help women feel safer.\n\nA petition launched by the group earlier this year, calling for the council to improve lighting in the city's parks, has attracted more than 3,000 signatures.\n\nKerry Lindeque, a member of the group who is studying at the University of Sheffield, says: \"Everybody has the right to exercise and everybody should have the right to go for a walk, especially in lockdown because it's so important and has such a big impact on our mental health.\n\n\"But as soon as it gets dark a lot of women don't feel safe on the streets because you have people stalking you, you have people catcalling you, you have cars driving slowly past you.\"\n\nShe said that those who decide to go into parks to avoid those slow-driving cars then don't feel the parks are particularly safe either.\n\nThe group have also created an online map, documenting people's experiences of harassment in Sheffield.\n\nKerry, 20, says the aim is to \"validate\" people's experiences so they feel listened to, as well as to highlight the extent of the problem.\n\nMore than 10,000 people have also shared their experiences of harassment with the Catcalls of London Instagram page, which writes examples of catcalling in chalk on the streets where they happened.\n\nThe movement first started in the New York and has spread to cities around the world, including London, where an account was started by Farah Benis three years ago.\n\nThe 34-year-old says she was inspired by her own experiences of harassment from the age of 11 and \"the fact that every single woman I know has experienced it in some form multiple times\".\n\n\"I wanted to scream about it and I founded Catcalls of London instead.\"\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 catcallsofldn 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\nOut of the thousands of submissions the account has received, Farah says 74% are from under-18s, while experiences range from verbal threats to groping.\n\nShe highlights how, in many cases, unwanted attention can escalate to aggression.\n\n\"That's what happens when men don't get the reaction they want - they lash out,\" she says.\n\nFarah hopes the account will raise awareness and help bring about change.\n\n\"When we stop accepting things as the norm and start to challenge them it wakes people up, especially people who are not affected by these issues, to the impact they have on us - our mental health, our wellbeing, the constant worry about our personal safety,\" she says.\n\n\"These are all things that so many men don't realise we experience.\"", "Earlier we told you how families in Wales are making plans to get together on Mother's Day - now that up to four adults are able to meet up outdoors.\n\nAngelika Monks, from Anglesey, has not seen her son Steven, 35, since Christmas. He has cerebral palsy and severe learning difficulties and lives in a supported living setting.\n\nAngelika says she hopes the sun is shining on Sunday so they can be reunited: \"That is a decision we'll have to make on the day - if the weather is nice, we're going to come out and meet him in the park, if the weather is not nice we can't do that. Decisions will have to be made day by day.\"\n\nAngelika says the stay at home rule meant she could not travel to see Steven until now. The rule changes mean designated solo visitors can also enter care homes.\n\n\"We live on the same island but Steven is in Holyhead, and we live near Llanfair-PG [Llanfairpwllgwyngyll] so it's about 30-odd miles, and so we weren't allowed to go to see him,\" she says.\n\n\"I can't really express myself... it will be so wonderful to actually be normal again... it will make such a difference to our lives and to his life as well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rangers players go to gates to celebrate with fans outside\n\nA large group of Rangers fans gathered outside Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow on Saturday despite lockdown rules.\n\nImages posted on social media showed flares being set off and fans singing ahead of Rangers' game against St Mirren.\n\nUnder current guidance public gatherings are banned and a maximum of two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nRangers are currently one point short of winning the Scottish Premiership.\n\nThe team beat St Mirren 3-0 on Saturday and will claim the title on Sunday if Celtic do not win against Dundee United.\n\nFootball games are taking place behind closed doors with no fans in the stadium.\n\nFollowing their win against St Mirren, some players made their way to the fence to celebrate in sight of fans who had made their way to the stadium.\n\nHundreds of supporters arrived at Ibrox on Saturday morning, with some seen crowding around a car entering the ground as police tried to hold them back.\n\nIn a statement, Ch Supt Mark Sutherland from Police Scotland said: \"About 10am a large number of supporters gathered outside Ibrox Stadium and a number of pyrotechnic devices were set off.\n\n\"I would remind supporters that in line with current Scottish government coronavirus guidelines, all gatherings are currently prohibited and we would urge members of the public to comply with these restrictions.\n\n\"Our priority is public safety and an appropriate policing plan was in place and officers engaged with those present to explain and encourage compliance with restrictions.\"\n\nNo one has been arrested.\n\nFlares were set off outside the stadium ahead of the game with St Mirren on Saturday\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"extremely disappointed\" that some supporters had gathered at the stadium.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"At this crucial stage of suppressing the virus, the actions of this minority of individuals jeopardises the safety of other supporters, the police on duty and the wider community. We will continue to engage with Police Scotland and the club.\"\n\nSteven Gerrard's side are within one point of their first Premiership title in 10 years, having ended their city rivals' Celtic's hopes of a 10th championship win in a row.\n\nFormer Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson said he could \"understand\" the emotions that led some Rangers fans \"to do daft things\" and break lockdown guidelines to celebrate with their team.\n\nHe said: \"It is a little disappointing when we consider what's going round the country, but these fans have been starved of success for so long and they just want some way to thank the team and Steven Gerrard.\n\n\"Obviously it's not right to do it in the numbers they did and it can't be excused, but we all do silly things when we get caught up in celebrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously criticised fans for gathering in large numbers.\n\nAfter Celtic fans took part in a protest outside the club's stadium in November, she said: \"We have advice against gatherings and every day I stand up here and say avoid crowded places.\n\n\"We have a limit on people coming together outside... so it stands to reason any group of people that are gathering together in a crowd are putting themselves and others at risk.\n\n\"Whether it's football fans, rugby fans, any other kind of sport fans or just people in general, please don't do it because right now, in the middle of this pandemic, it is a risky thing to do that puts you and other people at risk.\"", "The 18-year-old was stabbed in Abbey Wood\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death during a fight in south-east London.\n\nThe victim was found with a stab wound to his chest in Edington Road, Abbey Wood, at about 17:30 GMT on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nHis next of kin have been told and formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nNo arrests have been made and detectives have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nDet Sgt Michael Hartley said: \"A young man has lost his life in the most tragic circumstances and officers will work round the clock to bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We are still in the early stages of the investigation and I would ask anybody who was in the area yesterday evening - or who has information about the attack - to contact us immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Dalai Lama said vaccinations were necessary to \"prevent some serious problems\"\n\nTibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine while urging others eligible to \"take this injection\".\n\n\"This is very very helpful, very good,\" he said as he was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab at a facility in the Indian city of Dharamsala on Saturday.\n\nThe Dalai Lama had enrolled himself to be vaccinated, officials said.\n\nIndia launched its vaccination drive on 16 January, but it was limited to healthcare workers and frontline staff.\n\nSince 1 March, however, the scheme has been extended to people aged over 60 and those between the ages of 45 and 59 with underlying illnesses.\n\nReceiving his first shot in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, the Dalai Lama said people needed to be vaccinated to \"prevent some serious problems\".\n\nThe leader of Tibetan Buddhism reportedly enrolled himself to be vaccinated\n\nThe chief medical officer of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, Dr Gurdarshan Gupta, said the Dalai Lama had offered to visit the vaccination centre \"like a common man\", Reuters news agency reported.\n\n\"We arranged the session in the morning, considering the security concern,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last year, the Dalai Lama said the pandemic had promoted a \"sense of concern, a more compassionate feeling\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Indian government aims to cover 300 million \"priority people\" with its vaccination drive by the end of July.\n\nThe country's drugs regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - one developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University (Covishield) and one by Indian firm Bharat Biotech (Covaxin).\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 70, was among the first to get his vaccine shot.\n\nSince the pandemic began, India has confirmed more than 11 million cases and over 157,000 deaths.\n\nMuch of India has reported a sharp fall in cases recently - with daily infections for the county falling to less than 20,000 from a peak of over 90,000 in September.\n\nBut a handful of states have recently reported a sharp increase in the number of cases.", "'We've tried to give nurses as much as we can' - PM\n\nThe prime minister was also asked about England's nurses' proposed 1% pay rise, which, as we're been reporting, has not gone down well with unions, nor Labour. He told reporters at the vaccination centre: \"What we have done is try to give them as much as we can at the present time.\" He pointed out that the independent pay review body would look at the proposals, and come back. \"Don't forget that there has been a public sector pay freeze, we're in pretty tough times,\" he added. \"We've tried to give the NHS as much as we possibly can and that means, in addition to the £140bn of annual money, we've got another £62bn we've found to help support the NHS throughout the crisis,\" he said. \"My gratitude is overwhelming and I'm so grateful particularly to the nurses, and thankfully we are seeing more nurses now in our amazing NHS - there are 10,000 more nurses this year than there were last year.\" Our Reality Check colleagues have been looking at nurses' pay in a lot more depth here.", "A 1% pay offer for nurses in Northern Ireland would be a \"massive slap in the face\", according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in NI.\n\nThe union has set up a £35m fund for possible strike action after the proposal was made for nursing staff in England.\n\nIt has called for a 12.5% pay rise.\n\nThe RCN's NI director, Pat Cullen, said the union would await the outcome of a pay review before considering its next steps in NI.\n\nThe government has said the 1% offer represents what is \"affordable\" at a difficult time for public finances because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMs Cullen, referring to the clap for carers initiative, said \"it didn't take very long for government to move the claps to slaps\".\n\nShe said that members, who \"have carried us right through Covid... working 15-hour days on most days\", were now feeling angry and let down.\n\n\"Did we anticipate this happening as quickly and to be let down as quickly? Probably not, but the government just seems to have a very short-term memory on this occasion,\" she added.\n\nPat Cullen said nurses feel let down by the government offer after their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nMs Cullen said the RCN had \"put substantial evidence to the pay review body\", which is assessing the policy in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said she anticipated the results of this to be known by May or June.\n\n\"Let's see what will happen then\", she said, referring to the potential for members to be balloted for industrial action.\n\nThe prospect of a strike comes just more than a year since NI's largest health unions agreed to end months of industrial action over a pay and staffing levels dispute.\n\nIt is almost inconceivable that health workers find themselves in a position where they are talking about strike action again.\n\nIn fact, if these threats come to fruition, an already astonishing year will be bookended by walkouts and industrial action.\n\nIn the 14 months since, health and social care workers have gone from the picket line to the front line, as they joined the fight against Covid-19.\n\nAfter the most difficult of years, it does feel scarcely credible that there's friction once again over a pay rise.\n\nThe government argues that 1% is all they can offer when there is a public sector pay freeze. But this offer has triggered \"dismay and anger\" among health unions.\n\nOne could argue health workers have the better hand. The support of the public will have been strengthened immensely over the last 14 months and that's something governments across the UK will have to filter into their negotiations.\n\nThe pay proposal in England covers most hospital staff, but does not cover GPs or dentists.\n\nA government spokesperson said the plan was a \"real-terms increase\" as the latest official inflation figure was 0.9%.\n\nRCN general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair said 1% would represent about £3.50 more per week in take-home pay for an experienced nurse.\n\nStormont's Department of Health said \"any decision on a pay award for NI health workers will be taken after the pay review bodies make their recommendations\".\n\n\"We do not intend to pre-empt those recommendations.\n\n\"Our pay award decisions can also only be taken in the context of a wider public sector pay policy set by the Department of Finance.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a joint statement issued by the RCN, Unison, Nipsa and Unite unions said members in NI had responded to the government proposal with \"dismay and anger\".\n\n\"They know their worth and value, as does the public and all those who have been cared for by them over the last year,\" it said.", "Cal Carr was given a bespoke lanyard by people living in his village\n\nA mother has thanked her \"wonderful\" community for giving her autistic son a focus during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCal Carr feels he has \"changed\" since starting to deliver groceries and prescriptions to people living in the Vale of Glamorgan village of St Athan.\n\nHis mother Sarah said gifts and support from neighbours had made him feel needed and his meltdowns, which had worsened in lockdown, have \"stopped\".\n\n\"It's changed me so much, it is so wonderful,\" said Cal, 31.\n\nOne neighbour gave Cal a hoody printed with 'Cal's Delivery Service' after hearing he wanted to wear a uniform like his siblings.\n\nSarah said for Cal, who also has a severe learning disability, it meant the world.\n\n\"Callum likes to feel he's the same as everybody else,\" she said.\n\nA neighbour has made Cal leaflets to advertise his service\n\n\"His siblings used to wear a uniform [to school] but they didn't have a uniform for his [special] school so for photographs I used to get him a sweatshirt the same colour as his siblings to make him feel the same.\n\n\"He wants to be accepted, he wants to be the same as his brothers and his sister, he wants to go out and be working but with his disabilities he's unable to get paid work.\"\n\nOther neighbours have made Cal a lanyard, ID cards, leaflets and given him a shopping trolley - and he's been given a new trike to help him make deliveries.\n\nCal made his first delivery on 10 January\n\nSarah said life at home with Cal had become very difficult as she said he \"wasn't coping with the lockdown\".\n\n\"He got very depressed and didn't want to do anything so we came up with the idea of Cal's Collection to get him out and about really,\" she said. \"To get him away from the four walls.\"\n\n\"Since Callum started this delivery service it has had a positive impact 100-fold on family life.\"\n\nA neighbour gave Cal a brand new trike to help him on his deliveries\n\nThe family, who moved to south Wales from the Midlands two years ago, said they were very grateful for the \"very strong community spirit in St Athan.\"\n\n\"They've really have taken Callum and ourselves to their hearts,\" Sarah said.\n\n\"Callum feels valued and that he has a purpose now, he's happier, he's more positive in mood, he's more helpful, he wants to go out and do the deliveries and prescriptions.\"\n\nCal has said the support of his village has made him \"really, really happy\".\n\n\"I was really, really fed up,\" he said.\n\n\"I needed to get out to do things - I have meltdowns most of the time. I get really, really frustrated and angry.\n\n\"I can't understand why changes are happening, different things are happening… I can't understand why Covid is here, why it is still going on. I don't understand what I can and can't do.\"\n\nAutistic people like Callum have brains that works in a different way from others but it is not an illness\n\nCal's customers have been thanking him on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Thank you Callum for supporting us through isolation,\" one posted. \"You've been invaluable, you're doing a fantastic job.\"\n\nAnother wrote: \"You are a star.\"\n\nHis family have now set up a second service - Cal's Collection Homeless Service, where he collects unwanted clothes, bedding and shoes and distributes them to people who are homeless or in need.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\nBoris Johnson has called for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges, to be released \"permanently\" so she can be reunited with her family in the UK.\n\nShe has had her ankle tag removed at the end of her five-year sentence.\n\nHowever, her husband Richard Ratcliffe has been told a new court case against her is scheduled for next Sunday.\n\nThe PM said he was \"pleased\" about her tag, but \"her continued confinement remains totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe wrote in a tweet: \"She must be released permanently so she can return to her family in the UK, and we continue to do all we can to achieve this.\"\n\nThe charity worker had been under house arrest in Tehran since being moved from jail last March. She has always denied the charges against her.\n\nSpeaking after her ankle tag was removed on Sunday, Mr Ratcliffe said told the PA news agency it was \"a mixed day for us\" and \"Nazanin is genuinely happy\" to be free of her electronic bracelet.\n\n\"I'm a bit more guarded - it feels to me like they have made one blockage just as they have removed another, and we very clearly remain in the middle of this government game of chess,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC that his wife had gone to see her grandmother and was \"determined to enjoy the afternoon and not think about what it all means\".\n\n\"I don't think we expected something clean but how muddy this is I'm not quite sure yet,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Iran \"continues to put her and her family through a cruel and an intolerable ordeal\".\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is pictured on Sunday, after she was released from house arrest in Tehran\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, had been out of prison since last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic but had been confined to her parents' house. Her sentence was due to end on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nShe has not yet had her British passport returned to her, according to Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in London where her family live.\n\nMs Siddiq told the BBC: \"She does have to go back to court and we don't know what awaits her there.\n\n\"Nazanin is quite worried because there was talk of another case being put against her which may of course mean another sentence, and we don't know how long for.\"\n\nHowever Ms Siddiq said the removal of her ankle tag meant she could visit her elderly grandmother \"which is the thing she mentions every time I speak to her\".\n\n\"So on one hand they are celebrating that she has some elements of freedom in terms of not having the tracker anymore, but we just don't know what's going to happen in the court case,\" she added.\n\n\"I know her daughter has been counting down the days on her calendar at home for her mother to return.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since she left the UK in 2016\n\nJeremy Hunt, who served as foreign secretary while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in jail, said Iran's actions were \"totally and utterly inhumane\".\n\n\"At the centre of this is an innocent woman, her husband and her daughter,\" he told the BBC, adding that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be allowed to return home to the UK.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there had been \"an increasing use of this totally unacceptable hostage diplomacy from Iran\", and that the government was right to condemn the use of individuals such as Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"as a bargaining chip in this wider political game\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrat's spokeswoman for foreign affairs, Layla Moran, has called for the UK to impose sanctions if she is sentenced for a second time.\n\n\"Strong words must be backed by the threat of real action if the Iranian authorities do not do the right thing,\" she said.\n\nAntonio Zappulla, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's employer at the time of her arrest, said he had spoken to her on Sunday and she was \"ecstatic\" to be able to have a coffee in a café.\n\n\"Nazanin should be allowed her permanent liberty and to walk away from this appalling affront to justice; instead, for all intents and purposes, she is still held hostage,\" he said.\n\nAnd Kate Allen, director at Amnesty International UK, said the news that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle tag had been removed was \"bittersweet\" and \"yet another example of the calculated cruelty of the Iranian authorities\".\n\n\"Nazanin was convicted after a deeply unfair trial the first time around and this spurious new charge and possible trial is clearly designed to delay her release and exert yet more pressure on Nazanin and her family,\" she said.\n\n\"This won't be over until Nazanin has her passport and is on a flight heading home to the UK,\" she added, urging the government to take \"serious diplomatic action\".\n\nGabriella has been counting down the days until her mother's release, her father said\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence has included eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations and hunger strikes to press for medical treatment.\n\nPrior to her arrest, she lived in London with her husband and child.\n\nIn November, she was taken to court on fresh charges of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nHer family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.", "The UK's lead Brexit minister has called on the EU to \"shake off any remaining ill will\" over the UK's decision to leave the organisation.\n\nLord Frost said the EU's previous threat to block vaccine exports had \"significantly undermined\" post-Brexit measures in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe insisted the UK's unilateral move to extend grace periods on border checks was legal under the Brexit trade deal.\n\nThe EU disputes this, and is preparing to launch a legal challenge.\n\nThe UK has said it will delay new checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, agreed as part of the UK's withdrawal deal.\n\nEU Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič has called it a \"violation\" of the part of the deal relating to Northern Ireland and said legal action was imminent.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Lord Frost insisted the delayed border checks was a \"temporary\" measure justified to implement the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister added that the measures were justified by the \"fragile\" situation in Northern Ireland.\n\nNew checks under the UK's Brexit deal have led to disruption at Northern Irish ports\n\n\"They are about protecting the everyday lives of people in Northern Ireland, making sure they can receive parcels and buy the usual groceries from the supermarket.\n\n\"Without this threat of disruption, we can continue our discussions with the EU to resolve difficulties arising from the Protocol constructively,\" he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods, so products arriving from Great Britain have to undergo EU import procedures.\n\nBoth sides agreed the arrangement as part of the Brexit withdrawal deal, to avoid the need for border checks between NI and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it has led to disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, increasing tensions with the EU.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK extended a grace period on new checks on food products from the end of March to October, without the prior agreement of the EU.\n\nIt then delayed the introduction of similar checks on parcels, which had been due to come in on 1 April, until the same month.\n\nThe logistics industry had said it was not ready to deal with that volume of new administration. The grace periods mean procedures will not yet be fully applied.\n\nLord Frost, who negotiated the UK's Brexit trade deal with the EU, said he wanted to work with the EU towards \"common goals\" after the UK formally cut legal ties at the end of the Brexit transition earlier this year.\n\n\"I hope they will shake off any remaining ill will towards us for leaving, and instead build a friendly relationship, between sovereign equals,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour has said the UK's actions risk \"plunging Northern Ireland into further instability\".\n\nThe party's shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh said it could mark out the region as \"the arena for wider UK-EU conflict for years to come\".\n\nAnd Lord Frost has been accused by a former senior civil servant of \"burning trust\" with the EU by \"playing hard ball\" over the protocol.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, who led the Department for Exiting the EU between 2017 and 2019, told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour while there were issues around the protocol it was the \"least-worst option\" and had to be made to work.\n\n\"Traders simply aren't ready to do the things that are required on the protocol, not least because the government spent the best part of last year saying to them they wouldn't have to do anything, despite knowing full well that all of these checks would have to come in,\" he said.\n\n\"Extending those grace periods is not an unreasonable thing to ask for,\" he added.\n\n\"But the way that David Frost has gone about this, to tell the Commission he was unilaterally extending without doing his opposite number in the Commission the courtesy of picking up the phone, suggests that they're still playing games around Brexit.\n\n\"It is so important to the peace process in Northern Ireland that this protocol is able to work and that's going to require a huge amount of goodwill and trust on both sides.\"", "Deliveroo will reward its busiest riders with bonuses of up to £10,000 when the food delivery firm lists its shares on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nRiders who have delivered the most orders will share in a £16m fund, the company said.\n\nDeliveroo will also open the flotation to its customers who can buy up to £1,000 worth of shares in the firm.\n\nThe company is expected to be valued at around $7bn (£5bn) when it floats but it is yet to make a profit.\n\nIn its most recent financial results for the year to 31 December 2019, sales rose by 62% to £771.7m.\n\nHowever, pre-tax losses also grew from £243.3m to £317.7m.\n\nDemand for takeaway meals has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, after lockdown measures were first implemented a year ago and restaurants have been forced to close.\n\n\"A year of various lockdowns has fuelled demand for companies like Deliveroo,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.\n\nDeliveroo's chief executive, Will Shu, founded the business in 2013\n\nRestrictions on hospitality businesses will start to ease on 12 April.\n\nBut Mr Mould said: \"There is an expectation that habits formed during the pandemic will remain long into the recovery.\n\nDeliveroo, which was founded in 2013, confirmed that it will list its shares in London.\n\nAs part of the flotation, riders in its 12 markets who have worked with the firm for at least a year will be paid a bonus of either £10,000, £1,000, £500 and £200 depending on the number of orders they have delivered.\n\nDeliveroo also said it would make £50m worth of shares available to customers who would be able to register their interest via the company's app.\n\nIt said that if demand for shares was high, Deliveroo would prioritise existing \"loyal customers\". But it added that it would \"make sure a mixture of new and existing customers benefit\".\n\nDeliveroo founder and chief executive Will Shu, said: \"Far too often normal people are locked out of initial public offerings and the only participants are the institutional investors.\n\n\"I wanted to give as many customers as possible the chance to become shareholders.\"\n\nDeliveroo's decision to list in London was revealed as a government-commissioned review of the UK's listing rules recommended a number of measures to make the country a more attractive place for companies to float.\n\nThe review, led by former European Commissioner Lord Hill, recommended allowing two different classes of shares with differential voting rights.\n\nIt gives founders more power in making key decisions.\n\nMajor tech companies such as Facebook and Google-owner Alphabet have so called dual-class shares.\n\nDeliveroo confirmed it intends to use the same structure when it floats on the London Stock Exchange.", "Nazanin, pictured here with husband Richard, was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016\n\nIt's more than 1,800 days since Richard Ratcliffe waved goodbye to his wife Nazanin at the departure gate at London's Gatwick Airport, worrying only about how their young daughter would cope with the long flight to Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken Gabriella to spend time with her Iranian grandparents three times before.\n\nAnd Richard had no reason in the world to think he wouldn't be back at the airport a fortnight later to pick them up.\n\n\"It was a slightly rushed goodbye,\" he recalls. \"Gabriella, at the time, was one and three quarters and a bit of handful. So I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight.\"\n\nThat was the last time he saw his wife in person.\n\nNazanin was arrested by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at Tehran Airport as she prepared to fly home.\n\nSince then, she's endured eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations, hunger strikes to press for medical treatment, false promises of release, and almost five years of separation from her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\n\"At the beginning, I just thought that this was so profoundly unfair that if we just shouted it from the rooftops, the right people would intervene and it would get sorted,\" Mr Ratcliffe told me. \"Never in my imagination did I think this would take five years or more.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Now the end of her actual sentence - which was once the worst-case scenario - looks like a good outcome, at this point.\"\n\nAt a secret trial in 2016, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail for \"membership of organisations working against the Iranian state\" - a reference, her husband says, to her work for the charities BBC Media Action and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And no, she wasn't training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nSunday 7 March is the official date of her release - her lawyer has seen it marked in the computer of the Iranian judiciary. She's been counting down the weeks on a calendar at her parents' home, where she is now under house arrest with an ankle tag.\n\nBut her husband - who has fought an extraordinary, high-profile campaign for her release - doubts that she will be allowed to fly home.\n\nHe describes his wife as a hostage - used as a bargaining chip over a long-standing debt that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nNazanin misses her daughter Gabriella, six, \"all the time\", her husband has previously said\n\n\"The Revolutionary Guard have been completely consistent over the past five years - that they arrested Nazanin as leverage for the tank debt,\" says Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"They've held her all the time that it's not being paid. And I think that if the tank debt is not paid, not only will Nazanin and other dual nationals continue to be held but more collateral will be taken.\"\n\nHer case may also be caught up in negotiations over Iran's nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which the UK is working with European allies to revive.\n\n\"There's the potential for this to drag on and on,\" says Mr Ratcliffe. \"It's perfectly possible that Nazanin gets a new court case thrown at her.\n\n\"The family have never seen a copy of the charges on which she was sentenced. There is no written documentation on anything. So they preserve the space to make it up as they go along at every stage.\"\n\nHe worries about the impact that any prolongation of the family's separation will have on both his wife and Gabriella, now six, who has also been counting down the days until her mother's release - on a calendar she made herself.\n\nShe returned to the UK to live with her father and start school in October 2019, hoping that her mother would soon follow behind.\n\n\"Gabriella has been promised so many times that 'Mummy is coming home soon,'\" says her father.\n\nNazanin was temporarily reunited with her daughter while on a three-day release from prison in 2018\n\nThe darkest period for Nazanin herself came in 2016, when she was held alone in a dark room, incommunicado. Her interrogators told her, wrongly, that Richard was having affairs and that they had photographic evidence.\n\n\"I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through,\" Mr Ratcliffe says.\n\n\"It's a very practised technique of really breaking someone. That fear and abuse led her to feel suicidal. She said to me: 'It would be better if I just died and you could get on with your lives.'\"\n\nIn her first letter from jail to her husband, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote in despair: \"Every day and every second I would submerge more and more in an ocean of doubt, fear, threat, loneliness... my wails would go unheard in that tiny, dingy, cold, grey cell.\"\n\nBeing parted from her daughter for so long has been a source of agony and guilt.\n\nShe apologised to her daughter from jail, saying: \"Forgive me for all the nights I was not by your side to hold your warm, little hand till you fall asleep.\n\n\"Forgive me for all those moments you missed the bosom of your mother, for all those teething fever nights that I was not there for you; forgive me.\"\n\nGabriella returned to the UK to start school in 2019\n\nSeparated by thousands of miles, the family now speaks twice a day over Skype.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is now 42, watches Gabriella draw and they play games together.\n\nGabriella looks forward to swimming with her mother, and going to a toy shop - one day.\n\nThe couple hope to have another child, but fear that time may now be against them.\n\nLate last month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, phoned Ms Zahari-Ratcliffe in Tehran, reassuring her that the government is doing all it can to bring her home, but managing expectations of an imminent release.\n\nThe Foreign Office says that she and other dual British-Iranian nationals are \"arbitrarily detained\" by the Iranian government. It adds: \"We do not accept Iran detaining dual nationals as diplomatic leverage.\"\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe has been critical of the UK government's approach.\n\n\"Not to do anything that's going to rock the boat means there's no cost whatsoever to the hostage takers to continue the practice and to continue to wait,\" he says.\n\n\"And so both sides can wait each other out because they're not the ones bearing the cost of the waiting - whereas the victim and the family certainly are.\"\n\nAs for what might happen on Sunday and over the next few months, Richard says, stoically: \"Fate will deal us the hand it deals us. But one day the sun will come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Ross said key gaps in the evidence to the Holyrood inquiry still needed to be filled\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives say they will push for a vote of no confidence in John Swinney \"on Tuesday or Wednesday\".\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said he also wanted to see a similar vote against Nicola Sturgeon unless further legal advice in the Alex Salmond case was released.\n\nThe Scottish government published legal advice related to its court battle with Mr Salmond last week.\n\nMr Swinney had previously argued such advice should remain confidential.\n\nBut the deputy first minister then said he had taken the \"exceptional step\" to rebut \"false allegations\" made about the Scottish government's legal advice over the judicial review brought by Mr Salmond.\n\nThe move came after all opposition parties indicated they would back a motion of no confidence in Mr Swinney last week if he did not comply, with the SNP government facing defeat.\n\nBut Mr Ross said that threat had only resulted in a \"partial\" release of \"vital evidence\", adding that the deputy first minister's position had now become \"untenable\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said they planned to hold a vote of no confidence in Mr Swinney on Tuesday or Wednesday, with a similar vote in Ms Sturgeon \"shortly afterwards\".\n\nHolyrood's other opposition parties could back the move if further documents are not released, they said.\n\nJohn Swinney had previously argued the government's legal advice should remain confidential\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish government said all formal written advice from external counsel during the judicial review had now been disclosed.\n\nBut speaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Mr Ross said the Holyrood inquiry still needed to fill in the gaps in what happened at key meetings about the case involving the Scottish government.\n\n\"The [no confidence] vote is not off the table because after an eight-hour evidence session - where the first minister said she'd answered all the questions which clearly she hadn't - the Scottish government issued more evidence that we'd been calling for.\n\n\"Why was that evidence not made available before the first minister came in front of the committee?\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon appeared in front of MSPs on the committee last week\n\nMr Ross said there was still a \"blank\" to fill regarding a meeting between the first minister and her permanent secretary on the case.\n\n\"There was no minutes taken? I don't think anyone believes that's the case, so we are still pushing the deputy first minister... this week on that vote of no confidence, to release all the evidence that the committee needs to get to the truth of this matter.\"\n\nThe legal advice published this week shows that Scottish government lawyers had \"reservations\" about its court battle with the former first minister more than two months before it conceded the case.\n\nThe judicial review was examining whether the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond was legal.\n\nThe review found against the Scottish government, resulting in them having to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had taken \"unprecedented steps\" to provide the committee with the information it had requested, releasing a \"huge amount of documentation\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have now disclosed all of the formal written advice notes received from external counsel during the judicial review, as well as a number of other relevant previously legally privileged documents.\n\n\"As the deputy first minister has set out, these documents, taken in their entirety, utterly disprove the conspiracy theory that the Scottish government delayed the concession of the judicial review or ignored advice from counsel.\n\n\"The information in the documents is consistent with information already shared with the committee in evidence.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said they would \"seriously consider\" backing a vote of no confidence in Mr Swinney unless the documents demanded by parliament were produced.\n\nThe Greens said their position remained that the government must provide all the evidence required by the committee.\n\nLabour are also understood to have concerns over the withholding of some documents.", "People aged 56 to 59 in England are being invited to book their coronavirus vaccine from this week.\n\nLetters for people in the age group, offering them the vaccine, started being delivered to homes on Saturday.\n\nIt comes after eight in 10 people aged 65 to 69 have taken up the offer of a jab, NHS England said.\n\nBut the Office for National Statistics (ONS ) has warned the UK is \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nMore than 18 million people in England have already had one dose of the vaccine - over a third of the entire adult population.\n\nThe latest figures show that across the UK, nearly 21.4 million people have now had one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, with more than a million now having had both doses required.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, NHS England national medical director for primary care, said: \"The NHS vaccine programme is committed to protecting the country against coronavirus, and it is testament to our incredible staff that we can now move on to the next age group.\"\n\nShe praised the \"careful planning and the hard work\" of their staff in carrying out so many vaccinations so far.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to come forward \"as soon as possible\" when offered a vaccine.\n\nThe aim is to vaccinate everyone aged 18 or over in the UK with one dose by the end of July, and the government says it is on track to make this deadline.\n\nSome 27% of people in Wales aged 55 to 59, and 22% of those aged 50 to 54, have already had their first dose of a Covid vaccine, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nIt comes as the head of the ONS says the current lockdown has been a success, but the UK is \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nNational statistician Prof Sir Ian Diamond told the BBC there had been \"very strong reductions\" in case numbers overall, but that in the north-east and east of England the decline has \"flattened off, potentially\".\n\nOther areas, like the South West and South East, have continued to see cases decline, Prof Diamond said.\n\nThe ONS conducts a survey of thousands of households to gauge the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThere has been a decline in the number of cases in the UK, with the most recent figures, reported on Saturday, showing a further 6,040 positive tests.\n\nThe number of deaths in the UK has also been falling, with a further 158 within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported in the latest government figures.\n\nThis has coincided with the success of the UK's vaccination programme, which has seen two-fifths of adults receive a first dose so far.\n\nLockdowns have been in place across the UK since early January. On Monday, restrictions in England will begin to be eased as many pupils return to school.\n\nDeaths from coronavirus have fallen by 41% in a week, while hospital admissions have seen their fastest-ever fall, the health secretary said on Friday.\n\nMr Hancock said the average number of cases was 6,685 per day, the lowest since late September.\n\nMeanwhile, an infectious disease expert said the \"next few weeks are going to be crucial\" for keeping infection rates down with the full reopening of schools.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's SPI-M modelling advisory panel, told Times Radio the R number - which shows the rate at which coronavirus is spreading - would rise when children go back to their classrooms, but the continuing progress of vaccinations would cause it to reduce.\n\nThere are concerns about getting parental consent for Covid tests ahead of pupils' return to schools. A survey found more than half of secondary head teachers had faced difficulties getting parental approval so far.\n\nQuestions have been raised too about the accuracy of the rapid lateral flow tests being used, while critics of masks for older pupils say they will harm learning.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges – has been freed after five years.\n\nBut now her husband, Richard, has been told a new court case is scheduled against her.\n\nPrior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, he spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley.\n\nRead more: Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date'My wife has been used as a bargaining chip'", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority has expressed its \"concern\" over claims by Sheikh Mohammed's daughter, Princess Latifa, that she has been imprisoned by her father and fears for her life.\n\nDubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, is racing's biggest benefactor, the owner of global racehorse operation Godolphin and the Newmarket-based stallion breeding operation, Darley.\n\nNearly three weeks after Panorama revealed secret videos filmed by Princess Latifa, the governing body has addressed the issue for the first time.\n\nJulie Harrington, the BHA's new CEO, said the organisation \"shares the concerns\" raised by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and described the footage as \"clearly distressing\".\n\nShe confirmed that the BHA has been in contact with the UK Government on the matter.\n\nThe United Nations said on Friday it has not yet seen evidence that Princess Latifa is still alive.\n• None What does Princess Latifa case mean for British sport?\n• None Princess Latifa 'being cared for at home' - Dubai royal family\n• None Princess Latifa: UN 'yet to see proof of life' from UAE\n\nA year has passed - without comment from the BHA - since the family division of the High Court found Sheikh Mohammed to have been responsible for a campaign of intimidation against his former wife Princess Haya and for the abduction and forced return of two of his daughters from a different marriage - including Princess Latifa.\n\nThe Sheikh insisted he was unable to participate in the court's fact-finding process, resulting in a judgement he said \"inevitably only tells one side of the story\".\n\nA Dubai Royal Family statement released after the Panorama programme said Latifa was being cared for at home and the media coverage was \"not reflective of the actual position\".\n\nThe Jockey Club - which owns Newmarket Racecourse, of which Godolphin is a sponsor - has also not commented on either matter.\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC, Harrington said: \"We have heard the public comments made by the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, in which he expressed concern about the distressing pictures shown on television.\n\n\"I share his concern - the footage clearly is distressing and we support Mr Raab's position that the UN human rights body should lead this investigation.\n\n\"We have taken time to consider the issues since Mr Raab spoke. These are complex matters, involving an overseas state with strategic ties to the United Kingdom. The matters go well beyond the world of racing, and the UN is involved.\n\n\"We can confirm that as part of this, we have been in contact with the British government to explain our responsibilities as regulator, as well as to highlight a significant investment and contribution to the British racing industry.\n\n\"We cannot discuss contact with government further and we are also not going to confirm whether we are or are not taking any action.\"\n\nWithin the BHA's rules on the suitability of owners, it says: \"The criteria to which the authority will have regard in assessing honesty and integrity, include… whether the applicant has been the subject of any adverse finding by a judge in any civil proceedings.\"\n\nHowever, the BHA's policy means it will not disclose whether investigations are ongoing.\n\nHarrington - who took the helm of the BHA in January after leaving British Cycling - warned separately that racing is facing an \"existential crisis\".\n\nShe made the comments in an interview with the Racing Post, primarily focused on the fallout from the photograph of trainer Gordon Elliott sitting astride the body of a dead racehorse - for which he has been banned for 12 months, with the second 6 months suspended.\n\nHowever, she has also encountered several other issues in her first two months in the role, including the Panorama allegations about Sheikh Mohammed, the ongoing impact of coronavirus and gambling reforms which could cost the industry more than £60m.\n\n\"People use the phrase 'existential crisis' and I don't think that is underestimating it,\" Harrington told the newspaper.\n\n\"To see our sport on the front pages for the wrong reasons, and for the general public to have been given the perception our horses are not cared for, is a crisis for the industry.\"", "Gorman was the youngest poet to ever perform at a presidential inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman, the young poet who found global fame after performing at President Joe Biden's inauguration, has shared her experience of alleged racial profiling by a security guard.\n\nThe 22-year-old said on Twitter that she was accosted on a walk home on Friday and told \"you look suspicious\".\n\n\"This is the reality of black girls: One day you're called an icon, the next day, a threat,\" she wrote.\n\nGorman received widespread acclaim for her reading of The Hill We Climb.\n\nHer poem was seen as a rousing and timely call for national unity - delivered at the US Capitol just weeks after it was the scene of deadly riots.\n\nTweeting about her experience, Gorman described being \"tailed\" by the security guard who she said offered no apology after she was able to prove she lived in her own apartment building.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 revealing her experience, she re-shared a post she made in February which said: \"We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old\" - in reference to a recent incident in Rochester, New York.\n\n\"Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who've been made invisible. I can not, will not, rise alone.\"\n\nIn a second tweet about the incident, Gorman added: \"In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater, she returned to Twitter to thank people for their support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC has contacted her for further comment.\n\nGorman's social media posts have been widely shared - highlighted as an example of the everyday prejudice faced by black people in the US.\n\n\"Let this story sink in,\" Mark Keam, a state legislator in Virginia, tweeted. \"And realise how - while I'm glad it ended safe for @TheAmandaGorman - this type of confrontation is an every day occurrence for millions of our fellow Americans.\"\n\nIn her inauguration poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman became the city's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she was named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe was the youngest poet to ever perform at a presidential inauguration and her performance was praised by influential national figures, including former First Ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.", "Bennylyn Burke was last seen at her South Gloucestershire home on 17 February\n\nThe disappearance of a woman and her two-year-old daughter is now being treated as murder, say Police Scotland.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police issued an appeal last week to trace 25-year-old Bennylyn Burke and two children from South Gloucestershire.\n\nA man, 50, was arrested on Friday at a property in Troon Avenue, Dundee.\n\nHe has been charged in connection with the deaths of Ms Burke and her daughter Jellica and is due to appear at court in Dundee on Monday.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing to establish their whereabouts.\n\nThe second child reported missing has been traced and is being supported, the force added.\n\nThe house on Troon Avenue in Dundee was cordoned off and a tent erected at the property\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, from the force's major investigation team, said: \"We are now treating the disappearances as a murder investigation and I would urge anyone with any information to please come forward and speak to us.\n\n\"This is a complex enquiry involving both local officers in Dundee and specialist resources from across Police Scotland.\n\n\"Bennylyn's next of kin have been updated on the arrest and are being supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset Police.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\n\n\"There will be an increased police presence in the area for a considerable period of time and I would like to thank the local community for their cooperation.\"\n\nDet Supt Mackie asked anyone with information to speak to local officers or to call Police Scotland via 101.\n\nOfficers went to the house in Dundee on Friday afternoon as part of their inquiries into the disappearance\n\nMs Burke and two children were reported missing on 1 March. Avon and Somerset Police put out an appeal for information two days later.\n\nThe force said the 25-year-old was last seen at her home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, on 17 February.\n\nOfficers in Dundee attended the property in Troon Avenue at around 15:20 GMT on Friday.\n\nThere was a large police presence around the property, which is near Downfield in the north of Dundee, with dozens of police and forensic officers at the scene.\n\nPolice Scotland closed off the street with a cordon around the house.\n\nA blue tent has also been erected in the front garden to cover a waste skip and yellow polythene has been used to cover windows at the back of the property.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin, pictured here with husband Richard, was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016\n\nIt's more than 1,800 days since Richard Ratcliffe waved goodbye to his wife Nazanin at the departure gate at London's Gatwick Airport, worrying only about how their young daughter would cope with the long flight to Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken Gabriella to spend time with her Iranian grandparents three times before.\n\nAnd Richard had no reason in the world to think he wouldn't be back at the airport a fortnight later to pick them up.\n\n\"It was a slightly rushed goodbye,\" he recalls. \"Gabriella, at the time, was one and three quarters and a bit of handful. So I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight.\"\n\nThat was the last time he saw his wife in person.\n\nNazanin was arrested by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at Tehran Airport as she prepared to fly home.\n\nSince then, she's endured eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations, hunger strikes to press for medical treatment, false promises of release, and almost five years of separation from her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\n\"At the beginning, I just thought that this was so profoundly unfair that if we just shouted it from the rooftops, the right people would intervene and it would get sorted,\" Mr Ratcliffe told me. \"Never in my imagination did I think this would take five years or more.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Now the end of her actual sentence - which was once the worst-case scenario - looks like a good outcome, at this point.\"\n\nAt a secret trial in 2016, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail for \"membership of organisations working against the Iranian state\" - a reference, her husband says, to her work for the charities BBC Media Action and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And no, she wasn't training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nSunday 7 March is the official date of her release - her lawyer has seen it marked in the computer of the Iranian judiciary. She's been counting down the weeks on a calendar at her parents' home, where she is now under house arrest with an ankle tag.\n\nBut her husband - who has fought an extraordinary, high-profile campaign for her release - doubts that she will be allowed to fly home.\n\nHe describes his wife as a hostage - used as a bargaining chip over a long-standing debt that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nNazanin misses her daughter Gabriella, six, \"all the time\", her husband has previously said\n\n\"The Revolutionary Guard have been completely consistent over the past five years - that they arrested Nazanin as leverage for the tank debt,\" says Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"They've held her all the time that it's not being paid. And I think that if the tank debt is not paid, not only will Nazanin and other dual nationals continue to be held but more collateral will be taken.\"\n\nHer case may also be caught up in negotiations over Iran's nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which the UK is working with European allies to revive.\n\n\"There's the potential for this to drag on and on,\" says Mr Ratcliffe. \"It's perfectly possible that Nazanin gets a new court case thrown at her.\n\n\"The family have never seen a copy of the charges on which she was sentenced. There is no written documentation on anything. So they preserve the space to make it up as they go along at every stage.\"\n\nHe worries about the impact that any prolongation of the family's separation will have on both his wife and Gabriella, now six, who has also been counting down the days until her mother's release - on a calendar she made herself.\n\nShe returned to the UK to live with her father and start school in October 2019, hoping that her mother would soon follow behind.\n\n\"Gabriella has been promised so many times that 'Mummy is coming home soon,'\" says her father.\n\nNazanin was temporarily reunited with her daughter while on a three-day release from prison in 2018\n\nThe darkest period for Nazanin herself came in 2016, when she was held alone in a dark room, incommunicado. Her interrogators told her, wrongly, that Richard was having affairs and that they had photographic evidence.\n\n\"I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through,\" Mr Ratcliffe says.\n\n\"It's a very practised technique of really breaking someone. That fear and abuse led her to feel suicidal. She said to me: 'It would be better if I just died and you could get on with your lives.'\"\n\nIn her first letter from jail to her husband, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote in despair: \"Every day and every second I would submerge more and more in an ocean of doubt, fear, threat, loneliness... my wails would go unheard in that tiny, dingy, cold, grey cell.\"\n\nBeing parted from her daughter for so long has been a source of agony and guilt.\n\nShe apologised to her daughter from jail, saying: \"Forgive me for all the nights I was not by your side to hold your warm, little hand till you fall asleep.\n\n\"Forgive me for all those moments you missed the bosom of your mother, for all those teething fever nights that I was not there for you; forgive me.\"\n\nGabriella returned to the UK to start school in 2019\n\nSeparated by thousands of miles, the family now speaks twice a day over Skype.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is now 42, watches Gabriella draw and they play games together.\n\nGabriella looks forward to swimming with her mother, and going to a toy shop - one day.\n\nThe couple hope to have another child, but fear that time may now be against them.\n\nLate last month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, phoned Ms Zahari-Ratcliffe in Tehran, reassuring her that the government is doing all it can to bring her home, but managing expectations of an imminent release.\n\nThe Foreign Office says that she and other dual British-Iranian nationals are \"arbitrarily detained\" by the Iranian government. It adds: \"We do not accept Iran detaining dual nationals as diplomatic leverage.\"\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe has been critical of the UK government's approach.\n\n\"Not to do anything that's going to rock the boat means there's no cost whatsoever to the hostage takers to continue the practice and to continue to wait,\" he says.\n\n\"And so both sides can wait each other out because they're not the ones bearing the cost of the waiting - whereas the victim and the family certainly are.\"\n\nAs for what might happen on Sunday and over the next few months, Richard says, stoically: \"Fate will deal us the hand it deals us. But one day the sun will come.\"", "Detectives have asked people in the area to check footage on any cameras that might have captured her\n\nThe family of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday say they long to see her again and have urged anyone with information to contact police.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last seen at a friend's house in Leathwaite Road in Battersea, London, at about 21:00 GMT when she left through the back gate.\n\nShe is thought to have walked across Clapham Common, and was due to arrive home in Brixton 50 minutes later.\n\nHer family said not being in contact was \"totally out of character\" for her.\n\n\"With every day that goes by we are getting more worried about Sarah,\" they said.\n\n\"She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this.\n\n\"We long to see her and want nothing more than for her to be found safe and well.\n\n\"We are desperate for news and if anyone knows anything about what has happened to her, we would urge you to please come forward and speak to the police.\n\n\"No piece of information is too insignificant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Ian Kenward said police were \"working around the clock to try and locate Sarah\"\n\nDetectives said after Ms Everard left her friend's house, she went onto the A205 South Circular and is thought to have crossed Clapham Common.\n\nIt is unclear whether she returned to her home.\n\nOfficers have released a CCTV image of her taken earlier in the evening when she went to Sainsbury's to buy a bottle of wine before heading to her friend's house.\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nSarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nPolice have asked people to check dashcam and doorbell footage from these areas:\n\nSpecialist officers and volunteers from London Search and Rescue are carrying out searches in the area of Clapham Common and the walking route between Clapham and Brixton.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ian Kenward said: \"We are also growing increasingly concerned for her welfare and have officers working round the clock to try and find her.\n\n\"I would ask anybody who was in the Clapham Common area on Wednesday night to think about whether you saw Sarah or any suspicious activity around the time of her disappearance.\"\n\nHe added officers were investigating lots of enquiries but said he did not want to go into specifics.\n\n\"We will continue searching as long as we need to,\" he said.\n• None Fears grow for woman who vanished on walk home\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. Williamson: We intend for schools reopening to be 'irreversible'\n\nLonger school days and shorter holidays are among the measures the government is considering to help pupils in England catch up on lost learning, the education secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson told the BBC ministers were looking at \"how the school year runs\" after the disruption of Covid.\n\nHe also told Sky News a five-term year and changes to summer holidays were under consideration.\n\nSchools in England are reopening to all pupils on Monday.\n\nIt marks the first step of the \"road map\" out of the national lockdown, which has been in place since the beginning of January and has seen most children learning from home since before Christmas.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether the government was going to extend the school day, Mr Williamson said: \"I think we should be evidence-based and we're looking at that, we're looking at how the school year runs.\"\n\nMr Williamson also told Sky News' Sophy Ridge that ministers were considering \"a whole range of proposals\".\n\nThe education secretary was asked whether schools would remain open if the R number rose above one, which means the number of cases is continuing to increase.\n\n\"We are very much factoring in as part of the road map that actually schools will be staying open,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\n\"That is why we are taking a cautious approach because we intend for it to be an irreversible approach and that schools will continue to remain open.\"\n\nHe also gave a guarantee that schools would return after the Easter holidays.\n\nSecondary pupils in England are being asked to take regular Covid tests when schools reopen\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, deputy director of Public Health England, said she did not think the reopening of schools should be paused if the R number rose above one.\n\nWith three weeks before the Easter holiday, she told the BBC there would be time to look at the data \"very carefully\".\n\nShe said the relationship between the number of cases and the number of deaths and hospitalisations would also change in the next phase of the pandemic because of the impact of vaccinations.\n\n\"Then we will be able to accept some cases in the community without needing further restrictions,\" she added.\n\nDr Hopkins said measures such as the testing of pupils to find asymptomatic cases would also help to keep R \"at the lowest level possible\".\n\nAttendance at school will be mandatory for all pupils when they reopen in England - meaning they should not miss lessons without a valid reason.\n\nHowever, pupils who are shielding have been asked to remain at home for a bit longer.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"very hopeful\" the reopening of schools would go to plan.\n\n\"I think the risk is actually in not going back to school tomorrow, given all the suffering, all the loss of learning we have seen,\" he added.\n\nIt is well-established that children are at incredibly low risk from the virus, while research by the Office for National Statistics has shown that teachers are at no higher risk of infection than other working-age people.\n\nBut what role schools will play in the wider spread of the virus remains more open for debate. Children, after all, come home and mix with their families.\n\nGovernment advisers say schools have not been a key driver of infections so far. This much can be seen from the impact of the second national lockdown in England in November when infection levels fell despite schools being open.\n\nBut this was before the new UK variant became dominant. Modelling has suggested reopening schools now could be enough to drive the R number above one, which would lead to a growing epidemic.\n\nMinisters have already indicated this matters less than it used to because the vaccination programme has begun to break the link between infection rates and serious illness and death - the R number is not one of their tests for slowing the pace of lifting lockdown. Only such high infection rates that risk a surge in hospitalisations that threatens the NHS is seen as a problem.\n\nSecondary schools have been told that year groups can return on different days over the first week to allow for Covid testing.\n\nSecondary pupils will be tested three times in the first two weeks of school and will then be given two tests each week to use at home.\n\nThese will be lateral flow tests, which involve taking a swab of the nose and throat and give a result within 30 minutes.\n\nAll primary and secondary school staff are also being offered twice-weekly rapid tests, and parents and carers can also get a twice-weekly test.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised that false positive results could mean pupils and their families being forced to self-isolate unnecessarily.\n\nTests done at home require a confirmatory PCR test - which are more accurate - but Dr Hopkins said those taken at school would not because they are done in a \"specialised environment and individuals are trained to deliver it\".\n\nShe added that evidence from lateral flow tests taken over the last eight weeks in real-life scenarios suggested the false positive rate was \"extremely low\" - less than one in 1,000.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Education Union (NEU) has warned that secondary schools have struggled to get parental consent for testing of pupils, and said there needed to be a bigger ministerial push to encourage take-up.\n\nMr Williamson said the rollout of testing in schools over the last few weeks suggested they had the \"highest take-up of any employment setting around the country\".\n\nThe NEU has called for a phased return to schools in England - similar to the process in Scotland and Wales, where whole year groups are returning separated by several weeks.\n\nThe union also accused the government of failing to put adequate safety measures in place ahead of schools reopening.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said schools should reopen but safety measures including adequate ventilation should have been put in place.\n\nHe added that it was also \"disappointing\" that teachers had not been prioritised for the coronavirus vaccine\n\nAs well as undergoing testing, secondary school and college students are also being asked to wear face coverings in classrooms, where social distancing cannot be maintained, with the measure to be reviewed at Easter.\n\nBut this is not mandatory, and in primary schools pupils are not being required to wear face coverings when they return to face-to-face lessons. Nor will they be tested.\n\nMr Williamson said he hoped mask-wearing would be a \"temporary measure\".\n\nMeanwhile, a survey has shown that the majority of parents in England will be happy to send their children back to school.\n\nBut two-thirds are concerned about the amount of learning lost, with some parents worried their child will never catch up.\n\nThe Department for Education has announced a £700m package to help pupils catch up on lost learning, including tutoring and summer schools.\n\nThere are different rules on schools across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe youngest pupils have already returned to school in Scotland and Wales, while some primary school pupils in Northern Ireland also return to school on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA series of explosions on Sunday in Equatorial Guinea is now known to have killed 31 people, officials say. The number of those injured rose to 600.\n\nThe blasts hit a military base in the country's main city, Bata. Officials blame badly stored dynamite along with stubble burning by nearby farmers.\n\nTeams including volunteers continue to search the wreckage of buildings and homes for victims.\n\nThree young children were found alive and taken to hospital.\n\nThere are fears the death toll could rise further as some victims may still be trapped.\n\nAlmost all buildings and homes in the city suffered \"huge damage\", President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said.\n\nIn a statement, President Obiang Nguema said the blasts had been caused \"by the negligence of a unit charged with the care and protection of stores of dynamite and explosives\" at the Nkoantoma military base.\n\nHe said the base had \"caught fire due to neighbouring farmers clearing farming land by setting it alight, leading to the explosion\". The president has appealed for international aid.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the health ministry called for volunteer health workers to go to Bata Regional Hospital and for urgent blood donations. The ministry said mental health teams were also being deployed to help victims.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guinea Salud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of patients admitted, state TV reported. It broadcast images of wounded people lying on the floor of a crowded hospital.\n\nVideo of the aftermath of the explosions showed a chaotic scene with distressed people fleeing as smoke drifted over the area.\n\nOne resident told AFP news agency: \"We haven't slept all night. The houses were burning all night long and we kept hearing small explosions.\"\n\nAnother described how his uncle had found the burned bodies of five members of his family.\n\nThe only opposition party, the CPDS, described the blasts as \"the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the history of Equatorial Guinea\" and called on Spain, France and the United States to send aid, including rescue teams, medical staff and medicines.\n\nThe Spanish embassy said its nationals should remain at home and issued a series of emergency numbers.", "Ruth Williams was killed by her husband of almost 50 years at their home in Cwmbran, south Wales\n\nA review into the death of a woman who was killed by her husband has been ordered by the home secretary.\n\nAnthony Williams, 70, was jailed for five years after admitting to the manslaughter of his wife Ruth, 67, in south Wales.\n\nIt led to calls from MPs to review the sentence, claiming it was too lenient.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"not satisfied\" with Torfaen council's decision not to carry out a domestic homicide review (DHR).\n\nAfter writing to the council, Ms Patel said: \"This was an appalling case and my thoughts are with the family and friends of Ruth Williams.\"\n\nThe local authority's public service board said it will now carry out the inquiry.\n\nA trial cleared Williams of murdering his wife in their Cwmbran home during the first Covid pandemic lockdown in March last year.\n\nHowever, he admitted a charge of manslaughter by diminished responsibility, after strangling her to death.\n\nA group of MPs, including former justice minister Harriet Harman, argued Williams's sentencing was \"unduly lenient\" and called for a review by the attorney general.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Wales, Ms Patel said she had \"personally reviewed\" the case and the decision to not conduct a DHR.\n\nShe said: \"I am not satisfied with the conclusions reached by the Torfaen County Borough Council Public Service Board that there are no lessons to be learned from this tragic death.\"\n\nShe added in the letter: \"You have focused your decision not to conduct a review on the fact that the victim and perpetrator did not have any meaningful contact with local agencies or services and consequently determined that there were no lessons to be learned.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel said a DHR should look into why there was no contact and if there were \"circumstances which prevented the victim from gaining access to services\".\n\nShe said: \"DHRs offer a rare opportunity to understand the victim's life, learn practical lessons and provide the victim's family with closure - even if the outcome is neutral.\n\n\"You believe Ruth Williams' death to have been a spontaneous event, but I do not accept that there are no lessons to be learned here.\n\n\"A DHR would help to uncover whether there were missed opportunities and support your understanding about how to prevent further tragedies in cases where there do not appear to be any abuse.\"\n\nAnthony Williams had anxiety and depression and admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility\n\nIn response, the Torfaen public service board said: \"The home secretary has directed that a domestic homicide review be undertaken and we will now progress this.\n\n\"This is a very sad and tragic loss of life and on behalf of the Torfaen public service board we once again pass our sincere thoughts and condolences to the family of Ruth Williams.\n\n\"The family are central to all domestic homicide reviews and one of our first priorities will be to contact the family and ensure appropriate support is provided throughout the review.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK must prepare for a \"hard winter\" because the population immunity to respiratory viruses other than Covid could be lower than usual, one of England's top medics has warned.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins said the NHS must be \"ready\" for surges in flu and other similar illnesses.\n\nIt comes ahead of England's first step towards easing lockdown, with all pupils returning to school on Monday.\n\nMost pupils have been learning from home since Christmas.\n\nDr Hopkins, who is in charge of Public Health England's Covid strategy, said the UK needed to be \"better prepared\" than it was last autumn, when new, faster-spreading variants of the virus emerged.\n\nThese drove infection rates up and forced further lockdown measures over the winter.\n\nDr Hopkins told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show: \"I think we have to prepare for a hard winter, not only with coronavirus, but we've had a year of almost no respiratory viruses of any other type. And that means, potentially the population immunity to that is less.\n\n\"So we could see surges in flu. We could see surges in other respiratory viruses and other respiratory pathogens.\"\n\nDr Hopkins said her role as a government advisor was to \"prepare for worst-case scenarios\".\n\n\"It doesn't mean that they'll necessarily happen, but my job is to make sure that we have options available for the country in case things are not as satisfactory as we'd all like them to be,\" she said.\n\nDuring last year's winter, some 30 million people - more than ever before - were invited to get a free flu jab as ministers feared the dual threat it posed alongside coronavirus.\n\nFlu can be a serious condition - it kills around 11,000 people in England each year and many more people receive hospital treatment for it.\n\nPeople at high risk from flu are also most at risk from Covid-19.\n\nFlu poses additional threats during the Covid pandemic because:\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's roadmap out of national lockdown aims for all coronavirus restrictions to be lifted by 21 June at the earliest.\n\nBut top scientists and medics have warned that restrictions to curb Covid infections could continue into next winter.\n\nMask-wearing and working from home could be among \"baseline\" measures expected to continue until then, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said.", "Two men are in police custody following the incident\n\nA murder investigation has now been launched, with police naming a 16-year-old who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSouth Wales Police closed off Baglan Street, Treorchy, at about midday on Friday, with the girl reported to have died and two men injured.\n\nOfficers have now named the victim as Wenjing Xu, with her death being treated as murder, and men aged 38 and 31 in custody.\n\nIn a tribute, her family said she had \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nDescribing her as \"a very quiet person\", it continued: \"Wenjing helped the whole family, working in the family takeaway.\n\n\"She enjoyed school and worked very hard. She was loved by her family.\"\n\nA police cordon was erected around a takeaway restaurant called Blue Sky on Friday, with a small white tent placed outside the premises.\n\nSenior investigating Officer, Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis, said: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident - our thoughts are with Wenjing's family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I can reassure the community that at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\"\n\nA 31-year-old man, known to the victim, was arrested on suspicion of murder, and a 38-year-old man is also in police custody in connection with the incident.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called to Baglan Street at about 12:00 GMT\n\nBoth are being treated in hospital as a result of injuries sustained during the incident.\n\nThe public had been urged by police to \"refrain from speculation\" about the incident. Local MP Chris Bryant tweeted he was aware of \"disturbing events\".\n\nThe girl's family is being supported by specially trained officers and efforts are being made to contact other relatives.\n\nResident Sarah Belgrove, 54, who lives a few doors from the scene, said the air ambulance was forced to land some way from Baglan Street.\n\n\"The paramedics who got out of the helicopter flagged down some cars to give them a lift to the scene,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to an \"incident at an address in the Ynyswen area of of Treorchy\" at 12:00 GMT.\n\n\"We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, our hazardous area response team and the Wales Air Ambulance,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nSupt Rich Jones, from South Wales Police, said there would be a \"significant police presence in Baglan Street over the weekend\" as investigations continued.\n\nRhondda MP Mr Bryant said lots of people knew the girl and her family and would be \"absolutely devastated\".\n\n\"You don't think of these kind of events happening in the Rhondda,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n• None Girl, 16, dead and two hurt in 'serious incident'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chat show host, who attended the couple's wedding in 2018, has said there will be \"nothing off limits\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's highly-anticipated TV interview with Oprah Winfrey is set to air in the US.\n\nIt marks the first sit-down interview with the couple since they quit their roles as senior working royals in 2020.\n\nThey are expected to discuss their new life in the US and their experiences in the UK.\n\nHours before the programme, the Queen stressed the importance of \"closeness and community\" in her Commonwealth Day message - broadcast on BBC One.\n\nShe did not comment on the upcoming interview, focusing instead on the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSenior royals including the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also joined forces to appear in the special programme on Sunday to celebrate Commonwealth Day.\n\nIn a clip released earlier this week, Meghan told Oprah it was \"really liberating\" to now feel \"able to speak for yourself\".\n\nThe interview with will air in the US on CBS on Sunday (01:00 GMT, Monday) and in the UK on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt comes as Buckingham Palace is investigating claims the duchess bullied royal staff.\n\nThe report about the allegations of bullying levelled at Meghan were first published in the Times after the interview with Oprah was recorded.\n\nMeghan has called it the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nThe duke and duchess announced they were stepping down as working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nPrince Harry recently said he had to step back from royal duties to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press, as it was \"destroying my mental health\".\n\nDeals have been struck in more than 17 countries across the world for the rights to screen Oprah's interview.\n\nThe chat show host, who attended the couple's wedding in 2018 and is thought to live near them in California, has promised it will be \"shocking\" with \"nothing off limits\".\n\nMeghan will be interviewed about marriage, motherhood, life as a royal and \"how she is handling life under intense public pressure\", CBS has said. The couple will also discuss their move to the US and their future plans.\n\nSeveral clips have already been released by CBS and have racked up millions of views.\n\nIn a clip shown on CBS's This Morning show earlier this week, Meghan was asked why she has decided to give an interview now.\n\nShe said it was the result of \"so many things\", including that \"we're on the other side of a lot of life experience that's happened and also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn't have said yes to then\".\n\nIn two earlier clips released by CBS, Meghan said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was \"perpetuating falsehoods about us\", while Prince Harry drew parallels between the treatment of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Meghan.\n\nAfter these two clips were released, the Times published its report saying Meghan faced a complaint of bullying from her staff while she was a working royal at Kensington Palace.\n\nThe palace said it was \"concerned\" about the accusations and an HR team would look at the circumstances outlined in the article.\n\nOn the reported allegations of bullying, the duchess has said in a statement through her spokesman she was \"saddened\" by the \"attack on her character\".\n\nThe timing of the broadcast has come during a tumultuous period for the Royal Family.\n\nWhile the interview was recorded before the Duke of Edinburgh, Harry's grandfather and the Queen's husband, went into hospital, it will air as the prince continues his recovery in hospital following a procedure for a heart condition.\n\nIt also comes on the back of a more light-hearted interview Prince Harry gave to James Corden on The Late Late Show, which aired last week - again while Prince Philip was in hospital.\n\nIn her Commonwealth day address, the Queen spoke about staying in touch with family and friends during \"testing times\", and how there had been a \"deeper appreciation\" of the need to connect to others during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"The testing times experienced by so many have led to a deeper appreciation of the mutual support and spiritual sustenance we enjoy by being connected to others,\" she said.\n\nAs footage was played of the Queen's numerous official video calls, the 94-year-old acknowledged, \"we have had to become more accustomed to connecting and communicating by our innovative technology\" to stay in touch with friends, family, colleagues, and others during the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"Increasingly, we have found ourselves able to enjoy such communication, as it offers an immediacy that transcends boundaries or division, helping any sense of distance to disappear.\"\n\n\"We have all continued to appreciate the support, breadth of experiences and knowledge that working together brings.\n\n\"And I hope we shall maintain this renewed sense of closeness and community.\"\n\nAnd she praised the \"selfless dedication to duty\" of medical staff and other key workers.", "Sgt Gavin Hillier died during a live-fire training exercise in Pembrokeshire on Thursday\n\nThe family of a soldier who was killed during a live-fire training exercise at an army range have said they are \"heartbroken\" by his death.\n\nIn a statement, Sgt Gavin Hillier's wife Karyn and his two sons Declan and Connor said they were \"not ready to say goodbye\".\n\nSgt Hillier, of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died at Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire on Thursday.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the death.\n\nSgt Hillier served in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan during his career in the Army, and in 2019 was presented with the Long Service and Good Conduct medal by the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Guards said he was \"universally loved\" across the battalion and his death had been a \"terrible shock\".\n\nPrince Charles presented Sgt Hillier the Long Service and Good Conduct medal in 2019\n\nIn a statement, his wife and sons said: \"I thank you for the day you came into my life and made me your wife and became the father to our two beautiful boys.\n\n\"We are absolutely heartbroken and can't express how proud we are of you. Our boys will continue to make you proud and you will forever live on through them.\n\n\"Daddy, we are not ready to say goodbye just yet so until we meet again, we love you always. Love, your heartbroken wife and boys.\"\n\nHis mother, Karen Selway, said: \"You made me so proud of you from the day you were born and we will be proud for always. Rest in peace my son, you will always be my little boy.\"\n\nSgt Gavin Hillier's mother said she would be \"proud for always\"\n\nSgt Hillier's platoon commander said his style of leadership \"got the best out of the platoon\" and his personality was \"infectious\".\n\nHe added: \"He was my rock when I needed guidance, never afraid to offer me advice and was a fierce Welshman.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had opened an investigation into the death of the soldier.\n\nPolice said officers were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive and the Ministry of Defence.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries.\n\nSgt Hillier is the fourth soldier to die at Castlemartin since 2012.", "Police patrols check on people driving to Dinas Dinlle beach in Gwynedd on Saturday\n\nStay at home rules banning all but essential travel could be eased when Wales' Covid regulations are reviewed.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said guidance could be changed to \"stay local\" as part of moves to \"restore more freedoms\".\n\n\"I think there is a case for an intermediate step between stay at home and being able to travel anywhere across Wales,\" he said.\n\nA review of lockdown measures is due to be announced on Friday.\n\nWales went into lockdown on 20 December following a spike cases.\n\nSince then the case rate, which measures the number of Covid infections per 100,000 people over a seven-day period, has fallen to an all-Wales average of 46, down from 437 in the run up to Christmas.\n\nAnd almost one million people have received their first dose of the Covid vaccine in Wales.\n\nNon-essential shops could open in Wales from 15 March\n\n\"I said two weeks ago at the last review that I hoped that this will be the last three weeks of the stay at home regulation,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"So, that is what we will be trying to make happen on Friday of this week.\n\n\"We will be looking carefully this week at whether an intermediate period of stay local - people are used to that, we had a period of that last year in Wales - whether that would be a first step on a journey.\n\n\"Remembering that in Wales that is how we are trying to approach the whole business - carefully, cautiously, step by step, not doing too many things at once - so that we can monitor the impact of changes, and then restore more freedoms to people and to the economy once we are confident that it's safe to do so.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price has previously said there should be a \"careful\" approach to easing restrictions due to new Covid variants.\n\nThe Conservative leader in the Senedd Andrew RT Davies has called for a \"clear roadmap out of lockdown\".", "A further four deaths related to Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThat brings its total during the pandemic to 2,072.\n\nThere have been 113,517 positive cases of the virus recorded in NI after an additional 172 cases were confirmed.\n\nHospital occupancy rates, according to the latest figures, stands at 91%, while there are 18 active outbreaks in NI care homes.\n\nThat is 10 fewer care home outbreaks than seven days ago.\n\nThe department updated its daily dashboard on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIt shows there are 226 Covid-19 inpatients across Northern Ireland's hospitals, 117 less than a week ago.\n\nThirty patients remain in intensive care, while there are 25 coronavirus patients requiring ventilation.\n\nThe Department of Health's figures related to a 24-hour period and are based on a positive confirmed test result.\n\nThe latest figures come a day after the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) recorded a fall in its record of Covid-related deaths for the fifth week in a row.\n\nNisra's figures, which are based on counting when the virus is mentioned on death certificates, indicated that 55 people died with the virus in the week up to Friday, 26 February, giving it a total death toll of 2,806.\n\nAbout 30% of Northern Ireland's population have now had a first vaccine against Covid-19.\n\nOn Saturday, it was announced that the Republic of Ireland had hit a milestone of 500,000 vaccines administered.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin hailed the achievement as \"good news\" on social media, adding that vaccines were having \"a significant impact on mortality and serious illness\".\n\nHe said the government and the Health Service Executive (HSE) were doing everything they can to secure supplies and to give vaccines to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe country's Department of Health said on Saturday that there had been 14 more additional Covid-related deaths, taking the Republic's death toll to 4,419.\n\nThere were also 539 more positive cases of the virus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDaniel Amartey scored a late winner as Leicester City came from behind to beat Brighton and boost their bid for Champions League qualification.\n\nThe defender stooped low to head into an empty net after Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez failed to claim Marc Albrighton's corner.\n\nKelechi Iheanacho began the fightback with his second goal in as many games.\n\nHe cancelled out Adam Lallana's first Brighton goal, which ended a 503-day drought without scoring.\n\nVictory lifted Leicester above Manchester United and into second place in the Premier League, while extending their unbeaten away run to 10 league games.\n\nBrighton remain three points above the relegation zone in 16th.\n\nLeicester were on course for a top-four finish last season before falling away after the postponement because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTalisman Jamie Vardy has scored only once in his past 11 league games, but Iheanacho is producing the goals to fill the void.\n\nHaving rescued a point at Burnley on Wednesday, Iheanacho latched on to Youri Tielemans' exquisite no-look through ball to lift the ball over Sanchez for the equaliser.\n\nAmartey was the beneficiary when Albrighton whipped in an excellent late corner and Sanchez was unable to free his arms and punch the ball clear in the melee of bodies.\n\nLeicester have the best away record in the division, and with key playmaker James Maddison likely to return before the end of the season, their credentials are looking strong.\n\nEngland midfielder Lallana arrived at Brighton last summer with the intention of securing regular football after playing a fringe roll in Liverpool's title win.\n\nInjuries have cost the 32-year-old a consistent run in the side, but this was his best performance for Brighton.\n\nHe latched on to Neal Maupay's through ball to smash past Kasper Schmeichel from inside the area with aplomb.\n\nMoments later, Lallana's cushioned left-footed pass set up Maupay, who was marginally offside.\n\nLallana was playing with confidence and was denied a second goal by a smart save from Schmeichel with the scores level.\n\nThe Seagulls are in danger of being sucked into the bottom three but keeping Lallana fit may be their best route to another season in the top flight.\n\n'It feels sore' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter told BBC Sport: \"It feels sore. Overall our performance - certainly the first half - was good. We were close to getting a second.\n\n\"In the second half, Leicester responded and we didn't play as well. Still, we had some opportunities but it felt like a draw might have been the right result.\n\n\"There was no problem with the approach and intention of the team. We made a few too many errors against a team going for the Champions League. The goal at the end is a bit of a blow.\n\n\"Adam Lallana did some really nice touches, nice combinations. He helped the team, kept us going. He was a positive for us.\"\n\nLeicester City boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"Brighton were better than us in the first half - we were too slow and not aggressive enough. They deservedly went in front.\n\n\"They were excellent; they are a good side. You can see why they beat top teams.\n\n\"We had to look at things at half-time. We were outstanding in the second half. The players were brilliant.\n\n\"It was a change of mindset; we needed to be more aggressive. Once we did that we had more energy on the ball.\"\n• None Leicester have faced Brighton more often in the Premier League without losing than they have against any other side (eight games - W6 D2).\n• None Brighton have dropped 17 points from winning positions this season, their most in a single Premier League campaign. Only Southampton (18) have dropped more in 2020-21.\n• None No side has won fewer home points in the Premier League than Brighton this season (10), while Leicester have won four more on the road than any other side this term (34).\n• None Brighton scored with their only shot on target in the first half, while Leicester scored with both their shots on target in the second.\n\nBrighton make the trip along the south coast to face Southampton on 14 March at 12:00 GMT, while Leicester host Sheffield United at 14:00.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Wilfred Ndidi tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Leicester City 2. Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt missed. Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What happens when being a troll becomes the new normal?\n• None Another chance to hear their legendary Essential Mix", "Posters promoted by the Swiss People's Party featured a woman in a black niqab and captions such as \"Stop extremism!\" and \"Stop radical Islam!\"!\n\nSwitzerland has narrowly voted in favour of banning face coverings in public, including the burka or niqab worn by Muslim women.\n\nOfficial results showed the measure had passed by 51.2% to 48.8% in Sunday's referendum.\n\nThe proposal was put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) which campaigned with slogans such as \"Stop extremism\".\n\nA leading Swiss Islamic group said it was \"a dark day\" for Muslims.\n\n\"Today's decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority,\" the Central Council of Muslims said in a statement, adding that it would challenge the decision in court.\n\nThe Swiss government had argued against the ban saying it was not up to the state to dictate what women wear.\n\nAccording to research by the University of Lucerne (in German), almost no-one in Switzerland wears a burka and only around 30 women wear the niqab. About 5% of Switzerland's population of 8.6 million people are Muslim, most originating from Turkey, Bosnia and Kosovo.\n\nSwiss people are given a direct say in their own affairs under the country's system of direct democracy. They are regularly invited to vote on various issues in national or regional referendums.\n\nIt is not the first time Islam has figured in a Swiss referendum. In 2009 citizens went against government advice and voted to ban the building of minarets - a proposal also put forward by the SVP which said minarets were a sign of Islamisation.\n\nThe proposal in Sunday's referendum did not mention Islam directly and was also aimed at stopping violent street protesters from wearing masks. However, the vote was widely referred to as \"the burka ban\".\n\nThe latest proposal predated the coronavirus pandemic, which has meant all Swiss adults having to wear masks in many settings.\n\nWas today's vote about all face coverings, from niqabs and burkas to the scarves rioters sometimes pull over their faces?\n\nThat's what the Yes campaigners from the Swiss People's Party insisted - but their posters and literature said otherwise, showing threatening looking women in black niqabs, and warning of Islamic extremism.\n\nSo does the result mean the Swiss are becoming more extreme? Are they Islamophobic?\n\nPerhaps not. In the end, the ban only just squeaked through. In the past the Swiss People's Party has had much bigger majorities for its populist initiatives, often aimed at restricting asylum and immigration.\n\nIt successfully pushed through a ban on minarets in 2009 with a similar campaign to this one. But the debate around face coverings touched all sorts of different nerves. Many Swiss feminists view the burka and niqab as oppressive to women but they also oppose laws telling women what they can and cannot wear.\n\nWhen it came to voting they were torn. A regular answer from women asked whether they would support the ban was \"Jein\", a cross between \"Ja\" (yes) and \"Nein\" (no). Today's close vote in Switzerland was probably very much a \"Jein\" as well.\n\nSanija Ameti, a member of Switzerland's Muslim community, told the BBC that the campaign - and the depiction of Muslim women in the posters - had been upsetting.\n\n\"So many Muslims in Switzerland will feel insulted and not part of this society, and pushed into a corner where they don't belong. We don't look like these women in the pictures, we just don't,\" she said.\n\nHowever, others in the Muslim community supported the ban.\n\nImam Mustafa Memeti, from the city of Bern, told the BBC he thought the motivation behind the campaign was \"probably Islamophobic\". But he said he supported the ban anyway because it could help to emancipate Muslim women in Switzerland.\n\nAhead of the vote, Walter Wobmann, chairman of the referendum committee and an SVP lawmaker, described Muslim face coverings as \"a symbol for this extreme, political Islam which has become increasingly prominent in Europe and which has no place in Switzerland\".\n\n\"In Switzerland our tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic freedoms,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four Muslim women discuss their relationship with the veil\n\nAmnesty International spoke out against the proposed ban, calling it \"a dangerous policy that violates women's rights, including to freedom of expression and religion\".\n\nThe wearing of Islamic veils in public has been a controversial topic in other European countries. France banned wearing a full face veil in public in 2011 while the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Bulgaria have put in place full or partial bans on wearing face coverings in public.", "Crowds gathered in George Square to celebrate Rangers winning the Scottish Premiership\n\nPolice say arrests were made and fines issued after crowds of fans gathered to celebrate Rangers winning the Scottish Premiership.\n\nLarge numbers of supporters made their way to Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square to mark the achievement despite warnings to stay at home.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the crowds were \"infuriating and disgraceful\" and could delay the end of the Covid lockdown.\n\nRangers took the title after Celtic failed to beat Dundee United.\n\nThe result gave Rangers an unassailable 20-point lead and the title for the first time in 10 years.\n\nUnder current guidance, public gatherings are banned and a maximum of two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nFootball games are taking place behind closed doors with no fans in the stadium.\n\nHowever, following Sunday's game, crowds of fans took to the streets, as some let off flares while others chanted and waved flags outside the club ground. In Glasgow city centre fans flocked to George Square to celebrate being crowned Scottish champions.\n\nIn a tweet, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated Rangers on the title win, but added: \"Gathering in crowds just now risks lives, and could delay exit from lockdown for everyone else.\"\n\n\"If those gathering care at all about the safety of others & the country, they will go home,\" she said.\n\nIn a later tweet she said: \"I share folks' anger at this.\"\n\nShe added it was \"infuriating and disgraceful\" to see the crowds \"risk our progress\" after everyone complying with lockdown rules has made \"so many sacrifices\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Mark Sutherland said officers attended gatherings at both George Square and outside Ibrox stadium.\n\nArrests were made and fixed penalty notices issued for breaches of the Covid restrictions, disorder incidents and the use of pyrotechnic devices, he added.\n\nIn a statement published shortly before 21:00, he urged fans to make their way home.\n\nThe PA news agency reported that by 21:30 police officers had encircled a depleting group of fans at the base of the Scott Monument in George Square.\n\nLast May thousands of Liverpool fans flouted social distancing guidelines and gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier league title in 30 years.\n\nAnd in November hundreds of Celtic supporters defied the level four restrictions and converged on Celtic Park to call for the removal of the club's then manager Neil Lennon.\n\nDavid Hamilton, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, said he was \"appalled\" by the scenes.\n\nHe also told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that officers, many of whom have not been vaccinated, were put in \"jeopardy\" by the supporters' actions.\n\nMr Hamilton said he understood why people were frustrated by the Police Scotland response but said that was an operational matter for the force, which would have considered factors such as wider public order issues and road safety.\n\nHe highlighted that it can take up to 20 minutes to issue a fixed penalty fine for breaches of the Covid restrictions.\n\nMr Hamilton said: \"If we were to ticket everybody in George Square yesterday we would still be doing it just now.\"\n\nBut he also criticised the club for being \"silent\" and failing to address the mass gatherings on its social media accounts.\n\nHe added: \"There is a responsibility to the club here. It should not take the government to have to ask the club to tell people to go home.\n\n\"That should have been something the club should have taken on themselves proactively.\"\n\nThe club tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times in the hours after they were crowned champions but did not address the mass gathering of fans.\n\nSocial psychology expert Prof Stephen Reicher said the celebrations were \"completely predictable\" and \"in some ways encouraged\".\n\nThe St Andrews University academic said it was \"disappointing that the club did not have a dialogue with the fans about how one can celebrate but in ways that are safe, in ways that don't endanger the public, that don't endanger and, indeed, don't endanger Scottish football\".\n\nHe warned that it undermined the argument for safely reopening mass events including the Euros championship in Scotland.\n\nGlasgow Kelvin MSP Sandra White described the celebrations as \"absolute chaos\" and questioned what plans were in place to prevent mass gatherings.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"They [the fans] should never have been allowed to leave Ibrox and march into the city centre in large numbers. It could have been stopped there and then.\n\n\"People have lost loved ones and people can't visit loved ones and yet this is being facilitated.\"\n\nRangers fans in Northern Ireland also breached lockdown rules, with a large crowd gathering on Belfast's Shankill Road to celebrate on Sunday evening.\n\nPolice Service Northern Ireland urged people to celebrate \"at home safely and within the current health regulations\".\n\nEarlier on Sunday Scotland's justice secretary urged fans not to put lives at risk by flouting lockdown rules.\n\nHumza Yousaf also warned that Uefa would be paying \"close attention\" in anticipation of the European Championships coming to Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'From 10 years of misery to this... bouncing' - Rangers fans celebrate at Ibrox\n\nFollowing their win, some Rangers players made their way to the fence to celebrate in sight of fans outside.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross called the actions of fans outside Ibrox \"completely wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"We've all done so much to get the virus rates down.\n\n\"I understand passions run high with football fans, but it clearly didn't match what we expect people to do during a Covid period, while many people still can't even leave their homes.\"", "The last confirmed sighting of Ms Everard was 30 minutes after she left her friend's home in Clapham\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday in south London have confirmed where she was last seen.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last spotted on CCTV walking alone on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road, in the direction of Tulse Hill.\n\nThe time was about 21:30 GMT, 30 minutes after she had left her friend's home in Leathwaite Road, Battersea.\n\nHer walk home to Brixton was expected to have taken her 50 minutes.\n\nDetectives said it was unclear whether she returned to her home address but think she may have walked across Clapham Common.\n\nHer parents have said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them\n\nAn extensive investigation is under way, including searches and house-to-house inquiries, to establish whether there were any further sightings of Ms Everard beyond that which was captured on CCTV.\n\nThe investigation continues to be treated as a missing person's inquiry, but due to its complex nature and concerns for her welfare, the Met's Specialist Crime Command is now leading the case.\n\nHer family said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them.\n\nVolunteers from London Search and Rescue are helping the police\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"I would like to stress that there is no information at this stage to suggest anything untoward may have happened to Sarah.\n\n\"The focus remains on returning her home to her family safe and well and that is our number one priority.\n\n\"I would like to thank Sarah's family and friends, the local community and members of the public for their help to raise awareness of this appeal and for coming forward with information.\n\n\"I would urge anybody who has information or noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact us if you haven't already. \"\n\nMs Everard was wearing wearing clothes and earphones like these when she was last seen\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nDetectives have urged people to check any dashcam or doorbell cameras for sightings of her, particularly along these roads:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sgt Gavin Hillier's father posted on Facebook paying tribute to his son\n\nA soldier who was killed during a live-fire training exercise at an army range has been named as Sgt Gavin Hillier of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.\n\nSgt Hillier died on Thursday evening after being fatally injured at Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Sgt Hillier's father said he was \"heartbroken\" by the death of his son.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: \"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this tragic time.\"\n\nIt added: \"An investigation is under way and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nSgt Hillier was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 2019 by Prince Charles, who is the colonel of the Welsh Guards\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had opened an investigation into the death of the soldier.\n\nPolice said officers were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Ministry of Defence.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries into the soldier's death.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Sgt Hillier's father said he was\"absolutely devastated\".\n\nThe Castlemartin range is one of a dozen army training estates in the UK\n\nSgt Hillier is the fourth member of the military to die at the range since 2012.\n\nIn 2017, two soldiers died in a tank explosion, which a coroner ruled was due to a design flaw.\n\nAn army captain was jailed in July 2018 after a 21-year-old soldier was killed by a stray bullet during an exercise at the range in 2012.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the Welsh Guards have a \"dual role\" as \"light role infantry\" and \"world class ceremonial soldiers, guarding the Royal Family and royal palaces such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London and conducting state ceremonial duties\".", "Manager Steven Gerrard says \"there is more to come\" after Rangers were crowned champions of Scotland for the first time in 10 years.\n\nGerrard's side, who beat St Mirren 3-0 on Saturday, have a 20-point lead with six games remaining and have denied Celtic a 10th title in a row.\n\nIt is the former Liverpool and England captain's first trophy as a manager, in his third season at Ibrox.\n\n\"It is very difficult to put into words right now,\" the Rangers boss said.\n\n\"I'm on a real, emotional high and it has been a journey that is not finished.\n• None 'Sweeter win than anyone could fathom'\n• None How Gerrard went from fanfare to glory\n• None The seven games that won the title\n\n\"There is more to come and the next thing for me, when you win, it is always about what is next, and I am so proud of the players first and foremost - they are the most important people inside the club.\n\n\"But they are not as important as the supporters - they are what makes this club and it is for them and we have been down at times, really low at times, but this is an incredible high.\"\n\nIt is the earliest Scottish title win in chronological terms, and ends Celtic's bid for an unprecedented 10th successive crown.\n\nRangers have dropped just eight points in an unbeaten Scottish Premiership campaign so far, with their victory on Saturday their 28th win in 32 matches.\n\nThey have scored 77 goals and conceded just nine - only two of which have been at Ibrox.\n\nThe Glasgow club were in the bottom tier of Scottish football as recently as 2012 after their financial collapse, and returned to the top flight five years ago.\n\nRangers' first game as champions will be the third Old Firm game of the campaign at Celtic Park on March 21.\n\nWhen Gerrard took control as manager he didn't just have a team to rebuild, he had an entire club to fix. Recruitment and scouting and attitude - he had to strip it down and start again.\n\nFor a rookie boss in the white heat of Glasgow football up against the red hot Brendan Rodgers it was an Everestian challenge, but Gerrard put the building blocks in place, slowly - too slowly for many - but surely.\n\nHe got backed by his board, bought wisely and grew. Gerrard has turned a 39-point deficit on Celtic in the season before he arrived into a 20-point advantage. A difference of 59 points. This is nirvana stuff to every Rangers fan.\n\n'They thoroughly deserve it' - reaction\n\nFormer Rangers player & manager Graeme Souness: \"Delighted for Steven Gerrard and all his team. Celtic have had a period of dominance, which has been, I'll say, uncomfortable for us Rangers supporters. They thoroughly deserve it. They've been fantastic all season and I just wish I was in Glasgow right now.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher: \"They must have been terrified for years that record [nine straight titles] would have been beaten by Celtic. When Gerrard came in, that was the name of the game to stop Celtic achieving that. They've come a long way, but they'll be hoping the glory days are back.\"\n\nRangers captain James Tavernier: \"There's no words that can describe it. I'm absolutely delighted for the club, the players, and especially the fans. To do it this year with everything surrounding this season, it's monumental.\"\n\nFormer Rangers captain Lee McCulloch: \"It's been a little bit emotional; 10 years is a long time to wait. Every Rangers fan all around the world will be celebrating this tonight.\n\n\"The club hit rock bottom. It's been a slow climb back up but today is all about Steven Gerrard and his squad. The changes Steven has made, the leadership he's shown, the recruitment, on and off the pitch the club has been fantastic.\"\n\nFormer Rangers captain David Weir: \"To wrap it up so early with such a points gap is a credit to the players and staff. The level of consistency has been incredible. Great credit to Steven Gerrard for the team he's built and the players for taking it on. To finally get the title back to Ibrox is a massive relief and a massive joy for everyone at the club.\"\n\nSpeaking to Rangers TV, midfielder Glen Kamara said: \"It's a surreal moment. I don't even know how to feel right now. Everyone's just trying to live the moment just now. We'll just enjoy today.\"\n\nMidfielder Joe Aribo on Rangers TV: \"My aim was to come here and win trophies and titles, that's what we've done. I've achieved what I wanted to achieve, but obviously there's more to come.\"\n\nAnd veteran forward Jermain Defoe told Rangers TV: \"I've dedicated my whole career and my whole life for these kind of moments. I always knew it would happen at some point in my career.\"", "The organiser of a protest against the government's controversial 1% pay rise plan for NHS staff in England has been fined £10,000 by police.\n\nAbout 40 people attended a rally in Manchester city centre at midday, officers said.\n\nPublic gatherings are banned by coronavirus rules and police said most demonstrators dispersed after officers asked them to leave.\n\nA woman who works for the NHS, aged 61, was fined for organising the protest.\n\nAnother NHS worker, aged 65, was arrested for failing to provide details after initially refusing to leave.\n\nShe was de-arrested and fined £200 after complying, police said.\n\nThe government's plan has been widely criticised\n\nSupt Caroline Hemingway said that \"regardless of one's sympathies for a protest's cause, we would ask the public to maintain social distancing and follow legislation\".\n\n\"We sought to engage with and peaceably disperse those attending this afternoon's protest, explaining that the gathering was in contravention of government lockdown rules,\" she added.\n\n\"Unfortunately officers were met with a degree of non-compliance and it was therefore necessary to enforce issue fixed penalty notices.\"\n\nA protest was also held outside Downing Street on Sunday\n\nThe government has faced a backlash after giving evidence on Thursday to the NHS pay-review body, which looks at nearly 1.5 million people, including nurses and health assistants - but not doctors, dentists and some senior staff, who have their own pay bodies or agreements.\n\nIt suggested a 1% pay rise for 2021-22, citing the \"uncertain\" financial situation. However inflation forecasts for this year indicate the proposed figure could be a real-terms cut.\n\nThe pay-review body will take evidence from other groups, including unions and NHS bodies, before making its recommendation around May.\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 Nicola Faith has been missing for five weeks\n\n\"Mummy, have they found the red boat yet?\"\n\nA small boy and his mother walk past Conwy's medieval castle, the child looking down towards the quayside and a gap in the line of fishing boats anchored there.\n\nIt is a gap which would normally have been filled by the Nicola Faith, a ten metre vessel that was a familiar sight to Conwy residents.\n\nPeople on a late-night dog walk would exchange hellos with her owner and skipper Carl McGrath as he unloaded his catch of whelks.\n\nAlan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were all aboard the Nicola Faith went it went missing\n\nDown on the quayside, Nathania Minard is also looking at the space where the Nicola Faith would be.\n\nHer son Alan was one of the three men on board when the boat set sail on 27 January - and never returned.\n\n\"He was 20, and quite a bit younger than the other two lads on board\", she says, \"but he always felt like everyone's big brother.\"\n\nAlan has three siblings, Poppy, 16, Jessica, 6, and two-year-old Percy.\n\nAlan Minard was the eldest of four siblings\n\n\"He had waited 18 years to have a little brother. He's just got one and it's devastating that he's not going to be here to see him grow,\" she added.\n\n\"Every day the other children ask if the policeman is bringing Alan home today. It's heart-breaking.\n\n\"Jessica keeps asking if I can try ringing his phone again. It makes you feel like a failure as a mother.\"\n\nA fundraising page has been set up to help look for Alan Minard and the other crewmen\n\nThis is one of the reasons why Nathania and her wife Rebekah have joined with families of the other two missing men to set up a fundraising page on the internet site JustGiving.\n\nRelatives of 39-year-old Ross Ballantine and 34-year-old Carl McGrath have formed close links with the Minard family to offer support, share information and co-ordinate fund-raising.\n\nThe families want to hire additional deep sea search expertise to help look for the Nicola Faith and her three crew, working alongside the official investigation currently being run by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).\n\nIn less than a week, the appeal had raised £27,000. The families say it's an impressive total, but they still need to raise more.\n\n\"Everything raised is a great comfort to us at the moment. There's so much love towards the boys. It shows how much people care and that they haven't forgotten,\" added Nathania.\n\n\"They deserve better than for the case to remain open for years, we can't do that.\n\n\"Alan had his whole future ahead of him. He was a natural engineer and kept our ancient vacuum cleaner going for years by constantly repairing it.\n\n\"We bought him a games console for Christmas one year and he took it to bits within six months, then forgot how to put it back together again!\n\n\"He's one of those people who will always have work. He'd got a marine engineering apprenticeship in Devon, but when work dried up because of the pandemic, he headed back to north Wales and landed a job on board the Nicola Faith.\n\n\"He's a grafter. Over the last year, he'd turned from a boy into a man and we were so proud of him.\n\n\"He got on really well with Carl on board the Nicola Faith. Carl appreciated Alan because he was a hard worker - they really hit it off. It's hard to believe Alan had only been on the crew two weeks.\"\n\nAlan was not the only man new to the crew. Ross had come on board the when his work as a carpet fitter also slowed down because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRoss Ballantine joined the Nicola Faith to be spend more time with his sons\n\nHis sister Lowri Taylor said: \"He's a devoted dad. Working on a fishing boat isn't easy, but he loved it.\n\n\"The job meant he could see his two boys more often. He could stay local for them rather than having to work away during the week.\"\n\nThe mother of those two boys is one of the many people around the Conwy area helping the families begin their private search.\n\nZoey Walker runs Dollybirds Beauty Parlour in Llandudno and is co-ordinating a fundraising auction.\n\nShe said: \"My boys feel we are doing something to help after a horrendous month of not knowing and such a devastating time for them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missing fishermen are \"out there somewhere\"\n\nSinger Tom Stockdale is to shave his head live online over the weekend.\n\nAnother local supporter is running laps of the Great Orme headland in Llandudno to raise funds. Others are organising raffles.\n\nIt reflects the warmth felt towards all three crewmen on the quayside in Conwy and in the wider community.\n\nOne boat owner mentions how he and Carl would lend each other engine spares. Others speak of the energy he brought to the local fishing industry and the time and effort he spent maintaining and upgrading the boat.\n\nThe boat's empty life raft was found on Friday off the coast of Scotland\n\nNathania added: \"We've been overwhelmed at the support we've had from our own community and from further afield.\n\n\"We're not going to give up, we need to know where they are, we need to know what happened.\n\n\"It's not just to answer our questions today but as the children get older, there'll be questions that they'll ask and I don't want years to go by without us knowing.\"\n\nDavid Mearns found the plane which was carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala\n\nThe expert who is advising the families about their private search is David Mearns, who successfully found the wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson when it crashed into the English Channel in 2019.\n\nHe is confident that the Nicola Faith can be located. The families say more sonar surveys will take place this weekend on behalf of the MAIB.\n\nOn land they continue to raise money and awareness, while pausing to reflect by the vigil candles and tributes that have been placed on Conwy quayside.\n\nBut for the moment, the answer to the little boy's question of whether the red boat has been found remains a painful \"no\".", "The majority of parents in England will be happy to send their children back to school, but two-thirds are concerned about the amount of learning lost.\n\nA survey by the Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals some parents think that their child will never catch-up.\n\nIt shows parents want policies to promote children's wellbeing as well as their academic learning.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has promised no child's prospects should be \"blighted by the pandemic.\"\n\nAs schools in England prepare to reopen to all pupils on Monday for the first time since early January, 90% of parents say they would send their children back, even if it was not compulsory.\n\nParents are much more confident about children going back to school this time than they were last summer, says the financial think thank, when only two thirds of parents supported the idea of going back into the classroom.\n\nAmong parents who are still reluctant, health concerns about the pandemic continue to be the most important reason - with nearly half of these parents saying the Covid-19 case rate is the key factor.\n\nNearly 6,000 parents across England were asked their views in the last week of February, as the full reopening of schools was approaching.\n\nThe youngest pupils have already returned to school in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSome primary school pupils in Northern Ireland also return to school on Monday.\n\nThe survey provides evidence on how parents view the the impact of so much lost time in school.\n\nOverall, 65% of primary school parents and 68% of those with secondary school children are concerned that their child has lost out on learning.\n\nAmong these worried secondary school parents, 9% believe their child's education will never be able to fully recover from the adverse effects the pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Education recently announced a further £700m package to help pupils catch-up on lost learning, including tutoring and summer schools.\n\nSupport for catch-up plans is very high among parents, the IFS survey suggests, with over 90% in favour, with tutoring the most popular policy.\n\nThere is much less support among parents for a longer school day, an extended term or repeating school years, with disadvantaged families less likely to be keen.\n\nA large majority of parents (83%) are also in favour of policies to promote children's wellbeing. Most believed that in-class activities - such as arts, creative writing or spending time outdoors - would make the biggest difference.\n\nAround a quarter of parents prioritised greater access to mental health services.\n\nChristine Farquharson, IFS senior research economist, said: \"While close to half of those concerned think that the damage will be relatively short-lived, one in 10 secondary school parents think their child will never catch up.\n\n\"While the tutoring programmes that the government has emphasised are hugely popular with parents, it is hard to believe that the £1.7bn currently allocated to the recovery is anywhere near enough to meet the scale of this challenge.\"\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We know the pandemic has had a significant impact on children and young people, which is why it's been our priority to get pupils back to face-to-face education.\n\n\"Our new Mental Health in Education Action Group will look at how we best support children and young people's mental wellbeing as they return to education settings, in addition to the mental health training we have funded for teachers to help them respond to emotional and mental health pressures.\"", "NHS worker Holly Ciesielczuk bought 75% of her first-floor flat in Redbridge in March 2019, under shared ownership.\n\nBut when she tried to borrow more money to increase her share of ownership a year later, she hit a stumbling block.\n\nFollowing their initial survey, her mortgage lender requested an EWS1 form, which can be obtained following an assessment of a building's external walls.\n\nThese were first developed to assess the potential financial impact of cladding on high-rise flats, after 72 people died at Grenfell Tower.\n\nTo begin with, only those who owned flats in tall buildings with dangerous flammable cladding were affected.\n\nBut after the government extended its advice to smaller properties in January 2020, mortgage lenders began demanding fire surveys from a much wider range of sellers.\n\nThe reason Holly was given by her lender for requesting one was that a balcony on the building had a wooden floor.\n\nHowever, she says her housing association would not agree to an EWS1 because, it said, the building was not high enough to meet the criteria.\n\nThe lender refused a mortgage without it, as did the next bank she tried. The combination of this and her partner's cancer diagnosis took its toll.\n\n\"I properly broke down. If I knew how much stress this was going to cause, I would never have bought my flat,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIn November, the government said an agreement had been reached with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), banking trade body UK Finance and the Building Societies Association.\n\nIt said this meant owners of flats in buildings without cladding would no longer need the form to sell or remortgage.\n\nBut mortgage lenders said they \"did not consent\" to the announcement.\n\nProblems are still being encountered - including by Holly.\n\nWhen she contacted her lender after the November announcement, their position had not altered. \"I was so hopeful, so excited - but then so dismayed when I was told, 'You still need an EWS1 form.'\"\n\nFollowing a consultation on the requirement for EWS1 checks, RICS plans to release updated guidance. It's understood this could be published as soon as next week.\n\nIt will be aimed at narrowing down the number of EWS1 requests, but there's no obligation for lenders to follow it.\n\n\"Naively or optimistically, I hope the guidance will provide clarity about whether I will be able to get a mortgage,\" Holly says.\n\nAlex hasn't been able to buy his first home\n\nEven when building management agree to having checks done, it can be a lengthy process.\n\nAlex Cross from Berkshire was excited to find what he thought was his \"perfect\" first flat, yet he too has been held up.\n\nWhen he was asked to obtain an EWS1 form to secure a mortgage, the property management company refused to help.\n\nThey said they owned 4,000 blocks, but only 48 inspections had been booked that financial year.\n\n\"At that rate, it would take decades to obtain the required information,\" Alex points out.\n\nHe eventually found one bank that did not require the full survey, but asked a set of questions about the building's safety, which the property developer would not answer.\n\nRebecca Frisina and her family were hoping to move to a larger property, but have been unable to sell their flat. Although they have found a buyer, the mortgage provider has requested a EWS1 form for their property.\n\nThe management company which owns the freehold eventually agreed to pursue the safety checks. However, it isn't clear when they might take place.\n\nRebecca's family are now living with her parents and their buyer has moved into rented accommodation.\n\n\"We have asked for a rough estimated timeline and they have refused to answer us,\" she says. \"It's been a nightmare.\"\n\nRebecca's family had to move in with her parents\n\nAndrew Montlake is managing director of mortgage broker Coreco and chairman of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries. He says one of the first things his team now ask about a property is whether there is cladding and whether an EWS1 has been produced.\n\n\"There are cases I'm sure where the buildings are probably OK. However, where you're dealing with such a serious subject, surely it's better to be safe than sorry. If the valuers aren't sure, they're going to cover themselves\n\n\"If there's a risk of a leaseholder having to pay repair bills in future, that could have an impact on affordability.\"\n\nUK Finance also pointed out that some buildings might have cladding that is not obvious.\n\nThe fee for an EWS1 survey can be up to £50,000, depending on the size and style of the property.\n\nIt's estimated that there are only 300 chartered fire engineers in the UK who can carry out the survey, which is believed to be a cause of delays.\n\nA social media campaign, #EndOurCladdingScandal, has attracted support from a wide range of homeowners, including those subject to EWS1 requirements.\n\n\"RICS and the government can offer as much guidance as they want, but the truth is the genie is out of the bottle - and mortgage lenders are spooked,\" a spokesperson for the campaign said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said in a statement: \"The EWS1 is not a government form, nor a legal requirement, and we're disappointed this is being asked for in some cases where it's not needed.\n\n\"If a form is genuinely needed, we are providing £700,000 of funding to train up to 2,000 more surveyors to speed up the process and get through the backlog.\"", "The boss of Ikea has told the BBC he fears that global trade tensions will lead to higher prices for customers.\n\nJesper Brodin, chief executive of Ingka Group, which is the furniture giant's holding company, said imposing restrictions such as tariffs \"normally doesn't benefit the ordinary people\".\n\nMany countries have imposed new tariffs and other restrictions on imports in recent years.\n\nThe trend was accentuated by the US under former President Donald Trump.\n\nAnd the World Trade Organization says even before the pandemic, trade restrictions were on the rise.\n\n\"Normally it leads to cost increases on the product in the end of the day. And there are some concerns about that going on, not only in India but globally,\" Mr Brodin said in a BBC interview.\n\nIkea has invested billions of dollars in India in ambitious expansion plans, but it imports the majority of the products it sells in the country, from furniture to kitchenware.\n\nThat means it has fallen foul of higher import taxes imposed last year by Narendra Modi's government as part of his self-reliant India drive, putting it at a disadvantage when competing with domestic rivals.\n\nAs in other countries, pricing is crucial and Mr Brodin suggests buying stock locally could help. \"We are on the move to drive optimal sourcing and find ways with governments and within the company to try to mitigate that.\"\n\nMore locally sourced products, for stores including this new one on the outskirts of Mumbai, could mitigate the impact of tariffs\n\nWherever those products come from, Mr Brodin is forthright about the need to make them in a way that addresses the challenges of climate change and sustainability.\n\n\"I actually think Covid is teaching us to take the collective human challenges in a more serious way and a more responsible way,\" he says.\n\nHe explains that recycling will become ever more important in minimising the impact consumption has on the planet. \"Ikea's mattresses in the future cannot be based on virgin material. We need to find smarter ways.\n\n\"We will be more people to share the resources on the planet. So it's both the right thing to do, morally, ethically, but also from a business perspective.\"\n\nIkea will not be the only company adhering to these values, he predicts: \"This is not charity, this is the new economy 2.0, the new business model of the world.\"\n\nIkea says it is trying to cut the use of raw materials in its products\n\nAnother headache for many multinationals is how to ensure forced labour is kept out of their supply chains. A recent BBC investigation raised questions about cotton from China's Xinjiang region, although not that used by Ikea. China's government denies there is any forced labour.\n\nThe US is among those governments trying to tackle the issue. This week, the Biden administration raised the prospect of new laws to \"enhance corporate accountability\".\n\nMr Brodin agrees with the need for companies to take responsibility: \"Here is an area where we need to work with common standards in the world.\"\n\nMost Ikea stores around the world have faced a period of closure\n\n\"There need to be verifiable methods\" to check supply chains, he adds. Ikea works with external companies to review its own checks and Mr Brodin says the Swedish company is quick to act if necessary.\n\n\"Can we guarantee that there is never an accident or a breach in that? No, but if it happens, we will catch it normally ourselves before anybody else does. And we are able to correct it.\"\n\nStore closures have been another burden for Ikea's boss. In all, 80% of the 445 outlets worldwide have been closed at some point over the last year, but Mr Brodin doesn't think the coronavirus pandemic will change everything about retail forever.\n\nCustomers like to try before they buy, says Jesper Brodin\n\nHe says customers still value seeing products for themselves and getting in-store advice. \"Most people still want to sit on the sofa before they buy it.\"\n\nMr Brodin is grateful that the company invested heavily in selling online before the pandemic: \"Literally we didn't know how much we would need it.\n\n\"Even with that, at the start of the pandemic, there was a period where we thought we would be in the red for the first time in our 75-year history.\"\n\nIn the end, profits fell 29% to $1.7bn (£1.2bn) in the year to the end of August.\n\nThe strength of those online sales, Mr Brodin says, led to a \"very interesting discussion. Is it morally right for us to accept furlough [payments for staff wages] when we are actually going to head towards some sort of a profit?\"\n\n\"In the end of the day, we decided it was wrong,\" he says, and money was returned to governments in several countries.\n\nMr Brodin senses governments will need to support their economies for a while yet.\n\nLarge socially-distanced queues formed at Ikea in Nottingham, central England, when it reopened in June\n\n\"We are hopeful that autumn will be some sort of return to the new normal,\" Mr Brodin says, but he cautions: \"We need to be prepared for the worst.\"\n\nHowever, plans to expand with 50 new stores worldwide are not on hold, even though \"Covid-19 has amplified the whole change process\".\n\nThose changes include new in-store safety measures, and they may be paying off.\n\nIn a signal of hope for retailers who have struggled through the pandemic, Mr Brodin says that where government restrictions have been lifted and shops could reopen, \"we were actually surprised by the interest of coming back to stores.\"\n\nHe says: \"In most of our countries, we have more people after Corona visiting us than before.\"\n\nYou can watch Jesper Brodin's full interview on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst this weekend on BBC World News at Saturday 23:30 GMT, Sunday 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 07:30 GMT and 11:30 GMT and Tuesday at 13:30 GMT.", "As children across England prepare to return to school, the focus is on testing, masks and the familiar routines of social distancing and hand washing.\n\nBut on top of all those measures, there's something that until recently hasn't had much attention: a good supply of fresh air.\n\nAir matters because if someone is infected they'll release tiny virus particles called aerosols, which can accumulate and then be inhaled by others.\n\nComputer simulations by engineers in Germany show how easily the air in a poorly ventilated room can become hazardous.\n\nBut there are strategies to reduce the risks of this happening.\n\nThe first and most obvious move is to make sure that the windows are used.\n\nIn some schools, they may be jammed with old paint but, wherever possible, getting them open will make a difference.\n\nFor Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, one of the government's scientific advisers, this is \"the most important step\".\n\nOne of the authors of a recent study of indoor infection risks, he says fresh air is key.\n\nIn cold weather, this doesn't mean throwing everything wide open and leaving everyone to freeze, but thinking about how to get enough air in.\n\nIn many buildings, that will mean reaching up for the highest windows - those nearest the ceiling, he says.\n\n\"If you can crack open all the high-level windows a small amount, then you'll be able to get fresh air into the space without causing you or the children to suffer from cold draughts.\"\n\nDr Fitzgerald says that will help flush out potentially infected air.\n\nAnd in schools with mechanical ventilation and sealed windows, the best option is to maximise the flow of fresh air through the system.\n\nTiming is crucial because the longer people are together in one room, the more likely it is that infectious aerosols will build up.\n\nDr Shelly Miller, a specialist in air quality at the University of Colorado in Boulder, suggests that lessons should be kept short.\n\nIt's better to have five classes of just 30 minutes than three sessions lasting 50 minutes, she says.\n\nThat reduces not only the chances of the air becoming contaminated but also the amount of time staff and pupils may be exposed to that risk.\n\nIt also creates more opportunities to refresh a room when no one's in it.\n\nDr Miller was part of a team investigating a major Covid outbreak at a choir in the US that came up with a very revealing conclusion.\n\n\"If you cut the time indoors from two-and-half-hours to 30 minutes you would drop the risk of exposure to transmission from 87% to 10%.\"\n\nWe've all sensed when eyelids start drooping in an airless room.\n\nThat's because there's a growing amount of carbon dioxide, as everyone's exhaled breaths keep adding more of the gas and it has nowhere to go.\n\nThis tells you that there's not enough of a fresh supply coming in and that means that there's a greater risk of the increasingly stale air being infected.\n\nSo one option is to use carbon dioxide monitors - devices costing between £50-£200 that keep track of the gas and tell you how much of it there is.\n\nThey can't detect infectious aerosols, but they can act as a warning that there may be a problem.\n\nLast year Douglas Booker of National Air Quality Testing Services, a consultancy based at Lancaster University, deployed CO2 monitors in 20 different classrooms.\n\nHe says they are \"a great indicator of how well ventilation is working\".\n\nIf attention wanes, it could be a sign the room is getting stuffy\n\n\"We can make sure that airborne particulates aren't lingering in the classroom, they're being moved to the outdoor air and that should reduce the likelihood of any infection.\"\n\nFor many schools, investing in monitors for every classroom might not be possible at a time of tight budgets.\n\n\"If there isn't a gauge on the wall telling me about the carbon dioxide, I'm going to use the sensor I was born with: my nose.\n\n\"If the air smells stuffy and feels stuffy then it probably is stuffy, and I'm going to take action to ventilate that space and crack open the windows.\"", "Boris Johnson has said the country is starting to move towards a sense of \"normality\" as schools in England get ready to open to more pupils on Monday.\n\nThe PM has urged the public to stick to the rules as the government follows a \"cautious\" approach to easing lockdown.\n\nMonday marks the first step of the \"roadmap\" out of national restrictions.\n\nBut the UK's largest education union has accused the government of failing to put adequate safety measures in place ahead of schools reopening.\n\nAll pupils in all years can return to schools and colleges in England on Monday, and attendance will be mandatory - meaning they should not miss school without a valid reason.\n\nHowever, secondary schools have been told that year groups can return on different days over the first week to allow for Covid testing.\n\nAnd pupils who are shielding have been asked to remain at home for a bit longer.\n\nEarlier this week, a survey of more than 930 head teachers found 76% of secondary schools have planned a staggered return next week in order to facilitate Covid tests.\n\nIn 7% of schools, it suggested, this will stretch into a second week.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said secondary and post-16 education leaders have struggled to get parental consent for the testing of pupils and said there needed to be a bigger ministerial push to encourage take up.\n\n\"Ministers had two months to make schools and colleges safer but failed to put the necessary measures in place to achieve this,\" she said.\n\nThe NEU has called for a phased return to schools in England - similar to the process in Scotland and Wales, where whole year groups are returning separated by several weeks.\n\nImplementing the testing system was resulting in a \"de facto phased return\" which should be allowed to continue \"beyond the period necessary\", Dr Bousted said.\n\nGes Smith, head teacher of Jo Richardson Community School in east London, told BBC Breakfast that testing its 1,600 students would be a \"military-style operation\".\n\nThe school tested its sixth form pupils on Friday and will begin a phased return over the next week, with 6,000 tests carried out over the next fortnight.\n\nHe added that some children \"haven't been out the house since January\" and would have high levels of anxiety about returning, \"so that transition back to school is enormously important\".\n\nStudents in England are being asked to take regular Covid tests\n\nAccording to the PM's roadmap, the second part of stage one - which will allow outdoor gatherings of either six people or two households - is due on 29 March.\n\nFurther lifting of the rules will then happen if certain conditions are met, with shops possibly allowed to open by 12 April and all restrictions potentially lifted by 21 June.\n\nMr Johnson stressed the government was being careful \"so that we do not undo the progress we have made so far\" and urged people to take up the vaccine and get tested when necessary.\n\nThe PM said it was due to the \"determination\" of everyone in the country \"that we can start moving closer to a sense of normality\", praising the \"truly national effort\" against Covid.\n\nHis comments come amid concerns that pupils may be forced to self-isolate unnecessarily because of inaccurate Covid test results.\n\nDowning Street said nearly 57 million lateral flow test kits have already been delivered to schools and colleges as part of the rollout.\n\nThe tests involve taking a swab of the nose and throat. The sample is then inserted into a tube of liquid and gives a result within 30 minutes.\n\nStudents will be tested for the virus three times in the first two weeks of school.\n\nAfter that they will be given two tests each week to use at home.\n\nResearch suggests that the lateral flow devices can offer a false positive result between one and three times for every 1,000 tests carried out.\n\nProfessor Sheila Bird, a member of the Royal Statistical Society, said it was \"very likely\" a lateral flow test could give a false positive reading.\n\nShe said every positive lateral flow test of a pupil should be checked with a more reliable PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test to ensure it is accurate.\n\nThis is being done for tests that are done in people's homes, but not for those carried out in school.\n\nMeanwhile, a survey has shown that the majority of parents in England will be happy to send their children back to school.\n\nBut two-thirds are concerned about the amount of learning lost.\n\nThe research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies reveals some parents think that their child will never catch up.\n\nThe Department for Education has announced a £700m package to help pupils catch up on lost learning, including tutoring and summer schools.\n\nBut Kate Green, Labour's shadow education secretary, said the funding does \"not make up for the learning and time with friends that children have lost\", adding there is no specific mention of supporting children's mental health or wellbeing.\n\nAsked by Sky News' Sophy Ridge whether plans to help pupils catch up could include shortening summer holidays, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government was looking at \"a whole range of different proposals\", including a five-term year, changes to holidays and lengthening the school day.\n\nSecondary school and college students are also being asked to wear face coverings in classrooms, where social distancing cannot be maintained, as an additional safety measure set for review at Easter.\n\nBut the measure is not mandatory, and in primary schools pupils are not being required to wear face coverings when they return to face-to-face lessons. Nor will they be tested.\n\nEngland's chief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman said she hoped mask wearing would only be needed for \"a short time\" so children could return for the summer term able to see everyone's faces fully.\n\nThere are different rules on schools across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe youngest pupils have already returned to school in Scotland and Wales, while some primary school pupils in Northern Ireland also return to school on Monday.\n\nAll secondary school pupils in Scotland will return to the classroom part-time from 15 March.\n\nIn Wales, some secondary school pupils will return on 15 March, with all secondary-age pupils back in the classroom full-time from 12 April.\n\nSome older pupils in Northern Ireland will return on 22 March.", "Arlene Foster said the prime minister should discuss sharing surplus vaccines with Taoiseach Micheál Martin\n\nThere should be more co-operation between the NI Executive and the Irish government over the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, First Minister Arlene Foster has said.\n\nThe DUP leader told RTÉ Radio's This Week she was \"alarmed\" about the slower pace of the rollout in the Republic.\n\nShe said she wanted everyone on the island to be vaccinated \"in the fastest way possible\".\n\nNI's Department of Health has reported three more Covid-related deaths.\n\nThat brings its total during the pandemic to 2,075.\n\nThere have been 113,645 positive cases of the virus recorded in Northern Ireland, after an additional 138 cases were confirmed on Sunday.\n\nIn the Republic, three more coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded, bringing the death total to 4,422. The total number of confirmed cases rose to 223,219 after another 525 positive cases were confirmed.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures show that about 30% of Northern Ireland's entire population have now had a first dose of a vaccine. That number rises to almost 40% amongst the adult population.\n\nBy contrast, figures from this week show that about 6% of the Republic of Ireland's population have received a first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, it was announced that the Republic of Ireland had hit a milestone of 500,000 vaccines administered, a figure which includes both first and second doses.\n\nMrs Foster said the latest figures on Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout showed a \"tremendous move forward\" but that she was \"alarmed to see the figures in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"Obviously we've been taking advice from our chief medical officer on what is the best way forward.\n\n\"But it is my desire, of course, as a neighbour to see everyone vaccinated on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nShe added that she hoped the programme in the Republic picked up pace, saying it was important for Northern Ireland given that people regularly travel across the border but also that it was important \"for the population of the Republic as well\".\n\nShe added that medical advice indicated that \"a lot of people coming up who aren't vaccinated could have an impact on the strength and the efficacy of the vaccine for those who are\".\n\nMrs Foster also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson \"should have a conversation\" with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin about potentially sharing any surplus vaccines.\n\n\"I believe it would be to the benefit not just of the Republic of Ireland but to Northern Ireland as well if we had a vaccine programme in the Republic that was moving at a faster measure, yes absolutely,\" she told the programme.", "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.", "The award-winning US actress Jessica Walter has died aged 80, her family have announced.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of my beloved mom,\" Walter's daughter Brooke Bowman said.\n\n\"A working actor for over six decades, her greatest pleasure was bringing joy to others through her storytelling both on screen and off,\" Ms Bowman said.\n\nWalter is best known for playing icy matriarch Lucille Bluth in the Arrested Development TV sitcom in the 2000s.\n\nShe also won an Emmy for starring as a detective in the police drama Amy Prentiss in the 1970s.\n\n\"While her legacy will live on through her body of work, she will also be remembered by many for her wit, class and overall joie de vivre,\" Ms Bowman said.\n\nThe Deadline website, which first reported the news, quoted the family as saying that Walter had died in her sleep at her home in New York.\n\nSome of Walter's most memorable lines in Arrested Development were delivered over a Vodka Martini or between glasses of wine.\n\nDuring her long career, Walter starred in several popular TV dramas and sitcoms, like NCIS and Law & Order, and also appeared in a number of films.\n\nShe also voiced Malory Archer in the animated series Archer.\n\nOne of Walter's starring movie performances was alongside Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, earning her a Golden Globe nomination.\n\nShe also starred in Grand Prix (1966), which also saw her nominated for a Golden Globe.\n\nAmong her TV comedy cameos, Walter played Mrs Latham, a university benefactor who seduces Leonard in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.\n\nTony Hale, who played Walter's son Buster n Arrested Development, paid tribute to her, saying \"her talent and timing were unmatched\".\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\nJason Bateman, who played Walter's son Michael in the show, said she had had \"an incredible career, filled with amazing performances\".\n\n\"I will forever remember my time with her, watching her bring Lucille Bluth to life,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"She was one of a kind.\"\n\nWill Arnett, another star of the show, remembered her as \"a deeply talented person\" he had first encountered in 1996.\n\n\"I was instantly blown away,\" he wrote on his own Twitter account. \"I'm fortunate to have had a front row seat to her brilliance for 25 years.\"\n\nDirector Ron Howard, Arrested Development's narrator and producer, described Walter as \"a brilliant, funny, intelligent and strong woman\".\n\n\"Thank you for a lifetime of laughs and for sharing your incredible talent on our show and with the world,\" the film-maker continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ron Howard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian David Cross, another member of the US series' cast, described Walter as \"an absolutely brilliant actress and amazing talent\".\n\n\"I consider myself privileged and very lucky to have been able to work with her. Lucille Bluth is one of TV's greatest characters,\" he wrote in a Twitter post.\n\nHappy Days actor Henry Winkler, who also appeared in Arrested Development, expressed dismay on hearing the news.\n\n\"OH NO,\" he wrote on Twitter, adding: \"It was an honour to watch her comedy explode from the very first row.\"\n\nOthers to pay tribute included actress Viola Davis, who remembered Walter as being \"always consistently excellent\".\n\nWonder Woman star Lynda Carter, meanwhile, recalled Walter playing her antagonist in a 1977 edition of the show.\n\n\"Though we battled each other on-screen, in real life she was one of kindest, warmest, funniest women I've ever met,\" Carter wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Lynda Carter This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBridesmaids director Paul Feig also paid tribute to an actress he said he had \"had the honour of working with several times\",\n\nShe was, he wrote, \"so funny\" and \"a true original\" who had \"marched to the tune of her own drummer\".\n• None Why Arrested Development won't go away", "TV host Jay Leno has apologised for making at least nine jokes about Korean or Chinese people eating dogs or cats\n\nUS TV show host Jay Leno has said sorry for making a long-running series of jokes about Asian-American people.\n\nLeno, who hosted The Tonight Show for more than 20 years until 2014, admitted he had committed \"a legitimate wrong\".\n\nHis apology follows a lengthy campaign by the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) and a spike in hate crimes.\n\nLast week, six Asian-American women were killed in a shooting in Atlanta, along with two other people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Atlanta shootings: \"It's scary just to be an Asian American woman\"\n\nThe network noted how between 2002 and 2012, the comic and presenter made at least nine jokes about Korean or Chinese people eating dogs or cats.\n\n\"At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless,\" Leno said last month in a call with MANAA, the contents of which were released in a statement by the organisation on Wednesday.\n\n\"I was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them,\" Leno continued.\n\n\"At the time, there was a prevailing attitude that some group is always complaining about something, so don't worry about it.\n\n\"Whenever we received a complaint, there would be two sides to the discussion: either, 'We need to deal with this' or, 'Screw 'em if they can't take a joke'.\"\n\nHe added: \"Too many times I sided with the latter even when in my heart I knew it was wrong. That is why I am issuing this apology.\"\n\nHe went on to say that he did not consider this to be an example of \"cancel culture\", but an acknowledgement of a genuine wrongdoing.\n\nMANAA said Leno's apology, which he agreed to being made public, had been accepted and they considered the matter to be resolved.\n\nThe 70-year-old star, who was replaced in 2014 by Jimmy Fallon, is set to host a revival of the 1950s TV and radio quiz show You Bet Your Life later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The prime minister has said drinkers will not need to prove they have had a vaccine when pubs in England open for outside trade from 12 April.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said it was a “bit premature” to talk about when would happen when they open to inside trade in May.\n\nHe said “no decisions have been taken at all” but the certification group would report on 5 or 12 April.\n\nAsked on Wednesday if vaccinations would be needed to go into a pub, he said that “kind of thing that may be up to individual publicans”.", "Intel's new chief executive has told the BBC it is not \"palatable\" that so many computer chips are made in Asia.\n\nThe majority of processors are currently manufactured in the region, with Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung the dominant players.\n\nUS-based Intel plans to set up a new division to make chips for other companies based on their own designs.\n\nUntil now, its focus had been on manufacturing its own chips in its factories across the world.\n\nPat Gelsinger has said Intel will invest $20bn (£14.6bn) in two new fabrication plants in the US state of Arizona, in addition to a major expansion of an existing Irish facility in County Kildare.\n\n\"Having 80% of all supply in Asia simply isn't a palatable manner for the world to have its view of the most critical technology,\" Mr Gelsinger said.\n\n\"Every smartphone, every telemedicine, every remote worker, every remote education, every autonomous vehicle, every aspect of humanity is becoming more digital.\n\n\"And when it becomes digital, it runs on semiconductors.\n\n\"This is the heart of every aspect of human existence going forward. And the world needs a more balanced supply chain to accomplish that. We're stepping in.\"\n\nIntel says the expansion of its facility in Leixlip, County Kildare, will create 1,600 permanent jobs\n\nHe added that Intel also intended to build a further chip-making foundry in a different European nation, but would not be drawn about exactly where.\n\nWhile these moves will be too late to tackle an existing shortage of chips which is causing problems for car-makers and others, they could help the West avert a future crisis.\n\nPoliticians in the US and the EU have called for more chip-producing factories to be built locally.\n\nThis is partly driven by concerns that Beijing aims to reunify mainland China with Taiwan, while North Korea poses a threat to its southern neighbour.\n\nHowever, Intel has repeatedly missed manufacturing targets over recent years.\n\nAs a consequence, its latest desktop processors use older transistor technology than rival silicon from AMD and Apple, putting the components at a disadvantage.\n\nMr Gelsinger must now prove his company has put these problems behind it if the new business is to thrive.\n\nThe 60-year-old only returned to Intel last month after his predecessor was ousted over concerns about falling market share, among other problems.\n\nChip manufacturing requires dust-free environments so the transistors and circuits are not damaged\n\nBut earlier in his career, Mr Gelsinger spent three decades at Intel, including a role as its first chief technical officer.\n\nOne activist investor had pressed him to go \"fab-less\", and spin off Intel's plants to concentrate on chip designs.\n\nBut Mr Gelsinger has instead chosen what looks like a tougher challenge in order to restore the company to its past glories.\n\nAnd that includes letting clients order chips that mix together their own technologies with some of Intel's own architectures for an extra fee.\n\n\"We're putting it all on the table,\" he said.\n\nThe following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Pat Gelsinger says he hopes Apple will be among third parties to get Intel to make their chips\n\nLet's start with the new Intel Foundry Services business. It sounds like you're going all out to make chips for other companies who lack the facilities to do so themselves. But why help the competition?\n\nManufacturing is a capacity game. And if you're not leading in terms of total capacity, you will fall behind. So to some degree it's a necessity. If we're going to be in the manufacturing business, we have to be a foundry for ourselves and for others.\n\nSimply put, the world needs more semiconductors.\n\nWe're in an environment where digitisation was at a strong pace of growth. And then Covid kicked us into a dramatically different gear.\n\nThe world needs more semiconductors, and we're one of the few companies that have leading-edge technologies to be able to step into that void. And to keep it for our own products simply is not the right thing for the planet, for the industry, and for a globally distributed supply chain.\n\nHow disruptive do you think it will be, coming in to take business away from Samsung and TSMC?\n\nOverall I think everybody is groaning to catch up to the overwhelming demand. And we're going to use Samsung and TSMC for some of our products.\n\nSo this is about \"co-op-petition\". We expect to have strong partnerships with them as customers, and in some cases we'll compete a little bit. But overall, this is a rapidly growing $100bn market segment that simply needs more supply.\n\nIt also needs more geographically balanced supply.\n\nToday there's a heavy bias to Asia. And as we've seen, coming out of some of the disruptions and challenges, the world needs US and European supply in a more balanced way. It's the right thing for the global supply chain requirements, for both commercial as well as for government and defence use as well.\n\nYou also have a large chip plant in Dalian, China. Are there any plans to build new ones in China?\n\nAt this point, we have no expansion plans for what we have there.\n\nThe announcement yesterday was for two new fabs in Arizona. I already have construction projects going on in Oregon, Ireland and in Israel.\n\nAnd we announced that we expect to open our next sites, in both Europe and the US, within the next year. So at this point, four major sites under construction, and I hope to add two more within the next year.\n\nWhen you say you want to build more in Europe, is that going to just be more in Ireland or Israel? Or are you looking at other countries, the UK perhaps?\n\nI fully expect that we'll open up a site in another country in Europe.\n\nI'm not going to speculate any further right now.\n\nBut just to put this in context: these are extraordinary capital investments. They're also extraordinary job generators.\n\nYou've said you hope Apple might be one of your clients, despite its decision to stop using Intel's own chips. Is that realistic?\n\nEverybody wants multiple suppliers. So we think there's very real potential. But I have to earn that business. I have to be able to go to my competitors and be able to say: \"I want you to become my customer.\"\n\nThat also includes Nvidia, Qualcomm and Broadcom, in addition to Microsoft and IBM. I want all of them to say: \"I need more technology... and I trust that Intel is going to become one of my key suppliers.\"\n\nAnd that includes Apple as one of the biggest users of advanced semiconductor capabilities.\n\nIntel is running a series of ads in which Mac computers come off worse against PCs powered by Intel chips\n\nApple can be a little thin-skinned at times. So is it wise to be running a high-profile ad campaign mocking its computers at the same time as saying we'd like to be your partner again?\n\nWe have great respect for Apple as a company. They're an innovator. They've done incredible things in the industry. Tim Cook is a great leader.\n\nAt the same time, we're going to be aggressive competitors and we're out to reinvigorate the PC ecosystem.\n\nSo we're going to enjoy ourselves. We're going to compete aggressively. And I'm also going to take care of my customers.\n\nRegarding your own chips, you say you've now mastered your seven nanometre process, which roughly equates to what TSMC and Samsung market as 5nm. But we've heard promises from Intel before, and then things have slipped. What's different this time?\n\nWe've understood the core issues. What really happened was problems with our 10nm effort caused a domino delay to 7nm.\n\nThere's an advanced manufacturing technique called extreme ultraviolet lithography. It was immature, and we bet against it. As we shifted in time, it became more mature. Now we've embraced it fully.\n\nIt's the same thing that TSMC is doing, and leveraging it aggressively.\n\nTSMC is currently the world's leading supplier of computer chips\n\nSo we feel that we're now in a very predictable pace.\n\nI have confidence that we're back on track. But not just for 7nm. Our programmes that go for several nodes beyond that are showing very good success.\n\nWe've also announced a research partnership with IBM. So, we have a rich portfolio of tricks and ideas and innovations to choose from to put us on a course for the long-term leadership of Intel.\n\nWhen you say leadership, just to be clear, do you think you could overtake TSMC and Samsung in chip-making capabilities?\n\nIntel led the semiconductor industry for 20-plus years in innovation.\n\nWe hit a pothole. We're now digging our way out of that pothole. And I'm looking forward to decades of continued leadership in this area.\n\nParity. Parity-plus. And then sustained leadership. That's the path that we're on.", "Mr Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet for $2.9m\n\nThe buyer of Twitter's first ever tweet by its founder Jack Dorsey for $2.9m (£2.1m) sees it as a wise investment.\n\n\"It's a piece of human history in the form of a digital asset. Who knows what will be the price of the first tweet of human history 50 years from now,\" Malaysia-based Sina Estavi said.\n\nExperts agree that the first tweet from the Twitter founder on his own platform is a highly valuable asset.\n\nJack Dorsey's tweet, which said \"just setting up my twttr,\" was first published on 21 March 2006 and was auctioned off by Mr Dorsey for Give Directly's Africa Response charity.\n\nMr Estavi, the chief executive of cryptocurrency firm Bridge Oracle, bought the tweet using ether, a rival currency to bitcoin.\n\nIt was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT), a unique digital certificate that states who owns a photo, video or other form of online media.\n\nNFTs have become hugely popular this year, with expensive digital artwork also being sold this way.\n\n\"I believe it's an emerging market and it's just the beginning. All forms of digital arts and creations such as music, photos, videos, tweets and blog posts can be traded in the form of an NFT,\" Mr Estavi, a 29-year-old Malaysian national told the BBC.\n\nHe added that his investors and colleagues \"are really appreciative and happy about this investment because they know the value and future price of this particular NFT and the impact it made on social media.\"\n\nWhile the price paid for the tweet raised a few eyebrows, experts believe it could be a shrewd investment.\n\n\"A way to explain it is that owning this first tweet can be viewed in the future almost like the first edition of a rare book,\" said Cathy Hackl, a social media expert.\n\n\"Twitter ushered in a new era of communication and this tweet launched it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dorsey's tweet was sold via an online platform called Valuables, owned by US-based company Cent.\n\nCameron Hejazi, co-founder of Cent, said this was the highest valued asset sold on the platform so far.\n\n\"I was shocked but not surprised - the value of these assets is highly subjective. Plus we are happy the money is going to such a good cause,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe NFT market is now worth $1bn and uses the same blockchain technology that underpins digital currencies such as bitcoin to establish ownership and authentication.\n\nHowever, it's still early days to determine precisely how buyers will value other online social media posts.\n\n\"To be able to capture the first tweet, of the person who invented this, makes it very important memorabilia,\" said Nanne Dekking, the founder of Artory, which records artworks on blockchain technology.\n\nOthers think some of Donald Trump's controversial tweets as US president might make for future investment targets.\n\nAs the buyer, Mr Estavi will receive a certificate, digitally signed and verified by Mr Dorsey,\n\n\"If that person is a crypto investor, it makes even more sense as they will find a way to make the investment work for them,\" added Ms Hackl.\n\nWhile Mr Estavi owns the Dorsey tweet, anyone with internet access can see and read it.", "Tenby and other popular Welsh resorts could soon be welcoming tourists again\n\nTourism businesses say they have been \"preparing like crazy\" and are ready to reopen if given the green light in Friday's lockdown review.\n\nWelsh government ministers are expected to discuss later whether travel restrictions can be eased to allow limited tourism over Easter.\n\nSelf-catered accommodation could reopen from 27 March and outdoor hospitality will be considered for 22 April.\n\nPeople in England cannot go on holiday anywhere in the UK until 12 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh government ministers are expected to discuss whether travel restrictions can be eased\n\n\"We have been preparing like crazy for the last two or three weeks to open,\" said William Greenwood from the National Trust's Bodnant Garden in Conwy.\n\n\"So we are pretty much ready to go as soon as we are given the go ahead.\"\n\nOfficials at Bodnant Garden believe they can reopen it within two of three days a formal announcement\n\nWith 20 miles of paths and 80 acres of gardens, Mr Greenwood said there should not be an issue with social distancing and they could welcome up to 2,000 visitors a day.\n\nAt the last lockdown review in Wales hairdressers, garden centres and some non-essential retail were given their dates to open.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford also announced tourism could start to reopen by Easter if case rates stayed low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There's going to be an influx of people,\" said one woman\n\nBut, he warned a decision would not be made until \"the last moment\" and tourism openings would come to a halt \"if bookings were made from outside Wales\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's Adam Price said businesses needed more detail on what they can expect, while the Tories have called for a roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nItalian-style village Portmeirion in Gwynedd was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis\n\nGeoffrey Lyons-Mound, of Lyons Holidays Parks - which has 10 sites across Wales and Cumbria - said it had been a \"long winter\" but there were \"positive signs\".\n\nHe added: \"About 95% of our customers are from England and 5% are Welsh - but all will be welcomed back.\n\n\"You find Welsh people tend to holiday in England and vice versa. But hopefully we will get there in the end.\"\n\nCatherine Hummel, co-owner of Riverside Camping near Caernarfon, said she was expecting a \"softer reopening\" because of having to decline English bookings - which she said made up about 90% of their business - but they were making preparations to open.\n\nCatherine Hummel said different rules across the border made it more \"complicated\" to reopen\n\nShe said: \"We have had to cancel around 100 bookings from England for Easter already, some were double cancellations from last year, so that's a double cancellation for some which isn't nice to do.\n\n\"Business-wise, I'm sad we can't welcome guests from England back just yet, but as a parent and member of the community I want to keep staff and guests as safe as possible.\"\n\nAnglesey at one point has some of the lowest case rates in the UK but is currently 35th - Holyhead is now second highest of the Wales localised hotspots\n\nNia Rhys Jones, joint chair of Anglesey Tourism Association and owner of some self-catering accommodation, said for some businesses it was \"just not worth the cost of reopening\".\n\nShe said: \"It's all good allowing self-contained accommodation to reopen, but a lot of businesses on Anglesey are not opening because the bulk of trade comes from England, so opening is not worth the cost for some.\n\n\"There is some nervousness about people from parts of south Wales travelling up here and potentially seeing rates rise again.\n\n\"It's a real double-edged sword, businesses need trade from England, but also don't want to be bringing coronavirus back into our communities.\"\n\nSean Taylor, founder of the Zip World group of attractions in Snowdonia, said he would be glad to see businesses open but \"the most important thing is notice\".\n\nHe said: \"We're a well-run business, but we need to be able to plan ahead. Any reopening after lockdown will need some time for staff training to take place and for us to organise things with suppliers. Even the most basic things as tea and coffee need a moment to get sorted before you can open the doors.\"\n\nPaula Ellis said the last 12 months had been \"the most challenging time of our careers\"\n\nPaula Ellis is the group general manager for Retreats Group Ltd, chair of South West Tourism Forum and a member of the Covid Emergency Taskforce Group for Tourism, Hospitality and Events.\n\nShe said lockdown had been \"the most challenging time of our careers\" and that without government support she did not know how the industry would have survived.\n\nShe said she hoped the plans could go ahead to open tourism by Easter and preparations had been under way since ministers announced in February it was a possibility, but she said she would understand if it was not the case.\n\n\"We understand that if further strains are found or the R number changes in Wales that the Welsh government would have to retract the opening.\n\n\"For all our hopes and aspirations, the health of the nation does need to come first.\"\n\nShe added she would feel \"a lot more confident to open safely\" this summer as opposed to last as people have begun to be vaccinated and a lot of her guests tended to be older so would probably have had their jabs already.\n\n\"My main concern since last year is how I can look after my colleagues, community and guests, and in that order.\n\n\"My team are champing at the bit to be back and you can really feel the camaraderie.\"\n\nAbout 350 people lost their jobs at Newport's Celtic Manor Resort during the pandemic.\n\nBut with the easing of lockdown, chief executive Ian Edwards said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nHe told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he was confident up to 250 furloughed staff and 150 still working would keep their jobs.\n\n\"The vaccine rollout has given us hope… it has been a very tough 12 months, but there is light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nPeople visiting Snowdonia's Pen y Pas will have to book a parking space in advance and use a park and ride service between April and November.\n\nEmyr Williams, Snowdonia National Park's chief executive, told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast the change was in response to hundreds of incidences of dangerous parking in the area last summer.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price called for \"greater transparency between now and the end of June on what's likely to happen to allow businesses room to plan ahead\".\n\n\"We're not calling for an arbitrary date for the ending of all restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"To not provide that level of openness means Labour is badly failing Welsh business and the workers and communities that depend on them.\"\n\nA Welsh Conservative spokesman said: \"Families, workers and businesses in Wales deserve a clear and detailed roadmap out of lockdown.\"Whilst Labour are dead against providing our businesses in the tourist sector with such detail, the Welsh Conservatives would deliver a clear and thorough roadmap out of lockdown, providing businesses with significant notice and restoring people with their freedoms.\"\n\nFiona Christie lives in Porthcawl and said she was nervous about the influx of people that could come to the town if rules allowed.\n\nFiona Christie lives in Porthcawl and said crowds in the summer can be \"pretty hideous\"\n\nShe said: \"I am nervous - I think Porthcawl is going to be pretty hideous in the summer to be fair. I think everybody is going to just come.\n\n\"It's lovely for people to come, but I think there's going to be an influx of people.\n\n\"I think people were more nervous last year and so they were careful, but this year I think everybody's probably had enough.\"\n\nCarolyn Peers said it can be daunting for people living in tourist towns\n\nCarolyn Peers, who also lives in the seaside town, said: \"It happened last year and we couldn't even walk along the prom there was so many people - and whilst I understand people wanting got come out, it's daunting if you live here as well.\"", "Wreckage is shown where the jet ploughed into the woodland north of the village of St Martin\n\nThe RAF and Royal Navy have paused flying of all Hawk T1 jets - including the Red Arrows - after a Navy jet crashed in Cornwall.\n\nTwo pilots ejected from the aircraft, which was from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.\n\nThe MoD said the pause in operations was a \"precautionary measure while investigations were ongoing\".\n\nThe MoD has paused operations of its T1 jets, including the Red Arrows\n\nPolice said they received reports of the two-seater training aircraft crashing in the St Martin area on the Lizard Peninsula on Thursday morning.\n\nThe pilots, who were airlifted to hospital, are in a stable condition \"without significant injury\", police said.\n\nEjection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker said it was the first ejection from a Royal Navy aircraft in 18 years.\n\nAn MoD spokesperson said: \"Safety is our paramount concern. The RAF has decided to temporarily pause Hawk T1 operations as a precautionary measure, while investigations are ongoing.\"\n\nEarlier this week it was announced the RAF would retire its fleet of 76 T1 jets as part of a defence review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Factcheck: Do more people migrate in the winter months?\n\nEarlier, Biden said: “There is a significant increase in the number of people coming in the border in the winter months of January, February, March. It happens every year”. He said people are coming across because of the situations they face in their home countries and because it is easier to travel in the cooler winter months, compared to the hot summer. The US Customs and Border Protection agency releases monthly figures of the number of “encounters” at the southwest land border. In January and February 2021, 78,442 and 100,441 people were apprehended - this is a significant increase of the same months for the previous years, at just over 36,000 for those two months. The highest number in the last few years was in May 2019 - over 140,000 people were apprehended by the authorities. So, looking at the figures, the numbers of people apprehended at the border fluctuates greatly - but it doesn’t always appear to go up during the winter months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A salvage company, working to free the Ever Given, says the operation could take weeks\n\nThe Japanese owner of the giant cargo ship that has been blocking Egypt's Suez Canal since Tuesday has apologised for the disruption to global trade.\n\nShoei Kisen Kaisha said it was trying to resolve the situation as soon as possible, but that dislodging the Ever Given was proving extremely difficult.\n\nMarine and salvage engineers failed in their latest attempt on Thursday.\n\nThe 400m-long (1,300ft), 200,000-tonne vessel became wedged across the canal amid high winds and a dust storm.\n\nEvergreen Marine, the Taiwanese firm that operates the ship, has said salvage experts are working with the captain and the Suez Canal Authority to design a more effective plan for refloating it.\n\nThe blockage is creating long tailbacks in the waterway, with more than 150 vessels currently waiting in the area to pass.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nAn alternative route, around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, can take two weeks longer.\n\nThe Ever Given is almost as long as Manhattan's Empire State Building is high\n\n\"In co-operation with local authorities and Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, a vessel management company, we are trying to refloat [the Ever Given], but we are facing extreme difficulty,\" the owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, said in a statement on Thursday.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise for causing a great deal of worry to ships in the Suez Canal and those planning to go through the canal,\" it added.\n\nIndustry sources told Reuters news agency that even if the Ever Given was refloated quickly its owner and insurers faced claims totalling millions of dollars for the delays and extra costs accrued by other companies.\n\nDiggers on the ground are clearing sand and mud away from the Ever Given's bow\n\nToshiaki Fujiwara, an official at Shoei Kisen Kaisha, told AFP news agency that the ship had an insurance policy, but that he was unaware of the details or any costs involved at this stage.\n\n\"It's just the beginning,\" he said.\n\nGlobal crude oil prices rose 6% on Wednesday after traffic through the canal was suspended, though they fell more than 4% on Thursday.\n\nA flotilla of tugboats, as well as dredgers and diggers resumed efforts to move the Ever Given at high tide on Thursday morning, after stopping overnight.\n\nLater, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement said in a statement that an attempt to refloat the vessel at about 08:00 was not successful, and that another attempt would be made in the afternoon.\n\nThe management company added that a team of salvage experts from Smit Salvage had been appointed and were attending to the ship.\n\nAll navigation through Suez Canal has been temporarily suspended\n\nThe CEO of Smit Salvage's parent company, Boskalis, warned that it could take weeks, rather than days, to refloat the ship.\n\n\"It is like an enormous beached whale. It's an enormous weight on the sand,\" Peter Berdowski told the Dutch TV station NPO.\n\n\"We might have to work with a combination of reducing the weight by removing containers, oil and water from the ship, tug boats and dredging of sand.\"\n\nThe suspension of navigation through the Suez Canal has created an atmosphere of uncertainty. No-one knows exactly when things will go back to normal. The canal is congested. Dozens of ships are waiting to resume their journeys.\n\nExperts say that the salvage efforts might work when the tides gets stronger early next week. If attempts to free the ship fail, one of the options would be to unload part of its cargo. But that would take a long time too.\n\nThe authorities are not giving much detail, and the situation is very tense. The strategic waterway is a huge asset for Egypt. Not only is it a source of national pride, but it also provides much needed foreign cash to the Egyptian economy, which is already struggling.\n\nThe Ever Given ran aground on Tuesday as it sailed northwards through the canal on its way from China to the Netherlands with two canal pilots on board.\n\nEvergreen Marine said the ship \"was suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate from waterway\".\n\nBernhard Schulte Shipmanagement said initial investigations had ruled out any mechanical or engine failure as a cause of the grounding.\n\nShoei Kisen Kaisha said the Ever Given's 25-member crew, who are all Indian nationals, were safe and that no oil leaks had been detected.\n\nEight tug boats are pushing and pulling the Ever Given in an attempt to refloat it\n\nAlmost 19,000 ships passed through the canal in 2020, according to the Suez Canal Authority - an average of 51.5 ships per day.\n\nService provider Leth Agencies said a total of 156 vessels waiting in the area on Thursday, and that three behind Ever Given were being assisted and escorted back to Port Suez in the south.\n\nPeter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO, told the BBC that the delayed vessels were not only container ships, but oil and gas tankers and bulk carriers transporting grain supplies.\n\n\"We may see production stop at conveyer belts in Europe shortly,\" he warned.\n\nIn 2017, a Japanese container vessel blocked the canal after it ran aground following reported mechanical issues. The Egyptian authorities deployed tug boats and the ship was refloated within hours.\n\nDid you witness the incident? Are you on board another vessel on the Suez Canal? Tell us your story 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:", "Deborah thinks \"family hubs\" could help new parents find out more about local services like health visits\n\nNew parents will have more co-ordinated access to help and services under plans to improve children's health in England, the government says.\n\nA \"family hub\" network will be set up and the \"red books\" used to log babies' health information will be digitised.\n\nAndrea Leadsom, who chaired the government review on early years health, said the plans would identify those families most in need of support.\n\nLabour called them \"a smokescreen for a decade of failure on early years\".\n\n\"Red books\" - or personal child health records - are given to parents around the time that their baby is born, and are used to record details like weight, height and vaccinations.\n\nThe government said it will bring forward plans to digitise them, meaning they will go online by April 2023.\n\nLocal authorities will be asked to produce a single \"Start for Life\" document for parents with information about support services in their area - from health visits to help quitting smoking.\n\nUnder the plans, published as part of a review on Thursday, there will also be \"family hubs\" - centres where parents could access a range of services.\n\nThe government says these services could include birth registration, midwifery, health visiting, mental health support and feeding advice.\n\nDeborah Gibb, a 32-year-old teacher from Bradford, is trying to calm her four-month-old, Freyja, when she picks up the phone. \"I think she's started to teethe, which is ridiculously young,\" she laughs.\n\nShe seems to breathe a sigh of relief when I tell her that the red book will be moving online (although that might just be because Freyja has settled down).\n\n\"As a mother, going out of the house you pack your entire life with you. But remembering that red book that's in the back of the cupboard?\" she says. \"It seems ridiculous.\"\n\nShe thinks having a single publication that lists local services would be useful, so long as it's digitised. She was given leaflets \"left, right and centre\" when she left hospital after giving birth to her older daughter, Eilidh, now three.\n\n\"They just go in a pile and you don't get time to read them. What you do spend hours doing is using your phone looking for information in the middle of the night.\"\n\nShe says her job meant she felt reasonably clued up about what support services were available in her area - but many new parents don't.\n\n\"I was having a conversation the other day about how I've signed Freyja up for nursery for when I return to work in September. They were like, 'you've already put her name down?'\"\n\nShe says it is important for first-time parents to have \"somewhere to go centrally to get all the information that isn't an intimidating place\".\n\nMs Leadsom, a former cabinet minister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the plans would also help identify families who \"would go on to have real difficulties\" without support.\n\n\"What families will see differently is they will receive a joined-up Start for Life offer, which will show them explicitly what services they can get to support them in the period from conception to the age of two,\" she said.\n\nShe said the digitisation of the red books would \"make a huge difference\".\n\n\"For families, they won't have to keep telling their story again and again. For professionals, they will be able to see what's happened to that family to provide them with the support that they need,\" she added.\n\nTulip Siddiq, Labour's shadow minister for children and early years, called the plans \"a smokescreen for a decade of failure on early years\".\n\nShe said ministers had spent years \"dismantling\" Sure Start, an early intervention policy launched by Labour under Tony Blair to support the wellbeing of children before they started school.\n\nA report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2019 found the Sure Start scheme had a positive impact, but that funding had been cut and 500 sites had closed.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, head of the Sutton Trust, said there was a \"postcode lottery of provision\" at present and the pandemic has \"highlighted pre-existing inequalities\".\n\n\"We welcome the renewed focus on this crucial stage in life and the development of the Family Hub initiative as a universal service which will also identify the most vulnerable families,\" he said.\n\nAngela McConville, chief executive of parents' charity the NCT, welcomed the \"commitment to strong, coherent services\" to tackle \"health and wellbeing inequalities that... have been further exacerbated by the pandemic\".\n\n\"This focus has been strikingly absent from previous policy and investment, with sometimes disastrous consequences for parents and babies,\" she said.\n\nImran Hussain of charity Action for Children also welcomed the plan.\n\nHe said children's centres and family hubs \"will be more important than ever\" following the Covid-19 pandemic, helping to tackle \"the growing educational attainment gap\" between children from higher and lower socio-economic backgrounds.\n\nJudith Blake, chairwoman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said the report \"rightly recognises the crucial support provided by councils\".\n\nShe said the LGA was \"keen\" to work with Ms Leadsom on the next phase of the review, but stressed that \"it will need to be properly resourced\".", "NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nNurses, paramedics and domestic staff are among those who could receive the boost to their salaries.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said the average pay of a front-line NHS nurse would rise by over £1,200 a year.\n\nShe said the offer - which does not apply to doctors - recognised the \"service and dedication\" of staff during the pandemic\n\nThe settlement will be backdated to 1 December 2020 in recognition of an \"exceptional year of significant pressure\".\n\nIt follows the £500 thank you payment for all health and social care workers which was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in November.\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended plans to give some NHS staff in England a 1% pay rise.\n\nHe praised \"heroic\" health and social care workers but said the rise was as much as the government could afford during the \"tough times\" of the pandemic.\n\nMs Freeman described the Scottish government's offer as \"the biggest single pay uplift since devolution\" for NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) staff.\n\nAfC is the current grading and pay system for NHS staff. It does not include doctors, dentists, executives and senior managers.\n\nAcross cycles of economic growth and contraction, public sector pay remains stable while private sector pay is more volatile - racing ahead in the good times, taking the bigger hit and redundancies when they turn tough.\n\nSo when private employer competition for skilled workers is lower, public sector pay increases can be reined in.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government has opted to boost pay, going against that cycle and in contrast with the 1% offered to NHS staff in England.\n\nComing at the end of a three-year 9% pay deal, the cost looks to be about £135m next year, and unlike the £500 one-off NHS payment last year, it is baked in to future pay rises.\n\nNHS staff have political support, so it makes sense ahead of an election. However, with a balanced budget required, a pound spent on pay cannot be spent on others who have been at the Covid battlefront - for instance, care home workers, those in the voluntary sector, welfare benefits for unpaid carers.\n\nA further consideration in NHS pay is that demand for scarce skills is on the rise, without easy access to EU labour, with doctor retirement, many GPs working part-time and loss of medical expertise overseas. This is one sign of the measures the NHS has to take to ensure it recruits and retains the staff it needs.\n\nShe added that it would benefit 154,000 staff and including domestic staff, porters and health care support workers.\n\nThis group, which she described as \"the backbone of our services\" would see pay rises of more than £1,000, the equivalent of between 4% and 5.4%.\n\nThose on the highest salaries will receive a £800 pay rise.\n\nMs Freeman said: \"This has been an exceptionally challenging year for our health service and I am pleased that the Scottish government is able to recognise the service and dedication of our healthcare staff.\"\n\nThe announcement follows ongoing negotiations between the Scottish government, NHS employers and unions, who will now consult their members on the offer.\n\nAnd the offer is significantly higher than the pay rise proposals for other public sector workers.\n\nThis is not just a bumper pay offer for many NHS workers in Scotland, it is a powerful negotiating tool for health unions trying to prise more cash from the UK government.\n\nIt is hard to imagine nurses and other healthcare staff in England settling for a proposed 1% rise when their colleagues in Scotland are receiving 4%.\n\nThat contrast will presumably not go unnoticed by the independent pay review panel in England which is due to make its recommendations in May.\n\nIn Scotland, details of the new pay offer were released just hours before the start of the Holyrood election campaign, during which governments are obliged to avoid making big spending announcements.\n\nIt may lead to a wider debate in the campaign about how other public sector workers are rewarded and the support available to those in the private sector struggling as a result of the Covid crisis.\n\nIn her budget, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes announced a 3% rise for people earning under £25,000, with 1% for people earning up to £80,000 a year.\n\nShe called it a \"progressive and restorative approach\" but unions said it was disappointing after a year of working through the pandemic.\n\nColin Poolman, Royal College of Nursing Scotland senior officer, said: \"The timescale for negotiations was tight as a result of the forthcoming election but we have now received an offer for a one year pay deal.\"\n\nWillie Duffy, Unison regional organiser, said that each of the individual trade unions would now enter into discussions with their members on the offer.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"There will be a view that it's not enough but we managed through the negotiations to get extra money into the pay envelope.\"\n\nHe also compared the offer to the 1% offered in England by the Westminster government.\n\nHe said: \"It shows the stark difference between the two governments and their attitude to trying to deal with health service workers.\"\n\nAll of Scotland's main opposition parties have made the NHS a central part of their appeals in the forthcoming Holyrood election.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have promised to deliver an increased share of funding to GPs.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the NHS pay offer was welcome but it did not consider social care workers, whom she called \"the unsung heroes of the pandemic\".\n\nMs Baillie said Scottish Labour was committed to a wage rise to £15 an hour for the social care workforce, with an immediate increase to £12 an hour.\n\nThe Scottish Greens have pledged support for a properly funded publicly-owned NHS Scotland while the Scottish Liberal Democrats are promising a \"decent\" pay rise for NHS staff.", "Natural gas supplier, Firmus energy, has announced a 14% price increase for customers in greater Belfast.\n\nThe tariff change on 15 April will affect more than 50,000 consumers.\n\nThe firm said the move is in response to an increase in global wholesale prices. Bills for the average household will rise by £1.32 per week.\n\nFirmus said the increase follows two price reductions totalling 20% over the last 18 months.\n\nThe greater Belfast network area covers Belfast, Lisburn, Bangor, Holywood, Groomsport, Carryduff, Comber, Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus among other areas.\n\nEarlier this month, the company announced prices in its Ten Towns network would increase by 17.75% from 1 April.\n\n\"We know that price stability is important for our customers but the increase of wholesale natural gas costs on the global market, which are beyond our control, have unfortunately made this increase inevitable,\" said Michael Scott, managing director of Firmus.\n\n\"Any increase is never welcome news and we recognise this comes at a particularly difficult time for many.\n\n\"We want to assure our customers that we will continue to monitor and review our tariffs to ensure customers are getting the best prices possible.\"\n\nThe Consumer Council said the latest price rise was \"unwelcome news\" for Firmus customers, following the price rise for customers in the Ten Towns network.\n\nHowever, Raymond Gormley from the Consumer Council said his organisation understood \"the main driver for the increase is the significant rise in the cost of wholesale gas globally over the last year\".\n\n\"Consumers who are experiencing financial difficulty and are struggling to pay their energy bills should contact their supplier without delay to talk about how they can help during these times,\" he added.\n\nMr Gormley also encouraged customers to \"shop around to ensure they are on the best energy deal\".", "Middle-aged women experience the most severe, long-lasting symptoms after being treated in hospital for Covid-19, two UK studies suggest.\n\nFive months on, 70% of patients studied were still affected by everything from anxiety to breathlessness, fatigue, muscle pain and \"brain fog\".\n\nBut the researchers say there is no obvious link with how ill people originally became.\n\nHow women's bodies fight off illness could explain their poorer recovery.\n\nThe larger study - led by the University of Leicester - which is yet to be peer-reviewed, followed up more than 1,000 patients who had been admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in the UK last year. It found that up to 70% had not fully recovered, an average of five months after leaving hospital, with women most affected.\n\nMore than 400,000 people have been admitted to hospital with Covid in the UK since the start of the pandemic.\n\nA separate smaller pre-print study, led by University of Glasgow, found women under 50 were seven times more likely to be more breathless, and twice as likely to report worse fatigue than men of the same age who had had the illness, seven months after hospital treatment.\n\nIn the Leicester study, these lasting 'long Covid' symptoms stopped 18% of people returning to work and forced 19% to change their job.\n\nDespite patients receiving a range of hospital care - with most given antibiotics, one-third receiving oxygen and just over a quarter ending up in intensive care - even those who had had short hospital stays still had ongoing problems.\n\nPeople who hadn't returned to normal health were more likely to be female, white, aged between approximately 40 and 60, have two or more underlying conditions, and been on a ventilator.\n\nDr Rachael Evans, an associate professor at the University of Leicester and respiratory consultant at Leicester's Hospitals, said, \"much of the wide variety of persistent problems was not explained by the severity of the acute illness\" - often characterised by lung damage.\n\nThis suggests other underlying factors may be at play, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long Covid: 'Life might never be normal again'\n\nAnd among women, it was the middle-aged group which appeared to be worst affected by long-term health problems, while younger and older women recovered better.\n\nStudy author Dr Nazir Lone, consultant in critical care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, said this could be because \"older age groups are more likely to die\" and so more younger, middle-aged women are more likely to survive with health issues.\n\nBut he also said it was possible women have \"a different immune response to men\". Men, however, are more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid in the first place.\n\nThe PHOSP-Covid study also found that most people with severe, ongoing symptoms five months after leaving hospital had higher than normal levels of a chemical called CRP in their bodies, which is linked to inflammation.\n\nThis is also present in middle-aged women, who are prone to auto-immune conditions in which the body attacks its own healthy cells and organs.\n\n\"This may explain why post-Covid syndrome seems to be more prevalent in this group, but further investigation is needed to fully understand the processes,\" said Prof Louise Wain, chair in respiratory research at the University of Leicester.\n\nThe researchers were also able to identify four different groups or \"clusters\" of people based on their mental and physical health issues after Covid, with one group showing particular problems with \"brain fog\". They tended to be older and male.\n\n\"The evidence for different recovery 'clusters', and ongoing inflammation, really is important in guiding how we conduct further research into the underlying biological mechanisms that drive long Covid,\" Prof Wain said.\n\nThe University of Glasgow study, on 327 adults discharged from 31 hospitals across the UK, found women under 50 were five times less likely to say they felt fully recovered from Covid-19 up to seven months later.\n\nWomen in this age group were also more likely to have a new disability than men of the same age who had also had the illness.\n\nThese new difficulties often related to memory, mobility, vision and hearing.\n\nThe study's lead author, Dr Janet Scott, from the University of Glasgow-MRC Centre for Virus Research, said: \"Our research shows that survivors of Covid-19 experienced long-term symptoms, including a new disability, increased breathlessness, and a reduced quality of life.\n\n\"These findings were present even in young, previously healthy adults under 50, and were most common in younger females.\"\n\nShe said this could have \"profound implications for pandemic policy decision, as well as vaccination strategy\".\n\nDr Lone, who was involved in both studies, said it was vital to identify people with ongoing health problems from Covid and get experts such as dieticians, physiotherapists and social workers on board to help provide personalised help and support.", "The Covid-19 vaccination programme has saved more than 6,000 lives, an analysis by Public Health England says.\n\nMost would have been among the over-80s and some among people in their 70s, estimates up to the end of February suggest.\n\nIt comes as people in England aged over 50 and in at-risk categories are being urged to book their Covid jabs before Monday, when slots are set to dry up.\n\nThe NHS said appointments should be arranged by 29 March.\n\nOfficials expect a slowdown in vaccine supplies in April - and medics will be focusing on providing second doses.\n\nMinisters say the plan to offer a first dose to all adults by July is on track.\n\nBut NHS England said no first appointments should be booked next month for the under-50s unless they fall into a higher-priority group, such as those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nFour in five people in the first nine priority groups have now received at least one dose of a vaccine.\n\nThe PHE analysis compared expected deaths with Covid-19 with deaths observed among the four million over-70s given first doses by the end of January, assuming it would take 31 days before the protective effects of the vaccine had a significant impact on death rates.\n\nIt estimated 6,100 lives had been saved:\n\nAnd an even higher number of lives would have been saved, PHE said, if vaccines also helped to reduce transmission of the virus, as hoped.\n\nImmunisation head Dr Mary Ramsay said: \"The vaccines have an excellent safety record - and I would encourage anyone who is offered a vaccine to take it as soon as possible.\"\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"It is a testament to the careful planning and sheer hard work of staff that the NHS vaccination programme is continuing to protect people against coronavirus at a record pace.\n\n\"I was thrilled to get my first dose earlier this month - it was quick, painless and safe and it feels great knowing I've got protection against Covid-19.\n\n\"So if you are eligible, do not delay, book a jab.\"\n\nThe latest government figures show 28,653,523 people in the UK have received a first dose of a vaccine, while 2,532,839 second doses have been given.\n\nAnybody aged 50 or over and people aged 18 and over who are clinically vulnerable can book themselves in for a first dose using the online national booking system for England before 29 March.\n\nGPs will also continue contacting eligible patients on their lists and offer vaccines to anyone who has not had one so far in that period.\n\nThe reduction in the UK's Covid vaccine supply in April is partly due to a delay in a delivery from India of five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses.\n\nIndian foreign ministry sources have told the BBC the country has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the vaccine amid a rising number of domestic cases.\n\nTwo vaccination centres in Cornwall said they will temporarily close next month because of the supply shortage.", "Northern Ireland's fishermen say they have been short-changed in a UK share-out of extra Brexit fish.\n\nThey say they got only £14m of the £20m-a-year worth of additional quota they believe they were due.\n\nA spokesman for one of the two main fishing organisations, Alan McCulla, said Northern Ireland's Brexit fish dividend had been \"plundered\".\n\nHe warned last week that the government intended to give the bulk of the Brexit fish to Scotland.\n\nMr McCulla claimed it was part of a ploy to shore up support for the Conservative candidates ahead of key elections there in May, in order to see off a future Scottish independence referendum.\n\nA Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokesperson said: \"We have worked closely with the devolved administrations to make sure that the additional fishing quota we have secured for the UK is allocated fairly.\n\n\"For the majority of Northern Ireland priority stocks, such as haddock, fishers receive a higher share than they did last year.\"\n\nThe UK negotiated a return of fish previously caught by EU boats in UK waters as part of the Brexit deal.\n\nIt was left to Whitehall to decide how to share it out in consultation with the devolved nations.\n\nThe detail of the share-out was quietly published on Wednesday.\n\nMr McCulla said Northern Ireland had got a fair share in the Irish Sea, but pointed out that 60% of the fleet's catch by value was taken in wider UK waters.\n\nHe said his members had been \"mugged\" of new opportunities in those areas.\n\n\"The London government's spin that the Brexit fisheries boost is distributed across the UK may be true, but the fact is that distribution has been rigged to favour some areas more than others,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said: \"I am disappointed with the secretary of state's decision to allocate additional quota gained from the EU in 2021, using a method based on track record and geographical zonal attachment.\n\n\"I and the NI industry had argued strongly for allocation based on the existing system of fixed quota allocation units as this would have delivered the greatest gain in additional quota for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Our industry fishes not just in the Irish Sea but all round the UK and any element of geographical zonal attachment in the apportionment calculation works to our disadvantage. I will continue to press for a fair share of additional fishing quota for 2022 and beyond.\"", "Spotify recently revealed that 60,000 tracks are uploaded to its servers every day - that's a new song every one and a half seconds.\n\nThe US Library of Congress is more picky: admitting just 25 recordings to its Recording Registry every year.\n\nThose works, which are deemed to have historical and cultural significance, are then preserved for posterity.\n\nThis year's inductees have just been announced, with Janet Jackson, Winston Churchill and The Muppets on the list.\n\nNas' iconic debut, Illmatic, was also added to the registry, as was Labelle's Lady Marmalade and Louis Armstrong's 1938 recording of When the Saints Go Marching In.\n\nChurchill is included for his speech at the White House on Christmas Eve 1941, less than three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor dragged America into the Second World War.\n\nBroadcast around the world, the speech was a plea to put the horrors of war on pause during Christmas.\n\n\"Let the children have their night of fun and laughter,\" said the British prime minister. \"Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us.\"\n\nJanet Jackson's 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814 is one of the newest records to be added to the registry this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by JanetJacksonVEVO 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 Library of Congress recognised how the pop star had rejected pressure to repeat the commercial success of her previous record, Control, and instead made a record that grappled with racism, homelessness, gun crime and social injustice.\n\n\"We wanted Rhythm Nation to really communicate empowerment,\" Jackson's producer Jimmy Jam told the Library of Congress. \"It was making an observation, but it was also a call to action. Janet's purpose was to lead people and do it through music, which I think is the ultimate uniter of people.\"\n\nKermit The Frog, meanwhile, enters the registry thanks to The Rainbow Connection, the 1979 single that has become The Muppets' unofficial theme song.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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End of youtube video 2 by The Muppets\n\nComposer Paul Williams has called the ballad a tribute to the spirit of Muppets' creator Jim Henson.\n\n\"What [co-writer Kenny Ascher and I] tapped into for Kermit is what we tapped into for Jim Henson; his mind, heart, and gentle soul,\" Williams told Vanity Fair in 2019. \"I think it's his song as much as Kenny's, or mine, or Kermit's.\"\n\nOne of the most curious and significant artefacts to be added to the registry this year is a voice recording made on tinfoil in 1878.\n\nThought to be the oldest playable recording of an American voice, it begins with the sound of brass instruments, followed by recitations of Mary Had a Little Lamb and Old Mother Hubbard.\n\nThe nursery rhymes are interrupted intermittently with laughter as the narrator forgets the words. \"Look at me; I don't know the song,\" says the man, thought to be Thomas Mason, a journalist in Missouri.\n\nThomas Edison with his phonograph in 1906\n\nMason was among the first people to buy one of Thomas Edison's phonograph machines, which he invented in 1877; but died of sunstroke three weeks after making his historic recording.\n\nThe foil survived - but it was thought to be unplayable for years, until scientists managed to extract the sound digitally in 2013.\n\nThe most recent recording added to the registry is a 2008 episode of the US radio show This American Life, which tells the story of the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. It is also the first podcast to become part of the collection.\n\nThe full list of recordings selected for the registry is as follows:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The twins cuddling after being separated at birth\n\nA mother said she \"cried tears of joy\" as her twins were reunited two weeks after being separated at birth.\n\nLaura Hough said she was warned her daughter, Neve, who was born weighing 1lb 7oz (652g), may not survive.\n\nBut it was her twin brother Louie, who weighed 3lbs 3oz (1.5kg), who was taken for specialist care separating them.\n\nMiss Hough, 27, from Liverpool, said their emotional reunion was \"so cute, they were cuddling and even holding hands\".\n\n\"They're unbelievable. They're so strong. I couldn't be more proud,\" she said.\n\nNeve and Louie were born by emergency Caesarean section at 30 weeks at Liverpool Women's Hospital on 8 March.\n\nThe first-time mum from Walton said the birth was \"scary\" because she was \"told for the last few weeks of my pregnancy [Neve] might not make it but she was fine\".\n\nNeve had reverse blood flow and was not getting enough nutrients but despite being \"so tiny\" she did not need oxygen, Miss Hough said.\n\n\"She's incredible. The doctors said they had never seen a baby so small not need any help,\" she said.\n\nProud parents Chris Carey and Laura Hough say they could not be prouder of their twins\n\nHowever, the twins had to be cared for in different units after Louie had complications and his lungs collapsed.\n\nMiss Hough said he was \"much better now\" and the twins were finally reunited on Tuesday.\n\n\"It was horrible when they were separated at birth but I cried tears of joy when they got back together,\" she said.\n\n\"They were wrapping their legs around each other and cuddling, even holding hands at one point. They were so cute.\"\n\nMiss Hough said doctors hoped the twins could go home by May.\n\n\"Everyone is made up with them. We are desperate to welcome them home,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will be forced to rely on the current BBC TV licence fee model until 2038, a group of MPs has said.\n\nA report from a Commons select committee suggests the failure to find a viable alternative form of funding meant the licence fee must remain for the term of the next charter.\n\nA government spokeswoman said the licence fee would be reviewed before the current charter ends in 2027.\n\nThe BBC said it \"welcomed this thorough and detailed report\".\n\nThe corporation added: \"We welcome the conclusion that the licence fee is the best way of funding a universal BBC.\"\n\nThe BBC announced last month that the annual licence fee will increase from £157.50 to £159 from April 2021. It came after three million over-75s lost their free TV licence entitlement.\n\nThe report, which was published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee on Thursday, focused on the future of public service broadcasting.\n\nIt concluded that the government's failure to put in place the necessary broadband infrastructure, which would allow for other funding mechanisms, meant it had no option but to stick with the licence fee for the next 10-year charter period.\n\nCurrently, a move to a digital system would result in 1.8 million households losing access to public service broadcasting because of a lack of broadband access and digital skills, the report said.\n\n\"It's clear that the BBC TV licence fee has a limited shelf life in a digital media landscape,\" said DCMS Committee Chair and Conservative MP Julian Knight.\n\n\"However, the government has missed the boat to reform it. Instead of coming up with a workable alternative, it has sealed its own fate through a failure to develop a broadband infrastructure that would allow serious consideration of other means to fund the BBC.\"\n\nThe committee said it had \"explored existing alternatives\" to the licence fee but said none was \"sufficiently attractive to justify recommending... not least given the disruption and expense of doing so\". It added: \"On balance, the licence fee remains the preferred option for that period.\"\n\nThe BBC's current charter runs until 31 December 2027. The new recommendations from the DCMS committee refer to the next charter period, which will be 2028-2038.\n\nThe licence fee will increase by £1.50 in April, to £159\n\nThe report also said the government should end speculation about decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee, in order to prevent further funding losses.\n\nIt suggested the current uncertainty was likely to boost licence fee evasion rates and lead to a further drop in funding.\n\nEarlier this year, the government announced it had decided not to move ahead with plans to decriminalise non-payment of the licence fee, but said the issue would \"remain under active consideration\".\n\n\"The government is effectively allowing the BBC to haemorrhage funds through non-payment of the licence fee as a result of continued speculation over decriminalisation of licence fee evasion, a situation it must bring to an end,\" said Mr Knight.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"Decriminalisation of the licence fee remains on the table.\n\n\"The government continues to believe that criminal sanctions for non payment is increasingly disproportionate, but we need to be careful that any alternative enforcement mechanism does not result in heavier penalties.\"\n\n\"We have said we will keep the licence fee until 2027 but, ahead of that point, will review how the BBC is funded.\"\n\nThe DCMS select committee is a group of MPs from different political parties who scrutinise the spending, policies and administration of the government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nAs such, they do not have any policy-making power, but they can make recommendations and hold ministers to account.\n\nMr Knight said ministers must now legislate to enable public service broadcasters to compete in a digital world, adding that the likes of BBC, ITV and Channel 4 should also be pooling resources so they can compete with streaming giants like Netflix.\n\nHe continued: \"The collaboration by the BBC and ITV on BritBox is a striking example of how they can work together to create a one stop shop for video on demand content - a model for future work.\"\n\nBBC director general recently announced plans to move some BBC staff out of London\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said this week that the corporation \"is not here to beat Netflix\", adding: \"We need to do something radically different.\"\n\nMr Davie noted his own \"healthy paranoia about the sustainability\" of the BBC's licence fee funding model, and said the corporation must be \"distinctive\".\n\nMr Davie also unveiled plans last week to move key departments and staff outside of London to make the corporation more reflective of the UK as a whole.\n\nMr Knight also called on Mr Davie to provide updated figures on rates of licence fee evasion, in light of concerns that the numbers are significantly higher than those previously published.\n\nThe BBC's Annual Report estimated an evasion rate of between 6.5% and 7.5%. However, Mr Knight said the BBC had recently provided more detailed information to Lord Botham regarding licence fee figures for people aged over 75.\n\n\"We've heard that current rates are significantly higher than the figures it has published to date,\" Mr Knight said. \"When we asked for this information we were pointed to published annual reports that were nowhere near as detailed as what appears to have been sent to Lord Botham about the over-75s. We are left asking whether there is something to hide.\"\n\nIn response, the BBC said: \"The overwhelming majority of people in the UK are correctly licensed. A small minority evade and this figure has remained broadly steady over the past five years.\n\n\"The over-75s are entirely separate. We are giving people time to transition to the new system and it is misleading to link these two issues.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wreckage is shown where the jet ploughed into the woodland north of the village of St Martin\n\nA Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet has crashed in woodland in Cornwall.\n\nTwo pilots ejected from the aircraft which is from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.\n\nThe pilots, who were airlifted to hospital, are in a stable condition \"without significant injury\", police said.\n\nDefence Minister Johnny Mercer said the crash was due to \"suspected engine failure\".\n\nEmergency services are at the scene of the crash near St Martin\n\n\"There's nothing more to it than that,\" he said. \"They've had a problem, they've ejected, they've been picked up.\n\n\"We're assessing them and we'll have more information in due course.\"\n\nEjection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker said it was the first Royal Navy ejection in 18 years.\n\nPolice said they received reports of the two-seater training aircraft crashing in the St Martin area on the Lizard Peninsula.\n\nEyewitness David Hoskin, a farmer, said he heard an \"unbelievable bang\" and saw two people ejecting from the plane.\n\nHe found the two men \"in fairly good spirits\" and \"chatting\" in a field near the crash scene.\n\nOne had \"cuts and bruises\" on his face from landing in trees next to the field.\n\n\"The pilot was very concerned about the whereabouts of the jet,\" he said.\n\n\"He said they aimed to put it in the Helford River but we saw it heading away from the river.\"\n\nA parachute lays tangled in a tree where one of the crew landed\n\nThe plane crashed into a small woodland at the bottom of a field.\n\nThe police have allowed us to within about 50m of the debris but the only evidence of the crash from here is a hole in a hedge and the strong smell of fuel in the air.\n\nBeyond the hedge they tell us the plane has broken up into lots of pieces.\n\nThe military will now be investigating what happened.\n\nThe fire service has dammed a river that runs through the woodland to reduce the risk of fuel getting into the water course.\n\nA discarded helmet at the scene of the crash near St Martin\n\nAnother eyewitness, Richard Cooper, said: \"There's no plane in view, it's gone through a load of trees and down a valley into a wooded area. There's a handful of broken branches.\n\n\"There was a strong smell of fuel when I first arrived but that's gone now.\"\n\nOne eyewitness said the scene looked \"a little chaotic\" but emergency services appeared to have it under control\n\nTina Searle, who lives on a farm near St Martin, said: \"I thought it was a bit low but I just thought they're doing a manoeuvre or something.\n\n\"Then a few minutes later I saw the emergency service vehicles screaming down.\n\n\"My heart skipped a few beats when I read the news. I just pray that the guys were OK.\"\n\nEmma Davis, who was walking near Falmouth, said she saw the jet flying \"low and slowly\" over Helford village \"then in the blink of an eye it was gone\".\n\nShe said: \"I heard a massive impact explosion, and was expecting to see fire, or smoke, but didn't.\n\n\"Then I saw the two pilots had ejected.\"\n\nEyewitnesses described an \"unbelievable bang\" before seeing the crew ejecting from the plane\n\nEyewitness Layla Astley said: \"I saw the plane flying low over our house. I heard a clunking sound. It flew on over our fields and then there was a loud crack and we saw two pilots ejecting.\n\n\"I then saw the plane bank left and over the top of a hill before hearing a very loud bang. There was no smoke or fire and I hear from locals that thankfully no-one was seriously hurt.\"\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police tweeted: \"Two men have been airlifted to #Derriford Hospital to be treated for their injuries. Details of injuries not known at this time.\"\n\nCraig Hoyle, editor of Flight International Magazine and a former Hawk pilot, said the simulated attacks which 736 Squadron specialises in were \"very exciting\".\n\n\"You end up flying above the water at about 100ft at 400mph, so it's pretty exhilarating stuff,\" he said.\n\nAccidents were \"very rare\" and the aircraft were \"very well maintained\", he said, but if the plane's single engine had failed as suspected, the crew would not have been able to return to RNAS Culdrose.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\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.", "More than 100,000 people have now received a second jab\n\nMore than 700,000 people in Northern Ireland have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt means that nearly half the adult population - 703,334 people - has received at least one jab.\n\nOfficial figures showed 104,907 people have now received a second dose.\n\nNo further coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, which means the total number of deaths remains at 2,107.\n\nThe executive has agreed to introduce \"managed isolation\" for those arriving into NI from certain countries once international flights resume.\n\nTravellers from so-called \"red list\" countries will have to quarantine in a pre-booked hotel for 10 days, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said.\n\nPassengers must also complete a pre-departure Covid test and undertake two tests after arrival.\n\nIt comes after the health minister said foreign travel in the summer should be ruled out.\n\nThe red list is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the UK.\n\nMs O'Neill and First Minister Arlene Foster were speaking at a joint press conference in Dungannon, County Tyrone, on Thursday.\n\nThey revealed the 'R' number, which measures how fast the virus is spreading, is now estimated to be between 0.75 and 0.95.\n\nThere are currently no direct international flights arriving in Northern Ireland, but passengers can travel from abroad through Dublin and airports in the UK.\n\nRobin Swann says it is unlikely people will be able to travel abroad this summer\n\nFrom this week, anyone who travels into the Republic of Ireland from from a red list country must now complete a mandatory 14-day quarantine period in a hotel there.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health said people travelling the Republic of Ireland via Northern Ireland who have been in or through a red list country in the previous 14 days must make their own way to a pre-booked quarantine hotel within four hours.\n\nEarlier, Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there were ongoing discussions between the Stormont Executive office, and the governments in Dublin and London to ensure there was alignment in terms of travel arrangements for people flying into airports in the Republic of Ireland and the UK.\n\nDr McBride said co-operation on the issue was \"good\" and progress was being made.\n\nMs O'Neill said there were too many uncertainties to give assurances over travel.\n\n\"It's important that we work across these islands in relation to travel,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\nMrs Foster said it was too soon to be able to say when people would be able to travel abroad, noting the government's global travel taskforce is not due to report until April.\n\nThe taskforce is considering a tiered or traffic light system for international travel.\n\n\"It's perhaps too soon to be booking your holidays, but it is also too soon to be ruling them out,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\nBrian Ambrose, chief executive of Belfast City Airport, said \"ministers and senior civil servants must carefully consider the severe economic consequences of their public comments\".\n\n\"As an airport we would never challenge decisions made by the health minister in relation to the running of the health service,\" he said. \"However, we would expect decisions on international air travel to emanate from the NI Executive, rather than the health minister or an advisor.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride has warned the arrival of new variants in NI can only be delayed, not stopped\n\nThe executive also agreed the limited reopening of Sure Start and Youth Services programmes.\n\nPayments will also be extended under two business support schemes - the Covid Restrictions Business Support Scheme (CRBSS), Part A and Part B, and the Large Hospitality and Tourism Business Support Scheme (LHTBSS) will continue beyond 31 March.\n\nA virologist at Queen's University has also raised concerns about foreign travel in the coming months.\n\nProfessor Ultan Power told Good Morning Ulster that at least 80% of the population of Northern Ireland should have two doses of a coronavirus vaccine before travel to Europe is allowed again.\n\nHe said: \"If we have mass foreign travel we run the risk of picking up new variants that may not be covered by the vaccine and that could being us back to a pretty bad place.\"\n\nHe urged caution, and said it would be a shame if the success of the vaccination rollout in Northern Ireland \"came to naught\" if a vaccine-resistant strain was brought back here because of travel abroad.\n\n\"We can't lose sight of the fact the virus isn't going away\", he added.", "Five million Mondeos have been sold since 1993\n\nA car that became the byword for a certain type of British motorist will be phased out next year after 29 years in production.\n\nThe Ford Mondeo was launched in the UK in 1993 and has sold five million since on the back of popularity with both families and executives.\n\nBut demand has shifted towards SUVs and lower-emission cars.\n\nSo production of the Mondeo will stop at Ford's Valencia plant in early 2022, the company said.\n\nThe American car giant has been re-evaluating its business model as the motor industry shifts moves towards zero-emission motoring.\n\nFord plans that all its cars sold in Europe and the UK will be fully electric by 2030, with every model having a hybrid or electric option by 2026.\n\n\"Today is another step on Ford's electrification journey, providing a bridge to an all-electric passenger vehicle future,\" said Kieran Cahill, vice-president of manufacturing at Ford of Europe.\n\nBut for a generation of motorists it will signal the death of an icon, as the Mondeo was always more than just an executive saloon and estate vehicle.\n\nOn hearing the news the BBC's business correspondent Simon Jack tweeted: \"This feels like the end of a political era.\"\n\nThe car had its heyday in the 1990s\n\nThat was a nod to the concept of the \"Mondeo man\", popularised by Tony Blair at the Labour Party Conference in October 1996.\n\nIt was a reference to the centrist, no-nonsense, hard-working voter that Blair hoped his then new vision for the Labour Party could attract.\n\nWhile politics long ago moved on from Blair's vision, the Mondeo remained popular, but with dwindling sales each year.\n\nAlmost 40% of Ford's sales in Europe of passenger vehicles in the past year were SUVs or crossovers, compared with 31% just a year earlier, the company said.\n\nTime waits for no man. Not even Mondeo Man.\n\nThe Ford Mondeo was meant to be comfortable, economical, spacious and safe. Far from flashy, but enough of a car to sit proudly on suburban drives.\n\nIt was a symbol of hard-working aspiration. A favourite of sales reps the length and breadth of the country. It was the kind of car that the kind of voters New Labour wanted to attract would buy. And so Mondeo Man was created.\n\nBut times have changed. The family hatchback now seems outdated; aspirational drivers now want SUVs, or their smaller brethren, known as Crossovers.\n\nSo the Mondeo is going and Mondeo Man has taken his place in history - replaced, no doubt, by SUV Steve, and Crossover Kate.", "Boris Johnson had his first jab a few days ago\n\nAfter a day of silence and song, candles and condolence, when the country stopped to try to absorb the enormity of what's happened this last year, a more familiar, and easy-to-digest political fuss emerged.\n\nAfter a press conference in Downing Street where, alongside the chief medics, the prime minister was more open, in tone at least, about the things that might have gone wrong in the last year, he went off to address a group of Tory MPs in private, on Zoom, in the Cabinet Room.\n\nThe chief whip was alongside him, I'm told, having his takeaway sandwich. (He also happens to be a farmer - but more of that later.)\n\nWith an important vote on Thursday that will extend the government's powers during the coronavirus crisis, you might have expected that the PM would have been verbally pushed and shoved a little by some of his backbenchers, frustrated by the pace of easing restrictions.\n\nIn actual fact, what has got tongues wagging was remarks that Boris Johnson made about the UK's success with vaccines, first reported in the Sun newspaper.\n\nDiscussing why the programme was doing so well, he told colleagues it was down to \"greed\" and \"capitalism\".\n\nSeveral of those present have told me he quickly realised his words could be taken out of context and urged MPs to \"remove that comment from your collective memory\".\n\nHe then went on to spend much of the meeting repeatedly praising AstraZeneca, pointing out that it was providing the vaccine at cost.\n\nOne MP said: \"I have never seen anyone withdraw something so fast.\"\n\nAnother of those present told me the prime minister's \"greed\" comments had been intended to poke fun at the chief whip, who was gobbling his cheese and pickle while sitting next to him.\n\nBelieve it or not, the party boss of discipline, Mark Spencer, has been christened with the nickname \"Big Farmer\", like \"Big Pharma\" - the pharmaceutical companies.\n\nAnd it's vehemently denied that the PM's comments were designed to stir up anything in the row with the EU.\n\nDowning Street didn't want to comment and sources are adamant that Mr Johnson was not intending to be critical of the pharmaceutical companies in any way.\n\nThe UK government has no intention of stirring up a row with the EU over vaccines\n\nThe government has no desire to exacerbate the argument between the EU and AstraZeneca over vaccines.\n\nWith the notable exception of the Foreign Secretary's remarks last week in response to the EU Commission, ministers have been at pains to keep things calm.\n\nThe prime minister has been trying to prevent a dramatic bust-up in phone calls to EU leaders before their summit on Thursday.\n\nAnd officials on both sides have been talking to see if any accommodations can be made.\n\nBut while Mr Johnson's words may have been intended as a friendly jibe at a colleague, tensions are high, and any even accidental noises off are unlikely to help.\n\nPS A government source stressed on Wednesday morning that the PM was not talking about the UK vaccine programme in general. It's unusual to get any comment on private MPs' meetings, and shows how sensitive this all is.", "AstraZeneca has updated the efficacy result of its coronavirus vaccine trial in the US, after health officials insisted they wanted to include the latest information.\n\nThe Anglo-Swedish firm has now adjusted the efficacy rate of its vaccine from 79% to 76%.\n\nFurther data from the US trial showed efficacy among the over 65s rose from 80% to 85%.\n\nAstraZeneca said it now looked forward to getting US regulatory approval.\n\nThe company said the trial results confirm the vaccine \"is highly effective in adults\" and it remains 100% effective at preventing severe cases of the disease.\n\nThe US trials of the AstraZeneca jab had involved more than 32,000 volunteers, mostly in America, but also in Chile and Peru.\n\nIn the results announced on Monday, the company said the vaccine was found to be 79% effective. But the next day, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it had been informed by data and safety officials monitoring the trial that information may have been used that provided an \"incomplete view of the efficacy data\".\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the White House's Chief Medical Advisor, then warned reporters the firm would \"likely come out with a modified statement\".\n\nAstraZeneca's revised results now incorporate for the latest data from the trials.\n\nAfter the initial release of data the company received a highly unusual public rebuke from independent scientists overseeing the trial, who said the company may have given \"outdated information\" that gave an \"incomplete view\" of the vaccine's effectiveness.\n\nIt is now clear that the numbers have not moved by much and it begs the question why such a row over data was not conducted in private. AstraZeneca has risked reputational damage as a result of the public ticking off and senior figures are privately dismayed by the row.\n\nSo why didn't AstraZeneca simply wait? I'm told that the company felt a duty to publish results on Monday as soon as the agreed threshold of cases had been passed. A key reason was that there was a specific analysis showing there were no safety issues regarding blood clots. Given that a few EU countries are still not using the vaccine because of concerns over clots, this information would provide reassurance.\n\nThis is the latest in a string of controversies surrounding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, over dosing, efficacy in the elderly, clots and supplies to the EU.\n\nThe key point to remember is that this is a highly effective vaccine with a strong safety record. Regulators in the UK and EU have said its benefits far outweigh any side effects.\n\nWhile other companies are set to make billions from their Covid vaccines, AstraZeneca is producing theirs at cost throughout the pandemic.\n\nUnlike Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines, the AstraZeneca jab can be stored at fridge temperature, and it will play a vital role in immunisation in low and middle income countries.\n\n\"We look forward to filing our regulatory submission for Emergency Use Authorization in the US and preparing for the rollout of millions of doses across America,\" Mene Pangalos, an executive vice president at AstraZeneca, said on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at how a vaccine hailed as a ‘game-changer’ has seen its reputation tarnished\n\nThe US had ordered 300 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine when it emerged as a frontrunner in the global race to immunise people against Covid-19.\n\nBut delays and controversies have seen three other vaccines beat it to a US rollout.", "Catalytic converters are stolen for the precious metal they contain\n\nThere has been a surge in the number of catalytic converters being stolen in London, with thieves becoming increasingly violent, police say.\n\nThe Met's motor vehicle crime unit investigated nearly 15,000 reports of such thefts in 2020, compared to 9,500 over the previous year.\n\nThe devices, which reduce the emission of pollutants, contain precious metals.\n\nMore than 300 officers took part in raids on Tuesday across east London, Kent and Essex.\n\nThe contents of a shipping container intercepted on the Essex coast included car parts and scrap metal\n\nThey also intercepted a shipping container, believed to contain stolen metal and car parts, which was due to be transported to the Ivory Coast to be processed and refined.\n\nTwo men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit theft and a third on suspicion of theft.\n\nA large number of catalytic converters and vehicles were seized by police, who also discovered cash, drugs and tools, including a smelting machine.\n\nDet Ch Insp James Stanyer, the Met's lead officer for motor vehicle crime, said: \"The criminals involved in stealing catalytic converters often commit their offences in full view of the owners of the vehicle and other members of the public, leaving them shocked and terrorised.\"\n\nWith more people at home because of lockdown restrictions, owners of cars parked on driveways are feeling increasingly vulnerable.\n\nMo Talukder's neighbours saw her car stripped of its catalytic converter by four men who threatened to \"ram\" anyone who intervened\n\n\"People are feeling less safe, because of the way they're willing to use violence if necessary if uncovered or disturbed,\" Det Ch Insp Stanyer told BBC London.\n\nIt is believed a rise in prices of metals such as palladium and rhodium, commonly found in converters, triggered the increase in thefts.\n\nIt took the four men about 90 seconds to steal Ms Talukder's catalytic converter\n\nDedicated gangs are able to remove a converter from beneath a car in a matter of moments, leaving victims with a huge repair bill.\n\nOne victim, Mo Talukder from Islington in north London, must pay out £2,000 after four men targeted her car, with the theft witnessed by neighbours.\n\n\"They cut wires at the front of the car. When they were challenged, they threatened to ram anyone who spoke to them,\" she said.\n\n\"My car was the last thing I bought with my late father so it held a lot of sentimental value. It was horrible. It makes you angry. It's something I worked hard to purchase and people come along and helped themselves.\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 PM says drinkers will not need to prove they have had a vaccine when pubs in England open for outside trade from 12 April\n\nIt may only be possible to introduce a vaccine passports scheme once all adults have been offered a jab, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested.\n\nHe said no decisions had been made but there would be an update on the idea in April. A review will report in June.\n\nThere were \"difficult issues... moral complexities, ethical problems that need to be addressed\", the PM added.\n\nAny passport could also reflect a negative test result as well as whether someone was vaccinated or has immunity.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, MPs voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers in England for another six months, with 484 in favour, and 76 against, giving a majority of 408.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act was introduced in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has recorded another 6,397 new infections and 63 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nToday's case numbers are up 94 on last Thursday's figure - but the number of Covid-related deaths has fallen by 32, compared with a week ago.\n\nThe latest vaccination figures show almost 29 million people have now received a first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, publicans have case doubt on a suggestion from Mr Johnson that pub-goers might have to prove their vaccination status when venues reopen.\n\nA government review into the possible use of coronavirus passports or status certificates to allow people to visit pubs and other venues is taking place under the plans to ease England's lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said previous coronavirus infections could be a feature, if the certificates are adopted.\n\n\"There are three basic components. There's the vaccine, there's your immunity you might have had after you've had Covid, and there's testing - they are three things that could work together.\"\n\nHowever he added: \"No decisions have been taken at all. One thing I will make clear is none of this is obviously going to apply on April 12 when it will all be outdoors anyway.\"\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a nursery in west London, Mr Johnson said: \"There are some people who for medical reasons can't get a vaccination, pregnant women can't get a vaccination at the moment, you've got to be careful about how you do this.\n\n\"You might only be able to implement a thorough-going vaccination passport scheme even if you wanted such a thing in the context of when absolutely everybody had been offered a vaccine.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, who is leading the review, told MPs: \"A system that relied purely on vaccination would not be appropriate.\n\n\"What would be right was a system that ensured we could open up our economy to the maximum extent that takes into account both vaccine status but also of recent test status and indeed potentially also antibody status as well,\" he added.\n\nUnder government plans to ease the lockdown in England, pubs will be able to start serving customers indoors - with a size limit applied to groups - from 17 May at the earliest.\n\nThe idea of asking pub-goers to show a so-called vaccine passport or certificate was raised at Wednesday's House of Commons Liaison Committee hearing when Boris Johnson was asked whether they were \"compatible with a free society such as ours\".\n\nMr Johnson said the concept \"should not be totally alien to us\" - pointing out that doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs - although he stressed such a move in future \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nA Downing Street source earlier said the review would include looking at how people's vaccination and testing status could be stored securely and displayed on a mobile phone, and the circumstances under which such a system could apply.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Johnson said \"all sorts of things were being considered\" and it was \"really a bit premature\" to speculate on details about how a possible vaccine passport would apply to pubs.\n\nThe boss of Young's pubs said requiring vaccine passports would be \"unworkable\", while Greene King and the City Pub Group also voiced their opposition to any such measure.\n\nThe chief executive of the Shepherd Neame pub chain said asking pub-goers to show vaccine passports was a \"fairly poorly thought out idea\" he would not be adopting.\n\nJonathan Neame told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's absolutely fine to exclude people where there is a situation of bad behaviour or drunkenness, and that's already enshrined in law.\n\n\"But if you're going to exclude people for what they are, or what they have not done, that's a wholly different issue which does touch on discrimination, civil liberties, and in this case data protection issues.\"\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said the industry was \"very nervous\" about the \"damage\" such a measure could do to it and \"the future of the Great British Pub\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"They're asking us to enforce this at each venue and that's impossible for some of our venues to do - particularly our smaller community pubs in rural locations.\"\n\nHowever, Peter Marks, from nightclub owner Rekom UK, said a vaccine certificate \"could work\" in his industry and would probably be accepted by customers already used to carrying IDs to get into venues. However, he said he was concerned introducing such a measure could delay the reopening of businesses.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Labour was \"happy to look\" at any government proposals for vaccine and testing certification, but he called for clarity for the hospitality industry about how the measures could work in practice.\n\nHe said the hospitality industry had been through \"incredibly difficult times over the last year\", adding: \"And suddenly the prime minister comes along, out of the blue, to say here's a new responsibility you're going to have to deal with, without much clarity.\"\n\nSenior Tory backbencher Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Tory Covid Recovery Group, also expressed concern that businesses would be able to turn away customers \"from communities which have shown an unfortunate hesitancy to take up the offer of a vaccine\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's World Cup 2022 qualifying campaign started with a predictably routine stroll to victory against San Marino at Wembley.\n\nThe side rooted to the bottom of the Fifa world rankings at 210 were never going to be anything other than an easy target for England, even with captain Harry Kane starting on the bench, and so it proved in this one-sided qualifier behind closed doors.\n\nEngland were encamped in San Marino territory for the entire game and the only disappointment for manager Gareth Southgate will be the fact their finishing was very poor.\n\nThey should have inflicted a much heavier loss on their besieged opponents, the highlight being a late goal for Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins on debut after he came on as a substitute.\n\nJames Ward-Prowse's first goal for England, swept in from Ben Chilwell's low cross, gave them the lead after 14 minutes before Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin doubled the advantage seven minutes later with a header from a fine Reece James delivery.\n\nRaheem Sterling, who looked desperate to score from the start, added the third before half-time when his shot was deflected in at the near post and Calvert-Lewin scored his second with a simple finish, laid on by Jesse Lingard, eight minutes after the break.\n\nSouthgate's side lost rhythm after four interval substitutions but Watkins got in on the act with a crisp low finish to mark his first cap with a goal seven minutes from time after he came on for two-goal Calvert-Lewin.\n\nOne San Marino player to emerge with huge credit was goalkeeper Elia Benedettini, who made a string of superb saves from Chilwell, Mason Mount, Lingard and Ward-Prowse as England made the expected winning start to their World Cup qualifying campaign.\n• None Is Euros selection getting tougher for Southgate?\n\nEngland go through the motions\n\nEngland were presented with, statistically, the easiest game in international football and while the points were secured in the expected fashion, the victory margin could and should have been far more emphatic.\n\nThey carved out openings at will, with 32 shots - 15 on target - but the likes of Sterling and Calvert-Lewin could have added to their goals, while Lingard will wonder how he did not find the target.\n\nWard-Prowse will be delighted with his goal while James, who is a serious contender to start at right-back at the Euros, was a constant threat and source of supply in his 45-minute appearance.\n\nCalvert-Lewin's two goals, albeit among a couple of bad misses, will do his confidence good and step up his claims to be Kane's understudy, as he continued his smooth transition to England level.\n\nLingard, who has been so impressive since joining West Ham United on loan from Manchester United, showed Southgate what he could do on his first England appearance since June 2019.\n\nHowever, he will have been bitterly frustrated not to hit the target while John Stones, another recalled, had no defensive work to do but should have scored with a first-half chance which he turned over the bar from six yards.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady was also unemployed defensively but there may just have been an indicator into Southgate's opinion of his leadership qualities when he gave him the captain's armband for the second half.\n\nThis was little more than a confidence-building training exercise with England enjoying 85% possession, almost entirely in the San Marino half.\n\nBurnley's Nick Pope got the nod in goal but he barely touched the ball in the entire game. This was a cap and clean sheet for this talented keeper but nothing else.\n\nIt is arrogant to simply dismiss San Marino and say they should not be playing qualifiers at this level but it is hard to see what England and manager Southgate learned from this one-sided, rather soulless experience against a team who were little more than cannon fodder.\n\nThis was three points and move on to Albania in Tirana on Sunday.\n\nIt was a 'fairy tale' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate speaking to ITV: \"We did it as well as we could. I was really pleased with the way we pressed when we lost the ball - that highlighted the mentality of the team for the full 90 minutes.\n\n\"Of course, it's an opponent we should beat, but I thought they went about the job really well.\n\n\"There were lots of good individual performances, it would be difficult to pick one out.\n\n\"Mason Mount in the first half was excellent and set the tone. It was good to see Jesse Lingard looking like he's enjoying his football again - there were a lot of good things.\"\n\nOn Ollie Watkins: \"The first thing you saw was the reaction from the rest of the team, that shows you how together they are - they know what it means for him. He's settled in really quickly with the group.\n\n\"He's a really humble boy and it was nice to be able to give him half an hour or so. For him to get a goal is a fairy tale isn't it?\"\n• None England have won all seven of their matches against San Marino, by an aggregate score of 42-1.\n• None San Marino have lost 140 of their 143 qualifying matches for the World Cup and European Championships (D3).\n• None England have won their past 19 home matches in qualifying for the World Cup/European Championships, scoring 67 goals and conceding six.\n• None San Marino have only conceded more goals against Belgium (46) than they have in their seven games against England (42).\n• None Raheem Sterling scored his 150th career goal, netting 136 for his two clubs Liverpool and Man City and 14 for England, with 12 of those 14 for the Three Lions coming in his last 14 appearances.\n• None Tonight was Gareth Southgate's 50th match as England manager, winning 30 of his first 50, the same as Roy Hodgson managed. Only Walter Winterbottom and Alf Ramsey have won more of their first 50 games as England boss (33).\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin became the first Everton player to score a brace for England since Wayne Rooney in 2004 against Croatia, and the first player with a hyphenated surname to score twice for the Three Lions since William Bromley-Davenport in 1884 against Wales.\n• None England had 22 shots in the first half, three more than San Marino managed in the entirety of their last World Cup qualifying campaign (19).\n• None Ollie Watkins became the first Aston Villa player to score on his England debut since Darius Vassell in February 2002 against the Netherlands.\n• None Mason Mount created eight chances in open play in this game, the most by an England player since Glen Johnson against Andorra in June 2009 (also eight).\n\nEngland travel to Tirana to face Albania in their next Group I fixture on Sunday, 28 March (17:00 BST) before hosting Poland at Wembley on Wednesday, 31 March (19:45 BST).\n• None Tyrone Mings (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, England. Kieran Trippier tries a through ball, but James Ward-Prowse is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristian Brolli (San Marino) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing misses to the right.\n• None Goal! England 5, San Marino 0. Ollie Watkins (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Jude Bellingham (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Jude Bellingham (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Micah Richards joins the boys for a new series\n• None What are the chances?:", "A Virginia man protests the death penalty outside the US Supreme Court in 2012\n\nVirginia has become the first Southern US state to abolish the death penalty after its governor signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment.\n\nGovernor Ralph Northam said the repeal would stop a \"machinery of death\" with a history of racial disparities.\n\nIt comes at a time of renewed national debate on the topic of executions.\n\nVirginia has executed more people than any other state except Texas since capital punishment was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1976.\n\nSince then, the vast majority of executions have taken place in the Southern US states that made up the former slave-owning Confederacy.\n\nExecutions are still authorised in 27 states across the country, though several have enacted a moratorium on carrying the punishment out.\n\nA federal moratorium was ended by former President Donald Trump, who resumed them on a federal level last year after a 17-year hiatus. Some 13 people were put to death in a matter of months - including six executions carried out after his election defeat.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign, Joe Biden vowed to end the federal death penalty and encourage states to follow suit, but has not addressed the issue as president.\n\nVirginia has used the death penalty nearly 1,400 times since its days as a colony, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nDemocrats, who control the state legislature, pushed for its repeal, arguing it had disproportionately hurt people of colour, the mentally ill and the poor.\n\nAt the bill signing, Mr Northam noted 296 of the 377 people executed by the state in the 20th century were black.\n\nThe last two men on death row in the state, both black, will now see their sentences converted to life in prison without parole.\n\nThe United Nations says 170 of its 194 member states have abolished executions in law or practice and the US has faced repeated international criticism over its failure to do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth and care workers in Scotland are to be given a £500 payment as a \"thank you\" for their work during the pandemic, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe SNP leader announced the one-off payment to thank NHS and care staff for their \"extraordinary service\" in 2020.\n\nIt will be paid to all full-time NHS and adult social care staff, with a proportional share for part-time staff.\n\nThe first minister also announced that £100 grants will be given to low-income families who may struggle over winter.\n\nMs Sturgeon said these payments could be made before Christmas, and would help households \"pay their fuel bills and make sure children don't go hungry\".\n\nIn her speech to the SNP conference, Ms Sturgeon said \"clap for carers\" events earlier in the pandemic had been \"really important\", but that the applause \"was never enough\".\n\nShe said appreciation must be \"shown in a more tangible way\" through the £500 payment, which would be completed before the end of the current financial year.\n\nShe added: \"There are no strings attached. Of course a payment like this can never come close to expressing our full admiration for those who have cared for us so heroically.\n\n\"But to our health and care workers, it is a demonstration of what we collectively owe you - and a heartfelt thank you for the sacrifices you have made.\"\n\nShe also urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to use the UK government's powers to make sure the payments are tax-free.\n\nA spokesperson from HM Treasury said: \"The income tax on these payments is paid to Scotland, not Westminster - and the Scottish government has the powers and funding to gross up the payment if it wishes.\"\n\nThe bonus is expected to be paid to about 300,000 doctors, nurses, porters, care home and hospice staff, and other frontline health workers, at a cost of £180m.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the cash payment was a \"more tangible\" way of thanking health staff than applause\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing in Scotland said its members would be \"happy\" with the payment - but that it did not address \"the years of pay restraint or the ongoing demands that nursing staff face\".\n\nAssociate director Norman Provan called for \"a pay deal that truly values the skills, clinical expertise and contribution of nursing staff\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the payment had \"no strings attached\" and was separate from any negotiations about pay in the longer term.\n\nThe SNP leader also announced payments of £100 to households which are currently in receipt of free school meals, as part of a £100m fund to help low-income Scots this winter.\n\nAbout a quarter of this is to be spent on winter grants to low income families, benefiting about 150,000 households.\n\nGrants will be given to low-income families ahead of Christmas to help them through winter\n\nThe cash is designed to support those who would have received the Scottish government's new weekly £10 child payment, which was due to be introduced around now but has been deferred to February.\n\nA further £25m will be distributed to vulnerable people through local authorities and £15m will go to charities, with further allocations to help the homeless and tackle fuel poverty.\n\nThe first minister said the pandemic had shown that it should no longer be accepted that problems with poverty and inequality are \"inevitable or insoluble\".\n\nShe added: \"Initiatives like this are not just about providing practical help to those who need it most - they are an expression of our values and of the kind of country we are seeking to build.\"\n\nCoping with and recovering from Covid was the key theme of Nicola Sturgeon's speech to the SNP conference.\n\nAs well as the \"thank you\" payments to NHS and social care staff, there was the £100m winter hardship fund and extra cash for apprenticeships.\n\nAside from this extra spending - funded from the Scottish government's share of coronavirus cash from the Treasury - there was a more fundamental question.\n\nNicola Sturgeon invited her online audience to consider who should be trusted to rebuild Scotland after the pandemic and any disruption Brexit might bring.\n\nWestminster or Holyrood? The UK government or the government of an independent Scotland?\n\nThat is the question she hopes will be resolved in a further independence referendum in the early part of the next Scottish Parliament, after next May's election.\n\nWhile her opponents in pro-UK parties regard talk of indyref2 as irresponsible while the covid crisis is still unfolding, critics in her own party don't think she's nearly bold enough.\n\nThey want her to set out a plan B for achieving independence if the UK government continues to refuse to agree a 2014 style referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon also used her speech to look ahead to May's Scottish Parliament election, saying she would seek the authority of the people of Scotland to hold a new independence referendum in the \"early part\" of the new Holyrood term.\n\nShe denied that she should instead be focusing on the pandemic, saying: \"Independence is not a distraction from the task of post-Covid reconstruction, it is essential to getting that right.\"\n\nAnd she questioned whether Scots wanted \"Boris Johnson's band of Brexiteers\" making decisions for them rather than an \"outward looking, internationalist\" SNP government.\n\nOn Saturday the SNP pledged to extend free school meals to all primary school children if they retain power after the Holyrood elections in May.\n\nOpposition parties have accused Ms Sturgeon and her party of focusing on independence at the cost of other issues, including dealing with Covid-19.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Ms Sturgeon had made \"a series of promises brought to you by [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak's spending\", and that the UK government had supplied \"vast sums\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nHe added: \"All weekend she's been talking up another divisive referendum next year, while we're in the middle of a pandemic - it's completely out of touch with people across Scotland.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the £500 payment was \"no substitute at all for the significant increase in salary that all Scotland's health and care workers deserve\".\n\nHe added: \"This sum announced by Nicola Sturgeon will not make up for the years of pay restraint and austerity that staff in these sectors have had imposed on them by Tory and SNP ministers.\"\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie also said the \"welcome\" payment to health staff \"must not become an alternative to a proper uplift in the Scottish government's pay policy\".\n\nAnd Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Ms Sturgeon had \"put independence first\", adding: \"Everything else that needs to be done in Scotland, the mammoth task of recovery in front of us, all of that will have to wait for years in the queue behind another referendum.\"", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says it seems \"wholly responsible\" for care companies to consider requiring vaccinations for their workers\n\nPrime ministers' appearances in front of Parliament's most senior MPs are rarely short of news.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister suggested that if he and the EU can't make peace over vaccines, he might be willing to hit back, if they take dramatic action.\n\nHe suggested that before too long, the UK's nearest continental neighbour, France, might end up on the list of countries that attract the toughest travel restrictions, the 'red list', even though that would cause, as he detailed, significant disruption.\n\nMost noticeably however, the PM gave some big hints at what life might look like as we come out of the most stringent lockdowns.\n\nMinisters, and the administrations in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, have set out plans for how the rules they imposed will be rolled back, as long as the virus ticks down in the way that everyone hopes and the vaccine programme continues.\n\nBut there are still significant question marks over what will take the place of the laws we have lived with for so long.\n\nIn other words, how does the government propose to manage the disease in the long term when lockdown ends?\n\nMr Johnson today was happy to sketch out how that question could in part be answered, in a way that not all of his party will like.\n\nHe made clear that he was willing to countenance the idea of 'jabs for jobs' - suggesting that it was responsible for care home owners for example, to be making vaccination compulsory for their staff, those many thousands of workers who look after some of society's most vulnerable.\n\nAnd the prime minister held open the possibility that bars and restaurants might ask for 'papers for pints', suggesting that the use of vaccine certificates could be up to individual landlords.\n\nMinisters are reviewing how any of these kinds of arrangements would work in practice.\n\nThe government is not going to mandate that everyone is jabbed.\n\nWhen tests are widely and freely available, proof of a negative test, is also being considered as a tool that could be used to help venues open up, and life start getting back to something like normal.\n\nNo one is likely to be forced to take one.\n\nWill testing be used to help venues like the O2 Academy in Birmingham reopen?\n\nBut just as school pupils are taking them regularly now, and increasing numbers of workplaces, the normalising of Covid testing is a valuable tool.\n\nIf tests are available in walk-in centres, to be sent to homes, or even distributed outside a pub or theatre, it's harder to argue that any member of the public is excluded.\n\nThe government is reluctant to make any of this compulsory for everyone, whatever the circumstance. But it seems that proving our Covid status, through the vaccination, or a test, is likely to be part of our lives in the medium term.", "There is speculation the NHS app could be amended to include a Covid vaccine certificate\n\nAs the UK gets closer to easing its coronavirus lockdowns, attention is turning to how we might safely mix again and what role tech might play.\n\nAnd despite previous denials that a \"Covid passport\" app was being considered, it is now on the agenda.\n\nAfter all the hoo-ha and costs involved in creating the contact-tracing apps last year, you might think that a very brave decision.\n\nBut earlier this week The Times reported that the facility would be built into the existing NHS app used to access health services in England.\n\nIt is distinct from the NHS Covid-19 app used by England and Wales to warn people if they might have recently been infected, and fewer people have downloaded it.\n\nBut according to Google's own figures, it has been installed on more than one million Android devices (Apple does not share stats for iOS), which represents a decent start.\n\nOfficially, Downing Street says the matter is still under review and it does not want to pre-empt anything by speculating on the subject.\n\nBut it's clear there would be several benefits.\n\nFirstly, the NHS app, which serves patients in England only, already links up to users' GP services to give smartphone owners access to their medical records.\n\nIn fact, it can already provide a record of whether some people have been given one of the coronavirus jabs, if the GP surgeries involved have shared the information.\n\n(Confusingly, this sometimes appears under the Medicines tab rather than the Immunisations one if you've had an injection and want to check yourself).\n\nSo health chiefs would not need to build new IT infrastructure to get at the information.\n\nThere is a risk countries develop Covid passports that rely on local systems that do not intercommunicate\n\nSecondly, the app has already tackled many of the security issues involved.\n\nTo set it up you must provide your NHS number, email address, phone number and then upload either an image of your passport or driving licence.\n\nThe smartphone then takes a scan of your face to check it matches the characteristics on the image on your official identification.\n\nAnd then, as a supplement to the automated checks, a human review takes place before you are granted access.\n\nHowever, there are still issues to be addressed.\n\nPeople would need to get to the certificate without having to hunt around several menus - possibly via a button at the bottom of the screen.\n\nAnd then the information would have to be presented in a format that someone else could verify quickly and easily.\n\nAnother health pass app points the way to how that might be done.\n\nTested.me displays a scannable barcode over an image of the user's face to provide employers with a means of keeping track of the health status of their staff.\n\nOf course, if the NHS app adopts a similar scheme, it will require other software to be developed so that establishments can verify a person's barcode when they present it.\n\nTested.me presents a QR barcode over a view of the user's face to provide a quick way for employers to verify and log their health status\n\nAnd there are further hurdles to overcome to prevent people who have yet to be vaccinated from simply passing off a screenshot of someone else's code, with their own face edited in, to access a venue.\n\nThat presupposes that it would be acceptable for businesses and other organisations to deny people access to a venue or their workplace if they have not been vaccinated.\n\nAnd one must bear in mind that while vaccines reduce the risk of someone getting seriously ill from at least some of the Covid-19 variants, it is still unknown how much impact they will have on people becoming infected and passing the virus on.\n\nSo the point of having such an app might only be to demonstrate that you would be unlikely to get seriously ill by entering an area, rather than proving you do not pose a threat to others.\n\nA further consideration is that these \"passports\" would probably not be used for travel abroad.\n\nThe World Health Organization is exploring what specifications an international scheme would require to work across borders and support different countries' immunisation programmes.\n\nIt already oversees an International Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate.\n\nAnd the requirements of such a scheme might be different from those used by the NHS app.\n\nThe face-scanning tech used by the NHS app is supplied by iProov\n\nOne last issue is whether the government would allow third-party apps to tap into its system to offer specialised vaccine certificates of their own.\n\nThese would be customised for use in certain workplaces or leisure activities, where the details could be stored alongside ticketing or other relevant non-health-related data.\n\nIdentity-check technology provider iProov, whose face-scanning software is already integrated into the NHS app, is among those keen to do this.\n\nIts chief executive, Andrew Bud, pointed out that the NHS already had a mechanism to allow private apps to tap into GP records subject to strict security requirements.\n\nBut whether ministers would want to complicate matters by allowing there to be multiple ways to present a vaccine passport is another matter.\n\nIn any case, speaking to sources within NHSX - the division likely to be responsible for any digital certificate involving the NHS app in England - one thing becomes apparent: discussions about what would be involved are at a very early stage.\n\nAnd that means it will be many months before the idea of presenting an app to door staff to prove you have been jabbed has any chance of becoming a reality.", "Chancellor Angela Merkel said she took \"ultimate responsibility\" for the U-turn\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has cancelled plans for a strict lockdown over Easter, just a day after the measures were announced.\n\nCalling the plan a \"mistake\", Mrs Merkel said she took \"ultimate responsibility\" for the U-turn.\n\nThe proposed lockdown was agreed with regional leaders in talks overnight on Monday, with restrictions set to be tightened between 1-5 April.\n\nBut the plan was reversed following a crisis meeting on Wednesday.\n\nIt had been widely criticised by business leaders and scientists.\n\nThe lockdown would have been Germany's strictest yet, with most shops closed and gatherings limited.\n\nFor five days over Easter from 1 April, Germans would have been asked to stay at home and reduce social contact.\n\nIn-person religious services would have been cancelled, large family gatherings banned and almost all shops would have been closed.\n\nThe head of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Armin Laschet, told a regional parliament meeting on Wednesday that the lockdown was \"not enforceable in this form\".\n\n\"This mistake is mine alone,\" Mrs Merkel told reporters in Berlin. \"The whole process has caused additional uncertainty, for which I ask all citizens to forgive me.\"\n\n\"There were good reasons for it but it could not be implemented well enough in this short time,\" she added.\n\nThis was an extraordinary statement.\n\nChancellor Merkel said she alone bore responsibility for the plan to extend what is usually a three-day Easter holiday to a five-day shutdown.\n\nThe German leader will be conscious that - as case numbers soar exponentially - public trust in her government's pandemic response is wavering.\n\nShe was seen as a safe pair of hands who brought the country through the first wave of infections. But - as regional leaders bicker over lockdown measures - Germany's response is becoming increasingly chaotic.\n\nMrs Merkel appears to be struggling to keep the country together.\n\n\"Essentially, we have a new virus,\" Chancellor Merkel said when announcing the now-cancelled Easter lockdown.\n\nThe highly contagious UK (Kent) variant of coronavirus had become dominant, she explained, plunging the country into \"a new pandemic\".\n\n\"It is much deadlier, much more infectious and infectious for much longer,\" she claimed, adding Germany was in a race against time to vaccinate against Covid-19.\n\nThe infection rate has risen above 100 per 100,000 inhabitants in Germany. That number is critical in determining emergency decisions such as tightening lockdowns. Under the current rules, areas exceeding that infection rate over a seven-day period will not be subject to further reopenings.\n\nBut despite the numbers, the announcement of the five-day lockdown, and the subsequent ban on Easter church services, triggered dismay from religious leaders. They argued that their existing social-distancing measures made church attendance safe.\n\nThe Catholic German Bishops' Conference made clear that, following Wednesday's U-turn, its services would go ahead as planned with hygiene measures in place and video streams available to those who did not want to attend in person.\n\n\"With today's decision, a bit of reason is returning to coronavirus policy,\" the HDE association of retailers said in a statement.\n\nThe country's partial lockdown, meanwhile, has been extended until at least 18 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCoronavirus infections have been surging in some parts of Europe in recent weeks as countries scramble to vaccinate their populations despite delays in rolling out jabs.\n\nThe European Commission has proposed tougher controls on Covid vaccine exports. It has accused the UK-Swedish firm AstraZeneca of failing to honour its contract to supply EU countries.\n\nThe tougher export controls are most likely to affect countries that have higher vaccination rates than the EU, such as the UK and US.", "MPs have voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers for another six months.\n\nThey backed the health secretary's call to renew \"essential\" emergency rules to deal with the pandemic as England moves out of lockdown.\n\nBut some Conservatives voted against the measures saying they were \"out of step\" with the roadmap for lifting restrictions.\n\nMinisters say the powers will stay in place \"only as long as necessary\".\n\nThe Coronavirus Act came in to force in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic with ministers pledging to use the measures \"when strictly necessary\".\n\nThe law gave the government wide-ranging powers unlike others seen before - from shutting down pubs, through to detaining individuals deemed at risk as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nMPs voted by 484 to 76 to extend it - 36 Conservative MPs rebelled, by opposing the legislation. Twenty-one Labour MPs also voted against it.\n\nMPs agreed to extend it until the end of September as well as voting on England's roadmap out of lockdown and the continuation of virtual proceedings in the Commons.\n\nOpening the debate ahead of the vote, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the legislation had been a \"crucial part\" of the government's response to coronavirus, enabling ministers to bring forward measures such as furlough and statutory sick pay for those self-isolating.\n\nBut he said 12 provisions in the legislation were no longer needed because of progress that had been made in dealing with the virus.\n\nMatt Hancock told MPs powers would only be retained \"as long as the are necessary\"\n\nThese include easing some responsibilities on the social care sector, laws governing the retention of biometric data for health and security purposes, and obligations on businesses that work in the food supply chain.\n\nMr Hancock acknowledged some people were concerned about the powers contained in the act.\n\nHe said: \"Although this act remains essential and there are elements of it which we are seeking the renewal of, we have always said we will only retain powers as long as they are necessary.\"\n\nBut the chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he would vote against because \"it is important we make the case for a return to normality and trusting people with their own lives\".\n\nHe said: \"These powers were given by Parliament to government last March as a very temporary set of extreme emergency measures. Nobody then envisaged that they would still be in place a year later, still be in use 18 months on.\n\n\"I think we need to be very cautious about the dangers of normalising what is actually a very extreme policy response.\"\n\nThe deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of lockdown sceptics, Conservative Steve Baker, said the vote was a \"rare opportunity\" for MPs to \"say no to a new way of life in a checkpoint society\".\n\nHe said he was reassured by the prime minister's comment at the Liaison Committee on Wednesday that \"anything that is redundant will go\".\n\nTonight's rebellion by 35 Conservatives won't trouble Boris Johnson - overall MPs backed the renewal of sweeping powers to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMany of the Tories who voted against the government have been persistent critics of its approach to restrictions and lockdowns.\n\nFor them, it's about trust.\n\nReassurances from ministers about powers only being used when necessary in extreme circumstances don't cut it.\n\nThere is deep unease about the scope of these powers and the very fact they are available to the government, even if they're not being used.\n\nBut the pandemic has changed expectations of what governments can and should do in extreme circumstances. Freedoms considered sacrosanct have been suspended in the spirit of saving lives.\n\nThe public may have been willing to largely comply, but there are at least a few dozen MPs willing to argue the price society has paid has been too high.\n\nLabour backed the extension of the emergency powers but said its support was not offered \"with any enthusiasm\".\n\nThe shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said: \"Given the loss of life we have suffered and given the risks of mutations that could set us back, we must have zero tolerance to letting the virus rage unchecked.\n\n\"For that reason we do accept that restrictions have to stay in place and for that reason we support the renewal of the act and the public health regulations.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also voted against the measures.\n\nOne of its MPs, Tim Farron, said the powers were \"an over-reach\" that the government \"does not need\" and he described them as a \"default knee-jerk attempt to seek draconian powers\" that he said \"fit in to a pattern\" of eroding civil liberties.\n\nA government review into the possible use of coronavirus passports or status certificates to allow people to visit pubs and other venues is taking place under the plans to ease England's lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister said there would be an update on the idea in April, and a review will report in June.\n\nThe leader of the Covid Recovery Group, Conservative Mark Harper, said the idea of vaccine certificates to enter pubs was \"unconscionable\" and raised \"practical, moral and ethical issues\".\n\n\"We've asked young people to do a lot over the last year and I think the least we can do is to get the economy open, so that their futures are not damaged any further,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to west London, the prime minister rejected suggestions he was no longer concerned about protecting individual freedoms.\n\nHe said: \"The libertarian in me is also trying to protect individual's fundamental right to life and their ability to live their lives normally and the only way really to restore that for everybody, is for us to beat the disease.\n\n\"The best path to freedom is down the cautious but irreversible roadmap that we've set out. That's what the freedom lover wants.\"", "A year later than expected, Japan has finally kicked off its Olympic torch relay.\n\nAthletes will now carry the flame across all of the country to arrive in Tokyo for the opening ceremony on 23 July.\n\nThe global pandemic forced the Games to be postponed from last year to this, and the torch relay had to go under way without any fans cheering at the sides.\n\nThis video has been removed for rights reasons", "Santander has announced plans to close 111 branches across the country due to the shift to mobile and online banking.\n\nThe bank said it had taken the decision because fewer customers were choosing to bank in branch.\n\nAbout 840 staff will be affected by the closures, although Santander promised to try to find them other jobs within the business.\n\nSantander said the reduction in branch visits was a long-term trend that had been accelerated by the pandemic.\n\n\"Branch usage by customers has fallen considerably over recent years so we have made the difficult decision to consolidate our presence in areas where we have multiple branches relatively close together,\" said Adam Bishop, head of branches at Santander.\n\nThe move will reduce Santander's High Street presence to 452 branches.\n\nBut the bank said the majority of closing branches were within three miles of another Santander branch. The furthest is five miles, it said.\n\n\"All are within half a mile of at least two free-to-use ATMs and one mile of the nearest Post Office,\" it added.\n\nIn the two years before the beginning of the pandemic, the number of transactions handled in branches fell by a third, the bank said. Last year, it declined by a further 50%.\n\nMeanwhile, mobile and online transactions have grown 20% each year with more than two-thirds of transactions now completed without customers visiting a branch.\n\nThe bank also plans to move its headquarters from London to Milton Keynes and reduce the amount of space it rents in the capital.\n\nIt will close offices in Bootle, Newcastle, London and Manchester before the end of the year.\n\nThe 5,000 office staff affected will be asked to work from home more often or travel in to one of its six remaining offices in Belfast, Bradford, Glasgow, London and Sheffield, as well as its new headquarters.\n\n\"The pandemic has accelerated the existing trend towards greater flexible working, and our colleagues have told us this has brought significant benefits for many of them,\" Santander's UK boss Nathan Bostock said.\n\n\"At the same time, physical spaces remain very important and our sites around the UK will provide our colleagues with first-class facilities fit for the future.\"\n\nThe decision to reduce the number of offices it rents and ask staff to work from home more often follows an announcement from building society Nationwide which told its 13,000 office staff that they could choose where they work.\n\nUnder the plan, Nationwide is closing three offices in Swindon, with 3,000 staff either moving to the nearby HQ, working from home, or mixing the two.", "Newsreader Simon McCoy has announced he is leaving the BBC after 17 years, to join the forthcoming GB News operation.\n\nThe journalist, whose funny asides in between stories have often gone viral, making him a household name, confirmed the news on Thursday.\n\nSam Taylor, head of live and breaking for BBC News, said McCoy was \"sharp, funny and a great colleague\".\n\nGB News described the incoming anchor \"one of Britain's best-loved and most charismatic journalists\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon McCoy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It has been a delight to have Simon at the helm of the BBC News Channel and BBC News at One,\" Taylor continued.\n\n\"We'll miss his one-liners, pregnant pauses and commitment to breaking news in every form, and wish him the very best for the future.\"\n\nOne of McCoy's new GB news bosses, Andrew Neil, tweeted: \"Welcome aboard Simon. Great that you are joining.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Six big UK investment firms say they will not buy Deliveroo shares after concerns over workers' rights.\n\nThe delivery company hopes to be valued at up to £8.8bn when it lists its shares in April.\n\nBut Aberdeen Standard, Aviva Investors, BMO Global, CCLA, LGIM and M&G said they were put off by factors including the working conditions of its riders and lack of investor power.\n\nDeliveroo said it had seen \"significant demand\" for stock with interest rising.\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming new shareholders next week alongside our currently highly respected existing investors,\" it added.\n\nDeliveroo riders are self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to earn a minimum wage from the company, or holiday and sick pay.\n\nRupert Krefting, head of corporate finance and stewardship at M&G, said the company's reliance on gig-economy workers made it a risk for investors.\n\nHe pointed out that Uber had recently had greater legal rights enforced by the Supreme Court for drivers previously categorised as self-employed.\n\n\"Deliveroo's narrow profit margins could be at risk if it is required to change its rider benefits to catch up with peers,\" Mr Krefting added.\n\nLegal & General Investment Management (LGIM) said it was put off by an \"unequal voting rights\" structure.\n\nDeliveroo is planning to let its founder and chief executive Will Shu have more than 50% of shareholder voting rights.\n\n\"It is important to protect minority and end-investors against potential poor management behaviour, that could lead to value destruction and avoidable investor loss,\" LGIM said.\n\nPhil Webster, a portfolio manager at BMO, said labour issues represented a \"ticking bomb on the side\" for Deliveroo, which contributed to making it \"uninvestable\".\n\nAndrew Millington, head of UK Equities at Aberdeen Standard, told the BBC's Today programme that the conditions were a \"red flag\", adding: \"We wouldn't be comfortable that the way in which its workforce is employed is sustainable.\"\n\nHe compared Aberdeen Standard's recent decision to sell off Boohoo shares, following allegations of worker exploitation at suppliers to the online clothing company.\n\nLarge institutional investors such as Aberdeen Standard can use their financial muscle to try to influence the way firms are run - such as through relationships with managers and shareholder votes.\n\nBut Mr Millington said that sometimes \"disinvesting or not investing in the first place is our only option\".\n\nHe added that it would be interesting to see whether Deliveroo can attract investors over the longer term \"without making progress\" on worker rights.\n\nOne of the biggest-ever floats on the London market of a home-grown technology company should have meant a feeding frenzy among the City's institutional investors, the companies that have the job of putting trillions of pounds of retail and pension investors money to work.\n\nFor years they have watched with envy as their US counterparts have put cash into a steady stream of technology companies.\n\nNot all have been big hits after listing their shares on public markets, but enough of them have been - think Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla and a string of others - to have made it a big source of investment returns. Deliveroo's listing, which could value the company at just short of £9bn, should have been a rare similar opportunity on the London market.\n\nInstead some big players, including Aviva Investors and Aberdeen Standard, are turning their backs, saying the way the company employs its riders is not socially acceptable, and poses a risk to its future.\n\nDeliveroo deems its riders to be self-employed, and points out that the High Court has upheld that view. What is more, Deliveroo says its riders value the flexibility that employment status gives them, although it is worth noting that Uber maintained the same thing until it eventually decided its drivers were in fact workers, not self-employed contractors.\n\nThere is no danger to Deliveroo's float - there are enough investors around who are happy to buy the shares. The buying strike by large investors could have ramifications well beyond one company, however. Does this mean that all gig economy companies are off limits? Does it signal that all companies on the London market will now have to ensure their worldwide organisations meet the best employment standards?\n\nAndrew Millington of Aberdeen Standard told the Today programme that would be the battle to come - that his firm would hold on to a company's shares as long as it was moving in the right directions, and paid proper attention to employment standards. That is a subtle warning to boardrooms that they will in future be judged by the way their treat their most junior staff.\n\nDavid Cumming, chief investment officer at Aviva, said investors were taking social responsibilities \"a lot more seriously\".\n\n\"A lot of employers could make a massive difference to workers' lives if they guaranteed working hours or a living wage, and how companies behave is becoming more important.\"\n\nA report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) - based on thousands of invoices from 300 Deliveroo riders - claims that one in three is earning less than the National Living Wage, which is currently £8.72 an hour.\n\nHowever, Deliveroo said the sample of 300 people was \"not a meaningful or representative proportion\" of their riders and that they can earn up to £13 an hour \"at our busiest times\".\n\n\"These findings [by the BIJ] raise concerns,\" said Tom Powdrill, head of stewardship at shareholder lobby group Pirc. \"Investors considering taking a position in Deliveroo should familiarise themselves with these matters and the risks and responsibilities involved along with all other relevant factors.\"\n\nMr Cumming also warned of the risk that drivers will have to be reclassified as workers, which would entitle them to rights such as sick and holiday pay.\n\n\"It's an investment risk if the legislation changes,\" said Mr Cumming.\n\nUber recently reclassified its drivers as workers after a landmark UK supreme court case last month.\n\nDeliveroo's chief executive, Will Shu, founded the business in 2013\n\nSince losing a five-year legal battle with drivers who claimed it had wrongly classified their employment status, Uber has offered holiday pay, a guaranteed minimum wage, and pensions benefits to its drivers.\n\nOther gig economy companies have been looking closely at the Supreme Court's verdict in February, although it does not directly apply to Uber Eats - the food delivery arm of the business.\n\nDeliveroo has set aside more than £112m to cover potential legal costs relating to the employment status of its delivery riders.\n\nIt warned potential investors of the risk of litigation around the world in documents setting out its plans for a stock market debut published on Monday.\n\n\"The European Commission is set to draw up new legislation governing how the gig economy model works across the bloc,\" pointed out Susannah Streeter, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"If Deliveroo is forced to change the way it classifies its riders in the future, it is likely to puncture its profits prospects, and could even derail the delivery giant.\"\n\nDeliveroo, which was founded in 2013, has said it will hand its riders bonuses of between £200 and £10,000 when it floats, depending on the number of orders they have delivered.", "Nearly £100m is to be spent improving maternity safety in England.\n\nIt is understood as many as 1,000 midwives and around 80 obstetrics consultants will be hired.\n\nNHS England made the funding commitment in response to the maternity scandal at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.\n\nRichard Stanton, whose daughter Kate died in 2009 after mistakes at the trust, said the money was \"good news\" and \"a step in the right direction for everyone\".\n\nMr Stanton said the announcement was a relief after 12 years of campaigning, alongside his wife, Rhiannon.\n\n\"It's something that should have been done sooner... and that is perhaps one criticism here that this should have never taken this long to have got to where we are today.\n\n\"If this money can be spent to improve maternity care at grassroots levels in hospitals, there are likely to be children alive in years to come because the care that they receive is as a direct result.\n\n\"That is a really humbling legacy to take away from Kate's death,\" said Mr Stanton.\n\nAn inquiry into maternity failings at the Shropshire trust is looking into 1,862 cases, the vast majority since the year 2000.\n\nRhiannon Davies, pictured with daughter Kate, campaigned for a review into maternity care\n\nAn initial report published last year by Donna Ockenden, the midwife leading the review, recommended that maternity units across England carry out what she termed seven \"immediate and essential\" actions.\n\nThese included ensuring midwives and consultants train together, listening properly to the views of women and their families, and better investigations when things go wrong, with lessons learned across the regional NHS system.\n\nToday's funding announcement is a response to those concerns and includes money to help the NHS recruit staff from overseas.\n\nFigures published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council found there had been an increase of 937 midwives in the UK in the six months to September 2020, bringing the total to just under 39,000.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives has estimated that the NHS in England needs more than 2,000 midwives to provide optimal care.\n\nRCM chief executive Gill Walton called the new investment \"a significant boost for our under-resourced and under-staffed maternity services.\n\n\"Now we must all work together to use this money to have an impact on direct front-line care as quickly as possible, so that we have the right numbers of staff, with the right training, in the right place.\"\n\nDr Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said Donna Ockenden's report into the baby deaths scandal had been \"a wake-up call for the system\".\n\n\"We look forward to working closely with the government to ensure every penny of this funding is spent in the best way it can be,\" said Dr Morris.", "All UK government buildings in England, Wales and Scotland will fly the union flag every day, following new guidance from the culture department.\n\nCurrently flags are only required to be flown on certain days such as the Queen's birthday.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden described the flag as \"a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us\".\n\nGovernment buildings in Northern Ireland are covered by a separate law.\n\nThe guidance released by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport department says the union flag should be flown every day - except on those occasions where another flag is being flown. The guidance will only apply from the summer.\n\nThe announcement comes after BBC Breakfast host Charlie Stayt received criticism for joking during a TV interview about the size of the union flag behind Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could you draw the Union Jack?\n\nThe union flag first appeared in 1606, after James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne in England in 1603 to become James I.\n\nThe flag combined the two flags of England and Scotland's patron saints - the red cross of Saint George and the white cross of Saint Andrew.\n\nThe red cross of Saint Patrick was later added.\n\nBack in 2007, Labour MP Ian Lucas unsuccessfully campaigned for the Welsh dragon to be added to the flag.\n\nIn 2008, then-Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrapped a rule that said the union flag could only be flown on certain days. He said it should be left to individual public offices to decide if and when to fly flag.\n\nOther countries such as Australia and New Zealand - who are members of the Commonwealth - feature the union flag on their own flag.\n\nAnnouncing the new guidance, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"The union flag unites us as a nation and people rightly expect it to be flown above UK government buildings - this guidance will ensure that happens every day.\"\n\nMinisters are also urging all local councils to fly the flag, and buildings will also be able to fly the NHS flag without seeking planning permission.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes welcomed the move saying: \"I think we just don't fly our flag enough - if you go to capitals of other countries, around the heart of those capitals, particularly government buildings, you routinely see the flag of that country flying.\n\n\"So it does seem to me something that unifies the country, that brings us together, that allows us to share in our national pride - what's wrong with that? And after this year, bringing the country together around the flag couldn't be more apposite.\"\n\nHowever the SNP's Mhairi Black said: \"If the Tories think an overload of union jacks on buildings is the answer to promote the strength of the union, then it shows how thin the case for the union is.\n\nIn 2013, protests were triggered by the removal of the Union flag from the Belfast City Hall\n\n\"Flags won't undo the poverty and hardship the Tories have created over the last decade,\" she said.\n\nPlaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"The Tories know that independence for Scotland is inevitable and that Wales will be hot on their heels.\n\n\"Sticking flags on every street corner will not change that fact, and rather, only reveals their desperate insecurity about the future of the UK\", she said.\n\nFlag-flying is a contentious issue in Northern Ireland and in 2015 a commission was set up to help find a consensus on flags, emblems and identity.\n\nThe commission's report was delayed when devolution in Northern Ireland collapsed and although the findings have been submitted they have not yet been published - despite calls from assembly members in Stormont.", "Stalking victims say they feel like \"sitting ducks\" in lockdown, according to a charity which has seen a surge in calls for help.\n\nA \"substantial rise\" in cyber-stalking has fuelled the rise, according to the Suzy Lamplugh Trust.\n\nThe charity also blamed people being unable to vary their routines due to restrictions on movement.\n\nIt said calls to its National Stalking Helpline were up by almost 10% since March 2020.\n\nThe trust - set up to support victims of stalking following the 1986 disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh - said it had received nearly 20,000 calls in the past 12 months.\n\nChief Executive Suky Bhaker said the impact of lockdown on victims had been \"tremendous\".\n\n\"They have explained to us they feel like sitting ducks, waiting for an incident to occur as they're not able to do normal things that they might do every day like varying their routines,\" she said.\n\nDespite the restrictions on movement, physical contact has not stopped, she said, with some perpetrators using their excuse for daily exercise to \"loiter\" outside the homes of their victims.\n\nShe said all calls to the helpline also involved some element of cyber-stalking.\n\nSuky Bhaker, from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, said the charity had received nearly 20,000 calls in the past 12 months\n\nInsp Clare Crossan, of North Yorkshire Police, said devices such as video doorbells and smart speakers were being exploited, and \"perpetrators can be quite inventive with how they stalk their victims\".\n\n\"It's not the image you might have of someone following you down the street. It's ascertaining where people are online, where they're checking into.\n\n\"If that's the means by which the stalker is tracing and contacting you then it can feel like there's no escape from it.\"\n\nInsp Crossan is part of the force's dedicated anti-stalking unit, set up after it was made a specific criminal offence in England and Wales in 2012.\n\nAccording to the 2020 crime survey for England and Wales, almost one in 20 women and almost one in 50 men aged 16 or over had experienced some form of stalking in the past year.\n\nBecky - not her real name - from North Yorkshire, was stalked for a year-and-a-half by her ex-partner, who seemed to know where to find her at all times.\n\n\"I just kept seeing him everywhere I went, wherever it was,\" she said.\n\n\"If I was driving on the road he would nearly always be coming in the opposite direction, if I left the gym he would be outside, driving past.\"\n\nShe only discovered how when a mechanic found a tracking device fitted to her car.\n\n\"I'm never somebody that's really suffered from anxiety, but it crippled me at times,\" she said.\n\n\"You're just always looking over your shoulder [and] you don't leave that behind even when it's been discovered.\"\n\nHer ex was recently jailed for two-and-a-half years after he pleaded guilty to stalking.\n\nYorkshire's Independent Domestic Abuse Service say better education around the signs of stalking is needed\n\nEvie Duarte, from the Independent Domestic Abuse Service, which helps people affected by domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking, said it was important to raise awareness from an early age.\n\n\"People do not always recognise that some of the things they are experiencing are stalking,\" she said.\n\n\"It might start off that if feels quite nice that someone is being really attentive, but then it comes to a point where it can be quite frightening.\"\n\nIf you're affected by the themes discussed in this article you can find more information from the National Stalking Helpline.\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.", "Nationwide is trialling whether traditional office-based staff could work from branches as part of the flexibility initiative\n\nNationwide is to allow 13,000 office staff to choose where they work under a new flexibility scheme.\n\nThe UK's biggest building society said its \"work anywhere\" plan would allow employees more control of their lives.\n\nUnder the plan, Nationwide is closing three offices in Swindon, with 3,000 staff either moving to the nearby HQ, working from home, or mixing the two.\n\nOther UK staff may be able to work from their local High Street branch if they prefer, rather than travel to offices.\n\nIn a Nationwide survey of staff, 57% said they wanted to work from home full-time after lockdown ends. More than a third - 36% - said they preferred a mix of home and office-based work.\n\nJoe Garner, chief executive of Nationwide, said: \"The last year has taught many of us that 'how' we do our jobs is much more important than 'where' we do them from.\n\n\"We are putting our employees in control of where they work from, inviting them to 'locate for their day' depending on what they need to achieve.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Garner said that research suggested staff made better decisions when working from home.\n\n\"A third of our people are saying they have an even greater consideration of the human impact of their decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"And perhaps that's not surprising because people are in their home environment, they're seeing other people's children on the screen - [as well as] cats, dogs, etc.\"\n\nNevertheless, he said the office would still play an important role, but people would not be told how often they have to travel into work.\n\n\"People do want to go,\" he said. \"They just don't want to be compelled to go every day.\"\n\nThe move towards flexible working will see a change to the configuration of offices, with more collaboration spaces and fewer meeting rooms, as well as introducing quiet areas and designated walking and cycling routes.\n\nThe building society said that although its branch-based staff were less able to work flexibly, it is looking at ways to \"help them better manage their working day around their home lives\".\n\nNationwide, which employs 18,000 staff, is also trialling an initiative in five sites where traditional office-based employees can work alongside branch colleagues.\n\nThe move comes as companies across the UK consider how to tackle the issue of remote versus office working once lockdown ends, with many backing a hybrid model.\n\nOn Thursday, Santander announced plans to reduce the amount of office space it rents in London and move its headquarters from the capital to Milton Keynes. It will close a number of its offices across the country and ask staff to work from home more often or travel in to one of its remaining offices.\n\nThe bank also said it would close 111 branches.\n\nNationwide acknowledged that allowing staff at its 650 branches more flexibility was more difficult - but it would try\n\nNationwide had already indicated it would not force people to return to the office if they have been successfully able to work from home during the pandemic.\n\nOil giant BP has told office-based staff they can spend two days a week working from home after lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nBanks HSBC and Lloyds are among many other companies looking into split working arrangements. And British Airways is considering the sell-off of its huge headquarters at Heathrow Airport as part of a move to flexible arrangements for about 2,000 staff.\n\nEarlier this month the boss of IWG, which provides office space across the world, told the BBC he expected hybrid working \"to become the norm\" for many companies.\n\nMark Dixon said: \"It works for companies, because it's a lot cheaper. It's also much, much better for the environment.\"\n\nNationwide's survey of staff found that almost all of its workers believed they were at least as good at prioritising decisions in the interests of customers when working from home, while three-in-10 said they were better.\n\nNationwide added: \"People won't be forced to return to an office, but anyone who needs a desk in an office can have one - for whatever reason.\n\n\"Our offices will become hubs where teams can meet for creativity, social connection and collaboration.\"\n\nIn a separate report compiled with Ipsos Mori, Nationwide found that 90% of those working from home wanted to continue doing so at least one day a week, with 60% saying it gave them a better work-life balance.\n\nBut the report - which sought views from a raft of major organisations including American Express, Visa, B&Q owner Kingfisher and NatWest Group - also suggested that 43% of remote workers needed some face-to-face time with colleagues to do their job effectively.", "Nationwide says UK staff may be able to work from their local High Street branch if they prefer, rather than travel to offices Image caption: Nationwide says UK staff may be able to work from their local High Street branch if they prefer, rather than travel to offices\n\nNationwide is to allow 13,000 office staff to choose where they work under a new flexibility scheme.\n\nIt comes after half of staff surveyed said they wanted to work from home full-time.\n\nThe UK's biggest building society says its \"work anywhere\" plan will allow employees more control of their lives.\n\nUnder the plan, Nationwide is closing three offices in Swindon, with 3,000 staff either moving to the nearby HQ, working from home, or mixing the two.\n\nNationwide boss Joe Garner says “fundamentally” employees will have total control over where they work from.\n\n“Our report says people do still want to go to the office… they just don’t want to be compelled to go every day,” he tells Radio 4. “People are saying they need the flexibility.”\n\nGarner also suggests employees are making “better decisions” as a consequence of home-working.\n\nHe says many organisations - not just Nationwide - have observed productivity benefits and benefits to well-being from flexible working. In the long term, he adds, there might also be environmental benefits.\n\nGarner insists the decision is not driven by cost, although he does think in time there will be cost benefits to Nationwide.\n\nThe move by the building society comes as companies across the UK look into how to tackle the issue of remote versus office working once lockdown ends, with many backing a hybrid model marrying some office work with days working from home.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "One patient was moved from Surrey to Tyne and Wear, data shows\n\nTwo patients were moved to a hospital 300 miles away, because of intensive-care bed shortages during the second UK coronavirus wave, BBC News has learned.\n\nAn unprecedented 2,300 intensive-care patients moved between UK hospitals from September 2020 to March 2021, in search of beds, data shows.\n\nFront-line doctors, speaking for the first time, say these transfers were the only way to care for patients.\n\nNHS England said the health service had responded well under intense pressure.\n\nIn January this year, the UK's four chief medical officers put out a joint statement saying: \"Without further action, there is a material risk of the NHS in several areas being overwhelmed.\"\n\nAnd measures were taken to cope with the increased demand:\n\nBut ICU staff reported specialist nurses, who normally look after one patient each, were caring for three, four or - in one instance - five.\n\nAnd data from the UK's Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) shows almost three times more patients than usual were moved to different hospitals - sometimes hundreds of miles away from their home.\n\nBetween September 2018 and March 2019, in comparison, there were just 789 such transfers.\n\nDr Mamoun Abu-Habsa says patients are transferred when it is \"the only option\"\n\nIn London, one of the \"hotspots\" for transfers, doctors set up their own schemes to organise the movement of patients.\n\nCritical-care consultant Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa was instrumental in setting up a pandemic transfer service before the second wave hit.\n\nForeseeing the pressures ICUs could face, he sourced an ambulance and equipment, and trained nurses and doctors so they could accompany patients being transferred.\n\nWhere hospitals were close to capacity, Dr Abu-Habsa said, moving patients made a huge difference to their care.\n\n\"We were taking patients across from hospitals that were close to their critical levels of oxygen supply, or the last ventilated bed, to hospitals that were under somewhat less pressure,\" he said.\n\nFew NHS staff have been prepared to speak out about the extent of patient transfers during the second wave, because of the sensitivities around moving such fragile patients because of bed shortages.\n\nBut Dr Abu Habsa wants people to know how carefully the transfers were handled - and why doctors felt they had no choice.\n\n\"No-one wants their patients to be taken away from them to complete their journey of care at another centre,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"That's not how you are wired as a medical professional.\n\n\"But they were also very acutely aware that under the circumstances the particular hospitals were under, that was the only option to preserve access to life support.\"\n\nThe latest figures show one in eight patients had to be moved from hotspots in London and the Midlands, with more than a quarter of these travelling long distances.\n\nIn January, the lord mayor of Stoke-on-Trent's chauffeur, Ashley Harvey, was admitted to the city's hospital, with severe breathing difficulties due to Covid-19.\n\nDays later, despite being in an induced coma and on a ventilator, he was transferred to Salford hospital - one hour away.\n\nHis family say they were told it was to make room for a surge of patients coming up from the South.\n\nAshley Harvey was moved from Stoke-on-Trent to Salford\n\n\"I'm aware that they had nine patients come from London, who were having a displacement of patients coming into the hospitals up and down the country - somebody would have made a difficult decision,\" Mr Harvey said\n\nHis daughter Louise was home from university when the family were told Ashley was being moved.\n\n\"They were saying that he was well enough to do that journey - and make space for someone that's worse,\" she said.\n\n\"It's insane to think that someone could be worse, because he was very poorly,\" but that \"sort of gave us a bit of hope\", she added.\n\nIn Birmingham, Dr Nitin Arora, a leading member the Intensive Care Society, said, at the worst point, 40% of ICU patients in some hospitals had to be moved - and without the transfers, more people would have died.\n\n\"We would have seen scenes like in Italy, triaging by age, scenes like New York, where some hospitals had mortality rates five times higher than others because they were working on a seven-to-one ratio,\" he said.\n\n\"The transfer service was one of the winners in this pandemic.\"\n\nWithout the transfers, Dr Nitin Arora says, more people would have died\n\nThe UK has a relatively low proportion of intensive-care beds compared with similar countries - and the pandemic pushed that capacity almost to the limit.\n\nDr Abu-Hapsa says that must now change.\n\n\"The shortage of critical care beds in the UK was absolutely felt during the pandemic,\" he said..\n\n\"There were contingencies in place to redistribute the pressure load from London to other parts of England - but none the less, the reality remains we were very close to breaking point.\"\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Each patient transfer only occurred after direct agreement between intensive-care clinicians and senior doctors that it was safe and right to do so and always happened under the supervision of a specialist transfer team.\n\n\"Being able to provide mutual support in this way is one of the advantages of having a truly national health service and prevented regions being overwhelmed, as happened in some other countries, even when our hospitals admitted more than 100,000 Covid patients in a single month.\"\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.", "Dozens of people gathered outside Batley Grammar School on Thursday morning\n\nA teacher who showed pupils an \"inappropriate\" cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad - sparking protests outside a school - has been suspended.\n\nThe image depicting the founder of Islam was used in a lesson at Batley Grammar School on Monday.\n\nVideos posted online show dozens of people standing outside the school on Thursday, with some demanding the teacher be sacked.\n\nThe government said it was never acceptable to \"intimidate\" teachers.\n\nHead teacher Gary Kibble apologised \"unequivocally\", adding the member of staff had \"given their most sincere apologies\" and been suspended pending an investigation.\n\n\"We have immediately withdrawn teaching on this part of the course and we are reviewing how we go forward with the support of all the communities represented in our school,\" he said.\n\n\"It is important for children to learn about faiths and beliefs, but this must be done in a sensitive way.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"It is never acceptable to threaten or intimidate teachers.\"\n\nThey said they encourage dialogue between schools and parents when issues emerge, adding: \"However, the nature of protest we have seen, including issuing threats and in violation of coronavirus restrictions, are completely unacceptable and must be brought to an end.\n\n\"Schools are free to include a full range of issues, ideas and materials in their curriculum, including where they are challenging or controversial, subject to their obligations to ensure political balance.\n\n\"They must balance this with the need to promote respect and tolerance between people of different faiths and beliefs, including in deciding which materials to use in the classroom.\"\n\nParts of the Koran are taken to mean that neither Allah nor Muhammad can be captured in an image by human hand and any attempt to do so is seen as an insult.\n\nOne of the protesters, a local resident who gave his name as Abdullah, said the cartoon offended \"the whole Muslim community\".\n\nAbdullah, who told the BBC he was not a parent but had relatives at the school, said up to 100 people, including pupils, had taken part in the protest.\n\n\"This is a time when we can't stay quiet, we need to stand up and let them know, the head teacher, the school and the governing body, that this is not something light. There's a line you can't cross,\" he said.\n\nOne parent outside the school told BBC Radio Leeds she had been upset the cartoon was shown, but she did not agree with the protest, saying it was \"quite scary and intimidating\".\n\nAnother mother said the use of the material was \"out of order and unacceptable\" and said she may consider removing her child from the school.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said no arrests were made and no fines issued during the protest\n\nDr Abdul Shaikh, a local academic in Batley and Muslim activist, told the PA news agency: \"I was shocked like many Muslims in the town that Muslim school children's religious sensitivities were completely ignored by the school teacher who decided to show an offensive image that lampooned the noble Prophet Mohammed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said the road near the school had been closed for a short time during the protest.\n\nNo arrests were made and no fixed penalty notices had been issued, the spokesperson added.\n\nAccording to a 2015 Ofsted report Batley Grammar had 689 pupils of which almost three-quarters were from a minority ethnic background.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Why depicting the Prophet Muhammad causes offence\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Contaminated blood victims in Wales had campaigned for a rise in support payments\n\nContaminated blood transfusion victims in Wales are set to get the same cash support as the rest of the UK.\n\nHaemophiliac patients, who were among thousands to receive contaminated blood in the 1970s and 80s, currently get £14,000 less than those in England.\n\nPayments to victims and families will now be backdated to April 2019, with lump sums for those infected with HIV and Hepatitis C backdated to 2017.\n\nThe UK government will issue a House of Commons statement later.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething welcomed the decision to provide \"additional financial support for those infected with hepatitis C and/or HIV via contaminated blood or blood products\".\n\n\"The significant impact of such infections on many individuals' lives has been extensively discussed in the Senedd chamber,\" he said.\n\nInfected blood victim Kirk Ellis said: \"I am relieved that this day has finally come. It means so much to myself and my family to finally have some financial security.\"\n\nHaemophilia Wales chairwoman Lynne Kelly said: \"We are pleased that the infected blood ex-gratia payments have been levelled up across the UK to include bereaved partners as this is a step in the right direction and will help alleviate immediate hardship.\"\n\nSolicitor Lucy O'Brien, who has been acting for Mr Ellis and Haemophilia Wales, said: \"It comes as a relief to our clients, all of whom have been campaigning and fighting tirelessly for parity of support for Welsh victims for nearly two years now, that they don't have to endure a protracted court battle over this issue.\"\n\nUK government paymaster general, Penny Mordaunt, said any future changes to national schemes would be \"subject to consultation between the UK government and devolved administrations\".\n\nShe said an \"independent reviewer\" would undertake a study looking at options for a compensation framework.\n\n\"The terms of reference of this study will be finalised in consultation between the independent reviewer and those infected and affected,\" she added.\n\nAgreement was reached in principle between the four UK nations' health departments to end the disparities in July 2019.\n\nThe UK Treasury will fund a number of changes to the four schemes to close the gap, including backdated payments.\n\nPayments through the Welsh Infected Blood Support Scheme will be increased to the rates currently paid in England and Scotland.\n\nBereaved partners will receive 100% of the beneficiaries payment in the first year, with 75% in the following year before equalling payments in Scotland.\n\nLump sum payments to patients who contracted Hepatitis C (Stage1) will increase from £20,000 to £50,000, with an additional £20,000 payable if the patient moves into Stage 2.\n\nThe total lump sum payable for Hepatitis C beneficiaries remains at £70,000, in line with Scotland, and will be backdated to April 2017.\n\nLump sum payments for HIV of £80,500 will be brought into line with England and backdated to April 2017.", "Muammar Gaddafi supplied weapons, including Semtex explosives, to the IRA during the Troubles\n\nVictims of IRA bombs have expressed anger at news the UK government cannot use frozen Libyan assets for compensation.\n\nThe father of a 12-year-old boy killed in the 1993 Warrington bomb has also questioned the government's rejection of calls to publish a report commissioned to examine the issue.\n\nLibyan-supplied Semtex explosive was thought to have been used.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Parry said the public \"may never know\" the reasons behind the government's refusal to compensate the victims of Libyan-backed terrorism.\n\n\"It's not as if it's a financial block - it's clearly a political decision,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a decision I can only imagine is based on the multi-layered complexity when it comes to historical issues related to Northern Ireland terrorism.\n\nThe government has said it would be against international law to use some £12bn in frozen Libyan assets to compensate victims.\n\nColin Parry said the issue could be easily resolved by releasing the assets\n\nOn Wednesday, it emerged that a report examining compensation options, completed last year by government investigator William Shawcross, will not be published.\n\nMr Parry asked why William Shawcross was given the remit to look into the issue \"if [the government] weren't prepared to act upon what he might say\".\n\n\"It's easily resolved through seized Libyan assets, but for reasons we may never know, the government is sitting on this report. I can only conclude that the government fears it will open up all sorts of matters which have been buried deep for some time now.\"\n\nMervyn Lewers, from Londonderry, who lost his legs following an under-car booby-trap bombing in 1988, said the government \"wants all victims to die off and go away\".\n\nHe said his life is \"a continuing battle\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme: \"It's 33 years since I was injured and I'm heading again to Musgrave Hospital today.\"\n\nCompensation would have \"meant a lot\", he said, as he has to pay someone to assist with \"ordinary things around the house\".\n\nFormer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime supplied large amounts of weapons and explosives to the IRA during the Troubles.\n\nMr Lewers questioned why William Shawcross, who was appointed by the government to look into the issue of compensation, met representatives of Sinn Féin, but not victims, before filing his report.\n\n\"It's public knowledge that members of Sinn Féin were convicted terrorists. For me, it's wrong.\"\n\nMr Shawcross, who appeared before the NI Affairs Committee on Wednesday, said he could not disclose details of his own report.\n\nIn a written statement to parliament on Tuesday, Minister for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly said the \"internal scoping report\" was commissioned to provide advice to ministers and draws on \"private and confidential conversations\".\n\nLibyan Semtex was used in the Remembrance Sunday bombing in Enniskillen\n\nHe said the \"frozen assets may not be seized by the UK government\".\n\nHe also ruled out using public funds to pay compensation to victims and then recouping the money from the Libyan government.\n\nHe said the responsibility for providing compensation lies with the Libyan state and the government had urged the authorities at the \"highest level\" to engage with UK victims.\n\nUnionist peer Lord Empey described the refusal to use the assets to compensate victims as \"a very murky business\".\n\n\"Other countries - the United States, France and Germany - all of them have got compensation for their victims. The United Kingdom hasn't even asked for it. So there's something wrong.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson, of Innocent Victims United, said: \"For two years the UK government has been responsible for heaping further pain upon those already treated so shamefully.\n\n\"The Shawcross Report can't even be described as a 'whitewash' because it continues to be held back from victims, the full contents remain hidden.\"", "Pub goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, Boris Johnson has told MPs, saying it \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nA review is looking into whether people should have to prove they have been vaccinated, as lockdown measures ease.\n\nA government source told the BBC that the option of allowing people to show a negative test was also being looked at.\n\nBut Tory MP Steve Baker said it was a \"ghastly trap\" and unfairly penalised those advised not to have a vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, MPs will vote later on new coronavirus laws for England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nThey will also be asked to approve the government's plan to renew emergency coronavirus powers for another six months. The Coronavirus Act was introduced in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe government review of vaccine certification could report in May to coincide with the wider reopening of hospitality in England, according to a senior government source.\n\nThe review is looking at how people's vaccination and testing status could be stored securely and displayed on a mobile phone, and the circumstances under which such a system could apply.\n\nThe idea of asking pub goers to show a vaccine certificate was raised at Wednesday's House of Commons Liaison Committee hearing, when Conservative William Wragg asked Mr Johnson if vaccine certificates were \"compatible with a free society such as ours\".\n\nMr Johnson said the concept \"should not be totally alien to us\" as doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs.\n\nMr Wragg then asked, what about \"ordinary citizens going to the pub?\" and the prime minister replied: \"That's the kind of thing that may be up to individual publicans.\"\n\nPushed further, Mr Johnson said: \"I find myself in this long national conversation thinking very deeply about it\" adding that the public \"want me as prime minister to take all the action I can to protect them\".\n\nMr Johnson also said it seemed \"wholly responsible\" for care companies to require their workers to be vaccinated and \"the principle is there\" in terms of professions requiring certain vaccines when \"entrusted with care of a patient\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Jonathan Neame, chief executive of the Shepherd Neame pub chain, said his company would not insist on vaccine certificates.\n\nHe said: \"The whole essence of a pub is that they are diverse and inclusive environments, where everybody, and families in particular, are extremely welcome.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's absolutely fine to exclude people where there is a situation of bad behaviour or drunkenness, and that's already enshrined in law, but if you're going to exclude people for what they are, or what they have not done, that's a wholly different issue which does touch on discrimination, civil liberties, and in this case data protection issues.\"\n\nPeter Marks, from nightclub owner the Deltic Group, said a vaccine certificate \"could work\" for the sector and would probably be accepted by customers already used to carrying IDs to get into venues. However, he said he was concerned introducing such a measure could delay the reopening of businesses.\n\nMinisters, and the devolved administrations, have set out plans for how the rules they imposed will be rolled back.\n\nBut there are still question marks over what will take the place of the laws we have lived with for so long.\n\nMr Johnson was happy to sketch out how that question could in part be answered, in a way that not all of his party will like.\n\nHe made clear that he was willing to countenance the idea of \"jabs for jobs\" and held open the possibility that bars might ask for \"papers for pints\".\n\nWhen tests are widely available, proof of a negative test, is also being considered as a tool to help venues open up\n\nThe government is reluctant to make any of this compulsory for everyone.\n\nBut it seems that proving our Covid status, through the vaccination, or a test, is likely to be part of our lives in the medium term.\n\nAt the Liaison Committee hearing, senior Tory backbencher Mr Baker strongly rejected the suggestion of requiring pub goers to show proof they had been vaccinated, saying: \"First they said we'll need them to watch the football, and today that it may be papers for the pub.\"\n\nHe warned that such a situation would prevent pregnant women - who have been advised not to take the vaccine - from \"taking part in society\".\n\nHe also expressed concern that business would be able to turn away customers \"from communities which have shown an unfortunate hesitancy to take up the offer of a vaccine\".\n\n\"We must not fall into this ghastly trap,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street later pointed out that pregnant women are not specifically being advised to avoid having a Covid vaccination, but to discuss it with their GP.\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality, said the sector should not be \"subject to mandatory vaccination certification\".\n\n\"It is simply unworkable, would cause conflict between staff and customers and almost certainty result in breaches of equality rules,\" she added.", "On the first official day of campaigning in the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections, polling expert Sir John Curtice considers the \"intense\" battle for every vote ahead of polling day on 6 May.\n\nVoters go to the polls in six weeks to elect a new Scottish Parliament. The ballot looks set to be another crucial chapter in Scotland's continuing debate about how it should be governed.\n\nAccording to the polls, voters are evenly divided on whether Scotland should be an independent country or whether it should remain part of the United Kingdom. On average recent polls put Yes to independence on 50%, No on 50%.\n\nThe issue seems set to influence the way in which many people will vote in an election in which voters will have two votes - one for their local constituency MSP, the other for a regional party list.\n\nThe SNP and the Greens will be arguing that there should be another referendum on independence. The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats take the opposite view.\n\nAs our graph above shows, recent polls suggest that nearly nine in 10 of those who currently support independence are currently minded to support the SNP on the constituency vote.\n\nLess than one in 10 of those who oppose independence indicate that they will vote for Nicola Sturgeon's party.\n\nHowever, whereas most Yes supporters are nearly all backing the same party, the preferences of No voters are scattered across different parties.\n\nSlightly less than half are supporting the Conservatives, just under a third Labour while one in eight are backing the Liberal Democrats.\n\nTrue, the Greens have the support of 11% of Yes supporters on the list vote (and only just 3% of No voters), but this still leaves the SNP a long way ahead among those who back independence.\n\nNot least of the reasons why support for independence, at 50%, is higher than the 45% recorded in the 2014 referendum, is that there has been swing in favour of leaving the UK among those who oppose Brexit.\n\nOn average the polls suggest that while just 34% of those who voted Leave in 2016 are in favour of independence, well over half (56%) of those who supported Remain now back the idea.\n\nThis has also opened up a division in party support that was largely not in evidence at the last Scottish Parliament election - which took place seven weeks before the EU referendum.\n\nAs our Brexit graph above shows, in 2016 SNP support differed little between those who went on to vote Remain and those who backed Leave. Now support for the party is 25 points higher among Remain supporters as it Leave voters.\n\nIn contrast, support for the Conservatives is now three times higher among Leave voters (45%) than among Remain supporters (15%).\n\nThe increased support for independence together with opposition to Brexit has enabled the SNP to establish a substantial lead in the polls, as the graph above shows.\n\nOn average the party is 26 points ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote and 20 points ahead on the list vote. Labour are trailing a little further behind in third place.\n\nAs the opposition parties have acknowledged, it will take a dramatic change of fortunes between now and the beginning of May for anyone other than the SNP to come first.\n\nHowever, the target the unionist parties appear to have set themselves is to try to deny the SNP an overall majority - something which is very difficult to achieve under Scotland's proportional representation system.\n\nIt was the SNP's success in winning an overall majority in 2011 that paved the way for the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nIf the SNP were to repeat that feat it would be more difficult for the prime minister simply to say 'No' to another referendum.\n\nFrom the figures in our chart, the SNP might just miss out on an overall majority - or might just make it. With the outcome of the election seemingly on such a crucial knife edge, it looks as though there will be an intense battle for every vote between now and polling day in May.\n\nJohn Curtice is Professor of Politics and Senior Research Fellow, ScotCen Social Research and 'The UK in a Changing Europe'", "A drone operator cycled through snow for seven kilometres to capture spectacular images as the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano spewed lava.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAidy Boothroyd says England can still reach the European Under-21 Championship quarter-finals despite their opening-game loss to Switzerland.\n\nDan Ndoye's late goal was decisive for the Swiss on their first appearance at the finals for a decade.\n\n\"We are still in it, we live to fight another day and that's what we'll do,\" said Three Lions manager Boothroyd.\n\nEngland face Portugal, who beat Croatia 1-0, in their second fixture on Sunday (20:00 BST).\n\nThey will then meet Croatia in their final Group D match on Wednesday, 31 March (17:00 BST) in the tournament hosted in Slovenia and Hungary.\n• None Uefa European Under-21 Championship: All you need to know\n\nThe knockout phase is scheduled to take place between 31 May-6 June, with the final due to be played in Ljubljana.\n\nAnd England, who have not advanced past the group stage in four of the last five finals, now have their work cut out to progress, albeit their task is slightly easier than in previous years with the top two from each group going through.\n\n\"The format is different so we have more of a chance, we are not out of it yet and we are going to go for it,\" Boothroyd added.\n\n\"It's a setback and we don't moan about it, we get on with it. This is the biggest test and we have to go through a bit of adversity to come through the other side.\n\n\"Am I worried about it? No I am not because the team that goes out against Portugal will be a very attacking team and we will see if we can improve.\"\n\nIn truth a number of refinements will need to be made to address a lack of cutting edge that saw Switzerland enjoy the better chances despite England's dominance in possession.\n\nEngland goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale saved superbly from Brighton forward Andi Zeqiri following lax play from Ben Godfrey, and another error, this time from Tom Davies, saw Bastien Toma hit the post for Switzerland.\n\nIn response England were restricted to few chances of note, with a dipping Davies effort from distance, Lloyd Kelly's wayward header from a corner and a Callum Hudson-Odoi free-kick all they could muster.\n• None Oliver Skipp (England U21) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, England U21. Oliver Skipp tries a through ball, but Ryan Sessegnon is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Curtis Jones (England U21) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Kastriot Imeri (Switzerland U21) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Micah Richards joins the boys for a new series\n• None What are the chances?:", "Robin Swann says it is unlikely people will be able to travel abroad this summer\n\nForeign travel over the summer holiday months should be ruled out, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said Westminster and the devolved governments were discussing the so-called \"red list\" for foreign countries.\n\nHe said travel to the Republic of Ireland would be dependent on its vaccine rollout.\n\nMr Swann also said fragilities in NI's health system underlined the need for caution as lockdown eases.\n\n\"Our health and care services have had the toughest of years. They still need our protection now,\" he said.\n\nThe \"red list\" is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the UK.\n\nThe health minister said the health system in Northern Ireland had been particularly strained in recent years compared with neighbouring jurisdictions.\n\nNorthern Ireland has begun taking its first steps out of lockdown, after restrictions were re-imposed nearly three months ago.\n\nThe current rules came into force on 26 December, in a bid to suppress the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut ministers have agreed some relaxations of the rules can now be permitted.\n\nOn Wednesday, no further coronavirus-related deaths were recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, meaning the total number of deaths remains at 2,107.\n\nWhile there are no direct international flights arriving into Northern Ireland at the moment, Mr Swann said the executive was looking at establishing a hotel quarantine system for international arrivals.\n\n\"Should direct flights start, we will have that facility here as well,\" Mr Swann told a press briefing on Wednesday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of Belfast Chamber, said the health minister's comments on foreign travel would cause alarm.\n\nHe said there would be \"many in the tourism industry\" who will be \"very disappointed to hear speculative comments that have not be endorsed and backed and supported by the executive\".\n\nMeanwhile Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said a change in the advice for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to Covid-19 was planned.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride says advice for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people will ease on 12 April\n\nSince 26 December, CEV people have been advised to adhere to additional steps to keep themselves safe from exposure to the Covid-19, including advice not to attend their workplace if they can work from home.\n\nThat will now ease from 12 April.\n\n\"This is an important step to helping CEV people re-engage with everyday life with confidence,\" he said.\n\nDr Patricia Donnelly, head of NI's vaccination programme, said the target of reaching all adult age groups by the summer is \"firmly within our sights\".\n\nA total of 694,863 individuals have received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 96,254 have received two.\n\nDr Donnelly said that meant almost half of the adult population in Northern Ireland had been vaccinated.\n\nShe said the vaccination centre in the SSE Arena in Belfast would open on 29 March and more than 300 community pharmacies would also join the vaccination programme next week.\n\nCurrently, anyone over the age of 50 and those with some underlying health conditions are eligible for a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe SSE Arena will operate alongside the seven regional vaccination centres run by health trusts across Northern Ireland as well as GP practices.\n\nDr Donnelly also warned those who are trying to \"inappropriately access the service\" that \"they might travel as far as they like, they won't get vaccinated\".\n\n\"It's going to be a wasted journey for anyone who does it,\" she said.\n\nIt has emerged that hundreds of people from the Republic of Ireland have been turned away from vaccinations centres in Northern Ireland in recent days.\n\nAn online \"glitch\" has led to vaccination appointments being booked by people who are not yet eligible\n\nMeanwhile the Department of Health has said it is investigating an apparent glitch in its online vaccination booking system.\n\nIt says a number of appointments were booked by people who were not yet eligible.\n\nThe BBC understands an online link, enabling people to bypass eligibility criteria questions, was circulating on some social media platforms for some time on Tuesday.\n\nIn a tweet issued on Wednesday, the department said: \"Yesterday some members of the public in NI who are not yet eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine were able to make an appointment.\n\n\"This was as a result of an issue with the system's eligibility checker and we are looking into the circumstances that allowed this - but we want to clarify that such appointments are being cancelled.\n\n\"Ineligible appointments will in any event be turned away at the vaccination centre through checks that apply there.\n\n\"Our thanks to the vast majority of people who are using our services properly.\"", "Police officers were hurt during a protest in the centre of Bristol that turned violent\n\nPolice are scouring an \"enormous amount\" of footage and have vowed to make more arrests after violence at a Kill the Bill protest in Bristol.\n\nProtesters clashed with officers as thousands turned out for the march on Sunday.\n\nEight people have already been arrested after 21 officers were injured.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said the investigation could result in the largest number of images for wanted suspects in the force's history.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel accused some protesters of \"thuggery\" and Bristol's mayor said those involved in the violence were \"selfish\".\n\nOne of the injured officers suffered a punctured lung, with the chairman of the local Police Federation saying the actions of some were \"close to attempted murder\".\n\nOf the eight people arrested so far, six were detained for violent disorder and two for possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nDet Ch Supt Carolyn Belafonte said CCTV footage, body-worn camera videos and social media coverage were being studied along with photographs.\n\nAvon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner said the acts showed \"reckless disregard\" of people's lives and safety\n\nA dedicated page has also been set up on the Avon and Somerset Police website for people to send footage and pictures in.\n\n\"From what we've already obtained, we're confident more arrests are imminent,\" said Det Ch Supt Belafonte.\n\nShe said forensic evidence, including fingerprints, had been recovered from the scene.\n\n\"To those who took part in this spree of offending, you can expect a knock at your door in the days or weeks to come - it may come sooner than you think,\" she added\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said people had a right to protest but the violent scenes were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"They should protest peacefully and legally.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons earlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel condemned the protests as \"anarchic\" and \"violent\".\n\nShe said the minority of people who confronted police officers in the city centre on Sunday night had demonstrated \"criminal thuggery and disorder\" that put lives at risk.\n\n\"Our exceptional and brave police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect the public.\n\n\"For them to face the criminal violence against them while upholding the law is completely unacceptable,\" she added.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the injured officers and their family.\"\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees slammed offenders as \"selfish\" for \"living out their revolutionary fantasies\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the protest had been \"hijacked by extremists\", by \"people who were determined to commit criminal damage\".\n\nPolice vehicles were set on fire and fireworks were set off in the crowds\n\nMr Marsh said: \"There was a hardcore of serious criminals hidden within those 3,000 people - perhaps 400 or 500 people - and we certainly didn't trigger this.\"\n\nCrowds had gathered to peacefully protest in opposition to the new Police and Crime Bill but it went in a \"violent direction\" outside Bridewell Police Station at about 17:30 GMT, Mr Marsh said.\n\nAs angry scenes unfolded, demonstrators scaled the station, threw fireworks into the crowd and daubed graffiti on the walls.\n\nMr Marsh said that while it would not have been \"practical or possible\" to arrest more people on the night, those involved in the violence can expect \"very serious consequences\".\n\n\"We will be asking for the people of Bristol to identify these thuggish citizens so we can bring them to justice,\" he added.\n\nGraffiti has been removed from walls\n\nBy 17:30 there were approximately 300 police officers at the scene.\n\nTwo officers were injured and treated in hospital, with one suffering a punctured lung and broken ribs, and the other a fractured arm. Both have since been discharged.\n\nTwelve police vehicles were also damaged, with two set on fire. It is understood the police operation cost around £1m.\n\nAndy Roebuck, chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation said: \"We had them actually squirting liquid on our visors.\n\n\"They've turned up with weapons and then tried to set fire to a police vehicle with police officers actually inside it.\n\n\"That is close to attempted murder of those police officers as far as we are concerned in the Police Federation.\n\n\"That is the level of violence and determination that these animals have gone to. And this is something we can not tolerate.\"\n\nAt times there were as few as 50 police officers, facing 100 or more violent protesters.\n\nHorses and dogs were used to great effect, but their numbers have been cut in the last decade.\n\nThis means that arguably, the police were outnumbered. To arrest one protester during the pandemic, it currently takes an average of three officers and one vehicle, since suspects have to be kept socially distanced.\n\nHowever, public order commanders know that sending in snatch squads to make arrests also leads to a more violent response.\n\nSo, instead of clearing the streets, and making arrests, a decision was taken for police to hold their ground, and gather evidence for later investigations.\n\nThe result has given a dangerous impression. A feeling of a loss of control which was also a feature of the early stages of the 2011 riots in England.\n\nWorkers from Bristol Waste spent the morning removing broken glass, debris and offensive graffiti from the streets.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees said the violence had made people already dealing with inequality in the city less safe and questioned whether the perpetrators were from Bristol or were \"protest tourists\".\n\nHe said: \"Smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the bill going through.\n\n\"On the contrary, the lawlessness on show will be used as evidence and promote the need for the bill.\n\n\"This is a shameful day in an incredible year for Bristol. These people should feel shame.\"\n\nPolice riot shields and vans were sprayed with graffiti\n\nSue Mountstevens, Avon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner, said the behaviour was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe said: \"It's disgraceful these men and women who started their days expecting a normal day of policing have all returned battered and bruised.\n\n\"These people have shown reckless disregard of the lives and safety of our communities in central Bristol and our officers.\n\n\"Whether you agree or disagree with the bill, these men and women did not deserve to face the level of violence directed at them. Nothing can justify such actions.\"\n\nUniversity student Rhianna Prewitt, who attended the demonstration, said: \"This is a symptom of not allowing organisers to actually properly organise protests and, by doing that, extremists and people who are looking for a riot are going to take advantage to cause chaos.\n\n\"Also, if the government doesn't want us to protest during the pandemic, why are they pushing through a significant law at this time without public scrutiny?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters clashed with police and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the disorder was \"inexcusable\" and those involved should be identified and \"prosecuted where appropriate.\"\n\nHe condemned the \"lawlessness\" by people who were \"intent on violence,\" adding parallels could not be drawn between the protests in London against harassment and violence against women and the scenes in Bristol.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The report examines allegations that Nicola Sturgeon had failed to record a series of meetings and telephone discussions with Alex Salmond and others in 2018.\n\nJames Hamilton concluded that the meetings were government business - contrary to Ms Sturgeon's claims that they were a party matter.\n\nBut he accepted her reasoning that \"it would have been impossible to record such meetings or discussions without a risk of prejudicing the proceedings or interfering with their confidentiality\".\n\nThe report also notes that by July 2018, Ms Sturgeon's relationship with Mr Salmond was breaking down.\n\n\"In her opinion he was clearly upset and angry that she was not assisting him to achieve the outcome he wanted,\" writes Mr Hamilton.\n\n\"The first minister states that she was also upset with him. She says that the nature of the complaints against him and the account he had given her of one of them had badly shaken her faith in him.\n\n\"She states, however, that in spite of that she did not want their relationship to break down completely. He had been her friend and colleague for 30 years.\"", "Two things matter right now: the international pathways essential to the production of vaccines, and the international pathways that allow waves of the virus to spread.\n\nMany of our neighbours are confronted by a political and epidemiological double whammy: a failure to vaccinate at anywhere near the rate the UK has, and another wave of infections, prompting a tightening of restrictions.\n\nThe lesson of this pandemic so far has been what happens nearby can happen here, and quickly - a prospect the prime minister appears alive to.\n\nEarlier Boris Johnson said: \"On the continent right now you can see sadly there is a third wave under way and people in this country should be under no illusions... that previous experience has taught us that when a wave hits our friends it washes up on our shores as well and I expect we will feel those effects in due course. That’s why we were are getting on with our vaccination programme as fast as we can.“\n\nWith more than half of adults in the UK having received a jab, the consequences of another wave are not likely to be what they could have been - but it's striking the prime minister chose to publicly acknowledge there will be an impact here.\n\nThe health minister Lord Bethell went further - saying it was a \"possibility\" \"all of our European neighbours\" could be put on the \"red (travel) list\", meaning mandatory quarantine in a hotel for all UK residents arriving.\n\nMeanwhile, the PM is speaking to fellow European leaders about vaccine production and distribution. He spoke to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, the french president, yesterday. Mr Johnson said he was \"reassured\" the EU didn't want to see what he called \"blockades\".", "Aretha Franklin's family have denounced a new dramatisation of the singer's life, saying they were not consulted and \"do not support\" the show.\n\nGenius: Aretha stars British Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, and is being shown on National Geographic in the US.\n\nThe channel said it had permission to make the \"tribute to Aretha's genius\".\n\nBut the family say they were cut out of the production process and asked fans to boycott it, saying: \"This is about common, decent respect for our family.\"\n\nThe Queen of Soul's granddaughter Grace posted a video of her protesting against the show alongside her parents, siblings and friends last week.\n\nIn a TikTok clip, they can be seen chanting: \"This movie has to go! This movie has to go!\"\n\n\"As the immediate family, we feel that it's important to be involved with any biopic of my grandma's life, as it's hard to get any accurate depiction of anyone's life without speaking to the ones closest to them,\" she explained.\n\n\"During the process of writing, directing, and filming this movie, we've reached out to Genius as a family on multiple occasions where we have been disrespected and told we will not be worked with.\n\n\"As the immediate family - emphasis on immediate - we do not support this film and we ask that you also do not support this film, as we feel extremely disrespected, and we feel there will be many inaccuracies about my grandmother's life.\"\n\nAretha Franklin's music moved millions of people and sound-tracked social change over five decades\n\nAretha Franklin was one of the biggest stars of pop, soul, gospel and R&B, who scored more than 100 hit singles on the US Billboard charts - from Chain of Fools and Respect to Think and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.\n\nHer extraordinary success was matched by an equally dramatic personal life, in which she survived abusive relationships and worked with civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King.\n\nA separate big-screen biopic of her life was already in production when she died of pancreatic cancer in 2018. Starring Jennifer Hudson, it has been produced with input from the family and is due to hit screens this summer.\n\nJennifer Hudson was hand-picked by Aretha to star in the forthcoming movie Respect\n\nNational Geographic's eight-part series was announced in 2019, and the star's family said their efforts to contact the producers were rebuffed.\n\n\"What we've found out in the past is that usually when people don't want to work with you, that is a prelude to some type of unprofessional behaviour or a prelude to some type of untruth or slander, so we're not quite sure where we're going to see in this series,\" Franklin's son Kecalf told Rolling Stone magazine.\n\nThe family admitted they had not seen the programme, which was largely written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. They did not intend to watch the first two episodes when they were broadcast on Sunday, Kecalf added.\n\nResponding to the Franklin family's criticism, National Geographic noted that it had permission to make the film from Franklin's estate, which is currently a separate entity amid disputes over the singer's will.\n\nHowever, that permission did not extend to licensing her biggest songs, including Respect and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.\n\nThe channel added that the intention of the Genius series, which has previously depicted the lives of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, was a \"tribute to Aretha's genius - something we hope we can all celebrate\".\n\n\"We received the message from the family, we hear them and acknowledge their concern for Ms Franklin's legacy,\" a spokesperson said in a statement.\n\n\"We think we have a shared goal here - to honour and celebrate the life and legacy of Aretha Franklin. We can tell you that everyone who worked on Genius: Aretha approached telling her story with the intention to respect Ms Franklin in every aspect of the series and in every decision we made.\"\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 JoBlo Streaming & TV Trailers 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\nEarly reviews for the series have been mixed.\n\nCritics praised Erivo's performances which, according to The Guardian, \"brings out the swaggering sensuality of Franklin's artistry\", but they were less convinced by the \"overfamiliar biopic beats\" (The New York Times) and a narrative that \"tangles the characters and storytelling in frustrating knots\" (Variety).\n\n\"As an extended biopic, Aretha is serviceable and fairly thorough,\" concluded The Chicago Sun-Times. \"As a showcase for one of the great stars of our time playing one of the greatest stars of all time, it's a hit.\"\n\nPlans to show the mini-series in the UK have yet to be announced.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Clive Myrie is known for presenting the BBC's News at Six and Ten\n\nBBC journalist Clive Myrie has been named the new host of quiz show Mastermind, replacing John Humphrys, who has stepped down after 18 years.\n\nMyrie will be the fifth host of the BBC Two quiz, which marks its 50th anniversary next year.\n\n\"They are big shoes to fill but all I can do is bring a little bit of my own personality to what is a grounded format,\" he said.\n\nHe will continue to present programmes like the BBC's News at Six and Ten.\n\n\"That side of me is still very much there, but it's good to be able to be liberated every now and again when I do Mastermind,\" he added.\n\nMyrie recently won two Royal Television Society journalism awards - for network presenter of the year and television journalist of the year.\n\nAs well as being a newsreader, he is known for his work as a foreign correspondent and recently fronted a series of acclaimed reports from hospitals dealing with the Covid pandemic.\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\nOn Monday, he said he thought producers had offered him the Mastermind job after seeing his lighter side on the BBC News Channel's late-night newspaper round-up.\n\n\"I can't imagine they would have got me to present Mastermind if it was just seeing me in some refugee camp in Yemen,\" he said. \"It's that other side of my personality that I think they noticed.\"\n\nIn a statement, Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of entertainment, said: \"Clive will be a superb host, witty, wise and with a wicked sense of humour, he's a consummate interrogator who also understands the fear involved when facing a barrage of questions in the spotlight.\"\n\nMyrie said he might change \"little things\" on his new programme, but added: \"The fundamental format, the basic structure - the chair, the spotlight on the individual who's dealing with this - is going to stay the same.\n\n\"You can have a bit more fun in the celebrity series, for instance. That's maybe where there's a little bit more latitude.\"\n\nHe will begin filming in July, with the show set to return to screens later in the year. Humphrys' last episodes will be broadcast next month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A former MP is calling for an investigation into her husband's death amid growing concern over the use of \"do not resuscitate\" (DNR) orders.\n\nFormer Conwy Labour MP Betty Williams's husband Evan died at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor last April after contracting Covid.\n\nShe said she had not been told about the decision on a DNR order - which she said was made the day he died - despite speaking to staff before his death.\n\nMs Williams said neither she nor her husband had given consent for such an order.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it was unable to comment on individual cases but invited Ms Williams to get in touch.\n\nHowever, she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme she had already written to the new chief executive to highlight her concerns.", "Celtic and Rangers football fans have been praised for sticking to lockdown restrictions.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed there had been no arrests made following the Old Firm fixture as fans heeded warnings to \"stay at home\".\n\nThe message was heavily promoted ahead of Sunday's match at Celtic Park.\n\nDespite a significant police presence at both Parkhead and Ibrox, police said the warning was observed by the vast majority.\n\nHowever, while Glasgow appeared quiet, a crowd of Rangers supporters gathered in West Lothian.\n\nSocial media posts showed fans celebrating in the street in Armadale.\n\nA police spokesperson said: \"Officers are currently in attendance managing a crowd who have gathered in Armadale.\n\n\"Local road closures were put in place for a short period of time and roads have since reopened. Police remain in the area.\"\n\nPolice were ready to be deployed outside Ibrox Stadium\n\nPolice Scotland mounted a major operation in a bid to prevent a repeat of celebrations by fans two weeks ago.\n\nThousands of Rangers supporters broke lockdown rules to gather at Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square following the team's league title win.\n\nTop officers warned similar behaviour would not be tolerated and there would be arrests if advice was ignored.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said: \"I'd like to thank the vast majority of fans from both clubs who took responsibility to prevent the spread of coronavirus by staying at home and not gathering at Celtic Park or anywhere else.\n\n\"Where small groups of people did gather, officers engaged and encouraged them to disperse and return home.\n\n\"The clear message to all supporters as the football season continues over the coming weeks is to stay safe by staying at home and please do not gather in large groups.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm grateful for the co-operation and support from all clubs and we will continue to work with them and the Scottish government to ensure the season can be completed safely.\"\n\nThe match, which took place behind closed doors at the Celtic Park stadium, ended in a 1-1 draw.\n\nIn a moment of solidarity, Celtic captain Scott Brown put his arm around Rangers midfielder Glen Kamara, who was the target of alleged racist abuse during his side's Europa League tie with Slavia Prague on Thursday.\n\nThe league fixture was only given the go-ahead on Friday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to proceed followed \"extensive engagement\" with the clubs, the SPFL, Police Scotland and Glasgow City Council.", "Kingfisher, the owner of DIY retailer B&Q, has reported a sharp rise in full-year sales and profits, boosted by a new generation of \"young DIY-ers\".\n\nThe company said underlying pre-tax profit jumped 44% while sales climbed to £12.3bn in the year to 31 January.\n\nKingfisher boss Thierry Garnier said that the Covid-crisis had led to 18-34 year-olds doing more home improvements than any other age group.\n\n\"All of this is very encouraging for the future of our industry,\" he said.\n\nKingfisher, which also owns the builders' merchant Screwfix, added that 20% of young \"DIY-ers\" had tried home improvement for the first time during lockdown. The company surveyed customers last year and again in February.\n\nThe company also said home-working had helped lift sales and profits, as people invested in making their houses more comfortable.\n\nIt expects people to continue working from home once Covid restrictions are lifted.\n\nKingfisher said this would result in \"'wear and tear' on the home, and the need to organise living space differently, thereby creating further demand for home improvement\".\n\nUnderlying pre-tax profit for the year rose to £786m from £544m in the previous 12 months. Total sales rose by 7.2%.\n\nLike-for-like sales, which strips out revenue from stores opened during the year, rose by 7.1% over the year with the strongest growth in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nUnder government guidelines, hardware stores are considered essential retailers. B&Q was closed during the first few weeks of lockdown a year ago before gradually reopening.\n\nKingfisher said the pandemic had accelerated growth in online sales. E-commerce sales accounted for 18% of total sales compared to 8% in the year before.\n\nMr Garnier said the company was also restructuring its shops in the UK and Ireland and is looking at introducing smaller B&Q Express stores in urban areas and retail parks. It is \"right-sizing\" a small number of its bigger stores and investigating using excess space solely to fulfil online orders.\n\nIt is also launching two more B&Q shops with Asda stores this week, adding to the two it has already opened within the supermarket.\n\nKingfisher said it had made a strong start to its current financial year with group like-for-like sales up more than 24% between February and 18 March. It said there had been particular demand for plants and vegetable seeds, compost and pressure washers.", "The Scottish government has published draft legislation for the holding of a second independence referendum.\n\nIt wants to hold indyref2 after the pandemic but \"in the first half of the new parliamentary term\".\n\nThe SNP says it will attempt to pass the bill if May's election returns a majority of MSPs who back independence.\n\nThe legislation proposes using the same yes or no question as in 2014, with the date to be decided by MSPs.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all opposed the move, saying that Scotland's focus should be on recovery from the Covid-19 crisis rather than a row over the constitution.\n\nAnd the UK government has so far refused to give its consent to a new referendum, which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously said would be needed to ensure the legality of any vote.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon has not ruled out going to court to settle the question of whether Holyrood could legislate for a legal referendum without Westminster's backing.\n\nThe draft referendum bill was published shortly before Ms Sturgeon was due to learn the outcome of an independent investigation into whether her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga broke the ministerial code.\n\nThe legislation proposes using the same question as the 2014 referendum - \"should Scotland be an independent country?\" - with voters asked to answer either yes or no.\n\nThe paperwork accompanying the bill said that this question continues to be well understood by the Scottish public.\n\nHowever, the independent Electoral Commission will be asked to test the wording of the question after the bill is formally tabled.\n\nThe bill also proposes using the same franchise as is used for Scottish Parliament and local government elections, including allowing foreign nationals who live in Scotland to vote.\n\nBut there is no firm commitment to any date for the poll, with the bill stating that this is a decision \"for the next Scottish Parliament to take\".\n\nAnnouncing the publication of the draft bill, Constitution Secretary Mike Russell said the immediate priority would be \"dealing with the pandemic and keeping the country safe\".\n\nThe bill has been published ahead of an independent report into whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code over the Alex Salmond saga\n\nBut he said that \"better times lie ahead\", and that \"it should be the people living in Scotland who have the right to decide how we recover from the pandemic and what sort of country we wish to build after the crisis\".\n\nHe said the current government thinks the vote should be held inside the first half of the five-year Holyrood term.\n\nAnd he added that if May's election produces a pro-independence majority, \"there can be no democratic justification whatsoever for any Westminster government to seek to block a post-pandemic referendum\".\n\nHe said: \"Scotland's recovery should be made by the people who live here and who care most about Scotland. That is why Scotland's future should be Scotland's choice.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly ruled out giving his backing to a new referendum, saying the question was settled conclusively in 2014 when the country voted by 55% to 45% to reject independence.\n\nHe told the Scottish Conservative party conference earlier this month: \"I just find it incredible that the SNP would choose this moment to again push their campaign for separation.\n\n\"Just when everything is beginning to reopen again, when we will soon be reunited with our friends and family, the SNP think that this is the time to turn us all against one another.\"\n\nThe prime minister says the last referendum in 2014 settled the issue, and another vote is not needed\n\nThis was echoed by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said the bill was a \"reckless distraction\" and a bid to \"distract people from the Sturgeon-Salmond scandal\".\n\nHe added: \"A responsible government would be entirely focused on Scotland's post-pandemic recovery, but Sturgeon and her ministers have become detached from reality and the priorities of ordinary families.\"\n\nScottish Labour and the Lib Dems have also rejected the idea of having a new referendum in the immediacy, with Labour's constitution spokesman Colin Smyth saying that \"the focus for all of Scotland's politicians should be on bringing the country together, and an independence referendum is not a priority at this time\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said civil servants who could have been \"planning to get cancer services running full speed\" had instead been ordered to work on a referendum bill.\n\nHe added: \"We are still in a pandemic. Thousands have lost their lives, thousands more have lost their job. Reasonable people will think that this is the wrong moment to be pushing a referendum.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens back independence - with the party's co-leader, Lorna Slater, saying it \"could be crucial in securing a majority of MSPs in favour of Scotland having a say over our own future\".", "The women were found dead at separate homes in Newtownabbey\n\nThe \"appalling\" murders of two women in County Antrim on Friday have \"left children facing a lifetime without their mums\", police have said.\n\nThey confirmed that the women who died were Karen McClean, 50, and Stacey Knell, who was 30.\n\nDetectives believe Ken Flanagan, 26, murdered his mother, Karen, and girlfriend, Stacey, in Newtownabbey before killing himself.\n\nOfficers said it was a \"really shocking and horrific double murder\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell said the women were killed in their homes, where they should have felt safe.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with their families as they come to terms with their tragic loss,\" he said.\n\nStormont politicians have condemned the murders and pledged to do more to tackle violence against women.\n\nMLAs raised the matter at the start of assembly business on Monday.\n\nRepresentatives from all parties said there is a significant problem that must be acknowledged by politicians and wider society.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a stabbing at Derrycoole Way, Rathcoole, at about 22:55 GMT on Friday. A woman was found dead at the scene.\n\nThey were then called to a house at Glenville Road, where a second woman was found dead and Ken Flanagan was found unconscious. He subsequently died.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene of one of the killings\n\nSam Lillie, the father of Ms Knell's child, told BBC News NI he had contacted social services and the PSNI earlier on Friday because of concerns about his child.\n\nHe said he had had a \"really bad feeling something bad was going to happen\".\n\n\"I never, ever predicted it would be this,\" he added.\n\n\"As you know the police can't do anything unless somebody does something.\n\n\"I knew that even before I went to the police station, so I knew I was wasting my time going there, but I did what they told me to do.\"\n\nMr Lillie said social services had taken what he said \"seriously\" and that they had said they would contact Ms Knell on Monday.\n\nPolice have confirmed they received a report of concern for the safety of a child on Friday, 19 March.\n\n\"Following review, there was no evidence of immediate concern for the child's safety and the caller was provided with advice in respect of the matter,\" said Ch Supt Davy Beck.\n\nWhen contacted, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust said it was unable to comment at this stage, due to confidentiality issues and an ongoing police investigation.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley suggested that, given what had happened, the system was not working.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster on Monday, she said: \"We have a system that requires hard evidence before police or social services will step in to try and divert.\n\n\"That whole early intervention service is something that we need in place to assist the police and social services.\n\n\"For that young man who went forward to police, he obviously is devastated that the actions he took were not heard or not acted upon.\"\n\nPolice believe Ken Flanagan murdered his mother and girlfriend in Newtownabbey on Friday before killing himself\n\nMs Bradley also called for a gender-based strategy to deal with violence against women and girls.\n\n\"We also need to see a shift in our judiciary when it comes to handing out the maximum tariffs for anyone who has been found guilty of any form of domestic abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"There needs to be a bigger shift in just how we deal with violence against women and girls.\"\n\nIn the assembly on Monday, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said legislation was needed that would make misogyny a hate crime.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she hoped to put a paper before the NI Executive this week on a strategy to protect women and girls from violence.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a specific strategy.\n\n\"We must as a society do all we can to erode sexism and protect women. We must do it for Stacey and Karen and their families, and for the many other victims that should have been protected in our society but weren't,\" said Ms Mallon.\n\nInfrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says legislation is needed that would make misogyny a hate crime\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said there was \"far too much violence\" in society against women.\n\n\"What do we say to our young daughters? What do we say to our wives, our mothers, our sisters, particularly as men in Northern Ireland?\n\n\"We have to acknowledge the fact that we have a significant problem, and we have to deal with it.\"\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister said there was a need for a \"great change of attitude where a resort to violence isn't readily taken\".\n\n\"This past weekend is yet another tragic example of that,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin Mid Ulster MLA Linda Dillon said it was a problem for \"entire communities\".\n\n\"It is a problem that we all need to deal with. But we're not only talking about domestic abuse.\n\n\"We're talking about violence against women and girls in every facet, whether that's within their home, on the streets, in the workplace, in their place of education, or wherever it may be, we have to deal with this issue.\"\n\nMrs Long said it was an \"absolute tragedy\" to see women losing their lives to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, she said early intervention was needed to tackle \"offending behaviours\" in the perpetrators of violence.", "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.", "Buckingham Palace is reviewing diversity policies across all royal households.\n\nThe work is looking at improving diversity at Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and Kensington Palace.\n\nRoyal sources have stressed that the Palace already has policies, procedures and programmes in place but has not seen the progress it would like.\n\nThe work began before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made allegations of racism within the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey included claims they had been asked how dark their son's skin would be before his birth.\n\nThe duchess said there had been \"concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he was born\".\n\nBoth Prince Harry and Meghan refused to say who made the comment - but Harry later clarified to Oprah that it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThe issue of race was the one of the most difficult aspects of the interview for the Royal Family.\n\nIn response, Buckingham Palace described those issues as particularly \"concerning\", saying they would be \"taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge later said the royals were \"very much not a racist family\" in response to questions about the interview.\n\nComments made by the Sussexes will now form part of the diversity review, which was first reported by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday described the work as a \"major drive\". It will take place in collaboration with people from minority backgrounds, disabled people, and gay and transgender communities.\n\nBuckingham Palace is seeking independent views and is looking at new ways of approaching all issues of diversity within the royal households.\n\nPossible changes being considered include the appointment of a \"diversity chief\", but sources said they accept more can be done and improvements made.\n\nRoyal sources stress that the Royal Family has a strong track record on diversity through their charity projects and engagements, but add the whole family has given this project their full support.\n\nA source said they were listening and \"wanted to get this right\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William says Royal Family is \"very much not racist\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: European third wave \"will wash up on our shores\"\n\nBoris Johnson has warned the effects of a third wave of coronavirus will \"wash up on our shores\" from Europe.\n\nThe PM said the UK should be \"under no illusion\" we will \"feel effects\" of growing cases on the continent.\n\nOne of his ministers, Lord Bethell, also warned the UK might put \"all our European neighbours\" on the red list of countries, where arrivals are either banned or put in quarantine hotels.\n\nThe comments come amid a row over Covid-19 vaccine supplies in the EU.\n\nThe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has warned the EU could \"forbid\" doses made in the bloc from being exported to the UK.\n\nEU leaders will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss their plans.\n\nOfficials confirmed the PM spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday about the ongoing issue, which would affect exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made in Europe.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"talked to EU friends repeatedly\" during the pandemic and had been \"reassured... over the last few month they don't want to see blockades\".\n\nDowning Street also said President von der Leyen, had told Mr Johnson earlier this year that the EU was not intending to restrict exports of vaccines.\n\nEU legislation allows measures to be taken \"if severe difficulties arise in the supply of certain products\" - which, in theory, could include export bans and the waiving of patent and intellectual property rights on vaccines.\n\nBut earlier, Mrs von der Leyen's chief spokesman, Eric Mamer, insisted that Brussels was not seeking to ban vaccine exports, but wanted pharmaceutical firms to meet their contractual obligations to the bloc.\n\nMr Mamer said: \"In that context, the president has said that, of course, we see that, actually, companies that manufacture doses in the EU have been exporting very widely - which is in itself a good thing - but that we want to see reciprocity and proportionality in these exports.\"\n\nUrsula von der Leyen has said the EU could \"forbid\" exports of vaccines to the UK\n\nAsked if he was worried about the row, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I am reassured by talking to EU partners over the last few months that they don't want to see blockades.\"\n\nBut he went on to issue a warning about what the growing infections in Europe could mean for the UK.\n\nThe PM said: \"On the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way.\n\n\"And people in this country should be under no illusions that previous experience has taught us that when a wave hits our friends, I'm afraid it washes up on our shores as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"I expect we will feel those effects in due course. That's why we're getting on with our vaccination programme as fast as we can.\"\n\nLater, Health Minister Lord Bethell warned how the rising cases and issues with vaccines could affect travel to European countries going forward.\n\nHe told the House of Lords: \"I don't know how that will play out and it's certainly above my pay grade to speculate, but we are all aware that the possibility lies that will have to red list all of our European neighbours - but that would be done with huge regret.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK reported 17 deaths over the last 24 hours of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nA further 5,342 cases were also confirmed, while another 367,006 people received their first vaccination - along with 52,612 who got their second jab.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Bethell says the UK's nearest neighbours could join the \"red list\"\n\nMeanwhile, the long-awaited results of the US trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which involved more than 32,000 volunteers, show that the jab is safe and highly effective.\n\nSeveral European leaders paused rollout of the vaccine amid concerns of a possible link with blood clots. UK and EU regulators said there was no evidence the vaccine causes blood clots.\n\nEuropean leaders have faced criticism for the slow pace of the vaccine rollout on the continent.\n\nLess than 12% of the EU's population is reported to have received the vaccine, compared with nearly 40% in the UK - although the bloc has 446 million citizens, compared to almost 67 million in the UK.\n\nThe EU has encountered production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nBritish-Swedish manufacturer AstraZeneca said the fact that EU contracts were signed later than with the UK caused problems with supplying their vaccine.\n\nDowning Street has previously said that it does not believe that vaccine supply issues will affect the current road map for easing lockdown restrictions.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Michael Martin said it is vital that supply chains were kept open, telling RTE: \"Once you start putting up the barriers, other people start putting up barriers globally and it could lead to everybody losing. We'd all lose in that situation.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said the UK government was right to say that contractual obligations need to be honoured, telling LBC that the EU was not \"helping itself\".\n\nThe Guardian says a report by data analysts Airfinity suggests that if an export ban was applied to all vaccines - including those from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson that have yet to be deployed in the UK - it would see the offer of a first vaccine to every adult completed in late August rather than the target date of 31 July.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK had already vaccinated over half of the adults in the country, adding: \"We'll just bash on with the road map we've set out.\"\n\nThe prospect of a third coronavirus wave won't engulf anyone with joy. So why did Boris Johnson highlight this danger today?\n\nPrivately and publicly ministers are making it clear that they don't want to delay the dates in England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nThere will be a vote in Parliament on coronavirus restrictions later this week.\n\nSo by stressing the risk that the virus still poses, the PM may be hoping to convince restless backbenchers that he can't go any quicker.\n\nHe may also be trying to persuade vaccinated people with itchy feet that booking spring or summer holidays would still be premature.\n\nHe is preparing us, too, for the strong possibility that cases could rise in the coming weeks - not just because of \"incoming\" risks, but because rules here are being slowly relaxed.\n\nBut by stressing the shared threat from the coronavirus - i.e. the sooner the EU population is vaccinated, the less chance of importing a third wave - his comments could be also be clearing the way for more UK/EU vaccine co-operation, and the dousing down of an inflammatory row with Brussels.\n\nThe latest point of contention between the UK and the EU appears to be over vaccine doses being manufactured at a plant in the Netherlands.\n\nAn EU official told Reuters news agency that those doses should be distributed among member states, and not sent to Britain.", "Jarryd Hayne denies the allegations against him\n\nAustralian Rugby League player Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in 2018.\n\nThe 33-year-old former athlete had denied charges he attacked the 26-year-old woman in her house.\n\nHayne was one of the sport's most high-profile athletes and his conviction comes amid an intensifying debate about rape in Australia.\n\nA judge said Hayne would be sentenced at a later date, but that a jail term was \"inevitable\".\n\nProsecutors alleged Hayne sexually assaulted the woman in her bedroom, causing two injuries.\n\nThe former National Rugby League (NRL) player insisted all sexual activity was consensual and that the injuries had been accidental.\n\nThe victim's mother was also at home at the time and Hayne left afterwards in a taxi.\n\nIn the victim's evidence, which was replayed from a first trial last year, she said she had refused to consent to sex because he already had a taxi waiting outside.\n\nThat earlier trial ended in a hung jury. This time, it took the jury three days to find Hayne guilty of two counts of sexual assault.\n\nHe was found not guilty of the more serious charge of aggravated sexual assault while recklessly inflicting actual bodily harm.\n\nHayne has twice won the NRL's player of the year award and has played 11 Tests for Australia, helping them to win the 2013 World Cup.\n\nThe verdict comes a week after tens of thousands of people turned out to marches across Australia, protesting against the sexual abuse and harassment of women in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic has been approved by regulators.\n\nSapphire Medical Clinic, located in Stirling, is the first medical cannabis clinic authorised by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) to provide safe access to medical cannabis for patients in Scotland.\n\nMedical cannabis was legalised in the UK in November 2018, allowing doctors to prescribe it in certain situations.\n\nThe clinic will begin by offering virtual appointments.\n\nFace-to-face consultations will follow when Covid restrictions allow.\n\nThe clinic was originally due to open in Aberdeen, but will now operate from premises in the central belt.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had no influence over prescribing and it was the decision of specialist clinicians to prescribe the drug.\n\nThe law change moved cannabis from schedule 1 under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 - meaning it had no therapeutic value - to schedule 2.\n\nThat category is for drugs which are controlled but have a recognised medical use and can be prescribed in certain circumstances.\n\nSapphire medical's managing director, Dr Mikael Sodergren, said: \"We are delighted to be the first clinic to be registered with HIS, which is a testament to the robust clinical governance framework we have established in evaluating patients for treatment with medical cannabis.\n\n\"By capturing clinical outcomes through the UK Medical Cannabis Registry we will significantly contribute to the evidence base and ultimately allow more patients to benefit from medical cannabis as a treatment option.\"\n\nCannabis-based medicines can come in the form of whole cannabis flowers, oils or capsules, or a single compound which can be isolated and extracted.\n\nMultiple sclerosis patients and parents of children with severe epilepsy are among those who have been fighting for access to the drugs.\n\nLisa Quarrell's eight-year-old son Cole has stopped having seizures since taking medicinal cannabis oil\n\nLisa Quarrell's eight-year-old son Cole has a rare form of severe epilepsy and suffered up to 20 seizures a day before he was prescribed cannabis oil.\n\nHis mum, from East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, originally obtained the medicine from Holland but now has a private prescription.\n\nShe welcomed the first Scottish clinic.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It won't change my situation as my problem now is purely funding or having it accessible through the NHS. However, it will make it easier for desperate parents to gain access to this wonderful medicine.\n\n\"Many parents are being forced to either take the only thing left on offer from NHS Scotland - which is brain surgery - or go against their clinicians to search for a safer solution alone.\n\n\"Not only is this still not available on NHS but the clinicians won't even discuss it so parents are terrified to even ask to be allowed to try.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is a step in the right direction and it means finally there will be a safe path for scared parents to take.\"\n\nAndie Connolly-Brown, 41, from Edinburgh, suffers with complex PTSD and anxiety.\n\nShe has tried a range of conventional therapies. She said: \"Having access to medical cannabis is a lifeline for me. My anxiety in particular has been made worse by the Covid-19 lockdown so safe and affordable access to medical cannabis is welcome.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"The scheduling of Cannabis Based Products for Medicinal Use (CBPMs) is reserved to the UK government and the Scottish government has no powers to alter its status. We welcome the UK government's decision to allow doctors on the GMC specialist register to prescribe such products where there is clear published evidence of benefit.\n\n\"The decision on whether to prescribe a medicine for a patient, and which medicine to prescribe, is entirely one for the clinician in charge of a patient's care to make, having taken into account the patient's clinical condition and the safety of the patient. This is regardless of whether it is an NHS clinician or a clinician working in a private clinic.\n\n\"It is solely a decision for the patient or the patient's carer whether or not to seek private treatment. Where they do so then they are responsible for paying the costs incurred.\"", "Police officers have been hurt during a protest in the centre of Bristol that turned violent.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nWindows of a police station were smashed, riot vans and police cars were set on fire amid tense scenes in the centre of the city.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees said: \"Smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the Bill going through.\n\n\"On the contrary, the lawlessness on show will be used as evidence and promote the need for the Bill.\"\n\nThe protest centred around New Bridewell police station in the centre of Bristol\n\nSeveral riot vans and police cars were set on fire during the protest that started peacefully\n\nProtesters scaled the police station roof and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nPolice in riot gear pushed back against the crowd of thousands in Bristol city centre\n\nRioters smashed the windows of the building\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill\n\nRiot officers pushed the protesters back away from the police station\n\n\"You don't campaign for the right to peaceful protest by setting police vans on fire\", Bristol North West MP Darren Jones says\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel says \"Thuggery and disorder by a minority will never be tolerated\"", "The number of daily Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the UK has hit a record high for a third consecutive day.\n\nA combined total of 844,285 first or second doses were given on Saturday, up from 711,157 on Friday.\n\nMore than 27.6 million people in the UK - more than half the adult population - have now received at least one dose of a vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson, who received his first dose on Friday, said: \"A huge thank you to everyone involved and please come forward to get your jab when you are invited to do so.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, added: \"In just one day we vaccinated the equivalent of the entire adult populations of Liverpool, Southampton and Oxford combined.\"\n\nA slightly higher daily total of 873,784 was initially reported by the PM and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who added later the figures from Scotland had \"been revised down slightly\" but it was \"still our record day\".\n\nOf the vaccinations administered on Saturday, 752,308 were first doses and 91,977 were second, meaning 2,228,772 people in the UK have now been fully vaccinated.\n\nA further 33 deaths within 28 days of a positive test have also been recorded, taking the UK's total by that measure to 126,155.\n\nThere have also been another 5,312 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe new vaccine record comes after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned the EU not to \"build walls\" around the distribution of vaccines.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show after a threat by the European Commission to block vaccine exports to countries including the UK, Mr Wallace said: \"The European Union stands for the rule of law... and that means we should all abide by our contracts.\n\n\"We are legally all obliged, both the buyer and the purchaser.\"\n\nEU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said all sides needed to \"calm down\".\n\n\"I think all of us should put our hands up and say we were not prepared for this global pandemic,\" she said. \"We did not do our best at the beginning but we are doing our best now to protect our citizens.\n\n\"I think we all need to, if you like, calm down, look very... dispassionately at the situation around the raw materials for vaccines, around where they are produced and how we might ramp up that production.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mairead McGuinness told the BBC that all sides needed to \"calm down\" over Covid-19 vaccine row\n\nDespite the success of the vaccine rollout, Mr Wallace did not rule out extending England's ban on overseas holidays amid rising cases in other countries.\n\nMr Wallace said booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".\n\nIt comes after a scientist on a government advisory body said summer holidays overseas are \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk that travellers will bring coronavirus variants to the UK.\n\nThe earliest date people in England could holiday abroad is 17 May.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments also said international travel will not be possible before 17 May, while Northern Ireland has not set a date.\n\nMeanwhile, a leading epidemiologist has predicted that people may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years before a return to normality.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll-out jabs.\n\nShe said people \"have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place\".\n\n\"So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to speak to his EU counterparts this week as a row over Covid vaccine supplies continues.\n\nEU leaders will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss a ban on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports to the UK - but the PM aims to put the UK's case in one-on-one phone calls before that.\n\nThe European Commission president says the EU can \"forbid\" vaccines made on the continent being sent to the UK.\n\nThe PM said the vaccination rollout requires \"international cooperation\".\n\nMr Johnson said \"we are all facing the same pandemic, we all have the same problems\", as he reiterated that if cases rose on the continent, it could have a knock-on effect in the UK.\n\nDowning Street said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had told Mr Johnson earlier this year that the EU was not intending to restrict exports of vaccines.\n\nHelen Whately, health and social care minister, urged the EU to stand by this commitment and warned against \"vaccine nationalism and protectionism\".\n\nEuropean Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer insisted that Brussels was not seeking to ban vaccine exports, but wanted pharmaceutical firms to meet their contractual obligations to the bloc.\n\nMr Mamer said: \"In that context, the president has said that of course we see that, actually, companies that manufacture doses in the EU have been exporting very widely - which is in itself a good thing - but that we want to see reciprocity and proportionality in these exports.\"\n\nThe latest flashpoint appears to be over doses made in a Dutch factory.\n\nMeanwhile, the long-awaited results of the US trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which involved more than 32,000 volunteers, showed that the jab was safe and highly effective.\n\nSeveral European leaders paused rollout of the vaccine amid concerns about a possible link with blood clots. UK and EU regulators said there was no evidence the vaccine caused blood clots.\n\nEuropean leaders have faced criticism for the slow pace of the vaccine rollout on the continent.\n\nLess than 12% of the EU's population is reported to have received the vaccine, compared with nearly 40% in the UK.\n\nThe EU has encountered production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nBritish-Swedish manufacturer AstraZeneca said the fact that EU contracts were signed later than with the UK caused problems with supplying their vaccine.\n\nDowning Street has previously said that it does not believe that vaccine supply issues will affect the current road map for easing lockdown restrictions.\n\nMs Whately told BBC Breakfast the UK was \"on track\" to meet its target of offering the vaccine to the top nine priority groups by 15 April and to all adults by the end of July.\n\nThere is also enough supply to ensure people have their second doses, she added.\n\n\"We always knew that there could be ups and downs in supply but we have a... diverse supply chain and we are absolutely determined to keep on deploying the vaccine,\" she said.\n\nBut the Guardian said a report by data analysts Airfinity suggested that if an export ban was applied to all vaccines - including those from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson that are yet to be deployed in the UK - it would see the offer of a first vaccine to every adult completed in late August rather than the target date of 31 July.\n\nMinisters say that countries should work together for the benefit of everyone.\n\nIs that a hint that Boris Johnson will try to defuse this row by proposing joint working between the UK and the EU to boost vaccine production on the continent?\n\nThe UK already has a team of engineers at a plant in the Netherlands.\n\nThat might not be enough to satisfy the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who clearly wants to see doses being sent to Europe from AstraZeneca facilities in the UK.\n\nBut it's not up to her - it's up to EU leaders to decide at their virtual summit on Thursday.\n\nIf they decide to up the ante then the UK will have to choose whether to maintain its diplomatic silence or to retaliate.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said that 41 million vaccine doses have been exported from the bloc to 33 countries in six weeks, with more than 10 million jabs going to the UK.\n\nShe has said that, in contrast, the EU is still waiting for vaccine exports from the UK and she warned last week that if supplies in Europe do not improve, the bloc \"will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate\".\n\nArticle 122 of the EU treaty allows measures to be taken \"if severe difficulties arise in the supply of certain products\". Those measures could in theory include export bans and the waiving of patent and intellectual property rights on vaccines.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said this weekend that the bloc has the power to \"forbid\" exports, adding: \"That is the message to AstraZeneca.\"\n\nA government source has described the latest reports from the EU as \"concerning\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK government was right to say that contractual obligations needed to be honoured.\n\nSir Keir told LBC that the EU was not \"helping itself\", adding: \"I don't think that they should go down this road of banning exports.\"\n\nThe latest point of contention between the UK and the EU appears to be over vaccine doses being manufactured at a plant in the Netherlands, with an EU official telling Reuters that those doses should be distributed among member states, and not sent to Britain.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to use his calls to European leaders in the first half of this week to persuade them to veto any proposal that would prevent vaccine exports from entering the UK.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among those likely to be on the PM's list, according to British officials quoted by the Financial Times.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Sunday that the EU should not \"build walls\" around the distribution of vaccines and should seek to meet its contractual \"obligations\".\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC that the language being used by the European Commission was \"counterproductive\", adding: \"Trying to... build walls around this would only damage both EU citizens and United Kingdom.\"\n\nEU commissioner Mairead McGuinness said that no decisions had been made over any possible export ban and urged all sides to \"calm down\".\n\nThe EU row over vaccines also comes as speculation continues over whether summer holidays abroad will be permitted for those in the UK this year.\n\nMr Wallace said an extension on the ban on foreign holidays could not be ruled out.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister hailed a \"record-breaking day\" for the UK's vaccine rollout, after a combined total of 844,285 first or second doses were given on Saturday, up from 711,157 on Friday.\n\nIt means that more than 27.6 million people in the UK - more than half the adult population - have now received at least one dose of a vaccine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. No women of colour have been elected to Scotland’s parliament in its 22-year-history.\n\nWhen the Scottish Parliament was created in 1999 much was made about how it would reflect modern Scotland but fine words and good intentions have not necessarily led to equal representation.\n\nWomen make up 51% of the population but currently only hold 36% of the seats at Holyrood.\n\nAnd of the 645 members elected since 1999, there has not been a single woman of colour.\n\nIf the parliament was truly representative of the population, there should have been 12.\n\nThe 53-year-old teacher is standing for the SNP in Glasgow Kelvin. Ms Stewart has been a campaigner for more than 20 years and this is her fifth attempt at being elected.\n\nShe says the barriers can be quite entrenched and trying to break them down is very difficult.\n\n\"We know that people will want to select somebody who is like them,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm not like the majority of the population of Scotland, because I'm a different colour.\n\n\"Therefore, if people are looking for that familiarity, they're not visually going to get it from me.\"\n\nShe says the challenge is to be embedded in a community and to get to know people.\n\nMs Stewart is clear that having a parliament which represents all of Scotland's diversity is essential.\n\n\"It's important because it's a validation,\" she says.\n\n\"It's a sense of belonging, that the people who make decisions about shaping policies are the people that live and work and breathe in Scotland.\"\n\nBorn in Burundi, Ms Kanyange came to the UK in 2003. The 40-year-old, who recently finished university, is on the Glasgow list for the Scottish Green Party.\n\nThis is her first time standing for election and she says we need to get beyond race and gender when electing people.\n\n\"Let's normalise it,\" she says.\n\n\"It should not be seen as this major thing that's happening, like 'oh first black this, first black that'.\"\n\nMs Kanyange says: \"Racism is everywhere, it is in the hospital, it's in schools, it's in politics.\n\n\"So the people that have jobs to do, it's not your right to disrespect or decide how you're going to treat a person.\n\n\"It's not the right thing to do. Look at what they're capable of doing, rather than what they look like.\"\n\nShe says people need to adjust to this mindset so society can change.\n\nMs Kanyange takes inspiration from Kamala Harris's recent election as the first woman of colour Vice President of the United States.\n\n\"It was very, very, very good, because yes, she might be the first, but she 'hopes' that she's not the last. And that's exactly how I feel.\"\n\nAisha Mir, 48, is an Edinburgh businesswoman who is standing for the Scottish Liberal Democrats on the Mid-Scotland and Fife regional list.\n\nAs a Muslim, she says she has encountered barriers within her own community.\n\n\"When I stood in my first election, I approached the local mosque, to ask if I could get some time there to speak to the congregation,\" she says.\n\nMs Mir says she offered to observe religious rules, perhaps engaging with women separately.\n\n\"We went to speak to the Imam and I got shut down straight away,\" she says.\n\n\"I was shut down, told I shouldn't be standing, it wasn't a woman's place and it was quite astounding.\"\n\nMs Mir says: \"We have to respect different cultures, traditions and faiths, absolutely.\n\n\"But we also have to call out, from within our communities, when this kind of behaviour happens because it's not right.\"\n\nShe says being told not to stand put \"fire in my belly\".\n\n\"I thought, 'right, I am so going to do this',\" she says.\n\nPam Gosal, 48, is the Conservative candidate in the Clydebank and Milngavie seat.\n\nShe ran her family business before working in local government. This is her second election as a candidate.\n\nIn the 2019 UK general election, she says female candidates got a lot of social media abuse as well as face-to-face comments.\n\nShe knows standing for election makes her a public figure and therefore a target but says it does not frighten her.\n\nMs Gosal says she has experienced racist abuse throughout her life but it will never stop her.\n\n\"I remember what mum and dad had told us: 'Just put your head down and walk past, and don't give them eye contact',\" she says.\n\nOffensive comments on social media platforms are something she has learned to deal with.\n\n\"In the past month 'go back to your country' was one of them,\" she says.\n\n\"I was born in Scotland so I don't know what they were talking about.\"\n\nLabour has no women of colour standing for election to Holyrood this year.\n\nParty activist Deena Tissera, who lives in Aberdeen, hopes to stand in the future, once she has completed her PhD.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who is originally from Sri Lanka, describes the lack of women of colour at Holyrood as a \"system failure\" which leaves her disappointed.\n\n\"I think it's the perception of what leadership is, and what a leader looks like,\" she says.\n\n\"That is an in-built race ideology, where most of the time a white, male-presented individual is the most electable. And so there's no point of anyone other than that running for the position.\"\n\nMs Tissera says women of colour fall through the cracks when it comes to minority representation.\n\n\"You've elected a minority male, so that covers the minority target group,\" she says. \"And then you've elected the females, so that covers the gender target group.\n\n\"So there is representation there but there are no minority females. That's where women like myself fall down the gap.\"\n\n\"We need to elect more people of colour,\" she says.\n\n\"It has to be diverse. There needs to be equity in power distribution, in terms of representation.\n\n\"That is when we can actually have inclusive policy coming out, which is beneficial for the growth of this country.\"", "The masterplan to help people upgrade the UK’s homes has been “botched” and must be urgently overhauled, MPs say.\n\nThe environmental audit select committee says the Green Homes Grant (GHG), which offers people up to £10,000 for insulation, is so inept that it is actually damaging the building sector.\n\nIt adds that 19 million UK homes are poorly insulated and accuses ministers of “failing to grasp\" the challenge.\n\nThe government says it is \"committed to going further and faster\".\n\nBut the MPs warn that unless urgent action is taken to improve energy efficiency of homes this decade, the UK will fail to meet its climate targets.\n\nThat is because the UK’s housing stock accounts for 20% of its carbon emissions through heating, hot water and cooking.\n\nThe MPs said the scheme had \"only achieved 10% of its target to improve 600,000 homes in six months\".\n\nIt has been rumoured that the Treasury wants to scrap the GHG scheme, but the committee says the system needs to be reformed, not abolished.\n\nAnd crucially, the MPs insist, the grants need long-term funding so there is time to build a supply chain of materials, and a well-trained workforce.\n\nThe government is preparing a Heat and Buildings Strategy, and has previously denied wanting to scrap the scheme.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said over 33,000 GHG vouchers worth more than £142m have already been issued, helping to improve the energy efficiency of homes.\n\nThe GHG scheme went awry because too many householders were chasing too few installers. There were also delays in the grant payments which have left many installers out of pocket.\n\nThe report says: “The impact of botched implementation of the GHG has had devastating consequences on many of the builders and installers that can do the work, who have been left in limbo as a result of the orders cancelled and time taken to approve applications.\"\n\nThe committee also warns that the government may have underestimated the costs to decarbonise UK homes by 2050, by between £35bn and £65bn.\n\nIt says these figures do not include properties with solid walls, or those in conservation areas, which could make energy efficiency installations more challenging – and increase the bill.\n\n“The GHG scheme should not be scrapped or quietly wound down,\" said the select committee's chairman Philip Dunne.\n\n“The government must address the design and administration issues, and all funding not spent by the end of March 2021 should be rolled over into the next financial year.\n\n“Government investment to improve energy efficiency has been woefully inadequate. The £9bn the government pledged at the election was welcome, but 16 months on, there appears to be no plan nor meaningful delivery.\"\n\nBrian Berry, from the Federation of Master Builders, told the committee: “The market needs certainty because small companies are not going to invest unless they know there is a long-term market.\n\n“If we want to tackle energy efficiency in our homes, we need to give encouragement to these small companies that this is not just a flash in the pan, it is not going to be a repeat of the previous Green Deal [for housing loans, which was scrapped].\n\n“This is a 20-year programme to transform our existing homes.”\n\nInsulation campaigner Dr Joanne Wade said: “The committee is right to call for a ‘genuine long-term stimulus to the domestic energy efficiency sector’ – it is something that we have repeatedly urged government to do.\n\n“If we don’t do this, we won’t achieve net zero.”\n\nJess Ralston from the Energy and Climate Information Unit added: “The benefits of getting this right are crystal clear; hundreds of thousands of skilled jobs, lower bills, less carbon and more comfortable homes. The only barrier to climate-proofing our homes is government inaction.\n\n“With a recent litany of policy decisions undermining the UK’s credibility on climate ahead of this year’s crucial COP26 summit, it would be a mistake to add another to the list.”\n\nThe BEIS spokesman said: \"The UK has a strong track record in improving the energy performance of its homes.\n\n\"However, we are committed to going further and faster, and are investing £9bn in improving the energy efficiency of our buildings, while creating hundreds of thousands of skilled green jobs.\n\n\"This includes funding for the first hydrogen powered houses and allocating more than £500m this year alone to improve the energy efficiency of 50,000 households in social and local authority housing across the UK, as we work to eliminate our contribution to climate change by 2050.\"", "Leicester City reached their first FA Cup semi-final for 39 years with a fully deserved win over Manchester United at King Power Stadium.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side will face Southampton at Wembley with Chelsea and Manchester City meeting in the other semi-final.\n\nLeicester, who lost to eventual winners Tottenham in the 1982 semi-final, were the more vibrant and positive team against off-colour United as manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer once again tasted defeat in the latter stages of a cup competition, his ploy of resting the likes of Bruno Fernandes and Luke Shaw failing to produce the desired result.\n\nThe Foxes' hero was in-form striker Kelechi Iheanacho, who struck twice and now has nine goals in nine games.\n\nHe took advantage of Fred's awful backpass to round Dean Henderson to score in the 24th minute after the hapless Brazilian was played into trouble by captain Harry Maguire.\n\nMason Greenwood crowned a crisp United move to equalise before half-time but Youri Tielemans restored Leicester City's lead with a fine low shot seven minutes after the break before Iheanacho took advantage of shocking marking at a free-kick to head in Leicester's third after 78 minutes.\n• None 'It is in Man Utd manager's job description to win trophies'\n• None Can you name Leicester and Man Utd starting XIs from 2016?\n\nInjuries have robbed Leicester of the creative edge provided by James Maddison and Harvey Barnes, as well as the defensive excellence of James Justin, but they still had too much for miserable Manchester United here.\n\nAnd it was fitting that the two players who got the goals to secure that precious semi-final place, and only their second win over United in 23 years, were Iheanacho and Tielemans - the Foxes' two most influential performers.\n\nIheanacho has had mixed fortunes since his £25m move from Manchester City in August 2017 but it is testimony to the player's own attitude and persistence, alongside the patience and coaching of manager Rodgers, that he has re-emerged as such an influential figure.\n\nHe has always had the natural scorer's instinct but here he provided goals and link-up play while the cultured Belgian Tielemans was the architect of most good things.\n\nLeicester City will now face Southampton - the team they beat 9-0 at St Mary's last season - but the prize at stake is now so enticing it is unlikely there will be a hint of complacency from Rodgers and his players.\n\nThere could have been nerves when Jamie Vardy missed the sort of opportunity he normally gobbles up at 2-1 but there was no wavering in self-belief and Iheanacho's second sealed the deal.\n\nLeicester are in a very favourable position in the Premier League's top four and now have an FA Cup semi-final to look forward to in what is shaping up to be a potentially memorable season.\n\nSolskjaer rolled the dice with his team selection, leaving two of his outstanding recent performers Bruno Fernandes and Luke Shaw on the bench.\n\nIt backfired as United produced a lacklustre, error-strewn display, the flaws in Solskjaer's plan made clear by the desperate decision to introduce four substitutes - Fernandes, Shaw, Edinson Cavani and Scott McTominay - in one full hit after 64 minutes.\n\nHe kept faith with Fred amid all this despite the Brazilian being central to their struggles, especially when he gifted Iheanacho his first - although he was put out of his misery later.\n\nUnited have shown progress this season but Solskjaer can now add an FA Cup quarter-final loss to his four semi-final defeats since taking charge at Old Trafford - and he can have no complaints here.\n\nSolskjaer's team were uninspired, with captain Maguire having a torrid time with the pace and running of Iheanacho and Vardy. Maguire must also take his share of the blame for a high-risk pass that played Fred into a measure of jeopardy for Leicester's opener.\n\nUnited look safe in the Premier League's top four and have a favourable Europa League quarter-final draw against Granada from Spain but this was once again a very disappointing performance when the prize for the winners was an FA Cup semi-final against Southampton.\n\nLeicester's first win over United in more than six years - the stats\n• None Leicester City have reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1981-82 - they had lost five consecutive FA Cup quarter-final matches before today.\n• None Manchester United have lost an away match against English opposition for the first time in 30 matches, with the previous such defeat coming against Liverpool in January 2020.\n• None This was Leicester's first victory in 14 attempts against Manchester United, since beating them 5-3 in a Premier League match in September 2014.\n• None Leicester City have beaten both Manchester United and Manchester City in a single campaign for the first time since 1975-76.\n• None Brendan Rodgers took charge of his 100th match as Leicester manager, earning his 53rd win; his 53% win rate as Leicester boss is his best for any English side.\n• None Since the start of last season, Mason Greenwood has scored 22 goals in all competitions, the most by a teenager for clubs in the top five European leagues over this period.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has scored 16 goals in 22 starts in English domestic cup competitions, including 11 in 11 in the FA Cup.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho has scored 13 goals in 18 FA Cup games, the most of any player in the competition since making his debut in January 2016.\n\n'Two games from history' - what they said\n\nLeicester City manager Brendan Rodgers to BBC Sport: \"I'm obviously delighted. It was a great team performance. Every aspect of the game was complete. We showed courage to play football against one of Europe's greatest teams. I'm so happy for the players. I thought we thoroughly deserved it.\n\n\"Kelechi has always contributed. Maybe his confidence was lower but he works so hard every day and always comes in and gives his all. You see his confidence now. He's at the top of his game. It's a different structure [up front]. Kelechi is probably best with someone up there with him. Those two are working very well.\n\n\"Our solidity and intensity of press was very good. When we dropped into our shape we denied them space. To beat Manchester United 3-1 you have to be complete in all aspects of the game and the players did that.\n\n\"[The semi-final] is a way off yet. I told the players they were three games from history. Now it's two. We're making the right steps, we're on the right path. We're very ambitious to be the best we can be. That's the challenge and it's the test we're enjoying.\"\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to BBC Sport: \"We didn't have the spark tonight - but it's understandable. This team have been fantastic in the last three or four months. We played every three days and been on a great run. It just caught up with us - all the games and travels. Thursday night in Milan was a big night and took a lot of out of us physically. We didn't have the extra zip, authority and confidence.\n\n\"We tried to get on the front foot and start well because sometimes you can get that adrenaline boost and confidence if you get a goal and that can carry you over the line. We've got too many players that have played too many games and too many that haven't really had much football; Anthony Martial, Donny van de Beek, Paul Pogba and others are trying to get in who haven't had enough football. We didn't have enough against a tough team.\n\n\"When we win, we win together and when we lose, we lose together. We're not pointing fingers and blaming - the second one is a good goal by the boy but maybe with a zip of energy we could've got to him and wouldn't have been done as easily in the middle.\n\n\"We've got the Europa League and Premier League to concentrate on - yes, we would've liked to go to Wembley but now the focus is on the games we have. We're in a good position in the league and we want to keep improving. Of course Leicester are just behind us so it won't be easy but we want to keep going and get as far as possible in the Europa as well.\"\n\nOn changing the line-up, Solskjaer added: \"I would've done the same again, the changes were necessary to do. We knew Paul [Pogba] wouldn't last more than an hour and I don't think I would do anything differently. What goes on behind the scenes isn't always known.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Kelechi Iheanacho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 3, Manchester United 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) header from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "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.", "Turkey's currency tumbled as much as 15% after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked the country's central bank governor over the weekend.\n\nNaci Agbal had been credited as a key force in pulling the lira back from historic lows.\n\nMr Erdogan replaced him in a surprise move on Saturday, the third central bank governor exit in under two years.\n\nMr Agbal, appointed in November, had been raising interest rates to fight an inflation rate running above 15%.\n\nThe removal has shocked both local and foreign investors who had praised Turkey's central bank's recent monetary policy.\n\nThe appointment of Sahap Kavcioglu, a former banker and ruling party lawmaker, sparked concerns of a reversal of recent rate hikes.\n\nThe fallout from the sacking hit shares on the Istanbul stock exchange, and raised concerns about the impact Turkey's borrowing costs.\n\nTrading on the exchange was suspended for a period after a sharp fall in share prices triggered automatic circuit breakers.\n\nAfter dropping sharply, the lira then recovered some ground to stand about 8% lower against the US dollar after Finance Minister Lutfi Elvan said Turkey would stick to free market rules.\n\n\"The authorities will be left with two choices, either it pledges to use interest rates to stabilise markets, or it imposes capital controls,\" said Per Hammarlund, senior strategist at SEB Research.\n\n\"Given the increasingly authoritarian approach that President Erdogan has taken, capital controls are looking like the most likely choice.\"\n\nThe lira was at one point the best performing emerging-market currency of 2021, having recovered almost a fifth from a low against the US dollar.\n\nLast week, the Turkish currency rose strongly after Mr Agbal increased interest rates by 2 percentage points, double what economists expected.\n\nInvestors have been calling for tighter monetary policy in Turkey to tame its high inflation rate, as prices rise rapidly in the country.\n\nThere are now concerns that Mr Erdogan's decision to install Mr Kavcioglu in the role could erode the gains made during Mr Agbal's short tenure.\n\nMr Kavcioglu is a little-known professor of banking and a former lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development party. He shares Mr Erdogan's unorthodox view that high interest rates can fuel inflation.\n\nTurkey's interest rate stands at 19% which has attracted foreign investors to park their cash in the currency.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the central bank said it \"will continue to use the monetary policy tools effectively in line with its main objective of achieving a permanent fall in inflation\".\n\nJeffrey Halley, a senior market analyst at currency exchange firm Oanda said that President Erdogan has his own brand of economics - Erdonomics.\n\n\"The base premise of Erdonomics is that higher interest rates cause higher inflation, a theory that flies in the face of conventional economic theory everywhere,\" Mr Halley told the BBC.\n\nHigher interest rates lead to higher costs of borrowing which deters consumers from over-spending, while encouraging people to save. However, the downside is often slower economic growth.\n\n\"Mr Agbal was widely respected for his attempts to stabilise inflation.\"\n\nUlrich Leuchtmann, head of foreign exchange at Commerzbank, said: \"It may well be that interest rate hikes are once again permitted by Mr Erdogan in a phase of crisis-like lira depreciation but the recent developments should have shown currency traders that even then a sustainable monetary policy regime change is not to be expected.\"\n\n\"The calming effect of interest rate hikes has probably been largely destroyed.\"", "The size of the Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"increased deployability and technological advantage\" meant greater effect could be delivered by fewer people.\n\nHe set out plans for new capabilities such as electronic warfare and drones in the Commons.\n\nLabour has warned that \"size matters\" when it comes to defence.\n\nAnnouncing a major overhaul of the armed forces, Mr Wallace said it marked a shift from \"mass mobilisation to information age speed\", insisting they must be able to \"seek out and understand\" new threats to the country's security.\n\nHe said the government was increasing the UK defence spending by £24bn over the next four years.\n\nMr Wallace said it was tempting to use the \"shield of sentimentality\" to protect \"outdated capabilities\" but doing so would put lives at risk.\n\nThe Army currently has 76,500 personnel and has not been at its \"established strength\" of 82,000 troops since the middle of the last decade, Mr Wallace said.\n\n\"These changes will not require redundancies and we wish to build on the work already done on utilising our reserves to make sure the whole force is better integrated and more productive,\" he said.\n\nShadow defence secretary John Healey warned that while \"threats to Britain are increasing\" the plan was for \"fewer troops, fewer ships, fewer planes, over the next few years\".\n\nA cut to the size of the Army had been anticipated - with a reduction of 10,000 widely trailed.\n\nWhat Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced was a cut to the target for the number of fully trained people in the Army, from 82,040 today to 72,500 in 2025.\n\n\"Full-time trained strength\" is the number of soldiers who have completed both their general, basic training and a second phase of specialised training for a specific role.\n\nBut the Army is not currently meeting its target - there are actually 76,350 such soldiers in the Army, which is almost 6,000 short.\n\nSo the Ministry of Defence is already well on the way to getting down to its new target.\n\nThe changes set out in the paper - titled Defence in a Competitive Age - include £3bn for new vehicles, long-range rocket systems, drones, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities.\n\nIt sets out how forces will spend more time overseas to support allies and deter hostile powers, such as Russia.\n\nMr Wallace said previous reviews had been \"overambitious and underfunded leaving forces that were overstretched and underequipped\".\n\nThe size of the Army will be at its smallest since 1714 - with just 72,500 regular soldiers.\n\nThe number of tanks will be cut from 227 to 148 upgraded ones. The RAF will lose 24 of its older Typhoon jets and its fleet of Hercules transport aircraft. And the Royal Navy will be retiring two of its older frigates early before new ones come into service.\n\nAll this while the government says the threats are rising.\n\nThere will certainly be some pain before the armed forces experience the gains of extra investment. But there will be more money to invest in new technologies like robots and drones - and to compete in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nThe defence secretary, Ben Wallace, told MPs that his plans would equip the armed forces to fight the wars of the future.\n\nThey may be very different to what we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. Small teams of troops will be sent all over the world to train and assist partner nations with the focus on conflict prevention.\n\nBritish forces should be better able to counter cyber attacks and disinformation - the new front line of the so called \"greyzone\" now being exploited by Russia and China.\n\nBut defence chiefs still insist that a smaller armed forces would be able to pack a punch in any serious conflict.\n\nThe armed forces are being asked to match the government's \"Global Britain\" ambitions. But opposition parties, and some allies, question whether Britain's military can really do more with less.\n\nAs part of the military restructure, the Royal Marines will be transformed into a new Future Commando Force, taking on many of the traditional tasks of the special forces - the SAS and SBS (Special Air Service and Special Boat Service).\n\nThe force will receive more than £200m of direct investment over the next decade to carry out maritime security operations and to \"pre-empt and deter sub-threshold activity, and counter state threats\".\n\nSpace is another area of investment with the Ministry of Defence to prioritise more than £6.6bn for research and development over the next four years.\n\nNumerous aging RAF planes will be retired, as will the oldest Chinook helicopters, while Navy frigates and destroyers drop from 19 to 17 in the coming years.\n\nA third of the 227 Challenger tanks will be scrapped, with the rest of the fleet being upgraded at a cost of £1.3bn.\n\nAmong other changes announced:\n\nConservative chairman of the Commons Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood congratulated Mr Wallace for investments in \"cyber and autonomous platforms\" but warned that they came at a \"huge price to our conventional defence posture with dramatic cuts to our troop numbers, tanks, armoured fighting vehicles\".\n\nFollowing the publication last week of the separate so-called integrated review of foreign and defence policy, ministers have said big changes are necessary to create a more agile military.\n\nAs part of that review, the government increased the cap on UK nuclear warheads from 180 to 260.\n\nBoris Johnson spoke to Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the announcement and gave reassurances that increased investment would take the UK's total defence spending to 2.2% of GDP - above the Nato target, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.", "The UK is heading towards a \"catastrophic\" digital skills shortage \"disaster\", a think tank has warned.\n\nThe Learning & Work Institute says the number of young people taking IT subjects at GCSE has dropped 40% since 2015.\n\nMeanwhile, consulting giant Accenture says demand for AI, cloud and robotics skills is soaring.\n\nExperts say digital skills are vital to economic recovery following the pandemic.\n\nThe Learning & Work Institute's research reveals that 70% of young people expect employers to invest in teaching them digital skills on the job, but only half of the employers surveyed in the study are able to provide that training.\n\nFewer than half of British employers believe young people are leaving full-time education with sufficient advanced digital skills, while 76% of firms think a lack of digital skills would hit their profitability.\n\nDr Neil Bentley-Gockmann is the chief executive of WorldSkills UK, which commissioned the report. The charity is focused on training young people in digital skills to help them enter the workforce and also advises college teachers on international industry best practice.\n\nHe says there are four main reasons why the digital skills shortage is steadily climbing across the country:\n\nDan McCabe uses 3D modelling to design a shark character during a WorldSkills UK competition\n\n\"I think there's a challenge with the teachers themselves not understanding the possible careers - there's a big opportunity for employers to go into schools to explain the range of job opportunities and help join the dots between what young people study in school and what that could lead to as a career,\" Dr Bentley-Gockmann told the BBC.\n\n\"It's important for employers to do this to ensure the future talent pipeline.\"\n\nWorldSkills UK runs numerous digital skill competitions in a wide range of fields that are open to young people at college age and up. About 15,000 young people enter these competitions annually, which come with complimentary training to help them to improve their skills further.\n\nDr Bentley-Gockmann says he meets many young people who have no idea that their hobbies can be turned into \"high-rewarding job opportunities\".\n\nFor instance, coding might sound boring or daunting, but it could lead to a career in 3D video game design. And playing with robots in school could lead to a career in building robots to solve problems for large manufacturing firms.\n\nAlthough tech job ad listings dropped 57% in 2020, Accenture reports that demand for robotics skills has jumped \"dramatically\" in several northern English cities since July - robotics jobs are up 115% in Liverpool, 253% in Leeds and an epic 450% in Newcastle.\n\n\"I'm not surprised, particularly, as in the West Midlands and the North, traditional manufacturers are now implementing more technology into their manufacturing processes to become more automated,\" said Dr Bentley-Gockmann.\n\n\"There's been a digital acceleration in all sectors, creating new skills needs, so that could explain the jump.\"\n\nDan McCabe says his friends keep asking him for help to set up their businesses\n\nDan McCabe, 22, is a video game designer in Manchester. He did not attend university, studying computing and graphics at college, and a lot of his skills are self-taught.\n\nHe has found that some of his friends who went to university haven't picked up any digital skills. They frequently message him asking for his help to set up businesses and brands.\n\n\"[Either school or university] should have introduced them at least to what it takes to learn digital skills,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks that the syllabus in school and at college is a bit dated and inflexible, and the best teachers have been those who have experience rooted in the industry.\n\nIn particular, Mr McCabe thinks universities should be offering students a kind of \"bridge\" to the workforce, such as a basic grounding in how to use excel, set up a database, or some basic graphic design.\n\nKevin Howell, founder and chief technology officer at Howell Technology Group (HTG), an IT firm based in South Tyneside that helps firms securely work remotely, agrees.\n\nHe says educators need to collaborate with the tech industry on school, college and university curriculums, as they currently leave much to be desired.\n\n\"We need digital literacy and common sense, not someone who can program a Raspberry Pi to control a robot,\" Mr Howell told the BBC.\n\nRemote working IT firm founder Kevin Howell says there is a divide between education and what the IT industry actually needs\n\n\"I have worked with the brightest from Cambridge and Oxford who are very intelligent and innovative people, however lots don't have a clue about how technology is applied to real world business.\"\n\nHTG, together with large tech firm partners like Microsoft, VMware and Citrix, is trying to fix this problem.\n\nThe firm is currently running a digital academy with weekly workshops for teachers and students at Mortimer Community College in South Shields on how to use cloud software like Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and Windows Virtual Desktops.\n\nMr Howell, who joined an IT company at 17 and attended university part-time while working, says he feels hands-on experience is more important than a degree, as a lot of the skills being taught are \"outdated\" or not specific to business needs.\n\nDr Leila Powell is a lead security data scientist at London-based cyber-security firm Panaseer. She is a former astrophysicist who switched careers to join the tech industry.\n\nIn her spare time, she helps teach workshops introducing girls and young women to cyber-security principles for social enterprise Stemettes.\n\n\"When I changed careers out of academia, I had no idea that a career in tech like cyber-security would be an option for me,\" she said.\n\nDr Leila Powell says women often feel put off from applying for jobs that have many skill requirements\n\nLike Dr Bentley-Gockmann, she doesn't think young people have a clear picture about what the day-to-day realities of careers in technology actually entail.\n\n\"Even if young people start to look into it and look up some companies or programmes, what do the programmes and the mentors look like? Do they look like them?,\" she asked.\n\n\"Are they women, are they all white? Having better representation in technology as a sector would help. Even working in tech, it's not necessarily that diverse. \"\n\nDr Powell says that as a teenager she wasn't really interested in physics - it was only when she started her undergraduate degree and read Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time that she became interested in the subject and started to enjoy it.\n\nSeveral studies have shown in recent years that listing many different skill requirements on job ads can put off some people from applying, particularly women.\n\n\"Employers should try to look beyond people who already have experience in a skill - just because you haven't covered a subject previously, if you are smart and have a desire to learn, they can still be an excellent candidate for the role.\"", "Strictly Come Dancing star AJ Pritchard's girlfriend has revealed she had seven weeks of \"continuous hospital treatment\" after burning herself while trying to copy a YouTube stunt.\n\nFellow dancer Abbie Quinnen required skin grafts for her burns after trying to turn a glass bottle into a vase.\n\nMr Pritchard said \"seconds felt like hours\" as he extinguished the flames.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Quinnen thanked doctors and told fans to \"really... be careful\" when copying YouTube videos.\n\n\"I will be OK, I love you all,\" she added in an Instagram post explaining the incident on 19 January.\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 abbiequinnen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe wrote: \"Whilst we were attempting to create a glass bottle into a vase following a YouTube tutorial it went terribly wrong and it resulted in me incurring injuries and burns requiring continuous hospital treatment over the past seven weeks.\"\n\nMs Quinnen, a pro dancer and. social media influencer, is partner to TV personality AJ Pritchard - best known for his stint as a professional dancer on Strictly and subsequent appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! last year.\n\nMr Pritchard told The Sun: \"It was just a complete freak accident and what is scary was that helplessness. It felt like time stopped for me. What was seconds, felt like hours to put out the flames.\"\n\nHe said he worked with his brother, Curtis, who appeared on Love Island in 2019, to save Ms Quinnen.\n\n\"Abbie's hair was on fire. Her top was on fire. Her body was engulfed,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nQuinnen urged fans to \"be careful\" when copying YouTube videos\n\n\"We had to put wet towels on her to cool her skin, then to get her from the flat in West London to A&E.\"\n\nThe injuries have left Ms Quinnen needing multiple skin grafts as part of her recovery.\n\nMr Pritchard said they had been successful but will likely leave \"small scars in certain areas\".\n\n\"The surgeon was very happy with the way that went and seeing the improvement from week to week,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None AJ Pritchard will not be told about gran's death", "Sean Ivey believes he was targeted for standing up to anti-social behaviour\n\nAn ex-Royal Marine whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson attack is \"lost for words\" after more than £200,000 was raised to help his family.\n\nSean Ivey, from Wingate, County Durham, fled to safety with his wife and two children after a fire on Thursday, with a second blaze starting a day later.\n\nMr Ivey, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, believed he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of arson.\n\nMr Ivey, who works as a teacher at Hartlepool College of Further Education, told the BBC he felt \"totally overwhelmed\" if not \"a bit embarrassed\" by the generosity he has received.\n\nThe online campaign, which had an initial target of £2,000, was set up by former 45 Commando colleague Kevin Miller, after the family home and all their possessions were lost.\n\nMore than £200,000 has been raised in a matter of days to help the family start again\n\nThe bungalow was destroyed by the fire which police believe was arson\n\nMr Ivey had spoken out in recent days about anti-social behaviour in his local area and had posted on social media that his parents had been robbed.\n\n\"I can't just let this go, because it has hit a nerve with people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's happening right across the country and not enough is being done.\"\n\nThe 38-year-old is married to Kate, 35, a nurse, and they have two young children.\n\nSean served in the Royal Marines for 15 years before suffering a head injury\n\nThe fundraising campaign took Mr Ivey, a former sergeant, by surprise.\n\n\"It's a few years since I saw Kev but that's the great thing about the Royal Marines and how veterans come together when any situation like this occurs.\"\n\nThe first blaze broke out during the early hours of Thursday, which saw a fire spread from the family car to a caravan on the drive way, and then to the roof of their home. The family was inside at the time but managed to escape.\n\nA second fire, on Friday morning, destroyed the remainder of the bungalow.\n\nMr Ivey captured the blaze on camera as it raged\n\nThe aftermath of the caravan\n\nMr Ivey, who suffered a head injury while serving in the military, had forgotten to renew an insurance policy on his home. He said \"his heart dropped\" when he realised.\n\nThe father-of -two said he would continue to live in the village where he grew up and it was not in his nature \"just to back down\".\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable, nobody should be frightened in their own home,\" he said.\n\nDurham Police are treating the fires as suspected arson. Two men, aged 22 and 25, were arrested and a 48-hour dispersal order was issued in the area.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Family home destroyed 'after dad hit out at yobs'\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\nAn extension to the ban on foreign holidays in order to control the spread of coronavirus cannot be ruled out, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC that booking a trip abroad would be \"premature\".\n\nIt comes after a scientist on a government advisory body said summer holidays overseas are \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk of travellers bringing variants to the UK.\n\nThe earliest date people in England could holiday abroad is 17 May.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments also said international travel will not be possible before 17 May, while Northern Ireland has not set a date.\n\nWhile the devolved nations issue their own guidance on international travel, they have been broadly in line with Westminster.\n\nNon-essential travel is currently banned from the UK and those coming to the UK must quarantine.\n\nA government taskforce will report to the prime minister on 12 April detailing when and how international travel can resume.\n\nPeople can currently travel abroad for a limited number of reasons, such as education or work.\n\nMr Wallace told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that he had not booked a holiday abroad, adding it would be \"premature\" to do so while we are \"seeing growing variants\".\n\nWhen asked whether the ban on foreign holidays could be extended, Mr Wallace said: \"I think we will play it by ear... I'm not going to rule anything in or anything out.\n\n\"I think the first thing is we are not going to do anything that puts at risk this national effort to control this pandemic. All the indications are in the right direction at the moment and let's take it step by step.\"\n\nWhen asked about trips abroad, Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, told Andrew Marr it was \"too early to say\".\n\n\"I think everyone has to wait and see. We really don't know. The situation changes so quickly. Numbers are going up at the moment in continental Europe and that's very concerning,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she hoped countries on the continent can get their vaccine programmes \"on track\" to mitigate the rise in cases.\n\n\"But obviously the safest thing is to stay where you are. And to avoid anything that increases your risk and I think it's really too early to say what sort of summer we might be able to experience,\" Dr Ramsay said.\n\nShe added that even those who have been vaccinated could potentially still transmit the virus, saying that restrictions could last for \"quite a long period of time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told Andrew Marr that she will not be booking a foreign holiday.\n\n\"I know everyone is desperate to go on holiday but we have got to proceed with caution.\n\n\"We can't allow the good work that has been done from the vaccine rollout to be unravelled by unlocking too quickly or by failing to secure our borders.\"\n\nMs Nandy added: \"We do need to be careful, we do need to be cautious, and frankly I haven't booked a foreign holiday for this summer and I won't be doing so because I don't think we're there yet.\"\n\nHalf of all UK adults have now received a first dose of a vaccine, with Friday being a record day for Covid jabs - a combined 711,156 first and second doses were given.\n\nBut Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, said despite the vaccine rollout, the UK should not become \"complacent\".\n\n\"We know that new variants have recently appeared in France, in California, in the Philippines and in Brazil. And in the UK there are now already 300 cases of the South African variant.\n\n\"I don't think that we can be complacent about any of this because we don't know what the vaccine efficacy is with these new variants. So we need to be very, very cautious in the management of the travel business.\"\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, which feeds into the Sage group of government science advisers, said on Saturday the UK faces a \"real risk\" if people travel abroad, adding that international travel for the summer was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nSeparately, Mr Wallace said the EU should not \"build walls\" around the distribution of jabs following a threat by the European Commission to block vaccine exports to countries including the UK.", "Police were at Wentloog Avenue on Monday morning\n\nThree men are in hospital and 12 arrests have been made following a \"serious disturbance\" that has led to the closure of a busy Cardiff road.\n\nOfficers used stop and search powers on Wentloog Avenue, which includes Shirenewton travellers' site, to \"avoid further violence\".\n\nThe men were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, assault and possession of offensive weapons.\n\nWentloog Avenue, which links Newport and Cardiff, was shut both ways.\n\nSouth Wales Police believe those involved are known to each other.\n\nOfficers were initially called to reports of an assault on Sunday at 16:00 GMT.\n\nThere were a number of police vehicles in the area\n\nA 27-year-old man received \"potentially life-changing injuries\" while the two other men, aged 25 and 55, were also taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said.\n\nA number of weapons have been recovered and forensic teams are at the scene.\n\nA Section 60 Notice, which gives officers the power to search anyone in a specific area, was put in until 17:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt was later extended for a further 24 hours and will remain in place until 17:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cardiff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"The notice was imposed following a serious disturbance. It will remain in place while enquiries continue with the intention of preventing further violence,\" said the force.\n\n\"Please avoid the area and use alternative routes.\"\n\nEarlier, a resident of the site who did not want to be named expressed his frustration about the Section 60 notice.\n\n\"They won't let us in. I've just finished a night shift and I want to get some breakfast and kip,\" he said.\n\n\"The family have got no milk or bread or anything and they won't even let us drop food for them. It's a disgrace.\"\n\nAccess to Wentloog Avenue was blocked by police\n\nA steady stream of cars and flatbed trucks trying to enter the site have been turned away.\n\nThree South Wales Police response vans entered the site shortly before 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe road adjacent to the roundabout at the site was closed. An officer with a Taser together with another PC and a PCSO have been talking to residents about the order.\n\nA second police cordon was created about 600m up the road, close to the entrance of the site.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters clashed with police and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nProtesters have attacked police after thousands of people turned up to a demonstration that officers had \"strongly advised\" against attending.\n\nOfficers suffered broken bones and police vans were set alight as angry scenes unfolded in Bristol city centre.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nDemonstrators scaled a police station, threw fireworks into the crowd and daubed graffiti on the walls.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the events as \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"Thuggery and disorder by a minority will never be tolerated,\" she said. \"Our police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us all.\"\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said what had started \"as a peaceful protest\" had been \"turned by a small minority into a violent disorder\".\n\nTwo police vehicles were set on fire, damage was caused to a police station, one officer suffered a broken arm and another suffered broken ribs, the force added.\n\nAt the beginning of the night the mood was generally lively but not aggressive.\n\nThere was broken glass across the road and some people had climbed on top of traffic lights but there was no police intervention.\n\nThe dense crowd eventually splintered, with some moving away to carry on drinking and listen to music.\n\nThe atmosphere among those who remained became more volatile.\n\nRiot police in full protective gear formed a barricade in front of the station, but the officers didn't engage with the protesters at all.\n\nThey stood by as their shields and vans were daubed with graffiti - some of it profane and some of it hostile towards the police themselves and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nThen the atmosphere took a marked turn when the first police vehicle was set on fire. Huge plumes of black smoke rose up from Bridewell Street.\n\nA small number of protesters jumped on to the roof of a second police van, thumping on the glass as the officers tried to reverse.\n\nObjects were being thrown by protesters into the crowd and still the police did not move from their positions.\n\nAs well as the police vehicles set on fire, others were smashed up and their tyres let down as the crowd chanted \"shame on you\".\n\nPolice said perpetrators would be \"identified and brought to justice\".\n\nIt is not clear if any arrests have been made but a spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said there would be \"significant consequences for behaviour such as this\".\n\nPolice in riot gear pushed back against a crowd in Bristol city centre\n\nProtesters scaled the police station roof and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nFireworks exploded in the middle of the demonstration\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Federation chairman Andy Roebuck said: \"This is the worst violence in Bristol for many, many years.\n\n\"It's really unprecedented violence. Between four and six or possibly more officers are seriously injured and some have broken bones.\n\n\"No-one had any indication it would erupt this way.\"\n\nBristol mayor Marvin Rees said he recognised \"the frustrations\" with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill but said that \"smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the bill going through\".\n\nThangam Debbonaire, shadow housing secretary and MP for Bristol West, added: \"The scenes of violence and direct attack on the police in Bristol city centre will distress most people, including anyone who believes in defending the right to peaceful democratic protest.\"\n\nDarren Jones, Labour MP for Bristol North West, tweeted that the scenes in the city were \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"You don't campaign for the right to peaceful protest by setting police vans on fire or graffitiing buildings,\" he said.\n\nVideos on Twitter showed protesters rocking and kicking a police van while officers on horseback were pushed by the crowd.\n\n\"Officers are continuing to deal with a smaller number of protesters in Bridewell Street,\" a police spokesman said earlier.\n\n\"They've had projectiles thrown at them, including a firework, and have been verbally abused.\n\n\"This is unacceptable behaviour and those responsible for offences will be identified and brought to justice.\"\n\nProtesters climbed on top of a police van which was later rocked by a crowd of demonstrators\n\nGraffiti was daubed on police vehicles and fireworks thrown\n\nCampaigners have staged a string of protests against the bill, which would give the police more powers to deal with non-violent demonstrations.\n\nMany attendees in Bristol wore face masks and carried placards with slogans such as: \"Say no to UK police state\", \"Freedom to protest is fundamental to democracy\", and \"Kill the Bill\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police had encouraged people to stay away from the demo and attend virtual protests instead.\n\nMass gatherings are currently banned under coronavirus legislation and anyone breaching regulations could be fined, though some MPs have said the law should change to allow protests.\n\nThis weekend has seen a number of protests and demonstrations, with campaigners gathering in support of various causes.\n\nThe day started with thousands turning up to protest against the Police and Crime Bill despite mass gatherings being against current lockdown rules\n\nThe protest began peacefully before later turning violent\n\nUnder coronavirus legislation, people can only leave their for a small number of permitted reasons and police point out that attending a protest is not among them\n\nHave you witnessed the protests? If it is safe to do so please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\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.", "There have been Saudi-led air strikes of the capital, Sanaa, which under Houthi control\n\nSaudi Arabia has proposed a new peace plan to end nearly six years of war in Yemen.\n\nIt suggests a UN-supervised ceasefire between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran.\n\nThe plan also includes the reopening of vital air and sea links, and the start of political negotiations.\n\nHouthi rebels have said the offer did not appear to go far enough to lift the air and sea blockade in place.\n\nThe proposal was announced in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who called on the Houthis, who control large swathes of Yemen, to accept it.\n\nHe said the ceasefire would come into force as soon as the Houthis accepted it.\n\nYemen's internationally recognised government has welcomed the offer, but the Houthis have said the initiative provided \"nothing new\", and fell short of their demand for a complete lifting of the blockade on the airport in the capital, Sanaa, and the western port of Hudaydah.\n\n\"We expected that Saudi Arabia would announce an end to the blockade of ports and airports and an initiative to allow in 14 ships that are held by the coalition,\" Houthi chief negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe group would continue to talk with the Saudis, the US and mediator Oman for a peace agreement, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSaudi officials say they are co-ordinating their steps with the United Nations and the United States, which have also stepped up their efforts to end a conflict which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.\n\nOnly days ago, the Houthis rejected a US plan for a nationwide ceasefire.\n\nA peace plan is already in the works; international diplomacy has been quietly accelerating for months. A push by UN envoy Martin Griffiths was recently bolstered by US President Joe Biden's new focus on ending this war, and the appointment of US special envoy Tim Lenderking to help make it happen.\n\nRiyadh's decision to make its own public statement underscores how it backs this effort to find a way out of this destructive conflict. And it wants to ensure it's being seen to do so. If these new moves don't work, the blame would lie with the Houthis. It could also help confirm the kingdom was in lockstep with its American ally, especially when that relationship is still strained over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nRiyadh's new concessions, including the opening of vital air and sea links, will help ease the enormous suffering of Yemenis. They are also longstanding Houthi demands.\n\nThis intensifying diplomacy also competes with the Houthis' drive for battlefield gains, including the capture of the strategic town of Marib. Western diplomats express hope that this now-stalled offensive could provide a window to accelerate efforts on the negotiating front. But it won't be easy.\n\nIran, which backs the Houthis, may also see an opportunity to burnish its own peace-making credentials. Whatever brings the warring sides to the table will be welcomed by an exhausted people on the brink of famine in this endless war.\n\nThe Saudi offer coincides with increasing drone and missile attacks by Houthi rebels on Saudi energy and security infrastructure.\n\nThere's also been renewed bombing by the Saudi-led coalition of Sanaa, which is under Houthi control.\n\nMany previous peace plans for Yemen have failed, including last year's Saudi ceasefire. But the kingdom is now offering some concessions the Houthis have long called for, including the opening of the international airport in Sanaa, currently under Houthi control, although the Saudi-led coalition controls the airspace.\n\nIf the warring sides agree to a ceasefire, it would be supervised by the UN and help pave the way for peace talks.\n\nThe two sides are still far apart, but this is the most concerted effort to try to bring them together, the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says.\n\nThe conflict began in late 2014, when rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states launched a military operation to restore President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's rule.\n\nRiyadh led a military coalition into the country in 2015 to prop up the internationally recognised government, but it has struggled to oust the rebels.\n\nAn estimated 20 million people - two-thirds of the Yemeni population - depend on humanitarian assistance. Some two million children are acutely malnourished.\n\nIn addition to conflict, Yemen has seen a collapse of its health system, leaving it incapable of coping with the coronavirus pandemic.", "The spotlight is firmly on Nicola Sturgeon. With just days to go before the Holyrood election campaign, Scotland's first minister will learn on Monday whether an independent review has found she broke the rules of her office.\n\nThat's not this week's menu in the Holyrood canteen but an unofficial summary of the possible outcomes of the independent inquiry upon which Nicola Sturgeon's political future depends.\n\nThe inquiry by Ireland's former chief prosecutor, James Hamilton, is to decide whether or not the first minister misled parliament or otherwise broke conduct rules for ministers.\n\nIt's his job to say if there has been a breach of the ministerial code, what punishment or remedy - if any - should apply and what changes might be needed to the code itself.\n\nHe has big calls to make just days before the start of a Holyrood election campaign.\n\nIn referring herself to Mr Hamilton for investigation, Nicola Sturgeon has effectively placed her reputation and political future in his hands. His conclusions cannot be easily dismissed or ignored.\n\nIf he decides she has broken the code by knowingly misleading parliament, for instance, she would be toast. That is to say, she would be expected to resign as first minister.\n\nAlternatively, if he decides she had done her best in a difficult situation and does not have a serious case to answer, Nicola Sturgeon would, in effect, be cleared.\n\nJames Hamilton served as Irish Director of Public Prosecutions until 2011\n\nIn judging the competing claims of Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and their respective supporters Mr Hamilton may find it difficult to reach such a clear cut conclusion.\n\nThat leaves a great deal of scope for fudge - a blend of criticism for Nicola Sturgeon's opponents to use against her and caveat for her to deploy in her defence.\n\nThat, to many observers, seems like a likely outcome.\n\nWe know that when Nicola Sturgeon told parliament she first heard about the investigation into harassment complaints against Alex Salmond from him, she did not give the full picture.\n\nShe has subsequently acknowledged a meeting, a few days earlier, with Mr Salmond's former chief of staff during which the subject came up.\n\nShe has sought to distinguish between a general discussion which raised her suspicions and what she described as a shockingly detailed account from Mr Salmond which may have overwritten any prior knowledge.\n\nIf Mr Hamilton doesn't buy this account and decides the first minister misled parliament, he would probably struggle to conclude that she did so knowingly - the offence which would ordinarily require her resignation.\n\nWhy? Because Nicola Sturgeon claims to have forgotten the earlier meeting and only to have been reminded of it after she told parliament what she knew and when. It would be difficult for anyone to prove otherwise.\n\nThis is just one of several alleged breaches of the ministerial code James Hamilton has to adjudicate.\n\nTo be clear, no one except Mr Hamilton and those working closely with him, knows for sure what he will conclude.\n\nHis report is expected to be published and released on Monday.\n\nIt will be delivered first to the Scottish government because Mr Hamilton has been commissioned by them as the first minister's independent adviser on the ministerial code.\n\nAs the publisher, the Scottish government needs to check the text for any legal and data protection issues and redact it if necessary.\n\nI am told they also need to get consent from those named in the report before publication which has the potential to cause delay.\n\nHowever, the first minister has undertaken to publish on the same day as the report is received.\n\nThis week she will also have to deal with the findings of the Holyrood committee that's been investigating the Scottish government's mishandling of the original harassment complaints.\n\nNicola Sturgeon gave eight hours of evidence to the committee looking at what went wrong with the Alex Salmond harassment probe\n\nWe already know from a leak that the opposition majority on the committee has concluded that Nicola Sturgeon misled them in her account of a key meeting she had with Alex Salmond.\n\nHe and his lawyer claim she offered to intervene in the investigation in support of a mediated settlement. She and a member of her team deny that but the first minister has acknowledged she may not have been blunt enough in doing so.\n\nMs Sturgeon has sought to dismiss this finding as a partisan attack. Which is pretty much how she feels about the Tory approach too.\n\nAs the main opposition party, the Conservatives have already reached their verdict.\n\nThe party leader, Douglas Ross has been calling for Nicola Sturgeon's resignation since the eve of her eight-hour evidence session before the Holyrood inquiry.\n\nUnless she has quit by Tuesday, he will demand a vote of no confidence in parliament on Wednesday, which the first minister could be expected to survive with the support of the Greens.\n\nAnd with that, the fifth session of the Scottish Parliament will end and the parties will take their arguments into a six-week election campaign.\n\nAlongside coronavirus recovery and Scotland's constitutional future, truth and trust is likely to become one of the defining issues.\n\nLast year, Nicola Sturgeon told me in an interview she would definitely lead her party into this contest and would definitely serve a full term as first minister if the SNP are re-elected.\n\nAt the time, when the first minister was being lauded for her handling of the pandemic, my questions probably seemed a bit daft. Not so now.\n\nThe toxic feud between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond has the potential to cause the first minister and her party serious political damage.\n\nThe extent of that and the potential for recovery will depend, of course, on the findings of the independent inquiry and how Nicola Sturgeon responds to them.\n\nAs Holyrood election campaign curtain-raiser's go - there has not been one as dramatic or highly charged as this.", "An MP has highlighted \"grave concerns\" over the potential release of a double child murderer who made criminal history.\n\nColin Pitchfork was jailed for life for the killing of 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in the 1980s.\n\nHe was the first person to be convicted of murder using DNA evidence.\n\nMP Alberto Costa has spoken to the Parole Board, which is meeting on Monday, to discuss Pitchfork's case.\n\nPitchfork was last denied parole in 2018, having spent 30 years in prison.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the time, Lynda's mother Kath Eastwood said: \"At last the Parole Board have made the right decision [and] put the families of the victims first and listened to us before the murderer.\n\n\"Let us hope this continues.\"\n\nPitchfork raped 15-year-old Lynda Mann and strangled her with her scarf\n\nHe had been moved to an open prison, with unsupervised days out, the year before.\n\nMr Costa, Conservative MP for South Leicestershire, said he had organised the meeting with Parole Board CEO Martin Jones to discuss Pitchfork's case - and his licence conditions if released.\n\nHe said: \"While these crimes took place over 30 years ago, the heinous and abhorrent nature of Lynda and Dawn's tragic murders continue to live long in the memory of residents in South Leicestershire.\n\n\"Many are still deeply worried about the prospect of Pitchfork ever being released back into normal society.\n\n\"If he had committed these heinous crimes today, it is highly unlikely he would ever be released.\"\n\nPitchfork's latest parole hearing was due to take place last November but was postponed.\n\nThe Parole Board's decision is due to be made public on 7 April, Mr Costa said.\n\nA Parole Board spokesman said its decision was focused on what risk a released prisoner could represent to the public and whether that risk was manageable in the community.\n\n\"The panel will carefully examine a whole range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims,\" he said.\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.", "People may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years until we return to normality, a leading epidemiologist has predicted.\n\nMary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll out jabs.\n\nShe also said a return of big spectator events required careful monitoring and clear instructions about staying safe.\n\nThe defence secretary has not ruled out the foreign holiday ban being extended.\n\nBen Wallace told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that booking a break abroad now would be \"premature\" and \"potentially risky\".\n\nThe UK set another record for the number of coronavirus vaccine doses given in a single day on Saturday, with 844,285 jabs.\n\nDr Ramsay said restrictions such as face coverings in crowded places and social distancing had become accepted by many and still allowed the economy to function.\n\nShe said \"people have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place\".\n\n\"So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation,\" she added.\n\nWarning it was \"very important that we do not relax too quickly\", Dr Ramsay said any circulating virus would inevitably pick on those who are vulnerable.\n\n\"We have to look very carefully before any of these restrictions are lifted,\" she said.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, told MPs earlier this month that it was hoped \"simple interventions like washing hands, face masks where appropriate, test-and-trace, and above all vaccines\" would keep the virus controlled beyond the summer.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, has also said face masks could be needed in certain situations if the number of infections rises in the winter, but that it was possible people will naturally behave in a way that promotes social distancing.\n\nA group of government scientific advisers said last month that \"maintaining a baseline of policies which reduce transmission\" will be necessary for some time to come.\n\nThose experts said these could include continuing test-and-trace, self-isolation, and public messaging that encourages \"voluntary actions to reduce risks\".\n\nThe government's roadmap for easing lockdown in England states all legal limits on social contact will be removed no earlier than 21 June.\n\nIn a second release of restrictions on Monday 29 March, people will be able to mix outdoors with up to five others in a return to the so-called \"rule of six\".\n\nOutdoor sport and leisure facilities can also reopen, organised outdoor sports are allowed once more, and outdoor parent and child groups with up to 15 parents can meet.\n\nIn Scotland, communal worship resumes on 26 March. In Wales, supermarkets can sell non-essential items from Monday, and garden centres can open. And in Northern Ireland, six people from two households can meet in private gardens from 1 April.\n\nThe government established a review of measures to control coronavirus from the summer onwards last month.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, has told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend there should be a rapid investigation into what happened during the first months of the pandemic.\n\nHe said he believed there was a \"slowness in political response - almost casual really - suggesting a failure of scientific and medical advice reaching political power\".\n\n\"We should have a rapid investigation of the first part of the pandemic - January to June - so we can learn the lessons and be bettered prepared for the future,\" he said.\n\nProf Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, suggested last week that a public inquiry into the pandemic now would be an unwelcome distraction to those tasked with controlling the virus.", "One of the car industry's biggest computer chip suppliers has warned that a major fire at one of its factories in Japan could have a \"massive impact\" on its ability to fulfil orders.\n\nThe incident comes at a time when supplies of chips to the auto industry were already running short.\n\nShares in the semiconductors firm Renesas fell, along with its clients including Toyota, Nissan and Honda.\n\nElsewhere, Volkswagen has said chip scarcity might last until the autumn.\n\n\"I think things will get stable by the fall but certainly its going to be complicated, and its going to be challenging but I think we'll navigate it,\" Scott Keogh, VW's North America chief executive told the BBC.\n\nHe added that some of the company's plants were likely to run fewer shifts a day, but added that he hoped factory shutdowns could be averted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonathan Josephs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRenesas has said the blaze occurred last Friday, and was caused by a plating tank catching fire as a result of an electrical \"overcurrent\", whose cause is still being investigated. It took fire fighters more than five hours to put out.\n\nThe fire started with plating equipment based on the first floor of the building\n\nThe pure water supply and air conditioning suffered damage as well as the manufacturing equipment\n\nThe fabrication plant involved is based in the city of Naka, in the eastern province of Ibaraki. It specialises in 300mm wafers, making it one of the company's most advanced facilities.\n\nThe firm has said there were no human casualties, but 11 of its manufacturing equipment units were damaged.\n\nAnd because this occurred in one of its environmentally-controlled \"clean rooms\" - which are designed to avoid any dust or other particles from ruining the tiny transistors and circuits involved in a chip - efforts to restart production will involve more than just swapping out the ruined kit.\n\nWhile Renesas said the majority of the products manufactured using the affected machines could in theory be manufactured elsewhere, the wider supply shortfall will make that difficult to achieve in practice.\n\nThe company has said it hopes to restart production in a month, but the Nikkei Asia news site said it could take three months before output is back to normal.\n\nRenesas requires dust-free environments to make chips at its Naka fabrication plant\n\nRenesas has said that it has about a one-month stockpile of chips to continue fulfilling automakers' orders - so the impact to car production will not be immediate.\n\nBut it comes at a time of crisis.\n\nNew cars often include dozens of microprocessors.\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus pandemic, car-makers cut orders for the components because of a slump in sales of their vehicles.\n\nWhen the market rebounded towards the end of 2020, they found it hard to find supplies because other consumer electronics makers had stepped in with orders of their own to meet higher than normal demand for their gadgets because of lockdowns.\n\nIn addition, February's freezing weather in Texas closed chip-making plants there.\n\nUS trade restrictions placed on the telecoms firm Huawei and chip-maker SMIC, among others, have caused other Chinese companies to stockpile supplies of their own.\n\nAnd a drought in Taiwan is threatening production there. Wafer manufacturing requires a lot of water.\n\nMany car-makers have slowed or temporarily halted production at some of their plants. It had earlier been estimated that they faced losing more than $60bn (£43.3bn) of sales as a result.\n\n\"Given that automotive semiconductor capacity is very stretched right now, this fire is effectively a blow upon a bruise, so to speak,\" commented Richard Windsor, owner of research firm Radio Free Mobile.\n\n\"But because following 2011's Fukushima nuclear disaster, Toyota ordered all its suppliers to keep more inventory than it had done in the past, it's quite possible it won't be as badly impacted as Honda and Nissan.\"\n\nToyota's fell by 2.6%. Honda's by 3.6%. And Nissan's by 3.7%.\n\nElsewhere, there has been further evidence of constrained chip production having wider knock-on effects.\n\nThe Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday that the price of memory chips had risen 60% since the start of 2021. It noted that supplies of older chips were particularly constrained, which would impact printer-makers among other gadgets that rely on them.\n\nAnd last week, Samsung's co-chief executive Koh Dong-jin warned of a \"serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally\".\n\nAlthough the South Korean company is unusual in that it both designs and manufactures state-of-the-art chips for use in its own products and others, it still relies on third-party supplies. And it has faced a shortage of application processors from the US firm Qualcomm.\n\nQualcomm's chief executive commented indirectly on the issue at the China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday.\n\nSteve Mollenkopf predicted that supplies of some older-technology chips would recover before their newer counterparts, adding: \"So, depending on the product, you may be in a position to get some improvement.\"", "Sandra Oh said she was \"proud to be Asian\" during her speech at the rally\n\nKilling Eve actress Sandra Oh has given a passionate speech at a Stop Asian Hate rally following last week's Atlanta spa shootings in the US.\n\nOh said she was \"proud to be Asian\" and also discussed the \"fear... and anger\" within the community at the event near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.\n\nAsian women were among eight killed at three spas in Georgia on Tuesday.\n\n\"One thing that I know is that many in our community are very scared, and I understand that,\" she said.\n\nShe continued: \"One way to go through our fear is to reach out to our community.\"\n\nIn a video shared on CBSN Pittsburgh, the actress, who was born in Canada to parents who emigrated from South Korea, expressed her gratitude to organisers and those in attendance for the \"opportunity to stand together and feel each other\".\n\n\"For many of us in our community, this is the first time we are even able to voice our fear and our anger, and I really am so grateful for everyone willing to listen,\" Oh told the crowd.\n\nThe actress and producer, who plays Eve Polastri in the BBC drama series Killing Eve, also urged people to help protect against violence and support \"sisters and brothers\" in need.\n\n\"We must understand, as Asian Americans, we just need to reach out our hand to our sisters and brothers and say, 'Help me and I'm here,'\" she said.\n\nOh then led the crowd in a chant saying: \"I am proud to be Asian. I belong here.\"\n\nThe demonstration follows Robert Aaron Long being charged with multiple counts of murder and one of aggravated assault in connection with attacks on Atlanta-area spas.\n\nPolice said Long admitted to the shooting spree, which saw six women of Asian descent killed among eight victims, but believe the attack to have been sexually rather than racially motivated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Atlanta shootings: \"It's scary just to be an Asian American woman\"\n\nHowever, the case has sparked an outpouring of anger, and highlighted the rise in crime against Asian Americans, partially in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate said it received more than 2,800 reports of hate incidents directed at Asian Americans nationwide last year. The group set up its online self-reporting tool at the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn response, the hashtag #StopAsianHate spread across social media, with celebrities and public figures lending their support.\n\n\"Please pay attention to what is happening,\" wrote Crazy Rich Asians and Marvel actress Gemma Chan on Instagram. \"Racism and misogyny are not mutually exclusive. In fact, sexualised racial harassment and violence is something that many of us face regularly.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Shannon Lee, daughter of the late actor Bruce Lee, said baseless rhetoric from former President Donald Trump and his supporters about the pandemic had heightened tensions against Asian Americans.\n\nA \"heartbroken\" Rihanna similarly said the incident was \"brutal, tragic and... certainty not an isolated incident\". Actresses Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Katie Holmes also posted in support, as did South Korean DJ Peggy Gou.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carl McGrath, who was skipper of the Nicola Faith, pictured with girlfriend Amy Lamb\n\nA body found on a Blackpool beach has been confirmed as one of three missing fishermen from Conwy.\n\nSkipper Carl McGrath, 34, had been missing since the disappearance of the Nicola Faith fishing boat on 27 January.\n\nHis family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers, said North Wales Police.\n\nThe two other crew members, Ross Ballantine, 39, and Alan Minard, 20, are still missing.\n\nThe Nicola Faith fishing boat has been missing since 27 January\n\nA major search operation was launched when the Nicola Faith did not return to Conwy but was called off \"pending further information\" after two days.\n\nEarlier this month, its life raft was found off the coast of Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland by the Coastguard.\n\nThe bodies of three men were then found last week off the north-west coast of England, with family members informed and post-mortem examinations taking place.\n\nAlan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath went missing while on the Nicola Faith fishing boat\n\nSea search specialist David Mearns, who found the wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala which disappeared off Guernsey in 2019, is leading a search for the missing boat.\n\nA sonar search vessel is looking for the Nicola Faith on the sea bed.\n\nThe survey boat called Pulsar uses sonar equipment to search the seabed", "Results from the long-awaited US trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine are out and confirm that the shot is both safe and highly effective.\n\nMore than 32,000 volunteers took part, mostly in America, but also in Chile and Peru.\n\nThe vaccine was 79% effective at stopping symptomatic Covid disease and 100% effective at preventing people from falling seriously ill.\n\nAnd there were no safety issues regarding blood clots.\n\nThat should further reassure some EU countries that recently paused rollout of the vaccine amid concerns about a possible link.\n\nSome are already starting to use it again now that Europe's medicines regulator has completed its review and has also concluded the vaccine is safe and effective.\n\nData from this new trial - run by experts at Columbia University and the University of Rochester in collaboration with AstraZeneca - may also prove useful in reassuring people about how well the vaccine works to protect the elderly against Covid-19 illness.\n\nSeveral countries initially would not authorise the use of the vaccine in adults over 65, citing lack of evidence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at how a vaccine hailed as a ‘game-changer’ has seen its reputation tarnished\n\nAround a fifth of the volunteers in this trial were over 65 and the vaccine - given as two doses, four weeks apart - provided as much protection to them as to younger age groups.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people in the UK are already receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine every day, so these numbers are tiny by comparison.\n\nBut the results are vital for the US and should clear the way for the vaccine to be approved by regulators there within the next month or two.\n\nLead investigator of the Oxford University trial of the vaccine, Prof Andrew Pollard said: \"'These results are great news as they show the remarkable efficacy of the vaccine in a new population and are consistent with the results from Oxford-led trials.\n\nSource: AstraZeneca (Trial based on two doses given four weeks apart)\n\n\"We can expect strong impact against Covid-19 across all ages and for people of all different backgrounds from widespread use of the vaccine.\"\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert, co-designer of the vaccine, said: \"In many different countries and across age groups, the vaccine is providing a high level of protection against Covid-19 and we hope this will lead to even more widespread use of the vaccine in the global attempts to bring the pandemic to an end.\"\n\nProf Gilbert said there were always cases of people falling ill after receiving a vaccine, particularly when very large numbers of were receiving a jab, but that did not mean that the vaccine was responsible for the problems. Meanwhile thousands of people a day were now dying across Europe from Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"It is really important that we get the chance to protect people as quickly as possible. This vaccine will save lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon spoke of her relief after the inquiry cleared her of wrongdoing\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.\n\nAn independent inquiry by senior Irish lawyer James Hamilton had been examining whether the first minister misled the Scottish Parliament over what she knew and when.\n\nHis report said Ms Sturgeon had given an \"incomplete narrative of events\" to MSPs.\n\nBut he said this was a \"genuine failure of recollection\" and not deliberate.\n\nMr Hamilton said he was therefore of the opinion that Ms Sturgeon had not breached any of the provisions of the code.\n\nThe code sets out the standards expected of Scottish government ministers, and states that anyone who deliberately misleads Holyrood would be expected to resign.\n\nMr Hamilton concluded in his report, some parts of which were heavily redacted, that Ms Sturgeon did not breach the ministerial code in respect of any of the four issues he considered.\n\nThese included allegations that Ms Sturgeon had failed to record a series of meetings and telephone discussions with Mr Salmond and others in 2018.\n\nMr Hamilton concluded that the meetings were government business - contrary to Ms Sturgeon's claims that they were a party matter - but accepted her reasoning that \"it would have been impossible to record such meetings or discussions without a risk of prejudicing the proceedings or interfering with their confidentiality\".\n\nHe also looked at whether the first minister \"may have attempted to influence the conduct of the investigation\" into the harassment complaints made against Mr Salmond, her predecessor as first minister and SNP leader.\n\nThe lawyer said the key point was that Ms Sturgeon had not intervened, and said that had Mr Salmond really believed she had agreed to it during a meeting on 2 April 2018 then, \"one might have expected him to follow it up and to press home his advantage\" - but that no further contact was made for three weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon and Mr Salmond have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words over the affair\n\nThe third issue centred on whether Ms Sturgeon misled the Scottish Parliament in relation to the meetings in 2018.\n\nThe first minister insisted she had first learned of the complaints from Mr Salmond at her home on 2 April, but later said she had had \"forgotten\" about a meeting with his former chief of staff four days earlier, on 29 March.\n\nMr Hamilton said it was \"regrettable\" that Ms Sturgeon had not told MSPs about this meeting, but that he found it \"difficult to think of any convincing reason\" for her to deliberately conceal it.\n\nHe said she had given parliament \"an incomplete narrative of events\", but added: \"I accept that this omission was the result of a genuine failure of recollection and was not deliberate.\"\n\nThe fourth ground of investigation alleged that Ms Sturgeon was in breach of her duty to comply with the law in relation to Mr Salmond's successful legal challenge against the Scottish government.\n\nMr Salmond has pointed to external legal advice warning that the government may be at risk of losing the case as early as October 2018, but ministers decided to fight on until January 2019 - and ultimately had to pay Mr Salmond more than £500,000 in legal costs.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against nine women after a separate High Court trial in March of last year.\n\nMr Hamilton said Ms Sturgeon had relied on advice from the law officers, as she was \"fully entitled\" to do, and said Mr Salmond \"appears to be under the misapprehension that the government is under a duty to withdraw a case if advised that there is less than an evens chance of winning\".\n\nThe lawyer's 61-page report concluded: \"I am of the opinion that the first minister did not breach the provisions of the ministerial code in respect of any of these matters.\"\n\nMr Hamilton is a former head of Ireland's prosecution service and the Scottish government's independent advisor on the ministerial code\n\nMs Sturgeon welcomed the findings, and said she had \"sought at every stage in this issue to act with integrity and in the public interest\".\n\nShe added: \"As I have previously made clear, I did not consider that I had broken the code, but these findings are official, definitive and independent adjudication of that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon again apologised to the women who made the complaints, saying they had been let down by the government.\n\nBut she said: \"I was determined at the time these complaints emerged that they should not be swept under the carpet, and that I would not intervene in the process.\"\n\nThe first minister also called on opposition parties to respect the outcome of Mr Hamilton's inquiry, and said she would continue to devote \"all of my time and energy to leading Scotland and to helping the country through the pandemic\".\n\nJames Hamilton's conclusions are undoubtedly a significant boost for the first minister and her party.\n\nIn two days, the starting gun will be fired on the Scottish election campaign.\n\nMs Sturgeon will go into it saying her independent advisor cleared her. Her team see it as \"complete vindication\".\n\nRemember there is another report to be published tomorrow morning, by the Holyrood committee.\n\nWe know a majority of the committee believe Ms Sturgeon misled them in her evidence - so the issue of trust will no doubt continue to be part of the election campaign.\n\nBut Team Sturgeon is very happy tonight - going into an election campaign which could prove very important in determining whether there is another independence referendum.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives plan to hold a vote of no confidence in the first minister on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nBut it looks doomed to fail after the Scottish Greens said they would not support it on the basis that \"the Tories have shown that they have no interest in establishing the truth.\"\n\nConservative leader Douglas Ross said the first minister had been \"given a pass\" by Mr Hamilton because he had judged that her failure of recollection was not deliberate.\n\nMr Ross said: \"I respect Mr Hamilton and his judgement but we cannot agree with that assessment. Nicola Sturgeon did not suddenly turn forgetful.\n\n\"She is not free and clear. The first minister promised to respect the decisions of both inquiry reports, not to pick and choose which one suits her and try to discredit the other.\n\n\"This report does not change the overwhelming evidence that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament, her government badly let women down and wasted more than £500,000 of taxpayers' money.\"\n\nA separate report by a cross-party committee of MSPs that has been examining the government's botched handling of the complaints against Mr Salmond is expected to be published on Tuesday morning.\n\nDetails of the report that were leaked last week said that members voted by five to four that Ms Sturgeon had misled its inquiry during a marathon evidence session earlier this month.\n\nIt is also expected to be critical of the government's handling of the complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said his party had been clear that it would not prejudge the outcome of the inquiry, and would now await the findings of the parliamentary committee.\n\nMr Sarwar said it was clear that the saga had deeply damaged public trust in politics at a time of national crisis, and that there were \"absolutely no winners today\"\n\nHe added: \"At the heart of this are two women who have been badly let down by the government, and it remains the case that nobody has taken responsibility.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Ms Sturgeon's \"errors of judgement still make resignation a live consideration\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon could not have hoped for a better outcome from this inquiry.\n\nShe effectively placed her reputation and political future in the hands of James Hamilton and he has cleared her of acting improperly. She has no intention of resigning.\n\nThat will not stop the Conservatives trying to force her out in a vote of no confidence on Tuesday - but that's a vote the first minister is expected to win with help from the Greens.\n\nShe faces further criticism in the separate Holyrood inquiry report, also due on Tuesday - with the opposition majority on that committee deciding she misled them.\n\nMs Sturgeon rejects that conclusion as partisan - which is how some see the decision of SNP members of the committee not to endorse it.\n\nThe arguments will continue into the Holyrood election campaign. The ultimate verdict on the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints and its wider record will be made by Scottish voters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bury councillor Tamoor Tariq shares his experience of catching coronavirus twice\n\nA councillor who issued a stark warning from his sick bed a year ago for people to start taking Covid-19 seriously says he has \"still not fully recovered\".\n\nBury Council deputy leader Tamoor Tariq collapsed and was taken to hospital just before the UK's first lockdown.\n\nGasping for breath in his 2020 YouTube video, he warned it was not just the old or clinically vulnerable at risk.\n\nMr Tariq, 31, said he contracted coronavirus again in December and felt \"fortunate\" to have survived.\n\nThe Bury Council deputy leader has urged people to get vaccinated\n\nWhen he first fell ill last year Mr Tariq said he struggled to talk about Covid because he \"felt so drained\".\n\nBut the Labour councillor said he felt compelled to sound the alarm at a time when some commentators were wrongly downplaying the severity of the novel coronavirus.\n\nMr Tariq said his message - that someone with no serious health issues could still become severely ill or even die with Covid - really \"hit home\" with his community.\n\n\"It was an awful experience,\" he told the BBC. \"It hit me hard, and that shook people up.\n\n\"There were very few cases here then and people underestimated it, including me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tamoor Tariq warned of the dangers of Covid in March 2020\n\nMr Tariq said it took him weeks to even be able to walk downstairs again and said his energy levels had still not recovered when he contracted the virus for a second time.\n\n\"It was 26 December and I knew from the symptoms I had it again - even before I got a positive test,\" he said.\n\nHe recalled a nurse telling him last March if he did get the virus again it would not be so severe.\n\n\"It wasn't, but my wife, sister and my mum all got it so it was a very worrying time,\" he added.\n\nMr Tariq said his 55-year-old mother ended up in hospital before recovering.\n\nNearly three months after his second bout of Covid, he said he could still only manage 2km when he goes running, as opposed to the 5km he used to run routinely.\n\nMr Tariq's mother was initially very sceptical about having the Covid vaccine\n\nMr Tariq has been campaigning for more members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to accept the vaccine, organising events to dispel false information circulating about it and helping to set up a pop-up jab clinic at the Jinnah Day Care Centre in Bury.\n\n\"It is our duty to protect ourselves and our loved ones, and the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe cause is one he feels passionately about, not least because he initially failed to convince his mother to have the jab.\n\nHe said she had fallen for \"myths\" and false information spread on social media about the vaccine.\n\nTo his relief a staff member at Bury Council managed to reassure her enough that she has now been vaccinated.\n\nReflecting on what has been a harrowing 12 months, Mr Tariq said: \"I feel very fortunate that myself and my family have all recovered and I am so pleased and proud of the incredible vaccine roll-out.\"\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.", "Alexander Monson died in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of smoking cannabis\n\nFour police officers in Kenya are to stand trial over the death of a British man in 2012 after a judge ruled the case should be heard.\n\nAlexander Monson, 28, died in police custody when he was arrested in Kenya for allegedly smoking cannabis.\n\nPolice have in the past said Monson died of an overdose, but his family say he was killed by officers.\n\nMonson's mother welcomed the ruling, saying \"we hope at the end of day justice for my son will be served\".\n\nFour officers - Naftali Chege, Charles Wangombe Munyiri, Baraka Bulima and John Pamba - are accused of killing Monson.\n\n\"The accused should tell the court what happened since the deceased was arrested in good health,\" High Court Judge Erick Ogolla ruled on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem found that he died after suffering a traumatic blow to the head.\n\nToxicology reports also showed he had no drugs in his system at the time of his death.\n\nIn 2018 an inquest ruled that he had been beaten to death.\n\nIt also found there had been attempts to cover up the incident in the city of Monbasa, as well as threats against witnesses.\n\nThe trial is due to begin on 10 May.\n\nMr Monson, who was the son of the 12th Baron Monson and heir to the family estate in Lincolnshire, moved to Kenya to live with his mother Hilary Monson in 2008.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fishermen on Lake Victoria in Kenya have begun using some of Africa’s first electric fishing boats\n• None How a Kenyan town morphed into 'Little Italy'", "Voters in Mitzpe Ramon are hoping this election will break a succession of deadlocks\n\nThe town of Mitzpe Ramon is recovering from its isolation in the desert. Often the inhabitants had only themselves and their crater for company.\n\nThe population of 5,211 lives on a cliff edge above a naturally formed chasm in the Negev desert - a site of stunning beauty that entices tourists.\n\nBut the visitors vanished amid the Covid closures. The lockdown laid waste to work for the tour guides. In Israel, joblessness has soared.\n\nThe country suffered badly as the virus surged last year and there were claims of government blunders.\n\nThen came a dramatically swift vaccine rollout. A battered economy is starting to reopen. Many of these things were weighing on Israel's already crisis-hit coalition, when gridlock triggered yet another election.\n\nThere are not many tourists to be seen these days in Mitzpe Ramon\n\nBut in Mitzpe - the town whose name means \"lookout\" - no-one seems to be watching much.\n\nThe streets don't echo with the sound of political rallying. Election posters are as unlikely to be seen as foreign tourists.\n\nInstead there's a desert wind and weariness. The same bitter divisions over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership - splits formed years ago - look set to play the major role in Tuesday's poll, the fourth since 2019.\n\n\"It's no, no, no to Bibi and his friends,\" says Boaz Katz, who runs Desert Prime tours. He has seen business drop by two-thirds since the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe steers his 4x4 over rocks into the crater's core, hinting at worries shared by many Israelis.\n\n\"I think about the future a lot and it spooks me to see Benjamin Netanyahu and his natural companions - I want to live in a free, democratic country,\" says Mr Katz, who used to vote for Mr Netanyahu's Likud party.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu is seeking a clear mandate, but polls suggest results could be tight\n\nThe prime minister has been met with protests over his desire to rewire parts of the justice system while on trial for corruption. Others oppose his long-standing pact with ultra-religious parties.\n\nThe tour guide scratches a heart shape in the sand and explains the landscape.\n\nThe crater was not formed by an asteroid smashing into Earth. Instead, it was scoured out over millennia through water erosion, as torrents eviscerated soft rock.\n\nLikewise, those who rival for Israel's leadership feel they are fighting an unstoppable force.\n\nThe last election with no winner led to an \"emergency coalition\" to fight the pandemic. Mr Netanyahu's rival Benny Gantz - a former general and political novice - agreed to a rotating premiership.\n\nBut Mr Gantz never got to take his turn. The remnants of his Blue and White party are facing near wipe-out, according to opinion polls.\n\nThe drive back into town passes the only shopping centre. There's a queue at the shawarma restaurant. Others sit inside a franchise coffee shop, masks on. Business is also back by the crater.\n\nRachel Amsalem lives on the edge. Her home close to the clifftop is covered in Israeli flags.\n\nA Likud cap rests on a rail in the porch, ready for outings when she faces off against the \"black flag\" protesters who oppose Mr Netanyahu.\n\n\"He doesn't sleep. He is the guardian of Israel,\" says Mrs Amsalem, borrowing a biblical phrase.\n\nShe knew him decades ago, working as a maid in the Netanyahu family home in Jerusalem.\n\nHer parents fled Algeria in the 1940s. Decades later, she came to Mitzpe Ramon, a development town providing low-cost homes for Jewish immigrants, many from Arab countries. The community now forms a base of working-class support for Mr Netanyahu.\n\nMrs Amsalem credits him with the speedy vaccine deal helping bring the pandemic under control. Last year, her daughter-in-law, also called Rachel, died with Covid-19.\n\n\"Nobody else has the courage to pick up the phone and call [vaccine-maker] Pfizer,\" she says.\n\n\"He works day and night, whether it's [the diplomatic deals] with Arab countries, [countering] Iran, on corona, on the economy… there's one person we should say thanks to.\"\n\nBut Mr Netanyahu's opponents have instead been scrambling to find another viable challenger to him.\n\nThe \"anti-Bibi\" bloc now includes a former ally-turned-rival, Gideon Saar, who left Likud. Many more opposition votes are being soaked up by the centrist party led by a former TV host, Yair Lapid.\n\nThe outcome could rest on how smaller parties do. In an unlikely move, Mr Netanyahu has tried to get support from Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up a fifth of the population.\n\nA drive further north in the Negev - al-Naqab in Arabic - reveals deep scepticism over the motives of a politician who once warned his base to get to the polling stations as \"the Arabs are voting in droves\".\n\n\"We all know he is lying to people,\" says Huda Abu Obaid, a community organiser in the Bedouin town of Lakiya.\n\nHuda Abu Obaid: Benjamin Netanyahu \"has been the worst one for us\"\n\nShe believes Mr Netanyahu wants to further divide support for a group of Arab parties, which could strengthen his hand in coalition building.\n\n\"We know very well that he was the worst one for us, for the Arab community, and I think that he will not change himself,\" she says.\n\nThe sun is setting back by the crater where the Mitzpe Ramon desert circus school - closed for much of the last year - is warming up. A juggler appears at the cliff edge. The principal, Adam De Langa, urges unity, calling a fourth election \"crazy\".\n\nIt might be another cry in the wilderness. The sides remain entrenched in Israel's unwon battle for a stable government.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nTributes have been paid to El Salvador surfer Katherine Diaz, who died after being struck by lightning.\n\nThe incident happened at El Tunco beach in her homeland as Diaz, 22, prepared for a tournament which could have earned her a Tokyo Olympics spot.\n\n\"Katherine embodied the joy and energy that make surfing so special and dear to us all,\" said the International Surfing Association (ISA).\n\n\"She excelled at the international competition level.\"\n\nThe ISA added that Diaz - a global ambassador - represented \"her country with pride at both the World Surfing Games and ISA World Jr Surfing Championship\".\n\n\"We send our heartfelt condolences to Katherine's family, the surfers of El Salvador, and to all those in the international surfing community whose lives she touched,\" continued the statement.\n\n\"We will never forget you.\"\n\nSurfing is scheduled to make its Olympic debut at this summer's Games in Tokyo.\n\nDiaz's brother, Jose 'Bamba' Diaz, posted a message on Instagram which read: \"We will always carry you in our hearts. God decided to take you now. We already miss you.", "A huge fire has engulfed a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, destroying shelters and health centres.\n\nSeveral people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the fire.\n\nThe settlement is part of a network of camps in mainland Bangladesh, home to over a million refugees who have fled Myanmar since 2017.", "YouTube star David Dobrik has stepped down from an app he co-founded, following a rape allegation about his former associate.\n\nOne woman who appeared in a video on Mr Dobrik’s channel says she was raped by another person involved during filming.\n\nMr Dobrik, who has almost 19 million subscribers on the platform, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut the claim has led brands and investors to \"sever ties\" with the influencer.\n\nMr Dobrik rose to fame through prank videos, sometimes in collaboration with a number of other YouTubers called the Vlog Squad.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, he stepped back from posting regularly on YouTube, in order to launch his own photo app Dispo.\n\nA recent investigation published by Kat Tenbarge at the business news website Insider, detailed the woman’s account of rape in 2018 by a - now former - Vlog Squad member.\n\nSince the claims, support for the app and Mr Dobrik has collapsed.\n\nVenture capital firm and a leading investor in the app, Spark Capital, announced it would “sever all ties” with the company.\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 Dobrik then announced he would step down from the board of Dispo “to not distract from the company’s growth,” the Information news site reported.\n\nAs a YouTube influencer, Mr Dobrik made millions of dollars through sponsorship deals.\n\nHello Fresh, EA Sports and HBO Max are among brands to have dropped him.\n\nIn the account, published in Insider, a woman alleged she was raped during the filming of a Vlog Squad video in 2018.\n\nShe reportedly says she was given alcohol despite being under the legal age of 21, and became drunk to the point of unconsciousness.\n\nLater, she said she was involved in group sex which included a Vlog Squad member, when she was too intoxicated to consent.\n\nThe video - which does not explicitly show the alleged incident - was published on Mr Dobrik’s channel, and later removed.\n\n\"While our client is appalled by any misconduct attributed to [the former member of the Vlog Squad], assuming it is true, my client denies any wrongdoing,\" Mr Dobrik’s lawyer told Insider.\n\n\"Consent is something that's super, super-important to me,\" Mr Dobrik added via a recent video posted to one of his YouTube channels,\n\n\"Whether I am shooting with a friend, or I am shooting with a stranger, I make sure whatever video I am putting out, I have the approval from that person.\"\n\nThe accused former Vlog Squad member has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nPolice were not informed and no charges were filed against the alleged perpetrator, Insider said.", "All businesses in Guernsey can return to operating as normal\n\nGuernsey has removed the majority of its Covid-19 restrictions for the second time during the pandemic.\n\nThe island's first coronavirus lockdown lasted for 88 days between 24 March and 20 June 2020, with this second lockdown lasting 57 days.\n\nBusinesses in Guernsey and Herm can return to normal, with no social distancing or mask requirements.\n\nHowever, all arrivals into the bailiwick are still required to self-isolate for at least two weeks.\n\nSince the lockdown started on 23 January, 569 cases of the virus have been found in the islands and one person has died with the virus.\n\nDuring the pandemic the islands have seen a total of 821 known cases and 14 Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe higher number of cases in the second lockdown has been put down to improved testing capability as well as the more virulent nature of the Kent variant detected in the island.\n\nPeter Ferbrache, chairman of the Civil Contingencies Authority, described the move out of lockdown as a \"huge achievement\" and thanked islanders for sticking to lockdown rules.\n\nHe said: \"We protected our health service, kept our vaccine programme moving forward and prevented a much higher loss of life.\"\n\nWith more than 29,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed, 44 doses per 100 people have been administered to Guernsey residents.\n\nPeople walked through town in Guernsey without face coverings\n\nThis means 30% of over-16s have had one dose, with 11% having received both.\n\nMusic played on Monday afternoon in St Peter Port as people walked through town with a spring in their step and a smile on their face.\n\nAlmost all chose not to wear face coverings, and groups of islanders gathered to catch up again after two months of lockdown restrictions.\n\nSpring naturally provides some hope of better days to come and this optimism was a contagious feeling around others thinking similarly.\n\nThe freedoms now afforded to residents are not taken for granted or lightly, there is simply relief that better days are ahead of us all.\n\nDeputy Ferbrache emphasised that while border restrictions will remain in place for a \"little while longer\", he said the success of the island's vaccination programme meant the island was \"getting closer to that tipping point\" where some travel could resume.\n\n\"We have good reason to be optimistic as we look forward,\" he added.\n\nSark and Alderney moved out of lockdown on 4 March and 9 March respectively and have lifted quarantine requirements on people coming from Guernsey.\n\nNon-essential travel to the bailiwick has resumed, but arrivals are still obliged to self-isolate for two weeks and be tested on days one and 13 after arrival.\n\nAnyone who declines to be tested must self isolate for 21 days.\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\nSocial distancing and mask wearing requirements have been removed, but mask use is encouraged in shops and on public transport.\n\nAnyone experiencing Covid-19 symptoms should stay at home and call the clinical helpline, the States emphasised.\n\nMask wearing will continue to be required at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, which has resumed normal health services and visitation rules.\n\nBus services have returned to their full timetable, apart from additional summer services normally put on for tourists, and passenger capacity restrictions have been lifted.\n\nBeau Sejour has started a phased return to reopening, but some facilities and activities will remain unavailable in the short term while the leisure centre is the site of the coronavirus vaccination centre.\n\nSupport organisations such as Guernsey Mind have said \"Welcome back\" on social media, inviting people to visit, with hygiene measures in place.\n\nParking restrictions in all monitored zones were also being reinstated, police tweeted.\n\nFollow BBC Guernsey 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.", "In one blog post, pupils were mocked for having fake tans and being overweight\n\nA teacher has been struck off for two years after mocking pupils for \"dressing like Eastern European prostitutes and Kardashian clones\".\n\nAlexander Price, 43, was found guilty of professional misconduct for his anonymous blog about the annual prom at Denbigh High School in north Wales.\n\nA misconduct hearing was told his comments offended parents, pupils and staff.\n\nThe former design and technology teacher said he wrote the gossip blogs as a \"cathartic\" exercise while working at the school and tried to make them \"colourful and entertaining\".\n\nBut the panel ruled the posts were \"inappropriate, offensive, or derogatory\".\n\nIn his blog \"The Provoked Pedagogue\", Mr Price wrote about life working at the high school in Denbigh, north Wales.\n\nIn one article titled \"The Problem With Prom\", he called the event \"a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on looking nice.\"\n\nHe wrote that the girls often ended up looking like a cross between \"Eastern European prostitutes\" and \"Kardashian clones\" and said boys at the bash \"snorted coke\".\n\nHe also mocked pupils and their parents for making so much effort for the school prom by spending sums they could not afford on gowns and make-up.\n\nReferring to poorly applied fake tans, he wrote \"the literacy was so poor they can't read the instructions\".\n\nMr Price referred to \"overweight girls being shoehorned into gowns and paraded through the town like cattle\".\n\nHe said the \"proms mean more to them than GCSEs\".\n\nHe also wrote derogatory comments about his boss Dr Paul Evans, who became head teacher in 2018.\n\nChairman Steve Powell said the comments \"were critical, they were disrespectful, they were likely to cause offence to any pupil or parent who came across the article\".\n\n\"It was particularly concerning that a focus on these comments and the article as a whole was on families from poor backgrounds in an unnecessary and unwarranted way,\" he added.\n\nMr Price admitted writing the blogs but denied they amount to unacceptable professional conduct.\n\nHe said the panel had not taken the blogs in the proper context and that many of the extracts they read aloud had the opposite point of the articles as a whole.\n\nMr Price's union representative, Colin Adkins of NASUWT, said the ruling was \"chilling in that it has inhibited freedom of speech\".\n\nIn a statement to the panel, Mr Price said: \"I find it ridiculous you say you have considered these comments in their entirety because you blatantly haven't.\"\n\nMr Price has now been handed a prohibition order banning him from teaching.\n\nThe hearing in Cardiff was told he can reapply to join the register after a two-year period.", "The Mail on Sunday has been given time to seek permission to appeal a ruling that it publish a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex winning her copyright claim against the newspaper.\n\nMeghan sued for a copyright breach over the publication of a letter to her father and won most of her claim.\n\nA High Court judge then ruled the MoS must print on its front page and page three that it infringed her copyright.\n\nThe statement is on hold after its publisher sought permission to appeal.\n\nMeghan, 39, brought the legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - the publisher of both the MoS and MailOnline.\n\nIt was over a handwritten letter to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018, parts of which were later published in news articles.\n\nLast month, the duchess won her privacy claim and most of her copyright claim. The judge ruled the letter was \"personal and private\" and Meghan had a \"reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private\".\n\nLord Justice Warby subsequently said the MoS must print a single statement on the front page, referring readers to a further statement on page three.\n\nMailOnline must also publish the statement \"for a period of one week\".\n\nOn Monday, Lord Justice Warby said ANL had applied for permission to appeal.\n\nThe judge refused ANL permission, but granted a \"stay\" of the order \"only until the matter has been decided by the Court of Appeal\".\n\nHe said the stay would expire on 6 April, to give ANL time to apply directly to the Court of Appeal.\n\nAfter the Mail On Sunday was ordered to print the statements earlier this month, a spokesman for the newspaper said: \"We will be applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal, including in relation to aspects of the judgment today.\"", "A year on from the first UK UK lockdown, front line workers have been reflecting on the past 12 months\n\n\"I said goodbye to my parents for the last time on Mother's Day last year.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was ever going to see them again... I just felt as if I was going to war.\"\n\nA national day of reflection will take place on Tuesday to mark a year since the UK's first lockdown, which saw strict new curbs on life.\n\nAs people around the country mark the anniversary, five women working on the front line have been sharing their experiences of the past year.\n\nDr Ruth Williams caught the virus about the time the UK went into its first lockdown\n\nDr Ruth Williams is a respiratory consultant at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.\n\nShe caught the virus about the time the UK went into its first lockdown.\n\n\"I was probably one of the first to have it,\" she told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"We'd seen everything happening in China and Italy and honestly we felt as though we were about to face an Armageddon... it was pretty terrifying.\"\n\nShe said when she was ill with Covid she was also writing up care pathways for this illness: \"Of course when I started getting breathless myself I started getting a bit nervy.\"\n\nShe said back in March they were still learning about the virus: \"When I got it there was still this feeling amongst people that 'oh you'll be fine as long as you're young' but we were starting to see that that wasn't the case, and then that got really scary.\"\n\nShe said working with Covid patients was like nothing she had faced before: \"We'd never seen anything like Covid, how it impacts people and their lungs.\n\n\"Still to this day - and I've treated so, so many people with Covid now - it still flummoxes me how it can affect people so differently, one person will get it so severely and others really not at all.\"\n\nShe said she has found it hard to escape the ever-present pandemic: \"There's no respite from it because even when you go home, you're in lockdown, you can't go anywhere, even everything on the television is about Covid.\n\n\"But for me, the thing that has got me through is my colleagues and the team. Being able to laugh together, take five minutes together.\"\n\nThe year has taken its toll: \"I think I have suffered. We've had to work incredibly hard, long hours... we are all desperate to see the light at the end of this tunnel.\"\n\nBut it is the patient success stories that keep her going: \"The elation when you actually manage to save someone, that would give us such a high...\n\n\"When we managed to get them home, that would make your day if not your week really.\n\n\"I've bumped into a few of them coming back for checks and stuff and that is a huge boost to your morale, to have those.\"\n\nDr Nerys Conway says the past year has been really tough\n\nDr Nerys Conway is a consultant in acute medicine and an associate medical director at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nShe said her father feared losing both his daughters to the virus. \"With my sister being a GP... my dad said his biggest fear was that he would lose both his daughters.\n\n\"Of course we were actually really worried about them, I just wanted them to stay in the house and not leave basically - which they did do for about three months.\"\n\nShe said March last year was an anxious and emotional time.\n\n\"I said goodbye to my parents for the last time, on Mother's Day last year,\" she said.\n\n\"It was really emotional for all of us. I didn't know if I was ever going to see them again, if they were ever going to see me again, or if life would ever be the same again for our family.\n\n\"I just felt as if I was going to war.\n\n\"I didn't know what was in front of me, I was nervous, really anxious, but at the same time I thought 'come on, you've got to try and do what you can now, this is your job'.\"\n\nShe said she was amazed how quickly the hospital adapted: \"The hospital changed, the footprint changed, we all came together and staff began training, we were all just practising, practising, practising ready for those patients to start coming in.\"\n\nShe said she would never forget some of her patients: \"The first patient that I admitted to ITU this time last year was a young fit gentleman, no medical problems - he had never even been to the GP.\n\n\"He came in and he was critically unwell and went straight to ITU.\n\n\"When he left ITU and eventually left the hospital, that was so emotional for me, I'll never forget him, his family, the conversation that I had with his wife on the phone.\"\n\nWhen asked, she said there had been days where she felt she did not want to go into work: \"Yes, there have been days like that I have to be honest, days where it just feels relentless... you just want to run a million miles, but you can't run away because everyone in the world is being affected by it.\n\n\"Some days have just been incredibly challenging.\"\n\nDr Elise Lang said the past year had been one of collaboration and adapting to change\n\nDr Elise Lang GP is a partner at North Cardiff Medical Centre, a Macmillan GP advisor for Wales and Macmillan GP cancer lead for Velindre NHS trust.\n\nShe said: \"There's a slightly trepidatious feeling looking back to where we were a year ago...\n\nShe said it had been a year marked by collaboration and adapting to change.\n\n\"The collaboration between services and departments in the NHS has been fundamental to getting us all through... all of the team members have had to adapt to new roles, virtual calls, virtual consultations... it's been a challenging time.\"\n\nIt has also been a steep learning curve: \"Trying to keep up to date with everything that was being published, everything that we were being asked to do with patients was an endless learning journey.\n\n\"We couldn't switch off, at night we're constantly reading messages, updating ourselves with what needed to happen and therefore updating our team as well.\"\n\nRafia Jamil says when she caught Covid it was tough for her family and her work colleagues\n\nRafia Jamil is a senior GP practice support pharmacist and looks after five surgeries across Powys.\n\nShe too got Covid early on.\n\n\"It's one of the experiences I probably will never forget, not something I've experienced before,\" she said.\n\n\"Knowing that you've got something which the whole world is dealing with and then also the impact it had on the work I do, on my team and on the family life as well.\"\n\nHaving moved to the UK from Pakistan with her husband 10 years ago, she struggled being so far away from her family: \"I just live with my husband and son so we were quite isolated from a support network point of view…\n\n\"I literally just lay there on the sofa in my living room - my husband was trying to run the house while doing a job, looking after our son and looking after me as well because I wasn't even capable of leaving the sofa to get a glass of water for myself and everything was literally brought to me...\n\n\"It just went on for weeks and a point came when I couldn't cope at home and I was taken to hospital and I stayed a few days there.\"\n\nShe says what she will take from the past year is the strength of her team: \"My team has been incredible, especially at the time when I wasn't with them and they kept the service going at pretty much the same level...\n\n\"I think my reflection will always be that what a strong team that we've developed over the years which was able to cope with the service demands.\"\n\nRhian Parry says there was \"not a lot of sleep going on\" at the start of the pandemic\n\nRhian Parry is managing director of Workplace Worksafe, based in Ruthin, Denbighshire, an independent supplier of health and safety equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nReflecting on last March, she said: \"It was absolutely incredible... there's been talk about it being the third world war... it just felt like we went to war every single day...\n\n\"We had Glan Clwyd Hospital, Gwynedd Hospital [Ysbyty Gwynedd] ringing us up begging us for PPE.\n\n\"The matrons on the ward were absolutely saying 'if you can't get PPE out to us we're not going to be able to protect the patients' - honestly it was just awful.\"\n\nShe said there was \"not a lot of sleep going on\" as she made calls to Malaysia at 03:00 and calls to the Welsh government at 07:00.\n\nShe said they had no choice other than to get on with it: \"We went to work every day, we got our heads down and spoke to a tonne of suppliers all around the world and we did our bit in a small way.\"", "\"It's really unprecedented violence,\" said the chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation Andy Roebuck.\n\nCrowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.\n\nCampaigners have staged a string of protests against the bill, which would give the police more powers to deal with non-violent demonstrations.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe BBC will show the Women's Super League on network free-to-air TV for the first time in a \"landmark\" three-year broadcast deal.\n\nFrom next season, WSL games will be shown live across the BBC and Sky in the deal worth £7m-£8m per season.\n\nRemaining matches not selected for broadcast by the BBC or Sky will be shown live on FA Player.\n\nThe BBC will broadcast 22 live matches, with a minimum of 18 shown on BBC One or BBC Two.\n\nSky Sports will provide coverage of up to 44 matches screened across the Main Event, Premier League and Sky Sports Football channels.\n\nThe agreements with both broadcasters will run until the summer of 2024.\n\nThe Football Association's Kelly Simmons expects the deal will give the WSL a massive audience boost.\n\n\"It is one of the biggest deals commercially, definitely for women's football in terms of a domestic deal, and up there for women's sport,\" she said.\n\n\"We have benchmarks for what we think are the most successful, high-profile women's sport leagues in the world like the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) and the NWSL (National Women's Soccer League), and they are low hundreds of thousands in terms of an average peak per week.\n\n\"We anticipate this would significantly be above that.\"\n\nEngland and Manchester City captain Steph Houghton told BBC Sport it was an \"amazing step forward\" for women's football and the players can't wait to \"show the world what an unbelievable league we have\".\n\n\"The way this sport has developed in this country over the last few years has been unbelievable,\" she added.\n\n\"I think this will really push our league to be the best in Europe, if not the world.\"\n\nWhat are the broadcast details?\n• None 22 live matches on BBC TV, including a minimum of 18 on BBC One and BBC Two (remaining matches on the Red Button and online)\n• None Up to 44 live matches, with a minimum of 35, shown on Sky Sports Football, Premier League and Main Event channels\n• None Selected fixtures will also be simulcast on Sky One and Sky Sports Mix\n• None All broadcasters will have rights to online coverage, in-play clips and highlights (WSL clubs also have rights to in-play clips and highlights)\n• None Remaining matches not selected for broadcast shown live on FA Player\n• None There will be one free-to-air game on BBC every weekend, with Sky having two other picks\n• None Selected matches expected to be scheduled on Friday 18:30 GMT, Saturday 11:30 GMT, Sunday 12:30 GMT and Sunday 18:30 GMT\n• None 75% of investment revenue to go to WSL clubs, 25% to the Women's Championship\n\nSimmons, the FA's director of the women's professional game, said the deal combined two major priorities for the FA: increasing visibility of the WSL, as well as attracting investment to further develop the quality of the league.\n\n\"We just desperately want more and better. It's always about looking forward and trying to fix the things that we're not happy with. This feels like one of those real step-change moments for the women's game,\" said Simmons.\n\n\"The work we do now will be to project those future revenues down the line. We always said to the clubs to believe and invest and now this will be the start of seeing that there's an ability for the game to take profits and [move away from] reliance, long term, on the men's game.\n\n\"It's going to be hugely visible next season. I'm sure it'll inspire thousands and thousands of girls to play the game so I just can't wait.\"\n\nKathryn Swarbrick, the FA's commercial and marketing director, added: \"This is a moment to celebrate - a watershed moment in the WSL future - with just an incredible outlook.\n\n\"That reach, combined with this huge investment into the game, makes us really confident that this is going to be a huge leap forward in achieving our ambition of having the world's best domestic women's professional league.\"\n\nHow does the deal compare globally?\n\nThe FA said it expects the audience figures to be \"significantly above\" the most successful and \"high-profile\" women's domestic sport leagues in the world.\n\nThey also said it is \"definitely\" the biggest commercial broadcast agreement in women's football.\n\n\"We're going to be broadcasting more live games, reaching a bigger audience and bringing in more revenue than any other women's domestic league in the world,\" said Swarbrick.\n\n\"I think that is a pretty big testament to the strength of the product that the WSL now is.\"\n\nA record-breaking 1.12 billion viewers watched the 2019 Women's World Cup, according to Fifa, while 28.1m people watched BBC coverage of the tournament on television and online.\n\n\"We're attracting players from all over the world but at the same time, English players in this league are testing themselves against the best,\" said Houghton.\n\n\"The standard of the league is increasing and that's mainly because people are training full-time.\n\n\"It's probably only over the last few years - since the 2015 World Cup - that I think it has expanded so quick. To be at the heart of that is really special.\"\n• None Are we getting breakfast all wrong? Lockdown has changed our breakfast habits, should we change them permanently?\n• None \"Men feel unable to confide in those close to them\"", "Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish were among the early winners\n\nBeyoncé has picked up her 25th and 26th Grammy Awards, as \"music's biggest night\" kicks off in Los Angeles.\n\nThe star won best music video for Brown Skin Girl and best rap performance for her duet with Megan Thee Stallion, Savage (Remix).\n\nBillie Eilish, who dominated last year's awards, also won a prize for her Bond theme, No Time To Die.\n\nLady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me became the first female duet to win best the best pop duo category.\n\nThe stars beat Korean pop group BTS in to the prize. The seven-piece boyband had hoped to be the first K-Pop act to win a Grammy with their hit single, Dynamite.\n\nThe awards were announced online ahead of the main Grammys ceremony on Sunday night, which is expected to be a hybrid of live and pre-taped performances.\n\nHost Trevor Noah said the show would be different to the usual event, where music's biggest stars congregate at Los Angeles' Staples Center, but promised a night of spectacular entertainment.\n\n\"They have figured out how to make an awards show for the time as opposed to trying to crowbar an awards show into it,\" he said last week.\n\n\"It's not Zoom, it's not pandemic-y... The bands are sort of going to be performing for each other.\"\n\nBeyoncé had the most nominations going into the ceremony - with nine in total. If she wins two more, she will overtake bluegrass singer Alison Krauss as the most-awarded woman in Grammy history.\n\nBeyonce's Grammy success added to an already record-breaking career\n\nTaylor Swift and Dua Lipa both have six nominations each, alongside rapper Roddy Ricch.\n\nBritish star Harry Styles will open the ceremony, with other performances due from BTS, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Chris Martin of Coldplay.\n\nThe early pre-ceremony raced through dozens of genre categories - from world music to rap and bluegrass - as well as some of the more esoteric awards, like best packaging (which went to rock supergroup The Desert Sessions for their album Vols 11 & 12).\n\nMegan Thee Stallion's win in the best rap category could make her a strong contender for song of the year\n\nKanye West took the Grammy for his gospel album Jesus is King, while John Prine won two posthumous awards for his song I Love Life.\n\nThe star, who died last April of Covid-19, was honoured with best American roots performance and American roots song.\n\nLondon-born musician Jacob Collier made Grammy history by becoming the first British artist ever to win a prize for each of his first four albums.\n\nThe 26-year-old, who is also up for album of the year at the main ceremony, won the best arrangement for his track He Won't Hold You.\n\nNigeria's Burna Boy won the best global music album for Twice As Tall album; while his fellow countryman Wizkid shared the award for best music video with Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy.\n\nIn the rock categories, The Strokes picked up best album for The New Abnormal; and Fiona Apple's Fetch The Bolt Cutters took home best alternative album.\n\nThe award show is taking place against the backdrop of controversy surrounding its voting procedures.\n\nCanadian superstar The Weeknd said he will boycott the awards in future due to what he described as the \"secret committees\" that vote for the winners.\n\nHe was a surprise snub at this year's ceremony despite having one of 2020's biggest-selling albums.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hospitality leaders have urged the Scottish government to change its Covid lockdown levels to stop businesses failing.\n\nAn industry group has submitted its own version of the system to ministers.\n\nThe document, seen by the BBC, urges ministers to mirror the plans for England - extending opening times and naming dates.\n\nThe Scottish government said lockdown exit will be driven by data, not dates.\n\nFive of Scotland's main hospitality trade bodies said if changes are implemented, 60,000 jobs in the sector could be saved.\n\nAnalysis was commissioned by the Scottish Hospitality Group, UK Hospitality Scotland, Scottish Licensed Trade Association, Night Time Industries Association and the Scottish Beer and Pub Association.\n\nThey said that under current level three restrictions almost half of hospitality businesses could operate. But if changes are made, this increases to almost three quarters.\n\nUnder the previous level three rules, alcohol was not allowed to be served. But the industry is lobbying for it to be sold outdoors, or indoors with a meal.\n\nOn closing times, the last entry was 17:00 with venues were to close by 18:00. The industry would like to see two-hour time slots for indoor customers, with closing time at 22:30. Outdoors it wants a 23:30 close.\n\nIt claims this could contribute more than £1.2bn to the economy in the short term.\n\nMichael Grieve, chairman of Night Time Industries Association Scotland and owner of Glasgow's Sub Club, told BBC's The Sunday Show that indicative dates would be vitally important to businesses like his.\n\nHe said: \"What we're asking for is that all restrictions are removed at level zero and things return to normal.\n\n\"We think it's imperative that there's a date put against that as a best case scenario as a date to work towards.\n\n\"But we need to have some kind of framework there because at the moment we're completely running blind here - we have no idea when we'll be able to operate.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said that the previous levels system will be updated to account for changes in the situation - for example, the new variant of coronavirus and the rollout of the vaccination programme.\n\nMike Grieve has sad it is difficult to see a future for clubs until coronavirus is eliminated\n\nMichael Grieve added: \"The positive impact of adopting our proposed plan are huge for relatively minor tweaks.\n\n\"We're not going to achieve zero Covid. We need to accept that Covid is in society.\n\n\"So, with vaccination being rolled out... we see no reason why in parallel indicative dates can't be put in place to give the industry some hope that we can reopen and that life can start to return to some kind of normal.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it understood the desire for certainty for all sectors of the economy.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"We need to be driven by data not dates, and we are regrettably not able to provide fixed dates as to when nightclubs and theatres which involve large audiences and customers in enclosed spaces can reopen.\n\n\"We will continue to listen to the needs of the sector and do everything within our powers to support them through this on-going crisis.\"\n\nIt said work was underway to develop a route-map towards an incremental and cautious re-opening of live events and performances.\n\nThe Scottish government said more than £140m of additional Covid funding to support culture and heritage in Scotland had been allocated, with more than £3bn in support for business since the start of the pandemic.", "British Airways is planning to make it easier for passengers to prove they are safe to travel once they have been vaccinated against Covid.\n\nUnder the plans, people who have had both jabs will be able to register their status on BA's smartphone app.\n\nThe airline's chief executive, Sean Doyle, hailed the UK's \"great progress\" in tackling the pandemic.\n\nLast month, BA owner IAG called for digital health passes \"to reopen our skies safely\".\n\nIAG's boss, Luis Gallego, said at the time that the airline group wanted international common testing standards for travel.\n\nThe UK government has said it will give the go-ahead for a return to international travel on 17 May at the earliest.\n\nThe announcement prompted a flood of bookings, but it remains unclear which routes will be available.\n\nBA's move comes amid heated debate about the possibility that \"vaccine passports\" could become a feature of foreign travel and even be used within the UK to allow entry to places such as pubs or sports stadiums.\n\nIn his latest comments to journalists, BA's Mr Doyle said the UK should be a global leader in reopening international travel.\n\nHe urged the government to \"set an example\" and \"be ambitious\" in developing systems, including the use of digital technology to verify the vaccination and test status of passengers.\n\n\"We're making great progress in Britain in dealing with the pandemic,\" he said, pointing to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the success of the UK's vaccination programme.\n\n\"It's fair to say that Britain has developed a really strong leadership position in coming out the other end of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"What we want to make sure is that we also take that leadership position into restoring travel and restoring the economy.\"\n\nIn another incentive for passengers, BA said it had already reintroduced free water and snacks on short-haul economy flights and that this policy would continue.\n\nIn another development, rival airline Virgin Atlantic has said it is close to finalising a £160m financing package to tide it over until travel restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe money is coming from loans made by existing shareholders, including the Virgin Group and US airline Delta.\n\nA Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said: \"We continue to bolster our balance sheet in anticipation of the lifting of international travel restrictions during the second quarter of 2021.\n\n\"This latest £160m financing provides further resilience against a slower revenue recovery in 2021 and follows a $230m financing on two Boeing 787s in January, which allowed us to pay down debt and strengthen our cash position.\n\n\"We remain confident that Virgin Atlantic will emerge a sustainably profitable airline and would like to thank our creditors and shareholders, Virgin Group and Delta, for their ongoing support and unwavering belief in our future.\"", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.\n\nOfficers branded the gathering as \"unsafe\", and urged people to go home. A number of people were removed.", "People hoping to spruce up their gardens, ready for when we can socialise in them again, may face problems with their seating plans due to a lack of outdoor furniture.\n\nA combination of high demand and shipping problems is being blamed for the shortages.\n\nFurniture giant Ikea is among the retailers experiencing supply issues.\n\nCompanies say that shipping costs to import goods from countries such as China have risen dramatically.\n\nThe Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association, which represents 70 manufacturers and wholesalers, said all of its members are having problems with garden furniture supply.\n\nGina Hinde from the association said that last year its members were being charged about $1,200 to get a container over from China and Indonesia. This year, they're being charged anywhere between $7,000 and $10,000.\n\n\"Some have even been quoted up to $17,000 to bring one container over,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money programme.\n\nIkea says the shortages have been caused by both a huge rise in demand through the pandemic, as people spend more time at home, and problems with its global supply chain.\n\nHowever, the retail giant says it hopes to have things back to normal by the time its stores re-open.\n\nRob Mead is a consultant at White Stores, which sells garden furniture online and from its six shops. The company also has a wholesale arm, Nova, which sells to other retailers.\n\nHe said that his company spent a month negotiating with freight forwarders last November.\n\n\"We did it to get something in place because we can't afford to ship containers at $8,000 to $10,000 a go,\" he said.\n\nProblems with supply could have a knock-on effect on prices, he added.\n\n\"The problem it causes is that it increases the cost price of a product,\" said Mr Mead.\n\n\"You can't just increase your price due to the fact that you're paying more to ship the product - that doesn't improve the quality of the item itself.\"\n\nYou can listen to the Wake Up To Money podcast here.", "Millions of vulnerable people with underlying health conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, are being urged to book their Covid jabs.\n\nCharities including Cancer Research UK, Mencap and the Terrence Higgins Trust have written an open letter to those in priority group six.\n\nThey are trying to reassure people that vaccines are safe and effective.\n\nThe Department of Health said more than half of the seven million people in that group have had their first dose.\n\nPriority group six includes those aged 16 to 64 with an underlying health condition, their carers, and people with learning disabilities.\n\nUnderlying health conditions include chronic respiratory, heart, kidney and liver disease and neurological conditions, immunosuppression, asplenia, diabetes, morbid obesity and severe mental illness.\n\nPeople with sickle cell disease, lupus and those on a GP learning disability register, as well as people who have vascular disease or have had a stroke are also included in group six.\n\nThose with learning disabilities have been found to be up to six times more likely to die from Covid-19.\n\nThe NHS will send about two million text messages in England over the weekend asking those in group six to book an appointment at a vaccination centre or pharmacy.\n\nThe 18 charities said in the letter: \"The good news is, even if you have not received your letter yet, you can now get an appointment at a vaccination centre or community pharmacy, quickly and easily, by using the national booking system or calling 119 in England.\"\n\nThe charities, which include the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, Carers UK and Diabetes UK, urged anyone with concerns to discuss them over the phone when booking or with a health professional at their appointment.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, urged people who were \"hesitant\" about getting the jab to access information and get vaccinated.\n\n\"By getting vaccinated you're not just protecting yourself, you'll also be able to protect your loved ones because there's evidence now that transmission may be reduced by getting a jab,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the backing of the charities was \"invaluable\".\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the campaign should help \"reassure\" those with any concerns about the vaccine.\n\nAccording to latest government figures, more than 23.6 million people have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the UK.", "This Benin Bronze sold to a private collector for a record fee of £10m\n\nCountless historic artefacts were looted from around the world during the colonial era and taken to Europe but there is now a growing campaign to return them. Among the most famous are the Benin Bronzes seized from modern-day Nigeria. Barnaby Phillips finds out about one family's dilemma.\n\nOne morning in April 2016, a woman walked into Barclays Bank on London's exclusive Park Lane, to retrieve a mysterious object that had been locked in the vaults for 63 years.\n\nAttendants ushered her downstairs. Three men waited upstairs, perched anxiously on an uncomfortable sofa, watching customers go about their business.\n\nTwenty minutes later the woman appeared, carrying something covered in an old dishcloth. She unwrapped it, and everyone gasped.\n\nA youthful face cast in bronze or brass stared out at them. He had a beaded collar around his neck and a gourd on his head.\n\nThe men, an art dealer called Lance Entwistle and two experts from the auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, recognised it as an early Benin Bronze head, perhaps depicting an oba, or king, from the 16th Century.\n\nIt was in near-immaculate condition, with the dark grey patina of old bronze, much like a contemporary piece from the Italian Renaissance. They suspected it was worth millions of pounds. The bank staff quickly led them into a panelled room, where they placed the head on a table.\n\nThe woman who went down into the vaults is a daughter of an art dealer called Ernest Ohly, who died in 2008.\n\nI have chosen to call her Frieda and not reveal her married name to protect her privacy.\n\nErnest's father, William Ohly, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and was prominent in London's mid-century art scene.\n\nWilliam Ohly's exhibitions in the late 1940s attracted aesthetes and celebrities\n\nWilliam Ohly lived \"at the nexus of culture, society and artists\", says Entwistle.\n\nHis \"Primitive Art\" exhibitions attracted collectors, socialites, and artists such as Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.\n\nHe died in 1955. Ernest Ohly inherited his love of art, but was a more reserved character.\n\n\"A very, very difficult man to know. He didn't let anything out. You did not know what he was thinking,\" said Entwistle.\n\nErnest Ohly's death provoked a ripple of excitement at the lucrative top end of the ethnographic art world. He was rumoured to have an extensive collection. His statues from Polynesia and masks from West Africa were auctioned in 2011 and 2013. And that, dealers assumed, was that.\n\nBut his children knew otherwise. In old age, he had told them he had one more sculpture. It was in a Barclays safe box and not to be sold, he specified, unless there was another Holocaust.\n\nIn 2016 matters were taken out of the children's hands. Barclays on Park Lane was closing its safe boxes; it told customers to collect their belongings.\n\nI met Lance Entwistle in 2019, in his library lined with books on African sculpture. His website said his company has been \"leading tribal art dealers for over 40 years\".\n\n\"Tribal art\" is a term that Western museums now avoid, but is still common in the world of auctions and private sales.\n\nI was bowled over. It was beautiful, moving and its emergence from obscurity was so exciting\" Lance Entwistle\n\nArt dealer on the \"Ohly head\" sold to a collector for £10m\n\nEntwistle has rarely been to Africa, and never to Nigeria, but he's well connected. The British Museum, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York have all bought pieces from him.\n\nI asked him how he had felt when Frieda pulled the cloth away from the Benin Bronze head in the bank.\n\n\"I was bowled over,\" he said. \"It was beautiful, moving, and its emergence from obscurity was so exciting. I'm very used to being told about a Benin head, a Benin plaque, a Benin horse and rider. Generally I'm not excited because 99 times out of 100 they're fake, and often the remaining 1% has been stolen.\"\n\nProvenance is everything in Entwistle's world. This time, thanks to the Ernest Ohly connection, he was confident he was dealing with a bona fide piece.\n\nHe told Frieda the Benin Bronze head was significant and unusual, and convinced her to take it home in a taxi, to her terraced house in Tooting, south London.\n\nThe Benin Bronzes were brought to Europe in the spring of 1897, the loot of British soldiers and sailors who conquered the West African kingdom of Benin, in modern day Nigeria's Edo state.\n\nAlthough they are called Benin Bronzes, they are actually thousands of brass and bronze castings and ivory carvings. When some were displayed in the British Museum that autumn, they caused a sensation.\n\nAfricans, the British believed at the time, did not possess skills to produce pieces of such sophistication or beauty. Nor were they supposed to have much history.\n\nBut the bronzes - some portrayed Portuguese visitors in medieval armour - were evidently hundreds of years old.\n\nThey were our documents, our archives, the 'photographs' of our kings. When they were taken our history was exhumed\"\n\nBenin had been denigrated in British newspapers as a place of savagery, a \"City of Blood\". Now those newspapers described the Bronzes as \"surprising\", \"remarkable\" and admitted they were \"baffled\".\n\nSome of these bronzes are still owned by descendants of those who pillaged Benin, while others have passed from owner to owner.\n\nVictor Ehikhamenor, an artist from Edo state, told me the bronzes were not made only for aesthetic enjoyment.\n\n\"They were our documents, our archives, the 'photographs' of our kings. When they were taken our history was exhumed.\"\n\nBut as their value in the West has increased, they've also become prestige investments, held by the wealthy and reclusive.\n\nLondon auction sales tell the story. In 1953, Sotheby's sold a Benin Bronze head for £5,500. The price raised eyebrows; the previous record for a Benin head was £780.\n\nIn 1968 Christie's sold a Benin head for £21,000. (It had been discovered months earlier by a policeman who was pottering around his neighbour's greenhouse and noticed something interesting amidst the plants).\n\nIn the 1970s, \"Tribal Art\" prices soared, and Benin Bronzes led the way. And so it went on, all the way to 2007 when Sotheby's in New York sold a Benin head for $4.7m (£2.35m).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Find out how the ancient trade of Benin bronzes lives on\n\nEntwistle kept an eye on that 2007 sale. The buyer, whose identity was not publicly revealed, was one of his trusted clients.\n\nNine years later, presented by Frieda with the challenge of selling Ernest Ohly's head, Lance knew where to turn.\n\n\"It was the first client I offered it to, which is what you want, there was no need to shop around,\" he said.\n\nThere was only a minor haggle over price. The client, Entwistle insisted, was motivated by his love of African art.\n\n\"He will never sell, in my view.\" Whoever he is, wherever he is, he paid another world record fee.\n\nThe \"Ohly head\", as Entwistle calls it, was sold for £10m - a figure not previously disclosed.\n\nIf you envisaged the woman who sold the world's most expensive Benin Bronze, you might not come up with Frieda.\n\nWe met in the Tate Modern gallery, overlooking the Thames. She had travelled from Tooting by underground. She is a grandmother, with grey close-cropped hair and glasses. She used to work in children's nurseries, but is retired.\n\n\"My family is riddled with secrets,\" she said. \"My father refused to speak about his Jewish ancestry.\"\n\nShe did her own research on relatives who were killed in Nazi concentration camps. Ernest Ohly was haunted, \"paranoid\", says Frieda, by the prospect of another catastrophe engulfing the Jews.\n\nSix million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust - and, according to the Jewish Claims Conference, the Nazis seized an estimated 650,000 artworks and religious items from Jews and other victims.\n\nThe artworks produced in Benin City still seek to chronicle events - like this one depicting the slave trade\n\nErnest Ohly distrusted strangers and lived in a world of cash and secret objects. He kept a suitcase of £50 notes under the bed.\n\n\"Ernie the Dealer\" was the family nickname. The children grew up surrounded by art. But by the end he was tired of life.\n\nHis house was chaotic, his Persian rugs infested with moths. The family found the suitcase of banknotes but discovered they were no longer legal tender.\n\nErnest Ohly may have let things slide, but he had been a formidable collector.\n\n\"He and my grandfather never went to Africa or the South Pacific, but got their knowledge from being around objects,\" said Freida.\n\n\"There was a whole group of European dealers in London, in the 1940s through to the 1970s.\"\n\nThe British Empire was ending, and the deaths of its last administrators and soldiers brought rich pickings.\n\n\"I never understood why my father was so interested in reading obituary pages. The Telegraph, the Times, really studying them. If they were Foreign Office, armed forces, anything to do with Empire, he wrote to the widows.\"\n\nErnest Ohly listed his buys in ledger books. That's how Entwistle found what he was looking for: \"Benin Bronze head... Dec 51, £230\" from Glendining's - a London auctioneers where he also bought coins and stamps.\n\nErnest Ohly's ledger showed how much he paid for the Benin Bronze in 1951\n\nIn today's money, that is just over £7,000. In other words, a substantial purchase. But Ernest Ohly knew what he was doing. He had a steal. He put the head in the safe box in 1953, and it stayed there until 2016.\n\n\"It was like a lump of gold,\" said Frieda. The windfall was not quite as large as it might have been.\n\nErnest Ohly's affairs were a mess, and the taxman took a substantial amount. Still, Frieda says, she can sleep easy now. The Benin head bought care for her family, and property for her children.\n\nFrieda is married to a man of Caribbean descent - and her son is a journalist.\n\nA few years ago he wrote an article about how the Edo - the people of the Benin Kingdom - tried to stop the sale at Sotheby's of a Benin ivory mask.\n\nIn fact, although he did not know this, it was a mask that his great-grandfather, William Ohly, displayed at his gallery in 1947.\n\nThe article described Edo outrage that the family who owned the mask - relatives of a British official who looted it in 1897 - should profit from what they regarded as theft and a war crime.\n\nFrieda is too intelligent and sensitive not to appreciate the layers of irony behind her story. She had followed the arguments about whether the Benin Bronzes should be returned to Nigeria.\n\nBritain has laws to enable the return of art looted by the Nazis, but there is no similar legislation to cover its own colonial period.\n\n\"Part of me will always feel guilty for not giving it to the Nigerians… It's a murky past, tied up with colonialism and exploitation.\"\n\n\"But that's in the past, lots of governments aren't stable and things have been destroyed. I'm afraid I took the decision to sell. I stand by it. I wanted my family to be secure.\"\n\nFrieda is not the only owner of Benin Bronzes who has wrestled with their conscience in recent years.\n\nMark Walker, a doctor from Wales, returned two Bronzes which had been taken by his grandfather, an officer on the 1897 expedition.\n\nMark Walker (R) was feted in 2014 when he returned an oro bird and a bell to call ancestors stolen by his grandfather\n\nHe received a hero's welcome in Benin City.\n\nOthers are hesitant. In an imposing west London mansion block I met an elderly woman whose grandfather also looted Bronzes in 1897.\n\nTen, or even five years ago, it would not have been difficult to get somebody in her position to talk. But today the owners of Benin Bronzes are cautious, and I agreed to hide this woman's identity.\n\nShe showed me two brass oro \"prophecy birds\". I asked if they made her feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"I've felt misgivings, considerations that crossed my mind… Maybe misgivings is too strong a word. I don't feel like giving them anything.\" There was a long silence.\n\n\"You know,\" she said, \"one bumbles along for 77 years, and suddenly this has become a sensitive subject. It never was before.\"\n\nFrieda and I left the Tate and were walking along the Thames.\n\nI was about to say goodbye. Unprompted, she returned to the Benin Bronzes.\n\nSometimes, she said, she wished her father had sold that head when he was still alive.\n\nA dilemma would have been taken out of her hands.\n\n\"It was difficult for me,\" she said again. \"Part of me felt we should have given it back.\" Then she was gone.\n\nBarnaby Phillips is a former BBC Nigeria correspondent. His book Loot; Britain and the Benin Bronzes will be published on 1 April.", "Some of those at the party had travelled from as far away as Durham said police\n\nPolice who broke up a party which breached lockdown rules found guests had travelled hundreds of miles to attend.\n\nOfficers arrived at a house in Gloucester to find \"loud music, flashing lights and drunken singing\".\n\nThey found a man hiding in a bath and guests who had travelled from Durham, 250 miles (402km) away.\n\nIt was the first time Gloucestershire Police handed out £800 fines under new powers to crack down on parties.\n\nPolice arrived at the house at around 04:00 GMT on 27 February. Loud music and singing can be heard on bodycam footage, with one officer commenting \"there's a full-blown party going on inside\".\n\nGloucestershire Police have issued £800 fines to those who attended the party\n\nWhen the occupants opened the door, officers went inside to find several people hiding in the bathroom, including a man lying in the bath.\n\nGloucestershire Police said it had issued more than 700 fixed penalty notices since the pandemic began but the people at the party were the first to be fined for being in a gathering of more than 15.\n\nChief Constable Rod Hansen said: \"The majority of incidents we're attending still relate to gatherings of more than two households and most of the fines issued since the new lockdown - 348 - have been for that reason.\n\n\"We've also issued 424 warnings during this lockdown.\"\n\nGloucestershire Police added that its policy was to \"engage, explain and encourage\" but they would move straight to enforcement for \"a flagrant breach like this\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters used umbrellas to shield themselves from water cannon\n\nPolice in the Netherlands have used water cannon to clear anti-government demonstrators from a park in The Hague.\n\nSome 2,000 demonstrators rallied in the centre of the city to protest against Covid-19 restrictions and other government policies.\n\nMounted officers as well as riot police with batons and dogs moved in after some of the protesters refused to leave at the end of the demonstration.\n\nThe protests come a day before voting begins in a general election.\n\nThe vote is taking place over three days to avoid congestion that would risk spreading coronavirus at polling stations.\n\nThe authorities had set a limit of 200 people for the protest at the Malieveld area near the city's central station and not far the Dutch parliament, but police said that number had been exceeded.\n\nTrain services to the city were halted for a while to prevent more people from joining the demonstration.\n\nPolice have arrested several people, according to local media.\n\nProtesters are opposed to the government's anti-Covid measures\n\nOne video, widely shared on social media, appeared to show officers hitting a man on the ground with their truncheons. Police said he had attacked them with a stick, says the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague.\n\nDutch police later said a warning shot had been fired as officers cleared away the demonstrators. A statement said the incident was being investigated.\n\n\"There might be a virus, but the shutdown of the total society is not proportional,\" protester Michel Koot, 68, told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I see that a lot of our rights are easily taken away and the majority of the people don't even notice, but there's a lot going on. So I'm concerned for my grandchildren.\"\n\nA night-time curfew - from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 - imposed in January led to rioting in several Dutch cities. The Netherlands had not seen a curfew since the Nazi occupation in World War Two. It is expected to remain in place till the end of March.\n\nBars and restaurants remain closed, along with non-essential shops. Gatherings of more than two people are banned.\n\nThe Netherlands has had more than 1.1 million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 16,000 deaths, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University in the US.", "Last year, Covid rules meant some expectant mothers faced being alone for baby scans, appointments and giving birth. Bristol-based portrait photographer, Nina Raingold, met mothers who have experienced the challenges of giving birth during Covid restrictions in the UK.\n\nHere's what they shared in their own words.\n\n\"The hardest part about being pregnant in lockdown was that my husband Pete couldn't come to my appointments or scans, and it's quite scary to do that by yourself.\n\n\"We were always a bit worried that one of us would get sick; it put a fog of anxiety over the last trimester.\n\n\"Pete couldn't be with me for some of my labour. I had to go into the maternity triage and he wasn't allowed in.\n\n\"All the stuff you prepare for labour is with your birth partner; I hadn't planned to do 45 minutes of it in the waiting room on my own!\"\n\n\"We were in complete lockdown on the day I gave birth.\n\n\"It was so quiet getting to the hospital. Looking out of the window, there was nobody on the streets.\n\n\"I thought maybe I wanted to give birth at home because of the virus, but they said I had to have the baby in the labour ward.\n\n\"The virus was so new and they didn't know what was going to happen.\n\n\"They just had the high numbers of deaths from all the other countries. I remember it being a very surreal time.\n\n\"So many people were dying every day. To have that on your mind and then to go to hospital where you'll be in contact with so many different people was a scary thought.\"\n\n\"The worst thing in the whole pregnancy was that after an incredibly long labour, [my partner] Joe had to leave the hospital an hour after I had given birth.\n\n\"We did skin-to-skin contact with the baby with me, and then with him, and then he had to go.\n\n\"I had to stay with her for two days by myself. If he'd have been there, I think I would have been fine.\n\n\"I was dealing with it because all the other women were dealing with it, but it didn't feel good at all.\n\n\"Being pregnant during the pandemic wasn't actually that bad because we had some lovely 'us time', much more than we would have done before having a baby.\n\n\"If you're getting on with your partner, then actually you go into a lovely little cocoon.\n\n\"But it's sad for your partner not to be with the baby immediately.\"\n\nYou can hear more from the mums and see their gorgeous baby pictures here.", "There have been more than 500 new infections over the past week\n\nCoronavirus cases on the Isle of Man have risen by another 44 with 16 people in hospital, the most the island's health service has treated during the recent surge.\n\nAdmissions at Noble's Hospital reached a peak of 22 in late April last year during island's first wave of Covid-19.\n\nCurrent infections stand at 818, a rise of more than 500 over the past week.\n\nThe island recorded its first Covid-19 death in more than four months on Friday, taking the death toll to 26.\n\nThe Isle of Man began a third lockdown on 3 March after a surge in unexplained cases.\n\nSome 1,278 infections have now been recorded since the start of the pandemic.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales set up a Grand Slam encounter against France in Paris next Saturday by clinically disposing of hapless Italy 48-7 in Rome.\n\nHooker Ken Owens crossed for two tries, with further scores from Josh Adams, Taulupe Faletau, George North, Callum Sheedy and Louis Rees-Zammit.\n\nItaly only managed a try through wing Monty Ioane in response.\n\nWayne Pivac's side can complete the Six Nations clean sweep by winning at the Stade de France next weekend.\n\nFrance and Scotland will still have a match to play after their third-round game was postponed because of coronavirus cases in the French camp.\n\nBut Wales have the chance to create their own 'Super Saturday' with victory in Paris, where they could secure a second Grand Slam in three tournaments.\n\nThe omens are good. Wales have already won their fifth Six Nations Triple Crown since 2000 and on each of the previous occasions they have done so, they have gone on to seal the Grand Slam.\n\nIt represents a remarkable turnaround from a side that finished fifth in Pivac's first tournament in charge and managed only three wins in 10 games in 2020, although we have grown used to the boom-and-bust nature of Welsh rugby.\n\nIt might also be a special day for captain Alun Wyn Jones, who could become the first Welshman to celebrate four Grand Slams.\n\nWales have now matched their record of 17 Six Nations tries in one tournament with a game remaining.\n\nThis was Wales' 16th successive victory over Italy, with the last defeat coming in 2007, and also represents their longest winning run against one opponent, overtaking a run of 15 victories against France from 1908-1927.\n\nAnother heavy defeat will again raise the inevitable questions about Italy's position in the Six Nations and whether there should be relegation, with the likes of Georgia being given the chance to join the tournament.\n\nThe facts are damning. It was a 31st successive defeat for the Azzurri in the competition, with their last victory coming against Scotland in 2015. They have not managed a home Six Nations win for eight years, with 20 successive losses.\n\nItaly have conceded 187 points and 26 tries in four games this year. Yet events off the field this week have actually strengthened their hand.\n\nThe £365m CVC private equity deal secures Italy's status as an equal partner for the next five years, with Six Nations boss Ben Morel saying the championship is \"precious\" and any changes \"would need to be extremely carefully studied\".\n\nBefore the match Pivac had warned not to expect any \"razzle dazzle\" from his Wales side, but that is exactly what the visitors provided in the Stadio Olimpico sunshine.\n\nIt was one-way traffic after Wales opened the scoring through a Dan Biggar penalty, before Italy captain Luca Bigi was yellow carded by referee Wayne Barnes for cynically stopping scrum-half Gareth Davies taking a quick tap-penalty.\n\nDavies had been one of two changes in the Wales side for injured Kieran Hardy, who had scored from a similar move against England.\n\nFrom the resulting scrum, Wales made their numerical advantage tell as wing Adams, who claimed a hat-trick against Italy last year, dived over from a long Biggar pass. The fly-half converted.\n\nWales' dominance continued and searing breaks from Rees-Zammit and Adams allowed the visitors to move the ball in both directions before number eight Faletau crashed over as 12 points were scored with the extra man.\n• None As it happened & reaction: Wales cruise to win in Rome\n\nWales also demonstrated their forward power when hooker Owens was driven over for his fourth international try from an attacking line-out.\n\nBarnes then looked at television replays about a possible illegal tackle by Biggar on Italy flanker Johan Meyer.\n\nThe English barrister deemed there was no case to answer, although a later challenge by Biggar at the following ruck was not looked at.\n\nThe bonus point came in the 30th minute when Owens stretched over from another line-out for his second score.\n\nWales appeared to have scored a fifth try through Rees-Zammit but television match official Tom Foley picked up a final forward pass from Biggar as the visitors led 27-0 at half-time.\n\nThe onslaught continued after the break with Jonathan Davies releasing co-centre North, who sprinted away to equal Shane Williams' Wales record of 22 Six Nations tries.\n\nItaly responded with a fine individual effort from wing Ioane that Paolo Garbisi converted, while Adams was denied a second score after failing to ground the ball in time.\n\nWales made a raft of replacements, including Scarlets second-row Jake Ball coming on for his 50th cap, before Italy replacement prop Marco Riccion was yellow-carded for dangerous use of the elbow.\n\nWales took advantage with a first international try for Bristol fly-half Sheedy, before Rees-Zammit sped away spectacularly following an 80-metre interception to complete the scoring.\n\nReplacements: Fabiani for Ioane (7-18), Lovotti for Fischetti (65) Riccioni for Zilocchi (33), Lazzaroni for Cannone (52), Mbanda for Meyer (26-36), Violi for Varney (63), Mori for Garbisi (54) Padovani for Trulla (44).\n\nReplacements: Dee for Owens (54), Carre for W Jones (57), Brown for Francis (45), Ball for AW Jones (54), Wainwright for Faletau (51), L Williams for G Davies (52), Sheedy for Biggar (52), Halaholo for North (46)\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Floral tributes left at the memorial fountain at Dunblane Cemetery\n\nThe 25th anniversary of the Dunblane tragedy is being marked privately by residents of the town this weekend.\n\nChurch services in memory of the victims are being held online due to Covid lockdown restrictions.\n\nTeacher Gwen Mayor and 16 children were murdered by gunman Thomas Hamilton when he opened fire at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996.\n\nIn a tribute, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the victims were \"forever in our hearts\".\n\nRev Colin Renwick, of Dunblane Cathedral, said people in the town will remember the events \"quietly, privately and with respect for those who lost their lives\".\n\nHe said: \"Some will light a candle in their home, spending time in quiet reflection, prayer and remembering.\n\n\"As is the case every year, the people lost, and those affected most profoundly, will be remembered in prayers in churches throughout the community.\"\n\nPrayers for the victims and their families will be heard during Dunblane Cathedral's online service on Sunday.\n\nThe stained glassed memorial window at St Blane's church in Dunblane\n\nDunblane's Holy Family Church is streaming an online mass in memory of the victims on Saturday evening.\n\nCanon Basil O'Sullivan said: \"My thoughts and prayers continue to be with those who suffered and lost so much 25 years ago.\"\n\nFlags at Scottish government buildings were lowered to half-mast on Saturday.\n\nOn social media, Nicola Sturgeon was among many who shared an image of snowdrops to remember those who died in the town.\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 1996 shooting led to the Snowdrop campaign, which saw the UK enforcing some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world.\n\nMs Sturgeon wrote: \"This day, 25 years ago, was one of the darkest and most heartbreaking in Scotland's history.\n\n\"Thinking today of 16 little children, their teacher and all those who still live with the pain.\"\n\nIn a statement, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The brutal murder of sixteen primary school children and their teacher shocked not just Scotland, but the whole world.\n\n\"We must never forget all those who lost their lives on that terrible day. We must continue to tell their story.\"", "Security forces have shot dead eight people, and injured many more, as civilians continue their peaceful protests against a coup in Myanmar.\n\nThe worst of the recent violence appears to have taken place in the city of Mandalay. A large rally was just winding down, say eyewitnesses, when high-velocity rounds sent protesters running for cover.\n\n\"There's no particular, obvious objective to it except to terrorise people\", said the BBC's Jonathan Head, adding that Myanmar has \"all the hallmarks of a civil war... but only one side is armed.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe FA Cup final - potentially in front of 20,000 fans - and the World Snooker Championship are among the proposed pilot events to test the return of big crowds to venues this year.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) says it will stage \"around a dozen\" sporting and cultural events this spring.\n\nThe FA Cup final takes place at Wembley on 15 May.\n\nThe DCMS said the number of spectators at the pilots is yet to be decided.\n\nBut BBC Sport understands the possibility of having 20,000 fans at the FA Cup final is being explored by DCMS and the Football Association. The proposals would need to be agreed with Brent Council.\n\nUnder the four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown, announced in February, the government said \"up to 10,000 people\" could be allowed in stadiums for sporting events if the pilots are successful, but not before 17 May.\n\nHowever, the FA Cup final could still see a crowd of that size or larger attend, with the DCMS adding that \"a number of pilots will include spectators and fans not socially distanced\" while others will have social-distancing measures in place.\n\nThis year's World Snooker Championship is set to take place from 17 April to 3 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.\n\n\"These test events will be crucial in finding ways to get fans and audiences back in safely without social distancing,\" said Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.\n\n\"We will be guided by the science and medical experts, but will work flat out to make that happen.\n\n\"We want to get the people back to enjoying what they love and ensure some of our most important growth industries get back on their feet.\"\n\nThe pilots are part of the Events Research Programme (ERP) and will inform the government's decisions on step four of roadmap out of lockdown, which will begin no earlier than 21 June, when it hopes to lift all legal limits on social contact.\n\nThe events will provide data on how large-scale crowds could be able to return to stadiums safely after this point.\n\nAttendees will have to return a negative test before the event and will also be tested afterwards.\n\nThe non-socially distanced events will also test a range of \"non-pharmaceutical mitigating interventions\" such as the \"layout of the venue, face coverings and ventilation\", while the ERP will also look at factors including travel to and from events.\n\nThe Premier League plans to have fans in grounds at the final two rounds of matches this season, by moving a round of fixtures to 18-20 May before the scheduled final round of games on 23 May.\n\nThe English Football League has said it is \"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• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "The coronavirus pandemic has thrown Britain's High Streets into crisis, yet the full force of its impact has yet to be felt, according to accountants PwC.\n\nMore than 17,500 chain stores and other venues closed in Great Britain last year, according to new data.\n\nThat's an average rate of 48 closures a day.\n\nBut the figures, which include hospitality and leisure venues, but not independent retailers, suggest the trend began before the pandemic.\n\nThe research was conducted by the Local Data Company which tracks vacancy rates in nearly 3,500 High Streets, shopping centres and retail parks.\n\nIt recorded 17,532 closures in 2020. It also reported 7,665 store openings. This resulted in a net loss of 9,877 outlets, the worst annual decline researchers have seen in more than a decade.\n\nHowever, the full impact of the pandemic has yet to be felt, according to Lisa Hooker, head of consumer markets at PWC, so the picture is likely to get worse before it gets better.\n\nThese numbers, for instance, only include store closures which are known to be permanent. Many outlets which have closed \"temporarily\" may never re-open.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is still quite a lot to play out. You've seen the closures of the likes of Debenhams and Topshop and that's happening in 2021 so they're not even in our numbers,\" Ms Hooker says.\n\n\"Much of the impact is a reflection of things that happened before the pandemic. This was not just the move online but areas such as legislative changes, for example for betting shops, consolidation due to overexpansion, or chain-wide closures for restaurants and mobile phone stores that found themselves in trouble pre-Covid-19.\"\n\nAs a result closures were rising and openings were falling even before the pandemic hit.\n\nShopping centres saw the largest proportion of their stores closed, whilst retail parks fared the best.\n\nFashion retailers and betting shops were the worst performing categories. Meanwhile takeaway outlets, and cake shops, enjoyed some growth. And city centres are doing worse than suburbs and commuter towns, driven by the number of people working from home.\n\n\"Looking at where this this opening and closure activity has predominated really tells the story of changing consumer preferences and shifting demand, \" says Lucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the Local Data Company.\n\n\"On the whole, flagship, city centre high streets and shopping centres saw a greater decline in chain stores versus more local markets and retail parks which proved to be more convenient and perceptibly safer.\"\n\nThere is regional disparity, too. For the first time, London has been hit harder than other regions with a record increase in net closures this year. Together with the South East, they account for a third of the decline of all shops.\n\nRichmond, on the edge of south-west London, has suddenly found itself with a challenge on its hands. It's a prosperous, popular destination, but has lost about a dozen names over the last 12 months, including Moss Bross, Massimo Dutti, Cos and House of Fraser.\n\n\"Our High Street has undergone change and so has every High Street in Britain,\" says Gabriel Irwin, who owns a specialist shoe shop, Foot Solutions, just around the corner from the former House of Fraser store, the biggest vacant unit in town.\n\n\"It's a perfect storm, from internet shopping taking a greater market share to the perception amongst retailers, that we are a high-rent, high-rates district.\"\n\nGabriel Irwin has seen shops around his in Richmond, London, disappear\n\nBut Mr Irwin says Richmond will bounce back and that, anecdotally, landlords have already been talking to potential new tenants, who are encouraged by lower rents. The House of Fraser site is also being redeveloped.\n\nPWC's Lisa Hooker also believes that as we emerge from the pandemic there will be opportunities for the gaps to be filled.\n\n\"After the global financial crisis, we saw the growth of discounters and food service chains that replaced exiting retailers. There is an opportunity for operators who can find the right location at the right time, to thrive, even despite the current uncertainty.\"", "Cryptocurrency Bitcoin has risen for the first time above $60,000 (£43,100), continuing its record-breaking run.\n\nBitcoin - which has more than tripled in value since the end of last year - has been powered on by well-known companies adopting it as a method of payment.\n\nBut some analysts said this latest surge came in part due to the huge US stimulus package approved this week.\n\nHowever, Bitcoin has a track record of wild price swings and has fallen sharply a number of times since it was created in 2009.\n\nThe recent spikes have been fuelled by big companies.\n\nIn February, Elon Musk revealed that his electric carmaker Tesla had bought $1.5bn worth of Bitcoin and would be accepting it as payment for its cars in future.\n\nMastercard also plans to accept certain cryptocurrencies as a form of payment while BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is exploring ways it can use the digital currency.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has also played its part in Bitcoin's price rise, as more people go online for shopping, moving further away from physical coins and notes.\n\nCritics argue Bitcoin is less of a currency and more of a speculative trading tool that is open to market manipulation.\n\nThere is also concern over its environmental impact, with huge amounts of energy needed to conduct transactions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The squeeze on universal credit has gone too far, according to the former work and pensions secretary.\n\nStephen Crabb, who also served as secretary of state for Wales, said: \"We haven't funded it sufficiently for it to achieve all of its aims.\"\n\nA freeze on working-age benefits was imposed from April 2016 to April 2020.\n\nThe UK government said it will focus on supporting people back into work as the economy reopens through the Plan For Jobs scheme.\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group (Cpag) said the benefits system needed to do more to stop people falling into crisis in the first place.\n\nUniversal credit (UC) is designed to incentivise working, so that every extra £1 of earnings, 63p in UC is lost.\n\nAccording to the Department for Work and Pensions, the temporary £20 uplift and the equivalent for working tax credits are \"helping millions of families whose income has been affected by the pandemic\".\n\nStephen Crabb MP says universal credit has not had enough funding\n\nBut Mr Crabb, Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, said the system needed to top this up \"so long as we have low wages in our society\".\n\n\"The system is designed to do that and to help people improve their lot, increase their hours and to move out of that situation,\" he explained.\n\n\"I really passionately believe in UC and I want it to work, but the secret to its success is how well it's funded.\n\n\"Over the last five years, I've come to the conclusion that we've squeezed it too much.\"\n\nMr Crabb voted against the government earlier this year when he called for the £20 uplift to be extended for 12 months because he felt \"very strongly\" the Treasury plan at the time to bring it to an end would \"cause hardship for families\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced it would be extended for six months in the budget.\n\nEllie Harwood, from Child Poverty Action Group, said: \"What we really need from a social security system is something that catches people before they fall into crisis.\n\n\"It should be there for people when they need it and that's normally when they experience a life event like losing a job, having a child or a relationship breakdown.\"\n\nLouise Hall, from Newport, found herself back on UC because she was unable to work during the pandemic and the cost of equipment to make her practice as a child therapist Covid-safe left her and her eight-year-old son in crisis.\n\n\"It got the point that to be able to fund [going back to work] and to be able to look after us I had to go and ask for help from a foodbank which is really difficult and not something you want to do,\" she said.\n\nPreviously when a relationship broke down, Ms Hall had to rely on the social security system but she had begun to get back on her feet thanks to a loan for further training from a charity, Purple Shoots.\n\nShe said having to rely fully once again on UC was \"soul-destroying\" and she feared she would never be able to stop treading water.\n\n\"It feels never-ending, it feels soul destroying at times,\" she said.\n\n\"With the money that comes through, it is amazing. If we hadn't had it in the pandemic then I couldn't have afforded to live and to pay rent and to feed us, but it's really hard to live off it long term.\n\n\"It gets to your mental wellbeing and it gets to your future planning and you don't dream any more. You just go from month to month wondering whether you're going to have enough that month or not.\"\n\nMs Hall is not alone. The percentage of the Welsh population claiming UC has almost doubled since the start of the pandemic.\n\nFigures show 150,527 people were in receipt of the benefit in February of last year - 4.8% of the population.\n\nCharity founder Karen Davies says the system can perpetuate poverty\n\nBut there was a significant rise at the start of the pandemic and by last April, 219,683 people in Wales were claiming UC.\n\nThis has crept up to a high of almost 280,000 in January this year - nearly 9% of the Welsh population.\n\nKaren Davies, the founder of Purple Shoots, the charity that gave Ms Hall a loan for training, said almost all of the people they help are on UC.\n\nShe feels the system can perpetuate poverty because it tapers off too quickly when claimants begin to earn more money.\n\n\"It can be a very demeaning process and it's very destructive for self-esteem,\" she said.\n\n\"You get a basic amount of money which is supposed to cover your living costs and your rent, but there's no money for anything else.\n\n\"You're in this spiral which you can't get out of. The amount of money is not enough for you to build anything else to move forward, it's not even enough to do a training course.\"\n\nWhile UC helps people survive, it does not \"help them to move forward\", Ms Davies added.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"With the extension of the temporary £20 universal credit uplift, and the equivalent amount for those on working tax credits, we are helping millions of families whose income has been affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"As the economy reopens, we will focus on supporting people back into work through our comprehensive Plan for Jobs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFormer undisputed middleweight world champion 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler has died at the age of 66.\n\nThe American dominated the middleweight division from 1979 until his controversial defeat by Sugar Ray Leonard in April 1987.\n\n\"Today, unfortunately my beloved husband Marvelous Marvin passed away unexpectedly at his home here in New Hampshire,\" his wife Kay Hagler said.\n\nHe triumphed on 52 occasions by knockout, while he drew two and lost three times.\n\nIn September 1980, Hagler fought Britain's Alan Minter at Wembley Stadium to claim his first world titles, winning the WBA and WBC belts.\n\nHis most famous fight came in April 1985 when he fought Thomas 'Hit Man' Hearns over three brutal rounds - a classic known as 'The War'.\n\nHagler made 12 successful title defences until his defeat by Leonard by a split decision and he retired a year later.\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis tweeted: \"The world is one great man less today.\n\n\"This one hits so hard also because he was the one I emulated my own training camps after when I saw how seriously he took his training camps. \"\n\nHe added: \"Not only was he a living legend, but I was proud to call him my friend. He was so full of life, energy and positivity in our conversations that you would never guess what a wrecking machine he was in the ring.\n\n\"Our wives would speak on the phone to connect us and I'll miss his voice saying 'It's Marvelous' on the other end of the line.\"\n\nFormer world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" to hear of the \"incredible\" Hagler's death.\n\nThe Irishman added: \"I'm honoured to have spent some amazing times with him. My heartfelt sympathies to his wife Kay and his family. Rest in Peace Champ.\"\n\nBritish heavyweight Derek Chisora said Hagler was \"one of the greatest\".\n\nBefore the world super flyweight unification fight between Juan Estrada and Roman Gonzalez in Dallas on Saturday night, a \"memorial count of 10\" was led by ring announcer Michael Buffer, with the bell rung 10 times in Hagler's memory.\n• None Ridley Scott's tale of an isolated and murderous expedition\n• None Understanding what it means in the UK today", "Street artists are being urged to quite literally paint a Welsh town as it continues a creative revolution started by Banksy.\n\nPort Talbot became the centre of the art world's attention in 2018 when the anonymous street artist daubed Season's Greetings on to the garage of steelworker Ian Lewis.\n\nNow artists and people who own walls around the town have been asked to get in touch with a project called Art Walk Port Talbot.\n\nArt Walk Port Talbot is a new app that takes visitors on a guided tour of the various murals and works of street art in the steel town.\n\nIts leader, Paul Jenkins, said he wants local and national artists to work on spaces all over Port Talbot.", "The government has defended its plan for noise limits on protests in England and Wales, saying it will affect only \"very disruptive\" gatherings.\n\nMPs will debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - which would apply existing rules for marches to \"static\" gatherings - on Monday.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins said she \"absolutely\" supported the \"right to peaceful protest\".\n\nBut Labour called the bill \"poorly thought out\" and \"a mess\".\n\nThe party will order its MPs to vote against the legislation, which also includes stronger police powers to break up \"unauthorised encampments\" and \"longer\" sentences for people convicted of serious crimes.\n\nThe bill's first detailed discussion in Parliament comes after four people were arrested during a vigil on London's Clapham Common on Saturday to mourn the killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police have been accused of being too aggressive in their handling of demonstrators, but the force said it had acted to protect people's safety and prevent possible coronavirus infections.\n\nThe controversy is likely to provoke extra interest when MPs begin their debate on the legislation, which the government says will allow police to \"impose conditions such as start and finish times and maximum noise levels on static protests\" of whatever size.\n\nThis is intended to prevent \"intimidation or harassment\" or \"serious unease, alarm or distress\" to bystanders, it adds.\n\nAsked on BBC's Andrew Marr Show whether the bill would inhibit personal freedom, Ms Atkins replied: \"I want to draw a very firm distinction between the peaceful vigil that [Saturday's] was and was intended to be and some of the very, very disruptive protests that we've seen in the last few years.\"\n\nThese had involved people blocking a hospital entrance and \"gluing themselves to buildings and gates, and stopping members of the public going about their business\", she added.\n\nThere was a \"real distinction\" between activities which \"inhibit the lives of people\" and peaceful protest, Ms Atkins said.\n\nThe bill would update legislation put in place in 1986, which the minister described as a \"very, very different\" time.\n\n\"We absolutely support the right to peaceful protest,\" she added.\n\n\"Of course make your protest, but can we try to do it in a way that's slightly more balanced than the law will currently allow?\" Ms Atkins said.\n\nFor Labour, shadow justice secretary David Lammy said this was \"no time to be rushing through poorly thought out measures to impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest\".\n\nHe added that the government had \"brought forward a bill that is seeking to divide the country\".\n\nMr Lammy urged ministers to work with his party \"to legislate to tackle violence against women which is forcing so many across the country to live in fear\".\n\nOn Saturday, Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with Ms Everard's kidnap and murder. He was remanded in custody to appear again at the Old Bailey on 16 March.\n\nMs Everard disappeared when walking home to Brixton from Clapham in south London on 3 March.\n\nHer body was found in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russian police raided a Moscow hotel this month while opposition figures were at a conference\n\nRussian police have broken up an opposition conference and detained 200 people including high-profile opposition figures.\n\nThe weekend forum had just begun in a Moscow hotel when police burst in and said they were detaining everyone.\n\nAccording to police, coronavirus rules were broken and the event was arranged by an \"undesirable organisation\".\n\nThe incident comes as authorities continue to crack down on opposition activity as elections loom.\n\nLast month Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, was jailed. He was accused of breaking the terms of a suspended prison sentence while recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.\n\nOpposition figures from across Russia were taking part in the Moscow conference to discuss strategy ahead of local and parliamentary elections in September.\n\nPolice said \"a significant portion of participants lacked personal protective equipment\" in contravention of coronavirus rules.\n\nThe \"undesirable organisation\" behind the conference was Open Russia, police said.\n\nOpen Russia was established in the UK by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned opponent of President Vladimir Putin.\n\nKhodorkovsky spent 10 years in jail on charges his lawyers dismissed as fabricated before being pardoned by Mr Putin and moving abroad.\n\nOpen Russia is accused by the authorities of breaking a Russian law which prohibits foreign groups deemed political and is among several organisations described as undesirable.\n\nBut one of the opposition figures at the conference, Andrei Pivovarov, said it had in fact been organised by a group known as the United Democrats.\n\nHe said the raid had been staged \"to intimidate us\".\n\n\"No-one promised us freedom on a silver platter - Russia will still be free,\" another opposition politician at the conference, Ilya Yashin, said on Facebook.\n\nCommenting on the arrests, associates of Mr Navalny said it was clear \"the authorities are afraid of any competition during elections\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Navalny is a consolidation point for dissenters of Putin\"\n\nThose detained are expected to be fined or face a short spell in police detention.\n\nThe mass arrests come as officials increasingly refer to opposition activists as anti-Russian, supposedly backed by hostile forces in the West, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.", "When author David Shannon's debut novel was accepted by a leading literary agent, it came as a big surprise - not just to him, but also to his wife, the Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.\n\nShe knew he'd spent hours in their study but thought he was up to something else…\n\nListen to the full interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.", "Wayne Couzens spoke only to confirm his name and address during the brief hearing\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer has appeared in court charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nWayne Couzens, 48, was arrested on Tuesday after the 33-year-old disappeared when walking home to Brixton from Clapham in south London last week.\n\nMs Everard's body was found in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.\n\nMr Couzens wore a grey tracksuit as he appeared for the brief hearing.\n\nHe appeared to have a red wound on his head and spoke quietly when asked to confirm his name, date of birth and address.\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring remanded him in custody to appear again at the Old Bailey on 16 March.\n\nSarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nThe court heard the officer, of Deal, Kent, is accused of kidnapping Ms Everard in the Poynders Road area of Clapham.\n\nProsecutor Zoe Martin said Ms Everard was reported missing by her boyfriend on 4 March.\n\nShe had visited a friend in the Clapham Junction area on 3 March and left at around 21:00 to make what was roughly a 2.5 mile (4 km) journey home.\n\nShe called her boyfriend for around 14 minutes, and was seen alone on CCTV at 21:15 GMT and again on a camera at 21:28, Ms Martin said.\n\nHer body was found on Wednesday inside a builder's bag and later identified through the use of dental records, the hearing was told.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place but no cause of death was given in court.\n\nA marquee has been set up as police continue their search near Great Chart, Kent\n\nMr Couzens joined the Metropolitan Police in 2018, most recently serving in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, an armed unit responsible for guarding the Parliamentary estate and embassies in London.\n\nHis main job was uniformed patrol of diplomatic buildings and Scotland Yard said he was not on duty at the time of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for a second time in 48 hours on Friday for treatment to another head injury suffered in custody, before he was discharged and returned to a police station.\n\nMr Couzens was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, also sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.\n\nMeanwhile, police in dry suits were seen continuing to search around the area where Ms Everard's body was found near Ashford.", "Johnny Sexton knocked over a late penalty as Ireland survived a surge from Scotland to eke out a hectic Six Nations victory at Murrayfield.\n\nA converted try from Hamish Watson brought the hosts level with five minutes remaining but Sexton held his nerve to kick the winning points.\n\nSoon after a Tadhg Beirne score, Ireland led 24-10 before Huw Jones began a comeback that fell just short.\n\nA sixth successive win over Scotland lifts Ireland up to second in the table, although they go into their final match at home to England with no chance of winning the championship.\n\nScotland, who opened with a historic win at Twickenham, are stuck in fifth place, having lost three in a row in Edinburgh for the first time since March 2015.\n\nGregor Townsend's side had four weeks to stew over a careless one-point loss to Wales after the postponement of their visit to Paris and made a sluggish start.\n\nIreland were on the front foot straight away, with powerful carrying from their forwards, and Sexton was soon clipping over a simple penalty.\n\nThe Scottish line-out malfunctioned horribly and the first of a staggering six losses from eight throws resulted in the opening try as Sexton hoisted a cross-field kick into scoring zone.\n\nStuart Hogg and Chris Harris both went up against Keith Earls with no one able to gather and the ball popped loose for Henshaw to pounce on.\n\nSexton's conversion attempt from a tight angle clipped the post - that would be the veteran fly-half's only miss.\n\nScotland reduced the deficit with a Russell penalty but struggled to find any momentum because of the haphazard nature of their set-piece.\n\nIf there was a touch of fortune about the game's opening try, the second was downright freakish.\n\nHogg charged down a kick then managed to hack the ball on twice, with the first attempt coming off his own chin. Russell won the race to reach it but his touch with the boot seemed too heavy.\n\nHowever, James Lowe, in his attempt to intercept only succeeded in patting the ball up in the air and it fell perfectly for Russell to gather and score before he added the extras.\n\nSomehow the hosts were in front, although not for long.\n\nIreland snaffled yet another dreadful line-out and quickly hammered it forward to earn a penalty, which Sexton knocked over with ease and, on the cusp of half-time, Sexton was at it again thanks to an offside gift from Ali Price.\n\nThe second half was nine minutes old when Beirne crashed through for Ireland's second try. Sexton slotted the conversion and was soon adding another penalty, with Scotland second best at the breakdown.\n\nThe hosts were down by 14 points and looking rather lost before an exceptional score from Jones hauled them back into the mix.\n\nSam Johnson ate up ground with purpose and the ball was worked wide on the right for the replacement centre to motor onto, with his power and pace taking him away from the grasping hands of four opponents.\n\nA glut of injuries meant a major reshuffle for the Scots but suddenly they were energised and battering away under the posts.\n\nDuhan van der Merwe was almost in and kept a cool head to keep the ball alive, with Watson burrowing over from close range.\n\nHogg crashed over the extras and it was a level game with just a few minutes on the clock.\n\nIreland must have been sick after surrendering such a commanding lead but they summoned one more venture forward and when Ryan Baird charged down Price's kick, the home scrum-half was penalised for holding on, allowing Sexton the final word.\n\nMuch of the pre-match narrative was of Russell snapping at the heels of Sexton for a British and Irish Lions place but the Irish captain was streets ahead, pinging over a tricky fifth penalty of the afternoon to seal victory.\n\nThe 35-year-old also set up the game's first try, spotting a yawning gap in behind the home defence.\n\nYes, Russell touched down, but it came from some bizarre pinball. The Scotland number 10 sent a wild penalty attempt wide in the first half and blazed a kick to touch in the corner miles out on the full when Scotland were in need of a lift early in the second half.\n\nHe was removed on 62 minutes after a bang on the head, which will likely rule him out against Italy next week, and Scotland actually looked more dynamic with Hogg taking over at fly-half.\n\n'Not my best strike'- reaction\n\nScotland captain Stuart Hogg: \"Ireland were outstanding for 80 minutes and fully deserved the win.\n\n\"The frustrating thing for us is giving them 24 points in the first place. Credit to Ireland, they took their opportunities but for the second week in a row we've been ill-disciplined, allowed them easy field position and kind of killed ourselves at times.\"\n\nIreland captain Johnny Sexton: \"I probably got a little bit lucky [with the winning kick] it was not my best strike - and it got there thankfully.\n\n\"We're just letting in soft tries, which is not acceptable at international level, and it is a little frustrating as we dominated the game. But, if we can finish second after a poor start to the Six Nations, we'll be happy.\"", "The judge said the man's father just wanted to do the best for his son\n\nA man with severe learning difficulties should have a Covid-19 vaccine, despite his family's objections, a judge ruled.\n\nSpecialists said the man, who is in his 30s, was \"clinically vulnerable\" and in a \"priority group\" for vaccination.\n\nBut the man's parents objected and raised a number of concerns about alleged side-effects.\n\nJudge Jonathan Butler agreed with NHS Tameside & Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group that vaccination was in his best interests.\n\nThe judge, who is based in Manchester, considered the case at a hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions are analysed.\n\nHe did not name the man in his written ruling, published on Friday.\n\nA number of specialists involved in the man's care all thought he should be vaccinated but his father claimed the vaccine had not been tested sufficiently and did not stop people contracting Covid-19.\n\nHe added the long-term side effects on people with severe health issues were unknown.\n\nJudge Butler said the man's father had outlined his concerns with \"conviction and great clarity\".\n\nHe added: \"I have no doubt whatsoever that his objections are founded on a love for (his son) and a wish to ensure that he comes to no harm.\n\n\"His objections were not intrinsically illogical. They were certainly not deliberately obstructive.\n\n\"They were made upon the basis as to what he regards as being in the best interests of (his son).\n\n\"That concern for his son does him credit.\"\n\nBut he said the family's objections had \"no clinical evidence base\".\n\nHe said the man was vulnerable and said there was \"overwhelming objective evidence of the magnetic advantage of a vaccination\".\n\nThe judge said he had ruled that vaccination was in the man's best interests, but had not authorised \"physical intervention\".\n\nHealth authority bosses had said the vaccine would not be administered if any \"form of physical intervention\" was required.\n\nA Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group spokesperson said: \"Our primary concern will always be the best clinical interests of our patients and we work closely with patients, families and clinicians and care providers to understand any concerns or judgements made about their care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Army is likely to find itself \"outgunned\" in any conflict with Russian forces, MPs have warned.\n\nIn a damning report, the Commons Defence Committee described efforts to modernise the Army's fleet of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) as \"woeful\".\n\nThe ageing and depleted fleet puts the Army at \"serious risk\" of being outmatched by adversaries, it states.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has promised \"an upgraded, digitised and networked armoured force to meet future threats\".\n\nIn the report - entitled Obsolescent and Outgunned - the committee highlighted the \"bureaucratic procrastination\" and \"general ineptitude\" which had \"bedevilled\" attempts to re-equip the Army over the past two decades.\n\nIn 1990, the UK had around 1,200 main battle tanks in its inventory - today it has 227, the report states. It said armoured vehicle capability had reached \"a point of batch obsolescence, falling behind that of our allies and potential adversaries\".\n\n\"The Army's Armoured Fighting Vehicle programme has been plagued with uncertainties,\" said Committee chairman Tobias Ellwood.\n\n\"The decision to invest in fighting vehicles is too often hampered by uncertainties over what the Army wants them for and pitted against the desire to fund other defence priorities,\" the Conservative MP added, a reference to the government's clear intention to move from industrial age to information-era technology.\n\nThe report comes ahead of publication of the government's Integrated Review of foreign, defence, security and development policy, which will be set out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.\n\nDescribed as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War, it is expected to focus on developing new technology such as robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: \"We thank the Defence Committee for their report and acknowledge their recommendations as we look to improve the management of our large and complex equipment programmes.\n\n\"Aided by the substantial £24bn settlement for defence, the Integrated Review will provide resources to deliver an upgraded, digitised and networked armoured force to meet future threats.\"\n\nA defence review, due to be published shortly, will promise to transform and modernise Britain's armed forces to fight the wars of the future.\n\nBut this report raises serious questions as to whether the Ministry of Defence can actually deliver.\n\nMPs describe the MoD and specifically the British army's efforts to modernise its ageing fleet of armoured vehicles as \"a woeful story of bureaucratic procrastination, military indecision, financial mismanagement and general ineptitude\".\n\nHundreds of millions of pounds have been \"squandered\" with little to show for it.\n\nIt's left the Army with tanks and armoured vehicles outmatched and outgunned by a peer adversary like Russia.\n\nTo modernise its tanks, the Army will have to significantly cut numbers. Some programmes, like the upgrade to hundreds of Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicles, are likely to be scrapped altogether.\n\nThe MoD says the defence review will \"deliver an upgraded, digitised and networked armoured force to meet future threats\".\n\nMPs are not so sure. They say the Army's armoured capabilities are \"at risk of being denuded on the basis of promises of technically advanced 'jam tomorrow'\".\n\nLast November, Mr Johnson announced a \"once-in-a-generation modernisation\" of the armed forces.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's review, the Committee urged government not to ignore the \"decaying\" AFV fleet.\n\nThe report stated the Army is four years away from being able to field a \"warfighting division\", which, even under the Ministry Of Defence's (MOD) own current plans, would still be \"hopelessly under-equipped\".\n\nIt said soldiers called on to fight a 'peer adversary' - namely Russia - in the next few years \"would, disgracefully, be forced to go into battle in a combination of obsolescent or even obsolete armoured vehicles, most of them at least 30 years old or more\".\n\nMPs added the MOD needs to urgently address its shortfalls in artillery, air defence and anti-drone capabilities, citing the Russian investment in modern missile and rocket artillery systems which defined their rapid victory in Ukraine in 2014.\n\n\"A mixture of bureaucratic procrastination, military indecision, financial mismanagement and general ineptitude has led to a severe and sustained erosion of our military capabilities,\" said Mr Ellwood.\n\n\"This will have a profound and potentially devastating impact on our ability to respond to threats from adversaries.\"\n\n\"In a conflict, the capable men and women working for the armed forces may find themselves outmatched, reliant on a fleet of outdated and outmoded fighting vehicles.\n\n\"The government should make no mistake, these failures may cost lives.\"\n\nCommenting on the report, Labour said \"Conservative defence cuts and indecision\" had weakened the Army.\n\n\"Our Army would currently be forced to go into battle with out-of-date armoured vehicles that could be heavily outgunned. Nothing characterises Boris Johnson's 'era of retreat' over the last decade more starkly than this,\" said shadow defence secretary John Healey.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has appeared in court in Iran, a week after her ankle tag was removed having served five years in prison, her lawyer said.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker was ordered to appear on charges of propaganda against the regime.\n\nThe judge told her to expect a verdict within seven working days, according to the Free Nazanin campaign.\n\nHer husband Richard said the British embassy in Tehran had declined to accompany his wife to Sunday's trial.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed in 2016 for allegedly working against the Iranian government, which she has always denied.\n\nAccording to her lawyer, she was accused in Sunday's hearing of participating in a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in London 12 years ago and giving an interview to the BBC Persian service, said BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley.\n\nHer lawyer said the atmosphere in court had been calm and he hoped she would be acquitted because she has already served five years on a more serious charge.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab called it \"unacceptable and unjustifiable\" that Iran has chosen to continue with the second \"wholly arbitrary\" case, saying the Iranian government has \"deliberately put her through a cruel and inhumane ordeal\".\n\nHe added: \"Nazanin must be allowed to return to her family in the UK without further delay. We continue to do all we can to support her.\"\n\nThere is a good reason why Richard Ratcliffe describes his wife as a \"pawn\" in a game of chess, a bargaining chip. And she's not alone.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - together with several other dual nationals from a range of countries - is caught up in the middle of some complicated geopolitics.\n\nThe backdrop to her case is the West's difficult relationship with Iran, and a growing emphasis by Iran on \"hostage diplomacy\".\n\nThe charity worker was told explicitly that her imprisonment was linked to a £400m debt owed by Britain for an arms deal to Iran that was done before she was even born.\n\nIn the days of the Shah, Iran had bought tanks from Britain but, after the 1979 Revolution, they were not delivered.\n\nThe UK and Iran have been haggling in court over interest on the debt for years. And when UK PM Boris Johnson spoke by phone to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week to demand Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, the Iranian president apparently complained that no \"practical progress\" had been made by the UK to repay the debt.\n\nWhatever happens in the courts, the message from Iran seems to be, if not loud, at least pretty clear.\n\nMuch less clear is when her ordeal will be over.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, Labour's Tulip Siddiq, said she was \"deeply concerned about the possible outcome\" and said the anxiety of waiting for a verdict will \"just add to her ongoing mental torture\".\n\nShe also criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not being \"capable of ensuring that British officials attended her court hearing to ensure a fair trial\".\n\nMs Siddiq said: \"Now is the time to bring Nazanin home to the UK, and our government has a responsibility to pull every possible lever to make that happen.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family fear the court case could be used to block her return to the UK because the Iranian government wants to keep her for diplomatic leverage.\n\nMr Johnson has called for her \"immediate release\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Ratcliffe said his wife had been due to report to court at 09:00 Iranian time (05:30 GMT), but did not know when her trial would be heard, what it would entail or how long it would be.\n\nShe was expected to appear in the Revolutionary Court, in front of the same judge who conducted her earlier hearings.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Ratcliffe said that neither he nor his wife had any idea what to expect. \"It's like trying to read tea leaves,\" he said.\n\n\"The charges are irrelevant. This is not a real court process. This is not a fair trial - it's an act of abuse.\n\n\"Nazanin is now pretty stressed. She is extremely twitchy, restless and agitated.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe with his daughter Gabriella during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London\n\nMr Ratcliffe had hoped the British ambassador would accompany his wife to the trial, but said the British embassy in Tehran had declined.\n\n\"I am disappointed that the embassy has declined to accompany Nazanin to the Revolutionary Court,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"To my mind, it is a missed opportunity to protect her, a missed opportunity to stand up for her as British, and it is not the first. I hope that timidity is not a choice that we come to regret.\"\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it had formally requested access to the hearing.\n\nAmnesty International UK said it was disappointed UK officials did not attend Sunday's hearing \"to show Nazanin the kind of support she needs and is entitled to\".\n\nDirector Kate Allen added: \"One trumped-up case against Nazanin was bad enough - a second one is an act of cruelty.\"\n\nThe case comes after a charity warned in a medical report sent to the UK government that the 43-year-old was suffering from major depression and PTSD and was in need of urgent treatment.\n\nThe report, commissioned by the human rights charity Redress, said she was interrogated for hours, often blindfolded, while in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence.\n\nBefore her ankle tag was recently removed, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been under house arrest in Tehran since being released from jail last March due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLegendary Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker has died at the age of 97.\n\nWalker commentated on his first grand prix for the BBC at Silverstone in 1949 and became a full-time F1 commentator in 1978.\n\nHe became synonymous with F1 through his commentary, first with the BBC and then ITV, before retiring in 2001.\n\n\"Murray has been with me for my whole life and I don't think anybody thought this day would come, but sadly it has,\" said 1996 F1 champion Damon Hill.\n• None Murray Walker at 90 on James Hunt and Ayrton Senna\n\nOne of Walker's most famous lines was, \"I've got to stop now, because I've got a lump in my throat\" as Britain's Hill won the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix - and with it his only World Championship.\n\nHill added: \"Maybe old soldiers never die? His legacy and his memory is so strong, and what he gave to so many Formula 1 fans and number of people he affected, he became bigger than the sport, so we have got a lot to be thankful to Murray for.\n\n\"He could emote the events that happened in our sport. The shocking moments and the dramatic moments all have Murray's reaction to them and he made those events stick in your mind forever.\n\n\"And he allowed himself not to be the know-it-all commentator, but the fan who, at times, got over excited.\"\n\nWalker, who is survived by his wife of more than 60 years Elizabeth, was appointed an OBE in 1996 for his services to broadcasting and motor racing.\n\nHis co-commentators included the late James Hunt, who was F1 world champion in 1976, and the pair built up a memorable partnership.\n\nHe also had a popular partnership with former grand prix driver Martin Brundle, who paid tribute on social media.\n\n\"Wonderful man in every respect,\" said Brundle. \"National treasure, communication genius, Formula 1 legend.\"\n\nThree-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart said he spent a lot of time with Walker, who served in a tank regiment during World War Two, as their fathers both knew each other.\n\n\"He was a very special man in every respect,\" the Scot told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was lucky enough to know him well. In fact, I spoke to him several weeks ago where he was in a home.\n\n\"He was the perfect gentleman, a man who had great style and great skills with the English language.\n\n\"As a racing driver, from my own point of view, Murray was always the best.\"\n\nStewart added: \"He was very good at making mistakes. He made wonderful mistakes. He so much enjoyed the realisation of his error, he was such a character.\n\n\"A mistake didn't mean anything wrong for Murray. It was something else to make a joke of.\n\n\"He was full of energy, he never sat to do a commentary. He stood up for the whole time.\"\n\n\"He was so well prepared,\" added Jordan. \"He was very nonchalant about it, he didn't give that impression but he had the knowledge.\n\n\"When he was doing the commentary, he had every single angle covered. He was brilliant at it.\"\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"Over decades, no-one conveyed the excitement and passion of motorsport like Murray Walker.\n\n\"For millions, he was quite simply the voice that captured the spirit of Formula 1. Respected by drivers and fans alike, he will be hugely missed.\"\n\nThe iconic voice of our sport and a great man, thank you for all you did, you will never be forgotten\n\n\"He was to so many of us fans of F1 the voice that epitomised the sport we love,\" said Stuart Pringle, Silverstone managing director.\n\n\"Knowledgeable beyond words and with a passion that occasionally got the better of him in commentary, he brought the sport and some of its greatest moments to life in a way that ensured they remained seared in our memories for ever.\"\n\nA statement from the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) said: \"It's with great sadness we share the news of the passing of BRDC associate member Murray Walker OBE.\n\n\"We thank Murray for all he has done for our community. RIP our friend.\"\n\nReigning world champion Lewis Hamilton also paid tribute, saying: \"So sad to hear of Murray's passing. I remember growing up hearing your voice over the races. You made the sport so much more exciting and captivating.\n\n\"The iconic voice of our sport and a great man, thank you for all you did, you will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.\"\n\nAn F1 statement said: \"We are immensely sad to hear that Murray Walker has passed away.\n\n\"His passion and love of the sport inspired millions of fans around the world. He will forever be a part of our history, and will be dearly missed.\"\n\nReigning world champion constructor Mercedes echoed the view that Walker was \"the voice of F1 to millions\" and added that \"his love, passion and positivity for our sport were unmatched\".\n\nMcLaren said: \"He brought our sport to generations by sharing his passion and knowledge with humour and humility. Our thoughts are with all who had the fortune to know him.\"\n\nJames Allen succeeded Walker in the commentary box at ITV and told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He was so just much fun.\n\n\"The age difference between us was 45 years or something but he was so young in his mind.\n\n\"His career was in advertising, he was always aware of the audience.\n\n\"He was such a laugh. He didn't like driving much on the continent so, at all the foreign grands prix, I drove him around everywhere.\n\n\"One of my favourite stories, I drove him to a restaurant and when we came out there was a bunch of kids outside and one of them said 'that's Murray Walker's driver'.\n\n\"He had a life incredibly well lived.\"\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Met officers were accused of oppressing women on Clapham Common on Saturday night\n\nMaintaining public order at protests is one of the hardest jobs in modern policing. If everything goes well, the public won't notice how commanders and demo organisers have worked out how to make an event safe.\n\nBut when it goes wrong, then the inevitable accusations of failure come piling in.\n\nSunday dawned badly for the Metropolitan Police's commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick. Her officers were accused of oppressing women and politicians waded in calling for her head.\n\nBut the seeds for Saturday's PR disaster for the force were sown in the legal dispute over whether a vigil could take place at all - and how events then seemed to run out of control.\n\nThe question is whether the police should have foreseen that happening. That, time and again, is the great challenge of public order policing.\n\nEarlier in the week it became increasingly clear that people up and down the UK wanted to hold vigils for Sarah Everard.\n\nWomen in London, organising under the Reclaim These Streets banner, approached Met commanders for their help in setting up a vigil on Clapham Common in south London, close to where Ms Everard was last seen alive.\n\nThe police said a demo would be illegal under the coronavirus lockdown regulations.\n\nAnd so the women and their lawyers asked the High Court to make a declaration that would force the police to think again.\n\nThe problem is that the law is not that clear cut.\n\nFor almost a year, the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and the public grasping for answers as to what is possible in public. It's so complex we've even seen people fined for walking while holding a cup of tea.\n\nPeople laid flowers and paid tribute to Ms Everard at the common throughout Saturday\n\nGatherings in public are generally banned in England but, at the same time, the rules recognise there are \"reasonable excuses\" to be outside.\n\nBut the law doesn't specify whether a demonstration on a major issue of public importance - such as this vigil - is one of those excuses.\n\nNo matter what the Covid regulations say, there is an overarching right to freedom of expression that is enshrined in the Human Rights Act. That means the police have a legal duty to help make safe protests possible.\n\nBut that right is not an absolute trump card - it can be interfered with if the police can show they have good reason to stop an event happening.\n\nAnd after hours of difficult legal argument on Friday, the judge refused to intervene and basically told the two sides to work it out for themselves with all those legal principles in mind.\n\nIn the absence of further legal clarity, the organisers claimed victory. They said the police had to now negotiate a sensible well-run vigil.\n\nThen, the police pushed back hard. They said they too had been vindicated. They could not authorise a potentially unlimited demonstration that would become an enormous Covid-spreading event. Stay at home, they said.\n\nBy Saturday morning, the organisers abandoned their plans amid a very serious risk they could each face a £10,000 fine for organising a lockdown-breaking gathering.\n\nBut by that point, it was inevitable that people would turn up at Clapham Common, whether or not there was going to be a public event. It was the talk of social media.\n\nSo given that racing certainty, and the lack of official marshals that Reclaim These Streets said they would have provided had the police agreed to a vigil, what was the police's plan to keep people safe?\n\nThere was a lot of anger on the common as police removed people\n\nThe turning point in Scotland Yard's tactics appears to have been the start of speeches from the bandstand, around 18:00 GMT. People pressed forwards to hear.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Helen Ball said: \"At this point, officers on the ground were faced with a very difficult decision.\n\n\"Hundreds of people were packed tightly together, posing a very real risk of easily transmitting Covid-19.\"\n\nAnd so, they tried to break up that part of the gathering and remove people whom they believed were contributing to the crowding.\n\nPatsy Stevenson, the red-haired woman caught on camera being handcuffed on the ground at the bandstand, received a £200 Covid fine as police tried to remove her from the area.\n\nShe has not been accused of, or charged with, violence - but was there any elsewhere?\n\nThere was definitely a lot of anger - with some of the crowd chanting obscenities at the police at one point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Federation, representing frontline officers, says 26 of them were assaulted yesterday at Clapham - punched, kicked and spat at.\n\nPictures obtained by the Press Association clearly show three instances of officers being forcibly pushed and a van's wing mirror being deliberately vandalised. Guess what? All three instances involved men, not women.\n\nDame Cressida joined officers on Clapham Common on Friday night - the night before the vigil\n\nAssistant Commissioner Helen Ball has said the Met did not want to be in the position where it had to turn to enforcement. But what's not clear is why this demonstration was considered to be so much more of a Covid risk than others that commanders couldn't find a way to make it possible.\n\nPolice forces elsewhere in the UK were waiting for a lead from the Met. But those that saw DIY vigils - albeit far smaller ones - appeared to take a stand-back approach.\n\nThe better comparison is Black Lives Matter last summer, when there were large crowds in London and elsewhere that were clearly not socially distancing.\n\nWhy the difference? That, and other questions about how the operation unfolded, may have been answered in the report that's been sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nShe's now asked Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to carry out its own external review of the event - and what Ms Patel ultimately concludes may dictate whether Dame Cressida survives calls for her to go.\n\nWhile the commissioner is accountable to the Mayor of London, who has raised his own serious concerns after a meeting with Dame Cressida, the Home Secretary is jointly responsible for deciding who gets the job - and when they should go.\n\nDame Cressida is highly respected both in policing and government - far more so than some of her predecessors - but she remains a controversial figure for many others.\n\nShe commanded the 2005 operation that led to the shooting dead of Jean Charles De Menezes, after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber - although a jury exonerated her of any personal wrongdoing.\n\nMore recently, she called for better powers to deal with Extinction Rebellion's repeated occupations of parts of London. The government agreed - and the home secretary's proposals to greatly expand the police's ability to curtail demonstrations goes before Parliament on Monday.\n\nAsk most police officers who have experience of covering public protests, and they will tell you they often feel - individual mistakes besides - it is a no-win situation when things go wrong. (Just last week I was talking about this very dilemma on BBC Newscast.)\n\nIt would be something of a terrible twist of fate for the commissioner - the first woman in the post - to lose her job in these circumstances.", "The grounds of Cardiff Castle were opened for socially distanced picnics last summer\n\nCities, towns and villages must be redesigned to improve access to nature in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, campaigners have said.\n\nThe future generations commissioner wants everyone to have a public green space within four minute's walk.\n\nDuring the first lockdown one in eight households in Wales did not have access to a garden, yard or balcony, official statistics show.\n\nThe Welsh government has committed £110m to transforming towns in Wales.\n\nPlanning experts and designers said the pandemic was a \"profound opportunity\" to rethink communities to tackle climate change and health issues.\n\nIdeas include planting trees, more cycle routes, reopening disused railway lines, creating \"pocket\" parks, and a campaign to create neighbourhoods where everything needed is within a 20-minute walk.\n\nSophie Howe said access to green spaces should be a right for everyone\n\nFuture generations commissioner Sophie Howe said public green spaces had been a \"lifeline\" for many during lockdowns and were vital for physical and mental health.\n\nMs Howe wants to see changes to towns, cities and villages, to make sure no-one in Wales lives more than four minutes' walk - about 330yds or 300m - from a public green space.\n\nShe said people who did not have a garden were reliant on being able to access open public spaces - but many had struggled to do that due to travel restrictions.\n\n\"It shouldn't be based on where you live, and the price of your house, it should be a right for everyone,\" said Ms Howe.\n\nThe Welsh Government said its local places nature fund had created more than 400 wildlife gardens in and around residential areas in the past year.\n\nSome people set up \"fairy homes\" in woods during the first lockdown\n\nIt is almost a year since Wales was first placed under lockdown, with people only allowed to leave home for essential reasons, including to exercise.\n\nWhile about a fifth of Wales is covered by national parks, the mountains and coastlines have been off-limits during lockdowns to all but those who live on their doorsteps.\n\nHow much of the country do parks, fields and public gardens make up (not including National Parks)?\n• None 10,000 areasof accessible public green spaces, such as parks, fields and gardens\n• None Less than 1% of Wales is made up of publically accessible green space\n• None 3.61public green spaces on average in a 1,000m radius of homes\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown, official figures showed 133,542 Welsh households did not have access to a private outdoor space.\n\nThis is the equivalent of 9% of households in Wales, according to Office for National Statistics figures.\n\nThe data also shows at least 36% of those living in flats in Wales did not have access to a private space, a higher rate than in England or Scotland.\n\nMore than 17,000 people on the shielding list, who were told not to leave their homes, had no access to any outdoor space.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How do we make Swansea better?\"\n\nSome councils are investing more in improving green spaces, while others have reported conflict as more people use footpaths.\n\nIn Cardiff, the council is planning to spend around £2m improving green spaces, parks and pavements in 2021-22.\n\nWhile in Rhondda Cynon Taf, the council said a significant increase in people using footpaths had led to a number of landowners \"taking matters into their own hands\" and closing paths.\n\nMeanwhile in Swansea, the council and Natural Resources Wales are ploughing ahead with plans to double the city's green space, including building the first park in the city since Victorian times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff’s Castle Street was turned into an al fresco dining area last summer\n\nIn many towns and cities, Covid forced adaptations, with one-way systems in high streets and more space for outside seating.\n\nWhile some of the measures were divisive - limiting parking and delivery spaces or shutting major roads - there were other calls to make them permanent.\n\nNot-for-profit group For Cardiff, which represents more than 700 businesses, said with more people set to work from home in the long term, changes had to be made to draw people into the city.\n\nAdrian Field, executive director, said having more outdoor seating had allowed many businesses to survive and the group was looking at whether a new public space could be opened.\n\n\"It might have entertainment... PE equipment or a big screen to watch films or sporting events... there is an eagerness for that space to be used,\" he said.\n\n\"I think all towns and cities need to create environments where people can linger, interact, exercise... hopefully that includes pocket parks, if we can get more tables and chairs outside I think there will be a lot of demand long term.\"\n\nCharity Sustrans said despite efforts, no area in Wales had been designated an official 20-minute neighbourhood in Wales - where every facility is within a 10-minute bike ride or walk of their home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could changes we have been forced to make in the pandemic become long-term environmental solutions?\n\nOne major issue planners have been looking at is how to connect rural communities which may have been cut off from neighbours in lockdown.\n\nSarah Featherstone, of consultants VeloCity, hopes villages can be linked up using footpaths and cycle routes to create \"villages in a garden\".\n\n\"We call it the big back garden,\" said the Brecon-based architect.\n\nShe said while there was a housing crisis, sprawling development meant many were now having to get in their cars to get to the middle of their village to access shops.\n\nHer vision is for the area to be used for people to grow food and for community gardens, while villages would pool together to address issues like poorly maintained pavements, pot holes and reducing speed limits.\n\nParks have seen increased numbers of walkers, cyclists and runners\n\n\"All of the traffic has been pushed to the edges, so that you have this much safer, greener landscape between the villages that can be safeguarded and used for leisure,\" she said.\n\nMs Featherstone said changing planning laws and addressing infrastructure could allow more people to move out of flats in cities to live and work in rural communities.\n\n\"There's a potential for a fresh look at things, but we need to keep that momentum going, otherwise we could easily slip back into jumping back in cars again,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government said more than £50m had been allocated for permanent and temporary improvements to walking and cycling routes routes \"to allow people to safely and conveniently travel\" to local destinations, including outdoor spaces.\n\nThe tight-knit design of valleys communities was partly blamed by some on high case rates in the area\n\nLast year a spike in Covid cases in valleys communities was partly blamed by some on the design of the areas, with tightly packed lines of terraced houses.\n\nIn Merthyr Tydfil - which in November had the highest Covid case rate in the UK - the council kept parks open during the firebreak lockdown, as the Brecon Beacons national park was just out of reach for many.\n\nThere are also thoughts on how south Wales valley communities could be reimagined and opened up with more access to green spaces.\n\nMatthew Jones said the recovery post-Covid was an opportunity to \"profoundly change\" towns, as more people worked from home and had developed an appreciation for local shops, paths and parks.\n\n\"There's a potential to really rethink what we do with public spaces... how streets connect together, how people can move safely around where they live,\" he said.\n\nDr Jones, who has looked at the future of towns for the Design Commission for Wales, said homes and workspaces could be redesigned to include garden elements.\n\nPlanners believe more buildings with green spaces built in could appear, like these plans in Swansea\n\nIn Swansea, plans have been approved for a \"living\" building, with rooftop gardens and allotments, and Dr Jones said ideas like this could help towards a bid for Wales to have carbon neutral emissions by 2050.\n\nHe said it would be interesting to see which communities chose to keep temporary measures - such as shutting roads and widening pavements - to create more room for walking and cycling once the pandemic ended.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was already delivering green infrastructure schemes worth £9m to make town centres \"greener, more attractive and safer\".\n\nIt has also launched a national forest programme to create a \"connected woodland extending the length of Wales\".\n\nIn the first year of the programme, projects included more than 20 small woodlands created by and for schoolchildren.", "The justice system must be overhauled, according to a Welsh government advisor on violence against women, who said parts of it were \"broken\".\n\nYasmin Khan said men \"have the power\" and she called for a \"change in terms of their role in tackling violence against women and girls\".\n\nHer comments come after the police handling of a vigil in London to mourn Sarah Everard's death was criticised.\n\nThe UK government said new \"protective tools and powers\" were helping victims.\n\nMs Khan joined others in calling for a review of the Metropolitan Police's handling of the vigil. The force has said it will consider if \"lessons can be learned\".\n\nSeveral hundred people gathered on Clapham Common on Saturday evening, despite Covid restrictions, to pay tribute to Ms Everard, 33, whose death has prompted a public debate over women's safety.\n\nOfficers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The footage that we saw last night wasn't a good picture because people were coming together, they wanted to show solidarity,\" Ms Khan, who also advises the government on domestic abuse and sexual violence, told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"And what it seems on the surface, from the footage and the pictures that we've seen this morning, there really needs to be some kind of review about what actually happened and what force was implemented last night.\"\n\nVigils were also held in Wales on Saturday night to mark Ms Everard's death; some were held online, others were attended in person.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Jones MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWith many women speaking out following the death of Ms Everard, Ms Khan said it was \"so important to listen and to recognise the scale of violence against women and girls\".\n\nAsked on the Politics Wales programme if there should be an overhaul of the justice system, Ms Kahn said: \"Absolutely. There are things which are broken and that's been exasperated within the pandemic.\n\nYasmin Khan: \"Domestic abuse is an absolute illness in our society\"\n\n\"Victims tell me that in coming forward to the police, that they're not listened to or in some cases they're not trusted and I think that truly informed policing investigation really must start to shape people's confidence so they do come forward and report.\n\n\"We've got to stand up and speak out about it. But once people have spoken about it, we need to make sure the offenders are held to account.\"\n\nMs Khan and her fellow Welsh government advisor, Nazir Afzal, have said in their final annual plan for 2021-22 that embedding a \"public health approach\" to violence against women \"remains our main objective\".\n\n\"A public health issue is making sure that we understand what the root cause of the problem is, as with any illness.\n\n\"I think domestic abuse is an absolute illness in our society,\" she said.\n\nShe called for a \"multi-agency approach across Wales, so that whether the violence has been presented at health or whether it's been presented at education, this is something that we need to understand better so that we can avoid it\".\n\n\"If we focus resources and work around the prevention, that's when we can really start to eradicate this from our society,\" she added.\n\nLabour's MP for the Cynon Valley, Beth Winter, told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme: \"We need far reaching change. It's been normalised.\n\n\"You know, as a woman myself, I go out and I automatically cross the road if there's a man walking behind me,\" she said.\n\n\"You know there are systemic changes that needs to take place.\n\n\"It's 20 years since I worked in a women's refuge, and we have not moved forward in any way that we should to address this issue.\n\n\"Far reaching and systemic change must take place, and we can address this, but we have to work collectively.\n\n\"We have to provide adequate funding.\"\n\nIn a statement, safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins said a public survey had been reopened following the \"public outpouring of grief and anger in response to the tragedy\".\n\nShe said the domestic abuse bill, currently going through the House of Lords, will \"bolster our response to domestic abuse on every level to protect victims and ensure that perpetrators feel the full force of the law.\n\nShe added that the maximum sentence for stalking and harassment has been increased to 10 years and a range of additional protective tools and powers have been introduced, such as sexual harm prevention orders, sexual risk orders and stalking protection orders.\n\nIn a tweet, First Minister Mark Drakeford said Ms Everard's killing \"and the stories from other women this week about their experiences - tell us why we have so much more to do to end violence and abuse against women.\n\n\"Let us ignite a fire for change.\"", "Stutthof, near Gdansk, is now a memorial\n\nA court in Germany has declared a 96-year-old former Nazi camp guard unfit to stand trial but ruled that he should pay his own legal fees.\n\nThe man, named as Harry S, was accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people at Stutthof Camp.\n\nThe court in Wuppertal said there was a \"high degree of probability\" he was guilty of the crimes.\n\nHis is one of three recent cases related to the Stutthof camp, which was located in then Nazi-occupied Poland.\n\nBruno Dey, 93, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence last July after being found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.\n\nIn February, 95-year-old Irmgard F - who was a secretary at Stutthof - became one of the few women to be charged with aiding and abetting Nazi-era mass murder.\n\nHarry S was a guard at Stutthof between June 1944 and May 1945.\n\nHe is alleged to have overseen the transportation of nearly 600 prisoners to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in September 1944.\n\nHe was charged with aiding and abetting in their murder in 2017.\n\nStutthof also had gas chambers and was notorious for the atrocious conditions in which some 100,000 inmates were kept. Many died of disease and starvation, while others were gassed, shot or given lethal injections.\n\nThe victims included many Jews as well as non-Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers.\n\nThe west German court said in a statement on Wednesday that \"due to his physical condition,\" Harry S \"was no longer able to reasonably represent his interest in and outside of the trial\".\n\nBut it went on to say that, as a guard at the camp, he would have overseen the transports and \"recognised the scope and dimension of the mass murder committed\" there.\n\nAs there was a \"a high degree of probability\" of his guilt, Harry S should pay his own expenses, the court ruled. It is not known how much the costs are, or whether the defendant will appeal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStutthof was officially designated a concentration camp in 1942. It was the first such camp built outside German borders in the war and the last to be liberated, by the Soviet army on 9 May 1945.\n\nMore than 65,000 people are thought to have died in the camp. Guards began using gas chambers there in June 1944.\n\nGermany has been pursuing former Nazi camp workers since a landmark ruling in 2011 that convicted a former guard, John Demjanjuk, as an accessory to mass murder. He died pending an appeal, but the verdict set a legal precedent.\n\nPreviously, courts had required evidence of former SS guards' direct involvement in atrocities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Five miles in Cardiff means something very different to Anglesey\"\n\nAny \"stay-local\" policy introduced as lockdown is eased is likely to differ depending on what part of Wales people live in, the health minister said.\n\nVaughan Gething suggested people living in rural areas might be able to travel further to access facilities easily available to people in urban areas.\n\n\"If we do go to stay local, it will be slightly different depending on where you live,\" he told a press briefing.\n\nHe suggested there could be a \"few weeks\" of stay-local guidance.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford is due to review Covid restrictions on Friday and has previously suggested there could be some easing of the stay-at-home instruction.\n\nSpeaking at the coronavirus briefing, Mr Gething told journalists: \"If, like me, you're fortunate enough to live in Penarth, then a few miles from Penarth you can do lots of things.\n\nStay local rules were brought in to after stay home legislation ended last summer\n\n\"If I lived in the middle of Powys or Anglesey, within a few miles I might not be able to do them, so we do recognise that if we go to stay local, it will be slightly different depending on where you live.\"\n\nHe added: \"Any guidance around that will recognise that.\"\n\nMr Gething said after a \"few weeks\" the Welsh Government could be in a position to go beyond stay local.\n\nMinisters have previously pointed to an opening of holiday accommodation for the Easter period, which Mr Gething acknowledged would not be feasible if a stay-local policy was in place.\n\nLast year, a stay-local rule was in place as the strict lockdown was eased, with guidance - rather than law - that people should stay within five miles of home.\n\nThis led to some people arguing it discriminated against people living in rural areas who needed to travel further, for example to see family members.\n\nBoth the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru welcomed an indication any \"stay local\" message could be differ across Wales.\n\nFor the Conservatives, Russell George said it was difficult to follow in rural areas, adding: \"I can't follow the same kind of measurements here in rural Powys as Vaughan Gething can in Penarth.\"\n\nPlaid's Rhun ap Iorwerth agreed, saying: \"Five miles in Cardiff means something very different in Anglesey.\"\n\nMr Gething said expanding testing would not be an alternative to self-isolating\n\nCovid testing will be expanded to anyone identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for the virus, Mr Gething also announced.\n\nCurrently contacts are only tested if they develop symptoms, but they will now be told to test on the first and eighth days of self-isolation.\n\nHe said: \"This will help us to identify more people with coronavirus and their close contacts who would otherwise be unknown to TTP [Track, Trace and Protect], helping to break chains of transmission and to stop the virus spreading\".\n\nHowever, he said it was not an alternative to self-isolating, adding: \"If you've been identified as a close contact, it's really important you complete the 10 days of isolation and do the two tests.\"\n\nHe said the Welsh Government would be putting an extra £60m into contact tracing, as announced at last week's budget.\n\nMr Gething said all people \"experiencing homelessness\" would be included in the priority group six for Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"This includes people who are sleeping rough, people in emergency accommodation and people who were recently homeless but are now in supported accommodation,\" he told the briefing.\n\n\"Many people in this group will be living with underlying health conditions, which put them at risk of coronavirus.\n\n\"It's important they are offered vaccinations.\"\n\nLocal testing will be taking place in areas which have had high rates of community transmission, Mr Gething announced.\n\nHe said: \"Community testing to find more cases in people without symptoms is being rolled out in parts of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf - areas, which have historically had high rates of community transmission.\"\n\nThe minister also urged people to take up their vaccinations.\n\nHe said he was looking forward to having the vaccine \"in the coming days\".", "Tesco is rolling out collection points for soft plastic packaging like crisp packets, pet food pouches and bread bags at stores in England and Wales.\n\nThe supermarket chain is aiming to establish a nationwide recycling network for these harder to process plastics.\n\nCurrently most soft plastic ends up in landfill.\n\nThe recycled material will be used to package food, household and beauty products, Tesco said.\n\nThe supermarket said it prioritised reducing the plastic packaging it used, but that the new service would also have \"a real impact\".\n\n\"Where plastic serves an important purpose such as reducing food waste, these new recycling points make sure that every piece can be easily recycled,\" said Sarah Bradbury, Tesco's director of quality.\n\nThe roll-out will start with new collection points at 171 stores in the south west of England and in Wales.\n\nDuring a 10-store trial in 2018 Tesco said the most commonly returned packaging was bread bags, fruit and vegetable packaging, crisp packets, salad bags, and baby and pet food pouches.\n\nCustomers may return packaging bought from other retailers as well as Tesco's own packaging, however they will need to clean items that are heavily soiled and take them back to participating stores, while the rest of their recycling is collected at the kerbside.\n\nTesco said it expected to collect 1,000 tonnes of soft plastic a year.\n\nOne estimate suggests UK supermarkets produce 800,000 tonnes of plastic every year, although they don't make figures publicly available.\n\nWhat do you find hardest to recycle and why? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPackaging food correctly helps to avoid food spoiling and going to waste, causing higher carbon emissions. However campaign groups have urged producers to switch to packaging materials that are easier to recycle and to improve labelling so shoppers know how to dispose of each item.\n\n\"Our research has shown that almost half of grocery packaging used by supermarkets is not widely recyclable, so it is good to see Tesco widening its recycling facilities to help consumers dispose of packaging in a more sustainable way,\" said Michael Briggs, Head of Sustainability at consumer group Which?.\n\n\"To further reduce the waste that goes to landfill, the government should make recycling labels on food packaging mandatory, simple and clear, enabling shoppers to know exactly how to dispose of packaging on the products they consume.\"\n\nIn 2018 Which? examined the packaging of a typical household shop at eleven UK supermarkets. It found only 52% of the packaging could go into household recycling bins and that 42% of products lacked adequate labelling.\n\nWhich? pinpointed products like KitKat, Babybel and Pringles, that came in packaging that was particularly challenging to dispose of.\n\nLast year, Which? examined the recyclability of 89 branded grocery products sold in UK supermarkets.\n\nOnly 30 of the 89 items were in fully recyclable packaging.\n\nWhen it grouped the items into categories, it found that some products had packaging that was particularly difficult to recycle. For example, 93% of the packaging generated by the snacks and crisps products could not be recycled, either at the kerbside or at collection points.\n\nDavid Moon, head of business collaboration at Wrap, which campaigns to reduce packaging waste, also welcomed Tesco's move as \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"We need all supermarkets to collect all plastic films, adopt consistent messaging and share their insights to make this work,\" he added.\n\nWrap said its research showed at least a quarter of people would be wiling to take plastic bags and wrappers back to the supermarket, but that the key was to make sure the services were convenient to use.\n\nMany UK brands and retailers have signed up to the UK Plastics Pact, committing them to remove by 2025 all packaging that cannot be recycled. Several have introduced in-store recycling collections.\n\nSainsbury's, the UK's second largest supermarket, collects and recycles carrier bags and some other soft plastic packaging, such as the bags that apples and pears are sold in. Items can be handed to home delivery drivers or taken into stores.\n\nSainsbury's is also trialling the collection in some stores of polypropylene film and plastic, typically used to wrap salad, frozen food and cakes.\n\nWaitrose said it also accepted carrier bags and plastic films, during deliveries and in-store and was currently planning a trial to expand the flexible plastics it accepts.\n\nMorrisons said it was reducing plastic use overall and already had in-store recycling bins to collect plastic bags, films and wraps.\n\nThe Co-op has trialled collection at 50 of its stores of a range of plastic types similar to those that Tesco plans to collect.\n\nWrap said that overall, the UK recycled about half of its plastic packaging.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is pictured on Sunday, after she was released from house arrest in Tehran\n\nBoris Johnson has demanded the \"immediate release\" of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges, in a phone call with Iran's president.\n\nThe PM said her \"continued confinement remains completely unacceptable\" and that she must be allowed to return to her family in the UK.\n\nShe had her ankle tag removed on Sunday at the end of her five-year sentence.\n\nBut she faces a new court case against her - scheduled for next Sunday.\n\nThe charity worker had been under house arrest in Tehran since being moved from jail last March. She has always denied the charges against her.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister spoke to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday afternoon, and raised the case of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran \"and demanded their immediate release\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"He said that while the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle monitor was welcome, her continued confinement remains completely unacceptable and she must be allowed to return to her family in the UK.\"\n\nMr Johnson, while stressing that the UK remains committed to making the Iran nuclear deal a success, also demanded that Iran cease all of its nuclear activity which breaches the deal, the spokesman said.\n\n\"He stressed the importance of Iran seizing the opportunity presented by the United States' willingness to return to the deal if Iran comes back into compliance,\" he said.\n\n\"The prime minister underlined the need for Iran to cease wider destabilising activity and be a positive force in the Gulf region.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife in person since she left the UK in 2016\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, had been out of prison since last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic but had been confined to her parents' house.\n\nShe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nSpeaking after her ankle tag was removed, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said it was \"a mixed day for us\" and \"Nazanin is genuinely happy\" to be free of her electronic bracelet.\n\n\"I'm a bit more guarded - it feels to me like they have made one blockage just as they have removed another, and we very clearly remain in the middle of this government game of chess,\" he said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison in August 2018\n\nAs of Sunday, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had not had her British passport returned to her, according to Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in London where her family live.\n\nMs Siddiq told the BBC: \"She does have to go back to court and we don't know what awaits her there.\n\n\"Nazanin is quite worried because there was talk of another case being put against her which may of course mean another sentence, and we don't know how long for.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence has included eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations and hunger strikes to press for medical treatment.\n\nPrior to her arrest, she lived in London with her husband and child.\n\nIn November, she was taken to court on fresh charges of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nHer family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.", "Extra testing will be carried out in parts of Wandsworth, south-west London, after cases of a coronavirus variant of concern were identified.\n\nThe variant first identified in South Africa - like the one found in Brazil - is not considered to be more dangerous than other strains.\n\nHowever, there are concerns it could spread more easily and be more resistant to the vaccine.\n• What are the variants and will vaccines work?\n• Another new variant added to UK watch list\n\nAdditional testing and genomic sequencing is being deployed within the SW11 and SW15 postcodes to help stop the spread of cases of the South Africa variant, the Department of Health said.\n\nEnhanced contact tracing will be used for anyone who is found to have the variant.\n\nEveryone living in the targeted areas are being strongly encouraged to take a Covid test when offered, whether or not they are showing symptoms.\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant was first rolled out at the beginning of February, after cases with no links to travel were detected.\n\nAt that stage, about 80,000 people in parts of Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall were asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms.\n\nAlthough our explainer doesn't reflect the latest news on Wandsworth, it does show you the other areas in the UK that are getting surge testing at the moment, and why.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nOfficers searching for a missing woman in south London have put up a cordon outside a block of flats near to where she was last seen.\n\nSarah Everard was last spotted by a doorbell camera on the A205 Poynders Road in Clapham at about 21:30 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe cordon extends along Poynders Road from Rodenhurst Road to Cavendish Road.\n\nDetectives have released fresh images of the 33-year-old as the search continues \"at pace\".\n\nAs part of the ongoing investigation police are searching a variety of areas, the Met said.\n\nPolice have cordoned off part of Poynders Road - the area where Sarah Everard was last seen\n\nThe force added that 750 homes in the area had been visited and over 120 calls had been taken from the public.\n\nExtensive search operations for Ms Everard has seen officers delving into drains on the street where she was last seen.\n\nThe Met Police said the search for Sarah Everard \"continues at pace\"\n\nForensic officers placed markers on the pavement of Poynders Road on Tuesday evening.\n\nOfficers were seen lifting drainage grilles and using sniffer dogs outside the nearby Oaklands Estate and gardens.\n\nDetectives continue to say they are \"keeping an open mind\" about her disappearance.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said a number of CCTV recordings had been \"seized\".\n\nMs Everard has not been seen since Wednesday evening\n\n\"We have committed significant resources to this investigation, with assistance coming from across the Met,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to remain clear that at this time we have no information to suggest that Sarah has come to any harm and we retain an open mind as to the circumstances.\n\n\"We share the wish of her family and friends to have her back safely with her loved ones.\"\n\nFriends and relatives have issued appeals on social media to help find the marketing manager who vanished on her walk home to Brixton after visiting a friend's flat in Leathwaite Road, Battersea.\n\nHer family have said it is out of character for her to disappear.\n\nWomen living in the area near to where she vanished told reporters they had been warned by police to be extra vigilant.\n\nScotland Yard said no official advice was being given to local residents, but it would remind them of \"normal personal safety advice\".\n\nMs Everard was wearing clothes and earphones like these when she was last seen\n\nInvestigators are not currently linking the disappearance to reports of women being followed in surrounding areas.\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nDetectives have urged people to check any dashcam or doorbell cameras for sightings of her, particularly along these roads:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquiry has already found the cladding was the main cause of the fire spreading\n\nThe firm that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill \"60 to 70\" people a decade before the tragedy.\n\nThe chilling prediction of the Grenfell fire came at a presentation attended by a marketing manager from Arconic.\n\nGerard Sonntag sent an internal memo suggesting the company stop selling the flammable version of its product, the public inquiry heard.\n\nIt never happened and the fire, made worse by Arconic's cladding, killed 72.\n\nThe public inquiry is hearing evidence relating to three Arconic employees who have refused to give evidence, citing a law in France where they live.\n\nReading from internal company documents obtained by investigators, the senior inquiry counsel, Richard Millett QC said that the company's marketing manager had been \"very impressed\" by a presentation on fire safety which he attended in 2007.\n\nA consultant, Fred-Roderich Pohl set out the risks of the plastic used to make aluminium composite cladding (ACM), which he said had the same \"fuel power\" as a 19,000-litre truck of oil.\n\nThe plastic, polyethylene or PE, is highly flammable.\n\nMr Pohl showed pictures of a fire in Doha, Qatar, which developed quickly in the cladding system.\n\nIn his memo about the presentation, Mr Sonntag said Mr Pohl warned: \"What will happen if only one building made out of PE is on fire and kills 60 to 70 persons.\"\n\nIt was a chilling prediction of the exact circumstances of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIn his memo, Mr Sonntag also asked colleagues what the responsibility of the cladding supplier would be in that situation.\n\nThis is now a key question for the inquiry and the police, who are investigating Arconic's sales of flammable cladding.\n\nArconic now says that it made the raw materials for cladding systems and could not be held responsible for the ways in which they were used.\n\nMr Sonntag's response to the 2007 presentation was to recommend the company stop selling the PE version of the cladding in favour of a fire-retardant (FR) type.\n\nHe also said Arconic should cut production costs so that the FR version could be produced at the same price as the cheaper PE version.\n\nThe company did pursue this strategy but kept the PE version on the market until after the Grenfell fire, when the role of the product in allowing flames to spread had become clear.\n\nBecause three key French Arconic employees won't give evidence, Mr Millett said open questions remained, including whether Mr Sonntag's recommendations were fully discussed by the company.", "Wenjing Lin died at the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway, in Ynyswen, on Friday\n\nA man has been charged with murder after the death of a 16-year-old girl in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nPolice launched a murder investigation after Wenjing Lin died at the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway, in Ynyswen near Treorchy, on Friday.\n\nChun Xu, 31, has been charged with Ms Lin's murder and the attempted murder of a 38-year-old man, said South Wales Police.\n\nMr Xu will appear at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nA 38-year-old man who was previously arrested in connection with the incident is no longer being treated as a suspect, police added. But he remains in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Baglan Street at about midday to reports of a stabbing, and a cordon was erected around the Blue Sky takeaway.\n\nScores of floral tributes were left at the restaurant where Ms Lin died\n\nOfficers later confirmed a 16-year-old girl had died and her family paid tribute to \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nScores of floral tributes were left at the takeaway restaurant as the community mourned her death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK has not \"blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components\", the PM tells the Commons\n\nBoris Johnson has \"corrected\" European Council President Charles Michel after he claimed the UK had imposed an \"outright ban\" on the export of Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said the government had \"not blocked\" any sales to other countries.\n\nMr Michel had said his claim about the UK's position was based on \"facts\".\n\nBut the Foreign Office summoned an EU official to explain what it called the president's \"incorrect assertions\".\n\nThe argument over vaccine exports comes at a time when European leaders are under pressure over the slow distribution of jabs.\n\nIn the UK, meanwhile, more than 22.5 million people - around a third of the population - have received their first dose.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs he was \"proud\" of the progress made, adding that the UK had also donated £548m to the Covax initiative, set up to distribute vaccines around the world.\n\nThe Gavi vaccines alliance, which co-runs the scheme, told the BBC this would pay for \"more than 70 million\" of the two billion doses expected to be given this year.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted to \"correct the suggestion from the European Council president that the UK has blocked vaccine exports\", adding: \"Let me be clear: we have not blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he was against \"vaccine nationalism in all its forms\" and called on all countries to \"work together to tackle this pandemic\".\n\nAfter heavy criticism over their handling of the procurement and delivery of vaccines, EU leaders are trying to point to the bigger picture.\n\nCharles Michel paints the EU as leading the effort to vaccinate the globe.\n\nAnalysis by the New York Times suggests the EU exported 25 million doses in February, despite production problems in Europe, and that eight million of these were despatched to the UK.\n\nBrussels bosses remain deeply frustrated the UK is, as they see it, racing to vaccinate its own citizens before thinking about the wider world. London rejects this.\n\nMr Michel's bitterly disputed \"outright ban\" claim follows Ursula von der Leyen's assertion last month that Britain had a system that effectively blocked the export of vaccines.\n\nBut the European Commission's chief spokesman said he was aware of no restrictive measures concerning vaccines leaving the UK.\n\nIn his weekly briefing note on Tuesday, Mr Michel said: \"The United Kingdom and the United States have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory.\"\n\nAfter the UK government insisted this was not true, Mr Michel tweeted that there were \"different ways of imposing bans or restrictions on vaccines/medicines\". But he did not elaborate on this.\n\nAt the European Commission's press briefing in Brussels, spokesman Eric Mamer declined to comment on Mr Michel's statements.\n\nHe added that Mr Johnson and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had had a phone call \"some time ago\", during which he had \"assured her the UK did not have any issue when it came to the delivery of vaccines to the European Union\".\n\nThe EU was a \"very, very active exporter of vaccines, and that is not necessarily the case of all our partners\", Mr Mamer said.\n\nThe EU has faced production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nIn January, it introduced a system of controls on exports, requiring manufacturers to seek permission from national governments for planned sales.\n\nThe EU also drafted regulations which would have overridden the Northern Ireland Protocol - agreed with the UK last year - potentially allowing it to stop vaccines bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it backed down following widespread criticism.", "LGBT+ campaigners have urged the government to \"make good\" the prime minister's promise to ban \"conversion therapy\" in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes as three advisers quit the government's LGBT+ advisory panel amid concern it is being too slow in bringing in legislation.\n\nMinisters have promised to \"work at pace\" to end conversion therapy.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had a \"blind spot\" on the issue that the PM had to \"address\".\n\nConversion therapy involves treatments ranging from psychotherapy to religious teaching and discussion.\n\nCampaigners want a \"meaningful\" law against the practice, which aims to change sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nAll forms of conversion therapy are already prohibited in Switzerland and parts of Australia and Boris Johnson pledged last summer to ban what he called an \"abhorrent\" practice in England and Wales.\n\nBut the government has not yet published the findings of a consultation on the issue which began in 2018.\n\nIn a debate in Parliament on Monday, equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said conversion therapy had \"no place in a civilised society\", but added that \"robust\" laws were already in place to deal with the most troubling examples, involving violence and sexual assault.\n\nAnd the government did not want to stop those who \"seek spiritual counselling as they explore their sexual orientation\", she said.\n\nBut LGBT+ groups and campaigners, including Stonewall, the LGBT Foundation and Trans Media Watch, say a ban on all forms of conversion therapy, not just the most distressing types, is needed.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Badenoch, they express \"deep concern\" over her comments, arguing they appeared to \"imply that you have been meeting with perpetrators of conversion therapy and those who want the practice to continue\".\n\nThe letter continues: \"This is very worrying and gives the impression that the government is more interested in appeasing the extreme fringes of religious people, despite the calls for a ban from senior religious leaders from across a wide range of faiths.\"\n\nTwo advisers quit the government's LGBT advisory panel on Wednesday, and a third resigned on Thursday.\n\nThere have been rumblings for a while about a growing unease amongst some panel members which are now playing out in a very public way.\n\nThe advisory group was first set up under Theresa May but hasn't met for some time - I'm told at least six months.\n\nAnd now we've heard claims that, even when it did meet, panellists didn't necessarily feel listened to.\n\nIf the group does appear increasingly defunct (and we'll have to see what happens) it may be seen, by some, as symbolic of a fading commitment to LGBT+ equality under this administration.\n\nMinisters would reject that and, during a debate on Monday, Kemi Badenoch said the government has a \"proud record\" of championing equal opportunity.\n\nBut it was her response overall that seems to have sparked these resignations.\n\nAmong concerns was her refusal to commit to a legislative \"ban\" of so-called conversion therapy, promising instead only to \"end\" the practice.\n\nThe equalities minister described the legal landscape as \"complex\". But it's an awkward one for Boris Johnson who did, last summer, use the word \"ban\" during a TV interview.\n\nJayne Ozanne, who resigned first, accused ministers of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT+ people.\n\nShe said there had been \"a lack of engagement\", telling ITV News that both Ms Badenoch and minister for women and equalities Liz Truss were known among the LGBT+ community as \"the ministers for inequality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayne Ozanne spoke to the BBC in 2018 about her own experience of gay conversion therapy\n\nAnother of those who quit the panel, James Morton, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"For the past 12 months I've been increasingly concerned about the direction of travel on trans rights.\"\n\nHe added that it felt \"really scary\" being a trans person \"in the UK at the moment\".\n\nAnd Ellen Murray said she had resigned \"due to the government's persistent and worsening hostility towards our community\".\n\n\"From conversion therapy to trans healthcare, to the shameful treatment of LGBT refugees, the government has acted in appalling faith,\" she added.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government \"has a blind\" spot in the issue.\n\n\"The PM needs to address what is obviously a problem in his government and a pattern of behaviour he needs to address,\" he said at his party's local election campaign launch.\n\nAsked if he would ban conversion therapy if he were prime minister, Sir Keir said: \"yes, absolutely.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the government \"bows to nobody in terms of our pushing for LBTQ issues, LGBT rights and also rights of minorities\".\n\nOn Wednesday, a government spokesman said: \"We have repeatedly made clear that we will take action to end conversion therapy and we are working to bring forward plans to do so shortly.\"\n\nThe LGBT Advisory Council was set up in 2019, with the term of current panel members set to end on 31 March.", "Everton goalkeeper Robin Olsen joined the club from AS Roma\n\nEverton goalkeeper Robin Olsen and his family were threatened with a machete during a break-in at their home, the club has confirmed.\n\nThe masked gang stole jewellery and a luxury watch from the Sweden international's house near Altrincham, Greater Manchester over the weekend.\n\nEverton said they were \"offering Robin and his family as much support as is possible\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police have been contacted regarding the burglary.\n\nOlsen, 31, has made nine appearances for Everton since joining the Blues on a season-long loan deal from Italian club AS Roma in October.\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti was targeted last month when two men stole a safe from his home in Crosby, Merseyside.\n\nThe safe, which had been forced open, was later found dumped in a car park.\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 owner of Wagamama is seeking to raise millions of pounds after many of its restaurants had to close their doors amid lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe Restaurant Group (TRG) will seek to raise £175m from its shareholders to pay down debt and use as a buffer in case of any Covid resurgence.\n\nIts boss said the pandemic had presented \"enormous challenges\" for the sector.\n\nTotal sales dropped by 57% to £459.8m in 2020 as many TRG sites were closed.\n\nDented sales and pandemic costs meant the group, which also owns other restaurant chains such as Frankie & Benny's, reported a £127.6m pre-tax loss last year, compared to a £37.3m loss in 2019.\n\nIt added that its short-term outlook remains \"uncertain\" while lockdown restrictions remain in place.\n\nChief executive Andy Hornby said that TRG has \"responded decisively\" to restructure the businesses while preserving the \"maximum number of long-term roles for our colleagues\".\n\n\"Whilst the sector outlook remains uncertain, and we are mindful of continuing restrictions across the UK, we are confident that the actions announced today will allow us to emerge as one of the long-term winners.\"\n\nUnder the prime minister's current \"roadmap\" for easing lockdown restrictions, hospitality venues will be able to reopen for customers dining outside 12 April at the earliest, with indoor dining set for 17 May.\n\nDuring the pandemic, TRG started a major restructuring, closing about 250 sites, which largely affected staff across its Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and Food & Fuel brands.\n\nIt also tapped investors for cash last April, raising £54.6m from a share placing.\n\nThe firm, which now has about 400 restaurants, pubs and concessions, said the additional funds it planned to raise would be the \"last step\" in the restructuring plan as it prepares to reopen sites once restrictions lift.\n\nIt said Wagamama delivered \"exceptional\" like-for-like sales growth when it was open for dine-in trading and that the Wagamama restaurants operating takeaways and delivery services saw sales two and a half times higher than pre-Covid levels.\n\nBut Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that it could take some time for pent-up demand to \"unleash\" as restaurants reopen.\n\n\"Many of The Restaurant Group's sites have limited outdoor seating so are unlikely to fully benefit from the phased opening of the hospitality industry from 12 April,\" she said.\n\n\"The cash injection from this latest rights issue will give it some breathing space but there may well be more restructuring pain to come, as a slimmed down version of Restaurant Group emerges from the crisis.''\n\nSeparately, the owner of delivery giant Just Eat said on Wednesday that it expected orders to ramp up further in 2021.\n\nDutch-based Just Eat Takeaway.com reported a sharp increase in sales of €2.4bn (£2bn) in 2020, up 54% from €1.6bn the previous year. It said this was due to a 42% leap in online orders.\n\nUK food orders increased 35% over the year and the group said this had accelerated further under current lockdown measures.\n\nMcDonald's and Greggs orders have proven popular with UK customers during lockdown.\n\nJust Eat Takeaway said UK orders were 88% higher in the first two months of 2021, with delivery orders up by more than 600% compared with a year earlier.\n\nPartnerships with chains such as Greggs and McDonald's were particularly popular with UK customers, it added.\n\nHowever, despite the high demand for home deliveries, the platform reported a pre-tax loss of €147m euros against €88m in 2019. It said the figure reflected costs associated with the group's takeover of GrubHub in the US and the merger of Just Eat with Takeaway.com.\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, added that a \"number of potential clouds\" could be on the horizon for the group.\n\n\"Competition in the space is intense and, in the post-pandemic world, it is impossible to guarantee that its business model will continue to generate such strong growth as the easing of lockdown restrictions allow the global population to visit restaurants in person once more,\" he said.", "An Australian man has pleaded guilty to filming and mocking police officers as they lay dying at a crash scene.\n\nRichard Pusey, 42, admitted to the rare charge of outraging public decency as well as drug and other offences.\n\nPusey was in his car on a Melbourne freeway last year when he was pulled over by four officers for speeding.\n\nWhile the officers were making his arrest, all four were struck by a passing lorry that had veered out of its lane.\n\nSenior Constables Lynette Taylor and Kevin King and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney died at the scene.\n\nPusey had been standing a few metres away and avoided the crash, but afterwards pulled out his phone and began filming for over three minutes.\n\nHe stood over and taunted Senior Constable Taylor as she remained pinned under the lorry a court previously heard. Experts said she was most likely still alive at the time.\n\n\"There you go. Amazing, absolutely amazing,\" he said, according to vision from the constable's body-worn camera which was tendered to a court.\n\n\"All I wanted was to go home and have some sushi,\" he added, before using expletives to blame the officers for ruining his Porsche sports car.\n\nHe fled the scene on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway shortly after.\n\nThe lorry driver, Mohinder Singh Bajwa, has pleaded guilty to four charges of culpable driving causing death and will face another court hearing this week.\n\nPusey, a mortgage broker, was arrested at his home after the crash. He was initially charged with speeding, drug possession and reckless conduct offences.\n\nHowever, police discovered Pusey's video and that he had shared it among friends.\n\nHis comments in the footage sparked public outrage, with Victoria's police minister condemning them as \"completely sickening\".\n\nLocal media reported that the offence of outraging public decency was rarely prosecuted in Australia.\n\nProsecutors in the case have referred to the 2007 case of Anthony Anderson in England, who was jailed for three years for urinating on a woman as she lay dying.\n\nThere is no maximum penalty for the charge in Australian law.\n\nPusey is due to face court again on 31 March.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFabinho is \"one of the best in the world at number six\", Jurgen Klopp said after the Brazil midfielder helped Liverpool beat RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThe 27-year-old has had to fill in at centre-back for large parts of this season because of injuries to Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip and Joe Gomez, while also suffering from a number of fitness problems of his own.\n\nBut restored to his preferred position in the centre of the Reds midfield, he excelled in the last-16 second-leg win over Leipzig, which was secured through second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.\n\nIt keeps alive the club's hopes of a second European title in three seasons at the end of a campaign where their title defence has fallen apart following a run of recent home defeats.\n\n\"The performance and the level we played was really good and necessary,\" Liverpool manager Klopp said. \"We did really well. Defending-wise [it] was really good. [The] front three worked well together - but missed a couple of chances in the first half.\n\nOn Fabinho, he said: \"We have to see what solutions we can find for the next games - but number six is his position.\n\n\"It was our hope to keep him there for the season. He is one of the best in the world in that position, that is clear - not only defending-wise but creating as well. He is so important to us.\"\n\nFor 70 minutes in Budapest's Puskas Arena, Liverpool were extremely wasteful in front of goal, but sealed the tie when Salah cut inside and finished with a low drive shortly after Leipzig substitute Alexander Sorloth had struck the bar with a header.\n\nMane made absolutely sure with a neat finish from Divock Origi's superb cross.\n\nKlopp's side will find out their last-eight opponents when the draw is made on Friday, 19 March.\n\n\"The only reason you play in the Champions League is to win, but we are not silly,\" Klopp continued on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"We wait for the draw. It will be tough whoever we get. We are [dangerous opponents] but it is nothing really. I don't want to create headlines about our hopes.\n\n\"We didn't have momentum in the Premier League but we have games to get that back and that would help us in the Champions League.\"\n• None Re-visit text coverage of Liverpool's second leg with RB Leipzig\n\nThe rapid, shocking decline in domestic form suffered by Klopp's side of late means that lifting the Champions League trophy is beginning to look like their most likely route back into the competition next season.\n\nSix home defeats on the spin have sent Liverpool tumbling down the table to eighth, seven points off fourth place.\n\nDuring that run they have looked a shadow of the side that utterly dominated the English top flight in 2019-20, with much-publicised injuries and resultant shuffling of a settled side stripping it of cogency and confidence.\n\nWednesday's display was a welcome step in the right direction for the Reds.\n\nThe central defence retained an unavoidable rookie feel, but in front of Ozan Kabak and Nathaniel Phillips the presence of Fabinho alongside Thiago Alcantara and stand-in captain Georginio Wijnaldum in attack gave Liverpool greater solidity, fluency and attacking threat.\n\nThat said, they could make their lives an awful lot easier by taking a few of the multitude of chances they create.\n\nSalah, Mane and Diogo Jota all had big opportunities to put the tie to bed before half-time, but were either denied by Leipzig keeper Peter Gulacsi or missed the target altogether.\n\nSalah was especially at fault, seeing a shot saved after breaking clear before later firing over from close range following Trent Alexander-Arnold's neat pull-back.\n\nThey were fortunate that the German side - such prolific scorers in the Bundesliga - were equally profligate.\n\nHampered by the absence of the injured Angelino, Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann spent the second half sending forwards on to the pitch from the bench, including Justin Kluivert, son of former Netherlands striker Patrick, but to no avail.\n\nThe fight left them at the moment Salah's low shot hit the back of the net, with Mane taking advantage soon after.\n\nThe duo's return to goalscoring form was timely in the context of this game but even more so for the sake of the Reds' season as a whole, which is still there to be salvaged.\n\n\"The result will help but we know Monday at Wolves [in the Premier League] is a different game,\" Klopp added. \"If we play like that tonight it will be a problem for Wolves.\n\n\"The game tonight was a summary of our season. We are good, created chances, didn't finish them all off.\"\n\nKlopp makes it 12 out of 13 in knock-out ties\n• None In all European competitions under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool have now progressed from 12 of their 13 two-legged knockout ties (including qualifiers), only failing in last season's last 16 against Atletico Madrid.\n• None Liverpool remain unbeaten in their last 12 meetings with German opponents in all European competition (won nine, drawn three) since a 2-4 loss to Bayer Leverkusen in April 2002.\n• None RB Leipzig have lost back-to-back games in European competition for only the second time (also November 2018), and the first time in the Champions League.\n• None Liverpool won both legs of a Champions League two-legged knockout tie while also keeping a clean sheet in each leg for the first time since the 2008-09 last-16 tie against Real Madrid.\n• None Having won three and lost just one of their first four meetings with English sides in all competitions (two against Spurs, two against Manchester United), RB Leipzig have lost both of their last two against Liverpool.\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has scored 25 goals in all competitions this season, the most of any player for all Premier League clubs.\n• None Since Liverpool's Alisson made his Champions League debut in September 2017, the Brazilian has kept more clean sheets in the competition than any other goalkeeper (16).\n• None Attempt missed. Konstantinos Tsimikas (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Divock Origi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Naby Keita.\n• None Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Naby Keita.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Christopher Nkunku.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The Fight of the Century - Ali v Frazier: A ringside seat at the fight that changed the world\n• None Delivering the laughs in his brilliant live show", "The steakhouse firm said all staff had got their money back plus 20% extra as a \"thank you\"\n\nA restaurant chain which asked furloughed staff to loan it 10% of their wages, amid claims of potential sackings, has paid the money back.\n\nTomahawk Steakhouse asked 500 workers to lend some of their pay to cover pension and national insurance contributions. All the workers agreed.\n\nThe firm denied the claim staff might lose their jobs, but said all staff had got their money back plus 20% extra.\n\nThe GMB union said the return of the cash was a \"massive win\" for workers.\n\nIn a letter to staff seen by the BBC, Tomahawk, which has restaurants in York, Middlesbrough, Beverley, Newcastle, Durham and Hoxton, east London, said it had a \"short-term cash flow issue and it requires your help and support\".\n\nAt the time of the company's request the GMB claimed staff who refused were told their \"suitability for the role will have to be reviewed\".\n\nStaff agreed to the request. Tomahawk says that money has now been returned with the 20% addition.\n\nA spokeswoman for Tomahawk said: \"As part of the voluntary agreement signed by all of our staff, we promised that any monies loaned would be returned as soon as we were financially able.\n\n\"Following the budget announcement last week, we are delighted to have been able to swiftly honour that promise this week.\n\n\"All staff have now received the loaned amount, along with an additional 20%, as a thank you for supporting the business at this critical time.\"\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said it was an \"abuse of the furlough scheme\"\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said: \"This was always an outrageous exploitation of both the furlough scheme and low paid, young workers.\n\n\"The cash should never have been taken in the first place as no employee can afford a further reduction in their take home pay - especially when it's to cover their employer's own obligations.\n\n\"Tomahawk's bullying behaviour was rightly condemned across the board. Their U-turn is a massive win for workers.\"\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.", "Sellafield in Cumbria is the largest industrial site in the UK, employing more than 10,000 staff\n\nA \"toxic culture\" of bullying and harassment at Sellafield could let serious safety concerns go unreported, whistleblowers have told the BBC.\n\nIn a leaked letter, the nuclear site's group for ethnic minority staff described \"shocking stories\" of racial abuse.\n\nOther workers said sexist and homophobic bullying had become routine.\n\nSellafield said it was committed to eradicating unacceptable behaviour from the workplace.\n\n\"When I started working there, it quickly became apparent there was rampant bullying in the organisation,\" said Alison McDermott, a senior consultant hired in 2017 to work on Sellafield's equality strategy.\n\nShe said staff interviews and focus groups revealed serious allegations of sexual harassment at the sprawling site on the Cumbrian coast.\n\nEmployees are demoralised, bullied and scared to speak out, Alison McDermott says\n\n\"Young women were saying they were in tears after work because of the way they were sexually harassed,\" she said.\n\nOne interviewee said she was asked in graphic terms by a senior manager if she performed sexual favours to win a recent promotion, according to McDermott.\n\nIn one internal email seen by the BBC, a senior HR manager at the site described how an autistic employee had been called a \"mong\" by her own team leader.\n\n\"This is a nuclear site, where many employees are demoralised, bullied and scared to speak out,\" Ms McDermott said.\n\n\"You've got toxic materials and a toxic culture, if you put those two together then you've got a recipe for disaster.\"\n\nMs McDermott's contract with Sellafield was terminated in October 2018, days after she submitted an internal report critical of the human resources department.\n\nShe is now taking her case to an employment tribunal alleging she was dismissed for whistleblowing. The nuclear site is contesting her allegations.\n\nSellafield, the largest nuclear site in Western Europe, reprocesses spent nuclear fuel, splitting it into plutonium, uranium and waste.\n\nMore than 140 tonnes of plutonium are stored in giant hangers, the biggest civil stockpile of the metal in the world.\n\nStaff are tasked with decontaminating and dismantling the vast site which has been producing nuclear material since the 1950s.\n\nSellafield is ultimately owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a non-departmental government body.\n\nIt employs more than 10,000 staff directly with thousands more working indirectly through contractors.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a letter sent in September 2020 by Sellafield's network of ethnic minority staff to the firm's board, cataloguing a series of 27 racist incidents.\n\nOne employee said they were walking through the site when a driver of a passing car shouted \"racist taunts\" before speeding off.\n\n\"I reported it but after a cursory investigation I was told nothing could be done to find and deal with the culprit,\" the staff member said.\n\nSellafield is guarded by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, a specialist police unit\n\nThe letter contains multiple examples of offensive racial slurs being used openly on the site.\n\nOne worker said his instructor at a training course told the class the main threat to the site was \"bearded men in flip-flops\".\n\n\"He then singled me out and mockingly looked under the table at my shoes to the delight of the class,\" the worker wrote.\n\n\"I happen to be a bearded Muslim man. [The instructor] went on to say: 'They [Muslims] come over on boats, we feed them, we clothe them, we house them and all they want to do is blow us up.' None of my colleagues intervened or supported me.\"\n\nThe letter calls on the Sellafield board to accept the organisation has a problem with racism and commit to better education and training.\n\n\"We fear that if we complain, we could be branded a troublemaker and mark ourselves out to be got rid of. It is exhausting that we must be wary of those who we spend most of our waking hours with,\" the letter said.\n\nKarl Connor, a senior manager at Sellafield for more than 13 years, resigned in January after suffering a breakdown he said was caused, in part, by bullying.\n\n\"I think there's a massive problem with bullying at Sellafield and I think there always will be as long as the company isn't prepared to do anything about it,\" he said.\n\nHe said there were some \"fantastic people\" working on the site but the working culture could be difficult to deal with.\n\n\"If you want to earn a good wage and live in that part of the world, then you have to work at Sellafield or in one of the supply chain companies,\" he said.\n\n\"The best thing for most people is not to rock the boat, to keep their heads down and just put up with it.\"\n\nMr Connor is now in the process of bringing a disability discrimination case against the company.\n\nA work environment where staff are treated with dignity and respect is an \"essential trait of a healthy nuclear safety culture\", according to the World Association of Nuclear Operators, an organisation formed in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster - of which Sellafield is a member.\n\nAn internal staff survey commissioned by the firm in 2018 and seen by the BBC showed 54% of the employees who filled in the poll agreed they \"could speak out about doing the right thing without fear of reprisals\", a fall of 11 percentage points since the previous survey in 2016.\n\nSellafield management said staff surveys \"brought focus\" to concerns about bullying and harassment at the site.\n\n\"We did not ignore this, or seek to cover it up,\" said a spokesperson. \"We confronted the issue, proactively shared information with employees, and developed a company-wide improvement programme. This work is continuing.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a number of former and current members of staff who had concerns about safety at the site.\n\nIn one case a senior member of the underwater diving unit claimed he was bullied and sidelined after highlighting staffing levels he felt were unsafe. He said after he retired Sellafield did increase the number of people on the team.\n\nIn an incident from December 2017, a worker was exposed to plutonium after a bag of nuclear waste was opened in a workshop used to repair contaminated machinery.\n\nAn internal safety report seen by the BBC blamed a \"deficiency in leadership standards\" for the accident, a near repeat of a similar case in 2015 in which no-one was hurt.\n\nThe report said an alarm meant to measure radioactive contamination levels in the air was triggered, but it had become \"custom and practice\" to consider the alerts a nuisance by staff.\n\nThe BBC has seen redacted emails released under the freedom of information act, apparently between people involved in the subsequent investigation. A number refer to claims of a cover up and allegations of intimidating and threatening behaviour.\n\n\"It was a serious incident and not to be taken lightly,\" said one serving Sellafield employee who is currently responsible for nuclear safety.\n\n\"I've seen a steady deterioration in standards in my career. There are things that are not right but if you complain about it, nothing ever happens.\"\n\nThe safety report said new measures were put in place to prevent a similar accident in the future, with staff reminded of the checks they need to make in 'radiologically controlled areas'.\n\nThe nuclear regulator, the ONR, issued a statement in response in which it said it was concerned to hear claims of bullying at Sellafield and would take \"robust action\" if there was evidence of an impact on safety at the site.\n\n\"To date we have found no issues that have resulted in unsafe activities at the site or evidence which identifies that Sellafield is not complying with the laws under our regulatory responsibility,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nA Sellafield spokesperson said: \"There is no place for bullying and harassment at Sellafield. We do not tolerate it and where we find it, we take action.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the company was working to improve its processes so employees can have confidence that when issues are raised, they are dealt with.\n\n\"We closely monitor our progress, including seeking the views of our workforce through working groups and surveys,\" he said.\n\n\"We accept we have more work to do in this area, but we remain as committed as ever to eradicating unacceptable behaviour from our workplace.\"\n\nUpdate 6th April 2021: This article has been updated to include a response from the Office for Nuclear Regulation.", "A mother who fought to change the law around murder says her daughter would be \"very proud\".\n\nAnnounced on Tuesday, Ellie's Law, named after Wiltshire teenager Ellie Gould, means teenage killers could face sentences of up to 27 years.\n\nEllie was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths in May 2019.\n\nHe was 17 at the time, so received a more lenient sentence than an adult defendant would have.\n\nThe change in the law, announced by Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, is the culmination of a two-year campaign by Ellie's parents.\n\nAlong with the mother of Poppy Devey-Waterhouse from Frome, Somerset, who was murdered in similar circumstances, Mrs Gould says she also wants sentences increased for killers who use a weapon they find at the scene.\n\nBoth Ellie, 17, and Poppy, 24, were killed with knives their ex-boyfriends found in their homes.\n\nPoppy Devey-Waterhouse and Ellie Gould were murdered by their ex-boyfriends\n\nUnable to accept she wanted to break up with him, Griffiths attacked Ellie at her family home in Calne, Wiltshire, killing her with a kitchen knife.\n\nAlthough he was 18 by the time he was sentenced to a minimum of 12-and-a-half years in prison, his age at the time of the crime was a factor in the minimum jail term he could face.\n\nDespite the Gould family taking their case to the Court of Appeal, it was not ruled unduly lenient.\n\n\"Griffiths was treated like a 10 year-old but he was only five months off being 18,\" said Ellie's mother Carole.\n\nEllie's Law will see someone like Griffiths treated more like an adult.\n\n\"Under the new law he would have a starting point of a minimum of 14 years,\" said Mrs Gould.\n\n\"I think she [Ellie] would be very proud. She'd say 'well done mum, you've achieved something amazing'.\"\n\nCarole Gould said her daughter Ellie would have wanted her to \"keep fighting\"\n\nMr Buckland, the MP for Swindon South, said he wanted to pay tribute to the \"dignified\" way the Gould family had campaigned since the \"appalling murder\" of their daughter.\n\nHe said the law change reflected the \"gravity\" of crimes like murder.\n\nAlthough the change in the law will not mean Griffiths' sentence can be extended retrospectively, it does mean he has lost the right to have it reviewed.\n\n\"That's a huge cloud that's been lifted from above our heads,\" said Mrs Gould.\n\n\"We know that he will remain behind bars for at least the next 10-and-a-half years.\"\n\nJoe Atkinson, left, and Thomas Griffiths admitted murdering their former girlfriends\n\nAlong with Poppy's mother Julie Devey, Mrs Gould says she will continue to campaign for tougher sentences for people who kill using a weapon they have not taken to the scene.\n\n\"If a murderer kills his victim and he hasn't taken a weapon to the scene of the crime, usually a domestic setting, the minimum tariff is 15 years,\" said Mrs Devey, whose daughter was murdered in Leeds in December 2018.\n\n\"If the murderer takes a weapon to the scene of the crime the starting tariff is 25 years.\n\n\"That 10-year gap is huge, and it's still the case, nothing has been changed with that yet.\"", "Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has announced that detectives investigating the missing Sarah Everard have found \"what appears to be human remains\" in woodland in Kent.\n\nMs Dick spoke of the shared shock and disgust of the police and public at the arrest of a Metropolitan police officer on suspicion of her murder.\n\nShe reassured the public that an increased police presence will be in force in the areas surrounding Sarah's disappearance along with continued large scale investigative activity.", "Heathrow Airport regularly sees queues of three hours and sometimes six hours at border control, according to Emma Gilthorpe, its chief operating officer.\n\nEarlier this month, passengers complained of waiting up to seven hours, which one said was \"inhumane\".\n\nBut Border Force said many passengers were arriving without having bought mandatory Covid testing packages.\n\nThe enforcement body added that people should only be travelling for limited reasons.\n\nSeparately, hundreds of Heathrow passport control are set to take industrial action.\n\nUnions representing Border Force officials said the delays were partly caused by Covid restrictions requiring immigration officials to work in a bubble of 10.\n\nThey said this prevented more staff being deployed if the border was particularly busy.\n\nBut Nick Jariwalla, director of Border Force at Heathrow, said: \"We are in a global health pandemic - it is illegal to go on holiday and people should only be travelling for very limited reasons.\n\n\"Unfortunately, a large number of passengers are continuing to arrive without having purchased their mandatory testing packages for the second and eighth days of quarantine in the UK.\n\n\"This causes delays as passengers may receive a fine or be subject to other enforcement action.\"\n\nMr Jariwalla said all arriving passengers had to purchase the testing package before leaving the airport.\n\n\"We make absolutely no apologies for this,\" he added. \"Every essential check stops the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\n\"These people should not have been allowed to travel without their testing packages and we are following up with regulators and carriers to ensure the law is enforced.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Gilthorpe said that pre-Covid, the queues for EU arrivals were supposed to be 25 minutes, and 45 minutes for non-EU arrivals.\n\nWhile she said she expected the length of waiting to go up during the pandemic, Ms Gilthorpe said the levels the airport was currently seeing were \"unacceptable\".\n\nWhile Ms Gilthorpe said the measures in place for quarantine hotels were running relatively smoothly, with a small number of passengers, she said the same could not be said for the border.\n\nMs Gilthorpe said passengers who felt poorly treated at Heathrow would choose rival airports next time.\n\n\"We are seeing significant pressure on the border and we are seeing very long queues, and that is a worry,\" she said.\n\nAlthough Ms Gilthorpe said she knew additional resources had been introduced, the issues were caused by \"the level of complexity of the processes and the way resource is being deployed\".\n\nInternational arrivals must now provide proof of a negative Covid test taken 72 hours before departure to England and a passenger locator form which contains details of either a purchased hotel quarantine stay, or two test kits for at home quarantine.\n\nShe told the committee: \"It is deeply frustrating as the operator of the airport when you have a queue full of people and you only have two desks open.\n\n\"It is rare to see all the desks manned and we have to find our way to how we make that happen so we can get that flow.\"\n\nHeathrow's self-service e-gates at passport control are currently closed.\n\nMs Gilthorpe said she hoped that by the summer, the gates would also be able to scan passenger locator forms and pre-departure testing results, but that had not yet been integrated into the system.\n\nThe Heathrow executive also warned that if the long queues continued after international travel is permitted. it could risk the country's economic resurgence.\n\n\"Heathrow is Britain's hub airport, it is the front door. We have to get our economy moving and we have to make sure we are capable of receiving people,\" she said.\n\n\"If you have a poor experience at the border, there's a risk you won't come back again. That traffic will go to Charles De Gaulle [airport in Paris], it will go to Frankfurt and we will miss out on that economic resurgence,\" she said.\n\nThe queue delays come as staff in the PCS union served notice of industrial action over rosters they describe as \"unworkable\".\n\nThis will involve a month of action short of a strike by hundreds of staff, including working to rule and an overtime ban.\n\nThe roster changes include ending the ability of staff to swap and request certain shifts, the union said.\n\nIn February, staff voted for strike action over the changes, the union said.", "Appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs should last longer and be cheaper to run under new rules.\n\nMinisters have confirmed that from the summer consumers will have a right to repair on goods they buy.\n\nThey are keeping a promise to implement EU rules aimed at cutting energy and bills – and reducing the need for new materials.\n\nMany consumers have complained that goods don’t last long enough, then can’t be fixed in the home.\n\nManufacturers will be legally obliged to make spare parts for products available to consumers for the first time – a new legal right for repairs.\n\nThe aim of the new rules is to extend the lifespan of products by up to 10 years, and officials estimate that higher energy efficiency standards will save consumers an average of £75 a year on bills over their lifetimes.\n\nThe new rules will be estimated to reduce the 1.5 million tonnes of electrical waste said by the government to be generated in the UK each year and to contribute to reducing carbon emissions overall.\n\nBusiness and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: \"Our plans to tighten product standards will ensure more electrical goods can be fixed rather than thrown on the scrap heap - putting more money back in the pockets of consumers whilst protecting the environment.\n\n\"Our upcoming energy efficiency framework will push electrical products to use even less energy and material resources, saving people money on their bills and reducing carbon emissions.\"\n\nThe issue has been promoted by the Commons Environmental Audit Committee. Its chairman, Philip Dunne MP told BBC News: “Cracking down on planned obsolescence in electrical items is key to tackling the e-waste tsunami.\n\n“We must stop using and disposing quite so much: we must take action if we are to protect the environment for generations to come.”\n\nThe think tank Green Alliance has also pushed for a right to repair. Its spokeswoman Libby Peake told BBC News: “This is good news – but it’s exactly what the government said it would do on leaving the EU.\n\n“The big test is whether the UK will continue to keep track with future EU standards.”\n\nNew energy labels have also been introduced this month to raise the bar because most products are classed as A+, A++ or A+++ thanks to energy efficiency standards introduced by the EU.\n\nThe simplified system is based on an A-G scale, with a higher standard for each grade so that very few appliances will now make it into the top A group.\n\nEmilie Carmichael from the Energy Saving Trust said: \"Simplifying the way energy efficiency is displayed on labels will help consumers to make more informed choices to reduce their energy consumption and bills.\"\n\nThe new regulations should come into force in the summer. They reflect what was agreed by the UK and the EU member states two years ago.\n\nThey will apply in Great Britain, while EU rules will continue to apply in Northern Ireland.\n• None 'Right to repair' rules brought in for appliances", "Traditionally the Palace protects the family by drawing a curtain between the public, formal stuff and the personal stuff; its refusal to comment on the personal is a strategic interpretation of the family's maxim - \"never explain, never complain\".\n\nThe public/personal divide has always been an artifice. Royals get married in front of tens of millions of people, have state funerals, release photos on birthdays and anniversaries, exchange insights into their lives in return for easy-going and generous coverage.\n\nBut the divide, however often disregarded, remains the guiding principle of the family's formal relationship with the outside world. Now the contradictions that spring from the mix of personal and public are playing out.\n\nSome key allegations are about the personal behaviour and comments of members of the Royal Family and how, through collective neglect and perhaps some malicious intent, they left Harry and Meghan no choice but to leave.\n\nOther statements painted a terrible portrait of unfeeling staff and courtiers. The entire institution was portrayed as if nothing had been learnt from the days of Diana - Prince Harry and Prince William's late mother.\n\nThe duchess is a formidable communicator and has proved herself a very bad woman to pick a fight with. A newly-liberated Harry spoke with almost-eloquence.\n\nMeghan dealt some of the heaviest blows. What is the Palace to say about the accusation that an unnamed member of the family made a comment - more than one by the sounds of things - about the skin colour of the couple's child-to-be? The mind boggles.\n\nBut alongside the personal pain and anger rippling through the duchess's testimony, there came from Harry condemnation of the institution - the suggestion that it was incapable of change, incapable of love, incapable of understanding.\n\nThe contradictions of the Palace, and of the monarchy, are exactly that which makes it so special, so strange, so interesting and so difficult to work within - the merging of personal and public roles, the accretion of tradition, the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest and the need to remain relevant.\n\nHarry's suggestion that his family too - his father Prince Charles, his brother Prince William - are \"trapped\" in their world, and that he felt \"compassion\" for them, was a velvet-covered knife into the heart of the modern monarchy.\n\nRoyal life is conducted from within a gilded cage; the players are not meant to rattle the bars from the outside.\n\nThere is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair\n\nThese are the contradictions Harry walked away (or, in his words, stepped back) from. He was uncomfortable with them before he was married. And when he saw his wife suffering as a result of his being \"trapped\" in royal life, he found a way out with her.\n\nThere are also the contradictions that lie behind many of the decisions that they both spoke out about and are clearly very unhappy about.\n\nIt is public money that pays for security. It is tradition that dictates who gets what title. There is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair. What you do in front of the cameras matters because it reflects on the institution as a whole.\n\nThis meshing of personal and public is unique. It is what being a modern royal is all about. And inside it is often a hugely uncomfortable place to be. Harry knew that. Presumably he warned Meghan. But that warning wasn't enough.\n\nHarry and Meghan's experience suggests that the contradictions are too great. Maybe their interview will act as a catalyst for change. But the Crown has been around for a very long time, and change does not come easily to a body in which the past plays such an outsize role.", "Helen Mary Jones deactivated her personal Twitter account hours after promising to close it down\n\nA politician has apologised to the trans community for causing \"pain and hurt\" over her actions on social media.\n\nPlaid Cymru Senedd member Helen Mary Jones has closed her personal Twitter account after admitting she followed others that shared transphobic content.\n\nThe Mid and West Wales MS has promised to undergo awareness training.\n\nIt comes after Plaid election candidate Owen Hurcum resigned from a party list over the row.\n\nThe deputy mayor of Bangor welcomed Ms Jones' apology but questioned why it took media pressure before she took action.\n\nA Twitter account called Team Helen Mary Jones, which was set up last December, remains online. It tweets updates from Ms Jones' work in the Senedd.\n\n\"I have taken time to reflect and to understand how the actions and comments that I have made and shared on social media and elsewhere, including historic comments that have resurfaced, have caused a lot of hurt and harm to people,\" Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"None more so than the trans community.\n\n\"I specifically recognise that some of the accounts I follow and retweet have shared content which is unacceptable and transphobic and I very much regret the impact of this on individuals as well as the trans community more broadly.\n\n\"For this, I sincerely apologise to the trans community for the pain and hurt I have caused. I am still learning.\"\n\nOwen Hurcum was the fourth Plaid Cymru candidate on the north Wales regional list\n\nThe candidate for Llanelli and Mid and West Wales said she would be undertaking \"relevant awareness training\" from an external organisation.\n\nMs Jones deactivated her personal Twitter account hours after promising to close it down and BBC Wales has been told she does not intend to reactivate it.\n\nOwen Hurcum, who was fourth Plaid Cymru candidate on the north Wales regional list, welcomed the apology but said it was not the first she had made.\n\n\"Questions must still be asked why it took the media pressure resulting in my resignation from the 2021 Senedd elections, as Plaid's first openly non-binary candidate, for her to make the commitments she makes,\" they said.\n\nThe councillor added that Ms Jones' continued candidacy for Plaid was \"somewhat disappointing\", but acknowledged the statement was \"an initial step\" for Ms Jones and the party.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru acknowledges the statement issued by Helen Mary Jones and the spirit of sincerity in which it is intended\", said a spokeswoman for the party.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our commitment to creating a Wales which is fair, equal and just for all its citizens.\n\n\"This will be reflected in the manifesto which will include a clear statement of support for the trans community, endorsed by all the candidates standing in Plaid Cymru's name.\"", "Detectives have asked people in the area to check footage on any cameras that might have captured her\n\nThe family of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday say they long to see her again and have urged anyone with information to contact police.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last seen at a friend's house in Leathwaite Road in Battersea, London, at about 21:00 GMT when she left through the back gate.\n\nShe is thought to have walked across Clapham Common, and was due to arrive home in Brixton 50 minutes later.\n\nHer family said not being in contact was \"totally out of character\" for her.\n\n\"With every day that goes by we are getting more worried about Sarah,\" they said.\n\n\"She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this.\n\n\"We long to see her and want nothing more than for her to be found safe and well.\n\n\"We are desperate for news and if anyone knows anything about what has happened to her, we would urge you to please come forward and speak to the police.\n\n\"No piece of information is too insignificant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Ian Kenward said police were \"working around the clock to try and locate Sarah\"\n\nDetectives said after Ms Everard left her friend's house, she went onto the A205 South Circular and is thought to have crossed Clapham Common.\n\nIt is unclear whether she returned to her home.\n\nOfficers have released a CCTV image of her taken earlier in the evening when she went to Sainsbury's to buy a bottle of wine before heading to her friend's house.\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nSarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nPolice have asked people to check dashcam and doorbell footage from these areas:\n\nSpecialist officers and volunteers from London Search and Rescue are carrying out searches in the area of Clapham Common and the walking route between Clapham and Brixton.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ian Kenward said: \"We are also growing increasingly concerned for her welfare and have officers working round the clock to try and find her.\n\n\"I would ask anybody who was in the Clapham Common area on Wednesday night to think about whether you saw Sarah or any suspicious activity around the time of her disappearance.\"\n\nHe added officers were investigating lots of enquiries but said he did not want to go into specifics.\n\n\"We will continue searching as long as we need to,\" he said.\n• None Fears grow for woman who vanished on walk home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A diplomatic row has broken out after the EU's top official claimed the UK had imposed an \"outright ban\" on the export of Covid vaccines.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel said it applied to all vaccines and components produced in the UK.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described the suggestion as \"completely false\", the BBC understands.\n\nThe EU's deputy ambassador to the UK, Nicole Mannion, was summoned to the Foreign Office for \"discussions\".\n\nAn EU spokesperson said there would be \"no further comment\" on the meeting \"at this stage\".\n\nThe argument over vaccines comes with European leaders under pressure over the slow distribution of jabs.\n\nIn the UK, meanwhile, 22.5 million people - a third of the population - have received their first dose.\n\nIn his weekly briefing note, Mr Michel said he was \"shocked\" to hear the 27-member bloc being accused of \"vaccine nationalism\" following changes it made to export rules earlier this year.\n\n\"Here again, the facts do not lie,\" he wrote. \"The United Kingdom and the United States have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory.\n\n\"But the European Union, the region with the largest vaccine production capacity in the world, has simply put in place a system for controlling the export of doses produced in the EU.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Raab has written to Mr Michel to \"set the record straight\", saying the \"false claim has been repeated at various levels within the EU and the Commission\".\n\nHis letter is understood to say: \"The UK government has not blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components.\"\n\nAfter news of the row broke, Mr Michel tweeted that there were \"different ways of imposing bans or restrictions on vaccines/medicines\".\n\nBut he did not elaborate on this comment.\n\nThe EU has faced production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nIn January, it introduced a system of controls on exports, requiring manufacturers to seek permission from national governments for planned sales.\n\nThe EU also drafted regulations which would have overridden the Northern Ireland Protocol - agreed with the UK last year - potentially allowing it to stop vaccines bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it backed down following widespread criticism.\n\nEarlier this month, Italy blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia.\n\nThe UK, which is expected to have a large surplus of vaccines after ordering 400 million doses, has said it will donate most of those left over to poorer countries.\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron has urged richer countries to put aside up to 5% of their current supplies for this purpose.", "Hannah, Rob and Cathryn are celebrating an extraordinary find\n\n\"We're still pinching ourselves - to believe that this actually happened on our drive!\"\n\nRob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.\n\nIt was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.\n\nThe meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.\n\nIt's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.\n\nThe first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.\n\n\"When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there,\" recalled Hannah. \"But because it was dark I couldn't see anything.\n\n\"It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Either that or someone had upturned a barbecue tray,\" chimed in Cathryn.\n\nScientists knew fragments of a meteorite must be in the Gloucestershire area. Their cameras had recorded the rock coming through the atmosphere that Sunday night, creating a huge fireball in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It blows your mind\": The people of Winchcombe react to the meteorite discovery\n\nImagery from multiple angles allowed researchers to narrow the drop zone, and when they went on the media to make an appeal on the Monday, they hoped one or two people might come forward with an interesting find.\n\nIn fact, they were inundated with pictures. Most had nothing to do with meteorites, but when Open University planetary scientist Richard Greenwood looked at the Wilcocks' picture, he was blown away.\n\n\"It was one of those moments when your legs start going wobbly. I saw this thing; it was like a splat across [the Wilcocks'] drive; and it had all these rays coming off it; and I just thought - that is a meteorite. It was instantaneous,\" he said.\n\nWith all the hullabaloo that was bound to follow the discovery, Rob's initial reaction was to try to stay out of the limelight - to be anonymous.\n\nBut when he thought it through a little more, Rob said the three of them recognised they should talk about what had happened to them.\n\n\"We've been wrestling with the question of whether we should talk about it, and in the end we decided we should. There seems to be such a lot of genuine public interest in the find,\" Rob told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people reported seeing the fireball\n\n\"We're absolutely thrilled that something that's going to be so valuable to science, to the human understanding of the world and of the Solar System has happened, and that we can be a small part in it.\"\n\nThe family have donated the meteorite remains to the national collection held by the Natural History Museum in London. They were determined the rock should not go to a dealer, but to science.\n\nThe last meteorite fall to be picked up in the UK was 30 years ago. That was an \"ordinary chondrite\" - a common type of space rock.\n\nThe Winchcombe meteorite is far more valuable. Studying its chemistry - and what it can tell us about the conditions that went into building the planets - will keep scientists busy for years.\n\nAs for the small Gloucestershire market town - it's now firmly on the map.\n\n\"We always felt that the Cotswolds is a wonderful place to live. But now the whole world seems to know about us,\" reflected one local resident on Tuesday afternoon.", "Women have felt more anxious, depressed and lonely than men during the first year of the pandemic, according to Office for National Statistics data.\n\nWomen spent more time on unpaid childcare and housework over the past year than men, and were more likely to be furloughed.\n\nMore men than women have died with Covid-19 in England and Wales.\n\nBut men were more likely to be unconcerned by the effects of coronavirus on their lives.\n\nWhen asked how anxious they felt, women's anxiety levels have been much higher than men's since March 2020, something also seen before the pandemic.\n\nDuring the first peak, loneliness was the biggest cause of anxiety - and women were more likely than men to feel lonely.\n\nWhile both women and men spent more time working from home during the pandemic, women were more likely to be furloughed.\n\nThey did more of the housework - about 2.75 hours every day during September and October.\n\nThis compares with an average of 1 hour 40 minutes done by men per day.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown, women spent 55% more time than men looking after their children, and this rose to even higher levels in the autumn.\n\nIn spring 2020, one in three women said home-schooling children was negatively affecting their wellbeing, compared with only one in five men.\n\nBut by last month, home-schooling was taking a greater toll on both women and men, with about half saying it was having a damaging effect.\n\nSome 67% of women and 52% of men were home-schooling a child this spring while schools were closed to most pupils during lockdown.\n\nMen are more at risk of being seriously ill and dying with Covid-19 than women - a fact which has been known since the early days of the pandemic - along with people over 70 and those with underlying health conditions.\n\nThis is thought to be because men are more likely to have heart disease, type 2 diabetes and chronic lung disease - all conditions which increase risk.\n\nMen are also more likely to be obese - a known risk factor for severe Covid-19 - but scientists say there may also be genetic factors at play too.\n\nAs a result, 18% more men than women have died in England and Wales with Covid-19 - 63,700 compared with 53,300.\n\nAt the height of the first peak, 5,000 men and 3,600 women died in England and Wales.\n\nThis gap appeared to close slightly in the January peak when 4,600 men and 4,200 women died.\n\nEven in working-age people aged 20-64, men were nearly twice as likely to die as women (31 deaths per 100,000 compared to 17 per 100,000) over the past year.\n• None ONS data on effects of pandemic on men and women The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Criminals target those who are financially stretched\n\nCriminals are seizing on young people's Covid-related financial troubles to hire them to unwittingly launder money, experts say.\n\nMore than four in 10 cases of money mules involved victims aged 21 to 30, with the numbers rising last year, fraud prevention service Cifas said.\n\nBanks said criminals posted fake job adverts on social media, targeting \"generation Covid\" struggling for work.\n\nIt is part of a wider trend of fraudsters exploiting the crisis.\n\nCriminals want to move money through accounts to make it look less suspicious to banks. Money mules are given a cut for allowing their account to be used. Often they ask no questions over the source of the money.\n\nMost are young men. Those who try to quit may be threatened with violence by the criminals who recruited them.\n\nIf they are caught, they could face prison, as well as future difficulties with their finances, such as having their bank account closed and finding it difficult to apply for credit in the future, such as mobile phone contract.\n\nThere were 17,157 cases of suspected money muling activity involving 21 to 30-year-olds in 2020, a 5% increase on the previous year, according to the latest figures from Cifas.\n\nKaty Worobec, managing director of economic crime at UK Finance, which represents banks, said: \"Criminals are cruelly preying on 'generation Covid' and those struggling to find work at this difficult time, by using fake job adverts online to recruit people as money mules.\n\n\"We would urge everyone to remain cautious. At the same time, online platforms must take swift action to detect and take down content being used to promote money muling activity.\"\n\nSocial media is used to attract money mules\n\nThe figures also show that cases among the under 21s had dropped, possibly owing to the fact teenagers have spent less time out and at school, where they could have been recruited.\n\nThis helped to push down the total number of reported cases slightly compared with 2019.\n\n\"Have you ever held £2,000 at once in your hand?\" That was the line used to tempt Holly into becoming a money mule.\n\nAt the age of 17 and still at school, Holly (not her real name) was approached on Instagram, then Snapchat, by a person who promised to pay her a decent sum, if she let him use her bank account to move money.\n\n\"I just eventually gave in,\" she said.\n\nOther scams seen during the pandemic include impersonation fraud, in which con-artists pretend to be from broadband providers, TV streaming services, or energy suppliers to trick victims into handing over money.\n\nRomance scams have exploited the lonely, scam adverts have had a Covid theme, and fraudsters have posed as banks' fraud departments to gather personal details, according to TSB, which has a guarantee to refund blameless victims.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, we have seen an increase in sophisticated attacks on the public. Banks and other businesses need to step up their efforts to protect their customers and help catch the criminals,\" said Ashley Hart, head of fraud at TSB.", "The first jurors have been picked in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man.\n\nOn Tuesday, two men and one woman were selected for the 12-member jury.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, is accused of second-degree unintentional murder and manslaughter in the death of Mr Floyd on 25 May last year.\n\nThe less severe charge of third-degree murder was dismissed last year, but prosecutors have asked to reinstate it.\n\nThe maximum sentence he faces is 40 years.\n\nDespite the dispute over the additional charge, Judge Peter Cahill moved forward with jury selection on Tuesday, after a one-day delay.\n\nThe first juror selected, a chemist, who was white and in his 20s or 30s, described himself as \"logical\" and passionate about his work. He had not seen the video of Floyd's death, he said.\n\nThe second juror, who appeared to be of mixed race and in her 20s, said she had seen the video only once and was eager to hear all the evidence as a juror.\n\nThe third juror, an auditor, who was white, said that he would also examine guilt or innocence only from what is presented in the trial. All three swore to keep an open mind and weigh all the proof presented in determining the outcome of the high-profile case.\n\nThe trial is scheduled to begin on 29 March. Jury selection continues on Wednesday. A total of 14 jurors are needed to make up the panel and alternates. George Floyd death: How will jurors be selected?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NAACP CEO on the challenges of selecting a jury", "Kenneth Walker said he thought an intruder was breaking into his home in Kentucky.\n\nThe boyfriend of Breonna Taylor has had an attempted murder charge against him dropped after he shot and wounded a police officer at his home.\n\nIt happened during the incident when Breonna Taylor, a young black medic with no criminal record, was shot dead.\n\nKenneth Walker had claimed he thought intruders were breaking-in when police raided his home in Kentucky last year.\n\nNo criminal charges have ever been brought over the shooting. Two officers were eventually fired.\n\nBreonna's death was one of several in recent years which contributed to global protests against racism and police brutality in 2020.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was killed when police raided her home over a drugs case.\n\nDuring the raid, Kenneth Walker fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into the couple's home.\n\nPolice claim they made it clear who they were before knocking the front door down.\n\nThey reportedly knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking it down with a battering ram.\n\nBreonna's boyfriend said he then fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots - six of which hit and killed her.\n\nHer name became part of a global Black Lives Matter protest as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes were recently fired from Louisville Police over their involvement, with authorities finding Cosgrove didn't follow procedures with use of force, and failed to use a body camera in the search.\n\nCampaigners are still demanding tougher action from the police.\n\nKenneth Walker was cleared of attempted murder two months after Breonna's death, but prosecutors were able to bring the charges back if new evidence came up.\n\nHowever now a judge has permanently closed the case against him, meaning he can't ever be charged again over it.\n\nThe officer who was shot, Sgt Jonathan Mattingly, recovered from the leg wound and still works at the Louisville police department.\n\n\"After the worst year of [Walker's] life, prosecutors have finally acknowledged that he did nothing wrong and acted in self-defence,\" Kenneth's lawyer Steve Romines told CBS News.\n\n\"He looks forward to continuing the fight to hold the real wrongdoers accountable for the harm that they've caused.\n\n\"Both he, individually, and our community, as a whole, cannot begin the process of healing until that happens.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe executive director of an industry body for the UK press has resigned after a row over its reaction to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's comments about racism in the media.\n\nIan Murray said he would step down from his role at the Society of Editors so it could \"rebuild its reputation\".\n\nPrince Harry said some British tabloids were \"racist\" and \"bigoted\".\n\nThe Society of Editors initially denied that and said such an \"attack\" was \"not acceptable\" without providing evidence.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation on Wednesday, Mr Murray said: \"Since the statement was issued the SoE has been heavily criticised.\n\n\"While I do not agree that the society's statement was in any way intended to defend racism, I accept it could have been much clearer in its condemnation of bigotry and has clearly caused upset.\n\n\"As executive director I lead the society and as such must take the blame and so I have decided it is best for the board and membership that I step aside so that the organisation can start to rebuild its reputation.\"\n\nHe added that the original statement was \"not intended to gloss over the fact the media industry in the UK does have work to do on inclusivity and diversity\".\n\nIt comes after ITV presenter Charlene White pulled out as host of an awards ceremony staged by the Society of Editors - the British Press Awards - saying the organisation should find \"someone whose views align with yours\" to replace her.\n\nIn the duke and duchess' recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry was asked if the couple left the UK because of racism.\n\nHe said that was a \"large part\" of why he and his wife had left the UK.\n\nThe duke recalled a conversation he had had at a charity fundraiser in which he was told that the UK is \"very bigoted\", and he said he replied: \"The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids.\"\n\nHe added: \"But unfortunately if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased then that filters out to the rest of society.\"\n\nThe Society of Editors, which represents almost 400 members of the media, put out a robust defence in response.\n\n\"The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account following the attack on the press by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,\" it said.\n\nAfter criticism, however, it put out a further statement on Wednesday to say its initial comments \"did not reflect what we all know: that there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion\".\n\nThe editors of the Guardian and HuffPost UK had both said they did not agree with the society's position.\n\nAlison Gow, president of the Society of Editors, said: \"I would like to thank Ian for his tireless work on behalf of the society; he has led campaigns for journalists' rights and freedoms and worked hard behind the scenes when it appeared legislation might threaten those.\n\n\"The society is committed to representing all journalists and upholding journalism; I am clear on what our mission must be, and we will strive as an organisation to listen and hear everyone's views, and be strong advocates and allies for all those we represent.\"", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland's objective must be \"to eliminate\" coronavirus.\n\nShe told Holyrood's Covid-19 committee that striving to get new case numbers as low as possible was the only way to keep it under control.\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"the virus won't play ball\" with any effort to maintain case numbers at a \"medium level\".\n\nThe Scottish government has begun to ease some lockdown restrictions, although a stay at home order remains.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said he did not believe coronavirus could be \"eradicated\", but said an elimination strategy of driving case numbers as low as possible would make outbreaks more manageable.\n\nThe government has brought forward some \"relatively minor\" easing of restrictions, with an increase in the number of people who are allowed to mix outdoors to begin on Friday.\n\nMs Sturgeon will set out a more detailed timetable for lifting lockdown next week, with the government aiming to return to a regional \"levels\" system of local restrictions by late April.\n\nShe told MSPs that the country was \"heading firmly in the right direction right now\", but said \"we cannot afford to take our foot off the brake too soon\".\n\nThe vaccination programme is widely seen as being one of the key ways out of the pandemic\n\nThe first minister told Holyrood's Covid-19 committee that the exit from lockdown \"may be slower than everyone wants it to be\".\n\nShe said her focus was for easing to be \"steady and one-directional\", rather than going too quickly and taking \"one step forward and two steps back\".\n\nMs Sturgeon backed an \"elimination\" strategy of driving virus levels as low as possible.\n\nShe said: \"With a virus like this, what you absolutely can't do is just say we're going to let it simmer at this medium level, like a gently simmering pot.\n\n\"You can't just say you'll accept X number of cases a year and X number of deaths and X number of hospitalisations a year. The virus won't behave, it won't play ball with you like that.\n\nShe added: \"You have to have an approach, in my view, where our objective has to be to eliminate. Even if you don't quite achieve elimination it is the act of trying to get it as low as possible that keeps it under control.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens believed that if elimination was achievable there had to be a \"step up\" on testing and better support for those who needed to self-isolate.\n\nMSP Mark Ruskell, who sits on the committee, said: \"It is welcome that the first minister has moved away from talking about suppression of the virus and is now talking about eliminating it. The Scottish Greens support an elimination strategy, as pursued by countries like New Zealand, but to get there we need to see more ambition on testing and support to self-isolate.\"\n\nHe added that when restrictions are \"gradually lifted\", workplaces would need the support of a \"robust testing regime\" to prevent the virus from spreading.\n\nThe change to the rules will allow four people from two households to meet anywhere outdoors, including in gardens\n\nDr Gregor Smith said driving case numbers low would allow for outbreaks to be managed, in the same way as outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles.\n\nHe said: \"What we mean by eliminate is not to eradicate the virus. Its my view that we won't eradicate Coronavirus.\n\n\"But what we can do on a regional basis and gradually expand that internationally is to drive these numbers down to as low a level as possible so it has as little impact on communities as is possible in morbidity and mortality.\n\n\"If we can do that then we can then manage the outbreaks, just as we do when we manage measles.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon faced a range of questions during the committee session, with Conservative MSP Donald Cameron saying there was a \"strong argument\" for taking stock of whether emergency powers should be extended.\n\nThe first minister said she did not want emergency legislation to be in place \"for a minute longer than it needs to be\", but said the country was still in a difficult situation and that the government needed flexibility to act.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Monica Lennon highlighted the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on people from lower income backgrounds.\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that there had been \"targeted investment\" to help those who needed most, saying there was \"a need for us to continue to look with a fresh eye at some of the new inequalities that have been created by the pandemic\".", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA serving Met police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of Sarah Everard.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house.\n\nThe suspect, in his 40s, is an officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, the Met said.\n\nA woman, in her 30s, is also in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe Met said Ms Everard had not yet been found.\n\nHer cousin, Tom Everard, said the family want to \"focus on the facts as they emerge\".\n\n\"I want to encourage people to come forward with anything they might have, and to continue supporting the police investigation,\" the 36-year-old added.\n\n\"We have to believe Sarah will still be found and brought back safely.\"\n\nMet Police officers have been searching land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford, Kent\n\nOfficers are currently searching locations in London and Kent including a property in Deal and an area of woodland near Ashford.\n\nThe arrested officer, who was initially held on suspicion of kidnap, is also being questioned about a separate allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was responsible for uniformed patrolling of diplomatic premises - including Downing Street, the Palace of Westminster, as well as foreign embassies in London.\n\nHe was off duty at the time of his arrest.\n\nMs Everard's family said it was out of character for her to disappear\n\nSince last Wednesday, officers have visited more than 750 homes in the Clapham area and have received more than 120 phone calls from the public, the Met said.\n\nMarketing executive Ms Everard vanished on 3 March and was last captured on a doorbell camera walking alone along the A205 Poynders Road towards Tulse Hill at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nMs Everard's family previously said it was out of character for her to disappear.\n\nShe is thought to have walked through Clapham Common towards her house in Brixton - a journey which should have taken about 50 minutes.\n\nSpeaking after the arrest on Tuesday, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said: \"The fact that the man who has been arrested is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports on Sarah Everard's last known movements\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Ms Everard and her friends and family.\n\nAfter the arrest the Met referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe IOPC said a mandatory referral was made in relation to the Met's actions after Ms Everard was reported missing.\n\nSpecialist officers have been drafted in from across the Met Police to help with the search\n\nSarah Everard is thought to have walked through Clapham Common towards her house in Brixton\n\nThis morning Mr Ephgrave described the arrest of a serving Met Police officer as both shocking and disturbing.\n\nThat officer has now been further arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nIt's unusual for such a senior officer to give a statement at this stage of an investigation and perhaps reflects the horror felt within the force - a profession where colleagues often describe themselves as family.\n\nWe have now learnt the arrested officer is in his 40s and works in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was to patrol diplomatic premises.\n\nUnderstandably, Sarah's disappearance has made some people in and around Clapham nervous for their own safety.\n\nSocial media users have said the arrest of a police officer has heightened anxiety.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: \"All women and girls should be able to feel safe on the streets of London at all times.\n\n\"I know how shocked and worried Londoners are by Sarah's disappearance and the developments in the case.\"\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.", "These officers are among the first defectors to share eyewitness accounts of what they say is happening inside Myanmar\n\nPolice officers from Myanmar have told the BBC they fled across the border into India after refusing to carry out the orders of the military which seized power in a coup last month. In some of the first such interviews, more than a dozen defectors told us they escaped, fearing they'd be forced to kill or harm civilians.\n\n\"I was given orders to shoot at protesters. I told them I can't.\"\n\nFor nine years Naing - whose name we have changed for his safety - served as a policeman in Myanmar, also known as Burma.\n\nNow, the 27-year-old is in hiding in the north-east Indian state of Mizoram.\n\nI met him, and a group of policemen and women in their twenties, who say they ran away from their jobs back home, after refusing to carry out orders. \"I was afraid that I would be forced to kill or harm innocent people who are protesting against the military,\" one officer said.\n\n\"We feel that it was wrong for the military to overthrow an elected government.\"\n\nEver since the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power on 1 February, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have taken to the streets.\n\nProtesters have taken to the streets in their thousands since the coup - and have been met with increasing force\n\nSecurity forces have been accused of killing more than 50 people.\n\nNaing, who is a low-ranking officer from a town in the west of the country, says protests in his area began to escalate at the end of February.\n\nHe says he ran, after refusing twice to fire at demonstrators.\n\n\"I told my boss I couldn't do that, and that I was going to side with the people.\n\n\"The military is edgy. They are becoming more and more brutal.\"\n\nAs we speak, Naing pulls out his phone to show me photos of the family he left behind - a wife, and two daughters aged just five and six months.\n\n\"I am worried that it may not be possible to meet them again,\" he told me.\n\nThe BBC met the group less than 10 miles from their home country, Myanmar\n\nI met him and the rest of the group in an undisclosed location, overlooking the hills and valleys of the mountainous state of Mizoram, their home country of Myanmar less than 10 miles (16km) away from where we were chatting.\n\nThe officers we spoke to are among the first defectors to share eyewitness accounts of what they say is happening inside the country.\n\nThey say they're part of a growing number of officials who are joining the pro-democracy, civil disobedience movement (CDM) in the country.\n\nThe BBC was unable to independently verify any of the claims made by the police who spoke to us.\n\nThe UN, the US and a host of other countries have condemned the killing of civilians in the crackdown against anti-coup protesters in Myanmar, and called on the authorities to exercise restraint. The military has dismissed criticism of its actions and said it is ready to withstand sanctions and isolation after it seized power.\n\nAccording to local officials, more than 100 people have escaped from Myanmar to Mizoram since the military coup.\n\nLocal officials say more than 100 people have escaped from Myanmar to Mizoram since the military coup\n\nHtut - not his real name - recalls the night the military junta overthrew the government, after the internet was shut down and an army post was erected close to his station.\n\n\"A few hours later we learned the military had staged a coup.\"\n\nHtut, who is 22, says he and other police were paired with members of the military as they patrolled the streets. Protesters who were peacefully banging utensils in support of the pro-democracy movement were threatened with arrest.\n\nHtut, who is from a large city in Myanmar, says he too was asked to fire at protesters, a demand he refused.\n\n\"The military officer in charge ordered us to shoot people coming out in groups of more than five. I know that people were beaten up. I had sleepless nights.\n\n\"When I saw innocent people bleeding, my conscience wouldn't permit me to take part in such evil acts.\"\n\nHtut says he was the only one from his police station to flee, making the journey by motorbike. He says he was terrified as he passed from village to village to reach the border with India.\n\nThose we spoke to crossed into India over the Tiau river, which we visited. The 250-mile stretch of river forms part of the boundary between India and Myanmar.\n\nThe Tiau river on the border is where the defectors crossed into India from Myanmar\n\nGroups we've spoken to say they expect more police to make this journey to India in the coming days.\n\nGrace, whose name we have changed, is one of two female police officers we met who has defected.\n\nShe said she saw the military use sticks and rubber bullets to round up protesters, and on one occasion tear gas being fired into a group which included children.\n\n\"They wanted us to disperse the crowds, and arrest our friends, but we couldn't do it,\" she said.\n\n\"We love the police, but now the system has changed, we can't continue our job.\"\n\nGrace says she had no choice but to leave her family behind\n\nThe 24-year-old says she also wrestled with leaving her family back home, in particular her mother who has a serious heart condition.\n\n\"My parents are old, and they're also afraid. But we young people have no choice but to flee and leave them behind.\"\n\nAuthorities in Myanmar have asked India to return any defectors, to \"uphold friendly relations\".\n\nMizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga said those who have arrived should be given temporary shelter, while the national government decides what to do next.\n\nLocal groups have told us they expect many more defectors to make the journey to India in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunger Games salute: The symbol of protest against Asia’s military regimes\n\nIt's just not police officers who have fled. We met a shopkeeper who escaped to Mizoram, after authorities in Myanmar issued him with a warrant for rallying supporters online to join the pro-democracy movement.\n\n\"I'm not running away selfishly,\" he said, explaining why he risked it all to leave.\n\n\"Everyone inside the country is worried.\n\n\"I'm here for safety, and will continue to do what I can to support the movement, from this side.\"", "Boris Johnson has said he wants to cut air passenger duty on domestic flights in a bid to boost travel connections across the UK.\n\nA consultation will examine options including creating a new lower domestic rate or exempting return flights.\n\nThe move is likely to be welcomed by struggling airline operators hit by Covid, but worry environmental groups.\n\nThe PM has also committed £20m for rail and road links and a review of a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson has pledged new funding to upgrade road, rail and sea connections across the UK in an effort to reduce delays and bottlenecks and stimulate economic growth.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson said a lack of a UK-wide transport strategy had led to \"inadequate connections\" between the four UK nations.\n\n\"For far too long, we have tended to carve up the country through a devolve and forget approach,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Johnson has championed the idea of connecting Northern Ireland with the British mainland via a bridge, despite scepticism from the Northern Irish and Scottish governments.\n\nTwo routes, between Portpatrick and Larne and Campbeltown and the Antrim coast, have been proposed.\n\nAnnouncing the findings of an interim report into transport connectivity by Sir Peter Hendy, the PM confirmed a separate feasibility study into the idea.\n\nTwo engineering professors will assess an outline cost and timescale and the associated works needed.\n\nArchitect Prof Alan Dunlop, who has long backed the idea of a bridge from Northern Ireland and Scotland, said he was confident the project was feasible.\n\n\"There are geological and infrastructural challenges, I don't deny that,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"But I'm absolutely convinced - and I've been looking at this now, researching it quite solidly, for three years - that the UK has both the engineering and architectural talent.\"\n\nLarne in Northern Ireland has been suggested as the location for one end of the bridge\n\nKey arteries earmarked for investment include rail routes between the North coast of Wales and England, enhancements to the West Coast Mainline and the dualling of much of the A75 in south-west Scotland.\n\nCritics say billions of funding is needed to make up for a decade of under-investment in regional transport links in the north of England and that cash has been swallowed up by the multi-billion pound HS2 high-speed rail link.\n\nMr Johnson said Sir Peter's review, which is due to issue its final report in the summer, \"gives us the tools we need to deliver on our ambitions for a UK-wide transport network\".\n\n\"I also want to cut passenger duty on domestic flights so we can support connectivity across the country,\" he said.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he added: \"It seems wrong that someone flying from Belfast to London and back pays more UK tax than someone flying from Dublin to London and back.\"\n\nThe environmental case over air passenger duty (APD) is not clear-cut.\n\nEnvironmentalists say the government shouldn't be cutting any taxes on polluting activities, especially because it's hosting a vital UN climate summit in November and it's trying to set an example.\n\nBut ministers are promising to balance out any cut in APD for domestic flights with a linked increase in APD on foreign flights.\n\nIf ministers make the APD switch, it will iron out what many people consider a tax anomaly.\n\nAt the moment, if you take a return flight from one UK airport to another, you pay the APD on both legs. If you fly abroad you pay APD on just one leg.\n\nSo you pay more tax flying from London to Belfast than from London to Dublin.\n\nThe government believes that's unfair and creates a bias against travel within the UK. Either way, environmentalists argue that aviation is still under-taxed.\n\nAirlines have been lobbying for a reduction in air passenger duty, whose standard rate for UK flights will rise to £26 per customer per flight next month, long before the Covid-19 pandemic brought the industry to its knees.\n\nBut environmental groups say reducing the cost of flying will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the UK to meet its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 as aviation is the single largest source of emissions.\n\nThe review will also look at the case for increasing the number of international distance bands. Currently, duty is charged on each passenger at the rate for the place where their journey ends.\n\nSince 2015, there have only been two bands, one covering flights of up to 2,000 miles and the other those in excess of that.\n\nFurther plans to decarbonise aviation will also be examined, including mandating the use of sustainable aviation fuels across the industry.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nHuman remains have been found in the search for missing Sarah Everard, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen on 3 March in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house.\n\nDetectives have not yet been able to confirm the identity of the remains, which were discovered in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nIt comes after a serving Met Police officer was arrested on suspicion of Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nThe officer, who has not been named by police, was arrested in Kent and is also being questioned about a separate allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nMs Everard, a marketing executive, was last seen in doorbell video footage walking alone down a main road near Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear if she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nIn a televised statement, Dame Cressida confirmed officers searching an area near Ashford had \"found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\".\n\nThe Met Police commissioner said specialist officers had updated Ms Everard's family on the investigation.\n\nDame Cressida continued: \"Sarah's disappearance in these awful and wicked circumstances is every family's worst nightmare.\n\n\"I know Londoners will want to know that it is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.\n\n\"But I completely understand that despite this, women in London and the wider public - particularly those in the area where Sarah went missing - will be worried and may well be feeling scared.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cressida Dick: \"Detectives and search teams have found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\"\n\nDame Cressida said the arrest of a serving Met Police officer on suspicion of murder \"has sent waves of shock and anger through the public and through the whole of the Met\".\n\n\"I speak on behalf of all my colleagues in the Met when I say we are utterly appalled at this dreadful news,\" she added. \"Our job is to patrol the streets and to protect people.\"\n\nHundreds of officers have been drafted in to help with the investigation as searches continue in south London and Kent.\n\nPolice are continuing to search land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford\n\nThe arrested officer was responsible for uniformed patrolling of diplomatic premises - including Downing Street and the Palace of Westminster, as well as foreign embassies in London.\n\nHe was off duty at the time of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nA woman in her 30s was also arrested in Kent on Tuesday evening on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports on Sarah Everard's last known movements\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Ms Everard and her friends and family.\n\nThe former Durham University student, who is originally from York, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe is also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) because it involves a police officer.\n\nA spokesman said it had been decided that the Met Police would investigate any potential conduct issues linked to the kidnap and murder allegations itself.\n\nThe IOPC is currently assessing whether any further measures should be taken in relation to the actions of police after Ms Everard was reported missing.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said that if it did turn out that a Met Police officer had been involved then there would be a \"very strong sense of betrayal from the very top of [the organisation] down to the rank and file\".\n\nHe said the force would also feel the people of London \"above all\" will have been betrayed \"because they feel a deep sense of pride that their job is to protect the people of London and now here is one of their own officers suspected of doing the exact opposite in the worst possible way\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race issues raised by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their interview with Oprah Winfrey are \"concerning\" and \"taken very seriously\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace said \"recollections may vary\" but the matters would be addressed privately.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that Harry had been asked by an unnamed family member \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe Palace said the Sussexes would \"always be much loved family members\".\n\nThe response from Buckingham Palace came after crisis meetings involving senior royals.\n\nThe Palace had been under growing pressure to respond to the interview in which Meghan - the first mixed-race member of the modern Royal Family - said that before their son Archie was born, questions had been asked about his skin colour.\n\nPrince Harry later clarified to Oprah that the comments were not made by either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nFigures from US TV network CBS suggest that nearly 50 million people around the world have watched Oprah's interview with the couple.\n\nIn other developments, Piers Morgan has stood by the comments that led to his departure from ITV's Good Morning Britain show - including that he did not \"believe a word\" of what Meghan said in the interview.\n\nIt is reported a formal complaint by the duchess has been lodged with ITV but neither representatives for the Sussexes nor ITV have confirmed this.\n\nChris Ship, the royal editor of ITV News, said in a tweet that it was believed Meghan had raised concerns about how Morgan's words \"affect the issue of mental health and what it might do to others contemplating suicide\".\n\nThe statement from the Palace, which came a day and a half after the interview was first broadcast in the US, said: \"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.\n\n\"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members.\"\n\nIt is understood the royals wanted to carefully consider their response and to give the British public an opportunity to watch the interview first, when it was broadcast on Monday evening.\n\nThey are said to consider this a family matter and to believe they should be given the opportunity to discuss the issues privately.\n\nDowning Street has confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has watched the interview, but his official spokesman declined to comment on the Palace's statement.\n\nAlthough likely, it was never absolutely certain that the Queen would issue a statement following the interview given by her grandson and his wife.\n\nThe risk was that any response would add to the \"royals in crisis\" narrative which is playing out across front pages and TV screens across the globe.\n\nBut having had time to discuss the claims made by Harry and Meghan, four short sentences convey the message from the Palace that this is a private family matter and the specific allegations will not be publicly addressed.\n\nThe tone is conciliatory, with reference to the Sussexes as much loved family members. There is a gentle challenge in the line \"whilst some recollections may vary\", but also an assurance that concerns will be taken seriously.\n\nAnd we can be sure that - at least as far as the UK-based royals are concerned - any bridge-building will be done in private.\n\nMeanwhile, the board of the Society of Editors has said it will \"work towards being part of the solution\" after coming under fire for its initial reaction to Meghan and Harry's interview.\n\nIt previously said it was \"not acceptable\" for the couple to make claims of racism in the press \"without providing any supporting evidence\".\n\nBut in a new statement the organisation said its earlier comments did not address that \"there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion\".\n\n\"We will reflect on the reaction our statement prompted and work towards being part of the solution,\" it added.\n\nIt comes as MPs could push for a House of Commons debate to discuss possible actions following the media's \"hounding\" of Meghan.\n\nLabour's Holly Lynch, who co-ordinated a letter from female MPs in support of Meghan in 2019, has questioned the way the press is regulated.\n\n\"How long do you continue to let that fail before you have to recognise it has failed and say 'what next?'\" she said.\n\nDuring a visit in London earlier, Prince Charles did not respond when he was asked if he had seen the interview, in which the Sussexes addressed deeply personal topics of racism, mental health, the media and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe UK broadcast on Monday night was watched by an average of 11.1 million people.\n\nIn it, the duchess said there had been times when she \"didn't want to be alive any more\" because she found royal life so difficult. She said she asked for help from the Palace but received none.\n\nOne of Meghan's close friends said she had been \"worried, terrified, sad\" to see the duchess's mental health problems.\n\nActress Janina Gavankar also told ITV's This Morning: \"The family and the staff were well aware of the extent of it, and though their 'recollections may vary', ours don't, because we lived through it with them.\"\n\nGavankar, who watched the TV show air with both Meghan and Harry, added the couple were \"feeling free\" since the broadcast.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that conversations about how dark Archie's skin might be when he was born took place \"in tandem\" with discussions about why he would not be given a royal title and police protection.\n\nUnder rules in place since 1917, the couple's children would not automatically become princes or princesses - unless the Queen was to intervene.", "Met Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave has said it's \"shocking and deeply disturbing' that a serving police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen in Clapham at about 21:30 GMT on 3 March.\n\nThe Met said officers had visited 750 homes in the area as part of the investigation and the force had received more than 120 phone calls from the public.", "The last confirmed sighting of Ms Everard was 30 minutes after she left her friend's home in Clapham\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday in south London have confirmed where she was last seen.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last spotted on CCTV walking alone on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road, in the direction of Tulse Hill.\n\nThe time was about 21:30 GMT, 30 minutes after she had left her friend's home in Leathwaite Road, Battersea.\n\nHer walk home to Brixton was expected to have taken her 50 minutes.\n\nDetectives said it was unclear whether she returned to her home address but think she may have walked across Clapham Common.\n\nHer parents have said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them\n\nAn extensive investigation is under way, including searches and house-to-house inquiries, to establish whether there were any further sightings of Ms Everard beyond that which was captured on CCTV.\n\nThe investigation continues to be treated as a missing person's inquiry, but due to its complex nature and concerns for her welfare, the Met's Specialist Crime Command is now leading the case.\n\nHer family said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them.\n\nVolunteers from London Search and Rescue are helping the police\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"I would like to stress that there is no information at this stage to suggest anything untoward may have happened to Sarah.\n\n\"The focus remains on returning her home to her family safe and well and that is our number one priority.\n\n\"I would like to thank Sarah's family and friends, the local community and members of the public for their help to raise awareness of this appeal and for coming forward with information.\n\n\"I would urge anybody who has information or noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact us if you haven't already. \"\n\nMs Everard was wearing wearing clothes and earphones like these when she was last seen\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nDetectives have urged people to check any dashcam or doorbell cameras for sightings of her, particularly along these roads:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Harkin dreamed the design of the Pyramid Stage, along with rolling hills and beams of light\n\nTributes have been paid to Bill Harkin, who designed and built the first Glastonbury Pyramid Stage, following his death at the age of 83.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage came to Mr Harkin in a dream and in 1971 it was built for the second Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe original stage was constructed out of scaffolding and plastic sheeting.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis, said Mr Harkin had lived an \"inspirational life\" and was \"simply loved by us all\".\n\nThe original Pyramid Stage was erected for the second Glastonbury Festival in June 1971\n\nThe first festival was held in 1970, when 1,500 people paid £1 for a ticket, which included free milk from Worthy Farm, the home of the Somerset event.\n\nMr Eavis said it was at the end of that year that Mr Harkin came to Glastonbury and met Andrew Kerr, one of the festival's co-founders, walking up the tor.\n\n\"They both became aware of very powerful feelings of spirituality,\" Mr Eavis said.\n\n\"This led to the idea of a large music festival with a pyramid as centre stage and that's when they came to me for a suitable site.\"\n\nHe said he had \"liked the idea\" and been \"captivated by their childlike excitement\".\n\n\"Bill was a top-flight architect working for British Leyland at the time but he soon became caught up with the festival, and came up with the very first Pyramid at Worthy Farm,\" he said.\n\n\"His enthusiasm and dedication led to what we have now - thank you so much, Bill.\"\n\nCrowds of 12,000 got their first sighting of the Pyramid Stage, at what was then known as Glastonbury Fayre\n\nThe current version - with Stormzy performing on it - was designed by local man Bill Burroughs\n\nMr Harkin's Pyramid Stage was the first of three versions of the famous festival platform which has been graced by iconic names from music history for 50 years.\n\nMade from sheeting bought at Taunton cattle market, it took about three months to build.\n\nIt was replaced in 1981 with a more permanent structure which doubled as a cow shed in winter, but burned down shortly before the festival in 1994.\n\nBetween 1994 and 1999 a replacement stage powered by wind turbines was used, with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello and Johnny Cash performing on it.\n\nDuring these years the main stage was not a pyramid, more a regular stage, but in the year 2000 the third version of the Pyramid Stage was built\n\nPilton resident Bill Burroughs' version of the stage, based on the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, is the one still seen at the site today and is four times larger than the 1981 version.\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.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nThe disappearance of a woman who has not been heard from since Wednesday night is causing \"increasing concern\", police have said.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, vanished as she walked home to Brixton, south London, from the Clapham Junction area.\n\nMs Everard spoke to her partner en route but has not been heard from since that point, friend Rose Woollard said.\n\nShe said her phone signal was picked up last near Clarence Avenue, between her home and where she left another friend.\n\nFriends, who last heard from the 33-year-old at about 21:30 GMT on the day she went missing, were unable to contact Ms Everard on Thursday and notified the police.\n\nShe is 5ft 4in (162cm), has a slim build and blonde hair, and was wearing a green coat, dark trousers and trainers, her best friend Ms Woollard said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lambeth Police | Central South BCU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 teacher described the 33-year-old as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\".\n\nShe said: \"Sarah and I met many years ago whilst studying together at Durham University. She has always been an exceptional friend, dropping everything to be there to support her friends, whenever they need her.\n\n\"It was only recently that she was telling me the good news about her new role as a senior marketing account manager, which she was excited to start.\n\n\"It is extremely uncharacteristic of her to have gone missing, which is why we are all deeply concerned something has happened to her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has accused Boris Johnson of lying to MPs after he wrongly claimed Sir Keir Starmer had voted against a pay rise for NHS workers in England.\n\nThe party is calling on the PM to \"correct the record\" after he said Labour had voted against a 2.1% rise.\n\nThe 2.1% proposal - which has since been scrapped in favour of 1% - was approved without a vote in 2020.\n\nDowning Street said the mistake had been clarified and there was no need for the PM to apologise.\n\nDuring exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said: \"Two years ago he made a promise to the NHS - here in black and white, his document - it commits to a minimum pay rise of 2.1%. It's being budgeted for and now it's being taken away.\n\n\"He shakes his head - his MPs voted for it. So why, after everything the NHS has done for us, is he now breaking promise after promise?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"He voted against the document in question to crown the absurdity of his point.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called on Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to \"get the prime minister to return to the House and correct the record\".\n\nMr Ashworth said: \"The prime minister has twice, from that dispatch box, said that the Labour opposition voted against the NHS Funding Bill and the 2.1% increase for NHS staff. This is not the case.\"\n\nSir Lindsay said Mr Ashworth's intervention was not something he would rule on but added \"it is certainly a point of clarification - that part has been achieved\".\n\nWriting on Twitter later, Mr Ashworth said that Mr Johnson had \"lied at PMQs\" and repeated Labour's demand for a vote in Parliament on the 1% offer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer asks whether nursing staff deserve a bigger rise than the PM's former adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nHe has written to the PM to ask him to \"correct the record\", telling him: \"At all times in the debate, Labour attempted to secure a greater financial settlement for the NHS in order to improve patient care.\"\n\nLabour says the proposed 1% rise amounts to a pay cut, when inflation has been taken into account.\n\nMr Johnson says it is all the country can afford at the present time, and NHS workers are set for a rise amid a public sector pay freeze, to reflect the \"massive debt\" owed to them by the nation.\n\nThe PM says he will make a final decision on pay when an independent review reports back in May.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs Sir Keir Starmer voted against the 2019 long-term plan for the NHS, after the Labour leader referred to it.\n\nThat is not correct - there were no votes on the NHS Funding Bill 2019-20 during its main stages through parliament.\n\nSir Keir had referred to the plan, saying that it committed the government to a 2.1% pay rise for the NHS.\n\nThe government has now recommended that NHS staff in England should receive a 1% pay increase this year.\n\nOn Tuesday, the head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens told a committee of MPs that the plan had indeed assumed a 2.1% rise.\n\nBut he also said \"things have changed\" since then and that it should now be up to the pay-review body.\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary Allegra Stratton was asked more than 20 questions about the row at briefing for Westminster journalists.\n\nShe indicated that he would neither apologise nor correct the record.\n\n\"The key thing is that this was dealt with swiftly and the Speaker - who has enormous respect and authority in Parliament - regards it as a point of clarification and it has now been dealt with,\" she told reporters.\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson had a problem with facts, Ms Stratton said: \"No, he doesn't. The Speaker addressed this as a point of clarification and it has been dealt with today.\"\n\nThe ministerial code states that it is of \"paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nMs Stratton said Mr Johnson \"absolutely agrees\" with the ministerial code and \"in this instance the system worked\" because the Speaker had responded to Mr Ashworth.", "'We kid ourselves' if think vaccinating just our own people solves pandemic - FM\n\nWillie Coffey MSP says he takes prides in reading that it was a Scottish doctor, Alexander Wood, who is widely credited with inventing the modern-day hypodermic syringe - thanks for the plug, Mr Coffey - and asks whether there is more we could be dong to assist other countries with their vaccination programme. Nicola Sturgeon says \"absolutely\" and despite being \"really pleased\" with the vaccine rollout in the UK, she says \"we kid ourselves on\" if we think just vaccinating our own population solves a global pandemic for us. We will be this pandemic as long as other countries are in it, the first minister points out. We have a shared interest – not just out of altruism, but actually a \"selfish self-interest\" - in other countries getting themselves vaccinated as well, she says. The Scottish government has already helped prepare health systems in countries like Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda for distribution of the vaccine through its international development programme, Ms Sturgeon adds. Since around September, it has also carried out a review of its approach with a view to ring-fencing some funding for Covid-specific responses.", "Amid the blizzard of figures from the prime minister in response to Sir Keir Starmer's questions about NHS pay was a significant sentence or two.\n\nHe said the government would look at what the independent pay review body had to say.\n\nPerhaps a simple statement of fact but perhaps also a signal that if the body recommends a higher pay rise than ministers suggested, the government would not oppose it.\n\nOther than that it didn't seem that Sir Keir Starmer was able to break any new ground in his argument that nurses deserve more.\n\nBoris Johnson stressed the importance of recruitment and retention along with pay and sound management of the economy.\n\nThe Labour leader couldn't resist a couple of digs at the money spent on a TV studio in Downing Street and renovations of the flat above number 10.\n\nAnd months after his departure, mention of Dominic Cummings' shows Labour clearly see his legacy (and pay rise) as a potent weapon against Boris Johnson.", "Teachers will be responsible for deciding grades this year\n\nParents should not pressurise teachers, but trust their judgement as they award GCSE and A-level grades this summer, says England's exams regulator.\n\nFor the second year running, teachers' grades will be used following the cancellation of exams due to Covid-19.\n\nSimon Lebus, acting head of Ofqual, said teachers' judgement was considered to be \"pretty reliable\".\n\nBut he urged parents not to put teachers under pressure or make them \"uncomfortable\" over grade decisions.\n\nThe acting chief regulator was giving evidence to the Commons Education Select Committee on Tuesday.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We've created a system in which I think there are good incentives to allow teacher judgment to flourish and we've all got to play our part to support that.\"\n\nHe added: \"I also think it's very important that parents give teachers the space to do it, because it's always a worry that parents get terribly involved and teachers feel uncomfortable and there's an intrusive interest so I think that's a really important point.\"\n\nEngland's Schools Minister Nick Gibb, who also appeared before the committee, said there were no plans to get rid of exams on a permanent basis, following two years of cancelled assessments due to the pandemic.\n\nMr Gibb denied suggestions that exams could be phased out and said \"I absolutely can confirm\" that they would be kept in future years.\n\n\"What we have learnt is that exams are the fairest way of judging the attainment and ability and work of students and we want to get back to exams as soon as possible.\"\n\nMr Gibb told MPs that, up until 4 January exams were going ahead - with various systems in place to account for the disruption to learning.\n\n\"It was only after the decision to close schools to most pupils from January, that we decided that the unfairness was too great.\"\n\nAsked about the extra pressure on teachers this year, especially in terms of awarding grades for GCSEs and A-levels, Mr Gibb acknowledged that they had \"shouldered a huge burden\" and that the Department for Education was \"conscious of workload\".\n\nIan Bauckham, acting chair of Ofqual, said teachers were being asked to \"step up and do more than they usually have to do by playing a significant part in the determination of grades\".\n\n\"We need to make sure the exam boards give them the structures and incentives to do the job, they can see needs doing, well.\n\n\"And I think that being clear that everyone will be subject to the same quality assurance, the same checks - that gives confidence to do the right thing in each individual circumstance.\"\n\nHe said these structures would help teachers not to \"bow to the various pressures that they will undoubtedly come under\" from pupils and parents.\n\nMr Baukham said it was up to senior leadership teams in school to make sure teachers got the \"support and structure they needed\".\n\nMr Gibb also told MPs that it was \"good to see children back in school\" this week in England.\n\nAsked about Covid testing, the minister said that a negative PCR test would not over-rule a positive lateral flow test taken by a pupil in school under supervision, but would over-rule a lateral flow test done at home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe con woman known as \"the fake heiress\" for posing as a wealthy socialite in New York says she is trying to make the best of her newfound infamy since her release from prison.\n\nWhen asked if crime pays, Anna Sorokin told BBC Newsnight: \"In a way, it did.\"\n\nSorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for her story and says she has been offered other deals.\n\nShe went to jail after tricking banks, hoteliers and friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.\n\nThe story of her exploits - under the pseudonym Anna Delvey - went viral in New York Magazine in 2018, sparking instant interest from TV producers.\n\n\"I never asked for Netflix to buy my story, it just happened,\" says Sorokin, who was released on parole in February after more than three years behind bars. \"And everything else, it just spun out of my control. It's not like I orchestrated anything.\"\n\nSorokin was not able to keep all the Netflix money, owing to a New York law that prevents criminals from profiting from their notoriety. The company fully complied with the law and the authorities froze Sorokin's bank account, allowing her victims to make claims to it first. At least $170,000 was used to pay back banks.\n\nSorokin turned 30 in prison, but she was in her mid-twenties when she spent time in New York City, telling people she had a $60m trust fund and an ambitious project to create an eponymous arts foundation.\n\nShe was, in fact, a recent magazine intern, who came from an ordinary family of Russian immigrants living in Germany. By staying in expensive hotels and presenting a jetset life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and picking up her bills. Using fake documents, she even convinced a bank to give her a $100,000 overdraft, before the police finally tracked her down.\n\nSorokin now claims the prosecution played a major role in creating her media persona during her high-profile trial.\n\n\"The prosecution totally misrepresented my motives. They said I paraded around New York, posing as an heiress. What happened was strictly between me and financial institutions, it was none of their business. They portrayed me as a wannabe socialite party girl and that was never my goal,\" she says.\n\nAnna Sorokin was sentenced in May 2019\n\nThough Sorokin did enjoy champagne lunches and luxury holidays, she primarily had her sights set on creating her arts foundation and she fraudulently sought a $22m loan to try to get it off the ground. She even produced a high-end brochure (but never paid the designer) and claimed to have the backing of celebrity artists, such as the late Cristo, for the launch party. (Before the artist died last year, his publicist told the BBC the claim was pure fabrication.)\n\nSorokin's defence was also built around a \"fake it until you make it\" narrative. Her lawyer told The Cut he enlisted a stylist so she could keep up appearances in the courtroom.\n\nAsked now when Anna Sorokin started to become Anna Delvey, she says: \"I always was Anna Delvey.\"\n\n\"[Others] portrayed me as someone very manipulative, which I don't think I am,\" she says. \"I was never too nice of a person. I was never trying to talk my way into anything. I just told people what I wanted and they gave it to me, or I would move on.\"\n\nSorokin was found guilty of four counts of theft of services, three counts of grand larceny and one count of attempted grand larceny in April 2019. She was acquitted of two other charges.\n\nSince her release from prison, she says she has been inundated with media requests and she has hired her own filmmaker to take control of her narrative. \"I am writing my book, I have my NFT [non-fungible tokens] project, and my merch, and [I am working on] prison reform,\" she says. \"I am trying to turn the attention I am getting into something positive.\"\n\nActress Julia Garner - who has the lead role in Netflix's Inventing Anna, out later this year - visited Sorokin in prison\n\nShe insists she does not consider being a convicted con artist as a badge of honour.\n\nOn social media, however, she is not shying away from this reputation. Earlier this week, she tweeted an image of a stack of books themed on money and trickery, including Den of Thieves and The Biggest Bluff.\n\nThough she has previously spoken of regret, she now says that is not the right word, because that implies sadness and she is not sad about what she did, even though she wouldn't do it again.\n\nHer lawyer, Todd Spodek, told the BBC that she is working on an appeal and he anticipates that she will be deported back to Germany in due course.\n\nSorokin says she will try to stay in the US.\n\nThis story is based on Anna Sorokin's interview with Emily Maitlis for BBC Newsnight. UK audiences can watch more via BBC iPlayer. The podcast series Fake Heiress is on BBC Sounds", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard are searching a home and woodland in Kent following the arrest of a serving Met officer.\n\nThe 33-year-old was last seen in Clapham, south London, on 3 March.\n\nThe policeman and a woman were arrested at a house in Kent on Tuesday. Searches are being carried out at a building in Deal as well as on land near Ashford.\n\nThe Met said it was \"shocking and deeply disturbing\" that the arrested man was a serving officer.\n\nMs Everard's family have been kept updated, the force added.\n\nAn area of woodland near Ashford is being searched by police\n\nMet Police officers have been searching land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford, Kent\n\nA tent has been erected outside a house in Deal and a car was earlier seen being taken away from the property.\n\nOfficers have also been carrying out searches on land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford.\n\nRetired farmer Derek Batt, 72, of nearby Fridd Farm, said officers visited his property late on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"They said they were investigating a missing person. I said 'is it Sarah that I have seen on TV?' and she (the officer) said 'yes'.\"\n\nMr Batt said he had not seen any suspicious activity in the area.\n\nFridd Farm is located almost three miles away from Great Chart Golf and Leisure complex\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said the man and the woman had both been taken into custody at a London police station.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said the arrests were \"a serious and significant development\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with all speed on this investigation but the fact that the arrested man is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing.\"\n\nDuring a later statement, he added the officer \"was not on duty at the time\" when Ms Everard went missing and would only confirm he had been arrested \"in connection\" with her disappearance.\n\nHe also would not say if the officer was known to the 33-year-old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen asked by reporters if police believed she was still alive, Mr Ephgrave replied: \"We are searching as hard as we can to find Sarah, so we really hope that is the case.\n\n\"As a father myself of four young women I can only imagine the anguish that Sarah's family are feeling at this very very difficult time.\"\n\nThe arrested woman has been held on suspicion of assisting an offender, the force has confirmed.\n\nOn Tuesday, officers searching for Ms Everard had put up a cordon outside a block of flats in Clapham near to where she was last seen on Poynders Road and sniffer dogs have been used to search the nearby Oaklands Estate and gardens.\n\nMs Everard's family said it was out of character for her to disappear\n\nOfficers were also seen searching drains along the street where Ms Everard was last seen.\n\nThe Met said officers had visited 750 homes in the area as part of the investigation and the force had received more than 120 phone calls from the public.\n\nFriends and relatives have issued appeals on social media to help find the marketing manager, who vanished on her walk home to Brixton after leaving a friend's flat in Leathwaite Road in Battersea at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nHer family has said it is out of character for her to disappear.\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nShe is believed to have walked through Clapham Common towards her home - a journey that should have taken her about 50 minutes.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were \"with Sarah and her friends and family\".\n\nForensics were seen on Tuesday night outside the Poynders Court housing complex in Clapham\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 former home of the Skripals is to be bought by the local council\n\nThe house at the centre of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings will be bought by Wiltshire Council.\n\nThe council intends to \"rebuild and refurbish\" the home of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal before putting it back on the market under a shared ownership scheme.\n\nThe house on Christie Miller Road was where the nerve agent was first found.\n\nIt comes three years after the assassination attempt on Mr Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.\n\nMother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, from Salisbury, died in the 2018 attack. Five others came into contact with the nerve agent.\n\nSergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt\n\nWiltshire Council has now signed off on the decision to buy the house in consultation with the neighbours.\n\nThrough using a shared ownership scheme, there will be a legal stipulation that the house must be used as a residential property, that it may not be sub-let, and that nobody can trade on its history.\n\nLeader of the council Philip Whitehead said: \"It will be good to see this house used as a home again.\n\n\"Throughout this process, we have been in regular contact with the local residents, and after consulting with them we have agreed to refurbish the property and offer it for purchase under our shared ownership scheme, at an agreed market rate.\n\n\"During the coming months, we will rebuild and refurbish the property to bring it back into use as a home, and to protect local residents, we will ensure that the property will not be used for anything other than a home.\"\n\nPolice believe Charley Rowley and Dawn Sturgess were exposed to the nerve agent after handling a contaminated perfume bottle\n\nThe flat in Amesbury where Ms Sturgess was fatally poisoned was demolished last year.\n\nMs Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley - who has since recovered - are believed to have come into contact with a bottle of Novichok discarded by the Skripals' attackers.\n\nPolice officer Det Sgt Nick Bailey was also contaminated with the nerve agent at the Skripal's home, where it had been sprayed on the door handle, and needed hospital treatment.\n\nThe military-grade nerve agent was developed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\n\nTwo men, who were named as suspects, claimed to be tourists who went sightseeing in Salisbury but returned to London within an hour of arriving in the city.\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.", "Sara Manchipp was stalked for eight months\n\nNew powers to protect stalking victims are not being used by police, a BBC Wales investigation has found.\n\nIn January 2020, stalking protection orders were introduced to make it easier for victims to get support.\n\nBut since then only two full orders have been granted in Wales despite 3,000 stalking offences being reported to police.\n\nAll four Welsh police forces have been asked to comment on the findings by Eye on Wales.\n\nThe data also shows all four forces in Wales have made an application for an order to the courts, or currently have a application pending on behalf of victims.\n\nOnly one by Dyfed-Powys Police was granted, with an interim order given to North Wales Police, which later became a full order.\n\nThere are calls for better education and training so officers can recognise when action is needed to apply for an order.\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Yelland, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said there were other options aside from protection orders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Miss Wales Sarah Manchipp was stalked for eight months\n\n\"There are so many tools in our toolbox now thankfully with other legislation,\" he said.\n\n\"In those cases where it's appropriate, we will seek to use a protection order.\"\n\nFormer Miss Wales Sarah Manchipp was stalked for eight months. The perpetrator was caught and has now been jailed.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast programme it was difficult to talk about what had happened but she wanted to raise awareness.\n\n\"It still affects me, but I want to talk about it and by talking about it I hope it gives confidence to other victims to go to the police.\n\n\"To begin with I received Facebook messages from this person saying he was going to rape me and kill me, but I have to say the police were great.\n\n\"Officers really took me seriously, but I am disappointed to hear they haven't been using these additional powers - more women need to come forward and talk about their experiences.\"\n\nBethan - not her real name to protect her identity - is based in Wales and shared her experience of being stalked and reporting it to the police.\n\n\"I'd wake up and have 100 missed calls in an hour, floods of text messages. It was persistent,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd also be outside and could tell me what I was wearing and who I was with.\"\n\nBethan said the long-lasting effects of the stalker's behaviour were devastating.\n\n\"I've got complex PTSD because of this; it made me very ill. I'm constantly on edge all the time.\"\n\nIt took Bethan a long time to recognise she was being stalked. However, once she recognised the behaviours, she reported it to the police several times.\n\n\"It was termed 'harassment' when I reported it, but nothing was done so I stopped reporting it,\" she said.\n\nThis was before stalking protection orders were introduced and Bethan feels they could have made a difference in her situation.\n\n\"If they were about for me back then, something would have been done - it would have been taken more seriously,\" she said.\n\n\"People should speak out about it now there's these new laws and more support. They're more likely to be believed.\"\n\nPolice now have extra powers with stalking protection orders\n\nStalking protection orders were introduced in January 2020 to police forces in Wales and England.\n\nThey are civil orders which aim to protect victims, and it is a criminal offence to breach the terms of an order.\n\nPolice apply to magistrates for an order, which usually remains in place for two years. The idea is that it can be used quickly and an interim order provides immediate protection while a decision is being made.\n\nWhen issued, they can include banning an offender contacting a person through social media, through a third party or being within a certain distance of their home or workplace.\n\nThere are also solution-based requirements, which aim to tackle the obsessive behaviour traits in the perpetrator. This can include mental health programmes, drug and alcohol support or counselling.\n\nCriminologist Professor Jane Monckton Smith, of the University of Gloucestershire, has been working with Dyfed-Powys Police to train officers to spot the signs of stalking.\n\n\"It seems to be a postcode lottery to how these protection orders are used, but I don't think many of the forces are using them routinely,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not necessarily a very simple process but the more police forces use them, the easier that process will be become.\"\n\nThe Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the UK's leading personal safety charity, which also manages the National Stalking Helpline.\n\nChief executive Suky Bhaker said: \"Overall, the introduction of stalking protection orders is proving to be a positive and useful tool for victims of stalking.\n\n\"However, there have been a number of cases where clients have not been adequately supported.\n\n\"We know that training varies in the police across Wales and England in stalking and what tools are available to help those victims varies as a result.\"\n\nKaty Bourne, Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, is also a victim of stalking\n\nKaty Bourne, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, is the lead for stalking in Wales and England.\n\nShe is also a victim of stalking and has urged other forces to use the orders to protect victims.\n\n\"We've issued about 30 stalking protection orders and we've got several others in the pipeline,\" she said.\n\n\"It says to the victim, 'we take you seriously', and that in itself is such a relief that the police are listening to you and believe you.\"\n\nA Gwent Police spokesperson said: \"Gwent Police employs a range of tactics to tackle this serious offence.\n\n\"This includes education and awareness training for our frontline staff, which has resulted in the successful prosecution of suspects responsible for stalking.\n\n\"We've also assisted the courts by providing support to survivors of this crime who are protected by restraining orders.\n\n\"Gwent Police will not tolerate this form of behaviour. We take all allegations of stalking seriously and our officers will investigate them thoroughly.\"\n\nFor details of organisations that provide help and support, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline\n\nListen to Eye On Wales on BBC Radio Wales on Wednesday 10 March at 18:30 or on BBC Sounds", "Mr Christiansen's favourite Lego is the build-what-you want box of bricks.\n\nDanish toy giant Lego plans to recruit hundreds of computer experts in the UK, Denmark and China to expand its digital games and online sales operation.\n\nIn 2020, the company saw its fastest sales growth in five years, helped by locked-down families buying bigger Lego sets they could make together.\n\nBut a new Super Mario set, which blends physical bricks with online games, has been one of the biggest launches ever.\n\nBoss Niels Christiansen told the BBC Lego would speed up its digital plans.\n\nThe company has just released Lego VIDIYO, a partnership with Universal Music, which allows children to make their own music videos with special effects and filters.\n\n\"For the past two years we've made large-scale investments in initiatives designed to support long-term growth,\" the Lego chief executive said.\n\n\"We are accelerating our digital transformation. This is a big investment area for customers and suppliers,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC that every 2.77 seconds \"someone uploads a Lego creation to our digital platforms that they have created and want to share. The Lego community is based on the brick, but this shows there is no limit to where we can take this.\"\n\nWhile the Lego brick will always be at the heart of the business, he said: \"Today's children are growing up in a digital world and they effortlessly blend online and physical play.\"\n\nThe stores are key to building the \"brand experience\", the chief executive said.\n\nThe digital expansion will mean recruiting more computer games and website specialists over the next couple of years, said Mr Christiansen, who praised the UK's expertise in this sector. \"We go where the talent is available. Where we find the best talent is in UK and Denmark. I think the number will be in the hundreds.\n\n\"We have a solid digital foundation, but must move faster. The past year has shown the importance of having an agile, responsive business built on strong digital foundations,\" Mr Christiansen said.\n\nIn addition to its 17 stores - and another due to open in Edinburgh soon - Lego has two UK offices and employs almost 750 people.\n\nDespite store closures across the world due to the pandemic, and temporary production shutdowns at factories in China and Mexico, Lego saw a 19% jump in profits to 12.9bn Danish kroner (£1.5bn) for 2020. Revenues rose 13% to 43.7bn kroner (£5bn). Sales growth in all Lego's markets was in the double-digits.\n\nMr Christiansen said there had been an increase in sales of bigger, more complicated Lego sets. \"Instead of buying Lego sets for kids, families were buying big sets and building them together,\" he said. And the growth in interest for adult Lego sets continues, he added.\n\nA strong seller in 2020 - and a favourite of Mr Christiansen - was a complex Lamborghini car. However, his number one favourite is the traditional build-what-you-want box of bricks, which consistently remains in Lego's top ten best sellers each year.\n\nLego is investing heavily to build the brand in China\n\nDespite the pandemic, Lego continued with store openings - with another 134 new shops, including 91 in China, expanding the chain to 678. Lego plans to open another 120 sites in 2021, with 80 in China where development of the brand had not been as fast as in Europe and the US.\n\nMr Christiansen said bricks and mortar remained key to Lego's growth, in large part because \"the shops are not about getting the product across the counter\".\n\nHe said: \"The stores are much more a brand-builder and experience outlet. A lot of the new stores will be in China. It makes a big, big difference if there is a store in town for creating awareness of the brand.\"\n\nThe company, founded in 1932 and still family-owned, is trying to find alternatives to plastic for its bricks. Lego said it could not give a figure for how many were made each year.\n\nMr Christiansen said Lego is investing heavily in researching new materials, but has already introduced more bio-based elements into the manufacturing. The plan remains to introduce a sustainable product by 2030.\n\nFinding a quality, long-lasting material was not as easy as people might think.\n\n\"Lego sets will be used for 40, 50 years. They will still work even though they might have been lying in the basement until brought out for the grandchildren.\n\n\"That lasting quality needs to stay there even when we sustainably source. We cannot just go out and buy that material. We are actually trying to develop it,\" he said.\n• None Barbie has best sales in more than five years", "Patrick Grady became his party's chief whip in June 2017\n\nThe SNP's chief whip in the House of Commons has stepped aside while the party investigates a sexual harassment complaint.\n\nThe party said it had received a formal complaint against Patrick Grady and that \"due process\" would now take place.\n\nMr Grady, the MP for Glasgow North since 2015, became his party's chief whip in June 2017.\n\nThe SNP said it would not be commenting further on the complaint against him.\n\nThe formal complaint relates to an alleged incident in 2016.\n\nA party staff member claims that Mr Grady inappropriately touched him in a London pub.\n\nIt is the job of a chief whip to ensure their party's MPs vote with its leadership.\n\nThis is probably the last thing the first minister needs. With an election looming in Scotland, it's a particularly bad time to have a prominent MP facing allegations like this.\n\nThere are allegations the party failed to take firm, swift action when earlier concerns were raised about Patrick Grady.\n\nMr Grady has been approached for comment.\n\nSome Conservative politicians are claiming there's a \"stench of corruption\" within the SNP.\n\nSimilar accusations have been levelled at senior party figures in relation to their cooperation with the Holyrood committee investigating the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints.\n\nNicola Sturgeon, and her party colleagues, would argue that they've assisted the inquiry to the best of their ability.\n\nAnd the SNP is pointing out that an investigation was launched into Patrick Grady as soon as a complaint was made. This, they insist, was the first opportunity for formal processes to begin.\n\nBut the SNP image has had a difficult few weeks. This most recent development won't help with that.", "The change to the rules will allow four people from two households to meet anywhere outdoors, including in gardens\n\nUp to four adults from two different households will be able to meet outdoors in Scotland from Friday of this week, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe current rules only allow outdoor meetings between two adults from two households.\n\nRestrictions on young people will also be eased, with four people aged between 12-17 able to meet even if they are all from different households.\n\nOutdoor non-contact group sports for adults will also restart on Friday.\n\nAnd people will be able to gather for communal worship from 26 March, so long as no more than 50 people are in attendance and physical distancing is maintained throughout.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the \"modest\" easing was the result of the progress the country was making in suppressing the virus.\n\nHowever, the overall requirement to stay at home will remain in place except for specific purposes - which from Friday will include limited, outdoor socialising and recreation.\n\nAnd the first minister said the strong grounds for hope must be balanced by caution.\n\nShe said: \"Because we have been in lockdown, it is easy to overlook the fact that the virus we are dealing with now is much more infectious than the one we were dealing with in the autumn.\n\n\"But we will be reminded of that very quickly if we try to do too much too soon.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she will set out a firmer indicative timetable for re-opening the economy - including shops, hospitality, hairdressers, gyms and parts of the tourism industry - next week.\n\nShe also said she hoped to be in a position to relax the current travel restrictions in the weeks ahead - but insisted that it was not yet safe to do so.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that new cases, the number of people being admitted to hospital and deaths were all \"still higher than we would want\".\n\nHowever she said there was a clear \"positive trend\" in figures, alongside \"excellent progress with the vaccination programme\".\n\nAlthough the number of vaccines being administered each day has fallen in recent weeks, the first minister said supplies would increase to \"allow for a very significant acceleration\" of the programme from mid-March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that while the current prospects were \"very encouraging indeed\", it was \"essential\" to get the timing of easing lockdown right.\n\nMost secondary pupils will only be returning to their classrooms part-time from next week\n\nShe said: \"Even though we are heading firmly in the right direction right now, we cannot afford to take our foot off the brake too soon.\n\n\"We still need to keep the virus under control if our hopes for a much more normal summer are not to suffer a setback.\"\n\nThe government had planned to move Scotland out of full lockdown and back into a regional levels system from late April.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that \"if the data allows us to relax more restrictions more quickly than we have previously indicated, we will not hesitate to do so\".\n\nShe also warned that everyone must continue to stick to the rules, with indoor meetings between different households still not possible and people being urged to stay as close to home as possible.\n\nMeetings will be possible in any outdoor space - including in private gardens - but people should only go into someone's else's home if it is essential to reach a back garden, or to use the toilet.\n\nAll of Scotland's school pupils are to return to the classroom from next week, with primary children to go back full-time and secondary students to have some in-class time before the Easter break.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson asked the first minister whether the government would increase the actual amount of teaching time secondary pupils will get when back in school.\n\nShe said: \"Pupils and parents were promised a return to the classroom, but - from the information they are now being sent - for many this will amount to only a few hours at best.\"\n\nThe first minister replied that children returning to schools even part-time was a \"significant change\", saying: \"I will always look parents in the eye and explain the difficult challenges we are trying to balance.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the easing of rules around socialising outdoors was important for people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nBut he said the government must strive to \"ensure this is our last lockdown\" by getting its testing and vaccination programmes right.\n\nThousands of Rangers fans gathered in Glasgow at the weekend to celebrate their team winning the league\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asked if there could be an increase in virus cases in Glasgow after Rangers fans gathered to celebrate the football team winning the Scottish Premiership title.\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie claimed the club \"did nothing\" to prevent the gathering.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any spike in infections would not become clear for several weeks.\n\nShe added: \"Make no mistake, having crowds of people risks spreading this virus - people who gather are putting their own health at risk, but also that of their loved ones and the wider community.\n\n\"That behaviour wasn't just irresponsible, it was deeply selfish\".\n\nRangers has insisted it urged its fans to follow the lockdown guidelines.", "As well as their legal sex, the census will also ask people their gender identity for the first time\n\nPart of the census guidance for England and Wales accompanying the question on a person's sex should be withdrawn, a High Court judge has ordered.\n\nCampaign group Fair Play for Women argued it unlawfully allowed \"self-identification\" as male or female.\n\nThe guidance said people can use the sex listed on their passport - which can be changed without a legal process.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it was asking the same question on sex it had done since 1801.\n\nAfter a court hearing on Tuesday, Mr Justice Swift ruled that the guidance should be changed to say individuals should only respond with the answer on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate - a document which allows trans people to change their legal gender.\n\nA full judicial review will take place next week before the census day, but the judge made the interim order saying he was satisfied the campaign group was \"more likely than not to succeed\" on its case regarding the legal definition of \"sex\".\n\nTaking place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on 21 March, the census aims to provide a snapshot of the population of the country which can then be used to make decisions about services - and which this year will be used to understand the impact of the pandemic.\n\nScotland's census has been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nFor the first time, it will include a question about gender identity as well as the one about a person's legally registered sex. The decision had been welcomed by some trans people as a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nThe legal action comes after ministers abandoned plans last year to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria - a process known as \"self-identification\".\n\nFair Play for Women, which seeks to defend \"the sex-based rights of women and girls\", launched a crowdfunded legal action arguing that the census guidance on the question, \"What is your sex?\" was unlawful. The group called it \"sex self-identification through the back door\".\n\nThe guidance, published in the online census only, said: \"If you are considering how to answer, use the sex recorded on one of your legal documents such as a birth certificate, gender recognition certificate, or passport.\n\n\"If you are aged 16 years or over, there is a later voluntary question on gender identity. This asks if the gender you identify with is different from your sex registered at birth.\n\n\"If it is different, you can then record your gender identity.\"\n\nThe guidance opposed by Fair Play for Women only appears online - not on the paper form\n\nFair Play for Women had argued that, unlike a birth certificate, a person's sex on a passport or other legal document such as a driving licence can be altered without a formal legal process.\n\nThey argued this could potentially have the effect of \"distorting\" the data gathered in the census.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics argued that the question on sex could refer to a person's sex as recorded in any document provided by the state.\n\nSpeaking before the hearing, Dr Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, said: \"If we don't have good data on sex we can't monitor inequalities due to sex, and if we can't measure it, we can't make good policies to remedy it.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said most people did not need help to answer the question on sex but it would update the guidance to advise people to use the sex recorded on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate.\n\nA spokesperson for the ONS said: \"We are continuing to ask a binary choice, female or male, sex question on the census. This approach is unchanged since 1801.\"", "That's all from us today, thanks for your company.\n\nTo keep up to date, find all the latest on the BBC News NI website.\n\nUntil the next one, stay safe.", "The sisters said they were \"offered\" the vaccine while visiting their father\n\nA revelation that two sisters of Spain's King Felipe VI were vaccinated during a trip to Abu Dhabi last month has sparked a political backlash.\n\nMedia reports revealed Princess Elena, 57, and Princess Cristina, 55, had got the jab whilst visiting their father.\n\nThe former King, Juan Carlos, left the country in 2020 amid mounting scandals.\n\nBoth princesses, who do not yet qualify to get a vaccine under Spain's roll-out, defended and explained their decision on Wednesday.\n\n\"My sister and I went to visit my father and in order to be issued with a medical certificate which will allow us to continue to visit him regularly, we were offered the chance to get vaccinated, which we accepted,\" they said in a statement to El Mundo on Wednesday.\n\n\"Had it not been for these circumstances, we would have waited for our turn to get vaccinated to come around in Spain,\" they added.\n\nJuan Carlos has been living in self-exile in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since last August.\n\nAlthough he denied wrongdoing regarding mounting corruption allegations, his departure heightened debate and scrutiny about the royal family.\n\nEquality Minister Irene Montero was among the politicians who criticised the princesses after the revelation was first reported by online news website El Confidencial.\n\n\"The vaccination of the princesses is more news which contributes to discrediting the monarchy. For the public, this constitutes preferential treatment and privileges,\" the minister told the public TVE network.\n\nThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vaccinated more than 30% of its population\n\nLabour Minister Yolanda Diaz described the matter as as \"very unpleasant, very ugly\".\n\n\"We, the people who exercise some sort of representation, must lead by example,\" she added.\n\nA royal palace source declined to comment on the reports to Reuters on the basis that the sisters are not formally part of the institution but said the king, Queen Letizia and their daughters would get the vaccination when it was their turn.\n\nSpain has only administered about 4m vaccines so far, with over-80s and essential workers currently being prioritised.\n\nA similar scandal rocked the country in January, when some senior figures including the country's top military chief resigned after they were implicated in \"queue-jumping\" allegations of their own.", "Counter-terror police said they have made 185 arrests across more than 800 live investigations during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThree terror attacks have been prevented in the UK since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to security services.\n\nArrests for terrorism-related activity fell by 34% in 2020, the lowest level in nine years, Home Office data showed.\n\nBut the number of terror plots stopped has risen to 28 since March 2017, counter terror police said.\n\nThe foreign secretary said young people had been recruited to terror groups in \"worrying\" numbers during lockdown.\n\nDominic Raab told the House of Commons there had been a recent rise in the volume of terror-related content online.\n\n\"We can see a worrying rise in the proportion of children and teenagers that are now being arrested for terrorism offences,\" he added.\n\nThe UK's senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing warned that these organisations \"have not stopped planning attacks or radicalising vulnerable people online\".\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had made 185 arrests across more than 800 live investigations during the pandemic - \"stopping three possible terror attacks in the process\".\n\nHe said as lockdown eases, \"there will be greater opportunity for terrorists to operate\".\n\n\"We want the public to join the police, security staff and retail workers in a collective community effort to minimise the chance of attack,\" he added.\n\nIn February, the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", which means an attack is still likely.\n\nMr Haydon also warned of a \"worrying trend\" of children under the age of 18 being arrested for terrorism-related activities.\n\nThis age group was the only one that saw an increase - rising from 11 to 17 in total, Home Office data showed.\n\n\"That is a total of 10% of all arrests, which has risen from just 4% in the previous 12 months,\" said Mr Haydon.\n\nPolice have launched a website and helpline to offer advice and support for families to prevent young people becoming involved in terrorism, he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaign groups say half a million people risk being dragged into poverty\n\nPublic spending cuts in Rishi Sunak's Budget mean the chancellor \"isn't really levelling with people\", the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank has warned.\n\nThe Treasury said the cuts, worth £4bn, were \"a purely mechanical change\", but Paul Johnson of the IFS said they were set to cause more pain.\n\nAt the same time, big tax rises were \"screeching U-turns\", Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Santa Sunak\" was now looking more like \"Scrooge Sunak\", he added.\n\nMeanwhile, \"pressure will mount\" on Mr Sunak not to cut universal credit by £20 a week after September, Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said that going for such a \"cliff-edge reduction\" was \"remarkable\".\n\nIn his post-Budget analysis, Mr Johnson highlighted freezes in income tax allowances and rises in corporation tax.\n\nThe corporation tax rise to 25% would take the UK \"well up the international league table\" for revenues, he said, but it was \"50-50 at best\" whether it would actually happen without additional concessions.\n\n\"This was, of course, a tale of two Budgets,\" said Mr Johnson in response to Mr Sunak's economic plans.\n\n\"By the end of the forecast period, we are looking at a fiscal tightening of over £30bn relative to previous plans.\n\n\"Take account of the cuts to planned spending announced in the autumn and Santa Sunak, purveyor of billions today, looks more like Scrooge Sunak, cutting spending and raising taxes to the tune of nearly £50bn relative to his pre-pandemic plans of March 2020.\"\n\nAre you receiving universal credit? 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\nThe income tax allowance freezes were set to raise about £9bn, while the corporation tax changes could see revenues rise by more than £17bn by 2025, Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe was sceptical that the plans to cut a further £4bn from public spending could be delivered, saying they would cause \"additional pain\" if they went ahead.\n\n\"Now these are not firm plans, but they are the basis for the future public finance estimates. They are a very shaky basis,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"This isn't just a mechanical change and presenting it as such means the chancellor isn't really levelling with people about the choices the government is making to repair the public finances.\"\n\nThe 24 hours after a Budget can be a perilous time for a chancellor. They can be undone even on the back of relatively small tax rises, let alone the biggest ones in more than a quarter of a century.\n\nThe \"post-match\" analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies can condemn a Budget in the history books. The chancellor has a massive challenge and a tumultuous uncertain backdrop, but he has the benefit of a solid majority, unlike his recent predecessors.\n\nSo it is with some relief that Number 11 will have seen the analysis of the respected institute and others such as the Resolution Foundation. They point to plenty of gaps. The plans imply further cuts to unprotected public spending. That includes social care spending within local authorities, for example. There is some doubt that the hike in corporation tax will really yield £17bn a year. Difficulties here, or in the post-pandemic recovery in general, will lead to further spending squeezes and tax rises.\n\nHowever, it is not really possible to assert that unequivocally. The chancellor has not constrained himself to meet borrowing targets as part of a set of rules. He outlined some principles around borrowing only to invest. But if he were facing pressure to increase taxes further in the year before an election, for example, it is equally plausible that higher-than-expected borrowing would take the strain.\n\nThe world is too uncertain to be wearing fiscal straitjackets. And every time it has been required, on more than a dozen occasions, the chancellor has extended spending on rescue support schemes. That has set up an expectation about, for instance, the new expiry of the £20 uplift to Universal Credit in October (now extended by six months). As Paul Johnson of the IFS puts it: \"He has given us a sense of where he wants to go [on fixing the public finances], but he still has a lot of work to do and his spending plans in particular don't look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain.\"\n\nThat argument will be settled in the run-up to a Spending Review. If anything, the medium-term pressures on public services will be higher, reflecting issues such as big NHS waiting lists. For now, the Budget has achieved its two strategic aims: borrowing more now to extend immediate crisis support, then post-dating a huge cheque, paid for mainly by big business, to cover part of the bill. Most of the other parts in these plans can move and, if necessary, dramatically so.\n\n\"It is, by the way, remarkable that while the chancellor felt the need for a gradual phase out of furlough, business rates support, stamp duty reductions and VAT reductions, he is still set on a cliff-edge reduction in [universal credit] such that incomes of some of the poorest families will fall by over £80 between one month and the next.\n\n\"Whatever the case for cutting generosity into the longer term, if you're going to do so, the case for doing it gradually rather than all at once looks unanswerable.\"\n\nIn a BBC interview, the chancellor rejected suggestions that he should have tapered the ending of the £20-a-week universal credit increase in order to minimise its effect on families.\n\n\"We have extended it generously and in full, but it's important to remember that it's one of many things that we're doing to support people,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nThese included increases in the National Living Wage and offering help with council tax payments, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says it will take \"the work of many years, decades and governments\" to pay back Covid debt\n\nEarlier, the government came under fire from campaigners for doing too little in the Budget to address inequality.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Resolution Foundation said the cut in universal credit would bring the incomes of benefit recipients down to levels not seen since the early 1990s.\n\nIt would also pull half a million people into poverty, just as unemployment was expected to peak.\n\nMr Sunak's decision to spend even larger sums to support the economic recovery now and put off raising taxes until later was broadly welcomed in the Resolution Foundation's analysis of the Budget.\n\nBut it noted that while GDP is set to grow this year by 4%, that might not feed through to better living standards, with wages by the middle of the decade set to remain £1,200 a year - or 4.3% - below where they would have been without the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAusterity would drag on for some, it added, with day-to-day spending on government departments such as transport and local government set to fall in real terms next year and remain almost a quarter lower than a decade ago.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, said the universal credit changes meant single recipients of it would see their incomes cut by £20 a week, just as the furlough scheme is ended and unemployment was expected to rise to its peak, the foundation said.\n\nIt predicted that would pull half a million people into poverty, including 200,000 children, adding that the Budget was silent on helping 700,000 households who have fallen behind on rent because of the pandemic and are now at risk of eviction.\n\nResponding to the Resolution Foundation's analysis, Mr Sunak told the BBC that it had hailed his decision to freeze income tax thresholds as a \"progressive measure\" and \"a fair way to do what we need to do\".\n• None Ten ways the Budget will affect you", "Buckingham Palace says it will investigate claims the Duchess of Sussex bullied royal staff, adding that it was \"very concerned\" by the allegations.\n\nIt follows a report in the Times newspaper that Meghan faced a bullying complaint when she was a working royal.\n\nHer spokesman said the duchess was \"saddened\" by the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nThe palace said it \"does not and will not tolerate bullying or harassment\".\n\nIt will speak to the members of staff involved \"to see if lessons can be learned\", a statement added.\n\nAccording to the story in the Times, the complaint was made in October 2018, while the duke and duchess were living at Kensington Palace.\n\nA leaked email sent from a staff member, which was published by the newspaper, alleges that Meghan drove two personal assistants out of the household. The report claims she undermined the confidence of a third member of staff.\n\nIn a statement, Buckingham Palace - which is responsible for the hiring of royal staff - said: \"We are clearly very concerned about allegations in the Times following claims made by former staff of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\n\"Accordingly, our HR team will look into the circumstances outlined in the article. Members of staff involved at the time, including those who have left the Household, will be invited to participate to see if lessons can be learned.\n\n\"The Royal Household has had a Dignity at Work policy in place for a number of years and does not and will not tolerate bullying or harassment in the workplace.\"\n\nAn earlier statement issued by Meghan's spokesman said: \"The duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself and is deeply committed to supporting those who have experienced pain and trauma.\n\n\"She is determined to continue her work building compassion around the world and will keep striving to set an example for doing what is right and doing what is good.\"\n\nOn one thing everyone is agreed: the interview that Meghan has given Oprah Winfrey - that will be broadcast in the US on Sunday - is concentrating minds.\n\nPalace staff have for some time itched to get their side of the story out; some feel that they went out of their way to help Meghan after the wedding only to be treated rudely or later dismissed as uncaring or worse.\n\nTeam Sussex were braced for the story. \"It's a fairly extensive list of things that has been pulled together,\" one source told the BBC. \"The timing is not coincidental.\"\n\nMeghan's side do not dispute the existence or content of the email; and it is pretty strong stuff. It makes flesh the rumours and allegations that swirled around the duchess when a number of staff left some months after the 2018 wedding.\n\nThe duchess' people have pushed back. The people named in the leaked email knew nothing about the complaint, they say, and it never turned into a formal issue.\n\nBut now it has; the inquiry announced tonight is a clear indication that Buckingham Palace is treating the matter seriously.\n\nWhatever the truth, it ratchets up the tension - and publicity - around the interview to come in just a few days' time.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nHarry has previously said the decision to step back was in order to protect himself and his family from the press.\n\nLast month, it was announced the couple would not return as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nOprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will air in the US on Sunday\n\nIt comes ahead of Meghan and Prince Harry's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, which will be aired on CBS in the US on the evening of Sunday 7 March.\n\nIn the UK, the interview will be screened on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday 8 March.\n\nCBS has said 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 US last year and their future plans.", "More than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year, according to a global report.\n\nThe UN Environment Programme's Food Waste Index revealed that 17% of the food available to consumers - in shops, households and restaurants - goes directly into the bin.\n\nSome 60% of that waste is in the home.\n\nThe lockdown appears to have had a surprising impact - at least in the UK - by reducing domestic food waste.\n\nTV cook, Bake Off winner and food writer Nadiya Hussain has joined the campaign against kitchen waste\n\nSustainability charity Wrap, the UN's partner organisation on this report, says people have been planning their shopping and their meals more carefully.\n\nAnd in an effort to build on that, well-known chefs have been enlisted to inspire less wasteful kitchen habits.\n\nThe report has highlighted a global problem that is \"much bigger than previously estimated,\" Richard Swannell from Wrap told BBC News.\n\n\"The 923 million tonnes of food being wasted each year would fill 23 million 40-tonne trucks. Bumper-to-bumper, enough to circle the Earth seven times.\"\n\nIt is an issue previously considered to be a problem almost exclusive to richer countries - with consumers simply buying more than they could eat - but this research found \"substantial\" food waste \"everywhere it looked\".\n\nThere are gaps in the findings that could reveal how the scale of the problem varies in low- and high-income countries. The report, for example, could not distinguish between \"involuntary\" and \"voluntary\" waste.\n\n\"We haven't looked deeper [at this issue] but in low-income countries, the cold chain is not fully assured because of lack of access to energy,\" Martina Otto from Unep told BBC News.\n\nThe data to distinguish between the waste of edible food and inedible parts - like bones and shells - was only available for high-income countries. Lower-income countries, Ms Otto pointed out, were likely to be wasting much less edible food.\n\nThere is likely to be far less voluntary food waste in low-income countries\n\nBut the end result, she said, was that the world was \"just throwing away all the resources used to make that food\".\n\nAhead of major global climate and biodiversity summits later this year, Unep executive director Inger Andersen is pushing for countries to commit to combatting waste - halving it by 2030.\n\n\"If we want to get serious about tackling climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, businesses, governments and citizens around the world have to do their part to reduce food waste,\" she said.\n\nRichard Swannell pointed out: \"Wasted food is responsible for 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions, so if food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet.\"\n\nIn the UK, the average household could save £700 per year, according to Wrap research, by buying only the food they ate.\n\nThrowing away food can also mean that resources used to grow it have been wasted\n\nWhere food waste is voluntary, the Covid-19 lockdown appears to have had the surprising effect of revealing precisely how it can be remedied.\n\nAccording to research by Wrap, planning, careful storage and batch-cooking during the lockdown reduced people's reported levels of food waste by 22% compared with 2019.\n\n\"Being confined to our homes has resulted in an increase in behaviours such as batch cooking and meal planning,\" the charity said. \"But the latest insights suggest that food waste levels are likely to rise again as we emerge from lockdown.\"\n\nIn an effort to avoid that, well-known cooks and chefs have lent their names and social media profiles to the campaign against kitchen waste.\n\nBritish TV cook Nadiya Hussain is working with Wrap and offering tips and leftovers recipes via Instagram. And Italian restaurateur Massimo Bottura, chef patron of Modena eatery Osteria Francescana, which has three Michelin stars, has been appointed Unep goodwill ambassador \"in the fight against food waste and loss\".\n\nThroughout the lockdown in Italy, his family produced an online cooking show called Kitchen Quarantine, encouraging people to \"see the invisible potential\" in every ingredient.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile millions of tonnes of food was thrown away, an estimated 690 million people were affected by hunger in 2019. That number is expected to rise sharply in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs Andersen pointed out that tackling waste \"would cut greenhouse gas emissions, slow the destruction of nature through land conversion and pollution, enhance the availability of food and thus reduce hunger and save money at a time of global recession\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says it will take \"the work of many years, decades and governments\" to pay back Covid debt\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has rejected claims his plans to claw back the cost of coronavirus support will hit the poorest hardest.\n\nMr Sunak extended furlough until September in Wednesday's Budget and set out measures to protect business as the UK emerges from lockdown.\n\nBut he also announced major changes to tax - including a freeze on personal allowances.\n\nThat means a million more people will start paying income tax.\n\nBut Mr Sunak insisted no-one's take-home pay would be lowered and the threshold freeze would hit those on higher incomes more.\n\nThe chancellor also plans to cut about £4bn from the budgets of government departments - leading to opposition warnings about a fresh round of spending cuts.\n\nThe Treasury says the cut is due to a forecast of lower inflation but the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said the reduction \"would still cause pain\".\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said: \"This isn't just a mechanical change and presenting it as such means the chancellor isn't really levelling with people about the choices the government is making to repair the public finances.\"\n\nSpending on the NHS, schools and defence is protected, which means the £4bn cut will \"fall entirely\" on local government and other areas, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Take account of the cuts to planned spending announced in the Autumn and Santa Sunak, purveyor of billions today looks more like Scrooge Sunak cutting spending and raising taxes to the tune of nearly £50bn relative to his pre-pandemic plans of March 2020,\" he added.\n\nHow will you be affected by this year's Budget? Do you have any questions for our experts?\n\nMr Sunak's tax threshold freeze means about 1.3 million people will start paying income tax for the first time - and about 10% of adults will be dragged into the 40% top rate.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC the freeze was a \"progressive\" move which would ensure the people that earned the most paid the most adding \"it is a fair way to do what we need to do\".\n\nHe said: \"People's current take home pay won't be affected by this policy but it does mean the incremental benefits they would have experienced had the thresholds continued to rise with inflation won't be there.\"\n\nDuring his Budget, Mr Sunak announced that a weekly £20 increase in universal credit - introduced last year to help those hit financially by the coronavirus pandemic - would end in September.\n\nTwo left-leaning think tanks, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Resolution Foundation, said the move would bring the incomes of benefit recipients down to levels not seen since the early 1990s.\n\nUniversal credit and income tax - as well as strains on government departments - are all going to cause issues for the government.\n\nBut social care is a real Achilles Heel. It's no good saying it's a problem all governments have failed to deal with. We have had a Conservative government for a long time now.\n\nMost can agree, behind the scenes in government, it is time for a change.\n\nSome in Westminster are also asking if raising corporation tax in 2023 points to an election that year.\n\nOne cabinet minister told me on Wednesday \"no comment\" when I asked if the 25% corporation tax would ever come into force.\n\nThey are going to have to raise an awful lot of money somehow, but it's hard to see where the economy will be in 2023, let alone in a few months' time.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds warned that \"low-income families could be seeing a very difficult time in the future\".\n\nShe also expressed concern that the government would be \"planning to switch off its increase in social security right at the time when we anticipate a peak in unemployment\".\n\n\"That is not a sensible approach to take,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Budget 2021: Who is Rishi Sunak and what does he believe?\n\nMr Sunak says the total package of measures to support the economy - including those previously announced - amounted to £407bn.\n\nBut he warned that this unprecedented spending could not continue.\n\nHis other big money raising move was to increase the tax on company profits from 19% to 25%, although it will not kick in until 2023 and smaller firms will be exempted.\n\nConfederation of British Industry director-general Tony Danker said the rise in corporation tax would \"cause a sharp intake of breath for many businesses and sends a worrying signal to those planning to invest in the UK\".\n\nThe government's own watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, said the overall tax burden on the UK would hit 35% of national income by 2025-26, the highest level since the 1960s.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC it was \"important we get our borrowing under control\" - and the UK would still have the lowest corporation tax rate in the G7 group of industrialised economies.\n\nHis has also faced criticism for failing to mention social care - an area where an existing funding crisis has been made more acute by the pandemic.\n\nIn 2019, Boris Johnson said he had ready a plan to fix social care but asked why it was not included in the Budget, Mr Sunak said the government was trying to find a \"cross-party solution\".\n\nHe said it was important to \"build consensus\" on the long-term future of social care but added that \"right now our focus is the pandemic\".\n\nLabour said ministers had not contacted them concerning any such plan.", "The US has agreed to suspend tariffs on UK goods including single malt whiskies that were imposed in retaliation over subsidies to the aircraft maker Airbus.\n\nTariffs will also be lifted on UK cheese, cashmere and machinery.\n\nThe duties will be suspended for four months while the two sides seek a long-term settlement.\n\nOn 1 January, the UK dropped its own tariffs on some US goods, put in place over a related dispute about US subsidies to Boeing.\n\nIt is the latest twist in a decades-old trade row that has seen the EU and the US target billions of dollars worth of each other's exports with taxes.\n\nThe UK is part of the dispute as a former EU member. Airbus makes wings and other parts in the UK, but assembles its commercial aircraft in the EU.\n\nIt has hit Scotch whisky producers particularly hard as the US is a key export market. Distilleries have reported £500m of losses since 2019 due to the tariffs.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the trade truce, due to come into force on Monday, would boost British business.\n\n\"From Scotch whisky distillers to Stilton-makers, the US decision to suspend tariffs on some UK exports today will benefit businesses right across the UK,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"Fantastic news as we strengthen the UK-US trading relationship and work to build back better from the pandemic.\"\n\nSimon Cotton, boss of Speyside-based textiles firm Johnston's of Elgin, says he's \"absolutely delighted\" the tariffs have been suspended.\n\nThe company, which employs 850 people, has been taking a \"25% hit\" on every knitwear product it exports to the US - \"a significant cost\" at a time when Covid and Brexit also pose challenges.\n\nIn Speyside many other businesses have felt the impact of the US tariffs, including whisky distilleries and shortbread makers.\n\n\"This has been a particularly difficult tax for the businesses here, so it's a huge relief for the region,\" says Mr Cotton. \"We're hoping this paves the way for a permanent removal of these tariffs.\"\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, called the suspension \"fabulous news\".\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky exports to the US has been doing real damage to Scotch whisky in the 16 months it has been in place, with exports to the US falling by 35%,\" she said.\n\n\"So today, everyone in our industry - from small companies to large - is breathing a sigh of relief.\"\n\nFor more than a decade, the EU and US accused each other of propping up their home aviation markets with tax breaks, research grants and other aid.\n\nBut tensions flared in 2019, when former US president Donald Trump retaliated by putting tariffs on $7.5bn (£5.4bn) of EU goods, including UK products such as whisky.\n\nLast November, the EU hit back by targeting $4bn of American goods with duties as punishment for US subsidies for Boeing.\n\nSince it left the EU, the UK has been lobbying Washington to drop the duties on its goods as it seeks a wide-ranging trade deal with the US. Talks with Washington abruptly broke off in January but resumed after Joe Biden became US president.\n\nMr Biden's top trade nominee, Katherine Tai, has said she will make it a priority to resolve the row with the EU and Britain - although for now US tariffs continue to apply to EU goods.\n\nIn a joint statement on Thursday, the UK and the US said that the suspension would \"ease the burden on industry and take a bold, joint step towards resolving the longest-running disputes at the World Trade Organization\".\n\nThe two countries added that it would also allow time to focus on negotiating \"a balanced settlement to the disputes, and begin seriously addressing the challenges posed by new entrants to the civil aviation market from non-market economies, such as China\".\n\nAirbus welcomed the removal of \"lose-lose tariffs\" and urged the UK and US governments to reach a long-term settlement.\n\nMore than £500m-worth of whisky sales have been lost since October 2019, when the 25% tariff was introduced on single malt Scotch. Smaller distillers were hit hardest.\n\nThe US is the biggest single-nation export market by value. President Trump's US Trade Representative reckoned it was a good source of political leverage in the 17-year trade dispute over aircraft manufacturing.\n\nScottish cashmere sweaters were also targeted. In the political calculation of trade disputes, the US did not include Irish whiskey or Italian cashmere, giving them the opportunity to exploit the rift and grow market share.\n\nIt was not until last autumn that the European Union and the UK won the right, at the World Trade Organisation, to hit back over Boeing subsidies by US governments. That levelled the field on which to negotiate a resolution.\n\nDonald Trump used trade tariffs as a bludgeon intended to protect American jobs, and although Joe Biden is not noted as an enthusiast for globalisation and free trade, this suspension of tariffs signals his administration is in the business of negotiated deals between partners.\n\nIt acknowledges the trans-Atlantic partners should perhaps focus more on manufacturing competition from China. But there is work to be done: the EU, UK and US have not only the Boeing/Airbus dispute to resolve, but another one over steel and aluminium, which explains the 25% tariff currently on imported American whiskey.\n\nFor Liz Truss and the UK government's attempts to secure post-Brexit trade deals, this is a significant step forward. It seems the Biden administration is not prioritising the European Union ahead of Britain. However, a UK-US free trade deal is a long way from here.", "A holiday on stamp duty has been extended as part of the Westminster budget - but this will not apply in Scotland\n\nA tax cut for Scottish house buyers will end as planned on 1 April, despite an extension in the Westminster budget.\n\nThe starting point for land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) was increased during the first lockdown.\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes said the move had \"achieved\" its goal of supporting the recovery of the residential property market.\n\nThe stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland will continue for another three months.\n\nLast year, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the tax break on house sales in England and Northern Ireland of up to £500,000 as part of his summer statement of measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBecause housing and residential taxes are devolved to Holyrood, this meant there were calls for Ms Forbes to mirror the stamp duty cut in its Scottish equivalent, LBTT.\n\nAt the time, Ms Forbes said she had listened to calls and the threshold where the tax kicks in was raised from £145,000 to £250,000 - although this did not apply to second homes.\n\nShe announced levels would return to normal at the end of the financial year when she set out the Scottish budget in January., saying support would continue for first time buyers.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor said the tax break in England and Northern Ireland would continue until the end of June. After that, the nil rate band will be set at £250,000 - double its standard level - until the end of September.\n\nMr Sunak told MPs the extra move was \"to smooth the transition back to normal - and we will only return to the usual level of £125,000 from October 1\".\n\nMs Forbes told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland she intended to \"stick to the original plan\" and end the relief by April.\n\nShe said: \"It was intended to support the recovery of the residential property market this financial year.\n\n\"That has been achieved - the nil rate band was already lower in Scotland and yet we've seen record high levels of transactions and house purchases, so it has achieved its purpose.\n\n\"But ultimately, when it comes to tax policy, I have choices and the number one ask from business was to extend the 100% relief for non-domestic rates - that's what I've done alongside freezing council tax to help households in need.\"\n\nOn the Westminster budget, Ms Forbes said \"storm clouds of austerity\" were on the horizon and that despite a number of positive measures including the extension of the furlough scheme, Mr Sunak was \"delaying a lot of the pain until next year\".\n\nMr Sunak said the problems caused by coronavirus were \"not going to be dealt with overnight\"\n\nMr Sunak told the programme that there was an increase of £400bn to £500bn by end of this Parliament in his public spending plans.\n\nHe said: \"The damage coronavirus has done to our economy and public finances has been extraordinary and it's going to take time for us to fully recover from this.\n\n\"It's not going to be dealt with overnight and that's why we've set out a clear plan that begins to fix the problem and protect the things we care about, like public services and supporting small businesses and crucially supporting our recovery in the short term.\"", "Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed in the Real IRA bomb\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster has said relatives of those murdered in the 1998 Omagh bomb deserve an apology over the length of time a court is taking to rule on a call for a public inquiry.\n\nThe case began in 2013 and concluded almost two years ago, but there has been no judgement.\n\nThe lord chief justice's office has blamed the situation on the assessment of \"sensitive\" documents.\n\nAfter meeting some of the families, Mrs Foster said the delay is \"inordinate\".\n\nIt was the biggest single atrocity in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe legal action, brought by Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of the victims, followed a decision by the government to reject the need for a public inquiry eight years ago.\n\nIt said there had been multiple investigations, including those involving the Police Ombudsman.\n\nCentral to Mr Gallagher's judicial review case are claims that intelligence from MI5 and the police could have been drawn together to prevent the Real IRA attack.\n\nThere were national security issues around the hearing of evidence, which delayed matters, but it concluded in July 2019.\n\nIn October, Mr Gallagher was told to expect movement before Christmas, but nothing happened.\n\n\"From day one this has been dragged out,\" Mr Gallagher said.\n\n\"We are getting no younger.\n\n\"We want to do other things in life but we cannot move on until we get answers.\"\n\nHe said the process could be \"simplified\" if the government granted an inquiry.\n\n\"We just want answers - why things did not happen in the way they should have happened in the lead up to the Omagh bomb.\"\n\nHe has raised the case with political parties and met the DUP leader within the past few days.\n\nMrs Foster said: \"I do think that he, and all of the Omagh victims, deserve an apology.\n\n\"I think it is really sad that they find themselves in a situation where they have not been able to get answers.\"\n\nIn a statement, the lord chief justice's office said the judgement was \"taking longer than initially anticipated\".\n\nIt said the delay was due to the \"sensitive nature of the material involved in the case\".\n\nIt added: \"The documents which the judge has to consider are stored in a secured area which can only be accessed during restricted hours and not at weekends.\n\n\"The judge's access to this material has to be scheduled around his workload in the High Court.\n\n\"He would like to reassure Mr Gallagher that he is reviewing this material thoroughly to ensure that he is taking into account all relevant evidence.\"", "The amount the government has to spend on state pensions will fall by £1.5bn by 2022, partly because of over-65s dying of Covid, forecasts suggest.\n\nThe government will also receive an extra £0.9bn from inheritance tax, partly due to Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe figures have been published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - the government's fiscal watchdog.\n\nIt said it had \"revised up our assumption for excess deaths this year and next relative to November\".\n\nMore than 144,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have occurred in the UK since the start of the pandemic, figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show.\n\nThe majority of coronavirus deaths have been among people aged over 65, many of whom will have been receiving the state pension.\n\nThe OBR estimates spending on the state pension will fall by £600m in 2020-21 and £900m in 2021-22 compared with forecasts made before the pandemic.\n\nThe watchdog said the forecast for lower state pension spending was partly because of the weaker outlook for average earnings growth, which lowers the effect of the yearly triple lock uprating.\n\nBut it added that excess deaths due to the pandemic have also reduced the number of people receiving pensions.\n\n\"With virus-related deaths rising sharply again in recent months, we have revised up the number of excess pensioner-age deaths in 2020-21 from 90,000 in our November forecast to around 100,000 in this one,\" the OBR said in its Economic And Fiscal Outlook, which is published alongside the Budget.\n\nIt has increased its forecast because: \"Higher virus-related deaths in the current wave of the virus have outweighed the effect of lockdown reducing deaths from other causes, particularly from influenza and other respiratory diseases\".\n\nMeanwhile the Treasury predicted that inheritance tax receipts will increase from £5.1bn in 2019-20 to £6bn in 2021-22, before falling to £5.8bn the following year.\n\nThe rise in inheritance tax receipts is partly due to the freeze of inheritance tax thresholds until April 2026 announced in the Budget and the growth in the value of estates, but higher Covid-19 deaths will also contribute, the OBR said.", "Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully landed one of its Starship prototypes at the end of a high-altitude test flight.\n\nIt is the first time the space exploration company has pulled this off, after the ship's predecessors crashed into the ground.\n\nBut that wasn't the end of the story. A fire then developed around SN10's base and eight minutes later it exploded on the landing pad in Boca Chica, Texas.\n\nRead more: SpaceX's Starship rocket lands but then explodes", "More than one million people are set to start paying income tax in the next five years, official forecasts say, due to a move announced in the Budget.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said that the threshold at which the tax starts being paid will be frozen until 2026 after a rise this April.\n\nIt means getting a pay rise could pull people into a higher rate of tax.\n\nCommentators have called it an increase in an individual's tax burden \"by stealth\".\n\nThe chancellor said that he wanted to be honest with the British public about the way in which money would be raised to pay for support schemes during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt present, people start paying 20% income tax when they earn £12,500 a year, known as the personal allowance.\n\nThe first £12,500 they earn is tax-free with the 20% rate only being charged on everything they earn above that amount, up to the higher rate tax threshold.\n\nThe starting point for paying the higher 40% rate is £50,001.\n\nThese thresholds will go up to £12,570 and £50,270 in April, but will then be frozen until April 2026.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility, the government's official but independent forecaster, said this policy would bring 1.3 million more people into paying income tax and one million more into paying at the higher rate. This is known as fiscal drag.\n\nWhile the Scottish government has the ability to vary tax rates and bands under its devolved powers, the tax free personal allowance threshold is set by the chancellor and applies to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe OBR said that, when taking the rise in the cost of living into account, it would effectively bring the personal allowance in 2025-2026 to the level it was in 2014-2015.\n\nThe Budget documents show this hits middle to higher income earners the hardest.\n\nThe policy will bring an extra £8bn a year into the Treasury coffers, compared with what it would have received if it had raised the thresholds in line with inflation.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto pledged that the main rates of income tax, national insurance and VAT would not rise, and this does not break that pledge.\n\n\"The next few years will see the burden of tax on individuals rise quietly by stealth,\" said Jason Hollands, from financial advisers Tilney.\n\n\"But given pre-Budget fears of a potential Viking-like raid on personal wealth, middle-class Britons - particularly those with savings and investments - can sleep a little easier tonight.\"\n\nBecky O'Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, said: \"Freezing allowances is a back-handed way of raising taxes, as wage inflation and asset price inflation increase the number of people pushed over the thresholds at which they have to pay more tax.\n\n\"Frozen allowances and thresholds have a habit of remaining fixed for many years, dragging more people into tax charges over time.\"\n• None Ten ways the Budget will affect you", "Great British Bake Off presenter Noel Fielding and Ryan Giggs' brother Rhodri are among the latest people to accept \"substantial damages\" over phone-hacking by tabloid journalists.\n\nNews Group Newspapers (NGN) apologised for \"distress\" caused by the illegal interception of voicemails.\n\nNGN's paper, News of the World, was closed down in 2011 after years of phone-hacking came to light.\n\nHundreds of celebrities and members of the public have since won compensation.\n\nMr Fielding's solicitor, Alex Cochrane, told a court hearing in London on Thursday that the Mighty Boosh and Never Mind The Buzzcocks star had identified a number of articles published between 2006 and 2010 which he claimed contained his private information and were \"suspicious\".\n\n\"During this time, Mr Fielding used his voicemail extensively and he would regularly receive and leave voicemail messages for his family and close friends,\" Mr Cochrane told the court.\n\n\"It was alleged that the publication of the articles generated distrust which impacted his relationships and caused him considerable distress.\"\n\nOther victims who settled their claims at the hearing are:\n\nSolicitor Callum Galbraith, whose firm Hamlins represented everyone at Thursday's hearing apart from Mr Bisson, said: \"Getting as full an understanding of NGN's unlawful acts is critical to many of our clients, but equally many want a full and proper apology acknowledging the considerable distress and lasting damage caused. These public apologies achieve that.\"\n\nNGN's barrister, Ben Silverstone, said the defendant offered its \"sincere apologies\" to the claimants \"for the distress caused to [them] by the invasion of [their] privacy by individuals working for or on behalf of the News of the World.\n\n\"Such activity should never have taken place,\" he added.\n\nNews of the World, which was owned by Rupert Murdoch, obtained stories by listening in to the private voicemail messages of celebrities and even the murdered teenager Milly Dowler.\n\nThose who have already settled their cases for undisclosed sums include singer Sir Elton John and actress Elizabeth Hurley.\n\nCombined with legal costs, the bill for NGN - which is also the publisher of the Sun newspaper - has run into hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nThe publisher has never admitted liability in relation to alleged phone-hacking at the Sun.\n\nThere are about 50 phone-hacking claims against NGN remaining in the latest round of litigation, with a trial for some lead cases set to go ahead in November.\n\nIn the past few years, several trial dates have been set only for claims to be settled at the last minute.\n\nLawyers representing alleged phone-hacking victims say that, aside from the cases already in the system, many more could yet be brought before the courts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We'll keep our fingers crossed\": Camilla gave an update to staff at a vaccination centre\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh is \"slightly improving\", the Duchess of Cornwall has said after his 15th night in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, who was being treated for an infection, moved to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on Monday for tests and observation on a pre-existing heart condition.\n\nCamilla provided the update when a volunteer at a Covid vaccination centre in Croydon asked about the duke.\n\nShe added: \"We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nCamilla was visiting the community vaccination centre at St Paul's Church on Wednesday morning.\n\nAnne Sheehan, a receptionist at a GP practice, confirmed she asked the duchess how Prince Philip was, in an exchange that was filmed during the visit.\n\nCamilla said: \"We heard today that he's slightly improving. So, that's very good news. We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 100 in June, travelled by car from Windsor to King Edward VII's hospital in Marylebone, central London, on 16 February as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission has not been disclosed, but was not related to coronavirus.\n\nOn 1 March, Buckingham Palace announced he had been transferred to Barts by ambulance.\n\nThe palace said \"doctors will continue to treat him for an infection, as well as undertake testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition\".\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall met volunteers at the vaccination centre in south London\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father at King Edward VII's Hospital, the weekend after his admission.\n\nThe Queen and other members of the royal family have continued to carry out official duties while the duke has been in hospital.\n\nSt Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London is an NHS hospital and home to Europe's largest specialised cardiovascular unit.\n\nIn 2011, Prince Philip was taken to hospital by helicopter from Sandringham after suffering chest pains as the royal family was preparing for Christmas.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire and had a stent fitted.", "The world through its media\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has wrongly claimed the death of a vaccine recipient has suspended innoculations using the Pfizer jab in parts of Europe. \"In some European countries, Pfizer inoculations were stopped because there were lethal outcomes there,\" Putin told a gathering of youth activists that was broadcast live on Russian state TV channel Rossiya 24. He made the comment after praising Russia's own vaccines as the \"safest and most effective\" in the world. Putin appeared to be referring to the false allegation in a video shared on social media that claimed Pfizer was halting production of its vaccine after 23 people died in Norway. But as a fact-check by the news agency Reuters pointed out, Pfizer actually announced in mid-January that it was temporarily reducing production at its facility in Puurs, Belgium, for a week as part of a plan to increase vaccine output in the long term. In a previous fact-check , the agency reported the Norwegian Institute of Public Health had found no evidence to suggest the vaccine was to blame for the deaths of 13 elderly recipients.", "Micheál Martin said \"what happened was wrong\"\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has described revelations about illegal adoptions as \"shocking\".\n\nHe said \"what happened was wrong\" and \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nRTÉ Investigates has reported that for decades thousands of babies born to unmarried mothers were illegally adopted.\n\nMany only recently found out they were adopted, believing until then that the mother and father they grew up with were their natural parents.\n\nSome also discovered they had been celebrating their birthday on the wrong date for decades, because their birth certificates had been falsified.\n\n\"I wasn't who I thought I was and I don't know who I am\" is a constant refrain of those who were illegally adopted.\n\nThe programme features, amongst others, the case of Mary Dolan, a Belfast school teacher who was born in Dublin but placed with a couple in Northern Ireland who were registered as her parents on her birth certificate.\n\nShe later discovered that her birth mother had named her Rita and was told by social workers that she had a brother in the United States.\n\nBut DNA tests showed the two were not related.\n\n\"I was absolutely devastated,\" she says.\n\n\"To get an identity and then to have that literally ripped from you, it was gut-wrenching.\"\n\nThe programme also said that Professor Éamon De Valera Jr, a gynaecologist, and a son of the former Irish President and Taoiseach Éamon De Valera, facilitated illegal adoption long after it was made a criminal offence.\n\nThe documentary reports on one case where he arranged antenatal appointments for a woman who was not pregnant to give the impression that an infant she would later legally adopt was her biological child.\n\nThe issue of unmarried mothers and their babies has cast a long and dark shadow over Irish society.\n\nTwo months ago, the Irish state published a report on what happened in mother and baby homes for decades that led to Mr Martin apologising on behalf of the state to the residents.\n\nAhead of the broadcast of the programme, the taoiseach told the Dáil (lower house of parliament) that ministers were working on legislation that would give priority to the individuals who were illegally adopted and who are seeking information about their origins.", "The practical and economic consequences of Brexit will become real when the transition period ends at 23:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nBut because of special arrangements for Northern Ireland, it will have a different experience from the rest of the UK.\n\nPeople born in Northern Ireland have the right to Irish as well as British citizenship.\n\nThose who exercise that right will retain their EU citizenship, something not available to people elsewhere in the UK who may have only British citizenship.\n\nThe consequences of this range from the mundane to the profound.\n\nPeople travelling on Irish passports will be able to use EU/EEA lanes and e-gates at airports.\n\nThose with British passports will not.\n\nMore fundamentally people with Irish passports keep their right to freedom of movement within the EU.\n\nThat means they can live, work and study in an EU country without a visa and with no time limit.\n\nThese rights extend to their spouses and dependent children.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier explained this during a speech in Belfast in 2020.\n\n\"Whilst Northern Ireland will no longer be part of the EU, people born and raised here that choose to be Irish citizens will still be EU citizens,\" he said.\n\n\"This means they can continue to move and reside freely within the EU.\"\n\nThe UK will no longer be participating in Erasmus, the EU student exchange scheme.\n\nInstead, the UK government is setting up its own scheme, known as Turing.\n\nHowever, students at Northern Ireland's universities will still be able to take part in Erasmus due to funding and administrative assistance from the Irish government.\n\nIreland's Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said: \"The government of Ireland made a very solemn commitment to Northern Ireland that, even after Brexit, we would make sure that there were still ways for us to co-operate and collaborate in relation to higher education.\"\n\nFunding will be available to all full-time students attending third level institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt will not be limited to those with an Irish passport, so British passport holders will also qualify.\n\nThe town of Warrenpoint in County Down is home to the second largest port in Northern Ireland\n\nBusinesses across the UK will still be able to sell their goods to the EU without tariffs being imposed.\n\nThis is due to the trade deal reached between the EU and UK on Christmas Eve.\n\nBut businesses in GB will face a range of new non-tariff trade barriers such as paperwork, certifications and checks on goods as they enter the EU.\n\nNorthern Ireland will not face these non-tariff barriers as it will effectively remain within the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThis is a consequence of the NI Protocol, a special deal to prevent the re-emergence of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAs an example, a lorry load of Northern Ireland meat products could board a ferry at Dublin port and disembark at a French port with no new paperwork or checks.\n\nHowever, if a similar load was travelling from Scotland to France it would need to be accompanied by new export health certificates and the authorities would need advance notice of its arrival.\n\nIt would have to go to a border control post where the load may be physically examined.\n\nThere is a significant flipside to this: new trade barriers within the UK.\n\nThat lorry load of Scottish meat could be driven to Cardiff or London without any new checks or controls.\n\nBut when entering Northern Ireland it is as if it is entering the EU.\n\nSo it will need to undergo all the same bureaucracy and checking as when it was entering a French port.", "The Scots founder of one of the UK's biggest public relations companies has been forced to stand down after a \"tone deaf\" social media post.\n\nGordon Beattie, chairman of Beattie Communications, published a LinkedIn post saying his firm would not hire \"blacks, gays or Catholics\".\n\nHe added that he only hired \"talented people\" and did not care about colour, sexual orientation or religion.\n\nMr Beattie said he was \"truly sorry\" for his \"inappropriate\" language.\n\nBeattie Communications said in a statement that Mr Beattie was \"standing down as a consequence of a tone deaf social media post\".\n\nA former journalist, Mr Beattie founded his public relations and corporate communications company in Motherwell 40 years ago, before expanding it across the UK.\n\nGordon Beattie published the post on LinkedIn last week\n\nHe said the post had been issued with the \"best of intent\" but did not take account the \"complexities of creating a level playing field\".\n\n\"The language I used was inappropriate. I am truly sorry for the embarrassment I have caused the wonderful team across the business and our clients, and for the offence it has clearly caused,\" he said.\n\n\"I have always hired people based on their potential, talent and ability, and done my best to equip them with the skills to succeed.\n\n\"It's a wrench to step down as chair but I feel I have no alternative. The time is right to go.\"\n\nThe LinkedIn post, which was uploaded on Friday, provoked an angry reaction from anti-racism campaigners and was also strongly criticised by others in the communications industry.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Beattie Communications, Laurna Woods, said Mr Beattie and the entire team had been devastated by the consequences of the LinkedIn post.\n\n\"There can be no excuses for the language he used or provocation exercised and he acknowledges that his actions, however well intentioned, were not only reckless, but out of touch,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm personally saddened that he has chosen to resign as I have worked closely with him for 25 years and I can testify that he does not have a prejudiced bone in his body.\n\n\"But he was determined to draw a line in the sand so that the agency can look to the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a five-step plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nUnlike plans announced in England and Scotland, NI's blueprint does not include a timetable.\n\nProgression for each of the nine pathways - across social and business settings - will depend on certain public health criteria being met.\n\nThe executive must review its coronavirus restrictions regularly, with the next due on 16 March.\n\nThe Executive Office said the plan - Moving Forward: The Executive's Pathway Out Of Restrictions - was a \"gradual easing of the current restrictions\".\n\nHowever it does not include specific detail on how the executive will measure when it is safe to reopen certain sectors.\n\nStep one represents the current lockdown restrictions, with steps two to four allowing an easing of the rules and the final step entitled preparing for the future.\n\nHere are the details of the plan and what it means for different sectors.", "The Duke of Edinburgh has undergone a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe palace said the duke would remain in hospital for treatment, rest and recuperation for a number of days.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, has already spent 16 nights in hospital.\n\nHe was being treated for an infection and moved to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on Monday for tests and observation on his heart condition.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the procedure took place on Wednesday.\n\nIn 2011, Prince Philip was taken to hospital by helicopter from Sandringham after suffering chest pains as the royal family was preparing for Christmas.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire and had a stent fitted.\n\nThe duke, who turns 100 in June, travelled by car from Windsor to King Edward VII's hospital in Marylebone, central London, on 16 February as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission was not disclosed, but it was not related to coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, Buckingham Palace announced he had been transferred to Barts by ambulance.\n\nSt Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London is an NHS hospital and home to Europe's largest specialised cardiovascular unit.\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father at King Edward VII's Hospital, the weekend after his admission.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Queen, have continued with their official duties during the duke's hospital stay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We'll keep our fingers crossed\": Camilla gave an update to staff at a vaccination centre\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall gave an update on Prince Philip's condition when she visited a Covid vaccination centre in Croydon on Wednesday.\n\nWhen a volunteer asked about the duke, Camilla said: \"We heard today that he's slightly improving. So, that's very good news. We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nThe duke has received treatment for other health conditions over the years, including a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nHe retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal Family's Twitter feed has issued a photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Balmoral Castle in 1976 to mark World Book Day.\n\nThe palace update on Prince Philip's hospital treatment came days before Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex airs on US television.", "Almost 23 million people saw the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nPolice have ruled out a criminal inquiry into the background to BBC reporter Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nA former employee of Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, claimed false documents were allegedly used to win Diana's trust before her Panorama appearance.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said correspondence alleging unlawful activity had been \"carefully assessed\".\n\nThe BBC has launched an independent investigation into the claims.\n\nEarl Spencer had alleged last year that Bashir used forged bank statements which wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister.\n\nA legal representative for Alan Waller, who worked for Earl Spencer as head of security, subsequently made a formal complaint to the Met alleging unlawful activity.\n\nScotland Yard said \"no further action\" will be taken.\n\nCommander Alex Murray said: \"Following this detailed assessment and in view of the [legal] advice we received, we have determined that it is not appropriate to begin a criminal investigation into these allegations.\n\n\"In this matter, as in any other, should any significant new evidence come to light we will assess it.\"\n\nAt the time of the Panorama programme, Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nAlmost 23 million people tuned in to watch the programme. In it, the princess famously said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to the Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\nDiana died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.\n\nBashir, 58, currently BBC News religion editor, has been recovering from heart surgery and complications from Covid-19 and had been unable to comment on Earl Spencer's allegations.\n\nThe BBC investigation is looking at the steps Bashir and the corporation took to secure the interview.\n\nLord Dyson, who was Master of the Rolls - the second most senior judge in England and Wales - for four years until he retired in October 2016, is leading the probe.\n\nThe BBC said it was handing over \"all of its relevant records\" to him.\n\nIt has revealed that a previously missing note from Diana, thought to indicate she was happy with the way her interview by BBC Panorama was obtained, had been found.", "The latest lockdown started in Wales just before Christmas\n\nThere could be \"opportunities\" to open some of the economy earlier in Wales compared with England, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he would not want to deny firms the chance to resume trading while he waits \"for somebody else to be in the position we have already arrived at\".\n\nHe said coronavirus rates in Wales are \"significantly lower\" than in England.\n\nUnder Welsh plans hairdressers and some shops may reopen on 15 March.\n\nThat is earlier than England, which does not plan to open hairdressers and non-essential shops until 12 April.\n\nHowever the Welsh government has been criticised for not laying out a more detailed plan for exiting lockdown.\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Affairs Select Committee at Westminster, Mr Drakeford said lifting lockdown restrictions would be \"broadly aligned\" across the whole of the UK and all governments would look to reopen parts of society \"as conditions allow\".\n\nHe said Wales may be able to \"restore some economic activity earlier than the prime minister's roadmap currently suggests\".\n\n\"I wouldn't want to deny businesses in Wales the chance to get back trading because we were waiting for somebody else to be in the position we had already arrived at.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, who was speaking to the committee from self-isolation after coming into contact with someone with Covid-19, also told the committee that his relationship with the prime minister was \"remote\".\n\nHe said he had only met the prime minister \"once myself\".\n\nHe said: \"The remoteness isn't just in that way, I'm afraid we rarely have a meeting of minds.\"\n\nHe told the committee that there were some areas where the UK government engagement with Welsh ministers had been \"good\", and there were some places where it \"falls far short of what would be properly expected\".\n\nMr Drakeford said his \"anxiety\" about the lack of regular engagement between the Prime Minister and other parts of the United Kingdom it was that, without that architecture, \"the security of the United Kingdom becomes more difficult\".\n\nIn response, Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb said Welsh Secretary Simon Hart had described an \"opening of doors\" within UK government to the devolved nations during the pandemic but that this was \"not reciprocated.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he \"wouldn't accept that characterisation\".\n\n\"When the UK government is discussing matters in which there are devolved responsibilities at stake, then to greater or lesser extents we get invited to participate in those meetings.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, said the first minister should urgently provide a roadmap for reopening businesses, instead of a \"drip, drip of information\" in committees.\n\n\"Thousands of livelihoods are on the line so if we can act to save Welsh jobs then Labour ministers should do so,\" he said.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA judge has given Harry Dunn's family the go-ahead to proceed with a claim for damages against the teen's alleged killer and her husband in the US.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nSuspect Anne Sacoolas later returned to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA Virginia court heard Mr Dunn's family brought a claim against her husband due to a law in the US state which suggests he is liable for allowing his wife to use the car which killed the teenager.\n\nJudge Thomas Ellis said the issue of Jonathan Sacoolas's \"vicarious liability\" could be revisited in the future, but he denied a motion to dismiss that part of the claim at a hearing on Wednesday.\n\nShould there be no settlement, the next legal step would be a \"deposition\", in which Mrs Sacoolas and her husband would be forced to provide their account of events outside of court.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nDunn family's spokesman Radd Seiger said they were \"very pleased\" with the judge's ruling \"and that their claims have been allowed to proceed in full\".\n\nHe added: \"They are also pleased that Mr Sacoolas will also have to be deposed so that they can learn the full account of what happened on the night Harry died.\"\n\nThe ruling opens the way for pre-trial discovery to begin - during which both sides seek documents and factual records from one another.\n\nIt also allows for face-to-face depositions which could see the Dunn family in the same room as Anne Sacoolas for the first time.\n\nTypically in Virginia the discovery phase of such cases takes between two and four months.\n\nConcluding the hearing, Judge Thomas Ellis, reminded both sides that settlement was an option - a process overseen by a magistrate in which the parties agree an outcome without the need for a trial.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service has charged Mrs Sacoolas with causing the teenager's death by dangerous driving but an extradition request was rejected by the US government in January last year.\n\nA court hearing previously heard Mrs Sacoolas's work in intelligence was \"especially a factor\" in her departure and that she \"fled\" the UK for \"issues of security\".\n\nThe news comes as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has again raised the case with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\n\nMr Raab had already spoken to Mr Blinken in January about the case but a State Department spokesman said the decision to refuse extradition was \"final\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Scientists have identified 16 cases of another new variant of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nPublic Health England has designated it as a 'variant under investigation' (VUI), meaning it is on their watch list, but not one they are immediately concerned about.\n\nIt has a mutation in common with the South Africa and Brazil variants.\n\nThat change, E484K, may help the virus evade some immunity from vaccination or prior infection, experts believe.\n\nThe cases were first identified on 15 February by the UK's variant surveillance system.\n\nExperts suspect it originated in the UK.\n\nAll 16 individuals who tested positive, and their contacts, have been traced and advised to isolate.\n\nPHE said the cases were geographically spread across the UK. And it confirmed that surge or mass testing would not be necessary - this is only done for variants of concern (VOC), such as the Brazil one.\n\nThe UK now has 8 variants on its watch list - 4 VUIs and 4 VOCs.\n\nMost recently, officials had been trying to track down a person in England known to have been infected with the Brazil VOC.\n\nThe search was narrowed to 379 households in the south of England, and the case was traced to Croydon.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said incidents like this are rare and only occur in around 0.1% of tests.\n\nIt's not unexpected that variants are appearing or that the virus will continue to change. All viruses mutate as they make new copies of themselves to spread and thrive.\n\nBut some changes may affect how well current vaccines work.\n\nScientists are looking at tweaking coronavirus vaccines to keep pace with the new, emerging variants to ensure that they continue to offer high protection against the disease as the virus mutates.\n\nThe UK's drug regulator the MHRA has said new vaccines can be fast-tracked through the approval system without \"lengthy\" clinical studies.\n• None BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron: How worried should we be?", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will speak to Oprah Winfrey in an upcoming TV special\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has drawn parallels between the treatment of his mother and wife, in teaser clips of a much-anticipated Oprah Winfrey TV special.\n\nIn two 30-second clips released by CBS, Harry says he feared history was \"repeating itself\" before he and Meghan decided to step back as senior royals.\n\nWinfrey is seen asking Meghan if there had been a \"breaking point\" and if she was \"silent or silenced\", but the duchess does not speak in either clip.\n\nThe US interview airs on 7 March.\n\nIt is unclear when the programme, Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, will be shown in the UK.\n\nIn the full programme Meghan will talk about marriage, motherhood, life as a royal and how she is handling \"intense public pressure\", CBS said.\n\nPrince Harry has previously said he stepped back from royal duties in order to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" environment created in the UK by the press.\n\nHarry's late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, relinquished the Her Royal Highness title at the time of her divorce from the Prince of Wales in August 1996.\n\nShe died the following year after a car crash in Paris. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes when the accident happened.\n\nIn the clips from the upcoming TV special, an image of a young Prince Harry with Diana is shown as the duke says: \"I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago, because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us - but at least we had each other.\"\n\nHarry also tells Winfrey: \"My biggest concern was history repeating itself.\n\n\"For me, I'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you with my wife by my side.\"\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 CBS This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWinfrey is a personal friend of Meghan and attended the couple's wedding in 2018.\n\nIn the full interview, Meghan and Harry talk about their move to the United States last year and their future plans, according to CBS.\n\nSpeaking to chat show host James Corden last week, the duke insisted the couple were \"stepping back rather than stepping down\" as senior royals.\n\nHe said the situation was \"destroying my mental health\" and he \"did what any husband [or] father would do\".\n\nThese first insights into the much-anticipated Oprah interview are designed to draw us in with their tight editing and dramatic music.\n\nThey are a flavour of what's to come.\n\nIn the minute of footage, Meghan doesn't say a word. We'll have to wait for her answers.\n\nBut the questions that Oprah puts to her hint strongly at upset and frustration. The language is of being silenced and of surviving something.\n\nThe talk from Harry is of protecting his wife and being able to escape from the pressure and strain they felt.\n\nIn Oprah, the couple chose a friend to interview them whose style isn't aggressive.\n\nShe is an expert at getting interviewees to open up and she will have encouraged them to reveal what went wrong behind the palace walls.\n\nIt is that which will worry the Royal Family and palace officials.\n\nHow critical have Harry and Meghan been? We will find out when the full interview is broadcast next weekend.\n\nLast month, it was announced that the duke and duchess would not be returning as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe couple said at the time that \"service is universal\" and offered to continue supporting the organisations they represented.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's honorary military appointments and royal patronages will be redistributed to working members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe announcement came just days after the couple revealed that they are expecting their second child.\n\nIt is not known whether Prince Harry and Meghan informed the royal household about their plans to be interviewed.", "The arrested man has been suspended by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust\n\nA healthcare professional has been arrested on suspicion of murder and rape as part of an investigation into a patient's death at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, police have said.\n\nLancashire Police said the man was arrested as part of the investigation into Valerie Kneale's death in 2018.\n\nMs Kneale, 75, died from a haemorrhage caused by a \"non-medical related internal injury\", a spokesman said.\n\nThe arrested man has been suspended by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nThe force spokesman said the man was being held on suspicion of murder, two offences of rape and one offence of sexual assault.\n\nA post-mortem examination on Mrs Kneale, who died on 16 November 2018, was one of a number carried out as part of an investigation launched at the time into allegations of mistreatment and neglect on the hospital's stroke unit.\n\nA murder investigation was launched when the cause of her death was found.\n\nThe spokesman said investigating officers had received information about other allegations of serious sexual assaults against two patients, as well as the sexual assault of a healthcare professional working on the stroke unit.\n\nA separate investigation into suspected poisoning of patients on the unit, which has previously seen seven hospital workers arrested, remains in progress.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jill Johnston said the force was \"committed\" to thoroughly investigating the \"complicated and sensitive allegations\".\n\nShe added that those involved were receiving specialist support and were being \"updated throughout the process by trained officers\".\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 areas of the UK are moving into the next vaccination phase, to prioritise those aged over 40\n\nA large rise in Covid vaccine supplies means more jabs should be delivered than ever before from next week, Wales' chief pharmacist has said.\n\nAndrew Evans has revealed that more than 30,000 doses a day could be administered across the country.\n\nFigures suggest one million people are likely to have had at least a first vaccine dose within the coming days.\n\nA total of 942,017 people in Wales have been given a first jab, while 124,781 have now been given the full course.\n\nThe four UK nations are aiming to vaccinate all adults by the end of July.\n\nRamping up of deliveries to Wales follows a slowdown during the past fortnight, largely caused by an planned reduction in the Oxford-AstraZeneca supply.\n\nMr Evans, the Welsh government's chief pharmaceutical officer, said supply increases would allow Wales to \"continue to lead\" other UK nations on vaccine roll out, with teams focused on \"keeping it that way\".\n\nThe acceleration, he said, could also lead to more vaccination centres being opened and, along with GP surgeries, an increasing number of pharmacies being used.\n\nIf the momentum continues, Mr Evans said he was confident the milestone of offering a first jab to priority groups five to nine could be met by mid-April.\n\nHe suggested about 20,000 first doses and 10,000 second doses could be offered each day from next week.\n\n\"There's capacity within our programme to go as fast as supplies allow,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been low for the last couple of weeks but it's significantly higher this week - between 150,000 to 160,000 doses - next week we could be back up to in excess of 200,000 - a capacity we know the NHS vaccination programme here has.\n\n\"We've already been building the vaccination infrastructure with at least 500 locations used at any one time and the increasing availability of the AstraZeneca means more flexibility and allow us to use it in more places.\"\n\nAlmost 4% of the population in Wales has been given a second vaccine dose - higher than any other UK nation - and Mr Evans suggested the NHS here could continue to \"lead the pack\".\n\nOn the issue of whether booster vaccines will be needed, he said there were plans being made for \"various scenarios\".\n\n\"We don't yet know how long the duration of protection the two doses will give. If booster doses are needed later in the year or next year then we will have a plan to deliver those,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking later to BBC Radio Wales, he added that \"very very few people\" were refusing the vaccine.\n\n\"Our uptake rate is in excess of 90% for the older groups, in excess of 85% has we come down through those cohorts. There is very little vaccine hesitancy,\" he said.\n\nResponding to the increase in pace of delivering jabs, Tracy Meredith, head of mass vaccination at Cardiff and Vale Health board, said \"get ready for the boom\".\n\nThe health board has plans to open an even bigger mass vaccination centre, although the location is not yet known.\n\n\"We're looking at an addition, looking at something bigger, big in scale, a big space. That's a good position to be in,\" she added.\n\nThere's a quiet efficiency about the process at the mass vaccination centre in Splott, Cardiff.\n\nAs people arrive, with their all-important appointment cards in hand - they are guided immediately to a booth, where one of about 20 vaccinators is waiting.\n\nThe centre has capacity to inoculate 20 people every 10 minutes, compared to four people every 15 minutes in the early days. Which means, subject to supply, 1,320 people can get a Covid jab here every day.\n\nStudent nurses are part of the effort, having been trained to give the vaccine.\n\nBeth Reed-Gibbs said she was \"absolutely loving\" being part of the team that offers hope of a way out of the pandemic.\n\n\"People getting the vaccine are mainly excited, some were a bit anxious for the first dose but now they know there's nothing to worry about.\"\n\nBarbera Phythian, another student nurse vaccinator, shares that excitement: \"Some people I've given the vaccine to have been shielding for a year.\n\n\"So they are anxious about seeing people for the first time. But it's honestly a relief for them and they are really grateful to us, which is an amazing feeling.\"\n\nThis week, ahead of schedule, the centre has also been giving a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine to health and care workers.\n\nThey include Kim Nash, an essential worker for Cardiff's children's services, who has had her appointment sooner than she was expecting.\n\n\"I was originally booked in for April, so it's great that so many people are coming through... it means extra security for me and my family.\"\n\nAlthough ministers have insisted the vaccination effort is not a \"race between nations\" but rather a \"race against the virus\" Mr Evans said the relative speed of roll out here was \"a great thing\" for public protection.\n\n\"If we're leading the pack we're leading the race against the virus. If we're ahead against everyone else we must be ahead against the virus - that will mean more people protected and that's a great thing for people here,\" he added.\n\nHe also welcomed research this week that suggested just a first dose of either of the Covid vaccines available in the UK offers significant protection against serious illness, especially in older people.\n\nNurse Carys Williams, who ensures the flow of people through the vaccination centres remains smooth, knows more than most how crucial this effort is, having been a nurse in intensive care during the first Covid wave.\n\n\"Before being a supervisor here I was a nurse at critical care at UHW in Cardiff. I did that for 32 years, but unfortunately after the first wave I felt that I needed to change,\" she said.\n\n\"It was heart-breaking to be honest, it really was. I felt that I just needed to get away after that long and I didn't feel I could give anymore.\n\n\"I feel every jab I give I think we're making a contribution to lessening the pressure on the NHS and getting us to some kind of normality hopefully, pretty soon.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmazon has opened a till-less grocery store in London - its first \"just walk out\" shop outside the US.\n\nVisitors to Amazon Fresh scan a smartphone app when entering and are automatically billed as they leave.\n\nThe store stocks hundreds of own-brand items as well as third-party products, and also serves as a place to collect and return goods bought online.\n\nCampaigners have raised privacy concerns but one retail expert said the opening marked a \"watershed moment\".\n\n\"Having a physical presence will enable Amazon to address some of its weaknesses, like the mounting cost of deliveries and returns,\" said Natalie Berg, an analyst with NBK Retail.\n\nMuch of the technology involved is located in the ceiling\n\nBut she said she did not believe it would pose a threat to the major chains in the near term.\n\n\"Supermarkets have had a few years now to prepare and test their own checkout-free shopping concepts.\"\n\nAmazon's approach, however, promises a more \"frictionless\" experience than other retailers.\n\nVisitors only have to place an item in a bag or otherwise carry it out to be charged by the store, which is located at the street entrance of a shopping centre in the borough of Ealing.\n\nBy contrast, retailers including Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury's require consumers to scan items into a smartphone or other device.\n\nThe US firm is so confident of its tech that it says shoppers are not under any obligation to check all the items were accounted for.\n\n\"When you're finished, you're free to walk out,\" said Matt Birch, director of Amazon Fresh Stores and an ex-Sainsbury's executive.\n\nVisitors can buy a bag or use their own, and are emailed a copy of their receipt after leaving\n\nThe technology involved was pioneered at the firm's similar Amazon Go stores in the States, which opened to the public in 2018.\n\nHowever, recent advancements mean the system can now cope with customers selecting from different bouquets of flowers, magazines and greetings cards - it could not distinguish accurately enough between one choice and another before.\n\nIt involves the use of hundreds of cameras and depth-sensors, and software developed using deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques.\n\nHowever, it does not involve facial recognition.\n\nAmazon tracks each customer as they move around the shop\n\nInstead, users must identify themselves on arrival by scanning a barcode displayed within their account on the standard Amazon Shopping app.\n\n\"[It] offers a dystopian, total-surveillance shopping experience,\" said Silkie Carlo, from Big Brother Watch.\n\n\"Amazon's intense tracking of shoppers will create larger personal data footprints than any other retailer. Customers deserve to know how and by whom these records and analytics could be used.\"\n\nThe company has said it will only associate information collected in-store with a customer's Amazon account for up to 30 days, and has further details about how it uses the data on its privacy site.\n\nAmazon said it had sourced many of its own-brand groceries - including milk and eggs - from UK suppliers itself.\n\nIn addition, it has launched an \"Our Selection\" sub-brand for \"premium\" products including desserts.\n\nOther items come from Morrisons and Booths, supermarkets with whom its has pre-existing ties.\n\nThe store also contains a booth where orders can be delivered from its online store.\n\nAnd customers can return goods by scanning a code without having to repackage or relabel the item.\n\n\"Hand the product over and we'll do the rest for you,\" said Mr Birch, adding he plans further stores on some of London other high streets as well as its city centre.\n\nMarks & Spencer announced in November it was expanding use of its \"scan, pay and go\" service to all its UK grocery stores\n\nThe Ealing store's customer area covers about 2,500 sq foot (232 sq m) in total, which is much smaller than a typical supermarket.\n\nAmazon also operates seven Whole Foods Market supermarkets in the UK.\n\nAnd there have been persistent rumours that it might try to expand further in the sector by buying one of the larger chains.\n\nHowever, the company is also offering to sell its Just Walk Out technology as a service that can be installed in other companies' stores.\n\nAnd ultimately it might decide there is more money to be made pitching this to the established supermarkets than challenging them head-on with bigger stores of its own.\n\nAmazon has barely made a dent in the overall UK grocery market, but it's clearly got big ambitions for food.\n\nIt's been ramping up its online service, with free same-day deliveries for Prime members, putting pressure on rivals.\n\nThe traditional supermarkets have been improving their technology over the past few years and the pandemic has accelerated the changes.\n\nSainsbury's, for instance, has had a huge take-up in its SmartShop system where shoppers can pick up a handset and scan items as they go.\n\nUsers must scan a QR barcode on their smartphone as they enter\n\nMoving into bricks and mortar is another milestone for Amazon.\n\nIts new range of own-branded products is also eye-catching.\n\nWhen it comes to convenience stores, being able to grab and go could prove very popular. But location is key.\n\nAnd most of the best convenience-store sites in densely populated, urban districts have already been taken.\n\nThis launch won't pose a big, immediate, threat to the big established grocers but they know only too well that Amazon has the potential to be a hugely disruptive force and has already forced them to up their game.", "Fortnite and Apple have been locked in legal battle since August\n\nThe UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into whether Apple's terms for app developers are anti-competitive.\n\nIt follows a series of complaints, including a high-profile one from Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite.\n\nSome developers are unhappy that they are forced to distribute apps to iPhones and iPads via the App Store, and the commission Apple takes.\n\nApple said its terms were \"fair and equal\".\n\nThe investigation will consider whether Apple has a dominant position in the distribution of apps on its devices and look at whether it imposes unfair terms on developers.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA said: \"Millions of us use apps every day to check the weather, play a game or order a takeaway. So complaints that Apple is using its market position to set terms which are unfair or may restrict competition and choice - potentially causing customers to lose out when buying and using apps - warrant careful scrutiny.\"\n\nIn response, Apple said: \"We believe in thriving and competitive markets where any great idea can flourish. The App Store has been an engine of success for app developers, in part because of the rigorous standards we have in place - applied fairly and equally to all developers - to protect customers from malware and to prevent rampant data collection without their consent.\n\n\"We look forward to working with the UK Competition and Markets Authority to explain how our guidelines for privacy, security and content have made the App Store a trusted marketplace for both consumers and developers.\"\n\nEpic Games has launched a legal action against Apple and Google in the US, after both removed Fortnite from their smartphone app stores.\n\nThe row centred on the up to 30% cut both the tech giants take when people buy an app, subscription or in-app item on the Apple App Store or the Google Play store, as well as the difficulty in launching a mobile app without submitting to both companies' app store rules.\n\nIn August Epic bypassed the Apple and Google stores to let Fortnite players buy virtual currency at a lower price, directly from it, resulting in an immediate ban from both stores.\n\nThe row has attracted the attention of both regulators and politicians.\n\nArizona's state House of Representatives passed a law this week which prohibits Apple and Google, and any other app store exceeding one million downloads, from demanding developers based in the state exclusively use its app stores.\n\nThe law also covers users living in the state, but it is not yet clear how it will affect companies headquartered in other states but conducting sales in Arizona. It will now be handed to the state Senate for approval.\n\nIn Europe, Apple is facing two investigations into whether it has broken competition rules, one of which relates to its app store policies.", "The report warns the problem young people face is Wales' \"biggest economic challenge in living memory\"\n\nYoung people should be guaranteed work or training to avoid becoming \"scarred\" by Covid-19, an inquiry has found.\n\nWelsh ministers should take action to stop a \"monumental spike in youth unemployment\", a report by the Senedd's cross-party economy committee has said.\n\nOvercoming it is a major part of the recovering from the \"biggest economic challenge in living memory\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said its priority was for Wales to be \"more prosperous, but also fairer and greener\".\n\nIn December, Wales had the highest rise in unemployment in the UK - despite that, the Welsh rate of unemployment stood at 4.4% last month, lower than the UK rate of 5.1%.\n\nThe report calls for a skills-led recovery and a campaign to make sure young people are paid a living wage\n\nOutlining a range of strategies to tackle the problem, the report - Long-Term Recovery from Covid-19 - calls for a skills-led recovery, with special support for the hardest-hit sectors and a campaign to pay the real living wage.\n\nOne chapter deals specifically with young people, stating they were more likely to be furloughed during the first wave of coronavirus than other age groups.\n\nIt also details how the rate of 18 to 24-year-olds in Wales claiming unemployment benefits rose \"considerably\" in 2020.\n\nDepriving young people of work experience during shutdowns could be \"locked into their earning potential\" for the rest of their lives, the report said.\n\n\"Without the right support for skills, training and work experience, there is a very real risk of a scarred 'Covid generation'.\"\n\nMinisters should \"urgently\" look at a setting up a youth opportunity guarantee for 16 to 24-year-olds, it urged.\n\nA similar scheme in Scotland already offers one or two years in work or training.\n\nJonathon Dawes, 18, from Rhyl, said he thought it was the right step to get young people on the employment ladder.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the pandemic I would be tennis coaching, but at the moment I am at home.\n\n\"In my scenario my work has been delayed, but so many more young people have had their career pathways put to one side and this would be a fantastic way to get them back on track.\"\n\nSixteen-year-old Lloyd Mann from Abergavenny said he wanted to see how the scheme panned out.\n\n\"It's the perfect thing to start filling in the gaps. A government scheme that offers security will put a lot of young people at ease.\n\n\"The pandemic has definitely made me reconsider going to university. If it wasn't for the pandemic I'd be aiming to get some kind of part-time job and my education would be less effective. Although uni has been my main goal for sometime, the scheme has made me think about other options.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Member of the Senedd Helen Mary Jones, who sits on the committee, said: \"In the past, we've seen what amounts to a lost generation - if you look back to the 1980s, we had young people who were out of work for two years. Those people are coming up to retirement age now and their lives are still affected by that economic shock all those years ago.\n\n\"So we want to make sure that that doesn't happen to this generation of young people, and we want the government to invest in ensuring that they get over this economic hump.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"It's very much about working with employers in the private sector, enabling them to bring young people on board, which perhaps they couldn't afford to do on their own and supporting them to do that.\"\n\nDr Sioned Pearce said Wales could look to international structures for a solution\n\nDr Sioned Pearce from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) at Cardiff University said young people have been hard hit and the Welsh government needed to get out of the \"employability narrative\" that is about getting a young person into work without thought about factors such as the nature of the work and the pay.\n\nShe said: \"In the UK as a whole, young people were two-and-a-half times more likely to be working in a sector that was shut down before the lockdown and in Wales that was three times more likely.\n\n\"So that's a really concerning picture, particularly when you take into account the long-term scarring effects of youth unemployment, even for short periods, not just on future earnings but on mental health, physical health relationships, and so on.\"\n\nShe said the situation has \"exacerbated issues of precarity\" for young people - with under-25s more likely to work with zero hour contracts, having to work part-time, or on low incomes.\n\n\"There is also the issue of deprivation in Wales which is longstanding. Wales receives a higher amount of European structural funding because of its high levels of deprivation - young people living in rural or valleys levels of Wales may find it particularly difficult, especially then with the coming withdrawal of EU funding post-Brexit.\"\n\nShe said Wales could look to examples in places such as Scotland and Sweden and \"challenge that work-first imperative and keeping the principle of no-one left behind in mind\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"We don't want anyone to be left behind.\n\n\"Our Covid commitment will create opportunities to retrain and upskill in new and high-growth areas and ensure support is on hand for anyone needing it, including helping young people to enter the labour market for the first time.\n\n\"We have set out a clear and ethical vision for the future that supports everyone in Wales.\"\n\nHave you found it hard to find work in the pandemic? Are you worried about finding a job after you finish education?\n\nUse this form to tell us about your experiences:\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.", "Amy Hart and eventual winner Amber Gill pictured entering the villa in the last summer series\n\nLove Island will return to screens this summer, nearly 18 months since it was last on air, ITV has confirmed.\n\nHowever, the broadcaster has not announced any further details, such as the location of the villa.\n\nPrevious summer series have taken place in Mallorca, but reports this week suggested ITV had identified the island of Jersey as a possible back-up.\n\nThe channel has also announced a slate of new dramas and entertainment shows which will air in the coming months.\n\nEarlier this year, ITV's CEO Dame Carolyn McCall said they were \"looking at all options\" to bring Love Island back.\n\nShe told the BBC's Amol Rajan: \"We will want to put Love Island on air because it's been off air for a little while, we didn't do it last summer. We're looking at all our options at the moment because the pandemic makes that hard.\"\n\nThe most recent series of Love Island took place in the winter, concluding in February 2020, when Paige Turley and Finley Tapp were crowned the winners. (They're still together, a year later.)\n\nThat series took place just before the coronavirus pandemic, and marked the first winter run for a show which had previously only aired during summer months.\n\nSince the series has been off air, ITV2 has been broadcasting international editions of the series in its place to fill the air time, such as Love Island Australia.\n\nLaura Whitmore is expected to return to hosting duties\n\nLaura Whitmore will likely return to hosting duties, after she previously stood in for former presenter Caroline Flack, who died last February.\n\nIt's unclear how the show would operate if social distancing measures remain in place by this summer.\n\nHowever, it's likely that Covid-19 restrictions will be significantly reduced by then, in light of the government's four-step plan to ease most lockdown rules by June, and the continued success of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.\n\nEven if some measures are still in place, other series like Strictly have used daily testing and contestant bubbles as a way to stay on air.\n\nBut the pandemic has caused significant disruption to TV productions. Both Strictly and Dancing On Ice saw contestants leave after testing positive for Covid-19, while I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here relocated from Australia to Wales.\n\nLove Island was one of several commissions ITV confirmed on Thursday, as it announced details of its summer programming.\n\nThe channel will also air a previously-announced new drama about the killing of Stephen Lawrence, which will star Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People wait on higher ground on Great Barrier Island amid the tsunami alert\n\nThree earthquakes, including one of the strongest ever to hit the region, struck off the coast of New Zealand on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings that have now been stood down.\n\nThousands were evacuated from some coastal areas of the North Island after the third, 8.1-magnitude quake struck.\n\nThere were reports of traffic gridlock as people tried to reach higher ground.\n\nThe national tsunami warning was lifted at 15:43 (02:43 GMT), some 13 hours after the first quake.\n\nSome wave surges hit parts of the coast but, by Friday afternoon, authorities said the largest waves had passed. Residents were told they could return home but were warned to stay off beaches.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand: \"What happens if there is another earthquake?\"\n\nThe South Pacific archipelagos of New Caledonia and Vanuatu have been warned to prepare for dangerous waves.\n\nTheir coasts could see wave surges as high as 3m (10ft), while parts of South America - including Peru, Ecuador and Chile - were warned they could see 1m waves reaching their coasts.\n\nThe Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said \"tsunami waves have been observed\", but as yet no damage had been reported.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern posted on Instagram: \"Hope everyone is ok out there.\"\n\nThe three earthquakes, all above 7.0 magnitude, came during the early hours of Friday.\n\nThe last, at 8.1, struck at around 08:30 near the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, 1,000 km (621 miles) north-east of New Zealand.\n\nWhile earlier tsunami warnings had been called off, the third quake prompted the National Emergency Management Agency to send out a new alert and tsunami sirens sounded in some areas.\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 agency told people near the coast in several areas to move immediately to high ground or get inland as far as possible.\n\nIt said \"strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges\" with tsunami activity continuing for several hours.\n\nLocal media reported gridlock in towns such as Whangarei and Whakatane as people tried to flee their homes, schools and workplaces.\n\nIn nearby Ohope town, resident Leslie Peake was quoted by the New Zealand Herald as saying the traffic was \"bumper to bumper\" with \"huge queues of people evacuating\".\n\nNew Zealand's civil defence department advised people to walk or cycle to avoid getting caught in traffic\n\nMeanwhile local media posted footage of waves rolling into Tokomaru Bay.\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\nJust last week, New Zealand marked the 10th anniversary of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that destroyed parts of Christchurch in the south Island, killing 185 people.\n\nTsunami warnings were also issued for Hawaii and American Samoa, but later stood down.\n\nPatrick Ti'a Reid, 37, was among those in American Samoa, situated some 3,300 km (2,000 miles) north-east of New Zealand, who had been told to evacuate to higher ground in an emergency bulletin.\n\n\"Alarms went off in our executive office building and we immediately took for higher ground,\" Mr Ti'a Reid, who works for the government in the US territory, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the tsunami of 2009, which was triggered by an 8.1-magnitude earthquake, was \"very much vivid in many Samoans' minds\".\n\nAre you in the region? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mark Drakeford is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe began self-isolating for 10 days on Monday.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it was a \"precaution\" and said he had tested negative for the virus.\n\nThe news emerged as Mr Drakeford gave evidence from home to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee of MPs on Thursday afternoon.\n\nPeople are required to self-isolate for 10 days if they are asked to by contact tracers.\n\nThe first minister is the latest senior British political figure to have to self-isolate during the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson contracted Covid-19 during 2020, and was treated in hospital. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has had to self-isolate three times.\n\nBoth Mr Drakeford's wife and mother caught coronavirus last year.\n\nHe said he moved out of his home into a building in his garden to keep his family safe.\n\n\"On a purely personal level, both my wife and my mother fell ill with coronavirus at a point where I was not able to live at home because they were both vulnerable,\" he said.", "New Covid vaccines to fight variants like the one from Brazil can be fast-tracked through the approval system, says the UK's regulator the MHRA.\n\nCurrent vaccines may not work as well against some variants and scientists are working on updating them now.\n\nBut manufacturers will not need to seek brand new approval or do lengthy clinical studies.\n\nHowever they will need proof that the shots trigger protective antibodies in the blood.\n\nThe aim is to shorten the process, where possible, so that vaccine approval could happen in weeks and months, not years.\n\nA similar fast-track method is already used for annual flu vaccines which regularly need updating to keep up with a virus that is constantly changing by mutating.\n\nThe MHRA has issued guidance, along with authorities in Australia, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland, on what checks and measures would be necessary.\n\nThe coalition of regulators - the ACCESS Consortium - insist no corners will be cut, with safety paramount.\n\nData from existing coronavirus vaccine trials and ongoing studies on real world use in the millions of people currently getting immunised could be used to support any decision by regulators.\n\nExisting Covid vaccines already in use - such as the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech one - were developed at incredible speed. The process took around 10 months, instead of a decade in normal times.\n\nMaking small and relatively simple tweaks to these vaccines to make them a better match for new variants should happen even more quickly.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier versions of coronavirus, but scientists believe they should still offer some protection against the new variants being seen now.\n\nIn the UK, public health officials are investigating six cases of the Covid variant first identified in Brazil and are using testing to see if it has spread to more people.\n\nSurge testing for the South African variant of Covid-19 began on 1 February.\n\nThe UK government has already announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop vaccines against future variants, with a pre-order of 50 million doses.\n\nMHRA chief executive Dr June Raine said: \"We don't have evidence at this moment that any of the vaccines in deployment are significantly lacking in effectiveness.\n\n\"They're effective against Kent and we believe South Africa.\n\n\"We know that there has been some data from South Africa, we believe effectiveness here is maintained, and we're working hard on the Brazil variant.\n\n\"As of today there's no imperative that we fast-track a new variant-effective vaccine - but we are prepared.\"\n\nMHRA Chief Scientific Officer Dr Christian Schneider said: \"Our priority is to get effective vaccines to the public in as short a time as possible, without compromising on safety. Should any modifications to authorised Covid-19 vaccines be necessary, this regulatory approach should help to do just that.\"\n\nHe said the public could be confident that no vaccine would be approved unless the expected high standards of safety, quality and effectiveness were met.\n• None Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80%", "Fire fighters will be affected by the pay freeze\n\nSome 1.3 million public sector workers will see a pay freeze next year, but low-paid and NHS staff will get raises\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he could not justify across the board rises when many people in the private sector had seen cuts in pay and hours.\n\nHowever, he said 2.1 million public sector workers earning below the median wage of £24,000 were \"guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250\".\n\nMore than a million NHS workers will also get a raise, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the minimum wage - which has been rebranded as the National Living Wage - will increase by 2.2% - or 19p - to £8.91 an hour, with the rate extended to those aged 23 and over.\n\nThe pay freeze, which was trailed in unconfirmed news reports last week, has sparked anger from unions which say it will affect key workers who have played a vital role during the pandemic.\n\nDelivering his Spending Review, the chancellor said the \"majority\" of the UK's public sector workers will see their pay increase in 2021.\n\nBut he added that pay rises for the rest - about 1.3 million out of a total of 5.5 million public sector workers - will be paused \"to protect jobs\".\n\nHowever, that figure only covers 1.3 million people working for the central government. The total rise could be much higher if local government and devolved pay agreements are frozen.\n\nHe highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he \"cannot justify a significant, across-the-board\" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.\n\n\"Instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most,\" he said.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation union, called the pay freeze a \"kick in the teeth\" for police officers.\n\n\"Rewarding those who have played a vital role in the fight against the virus with a pay freeze is nothing short of a disgrace,\" he said.\n\n\"A handful of officers will get the additional £250 for the lowest paid workers, but only those who are already on an appallingly low starting salary for the dangerous job they do.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said nursing staff would oppose plans to freeze the pay of equally skilled professionals.\n\n\"Those working in social care and the community deserve a pay boost as much as their NHS colleagues.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the chancellor had delivered a \"body blow\" to staff in schools and colleges.\n\n\"Education workers are key workers who have kept the country going during the pandemic but pay cuts are their only reward from this government.\"\n\nTeacher Esme says she is not surprised the government is freezing pay for many workers.\n\n\"Clearly money will need to be clawed back from the damage to the economy, however the concern is how long for?\"\n\nShe says it will have \"quite an impact\" on her as someone fairly new to the profession, after what has been an \"incredibly challenging year in education\".\n\n\"After getting barely any support, the proposal to freeze pay is another confirmation that the government has very little appreciation or respect for the profession, or those working within it.\"\n\nAt the end of last year, the Low Pay Commission - which advises the government on the National Living Wage wage - had said the rate would rise by 6% in April 2021.\n\nBut the commission has revised this down amid fears it would cost struggling businesses too much and damage jobs.\n\nMr Sunak said the plans would mean the average full-time worker on the rate will see their annual income rise by around £345 next year.\n\n\"Compared to 2016 when the policy was first introduced, that's a pay rise of over £4,000,\" he added.\n\nHe added that around two million people would benefit from the widened eligibility for the National Living Wage.\n\nBryan Sanderson, chair of the low pay commission, said: \"Recommending minimum wage rates in the midst of an economic crisis coupled with a pandemic is a formidable task.\n\n\"We have opted for a prudent increase which consolidates the considerable progress of recent years and provides a base from which we can move towards the government's target over the next few years.\"", "Ryan Thomas has appeared in Coronation Street and Neighbours, as well as winning Celebrity Big Brother\n\nFormer Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas has announced he is quitting acting, after having \"really lost the bug for it\".\n\nThomas starred as Jason Grimshaw in the Weatherfield-based soap from 2000 to 2016, before popping up in the Australian soap Neighbours.\n\nMore recently he was crowned as 2018's Celebrity Big Brother winner.\n\nSpeaking to the Mancs On The Mic podcast, Ryan admitted he had become tired of being rejected for roles.\n\n\"It's so hard for me,\" he said. \"I started off acting, I started off in that game and I really lost the bug for it.\n\n\"I feel the reason for losing the bug is rejection and going to auditions and not getting them.\"\n\nSpeaking to his brothers and podcast hosts, Adam Thomas - the former Waterloo Road and Emmerdale actor - and Love Island personality Scott Thomas, he added that receiving \"negative comments\" from trolls online had also influenced his decision.\n\n\"I've never had that before because social media wasn't around,\" he continued. \"I never got it in Corrie because I never had social media when I was in Corrie. If I did, it was at the end but I was so established there that people saw me as fixtures and fittings, so I never really got that sort of negative criticism.\n\n\"It happens in all aspects but I just found it really, really hard to deal with at first. I always think, 'Oh, it'll [the desire to act] come back at some point and maybe it will, and it's still something that I have in my locker if I want to explore it again. Right now I'm really happy with the direction I'm going.\"\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 ryanthomas84 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\nThomas first appeared in Coronation Street aged 16, with is character's storylines revolving around his love life, grieving for his father Tony and being attacked by his enemy Callum Logan. Jason Grimshaw became a suspect in the latter's murder, and ultimately left for Thailand.\n\nIn 2018, Thomas appeared as Rafael Humphreys in Neighbours' Hit & Run special.\n\nLater that year, Thomas's Celebrity Big Brother housemate Roxanne Pallett publicly apologised to him, saying she had \"overreacted\" when he \"punched\" her on the show. She said: \"I was sensitive and emotional and mistook what was playful - I apologise for it, I shouldn't have questioned his motivation.\"\n\nLast year, the three brothers confronted the issue of their absent father in an ITV documentary.\n\nThomas recently revealed on social media he is now doing food deliveries for Adam's restaurant, near Stockport.\n\nThe 36-year-old went on to say that making regular trips home to Manchester to also see his daughter Scarlett - whose mother is his ex-girlfriend and former Corrie colleague Tina O'Brien - had \"put a strain\" on his relationship with his fiancée and former TOWIE star Lucy Mecklenburgh.\n\nThomas and Mecklenburgh live in Essex with their baby son Roman.\n\n\"There is that trying to find a mix of making both work, and working out where you're going to end,\" he said.\n\n\"I think eventually I'd like to be in Manchester with both my kids, but at the moment it's having that help at hand in London, it's just easier, but I think eventually I would love to be back where I started, with all my brothers and all our kids.\n\n\"I think that's what'll happen eventually but we're just taking it a day at a time. I think that's what you've got to do with this family life.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The report into whether Ms Sturgeon breached the code is expected to be published later this month\n\nNicola Sturgeon has promised to release a report into whether she breached the ministerial code on the same day that she receives it.\n\nIrish lawyer James Hamilton is examining whether Ms Sturgeon lied to the Scottish Parliament over the Alex Salmond saga.\n\nHe is expected to have finalised his report within the next three weeks.\n\nThe first minister has repeatedly refused to say whether she will quit if Mr Hamilton finds against her.\n\nBut the code states that any government minister who is found to have knowingly misled parliament will be expected to resign.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions, Ms Sturgeon was asked by new Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar whether she would give a \"cast-iron guarantee\" that Mr Hamilton's report into whether she lied to parliament would be released by the government \"without delay or obstruction on the day it is handed over.\"\n\nThe first minister gave the one-word reply: \"Yes\".\n\nMr Sarwar said he welcomed the first minister's answer, and pledged to hold her to that commitment.\n\nHe added: \"We need to remove party and personality from this.\n\n\"A minister - any minister - who is found in breach of the Ministerial Code should resign.\"\n\nJames Hamilton is the government's independent advisor on the ministerial code\n\nIn her foreword to the ministerial code, Ms Sturgeon describes it as \"guidelines for living up to the seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.\"\n\nShe goes on to say: \"All Scottish ministers, including myself, are bound by its terms.\n\n\"I will lead by example in following the letter and spirit of this code, and I expect that ministers and civil servants will do likewise.\"\n\nMr Salmond has accused Ms Sturgeon of committing multiple breaches of the code - all of which she denies.\n\nThere have been claims that Ms Sturgeon misled parliament over when she first knew of the allegations against her predecessor, and that the name of a woman who made a complaint against Mr Salmond was disclosed to his former chief of staff.\n\nAnas Sarwar was speaking at FMQs for the first time as Scottish Labour leader\n\nThere have also been accusations that Ms Sturgeon wasted more than £500,000 of public money by continuing a doomed legal fight with Mr Salmond over a judicial review into its handling of the complaints against him.\n\nThe government's legal counsel warned that it was likely to lose the case several weeks before it conceded defeat.\n\nThe legal advice was only released on Tuesday evening after opposition parties threatened to hold a vote of no confidence in Deputy First Minister John Swinney.\n\nSome additional documents were published by the government on Thursday after opposition parties questioned why they were missing from the original batch - with Mr Swinney suggesting more could be released on Friday.\n\nMr Swinney said the new documents showed that there had not been an attempt to delay the judicial review so that it would overtaken by criminal proceedings against Mr Salmond, as the former first minister has claimed.\n\n\"I have instructed officials to consider whether further documents should be released, subject to essential statutory checks and notifications, and to do so as a matter of urgency,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Salmond later said the documents confirmed that postponing the judicial review was \"under active consideration\" by the Scottish government in September 2018.\n\nHe added: \"John Swinney must now be the only person in Scotland who believes that the piecemeal release of these extraordinary legal documents have done anything other than demolish the government's pretence that they were not warned months in advance that they were on course to lose the judicial review.\"\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of all of the allegations against him after a trial at the High Court in March of last year.\n\nConservative leader Douglas Ross said the \"limited\" release fell \"far short\" of the demands of parliament, which has voted on two previous occasions for the legal advice ahead of the judicial review case to be published in full.\n\nMr Ross said there were still no documents from November 2018 - two months before the government admitted it had acted unlawfully - and he called on it to \"end the secrecy and release all the legal advice\".\n\nThe investigation by Mr Hamilton is separate to the inquiry by a committee of MSPs into the government's unlawful handling of sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave evidence to the committee in a marathon eight-hour session on Wednesday, with Mr Salmond appearing last Friday.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have already called on Ms Sturgeon to resign, despite neither of the inquiries having published their conclusions yet, and have threatened to hold a no confidence vote in the first minister.\n\nThere were angry exchanges over the affair at First Minister's Questions, with Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson claiming: \"There is no argument if Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code - the argument is only about how badly she broke it.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by saying she would wait for the inquiries to do their job, adding: \"I've not prejudged them - Ruth Davidson clearly has.\"\n\nMr Sarwar said the row between Ms Sturgeon and Ms Davidson showed \"the worst of Scottish politics\".", "The government can expect a \"backlash\" if it goes ahead with a proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff in England next year, a nursing union has warned.\n\nThe health department has made the recommendation in a submission to the independent panel that advises on NHS salaries.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing called the suggested rise \"pitiful\" and said nurses should be getting 12.5% more.\n\nNHS staff have been excluded from a pay freeze for most public sector workers.\n\nThe NHS Pay Review Body is due to recommend salary levels for health service staff before early May, before ministers then make a final decision.\n\nIn its submission, the health department said awarding NHS staff a \"headline\" pay increase of more than 1% \"would require re-prioritisation\".\n\nHealth department officials said the Covid pandemic had placed a \"huge strain\" on NHS finances, whilst the economic outlook \"remains uncertain\".\n\nThey added that this increase was still above the CPI rate of inflation, whilst some staff would see a higher rise under a previously agreed three-year deal.\n\nSome 1.3 million public sector workers will see a pay freeze next year, while those earning less than £24,000 guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250.\n\nThe PM and his fiancee Carrie Symonds outside 10 Downing Street joining in clap for carers in May\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he was sure the pay round \"has been discussed and established at the right level\".\n\n\"No one is doubting that the NHS hasn't been absolutely first class in this pandemic. What I am suggesting is that the whole economy has been under pressure,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour said a 1% increase for NHS staff was \"the ultimate kick in teeth to our NHS heroes who have done so much to keep us safe over the past year\".\n\nThe party's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said staff \"deserve a fair pay rise,\" adding the proposal was \"an absolute insult\".\n\nNHS pay in England has been out of the news since 2018 when a three year deal was agreed and welcomed by unions.\n\nBut the issue is firmly back on the agenda with a new deal needed for the upcoming financial year.\n\nThis is just the start of the process.\n\nThe government has made its submission to the NHS Pay Review Body. But the fact that ministers think a 1% pay rise is reasonable has angered health unions.\n\nThey see it as scant reward for the huge efforts of staff during the pandemic.\n\nGovernment sources say that inflation is so low that 1% still represents a real terms increase and that public finances are constrained.\n\nThis is shaping up to be a tense few months with pay added to the many difficult issues facing the NHS.\n\nRCN Chief Executive Dame Donna Kinnair said the government was \"dangerously out of touch with nursing staff, NHS workers and the public\".\n\n\"Nursing staff would feel they are being punished and made to pay for the cost of the pandemic. It is a political decision to underfund and undervalue nursing staff.\n\n\"With the time remaining before the Pay Review Body recommendation, the government can expect a backlash from a million NHS workers. Taxpayers are supportive of a significant and fair pay rise for NHS workers - this year of all years.\"\n\nOne nurse, Carmel O'Boyle, said she was \"disgusted\".\n\n\"We just want something that reflects the work that we do. We want a fair wage and I don't think the government understands at all what the nursing workforce does,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand it is a very difficult year for the whole world... but this is a political decision,\" she added.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the recommendation was \"a kick in the teeth\".\n\nIts chair of council, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, accused the government of a \"total dereliction\" of its \"moral duty and obligation to a workforce that is keeping the NHS on its feet and patients alive\".\n\nHe said: \"Throughout the pandemic, doctors have cared for more critically ill patients than was ever thought possible and worked round the clock despite suffering from extreme stress and exhaustion.\n\n\"The government should demonstrate that it recognises the contribution of a workforce that has literally kept this country alive for the past 10 months.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said they would \"consider carefully\" the recommendations made by the NHS Pay Review Body when it reports in the spring.\n\nThe government \"will continue to provide pay rises for NHS workers\", despite the wider freeze on pay in the rest of the public sector, the spokesperson said.\n\nThey added multi-year pay deals had delivered a pay rise of over 12% for newly qualified nurses, and will increase junior doctors' pay scales by 8.2%.\n\nIf you are an NHS worker, what are your views about your pay? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC TV 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.", "Pop group BTS have been named the best-selling artists of 2020 by the IFPI, the organisation that represents the global recorded music industry.\n\nThe accolade caps a stellar year for the Korean boyband, who released two chart-topping albums in 2020 - Map of the Soul: 7 and Be.\n\nThe boyband beat Taylor Swift, who took the crown last year, into second place.\n\nThey are the first non-Western act to win, and the first whose songs are not predominantly sung in English.\n\nThe award is calculated according to an artist or group's worldwide sales, downloads and streams, covering their whole body of work.\n\nDrake came third, with The Weeknd fourth and Billie Eilish at number five.\n\nBTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, were formed in 2013 and consists of seven members - Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook - who come from all over South Korea.\n\nThey've subsequently become standard-bearers for the K-pop scene, selling millions of records and concert tickets, while racking up billions of streams.\n\nThe group was the brainchild of veteran writer and producer Bang Shi Hyuk, who formerly worked at the K-pop entertainment giant JYP, then formed Big Hit Entertainment and put BTS together around group leader, RM.\n\nLast year, he floated Big Hit Entertainment on the Korean stock market - resulting in the band members receiving a $108 million (£77 million) windfall.\n\nIt more than made up for their inability to tour amid the Covid pandemic. The gap in their schedule also allowed BTS to record their second album of the year, which they billed as a \"letter of hope\" to fans.\n\nBTS performed at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last year\n\nThe record contained Dynamite - their first single to be recorded entirely in English, which topped the US charts in August, after breaking one-day streaming records in the US.\n\nDynamite also earned BTS a Grammy nomination in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category, alongside stars like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.\n\nFrances Moore, chief executive of IFPI, said: \"BTS are a global phenomenon. They have had another outstanding year... and [are] continually finding creative and engaging ways to share their story with the world.\n\n\"They truly show the power that music has to bring joy and happiness to people the world over.\n\n\"We would like to congratulate RM, Jin, Suga, J-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook and we are excited to see what they have in store next.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Anti-Irish Sea border graffiti has appeared in parts of Northern Ireland\n\nA group which includes representatives of loyalist paramilitaries has written to the prime minister to withdraw its support for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) said it was temporarily withdrawing its backing because of concerns about the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe protocol means NI remains in the EU single market for goods, so products from GB undergo EU import procedures.\n\nUnionists say it damages trade and threatens NI's place in the UK.\n\nIn the letter, first reported by the Irish News, LCC chairman David Campbell said the group's leadership is \"determined that unionist opposition to the protocol should be peaceful and democratic\".\n\nHe added that the prime minister should not \"underestimate the strength of feeling on this issue right across the unionist family\".\n\nMr Campbell said the LCC's support for the Good Friday Agreement would be withdrawn \"until our rights under the Agreement are restored and the protocol amended to ensure unfettered access for goods, services and citizens throughout the United Kingdom\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Newsnight programme that Boris Johnson has \"reneged on the clear promises he made to the people of NI that there would be unfettered access\".\n\n\"So we are asking him and holding him to account and through this letter showing him that it is not just rhetoric from our parliamentary spokespersons that he has to be mindful of, but the strong grassroots anger that is palpable throughout the ground in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said he was \"fully committed to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I haven't seen, I don't know which groups you're talking about but what I can say is we're taking some temporary technical measures to insure that there are no barriers in the Irish Sea or to make sure that things flow freely from GB to NI and that's what you'd expect.\n\n\"But obviously these are matters for continuing intensive discussions with our friends.\"\n\nEarlier, responding to the letter, the prime minister's official spokesperson said he was \"fully committed to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement\".\n\nThe official said the government was \"determined\" to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, and it was \"simply looking to make some changes that have arisen as part of the protocol\".\n\nThe LCC represents groups including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - loyalist paramilitary groups responsible for the murders of hundreds of people.\n\nDavid Campbell is the chairman of the Loyalist Communities Council\n\nThe Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, was signed in 1998 and marked the effective end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt established a devolved power-sharing administration, and created new institutions for cross-border cooperation and structures for improved relations between the British and Irish governments.\n\nIt was approved by referendums in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 1998 and was subsequently incorporated into British and Irish constitutional law and other areas of legislation.\n\nThe LCC letter states: \"If you or the EU is not prepared to honour the entirety of the agreement then you will be responsible for the permanent destruction of the agreement.\"\n\nThe letter was published shortly after the EU said on Wednesday that a UK move to unilaterally extend grace periods for Irish Sea border checks as part of the NI Protocol would be a breach of international law.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said the PSNI is currently assessing the letter, but he does not foresee any immediate threat of loyalist disorder or violence.\n\nHe was speaking at a meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in Belfast.\n\nThe chief constable described it as \"a political move\".\n\n\"It is best dealt with by politicians… but as we sit here we do not see any immediate change in emotion or potential for disorder or violence coming from within the loyalist community,\" he added.\n\nRepresentatives of the LCC recently held talks with officials from the Northern Ireland Office to warn them of growing tensions around the Brexit protocol, but Mr Byrne said the PSNI had not met the LCC nor would they.\n\nOne person I spoke to last night described the move as a form of passive resistance by loyalist paramilitaries to the protocol.\n\nI do not see it as a being a step closer to any street protest or violent actions. Indeed the letter states opposition to border arrangements should be peaceful and democratic.\n\nWhat it captures though is continuing discontent and anger within a section of the community.\n\nBut in terms of consequences I am not sure withdrawing support for the Good Friday Agreement amounts to much in practical terms. The DUP didn't back the agreement either.\n\nObviously loyalist prisoners were released on the basis of the agreement.\n\nIt was, though, not conditional on support for the agreement, but rather an individual not engaging in future violence.\n\nIn February Northern Ireland's major unionist parties said they were supporting a legal bid to challenge the Protocol.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) have said they are supporting judicial review proceedings.\n\nIn response to the letter, Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry said Boris Johnson faced a decision over whether he would \"give more oxygen to the normalisation of treating illegal organisations like any other stakeholder in society\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that unionist confidence and support for the Good Friday Agreement \"is diminishing rapidly\".\n\nHe said: \"People have lost confidence because they believe that no one is listening to the concerns of unionists.\n\n\"I am not in any way, nor is my party, advocating that there should be the threat of violence or anything like it for any reason, there can be no justification for anyone doing that.\n\n\"The LCC statement makes clear that their opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol will be peaceful and democratic.\"\n\nThe LCC was set up in 2015 by Mr Campbell, a former chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party, and Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, as a means to help bring an end to loyalist paramilitarism.\n\nIt is not a proscribed organisation and is said to represent a range of individuals and views from the wider Protestant, unionist and loyalist communities.\n\nIn late February the DUP leadership held talks with the organisation to discuss opposition to the protocol.\n\nIt came shortly after Mr Campbell was criticised after saying loyalists would \"fight physically\" to maintain \"freedoms\" within the UK.\n\nIn January, the LCC also met top civil servants from the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) to express anger at the Irish Sea border arrangements.\n\nIt is not the first time loyalist groups have withdrawn their support for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIn 2001 the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) - a cover name often used by the UDA when it claimed responsibility for sectarian murders - withdrew its support for the deal.\n\nIn October 2015 the UDA \"recommitted\" to the principles of the Agreement, along with the UVF and the Red Hand Commando.", "The new rules would apply when high school pupils begin a phased return to school from 15 March\n\nAll secondary school pupils could be required to wear face coverings in the classroom as well as corridors when they return to school later this month.\n\nCurrently only S4 to S6 pupils are asked to wear masks in classrooms.\n\nBut a Scottish government advisory group says this should be extended to pupils in S1 to S3 when the phased return begins from 15 March.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would publish updated safety guidance next week.\n\nThe advisory group on education is also recommending that while two-metre distancing should remain in school buildings, it can be cut to one metre on school transport and relaxed in general during outdoor learning and activities.\n\nThe advice from the group says: \"The sub-group published updated advice on 12 February on the mitigations required to ensure a safe return to in-person learning for staff and pupils.\n\n\"That advice remains relevant and has been strengthened in one area to require face coverings to be worn throughout the day by all secondary aged pupils (not just senior phase).\"\n\nMembers of the groups also welcomed the plan for lateral flow testing to be in place for all school staff and senior pupils as part of the phased return\n\nThe advisory note adds: \"There may be value in extending this approach to all secondary age pupils, in some circumstances, for example in areas of higher prevalence.\"\n\nScotland's youngest primary pupils returned to school on 22 February., with years P4 to P7 returning to classrooms full time from 15 March.\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 coverings when moving about within the school and on school buses.\n\nThey 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.", "A marked decline in infections between January and February may have slowed, according to scientists tracking coronavirus in England.\n\nInfections fell by two-thirds over lockdown, but one in 200 people still have the virus.\n\nLower virus levels are needed to get the best out of the vaccination programme, Imperial College's React study says.\n\nSchools are reopening on Monday in England in the first easing of rules.\n\nBased on swab tests of a random sample of 165,000 people between 4 and 23 February, the study findings estimate that 0.5% of people in England had the virus - down from 1.57% in January.\n\nThe figures show \"substantial falls\" in household infections in all age groups and in most regions since early January, while lockdown restrictions have been in place.\n\nIt comes as official figures continue to show sharp falls in confirmed cases, hospital admissions and deaths linked to Covid-19 going back several weeks.\n\nBut the study found some evidence of smaller falls in infections in Yorkshire and the north-east, and apparent rises in London, the south-east and the Midlands - although this was based on only a few days' worth of data in February.\n\nAlthough the researchers say it's too early to detect the effect of the vaccination programme on rates of infection in the study, they stress the need to keep infections low while Covid vaccines are being rolled out.\n\nProf Steven Riley, from Imperial College London, said this was so people \"don't get infected before they get the vaccine\".\n\nMore than 20 million people across the UK have now received a first dose, with a target to invite all over-50s by mid-April and people in their 40s and 30s after that.\n\nTo reach the mid-April target, another 12 million people still have to be vaccinated.\n\nThe researchers say their findings highlight the need for people to continue to follow social-distancing guidelines while the remainder of the population receive their jabs.\n\nThe React study also found some workers were more likely to be infected than others. They included healthcare workers, care home workers and those working in education, nursery or childcare.\n\nPublic transport workers had the highest risk, being more than twice as likely as other workers to be infected.\n\nThose working at home were least likely to have the virus.\n\nAmong ethnic groups, the highest levels of infection in January and February were found in Bangladeshi people. There were also high infection rates among black, Indian and Pakistani people.\n• None Europe 'should let over-65s have Oxford jab'", "Singer Ian Brown has pulled out of a festival appearance over his refusal to play events that \"accept vaccination proof as condition of entry\".\n\nThe former Stone Roses frontman had been due to headline the Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington in September.\n\nBut on Wednesday he told fans the set \"will not happen\".\n\nOrganisers declined to tell the BBC whether audiences would be expected to have the vaccine, but said they would follow government advice.\n\n\"No decisions will be taken by government until 21 June at the earliest,\" it said in a statement.\n\nBrown has been vocal in his criticism of the Covid vaccine, using his Twitter account to protest the idea of a \"vaccine passport\" and railing against the use of masks to prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrown has been replaced on the Neighbourhood Weekender line-up by fellow northern indie icons James.\n\nOfficials from the festival tweeted on Thursday to say they would \"comply with conditions\" set out by the government through the local authority when the gates open.\n\n\"We are working hard with other festival organisers and look forward to a safe return to open-air events this summer.\"\n\nThe three-day event, which takes place in the town where Brown was born, will also feature Gerry Cinnamon and Catfish And The Bottlemen.\n\nIt was originally due to take place in May, but has been postponed until September.\n\nMany large festivals due to take place earlier this summer, such as Glastonbury and Download, have been forced to cancel again due to the pandemic.\n\nOthers like the Isle of Wight Festival have been pushed back to give them a better chance of going ahead, after the government announced its plan to slowly ease coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIan Brown has enjoyed success as a solo star and with his band, The Stone Roses\n\nThis week, Reading and Leeds organiser Melvin Benn told The Telegraph that ticket holders for the late August bank holiday event who have not received a Covid-19 vaccine are likely to be required to take a coronavirus test at home prior to leaving for the events, and will need to show a health passport to gain entry once they arrive.\n\nMPs were told last month that festivals have the potential to be \"as safe as Sainsbury's\", despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic - at a House of Commons Culture Select Committee examining the live music sector.\n\nMore than 20 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine - over a third of the adult population.\n\nEarlier this week, Public Health England data showed that a single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%.\n\nIt was based on people aged over 80 who were the first to receive the jab. Government scientists praised the result, but stressed that two doses were needed for the best protection.\n\nLast September, Brown, 58, released a new track questioning the motives behind the national lockdown, and indeed a vaccine.\n\nLittle Seed Big Tree included lyrics about a \"false vaccine\" and a \"plan to chip us all, to have complete control\" - a conspiracy theory that has been debunked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to talk about conspiracy theories\n\nThe track arrived just weeks after he caused a stir on social media, by tweeting: \"No lockdown, no tests, no tracks, no masks, no vax.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Willie Rennie says there are still \"areas of outstanding concern\" to emerge from Nicola Sturgeon's evidence yesterday, but these are matters for the committee and the independent investigator.\n\nHe says it should not take the threat of a vote of no-confidence before the government complies with the will of the parliament, and says \"a belligerent and secretive 14-year-old government\" was \"more interested in defending itself than aiding the process of democracy\".\n\nHe asks the first minister why she can't see that situation needs to change?\n\nNicola Sturgeon says they will have to agree to disagree on that.\n\nShe says the deputy first minister, John Swinney, had a discussion with the committee which led to the committee having access to summaries of the legal advice.\n\nIt is a \"really important principle\" that governments should be able to take proper legal advice and for that advice to remain confidential, the FM adds.\n\n\"There are many lessons to be learned here, I do not dispute that, but they have to be learned in the round,\" Ms Sturgeon says.", "Mariah Carey's older brother is suing the star for defamation and emotional distress caused by her recent memoir, The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.\n\nMorgan Carey, who is seeking unspecified damages, says the book falsely suggests he was violent.\n\nAs a result he has suffered \"extreme mental anguish\" and \"serious damage to his reputation\", his legal case says.\n\nThe papers have been filed a month after Mariah's sister sued her for $1.25m (£900,000) over the memoir.\n\nAlison Carey said passages claiming that she gave Valium to 12-year-old Mariah, tried to pimp her out and threw boiling tea on her were \"outrageous\" and meant to \"humiliate and embarrass\" her.\n\nShe denied the claims, saying the singer had \"presented no evidence to substantiate these serious allegations\".\n\nMariah's autobiography was published last September and topped The New York Times' non-fiction best-seller list in October.\n\nIt contains many revelations about her life, including her difficult, dysfunctional upbringing, the racism she encountered as a child, and allegations that her first marriage to record executive Tommy Mottola was abusive.\n\nMorgan Carey attended the 1991 American Music Awards with his sister, where she was nominated for best new artist\n\nMorgan Carey, born in 1960, says the star has damaged his reputation by writing about an alleged \"vicious fight\" with his father that occurred when she was a little girl.\n\nMariah wrote that it took \"12 cops to pull my brother and father apart\" - but Morgan says the incident was \"fictional\" and that, under normal circumstances, only one or two police officers would have responded to a domestic violence report.\n\nHe has also sued over passages that, he says, imply he tried to extort money from Mariah after she became successful; and that he had been \"in the [criminal justice] system\".\n\n\"[Morgan] brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister's betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,\" papers filed in Manhattan read.\n\n\"He is by no means envious of his sister's enormous artistic and personal success, has enjoyed his own successes both professional and personal and has always wished her well.\"\n\nOther defendants named in the case include the book's co-author, Michaela Angela Davis, its publisher Macmillan, and the imprint Andy Cohen Books.\n\nNone of the parties had responded to the legal filing at the time of writing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology will rise to £100 later this year, the Treasury has confirmed.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated a move away from cash, with shoppers often being encouraged to use contactless in many stores for public health reasons.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nRegulators say businesses could still decide themselves whether to accept the higher limit.\n\nFears have also been raised regarding fraud risks involved in the use of cards.\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurants and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the latest data from UK Finance, which represents banks.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"As we begin to open the UK economy and people return to the High Street, the contactless limit increase will make it easier than ever before for people to pay for their shopping, providing a welcome boost to retail that will protect jobs and drive growth.\"\n\nHowever, there have been worries raised about contactless limits being raised further.\n\nIan Johnson, managing director, Europe, at payment business Marqeta, said: \"The problem with increasing limits on physical contactless cards is if they are stolen or cloned, it will now be even easier for a fraudster to spend large sums of the victim's money in one go.\n\n\"Physical cards provide very little security and a fraudster could continue to use their contactless function until they are cancelled.\"", "Reddit boss Steve Huffman has told BBC News he supported the aims of controversial sub-Reddit WallStreetBets.\n\nA long-time fan of the group, he said he had been slow in spotting its effect on GameStop's huge share-price spike in January.\n\n\"I was actually a little late to the party, because I didn't realise that Reddit had leaked into the real world again\", he said.\n\nGameStop's share price ended up reaching nearly $500 (£350) before falling.\n\nWallStreetBets had been hyping up the computer-game retailer's shares.\n\nThe idea was if enough Reddit users bought GameStop shares, they could drive up the price, hurting hedge funds who had bet against the company.\n\nSome claimed the group had collectively manipulated the market.\n\nBut Reddit decided to leave it up.\n\n\"We were... trying to keep WallStreetBets online,\" Mr Huffman said.\n\nWhen the media talks about the big social-media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram - Reddit is often ignored.\n\nBut as hedge funds learned during the GameStop share-price spike - ignore it at your peril.\n\nReddit likes to think of itself as different.\n\nAt its heart, it certainly feels more alternative.\n\nIts system of upvoting content mean ideas either fly or die.\n\nIt's not called the front page of the internet for nothing.\n\nMr Huffman has also had to deal with another big story this year - conspiracy theories peddled by Donald Trump about electoral fraud.\n\n\"What do you do when the president doesn't live up to the ideals, like the principles of our country?\" Mr Huffman said.\n\nAn influential sub-Reddit called TheDonald was instrumental in hyping up Mr Trump across the internet.\n\nMr Huffman told BBC News it was the most difficult moderation decision he had had to make.\n\nHuffman is one of handful of men in Silicon Valley - along with Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - that make huge decisions on what we can and can't see on the internet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\n\nWhen did you first come across WallStreetBets?\n\nSo I've known about WallStreetBets for years.\n\nWallStreetBets is, in fact, one of my guilty pleasures on Reddit.\n\nHow much was the group about having a laugh?\n\nA lot of it, as I think it's the cornerstone to a lot of friendship and human experience.\n\nAt the end of the day, this community is fun and it's funny.\n\nAnd obviously, there's some cohesion there, talking about the trades.\n\nWhen did you start realising WallStreetBets was having an impact on GameStop's share price?\n\nSo I think I was actually a little late to this, because I've been on WallStreetBets for a while.\n\nAnd they've been talking about GameStop for a while.\n\nAnd so on WallStreetBets, there's often a couple of stocks or companies or positions that have their attention.\n\nAnd so over the years, it's been Tesla.\n\nIt's been different things.\n\nAnd so, in my mind, I'm just browsing Reddit and OK, yeah, GameStop's got their infatuation right now.\n\nSo I was actually a little late to the party, because I didn't realise that Reddit had leaked into the real world again.\n\nAnd so it was, I think, really at the the take off of the mania when I was like: \"OK, this is a bigger one.\"\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\nThen there was that crazy period where the GameStop share price went from $20 to $400. What was going through your mind at that point?\n\nI love reading books about investors and their successes and failures.\n\nSo it's just a topic I'm interested in.\n\nI just thought it was a fascinating story.\n\nAnd it's such a smart thing to do.\n\nAnd I, personally, have found it a fair thing to do.\n\nSo you were always supportive, like ideologically, of what the group was doing?\n\nYes, because I think if you've got one transaction where one group has taken an extreme position and then another group can see that opportunity that maybe they've overextended themselves.\n\nObviously, there's a lot of risk there.\n\nBut I think everybody goes in that situation aware of that risk.\n\nThe shares at one point got almost up to $500 a share. At that point, was there any pressure on you to maybe lock down WallStreetBets?\n\nWe faced that question, like that literal question: \"Should you do something?\"\n\nBut our motivation, or what we were trying to do in that situation, was actually the opposite - to keep WallStreetBets online.\n\nSo you decided: \"This needs to stay up\"?\n\nThe question of should it go down or not was a very fast conversation.\n\nAnd we were, you know, confident that that community was well moderated and well within our content policy.\n\nAre you proud of what WallStreetBets managed to achieve?\n\nI am always, I think, proud when people do amazing things.\n\nAnd so I think maybe pride isn't even the right word.\n\nI think I'm happy or encouraged when humans come together to do something incredible.\n\nDo you think that it was a David-and-Goliath story?\n\nOh, absolutely, because, you know, institutional investors have so much.\n\nThere's so many more resources in terms of knowledge, relationships, the ability to execute large trades.\n\nNo individual could have done this.\n\nAlthough hedge funds wage war on each other all the time, we never see it.\n\nAnd so to see a group of individuals kind of band together against some really well resourced institutions, I think that's an intriguing story from any angle.\n\nSome people lost a lot of money. Do you feel any responsibility?\n\nI think any trade, not just risky ones like WallStreetBets, has risk.\n\nBut it also has opportunity.\n\nI think there are two things that are really important.\n\nOne is that individuals have that opportunity.\n\nI don't think we as a society should be so paternal to say that, well: \"This group is smart enough to make these decisions - but this group, you know, we should keep them out,\" because you're not just protecting them from risk, you're eliminating their participation in the gains.\n\nDid the Capitol Hill riots make you reappraise the inherent goodness of the free internet?\n\nI'd be lying if I say that thought hadn't crossed my mind.\n\nBut we've seen, I think, on Reddit, the power of people to do, I think, the right thing generally.\n\nOne of the ways we look at Reddit, one of our duties, is to make sure the volume of any particular viewpoint is in proportion to the number of people who actually have it.\n\nAnd so that is to say we don't want a small number of loud people to have control beyond their numbers.\n\nAnd I think on Reddit we've gotten pretty good at that.\n\nI suppose you're wrestling with two things here. You don't want to get involved in censoring or overly censoring people?\n\nWe feel, I think, there's an enormous responsibility for getting that balance right.\n\nAnd, you know, we are learning,\n\nI think, along with everybody else, we do our very best because it's not just the right thing to do for our business - it's the right thing to do for our users.\n\nAnd I think it's the right thing to do generally.\n\nAnd, for example, the QAnon conspiracy theory, we saw that on Reddit and banned it three years ago, long before it metastasized online and in the real world.\n\nDo you think you should have done more on TheDonald? That's one of the criticisms of Reddit that comes up a few times.\n\nLook, TheDonald was a series of hard decisions.\n\nAnd there's never a hard decision that I don't, upon reflection, wish we had made faster.\n\nBut I think there's a matter of reality here - the principle of free speech was designed specifically to protect political speech.\n\nAnd so we went through a crisis not just at Reddit but in the United States and, I think, around the world of what do you do when the president doesn't live up to the ideals, like the principles of our country.\n\nAnd so I think there's no way around that conflict.\n\nIs that the most difficult decision that you've had to make?\n\nI think it might be, yes, because the other ones were more matters of getting the words right.\n\nOther policy changes we've made over the years around, you know, violence or harassment or bullying or involuntary sexualisation, we always knew what our gut told us - what the right thing was.\n\nAnd so those were sometimes complicated because we had to figure out how to get there and how to kind of balance all of our values.\n\nBut we always knew where we wanted to go.\n\nI think with political speech, and in this particular moment, it was particularly challenging given the context of, like, the United States and the president of the United States being almost in conflict with each other.\n\nFake news, conspiracy theories, how do you stay on top of it?\n\nMisinformation is another word for propaganda.\n\nAnd propaganda is as old as politics.\n\nThis is not a new problem.\n\nAnd so, we've faced this problem in different forms over pretty much our entire existence.\n\nAnd so the solution, that we've seen, ultimately lies within people.\n\nIt lies within access to information.\n\nIt lies within people being allowed to have good judgements and societal pressure to to be truthful, to behave well, all of these things.\n\nFinally, there are some pretty niche sub-Reddits. What are the oddest ones you've come across?\n\nBreadStapledToTrees is probably the weirdest one that I'm comfortable saying in an interview.\n\nAnd it's as the name implies.\n\nIt's literally pictures of bread stapled to trees.\n\nThere's another, I think, favourite around the office, CatStandingUp, which is just pictures of cats standing up.\n\nBut that one is very strictly moderated.\n\nSo every comment within every post in that community has to be the single word \"Cat\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We all thought my unborn child had passed away'\n\nOn 3 March 2016, Natalie Queiroz shared a picture on social media of her rapidly growing baby bump. She was eight months pregnant and looking forward to the birth of her daughter and life with partner Babur \"Bobby\" Raja. Twenty-four hours later she was being flown by air ambulance to hospital. She had been stabbed more than 20 times, and paramedics feared for the lives of both her and her unborn child.\n\nAhead of the fifth anniversary of the attack, I met Natalie at the scene - Trinity Hill in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.\n\nHer hands were shaking and she described being back as \"really, really tough\", adding: \"To think this could have been the final place I would have been [alive].\" Revisiting the scene has become part of how she has dealt with the trauma.\n\nNatalie, 45, remembers most of what happened vividly. It was raining, she had her coat pulled up and was holding an umbrella as she walked towards the town centre. Her mind was on shopping.\n\n\"I just remember these footsteps running behind me,\" she said. She feared she was about to be mugged, but felt she was safe because she was such a short distance from the shops, and, as it was 15:00, there were plenty of people about. That's when her attacker jumped her from behind and began stabbing her.\n\nShe desperately held on to her bump to try to protect her baby, but described the attack as \"incessant\". Two men intervened and tried to drag the attacker off her, incurring injuries themselves.\n\nNatalie didn't know who the knifeman was. Raja, her partner, had disguised his appearance and had a hood covering his face. She told me that she caught a glimpse and thought it was him, but then disregarded the idea.\n\nBabur Raja was disguised when he unleashed a stab attack on pregnant partner Natalie Queiroz\n\nAs the others fought with Raja, Natalie tried to escape. Despite bleeding heavily she managed to get to her feet and stagger away. \"I was looking at the town centre… and I remember thinking 'I've just got to get there, because if I can get there, I can get help'.\"\n\nHer wounds were too severe and she collapsed next to a wall and passed out. \"The two guys who'd been holding the attacker said they thought that I'd gone - they thought that that was it, that I had died.\"\n\nRaja managed to fight off the other men and came at Natalie again just as she regained consciousness. \"I put my head down and he pulled up in front of me, and he crouched down and he began the attack again.\"\n\nNatalie doesn't remember much of what happened next. A third rescuer, Callum Gibson, had run up Trinity Hill and joined the other men, John Mitchell and Anthony Smith, in finally stopping Raja's attack. West Midlands Police officers arrived to help, and closed nearby roads to allow an air ambulance to land.\n\nNatalie had suffered eleven chest wounds, her right lung had collapsed and she had also been stabbed in the liver and uterus.\n\nParamedics stabilised her as she was taken to hospital. Natalie had regained consciousness again, but there seemed to be little hope for her child. \"To be honest, we all thought she'd passed away,\" she said.\n\nNatalie underwent lifesaving surgery and was put into an induced coma. It was only when she came round that she was given the news her daughter had survived and had been safely delivered by Caesarean section. \"To get that news, that she was alive, was almost incomprehensible.\"\n\nIn June 2016, Raja pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to attempted murder and was jailed for 18 years. During the hearing, at which Natalie was present, the court heard he attacked her after being forced to choose between his conservative Muslim mother's faith and the \"love of his life\". This, it was said, had \"tipped him over the edge\".\n\nA court order remains in place meaning that Natalie's daughter cannot be named. On Thursday, the family has been celebrating her fifth birthday. It will be impossible to keep the full details of the story from the little girl forever. As she grows up, Natalie is gradually explaining to her what happened, but she doesn't know everything yet.\n\n\"She's a funny little girl with a big heart... she knows that mummy got hurt the day she was born, she knows it was very serious, and that mummy went in a helicopter... she knows that because of what happened she had to be born that day.\"\n\nNatalie is amazingly upbeat despite what happened. She still suffers physically because of some of her wounds, but jokes that her breast implants saved her life. She has also visited Raja in prison despite being warned against it.\n\nShe said it was a cathartic experience. \"I needed to face him and I needed to look him in the eye.\" However he still wouldn't fully acknowledge what happened. He has also sent her letters in which he said he was \"proud\" of the way she had dealt with the attack. She sees this as an attempt at controlling behaviour.\n\nNatalie Queiroz is set to marry Simon Lyttle after the end of Covid restrictions\n\nI asked her whether she ever thought she would be able to achieve closure.\n\n\"Anyone who's been through a major trauma will say you never get over it, you learn to live with it and it becomes part of your life. I've dealt with it by all my fundraising and talking to young people about the reality of knife crime… to me that's the best way of coming to terms with everything.\"\n\nNatalie's positivity is clear in the work she's undertaken since the attack. She has already raised tens of thousands of pounds for Midlands Air Ambulance and is to walk the 140 miles between its three bases in four days as soon as it is possible.\n\nShe also has something else to look forward to. Last year she got engaged to Simon Lyttle, a fellow fundraiser, and once lockdown is over they will be married.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor sets out a three-part plan to “protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British people”.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled more support for workers and businesses struggling with lockdown in his first Budget since the pandemic was declared.\n\nThe furlough scheme will be extended to September - along with higher universal credit payments.\n\nBut taxes on large company profits will rise in 2023 and a million more people will start paying income tax.\n\nIt will take the UK's tax burden to its highest level since the 1960s, said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Budget measures to salvage the UK's Covid-ravaged economy were \"nowhere near ambitious enough\".\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Sunak said unemployment will be lower - and growth higher - than previously thought as the UK emerges from lockdown later this year, citing forecasts from the OBR watchdog.\n\nBut he warned that repairing the long-term economic damage \"will take time\", with the economy in five years' time predicted to be 3% smaller than it would have been without the pandemic.\n\nDespite the £280bn of support already committed to protecting the economy, the harm done by coronavirus had been \"acute\", he told MPs.\n\n\"Our economy has shrunk by 10% - the largest fall in over 300 years. Our borrowing is the highest it has been outside of wartime.\n\n\"It's going to take this country - and the whole world - a long time to recover from this extraordinary economic situation. But we will recover.\"\n\nThe headline rate of corporation tax will go up from 19% to 25% from 2023, although smaller firms will be exempt.\n\nAnd the freeze on income tax thresholds is expected to bring 1.3 million more people into paying income tax - and a million more into paying at the higher rate.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the Budget is set to raise an extra £29bn by 2025-26, which was \"big by recent standards\".\n\nAnd it added that the UK's tax \"burden\" is set to rise to its \"highest sustained level\" ever.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said: \"Mr Sunak made much of his desire to be honest and to level with the British people.\n\n\"The fact that he felt constrained to raise taxes by hitting companies and through freezing allowances, rather than through more explicit rises in people's taxes, suggests there are limits to how far he wants to level with us, as he attempts to raise the overall tax burden to its highest sustained level in history.\"\n\nThere has been a lot of give, and there will be a lot of take.\n\nBusiness will, in time, pay billions more. More than a million people will have to start paying income tax, and a million extra will pay at a higher level.\n\nThe deeply strange circumstances of the pandemic have turned the party with a theoretical love of low taxes into a government that will crank them up significantly in practice.\n\n\"Honest Rishi Sunak\", as he hopes to be represented, has chosen his determination to start dealing with the cost of Covid over the Tories' traditional backing for low taxes.\n\nBoxed in by election promises, he has chosen two huge future money raisers.\n\nDespite those hikes, and the hundreds of billions spent on Covid, public spending overall is still set to contract.\n\nThe chancellor extended the furlough scheme to September, paying up to 80% of people's wages - and announced further grants for self-employed people, with the scheme widened to include 600,000 who were not previously entitled, including many newly self-employed people.\n\nHe also extended the £20-a-week top-up to universal credit for six months.\n\nAll alcohol duties will be frozen, which Mr Sunak said would help pubs and restaurants recover, and there will be no increase in fuel duty. But duty on cigarettes will go up by 2%, plus inflation.\n\nThe reduced 5% VAT for the hospitality and tourism sector will be extended for six months to 30 September, and will not return to the full standard rate of 20% until April next year.\n\nMr Sunak also announced that 750 civil service jobs at the Treasury will be transferred to Darlington, in the north-east of England, and there will be more than £1bn shared out among 45 struggling towns in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Budget 2021: Who is Rishi Sunak and what does he believe?\n\nAt a post-Budget Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak vowed to protect people and businesses \"well beyond the end of lockdown\", and to build a \"fairer and more just\" country in the memory of those who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as the latest government figures on Wednesday showed a further 315 people had died with coronavirus in the UK within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis, and there were another 6,385 confirmed cases.\n\nMr Sunak hit back at critics who say the business tax hike will choke off recovery, saying it will \"still be the lowest out of the G7 economies,\" including the US, France and Germany.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Budget did nothing to \"fix the NHS and social care\", reduce inequality or create more affordable homes.\n\n\"The scale of what the chancellor announced today is nowhere near ambitious enough,\" he told MPs, and he claimed Mr Sunak was \"itching to get back to his free-market principles and to pull away support as quickly as he can\".\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said furlough should be in kept place \"as long as businesses and devolved governments need it\".\n\n\"This Budget is carefully laying the ground for more Tory austerity, a decade more of Conservative cuts,\" he told MPs.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine warned that the universal credit top-up will end at the same time as furlough, meaning people could lose their jobs and not receive the extra help they will need.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was a \"Budget of half measures and quick fixes\", and not making the universal credit uplift permanent would \"lead to 26,000 families in Wales not being able to afford essentials in six months' time\".\n\nHow will you be affected by this year's Budget? 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.", "What questions do you have about the Northern Ireland Executive's plan to exit lockdown?\n\nOur political reporter Jayne McCormack and business reporter Richard Morgan will join Jordan Kenny to answer them live during Thursday's Coronavirus Catch-up.\n\nTune in at 19:00 GMT on the BBC News NI website, iPlayer and BBC News NI Facebook Page.\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 government has settled with former civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam over his claim for unfair dismissal.\n\nSources close to Sir Philip confirmed to BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he received £340,000 plus his legal costs.\n\nThe ex-Home Office boss quit amid bullying claims against Home Secretary Priti Patel, which she denies.\n\nLabour's Nick Thomas-Symonds has written to Ms Patel to ask how much taxpayers' money has been spent settling the case.\n\nSir Philip said he had been the victim of a \"vicious and orchestrated\" briefing campaign after trying to get Ms Patel to change her behaviour.\n\nThe claims had been due to be heard at an employment tribunal this September.\n\nThe Home Office said the government and Sir Philip had \"jointly concluded that it is in both parties' best interests to reach a settlement at this stage\".\n\n\"The government does not accept liability in this matter and it was right that the government defended the case,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe former official was earning more than £150,000 a year as Home Office permanent secretary.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"Taxpayers will be appalled at having to pick up the bill for the home secretary's unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nIn his letter to Ms Patel, Mr Thomas-Symonds asks how much in total the settlement has cost, and whether any other bullying cases have been opened by the Home Office since July 2019.\n\n\"This whole episode continues to raise serious questions about standards of behaviour, responsibility and leadership at the highest level of government,\" he added.\n\nSir Philip said Home Office staff had come to him with allegations against Ms Patel, including \"shouting and swearing\" and \"belittling people\".\n\nHis resignation led the Cabinet Office to launch an inquiry into whether Ms Patel had broken the code governing ministers' behaviour.\n\nBoris Johnson's standards chief Sir Alex Allan found that she had - but the PM rejected his findings and kept her in post. Sir Alex resigned in response.\n\nIn his report, Sir Alex found Ms Patel's \"approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by individuals.\"\n\n\"To that extent her behaviour has been in breach of the ministerial code, even if unintentionally,\" he concluded.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has launched legal action to try to get Mr Johnson's decision overturned at the High Court.\n\nMs Patel apologised for her alleged behaviour, saying \"any upset I have caused was completely unintentional\".\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think Ms Patel was a bully, and had \"full confidence\" in her.\n\nPriti Patel was appointed home secretary by Boris Johnson after he entered No 10 in July 2019\n\nIn a statement issued via the FDA civil servants' union on Thursday, Sir Philip said he was \"pleased\" the government had settled his unfair dismissal claim.\n\n\"I now look forward to the next stages of my career,\" he added.\n\nOn its official website, the government said it \"regrets the circumstances surrounding Sir Philip's resignation\".\n\n\"The government and Sir Philip are now pleased that a settlement has been reached to these proceedings,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said Ms Patel still had \"very serious questions to answer about her conduct\", and Mr Johnson had \"shown terrible judgement\".\n\n\"It can't be right that his adviser on ministerial standards resigned when he found that the home secretary bullied colleagues, while the home secretary herself remained in post,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is the first time Elon Musk's space exploration company has pulled off this difficult landing\n\nThe SpaceX company has managed to land one of its Starship prototypes at the end of a high-altitude test flight.\n\nSerial Number 10 (SN10) touched down in Boca Chica, Texas - in contrast to its predecessors SN8 and SN9, which crashed into the ground.\n\nBut that wasn't the end of the story. The next-generation space vehicle put down heavily on its extended legs.\n\nA fire then developed around its base and eight minutes later SN10 blew itself apart on the landing pad.\n\nNonetheless, SpaceX will be hugely encouraged by the test. The prototype successfully executed its in-flight manoeuvres and managed to make a reasonably soft landing. These milestones will give the company confidence as it moves forward with the ambitious concept.\n\nSN10 slows as it approaches the ground\n\nThese vehicles carry out regular missions - both crewed and uncrewed - for the US space agency (Nasa), the American military, and other commercial concerns.\n\nBut CEO Elon Musk says the new 50m-tall Starship will do it all, bigger and better - orbiting satellites and carrying passengers, both around the Earth and to off-world destinations such as the Moon and Mars.\n\nIndeed, he's promised a lunar excursion in 2023 to the Japanese online fashion retail billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.\n\nMr Maezawa will travel in a Starship with eight other individuals, and opened applications this week to anyone who might be interested in joining his \"dearMoon\" venture.\n\nWednesday's high-altitude test proceeded much like the previous prototype flights.\n\nThe uncrewed SN10 left its launch mount at the Boca Chica R&D facility, and rose vertically on the thrust of three methane-burning Raptor engines.\n\nThese power units shut down in sequence as the target height of roughly 10km (6.2 miles) was approached, with the vehicle then leaning over into the horizontal for the drop to the ground.\n\nThis belly-flop descent, controlled by large flaps at either end of the vehicle, is intended to simulate how future, operational Starships will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere from orbit, presenting a large surface area to the direction of travel to scrub off speed.\n\nThe vehicle leans over on the pad. Moments later it blew up\n\nThe vehicle is supposed to transition back to a tail-down configuration just before reaching the surface.\n\nSN8 and SN9 couldn't manage it. Both vehicles failed to adopt the correct orientation and reduction in speed.\n\nSN10, however, got it right, slowing rapidly and putting down on a concrete pad. A major contribution to the success was undoubtedly the decision this time to re-light all three Raptors ahead of landing, ensuring at least two engines were available to provide the necessary braking thrust.\n\n\"Third time's a charm,\" said John Insprucker, the SpaceX webcast commentator.\n\nBut all was not perfect. SN10 was leaning. Its stubby legs deployed at touchdown appeared to have collapsed. And as water hoses tried to extinguish a fire at the base of the vehicle, it suddenly leapt upwards and exploded.\n\nArtwork: SpaceX has Starship in competition to land astronauts on the Moon\n\nSpaceX already has other prototypes in various stages of assembly at Boca Chica, up to SN19 currently.\n\nThe Starship will eventually launch atop a booster called Super Heavy. This too is in build at Boca Chica.\n\nIt will feature perhaps 28 Raptors, producing more than 70 meganewtons (16 million lbs) of thrust - about double that of the mighty Apollo Saturn 5 rocket, which sent men to the Moon.\n\nWhen combined, both parts of the new SpaceX system - Starship and Super Heavy - will stand about 120m tall on the launch pad.\n\nThe two elements are being designed to be fully reusable, making propulsive returns at the end of each mission.\n\nSpaceX hopes Starship can be involved in Nasa's return to the Moon this decade. Starship is currently in competition with a number of other aerospace companies to provide a landing system to take astronauts down to the lunar surface.\n\nYusaku Maezawa is seeking participants for his Starship journey around the Moon", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I feel like I have just thrown 10 years away,\" says businesswoman\n\nA mobile hairdresser said it was \"really distressing\" having to close her business due to an \"admin error\".\n\nJulie Price, from Flintshire, said she failed to qualify for the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) during the pandemic after accidentally failing to submit her 2018-2019 tax return.\n\nShe had to get a new job as an estate agent after taking family \"handouts\".\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which runs the SEISS, said it would speak to Mrs Price \"to clarify the situation\".\n\nThe SEISS is worth up to 80% of trading profits, averaged over three months, up to £7,500 in total.\n\n2.7 million people have been helped by it and the chancellor announced an extension of it in the Budget on Wednesday.\n\nMrs Price has been a business owner for 10 years and said she filled the return in online but did not press \"submit\" to complete the process.\n\nDespite being able to prove that she had paid the tax that was due, she said HMRC would still not allow her to receive the support.\n\n\"Had we not had family that stepped in and helped us I dread to think where we would be,\" said the 42-year-old.\n\n\"We were lucky with that, but on another side we'd always lived very comfortably and very well and to all of a sudden have no income whatsoever, it was a massive shock and very upsetting and caused us lots of sleepless nights and stress.\"\n\nMrs Price said she has paid her taxes for 10 years and feels like he has been told \"sorry, tough luck\"\n\nMrs Price said she paid her taxes as a self-employed hairdresser \"on time every year for 10 years\" but because of an \"admin error\" she had effectively been told \"sorry, tough luck\".\n\nShe added: \"I got to that point where it was getting that I was asking for handouts off my parents a lot and I didn't know how this was going to go on for.\"\n\nGetting an estate agency job has given her \"security\" again, but she said closing her business was painful.\n\n\"It has caused me great distress and upset to actually lose something that I've spent 10 years building.\n\n\"And those customers aren't just customers to me, they're friends and I hate the thought of having to let anybody down, it's been really distressing.\"\n\nYou can see more about this story in Wales Live on the BBC iPlayer", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned that a spending spree to support workers and spur investment will be followed by tax rises as the economy recovers.\n\nThe UK's rapid Covid-19 vaccine rollout is expected to help the economy get back to its pre-pandemic size six months sooner than previously expected.\n\nOfficial forecasts expect growth to hit 4% this year, while an extension of the furlough scheme will limit job losses.\n\nMr Sunak said future tax hikes were needed to stop \"irresponsible\" debt.\n\nThe government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said the UK had been at the \"vanguard\" of the discovery of new and effective vaccines.\n\nIt said this will foster a \"swifter and more sustained\" economic recovery, with the pace of growth expected to strengthen to 7.3% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the highest growth rate since official records began in 1949 and help the economy to return to its pre-pandemic size in the middle of next year.\n\nMr Sunak unveiled plans to spend tens of billions of pounds more over the next two years to support the economic recovery, including tax breaks designed to encourage business investment.\n\nHowever, the chancellor said tax rises were also needed to help repair the public finances.\n\nMr Sunak announced that corporation tax will rise from 19% to 25% for large companies in 2023, while day-to-day spending by government departments will be cut by a further £4bn a year.\n\nMr Sunak said it would be \"irresponsible to allow our future borrowing and debt to rise unchecked\".\n\nChris Sanger, head of tax policy at EY, described the Budget as \"three years of support, followed by three years (and more) of pain\".\n\nMr Sanger added: \"Time [is] the Chancellor's friend in his aim of replenishing the Government's coffers.\"\n\nThe government's target to have all adults vaccinated this summer is expected to pave the way for the lifting of public health restrictions.\n\nThe OBR noted that British households had built up a savings war chest of around £180bn in the past year.\n\nIt expects a quarter of this to be spent as lockdowns end, saying there could be a \"degree of euphoria\", especially among better-off households who \"treat themselves\" when the economy opens up.\n\nThe main thrust of this Budget is significant extra immediate crisis support, both in terms of the furlough scheme and self employed support, and a radical \"super-deduction\" policy to encourage business investment right now.. That is £60bn extra in one year and it comes from borrowed money. That leaves borrowing in the coming financial year significantly higher than expected. A much larger proportion of the exceptional world war-style borrowing over the past year will stay in place in the coming year.\n\nThe happy result of this is that unemployment, though rising, peaks at a much lower level than previous expectations, just over 6%, rather than, say, 10%. This is a consequence of both the vaccine rollout and the support package, leading to a reopening of the economy over summer.\n\nThe jabs and then the jobs. But then the payback, with a massive rise in £16bn corporation tax and the £8bn changes to thresholds for the last two years of the Parliament. The Conservative manifesto commitments on not increasing VAT, income tax or national insurance are binding here.\n\nSo Rishi Sunak is left with the first rise in corporation tax since Dennis Healey's 1974 Budget. It turns a careful strategy of using corporation tax as a lever for foreign investment on its head. For many in the vanguard of the Conservative Brexit movement, very low levels of this tax were one of the building blocks of \"Singapore-on-Thames\". Singapore is staying in South East Asia.\n\nThe timing of this tax rise at the end of a Parliament is not the normal order of things. But the Covid pandemic is far from normal.\n\nHowever, the watchdog warned that economic uncertainty remained \"considerable\", and would depend on controlling variants of the virus.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the chancellor was \"betting on a recovery fuelled by a consumer spending blitz\".\n\nHe added: \"The chancellor may think that this is time for a victory lap, but I'm afraid this Budget won't feel so good for the millions of key workers who are having their pay frozen, for the businesses swamped by debt, and the families paying more in council tax.\"\n\nUnemployment is expected to peak at a lower rate of 6.5%, keeping it well below levels seen during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nHowever, this means half a million more people are expected to be out of work by the end of this year.\n\nGovernment borrowing is expected to rise to a peacetime high of £354.6bn this year to help pay for economic support measures.\n\nThe size of the UK's debt pile is also expected to remain larger than the economy until at least the middle of the decade.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"It's going to take this country - and the whole world - a long time to recover from this extraordinary economic situation. But we will recover.\"\n\nFrom April, he will also freeze the amount of money employees earn before paying income tax at £12,570 until the middle of the decade.\n\nThe OBR estimates an extra 1.3 million people will start to pay income tax by 2026 as a result of the freeze.\n\nThe level at which employees start paying the higher, 40% rate of tax will also be frozen at £50,270 from April, dragging an extra million people into the band within five years.", "More than one million NHS workers in England will receive a three-year pay deal worth 6.5% after staff voted in favour of the offer.\n\nHospital cleaners, nurses, security guards, physiotherapists, emergency call handlers, paramedics, midwives, radiographers and other NHS staff across England will receive the rise.\n\nThey should now get the money in their July pay packets, backdated from April.\n\nThirteen unions voted for the deal and one against.\n\nThe only union to reject the deal was the GMB.\n\nThe agreement covers all staff on the Agenda for Change contract - about 1.3m across the UK - which is the entire workforce with the exception of doctors, dentists and senior leaders.\n\nSara Gorton, head of health at Unison, said the three-year pay deal must not be a \"one-off\".\n\n\"Health workers will want to know that ministers are committed to decent wage rises across the NHS for the long term, and that this isn't just a quick fix.\n\n\"Most importantly, the extra funding means the pay rise won't be at the expense of services or patient care,\" she said.\n\nIt is expected that additional funding will now be made available for health budgets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, allowing pay negotiations to take place for health workers there.\n\nGMB officials will meet next week to decide their next move after members rejected the deal by almost nine to one.\n\nJosie Irwin, of the Royal College of Nursing, said the deal would help to make the profession more attractive to future nurses.\n\n\"We have taken a significant step on the journey towards fairer pay for NHS staff but there is much more to achieve, not least for the staff who deliver NHS services outside direct employment.\n\n\"The government would be mistaken if it thought today's deal was the end, rather than the beginning, of that journey.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives called it \"the best deal in the public sector\" because it is additionally funded and does not come out of existing NHS money.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the pay rise was \"incredibly well-deserved for staff who have never worked harder\".\n\nSalaries will increase by between 6.5% and 29%, with some of the biggest increases for the lowest paid.", "There were almost 2,000 excess deaths in Northern Ireland from the start of the pandemic until the end of 2020.\n\nExcess deaths indicate the number of deaths above what would normally be expected.\n\nAccording to the NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra), the number of excess deaths from 1 March to 31 December 2020 was 1,958.\n\nThe agency recorded a very similar number of Covid deaths in the same period - 1,903.\n\nThis increase in mortality represents a 15.4% hike above expected deaths.\n\nThe Nisra bulletin highlights that the vast majority of excess deaths (74.9%) are among those aged 75 and over.\n\nDeaths recorded as being due to Covid-19 reflect where the virus was described as \"suspected\" or \"probable\" anywhere on the death certificate, including alongside other health conditions.\n\nCompared to previous years the number of excess deaths of people who died at home is much higher.\n\nIn fact it is nearly 12 times the number of Covid-19 related deaths at home (119) and accounts for 71.3 % of excess deaths during the 10 months.\n\nAccording to Nisra excess deaths in care homes peaked in April with 297 deaths, which was 119.9% higher than the average number of deaths in the previous five years (24).\n\nThe analysis in this report compares deaths between March and December 2020 with the average of the previous five years.\n\nIt is recognised that there could be deaths that occurred in this period, but that have not yet been registered. This is most likely in the more recent months.\n\nLocations most affected by excess deaths include Belfast (310) which accounts for 15.8%, then Antrim and Newtownabbey followed by Fermanagh and Omagh.\n\nDerry City and Strabane had the fewest excess deaths as a proportion of historic deaths.\n\nOn the cause of death among excess numbers from 1 March to 31 May, Covid-19 accounts for 79.0% of cases.\n\nThere were 75 deaths due to malignant neoplasm (tumours) while dementia/Alzheimer's disease accounted for 62 deaths.", "Residents woke up to the new Banksy artwork on Monday morning\n\nStreet artist Banksy has confirmed he was behind the artwork that appeared on the wall of Reading Prison on Monday.\n\nThe picture shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.\n\nIt comes as campaigners continue to lobby for the former jail to be turned into an arts hub rather than being sold for housing.\n\nThe guerilla artist confirmed the work through a video on his website.\n\nThe clip - entitled Create Escape - shows the piece being created under the cover of darkness, set to archive commentary from American painter Bob Ross.\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 banksy 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 Ministry of Justice said it was \"aware that Banksy has confirmed he is responsible for the graffiti\".\n\n\"We are considering next steps and will provide an update in due course,\" it added.\n\nReading Borough Council said Banksy's involvement suggested he was backing the campaign to save the prison.\n\nIt said: \"We are thrilled that Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind the council's desire to transform the vacant Reading Gaol into a beacon of arts, heritage and culture with this piece of artwork he has aptly called Create Escape.\n\n\"The council is pushing the Ministry of Justice, who own the site, to make suitable arrangements to protect the image.\"\n\nMatt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East, said there was a \"growing sense of excitement\" in the town since the artwork had been confirmed as real.\n\nThe Save Reading Gaol campaign tweeted: \"We're thrilled to hear it is, after all, a Banksy!\n\n\"Thanks to the elusive artist & their team. We are incredibly grateful. Your support & gift to the town will be appreciated for many years to come!\"\n\nSome people believe the artwork is related to plans to develop the prison\n\nToby Davies, the artistic director for Rabble Theatre in Reading, described it as \"fantastic\".\n\nHe said: \"It adds real kudos to the whole campaign to have someone who knows a thing or two about culture take a risk and come and do this on a Ministry of Justice building.\n\n\"It is phenomenal, it really displays how much it means to people.\n\n\"Whenever I speak to people, not just those in the culture world but those who walk past it every single day, they get very emotional about it.\"\n\nHe added: \"Reading has never had the opportunity to have a go at an international culture centre that brings people together.\n\n\"It should be a bubbling centre of UK culture but it isn't and that's because we've never been given a chance.\n\n\"If there was ever a chance then this is it and it won't come again.\"\n\nThe prison was immortalised in Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol\n\nMr Davies said having created the piece during lockdown would have been a \"significant personal risk\" for Banksy.\n\n\"It speaks volumes. He could have gone to wider issues around the world, there are plenty of them, but he has come to Reading to highlight this.\"\n\nThe jail famously housed Wilde between 1895 and 1897 and was immortalised by his poem Ballad of Reading Gaol during his stay, which reflected on the brutality of the Victorian penal system.\n\nHe was convicted after his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed.\n\nThe prison has been derelict since 2013 and was put up for sale by the government in 2019.\n\nHowever, a deal to sell the Grade II-listed building to developers fell through last year and Reading council said it hoped to revive its bid to turn it into an arts complex.\n\nHollywood actors Sir Kenneth Branagh, Natalie Dormer and Dame Judi Dench are among the stars who have lent their support to the campaign.\n\nBanksy caused a stir when a hula-hooping girl appeared on a residential street in Nottingham in October...\n\nBanksy expert and vice-chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, Prof Paul Gough, said the artwork could possibly be about the future use of the building or commentary on what is happening with news media and Facebook.\n\nHe said: \"It's probably one of Banksy's less well-known features is that he has in the past donated quite a lot of work to what he thinks are charitable causes.\n\n\"So to give a piece of work to an organisation or at least in the interest of art has happened before - he's painted pictures on the side of youth clubs or in organisations he wants to be seen lending a hand.\n\n\"So there is a charitable arm to Banksy, which doesn't get written about or get celebrated very often.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it's terrific for art, public discourse, and draws attention to a brick wall - a lovely brick wall - that normally people would walk straight past, so it helps you see your public realm in different ways.\"\n\n...and with a piece on the London Underground in July\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. India Eva Rae was one of 21 actors to join the Elevate scheme's 2019 intake\n\nAn actress who took part in a Bafta initiative aimed at improving diversity in the film and TV industry has said she was subjected to racist comments while on the scheme and was not given appropriate disability support.\n\nIndia Eva Rae - who starred in the Channel 4 TV series On the Edge - was one of 21 actors to join the Elevate scheme's 2019 intake.\n\nShe described Elevate as a \"PR exercise\" that failed to open doors for its participants, who she says were recruited to \"clean up\" Bafta's image.\n\nBafta said the vast majority of its participants have a positive experience on the programme.\n\nElevate was established in 2017, shortly after the academy was criticised for releasing all-white nomination lists in the leading actor and actress categories for its annual film awards.\n\nThe backlash that followed the announcement saw #BaftaSoWhite trending on social media.\n\nRae said that Elevate participants were promised bespoke programmes tailored to their needs, including meetings with casting directors and other influential figures within the industry.\n\nThere was anger when Cynthia Erivo and other actors of colour were overlooked by Bafta in 2020\n\nBut, in one such meeting, she said a casting director referred to her as an \"exotic talent\", adding: \"I can't understand the English coming out your mouth.\" Rae said she was then advised to learn English, and to take pronunciation lessons.\n\nShe said that after the meeting at Bafta HQ, she turned for advice to one of the mentors on the scheme, who advised her not to report the incident. \"This mentor told me and other members of the group that we will never work again if we speak up.\"\n\nBafta said it hasn't received any complaints about either incident, but that if it had they would have been taken extremely seriously. Its CEO Amanda Berry told the BBC they were made aware Rae had had a negative experience with a casting director, but denied that the incident had happened at an Elevate event.\n\nBafta's website says Elevate is \"designed to support people from under-represented groups in the screen industries to progress their careers and encourage inclusion across the industries\".\n\nThis year's Bafta nominations were more diverse and included actors such as Riz Ahmed and Daniel Kaluuya and director Chloé Zhao\n\n\"I'm not really from this world,\" Rae said. \"At the time Channel 4 spotted me I was living in a refuge… I was homeless.\" It was while she was filming On the Edge that she was encouraged to apply for the Bafta scheme.\n\nRae said she's worried that if she doesn't speak up, nothing will change. \"I'm very conscious of my privilege of being in these rooms and my duty of care to speak up.\"\n\nThe actress has an auditory processing disorder (APD) that makes understanding spoken information more difficult. Actors with a disability were among the groups specifically encouraged to apply to Elevate by Bafta.\n\nDespite, that Rae said she had to ask Bafta repeatedly for support with her needs. \"Why would Bafta create a system where we were set up to fail?\" she added. \"Why did Bafta fail to organise any access co-ordinators, any access audits?\"\n\nBafta's CEO Amanda Barry says that Elevate asks every participant about their needs on the application form\n\nShe is calling for an independent organisation to be allowed to investigate Bafta's procedures. The academy recently announced a new anti-bullying initiative in association with the British Film Institute, and backed by over 40 organisations across film, television and gaming.\n\nBafta's Head of New Talent, Tim Hunter, told Variety that \"one of the key reasons people don't report this behaviour is because they don't have faith in the structures that exist to deal with it\".\n\nRae said when she tried to raise a formal complaint with Hunter regarding the Elevate scheme, he told her that her place on the initiative could be at risk as a result. \"I'm shocked because he's currently out there speaking about systems of bullying in our industry… The only difficulties in access, bullying, and a culture of fear that I've experienced are at Bafta.\"\n\nBafta said Rae misunderstood Hunter. It said that if a formal complaint is launched, it might pause participation to ensure a complainant was supported, but that they would consider extending their place on the programme.\n\nBafta CEO Amanda Berry also told the BBC that Elevate asks every participant about their needs on application forms, and in conversations when they start.\n\nShe said they don't have in-house disability advisers, but that they draw on a wealth of independent experts - and that if an access support worker were needed, Bafta would cover the costs. She said in this case she is confident everything was done to support Rae.\n\n\"It is a matter of great sadness and regret for me that anyone would feel this way, and our door remains completely open to find a solution, and to ensure that every participant benefits from the scheme,\" she added.\n\n\"I know that other participants have found this to be a truly fantastic opportunity.\"", "The award-winning US actress Jessica Walter has died aged 80, her family have announced.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of my beloved mom,\" Walter's daughter Brooke Bowman said.\n\n\"A working actor for over six decades, her greatest pleasure was bringing joy to others through her storytelling both on screen and off,\" Ms Bowman said.\n\nWalter is best known for playing icy matriarch Lucille Bluth in the Arrested Development TV sitcom in the 2000s.\n\nShe also won an Emmy for starring as a detective in the police drama Amy Prentiss in the 1970s.\n\n\"While her legacy will live on through her body of work, she will also be remembered by many for her wit, class and overall joie de vivre,\" Ms Bowman said.\n\nThe Deadline website, which first reported the news, quoted the family as saying that Walter had died in her sleep at her home in New York.\n\nSome of Walter's most memorable lines in Arrested Development were delivered over a Vodka Martini or between glasses of wine.\n\nDuring her long career, Walter starred in several popular TV dramas and sitcoms, like NCIS and Law & Order, and also appeared in a number of films.\n\nShe also voiced Malory Archer in the animated series Archer.\n\nOne of Walter's starring movie performances was alongside Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, earning her a Golden Globe nomination.\n\nShe also starred in Grand Prix (1966), which also saw her nominated for a Golden Globe.\n\nAmong her TV comedy cameos, Walter played Mrs Latham, a university benefactor who seduces Leonard in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.\n\nTony Hale, who played Walter's son Buster n Arrested Development, paid tribute to her, saying \"her talent and timing were unmatched\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Hale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJason Bateman, who played Walter's son Michael in the show, said she had had \"an incredible career, filled with amazing performances\".\n\n\"I will forever remember my time with her, watching her bring Lucille Bluth to life,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"She was one of a kind.\"\n\nWill Arnett, another star of the show, remembered her as \"a deeply talented person\" he had first encountered in 1996.\n\n\"I was instantly blown away,\" he wrote on his own Twitter account. \"I'm fortunate to have had a front row seat to her brilliance for 25 years.\"\n\nDirector Ron Howard, Arrested Development's narrator and producer, described Walter as \"a brilliant, funny, intelligent and strong woman\".\n\n\"Thank you for a lifetime of laughs and for sharing your incredible talent on our show and with the world,\" the film-maker continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ron Howard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian David Cross, another member of the US series' cast, described Walter as \"an absolutely brilliant actress and amazing talent\".\n\n\"I consider myself privileged and very lucky to have been able to work with her. Lucille Bluth is one of TV's greatest characters,\" he wrote in a Twitter post.\n\nHappy Days actor Henry Winkler, who also appeared in Arrested Development, expressed dismay on hearing the news.\n\n\"OH NO,\" he wrote on Twitter, adding: \"It was an honour to watch her comedy explode from the very first row.\"\n\nOthers to pay tribute included actress Viola Davis, who remembered Walter as being \"always consistently excellent\".\n\nWonder Woman star Lynda Carter, meanwhile, recalled Walter playing her antagonist in a 1977 edition of the show.\n\n\"Though we battled each other on-screen, in real life she was one of kindest, warmest, funniest women I've ever met,\" Carter wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Lynda Carter This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBridesmaids director Paul Feig also paid tribute to an actress he said he had \"had the honour of working with several times\",\n\nShe was, he wrote, \"so funny\" and \"a true original\" who had \"marched to the tune of her own drummer\".\n• None Why Arrested Development won't go away", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn 11-year-old boy who has been sleeping in a tent since the first coronavirus lockdown will have his final night outside this weekend.\n\nMax Woosey, from Braunton, Devon, is encouraging children around the world to take part in a \"big camp-out\" on Saturday night.\n\nHe has been sleeping outside in memory of two family friends who died and and has raised more than £270,000.\n\nBy Monday morning Max will have camped in his garden for a whole year.\n\nMax Woosey has been sleeping outside in a tent since the first lockdown\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March 2020 Max said: \"I thought I'd do it for a week or two and then the event led on even further.\"\n\nHis mother, Rachael Woosey, said: \"We're incredibly proud of what he's done and the resilience he's shown.\n\n\"He knew what he wanted to do from the beginning, we didn't think it was a good idea but he persevered with it and the fact that all of it has been led by him, not us, is amazing.\"\n\nBefore their neighbour Rick died of cancer, he gave Max his tent and told him to have an \"adventure\" in it.\n\nPeople have been donating camping gear to the 11-year-old which has included a sleeping bag that belonged to a soldier who died while serving in Afghanistan.\n\nMax's mum said that damage done by constant use and bad weather meant they had gone through about seven tents, some donated by outdoor equipment companies.\n\nThere were \"a few nights when I cried myself to sleep because all my gear was soaking wet\", Max said.\n\nSunday night will be Max's 365th sleeping outside\n\nMrs Woosey said it was \"wonderful\" that families around the world, including from the US and Singapore, will be taking part in the camp-out by sleeping in a tent or making a den in their gardens or homes.\n\nShe said it was about children \"being in control\" and \"celebrating what they can do\".\n\nDuring the year celebrities including Jonny Wilkinson and Bear Grylls have been in touch to wish Max luck with his adventure.\n\nHe has been raising money for the North Devon Hospice which cared for his neighbours in their final days.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Dr Saad al-Dubbaisi, a GP from Bury, died at the age of 59 after contracting coronavirus\n\nMany doctors from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds say key risk assessments have still not taken place, or have not been acted on.\n\nAbout 40% of UK doctors in the UK are from BAME backgrounds, yet 95% of the medics who have died from coronavirus were from minority backgrounds.\n\nThe NHS said last June that its trusts should offer risk assessments to staff.\n\nBut hundreds told a poll for BBC News that they were still awaiting assessments or action.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) says the government has a duty to protect ethnic minority doctors.\n\nOf 2,000 doctors who responded, 328 said their risks hadn't been assessed at all, while 519 said they had had a risk assessment but no action had been taken.\n\nAnother 658 said some action had been taken, with just 383 reporting their risks had been considered in detail and action put into place to mitigate them.\n\nDoctors were polled via a questionnaire sent to BAME medics across the UK via 70 medical associations on behalf of BBC News in January.\n\nOne of those who responded was Dr Temi Olonisakin, a junior doctor in London who has Type 1 diabetes. She had her risk assessment early on in the pandemic.\n\n\"It was as comprehensive as a side A4 paper can be,\" she says.\n\n\"I think for a lot of people it felt more like a tick-box exercise, and one that could be used to say: 'We've done what we need to do to make people feel safe' - but I'm not sure in reality that's how people felt.\"\n\nDr Temi Olonisakin says her risk assessment fitted \"on a side of A4\"\n\nDr Olonisakin scored high risk on her assessment and it was recommended that she limit patient contact. But during the second wave of the pandemic, she was working in an acute medical unit and had problems getting her risk assessment implemented.\n\n\"I had to do a lot of chasing and occupational health weren't as helpful as they could have been.\n\n\"It took a few weeks for me to be moved off patient-facing work. I felt I really had to fight for my safety.\"\n\n\"It was very stressful. I was very aware of the dangers of working in hospital and possibly picking up virus and what that could mean for me.\"\n\nBMA chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said it remained vital that risk assessments happened and were acted on, and weren't a \"tick-box exercise\".\n\nHe added: \"What's at stake here is serious ill health, and potentially death.\"\n\nSeveral doctors reported difficulties in getting redeployed, and that it appeared easier for white doctors to avoid patient-facing work.\n\nDr Nagpaul said there were \"longstanding inequalities\" within the NHS.\n\n\"Career progression isn't great for BAME doctors, so they tend to be in patient-facing roles more than white doctors, and more of them have been on the frontline during the pandemic.\"\n\nNHS England said it had written to all hospital trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups last June, asking them to undertake risk assessments for BAME staff within four weeks - and that most BAME doctors had been offered them.\n\nA spokesman said there had been more than a million risk assessments of staff, with 95% of those from BAME backgrounds having had one.\n\nHe added: \"Every employer is required to support workers who raise discrimination issues\" and that trusts had to \"help ensure that NHS staff feel safe to speak up\".\n\nNHS bodies in Scotland and Wales said they had also implemented measures to address the concerns of BAME staff.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul said doctors were afraid of speaking up\n\nOne GP, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC the PPE (personal protective equipment) she was offered wasn't adequate.\n\nThe doctor, who has had to take time off work after developing long Covid, said: \"I was working in walk-in centres at the time, and was only given basic surgical masks and an apron to use.\n\n\"At no point during the pandemic was I offered a risk assessment. I asked for technology to do remote consultations but was told it was oversubscribed.\n\n\"Working during the pandemic was so stressful - I feel burned.\"\n\nDr Leon Francis, a psychiatrist who set up the Black Medics Forum at the end of last year, said the pandemic had been \"another assault on the mental health of black doctors\".\n\nHe added: \"People have spoken about pressure to work - but they don't want to say anything that might rock the boat.\"\n\nMore than 700 doctors who took part in our research said they felt discriminated against by colleagues or managers during the pandemic; and a further 700 said they felt bullied at work.\n\nDr Nagpaul said that echoed the BMA's own research.\n\n\"BAME doctors are more fearful of speaking up about issues in workplace because of the repercussions it might have on their careers.\n\n\"What's required is a cultural transformation within the NHS, where there is equal experience, equal support and equal opportunity. This is a lesson that must be acted upon now.\"\n\nNHS England recommends a number of tools to calculate an individual's risk, one of which is the SAAD Scorecard that was created in memory of Dr Saad Al-Dubbaisi, a GP from Bury who died from the virus last year.\n\nHis daughter Zainab, a medic herself, said it was vital doctors were assessed.\n\n\"Now that we have identified that there's an increased risk of severe disease and mortality for BAME people, it's important these tools are used to identify at-risk healthcare workers so that they can be protected.\"", "Jackie Weaver has joined critics of a government move to end virtual council meetings in England from May.\n\nMinister Luke Hall has written to local authorities saying the government is under too much pressure to fit in legislation to allow them to continue.\n\nMs Weaver, who rose to fame after a meeting of Handforth Parish Council went viral, said it would be \"dreadful\" to bring them to an end.\n\nThe Local Government Association also called for the decision to be reversed.\n\nChair of the organisation, Councillor James Jamieson, said reintroducing face-to-face meetings \"could easily involve up to 200 people in one room, even before adding in members of the public and reporters\" - so their return would pose a \"significant challenge\" to councils to make them Covid-secure.\n\nLawyers in local government, along with Hertfordshire County Council, have now made an application to the courts to declare authorities already have the powers needed to hold online meetings.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it had asked councils to share their experiences of remote meetings, saying they will use the evidence \"to inform any potential future legislation regarding their use beyond the pandemic\".\n\nLike many other organisations, local councils were forced to go online in 2020 due to the pandemic and restrictions on public meetings.\n\nEmergency legislation was passed in the Commons to give them the power to do business over video conferencing tools, but the temporary law is due to run out the day after the local elections on 6 May.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Hall - the minister for regional growth and local government - praised the efforts of local authorities in England, saying they had \"risen magnificently to the challenges of this period\".\n\nBut he said extending virtual meetings past May would involved primary legislation in the Commons, which would have a \"significant impact... on the government's legislative programme, which is already under severe pressure in these unprecedented times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Viral moments like this Handforth Parish Council meeting could come to an end - but there are more serious reasons for concern too\n\nMrs Weaver - the chief officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils - told BBC Radio Derby it would be \"dreadful\" to bring virtual meetings to an end.\n\nShe added: \"I think all the evidence is out there to show that actually Zoom has done more... [and] has been instrumental in getting people involved.\n\n\"We can see it in the figures [with] people turning up. We are seeing it in the people that are showing interest in elections.\n\n\"I am not saying all council meetings should be held virtually and I know a lot of my councils are keen to get back to face-to-face meetings, but it would be so helpful, so valuable to be able to hold Zoom meetings.\"\n\nMr Jamieson agreed the move risked \"damaging the gains seen in public participation in remote council meetings during the pandemic and our vital local democratic process\".\n\nHe also pointed to the imbalance when it came to the rules in Westminster.\n\n\"MPs will retain the right to participate remotely until at least 21 June, but the powers-that-be in the House of Commons will not make time available to legislate for councillors to do the same,\" he added.\n\nThe County Councils Network said the government's decision was \"deeply disappointing, considering the success of remote meetings\".\n\nIts chairman, Councillor David Williams, said he had concerns over whether face-to-face council meetings could be done safely, adding: \"The decision is illogical when you bear in mind the government's own guidance stipulates that indoor events cannot be organised until 17 May at the earliest.\"\n\nAsked for a response to the criticism, the ministry sent a statement from Mr Hall, who said: \"Councils continue to play a vital role in our response to the pandemic and I am grateful for how they have used emergency powers introduced a year ago to continue to operate at a difficult time.\n\n\"As the vaccine roll-out continues and restrictions are lifted, councils holding face-to-face meetings from 7 May are being given the support and guidance they need to do so in a safe and secure way.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am keen to hear from councils and local residents about their experiences of virtual meetings so that we can properly consider whether to make these a permanent option.\"", "A British academic corresponded for months with a man who hinted he was a Russian agent, seeking help to discredit a group that gathers evidence of Syrian war crimes.\n\nProf Paul McKeigue asked \"Ivan\" to help find evidence that the group's director worked for the CIA.\n\nIn fact \"Ivan's\" emails were written by staff of the very group Prof McKeigue was targeting.\n\nThe professor said he hadn't done anything wrong.\n\nHe also said he had kept an open mind about whom he was communicating with.\n\nProf McKeigue had been trying to unearth details about the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (Cija) - an organisation that gathers Syrian government documents for war crimes trials - when he struck up the email exchange.\n\nCija documents are currently being used in a war crimes trial, in which a former Syrian military intelligence officer stands accused on 4,000 counts of torture.\n\nThe Edinburgh University professor wanted information about a woman Cija's director might have slept with and asked whether he was a cocaine user.\n\nHe also asked for information about a list of British academics and journalists, including two who work for the BBC, and suggested to \"Ivan\" that \"your office keeps an eye\" on a journalist working for a Russian media organisation.\n\nProf McKeigue is a member of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, a collection of British academics and independent researchers who say the UK government is running a propaganda campaign against Syria designed to prepare the ground for regime change.\n\nHe sent \"Ivan\" a draft of a critical report into Cija he had co-authored with two other members of the Working Group, Prof David Miller of Bristol University and Piers Robinson, a former professor at the University of Sheffield.\n\nCija director Bill Wiley said staff who wrote the emails to Prof McKeigue did not say they were a Russian agent, but tempted the professor to make this assumption.\n\nBill Wiley's organisation salvages documents from abandoned Syrian government buildings for use in war crimes trials\n\nHe says they carried out the deception because they were concerned that the Working Group's report might reveal sensitive information about the location of its archive of more than a million Syrian documents and the identity of its staff. Cija keeps the location of both confidential for security reasons.\n\nThe BBC journalists Prof McKeigue asked \"Ivan\" to investigate are a Syria producer and Chloe Hadjimatheou, reporter and presenter for the BBC Radio 4 Intrigue series, Mayday. It was during an investigation for Mayday that the BBC was able to read the email exchange.\n\nProf McKeigue, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that like any other citizen investigator he cultivates contacts with all kinds of people who may have relevant information, including anonymous sources. He said it was entirely legal for him to do this as a private citizen without access to state secrets.\n\nThe other members of the Working Group knew nothing about his email exchange with \"Ivan\", he said.\n\nProf Miller did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. Piers Robinson said the Working Group was entirely independent of any state or organisation.\n\nRead the full BBC investigation, The professor and the fake Russian agent", "The number of Covid-19-related deaths registered in NI has fallen for the eighth week in a row.\n\nThe virus was mentioned on 15 death certificates in the week to Friday 19 March, according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra).\n\nThat is 17 fewer than the previous week and brings its total of Covid-related registered deaths to 2,886.\n\nThe Department of Health recorded 2,104 deaths by the same date.\n\nNisra counts the number of deaths by looking at the death certificates where the virus has been recorded as a factor.\n\nThis is a different measure than that used by the Department of Health - it counts deaths by recording when someone dies within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures published by Nisra, the peak of the winter came in the week ending 22 January, when 182 Covid-related deaths were registered.\n\nNisra's figures show that the vast majority of deaths have occurred in hospitals and care homes and most have been among people aged 75 and over.\n\nOverall, the number of deaths in Northern Ireland in the past year has been markedly increased when compared to the five-year average death rate.\n\nThere have been almost 2,500 deaths above what would be expected in that time.\n\nOn Thursday, the Department of Health recorded no new deaths linked to Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours, meaning its total stayed at 2,107.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales clinched the Six Nations as 14-man Scotland snatched their first victory in Paris since 1999 to wreck France's title hopes.\n\nThe hosts, needing a bonus point and a winning margin of 21 points, had only one try and a 13-10 lead at the break.\n\nDamian Penaud's second-half score showed France's danger, but they could never stretch clear of their visitors.\n\nScotland's Finn Russell was shown a late red but Duhan van der Merwe swooped for a decisive late try.\n\nIt was fitting that a Championship that has been packed with tight games and show-stopping finales should finish with another match-deciding score and the clock deep in the red.\n\nAs Scotland's players leapt skywards to celebrate Van der Merwe's step and finish, France's slumped to the sodden Stade de France turf.\n\nHowever, their hopes of swiping the trophy from Wales had long since gone.\n\nIt is the sixth title of the Six Nations era for a Wales side that came into the campaign as distinct underdogs after an underwhelming autumn.\n• None Wales 'over the moon' with Six Nations win\n\nIt could easily have come earlier, and with the added decoration of a Grand Slam for Wales - only for France to keep Wales' celebrations on ice and their own hopes alive with a last-gasp bonus-point victory over Wayne Pivac's men six days ago.\n\nBut the twin tasks of running in four tries and racking up a 21-point winning margin on a tight turnaround proved far too steep.\n\nFittingly, it was a Welshman who played a key part in denying France. Since arriving at the end of 2019, defence coach Steve Tandy has transformed Scotland into the meanest defence in the Six Nations.\n\nThey conceded the fewest points in last year's Championship and have similarly suffocated their opponents in this edition.\n\nThe critical period came either side of half-time.\n\nIn a drenched, empty Stade de France, Van der Merwe's short-range try had survived the suspicion of a double movement to help Scotland to a 10-6 lead.\n\nFrance soon wrestled their way into the ascendancy, camping on the Scotland line, but found themselves ushered down blind alleys at every turn.\n\nChris Harris' canny cover and bravery in contact was especially impressive.\n\nBrice Dulin breached the line before the break but, even with Scotland captain Stuart Hogg in the sin-bin for the first nine minutes of the second half, Scotland did not disintegrate.\n\nRomain Ntamack zipped through a hole, Virimi Vakatawa flipped an offload out of the back of his hand and Penaud chipped, chased and grounded for a fine score.\n\nBut France could not replicate those bursts of flair. And Scotland wouldn't let them.\n\nScotland's last win in Paris was so long ago that the Six Nations were Five, Emile Ntamack, rather than his son Romain, was in the France team and Scotland's coach Gregor Townsend was on the pitch rather than the touchline.\n\nScotland, though, started this campaign with an away victory over England that ended an even longer barren run, and never lost faith.\n\nCaptain Stuart Hogg admitted earlier in the week that France's public confidence had irritated his side and they took great delight in shredding the script.\n\nThe route to victory was not the one many might have expected.\n\nRussell, who has been lighting up Racing 92's futuristic home ground across town, produced a performance low on dazzle, but high on IQ.\n\nThe fly-half, along with Hogg, turned France's back three with long, raking kicks, penning them deep in their own half during the first quarter.\n\nAfter Russell's 70th-minute departure for a fending forearm into the throat of Dulin, it seemed Scotland would have to settle for a narrow defeat and pooping a party.\n\nBut Scotland's forwards, with Hamish Watson, Jamie Ritchie and Dave Cherry all excellent, took it to a tiring and dispirited French pack.\n\nAnd when stand-in fly-half Adam Hastings held his nerve to find Van der Merwe with a looping pass worthy of Russell, a famous win was assured.\n\nReplacements: Thomas for Vakatawa (61), Serin for Dupont (64), Gros for Baille (56), Chat for Marchand (56), Atonio for Haouas (60), Taofifenua for Le Roux (50), Cretin for Jelonch (63).\n\nReplacements: Jones for D Graham (66), Hastings for Johnson (73), Kebble for Sutherland (49), Cherry for Turner (59), Craig for Skinner (75), Wilson for Haining (67).", "Wreckage is shown where the jet ploughed into the woodland north of the village of St Martin\n\nThe RAF and Royal Navy have paused flying of all Hawk T1 jets - including the Red Arrows - after a Navy jet crashed in Cornwall.\n\nTwo pilots ejected from the aircraft, which was from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.\n\nThe MoD said the pause in operations was a \"precautionary measure while investigations were ongoing\".\n\nThe MoD has paused operations of its T1 jets, including the Red Arrows\n\nPolice said they received reports of the two-seater training aircraft crashing in the St Martin area on the Lizard Peninsula on Thursday morning.\n\nThe pilots, who were airlifted to hospital, are in a stable condition \"without significant injury\", police said.\n\nEjection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker said it was the first ejection from a Royal Navy aircraft in 18 years.\n\nAn MoD spokesperson said: \"Safety is our paramount concern. The RAF has decided to temporarily pause Hawk T1 operations as a precautionary measure, while investigations are ongoing.\"\n\nEarlier this week it was announced the RAF would retire its fleet of 76 T1 jets as part of a defence review.\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. Anne Linton said people would find it hard to believe she had become close to her burglar\n\nA burglary victim has become \"best of friends\" with the man who broke into her home.\n\nThe 41-year-old stole £500 along with electrical items from Anne and Terry Linton's house in Erdington, Birmingham, in May 2019.\n\nThe thief was caught, but instead of being sent to jail was placed on a rehabilitation programme and now looks after their garden.\n\nMrs Linton said: \"Even a fairytale story could not end like this.\"\n\nAt Christmas they exchanged presents and Mrs Linton said: \"Isn't it funny, you tell somebody that somebody's burgled your house and yet you've all become the best of friends, nobody would believe you.\"\n\nThe ex-offender now regularly tends Anne and Terry's garden, laying paving slabs and trimming hedges, accompanied by a police officer\n\nThe man, who is not being identified, said: \"Anne and Terry gave me the chance to change my life and without them I don't think I would be alive today. I owe them everything and I will always be in their debt.\n\n\"I will do anything I can to help them, all they have to do is ask and I will be there. I can never change what I did and I will always be ashamed.\"\n\nAnd he added: \"It was very hard to see the person that you have hurt. It destroys you inside, but it rebuilds you.\"\n\nThe man is one of 20 people who have committed burglaries and signed up for the West Midlands Police scheme. The force said they had been responsible for 830 crimes between them.\n\nSince the scheme started in 2017, 14 have been able to stay clear of crime. Over the same time period, burglaries in the West Midlands force area have dropped by 16%.\n\nTerry is unable to do gardening himself because of ill health and said: \"I'm grateful for him, it's his way of saying sorry, and for that, I appreciate it.\"\n\nOffenders on the programme have their jail sentences put on hold while they are taking part and are tagged for the first four months.\n\nThey enter into 'contracts' outlining targets they must hit and must admit to all of their offending.\n\nDet Sgt Sandy Thompson, who runs the project, said: \"People still go to prison; 95% of people who commit a burglary will go to jail. But my job is to prevent burglaries from taking place. Jail will stop that man for four to five years. This programme will stop him for life.\"\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.", "Retail sales rose 2.1% in February, recovering some ground from a steep fall in January.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales were still down by 3.7% on a year earlier, before the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFood and mixed department stores benefitted from essential retailers remaining open, it said, though clothing shops continued to struggle.\n\nOutdoor furniture and DIY sales were strong with people stuck at home.\n\nJonathan Athow, ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics, said anecdotal evidence from retailers suggested people had been spending on home improvements and on outdoor furniture, as people prepared for lockdown easing, which will allow gatherings in gardens again in England and Northern Ireland next week.\n\nScotland and Wales already have already eased rules about outdoor mixing.\n\nMr Athow said that in February, despite national restrictions, \"retail sales partially recovered from the hit they took in January\" when they fell by 8.2%.\n\nHe said mixed stores, including retailers such as B&M Bargains and Wilko, which were allowed to stay open as they sold some foodstuffs, had benefitted, with budget-end department stores also increasing sales.\n\nOnline sales continued to grow and hit a record 36.1% of all UK sales.\n\nClothing retailers have been hit the worst over the past year, the ONS said, seeing a 50.4% drop in sales volumes when compared with February 2020, before the first Covid lockdown measures were introduced.\n\nFuel sales have also fallen sharply, down 26.5% from a year earlier as travel restrictions continue to curb demand.\n\nSusannah Streeter, analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said the sales figures showed people had been making some significant changes to their homes.\n\n\"With working from home at least for part of the week, likely to be the new normal going forward, many employees have been trying to create a more permanent alternative to the kitchen table or corner of the bedroom.\n\n\"Dividing open plan rooms and building garden offices are among the building projects being undertaken, as workers settle in at home for the long haul.\"", "The flightless birds, which are similar to ostriches but smaller, have been spotted in the Maple Cross area of Hertfordshire\n\nUp to 20 rhea birds that have been running around a housing estate will be sent to an animal reserve when captured, police said.\n\nThe \"unusual sight\" has been spotted at Maple Cross, close to the M25, Hertfordshire Police said.\n\nThe force was working with Three Rivers District Council and highways teams to \"come up with a plan\".\n\nPolice said they had tried to identify owners, but concluded the flightless birds were effectively wild.\n\nThe birds have been compared to Road Runner, from the Looney Tunes carton, on social media.\n\nSian Janusz spotted one of the rhea and said \"I don't want him to get hit by a car\"\n\nPC Christian Gottmann, from the Rickmansworth and District Safer Neighbourhood Team, said the birds were \"an unusual sight on the streets\" and that police and Three Rivers District Council were working on a plan to capture and rehome them.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing, but if you think you may be able to help with this, please get in touch with us,\" he said.\n\nHe advised the public not to approach the \"fast\" animals as they were \"aggressive if cornered\".\n\n\"Unfortunately we have received reports of them attacking dogs and deer, so we ask that dog owners are vigilant when out walking,\" he added.\n\nA Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said the precise number of birds on the loose was unknown, but the local policing team believed it could be up to 20.\n\nPrivate owners do not need a licence to keep rhea in the UK\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.", "Deborah thinks \"family hubs\" could help new parents find out more about local services like health visits\n\nNew parents will have more co-ordinated access to help and services under plans to improve children's health in England, the government says.\n\nA \"family hub\" network will be set up and the \"red books\" used to log babies' health information will be digitised.\n\nAndrea Leadsom, who chaired the government review on early years health, said the plans would identify those families most in need of support.\n\nLabour called them \"a smokescreen for a decade of failure on early years\".\n\n\"Red books\" - or personal child health records - are given to parents around the time that their baby is born, and are used to record details like weight, height and vaccinations.\n\nThe government said it will bring forward plans to digitise them, meaning they will go online by April 2023.\n\nLocal authorities will be asked to produce a single \"Start for Life\" document for parents with information about support services in their area - from health visits to help quitting smoking.\n\nUnder the plans, published as part of a review on Thursday, there will also be \"family hubs\" - centres where parents could access a range of services.\n\nThe government says these services could include birth registration, midwifery, health visiting, mental health support and feeding advice.\n\nDeborah Gibb, a 32-year-old teacher from Bradford, is trying to calm her four-month-old, Freyja, when she picks up the phone. \"I think she's started to teethe, which is ridiculously young,\" she laughs.\n\nShe seems to breathe a sigh of relief when I tell her that the red book will be moving online (although that might just be because Freyja has settled down).\n\n\"As a mother, going out of the house you pack your entire life with you. But remembering that red book that's in the back of the cupboard?\" she says. \"It seems ridiculous.\"\n\nShe thinks having a single publication that lists local services would be useful, so long as it's digitised. She was given leaflets \"left, right and centre\" when she left hospital after giving birth to her older daughter, Eilidh, now three.\n\n\"They just go in a pile and you don't get time to read them. What you do spend hours doing is using your phone looking for information in the middle of the night.\"\n\nShe says her job meant she felt reasonably clued up about what support services were available in her area - but many new parents don't.\n\n\"I was having a conversation the other day about how I've signed Freyja up for nursery for when I return to work in September. They were like, 'you've already put her name down?'\"\n\nShe says it is important for first-time parents to have \"somewhere to go centrally to get all the information that isn't an intimidating place\".\n\nMs Leadsom, a former cabinet minister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the plans would also help identify families who \"would go on to have real difficulties\" without support.\n\n\"What families will see differently is they will receive a joined-up Start for Life offer, which will show them explicitly what services they can get to support them in the period from conception to the age of two,\" she said.\n\nShe said the digitisation of the red books would \"make a huge difference\".\n\n\"For families, they won't have to keep telling their story again and again. For professionals, they will be able to see what's happened to that family to provide them with the support that they need,\" she added.\n\nTulip Siddiq, Labour's shadow minister for children and early years, called the plans \"a smokescreen for a decade of failure on early years\".\n\nShe said ministers had spent years \"dismantling\" Sure Start, an early intervention policy launched by Labour under Tony Blair to support the wellbeing of children before they started school.\n\nA report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2019 found the Sure Start scheme had a positive impact, but that funding had been cut and 500 sites had closed.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, head of the Sutton Trust, said there was a \"postcode lottery of provision\" at present and the pandemic has \"highlighted pre-existing inequalities\".\n\n\"We welcome the renewed focus on this crucial stage in life and the development of the Family Hub initiative as a universal service which will also identify the most vulnerable families,\" he said.\n\nAngela McConville, chief executive of parents' charity the NCT, welcomed the \"commitment to strong, coherent services\" to tackle \"health and wellbeing inequalities that... have been further exacerbated by the pandemic\".\n\n\"This focus has been strikingly absent from previous policy and investment, with sometimes disastrous consequences for parents and babies,\" she said.\n\nImran Hussain of charity Action for Children also welcomed the plan.\n\nHe said children's centres and family hubs \"will be more important than ever\" following the Covid-19 pandemic, helping to tackle \"the growing educational attainment gap\" between children from higher and lower socio-economic backgrounds.\n\nJudith Blake, chairwoman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said the report \"rightly recognises the crucial support provided by councils\".\n\nShe said the LGA was \"keen\" to work with Ms Leadsom on the next phase of the review, but stressed that \"it will need to be properly resourced\".", "We heard earlier today that hauliers travelling from continental Europe have been told that they will be required to take a Covid test.\n\nWe're now hearing more - an industry source has said they have been told that the measures are expected to start on 6 April onwards.\n\nAll lorry and van drivers are required to take the test if they stay in the UK for more than 48 hours.\n\nThey will need to get tested within 48 hours of arriving and will also be required to complete a passenger locator form so that they can be contacted while in the UK.\n\nThe tests will be free and available at the existing government haulier sites previously set up to test drivers travelling out of the UK to certain European countries that require them, such as Denmark or Germany.\n\nThose who don’t comply have been warned they can expect to be fined £2,000. If drivers stay for longer, a second test is required within five days of arrival. If drivers stay longer than five days, they are required to take a third test within eight days of arrival.\n\nDrivers arriving from the EU to make deliveries should only leave their cabs for essential purposes, which include eating and using washing facilities.\n\nThe Department for Transport has previously said it was carefully monitoring the increase in cases in Europe and would keep all measures under review.", "Maj Gen Nick Welch retired in 2018 as Assistant Chief of the General Staff\n\nAn Army major general who dishonestly claimed £48,000 for his children's boarding school fees has been jailed.\n\nNick Welch, 57, claimed to live in London rather than Dorset, near their schools.\n\nWelch was convicted of fraud by a panel of senior officers after a four-week trial at Bulford Military Court and handed a 21-month sentence.\n\nHe is believed to be the most senior officer to be court-martialled since 1815.\n\nJudge Advocate Gen Alan Large also sentenced Welch to retrospective dismissal from the Army, meaning he can no longer benefit from his rank of retired major general.\n\nWelch, who left the military in 2018, has been ordered to pay back the fraudulently claimed cash.\n\nThe Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) allows children to remain at the same schools to enable their serving parent to be accompanied by their spouse as they are posted to different locations.\n\nHowever, it cannot be claimed if a soldier's spouse is away from the military home for more than 90 days per year, the trial heard.\n\nThe prosecution said Welch applied for the allowance on the basis both he and his wife would not be living close to the children.\n\nWelch was awarded medals for his service in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and for long service with good conduct\n\nBut it said his wife Charlotte actually spent most of her time at a cottage in Blandford Forum, Dorset, close to the £37,000-a-year Clayesmore School and the £22,500-a-year Hanford School.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a neighbour told authorities about the family's absence from London.\n\nJudge Large said: \"A disciplined organisation such as the Army relies on those in rank and authority to set an example and to be beyond reproach.\n\n\"The higher your rank, the more important it is that you uphold the values and standards of the Army in which you serve and when an officer of the rank of major general offends as you have, the potential to erode discipline and undermine morale is considerable.\"\n\nWelch joined the Army in 1984 and when he retired he held the position of the assistant chief of general staff at Ministry of Defence (MoD) headquarters in London.\n\nHe had been awarded medals for his service in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and for long service with good conduct.\n\nJudge Large told him: \"In stark contrast to the events leading to your conviction in this trial, you had a highly successful military career, served your country with distinction on operations and you were a fine ambassador for your service and nation.\"\n\nDuring the trial, Welch denied being dishonest and said his wife was living with him for the majority of the time.\n\nHis barrister, Sarah Jones QC, had argued that the CEA system and the 90-day rule were a \"mess\" and not strictly enforced.\n\nWelch claimed an allowance for the £37,000-a-year Clayesmore School...\n\nMiss Jones said the sentence would \"shake the foundations of the man and what he has achieved and what he has failed in two things he cared about most\".\n\nShe said his career had been \"brought to an ignominious end and his family life has been shattered as his children are distraught and his wife puts a brave face on things\".\n\nWelch was remorseful and acknowledged \"he had not taken enough care\", she added.\n\nA character reference from the former Commander of Joint Forces Command, General Sir Richard Barrons, said Welch was of \"unimpeachable integrity\".\n\nBut prosecutor Sarah Clarke QC said he had attempted to manipulate the figures regarding his family's locations to cover up his dishonesty.\n\nWelch will spend half his sentence in prison before being released on licence.\n\nFollowing his sentencing, an MoD spokesperson said: \"It has been proven in this case that retired Major General Nicholas Welch OBE did commit fraud and he has been sentenced accordingly.\"\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.", "Former Prime Minister David Cameron has been cleared by a watchdog looking at whether he engaged in lobbying for which he should have been registered.\n\nThe Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists investigated after reports he had contacted officials on behalf of financial firm Greensill Capital.\n\nIt concluded that Mr Cameron's activities had not fallen within the criteria that required registration.\n\nThe contact is said to have taken place after Mr Cameron was prime minister.\n\nOn Wednesday, a source close to him said he was exempt from the register as he had been an in-house employee for Greensill.\n\nThe company, which collapsed earlier this month, was a key backer of UK giant Liberty Steel.\n\nLast week, Labour called for an investigation into claims Mr Cameron had met Treasury officials to lobby on behalf of Greensill, a role he took up after leaving the job of prime minister.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Mr Cameron had tried to increase the specialist bank's access to government-backed Covid-19 emergency loan schemes.\n\nThe Treasury said it had had a meeting but decided not to take things further.\n\nThe office which runs the lobbying register was set up following the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, when Mr Cameron was prime minister.", "Protesters have gathered for a second day outside Batley Grammar School\n\nProtests outside a school where pupils were shown a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad are \"deeply unsettling\", a government minister has said.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said teachers should be able to \"appropriately show images of the prophet\" in class.\n\nProtests have been staged outside Batley Grammar School, where a teacher has been suspended.\n\nHead teacher Gary Kibble said the member of staff had been suspended since the image was used in a lesson on Monday.\n\nDemonstrators gathered for a second day on Friday morning, but had moved on by mid-afternoon.\n\nThe school, which had been due to break up for the Easter holiday, was understood to have switched to a day of remote learning and the gates remained locked.\n\nRobert Jenrick described the protests as \"deeply unsettling\"\n\nMr Jenrick called for the \"deeply unsettling\" scenes outside the school to \"come to an end\".\n\n\"In a free society we want religions to be taught to children and for children to be able to question and query them,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We must see teachers protected and no-one should be feeling intimidated or threatened as they go into school.\"\n\nProtesters said the school had failed its duty of safeguarding\n\nProtesters had demanded the teacher's sacking, while some parents who spoke to the BBC said they didn't agree with the demonstrations and found them \"intimidating\".\n\nAs a crowd gathered on Friday, one protester read out a statement at the school gates.\n\nHe said the group \"do not accept that the school has taken this issue seriously, given that it's taken them four days to merely suspend only one of the teachers involved\".\n\nAnother protester, who gave his name only as Mr Hussain, told the PA news agency he was a parent at the school and said: \"We would not like any form of extremism, any extremist viewpoints, to be taught to children.\"\n\nMEND, which helps Muslims engage with British media and politics, said its Islamophobia Response Unit had been helping \"several\" parents liaise with the school over the issue.\n\nDeputy chair Dr Shazad Amin, said he saw \"no problem\" with blasphemy being discussed at the school but said the particular image shown to pupils was \"deeply offensive\" and \"furthered stereotypes and anti-Islamic tropes\".\n\nAs a result, he said people in the local community had \"a right to feel hurt and a right to feel angry\" but called for them to allow the matter to be properly investigated.\n\nHe said parents were \"fairly positive\" with the action taken so far by the school.\n\nBaroness Warsi said she had spoken to parents and pupils at the school\n\nFormer Conservative Party chairwoman Baroness Warsi said the debate has been hijacked by \"extremists on both sides\" to fuel a \"culture war\" at the expense of \"kids and their learning\".\n\nShe told the BBC she had spoken to pupils and parents over the last 24 hours and \"that many pupils were left distressed because of what happened\".\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, she said: \"It's about safeguarding children and making sure the school look again, as should every school, to ensure that every pupil in their school is being taught in a way which creates a positive, unifying learning environment.\"\n\nAround a dozen or so protestors who remained outside Batley Grammar School for most of the morning have now left.\n\nThe school was due to break up for the Easter holiday today, but the gates are locked and the school is shut.\n\nThe protesters here this morning said they wanted to keep things peaceful after concerns were raised yesterday about threats and intimidation towards school staff.\n\nSome passers-by told me they wanted the protest to wind down so they could work on a dialogue with school and to bring an end to the disruption to the local community.\n\nLabour MP for Batley and Spen, Tracey Brabin, condemned those who \"seek to fan the flames of this incident\", and said she welcomed the school's apology.\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"No teacher should be facing intimidation or threats, there is no excuse for that.\n\n\"The focus must be on the welfare and education of the children at this school.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said no arrests had been made and officers remained at the school.\n\nParts of the Koran are taken to mean that neither Allah nor Muhammad can be captured in an image by human hand and any attempt to do so is seen as an insult.\n\nHead teacher Mr Kibble said the teacher had \"given their most sincere apologies\" and been suspended pending an investigation.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called for the school to be allowed to investigate the matter \"without a running commentary in the media, on social media, and outside the school gates\".\n\nA petition calling for the teacher to be reinstated has received more than 10,000 signatures.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, the Department for Education said it was \"never acceptable to threaten or intimidate teachers\" and that they encouraged dialogue between schools and parents when issues emerged.\n\nKirklees Council said Batley Grammar is an academy school so the authority only has a \"very limited role\" in its running but said it was pleased to see the school had taken \"swift action\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of Asda supermarket workers have won a major victory at the Supreme Court in their battle for equal pay.\n\nThe court upheld an earlier court ruling that lower-paid shop staff, who are mostly women, can compare themselves with higher paid warehouse workers, who are mostly men.\n\nThe judge stressed the ruling did not mean the 44,000 claimants had won the right to equal pay.\n\nHowever, they are now free to take further action.\n\nLauren Lougheed, a Leigh Day lawyer representing Asda store staff, said: \"We are delighted that our clients have cleared such a big hurdle in their fight for equal pay.\n\n\"Already an employment tribunal, the employment appeal tribunal and the Court of Appeal ruled that these roles can be compared, and now the Supreme Court has come to the same conclusion.\n\n\"It's our hope that Asda will now stop dragging its heels and pay their staff what they are worth.\"\n\nThe GMB union has members involved in the case. Its legal director, Susan Harris, said: \"Asda has wasted money on lawyers' bills chasing a lost cause, losing appeal after appeal, while tens of thousands of retail workers remain out of pocket.\n\n\"We now call on Asda to sit down with us to reach agreement on the back pay owed to our members - which could run to hundreds of millions of pounds.\"\n\nWendy Arundale, who worked for Asda for 32 years, said: \"I loved my job, but knowing that male colleagues working in distribution centres were being paid more left a bitter taste in my mouth.\n\n\"It's not much to ask to be paid an equal wage for work of equal value.\"\n\nBut an Asda spokesman said there was a long way to go before the issues were finally settled: \"This ruling relates to one stage of a complex case that is likely to take several years to reach a conclusion.\n\n\"We are defending these claims because the pay in our stores and distribution centres is the same for colleagues doing the same jobs regardless of their gender. Retail and distribution are very different sectors with their own distinct skill sets and pay rates.\"\n\nIt said it remained confident in its case.\n\nLawyers say the ruling will have implications for supermarkets and other retailers.\n\n\"It would be difficult to underestimate the significance of this judgment which will send shockwaves far beyond Asda,\" said Anne Pritam, partner and employment lawyer at Stephenson Harwood.\n\n\"It is a watershed moment for the rest of the retail industry, particularly those defending their own equal pay claims - such as Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and Next - and which have similar staffing models and pay structures.\"\n\n\"Ultimately, if all of the retailers lose their equal pay claims, it is estimated they could face £8bn in compensation payments to employees.\"\n\nAsda store workers argued they were paid less because most store workers are women, while most distribution depot staff are men.\n\nLawyers representing the store workers say depot workers were paid between £1.50-3.00 an hour more.\n\nAsda said it had always paid the correct rate for the job, whether male or female, and pointed out that both men and women worked in both supermarkets and the warehouses.\n\nAsda store workers may have won this battle in their long running equal pay claim - but the war is far from over.\n\nThe Supreme Court has ruled that for the purposes of equal pay the work of the mainly male distribution workers can be compared to the mainly female shop floor workers.\n\nBut next they need to prove their work is of equal value - in terms of skills and training.\n\nAnd finally that gender is the key reason that their pay is different.\n\nThe stakes here are high. Supermarkets could find themselves on the hook for more than £8bn in back pay.\n\nAnd it could reverberate around other businesses too - where a majority of women carry out a certain role.\n\nIn 2016, an employment tribunal decided that Asda store workers were entitled to compare themselves to distribution staff and that decision was upheld by Court of Appeal judges in 2019.\n\nAsda bosses then appealed to the Supreme Court.\n\nLawyers say litigation could run on for years.\n\nThere are three stages in equal pay action:\n\nFollowing the Supreme Court ruling, lawyers say the next stage would involve an employment tribunal deciding whether specific store and distribution jobs were of \"equal value\".\n\nIf judges decided that different jobs were of \"equal value\", the litigation would then enter a third stage.\n\nUnder this, a tribunal would then consider whether there were reasons - other than gender - why people working in stores should not get the same pay rates as people working in distribution centres.", "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\"", "The twins cuddling after being separated at birth\n\nA mother said she \"cried tears of joy\" as her twins were reunited two weeks after being separated at birth.\n\nLaura Hough said she was warned her daughter, Neve, who was born weighing 1lb 7oz (652g), may not survive.\n\nBut it was her twin brother Louie, who weighed 3lbs 3oz (1.5kg), who was taken for specialist care separating them.\n\nMiss Hough, 27, from Liverpool, said their emotional reunion was \"so cute, they were cuddling and even holding hands\".\n\n\"They're unbelievable. They're so strong. I couldn't be more proud,\" she said.\n\nNeve and Louie were born by emergency Caesarean section at 30 weeks at Liverpool Women's Hospital on 8 March.\n\nThe first-time mum from Walton said the birth was \"scary\" because she was \"told for the last few weeks of my pregnancy [Neve] might not make it but she was fine\".\n\nNeve had reverse blood flow and was not getting enough nutrients but despite being \"so tiny\" she did not need oxygen, Miss Hough said.\n\n\"She's incredible. The doctors said they had never seen a baby so small not need any help,\" she said.\n\nProud parents Chris Carey and Laura Hough say they could not be prouder of their twins\n\nHowever, the twins had to be cared for in different units after Louie had complications and his lungs collapsed.\n\nMiss Hough said he was \"much better now\" and the twins were finally reunited on Tuesday.\n\n\"It was horrible when they were separated at birth but I cried tears of joy when they got back together,\" she said.\n\n\"They were wrapping their legs around each other and cuddling, even holding hands at one point. They were so cute.\"\n\nMiss Hough said doctors hoped the twins could go home by May.\n\n\"Everyone is made up with them. We are desperate to welcome them home,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquest is examining the deaths of 10 people in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nThe findings of the Ballymurphy Inquest are due to be published on 11 May, Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan has announced.\n\nThe inquest, which began in November 2018, has examined the deaths of 10 people in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971.\n\nThe deaths took place immediately after the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe court heard more than 100 days of evidence from more than 100 witnesses.\n\nThese included more than 60 former soldiers, more than 30 civilians and experts in ballistics, pathology and civil engineering.\n\nThe most senior former soldier to testify was Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the Army and Chief of the General Staff.\n\nThe victims included a mother of eight and a priest\n\nThe killings happened during an Army operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial.\n\nThe victims included a priest trying to help one of the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nIn a statement, relatives of those who died said they welcomed the coroner's announcement and described it as a \"long and difficult road\".\n\nThe statement added that families \"had to sit through horrific evidence about how their loved ones died as well as how they were treated both before and after their deaths\".\n\n\"Gruesome details of their injuries and their last moments before death were revealed in evidence,\" it continued.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Danny was among the victims, said he had grown up \"searching for answers\" about his killing.\n\n\"Families have worked very hard to get to this stage when we will see the results of the many years of campaigning for truth,\" he said.\n\n\"We have confidence that the coroner's findings will vindicate our loved one's innocence.\"\n\nThe coroner will present the findings at 11:00 BST on 11 May at the International Conference Centre in Belfast.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice's office said a \"mix of physical and remote attendance is being arranged\" to allow as many people as possible to join the hearing in adherence with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe statement said \"priority is being given to the families of the deceased and those directly involved\".\n• None Ballymurphy: Who were the victims?", "Serious claims of sexual violence and harassment in schools must be reported to the police, England's children's commissioner Rachel de Souza has said.\n\nIt comes as allegations of rape, sexual abuse and misogyny, first reported by the Times, have been made by pupils at a number of independent schools.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to female ex-pupils at one school in London, where a girl said sexual violence was \"prolific\".\n\nDame Rachel said it was \"alarming\" but schools had clear advice to follow.\n\nPupils at a number of schools in England have made public accusations of sexual violence by fellow pupils.\n\nOne of those was Highgate School, in north London, where students say there has been a \"rape culture\".\n\nBBC's Newsnight has spoken to ex-pupils about their experiences at the school, with one female ex-pupil saying there had been a \"toxic culture around sexual violence\".\n\nShe said it had made it \"quite difficult for a lot of students to speak out about these issues\".\n\nAnother, who left the school last year, said female students were \"treated like rubbish\". \"There is definitely a rape culture,\" she said.\n\nA male pupil, who also left the school last year, said girls had been asked for naked selfies. He said they were aggressively \"hounded for them\" - adding that pupils would buy and sell them.\n\nOn Thursday, pupils at Highgate School walked out of classes following the publication of accounts of alleged abuse.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a dossier of allegations made by more than 200 current and former pupils at Highgate School. The document includes first-hand accounts of alleged abuse as well as claims that rape was \"tolerated\" by staff.\n\nThe anonymous testimonies made in the document were written by pupils in response to the question: \"What is your experience of rape culture at Highgate School?\"\n\nMany include claims of abuse in classrooms or away from school, with one describing how they were raped by one boy, sexually assaulted by two others, \"and sexually harassed by too many to keep count\".\n\n\"I have to walk around school seeing the guy who raped me every single day,\" the testimony read.\n\nMany of the testimonies are anonymous and cannot be verified by the BBC.\n\nAsked about the allegations, Dame Rachel - England's new children's commissioner - said it was \"alarming\". She said: \"It's really distressing, and we get lots of testimony like this.\"\n\nShe said there was \"very clear advice on sexual violence and harassment\" for schools. \"When it is serious it must be escalated to both social care and to the police and schools need to follow that.\"\n\nMaria Miller, a Conservative MP and former chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, said the problem was not unique to independent schools.\n\n\"It's a problem with the way that we're allowing culture to develop in our schools,\" she said. \"And if we hear the testimony of young women from across the country, it will be difficult to simply dismiss it out of hand.\"\n\nDame Rachel de Souza has promised to be a \"fearless\" advocate for children\n\nIn a statement, Highgate School's governing body said it was \"truly sorry\" and had commissioned an immediate external review into the allegations.\n\nIt will be lead by a former High Court judge and ex-Lady Justice of Appeal of England and Wales, Dame Anne Rafferty.\n\n\"We will make public its findings when they are available, and we are committed to taking whatever action is required to achieve the necessary culture change at Highgate,\" the statement said.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said any abuse towards a child was unacceptable and \"school should be a place where all children feel safe and are protected from harm\".\n\nIt said the regulation of independent schools had been strengthened in 2016, adding: \"Where schools do not meet those strict standards, we take strong action quickly.\"\n\nIt comes as numerous other schools and universities have faced similar allegations in recent weeks as a part of an online campaign where users post anonymous testimonies of sexual assault and harassment they had experienced.\n\nMore than 5,600 accounts feature on the Everyone's Invited site.", "Shops in England will be allowed to stay open until 22:00 six days a week when customers return from 12 April, the government has said.\n\nAfter months of coronavirus-related closures, non-essential retailers will be able to apply to trade from 07:00 BST Monday to Saturday.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the move would help businesses to recover and customers to shop safely.\n\nHe said councils will be asked to avoid \"unnecessary restrictions\" on hours.\n\nUnder the road map for easing England's coronavirus restrictions, non-essential shops are permitted to reopen from 12 April at the earliest, providing the government's four tests are met.\n\nShops will be able to extend their opening hours from 07:00 to 22:00 from Monday to Saturday, to help customers avoid peak times and to ease the pressure on transport, according to the Ministry of Local Government.\n\nDominic Curran of the British Retail Consortium said it welcomed the announcement of extended opening hours, as it would allow people to avoid the busier shopping periods.\n\nHe added: \"Retailers have invested hundreds of millions in making their stores Covid-secure, implementing additional hygiene measures, perspex screens, social distancing and more.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said the temporary measures would \"support businesses to reopen and recover\", alongside a £56m \"Welcome Back Fund\" announced by the government last week.\n\nHe said: \"This will provide a much-needed boost for many businesses - protecting jobs, reducing pressure on public transport and supporting people and communities to continue to visit their high streets safely and shop locally.\"\n\nIn a written ministerial statement on Thursday, Mr Jenrick said he would ask local councils to take a \"positive and flexible approach\" to shops wishing to extend their opening hours.\n\nHe said the government acknowledged that longer retail hours could have a \"temporary impact\" on local residents, but this had to be balanced by the \"significant public interest in ensuring there is a safe retail environment when non-essential shops reopen\".\n\nThe government said it would also continue to allow pubs and restaurants to put up marquees to help increase seating capacity in a Covid-secure way.\n\nFlexible working hours on construction sites will also be extended, and food deliveries to supermarkets will be allowed over more time periods, No 10 said.", "More than 100,000 people have now received a second jab\n\nMore than 700,000 people in Northern Ireland have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt means that nearly half the adult population - 703,334 people - has received at least one jab.\n\nOfficial figures showed 104,907 people have now received a second dose.\n\nNo further coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, which means the total number of deaths remains at 2,107.\n\nThe executive has agreed to introduce \"managed isolation\" for those arriving into NI from certain countries once international flights resume.\n\nTravellers from so-called \"red list\" countries will have to quarantine in a pre-booked hotel for 10 days, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said.\n\nPassengers must also complete a pre-departure Covid test and undertake two tests after arrival.\n\nIt comes after the health minister said foreign travel in the summer should be ruled out.\n\nThe red list is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the UK.\n\nMs O'Neill and First Minister Arlene Foster were speaking at a joint press conference in Dungannon, County Tyrone, on Thursday.\n\nThey revealed the 'R' number, which measures how fast the virus is spreading, is now estimated to be between 0.75 and 0.95.\n\nThere are currently no direct international flights arriving in Northern Ireland, but passengers can travel from abroad through Dublin and airports in the UK.\n\nRobin Swann says it is unlikely people will be able to travel abroad this summer\n\nFrom this week, anyone who travels into the Republic of Ireland from from a red list country must now complete a mandatory 14-day quarantine period in a hotel there.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health said people travelling the Republic of Ireland via Northern Ireland who have been in or through a red list country in the previous 14 days must make their own way to a pre-booked quarantine hotel within four hours.\n\nEarlier, Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there were ongoing discussions between the Stormont Executive office, and the governments in Dublin and London to ensure there was alignment in terms of travel arrangements for people flying into airports in the Republic of Ireland and the UK.\n\nDr McBride said co-operation on the issue was \"good\" and progress was being made.\n\nMs O'Neill said there were too many uncertainties to give assurances over travel.\n\n\"It's important that we work across these islands in relation to travel,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\nMrs Foster said it was too soon to be able to say when people would be able to travel abroad, noting the government's global travel taskforce is not due to report until April.\n\nThe taskforce is considering a tiered or traffic light system for international travel.\n\n\"It's perhaps too soon to be booking your holidays, but it is also too soon to be ruling them out,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\nBrian Ambrose, chief executive of Belfast City Airport, said \"ministers and senior civil servants must carefully consider the severe economic consequences of their public comments\".\n\n\"As an airport we would never challenge decisions made by the health minister in relation to the running of the health service,\" he said. \"However, we would expect decisions on international air travel to emanate from the NI Executive, rather than the health minister or an advisor.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride has warned the arrival of new variants in NI can only be delayed, not stopped\n\nThe executive also agreed the limited reopening of Sure Start and Youth Services programmes.\n\nPayments will also be extended under two business support schemes - the Covid Restrictions Business Support Scheme (CRBSS), Part A and Part B, and the Large Hospitality and Tourism Business Support Scheme (LHTBSS) will continue beyond 31 March.\n\nA virologist at Queen's University has also raised concerns about foreign travel in the coming months.\n\nProfessor Ultan Power told Good Morning Ulster that at least 80% of the population of Northern Ireland should have two doses of a coronavirus vaccine before travel to Europe is allowed again.\n\nHe said: \"If we have mass foreign travel we run the risk of picking up new variants that may not be covered by the vaccine and that could being us back to a pretty bad place.\"\n\nHe urged caution, and said it would be a shame if the success of the vaccination rollout in Northern Ireland \"came to naught\" if a vaccine-resistant strain was brought back here because of travel abroad.\n\n\"We can't lose sight of the fact the virus isn't going away\", he added.", "Domestic abuse support groups have warned that women will be unsafe if unregulated refuges are allowed to continue offering accommodation.\n\nOne organisation said \"women could die\" if the practice does not stop.\n\nThey fear the government's Domestic Abuse Bill could see private landlords offering rooms for vulnerable women fleeing violence.\n\nThe government said it was introducing a new legal duty for councils to provide safe accommodation.\n\nThose working in the domestic abuse support sector say the bill - which is going through Parliament - could allow people with no expertise in such cases to compete for funding to provide accommodation.\n\nThis could lead to more victims being placed in unsafe housing, the groups said.\n\nThe word refuge isn't mentioned in the Domestic Abuse Bill, only \"relevant accommodation\". Charities want a definition included for what a specialist refuge service should be, or a set of standards by which providers have to abide.\n\nLucy Hadley from domestic abuse charity Women's Aid said: \"You cannot just set these services up on the cheap, and without the experience and expertise and quality that a specialist woman's refuge, like a Women's Aid member service would have.\n\n\"We're really worried that in those circumstances the actual place, the housing, is unsafe for women and children to be in - but also that they will not see that as a suitable option for them and they may well return to the perpetrator that puts them at further risk of harm.\"\n\nExamples of this include hostels being opened in places with high rates of anti-social behaviour and criminal activity, which the charities say leave women vulnerable to exploitation.\n\nOnline web chats and text services are also available.\n\nFiona Dwyer, chief executive of women's organisation Solace, said: \"We've already seen in one case in Birmingham where a woman was murdered by her perpetrator when they were both living in the same so-called refuge.\"\n\nShe warned unregulated spaces provided by groups with no expertise could be dangerous and that \"more women could die\".\n\nIt comes amid a massive increase in appeals for help over the past year from people suffering domestic abuse, which campaigners have said exposes the scale of the problem.\n\nZara (not her real name) said her former partner \"tried to control everything\"\n\nFor the past few months Zara (not her real name) has been living in a refuge run by Solace in the south of England. She left her violent partner in 2020 after experiencing more than a decade of abuse.\n\n\"He tried to control everything and completely broke me - what I wore, who I spoke to, where I went. He would pull my hair, strangle me and there was sexual violence too: he'd pin me down and rape me.\"\n\nNow she says she finally feels safe - but the refuge does not only provide her with a secure and secret place to live.\n\nStaff there are trained to help women find permanent accommodation as well as how to help with family court issues and applying for benefits. They can provide solicitors and offer counselling too.\n\nRefuges are partly funded by the housing benefit received by the women living there.\n\nCampaigners call the trend of outside organisations offering properties for victims \"rent-farming\". Once they are set up as \"exempt\" accommodation providers, a category of supported housing in which landlords have to provide care or support, they are eligible for higher housing benefit rates.\n\n\"Many of the rent farmers are doing it because they get huge profits… so they're essentially profiting out of really vulnerable people,\" said Ms Dwyer.\n\nJess Phillips, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, said: \"I call it the Wild West because there is literally no regulation to stop any landlord buying up a property today and... whacking that house full of a random selection of vulnerable people... and charging the taxpayer five times more.\"\n\nShe said she tried to get a definition of \"safe accommodation\" included in the bill but the government rejected it.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill covers England and Wales, but the duty on local authorities to provide support and funding for victims of domestic abuse only applies in England. The issues it focuses on are devolved matters for Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nWhen it becomes law, the bill will place a legal duty on councils to fund what it calls \"relevant accommodation\" for victims of domestic abuse and their children.\n\nAnd while Women's Aid welcome this, they say it does not go far enough.\n\n\"The new duty on local authorities to fund support for survivors could be a real step forward in tackling the funding crisis that specialist women's refuges are currently facing,\" said Lucy Hadley.\n\n\"But it doesn't have any expectation about the types of organisation that can deliver this support.\n\n\"It doesn't make clear that they should be women's organisations that have expertise and knowledge and experience in supporting survivors of domestic abuse.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it had provided \"unprecedented support\" throughout the pandemic \"to help the most vulnerable in society\".\n\n\"We are introducing a new legal duty on councils to provide support for domestic abuse victims and their children within safe accommodation, including refuges, and backed by £125m to ensure services are available to all,\" they said.\n\nIn the meantime, Zara said there is no way she could have got her life back on track without the full wrap-around support and services from Solace.\n\n\"I wouldn't have been able to do it,\" she said. \"I had no-one, literally no-one to support me or help me. You can't do it on your own - it's impossible.\"\n\nListen to more on this issue on Newscast on BBC Sounds", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's World Cup 2022 qualifying campaign started with a predictably routine stroll to victory against San Marino at Wembley.\n\nThe side rooted to the bottom of the Fifa world rankings at 210 were never going to be anything other than an easy target for England, even with captain Harry Kane starting on the bench, and so it proved in this one-sided qualifier behind closed doors.\n\nEngland were encamped in San Marino territory for the entire game and the only disappointment for manager Gareth Southgate will be the fact their finishing was very poor.\n\nThey should have inflicted a much heavier loss on their besieged opponents, the highlight being a late goal for Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins on debut after he came on as a substitute.\n\nJames Ward-Prowse's first goal for England, swept in from Ben Chilwell's low cross, gave them the lead after 14 minutes before Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin doubled the advantage seven minutes later with a header from a fine Reece James delivery.\n\nRaheem Sterling, who looked desperate to score from the start, added the third before half-time when his shot was deflected in at the near post and Calvert-Lewin scored his second with a simple finish, laid on by Jesse Lingard, eight minutes after the break.\n\nSouthgate's side lost rhythm after four interval substitutions but Watkins got in on the act with a crisp low finish to mark his first cap with a goal seven minutes from time after he came on for two-goal Calvert-Lewin.\n\nOne San Marino player to emerge with huge credit was goalkeeper Elia Benedettini, who made a string of superb saves from Chilwell, Mason Mount, Lingard and Ward-Prowse as England made the expected winning start to their World Cup qualifying campaign.\n• None Is Euros selection getting tougher for Southgate?\n\nEngland go through the motions\n\nEngland were presented with, statistically, the easiest game in international football and while the points were secured in the expected fashion, the victory margin could and should have been far more emphatic.\n\nThey carved out openings at will, with 32 shots - 15 on target - but the likes of Sterling and Calvert-Lewin could have added to their goals, while Lingard will wonder how he did not find the target.\n\nWard-Prowse will be delighted with his goal while James, who is a serious contender to start at right-back at the Euros, was a constant threat and source of supply in his 45-minute appearance.\n\nCalvert-Lewin's two goals, albeit among a couple of bad misses, will do his confidence good and step up his claims to be Kane's understudy, as he continued his smooth transition to England level.\n\nLingard, who has been so impressive since joining West Ham United on loan from Manchester United, showed Southgate what he could do on his first England appearance since June 2019.\n\nHowever, he will have been bitterly frustrated not to hit the target while John Stones, another recalled, had no defensive work to do but should have scored with a first-half chance which he turned over the bar from six yards.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady was also unemployed defensively but there may just have been an indicator into Southgate's opinion of his leadership qualities when he gave him the captain's armband for the second half.\n\nThis was little more than a confidence-building training exercise with England enjoying 85% possession, almost entirely in the San Marino half.\n\nBurnley's Nick Pope got the nod in goal but he barely touched the ball in the entire game. This was a cap and clean sheet for this talented keeper but nothing else.\n\nIt is arrogant to simply dismiss San Marino and say they should not be playing qualifiers at this level but it is hard to see what England and manager Southgate learned from this one-sided, rather soulless experience against a team who were little more than cannon fodder.\n\nThis was three points and move on to Albania in Tirana on Sunday.\n\nIt was a 'fairy tale' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate speaking to ITV: \"We did it as well as we could. I was really pleased with the way we pressed when we lost the ball - that highlighted the mentality of the team for the full 90 minutes.\n\n\"Of course, it's an opponent we should beat, but I thought they went about the job really well.\n\n\"There were lots of good individual performances, it would be difficult to pick one out.\n\n\"Mason Mount in the first half was excellent and set the tone. It was good to see Jesse Lingard looking like he's enjoying his football again - there were a lot of good things.\"\n\nOn Ollie Watkins: \"The first thing you saw was the reaction from the rest of the team, that shows you how together they are - they know what it means for him. He's settled in really quickly with the group.\n\n\"He's a really humble boy and it was nice to be able to give him half an hour or so. For him to get a goal is a fairy tale isn't it?\"\n• None England have won all seven of their matches against San Marino, by an aggregate score of 42-1.\n• None San Marino have lost 140 of their 143 qualifying matches for the World Cup and European Championships (D3).\n• None England have won their past 19 home matches in qualifying for the World Cup/European Championships, scoring 67 goals and conceding six.\n• None San Marino have only conceded more goals against Belgium (46) than they have in their seven games against England (42).\n• None Raheem Sterling scored his 150th career goal, netting 136 for his two clubs Liverpool and Man City and 14 for England, with 12 of those 14 for the Three Lions coming in his last 14 appearances.\n• None Tonight was Gareth Southgate's 50th match as England manager, winning 30 of his first 50, the same as Roy Hodgson managed. Only Walter Winterbottom and Alf Ramsey have won more of their first 50 games as England boss (33).\n• None Dominic Calvert-Lewin became the first Everton player to score a brace for England since Wayne Rooney in 2004 against Croatia, and the first player with a hyphenated surname to score twice for the Three Lions since William Bromley-Davenport in 1884 against Wales.\n• None England had 22 shots in the first half, three more than San Marino managed in the entirety of their last World Cup qualifying campaign (19).\n• None Ollie Watkins became the first Aston Villa player to score on his England debut since Darius Vassell in February 2002 against the Netherlands.\n• None Mason Mount created eight chances in open play in this game, the most by an England player since Glen Johnson against Andorra in June 2009 (also eight).\n\nEngland travel to Tirana to face Albania in their next Group I fixture on Sunday, 28 March (17:00 BST) before hosting Poland at Wembley on Wednesday, 31 March (19:45 BST).\n• None Tyrone Mings (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, England. Kieran Trippier tries a through ball, but James Ward-Prowse is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristian Brolli (San Marino) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing misses to the right.\n• None Goal! England 5, San Marino 0. Ollie Watkins (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Jude Bellingham (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Jude Bellingham (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Micah Richards joins the boys for a new series\n• None What are the chances?:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says drinkers will not need to prove they have had a vaccine when pubs in England open for outside trade from 12 April\n\nIt may only be possible to introduce a vaccine passports scheme once all adults have been offered a jab, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested.\n\nHe said no decisions had been made but there would be an update on the idea in April. A review will report in June.\n\nThere were \"difficult issues... moral complexities, ethical problems that need to be addressed\", the PM added.\n\nAny passport could also reflect a negative test result as well as whether someone was vaccinated or has immunity.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, MPs voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers in England for another six months, with 484 in favour, and 76 against, giving a majority of 408.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act was introduced in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has recorded another 6,397 new infections and 63 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the government's daily figures.\n\nToday's case numbers are up 94 on last Thursday's figure - but the number of Covid-related deaths has fallen by 32, compared with a week ago.\n\nThe latest vaccination figures show almost 29 million people have now received a first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, publicans have case doubt on a suggestion from Mr Johnson that pub-goers might have to prove their vaccination status when venues reopen.\n\nA government review into the possible use of coronavirus passports or status certificates to allow people to visit pubs and other venues is taking place under the plans to ease England's lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said previous coronavirus infections could be a feature, if the certificates are adopted.\n\n\"There are three basic components. There's the vaccine, there's your immunity you might have had after you've had Covid, and there's testing - they are three things that could work together.\"\n\nHowever he added: \"No decisions have been taken at all. One thing I will make clear is none of this is obviously going to apply on April 12 when it will all be outdoors anyway.\"\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a nursery in west London, Mr Johnson said: \"There are some people who for medical reasons can't get a vaccination, pregnant women can't get a vaccination at the moment, you've got to be careful about how you do this.\n\n\"You might only be able to implement a thorough-going vaccination passport scheme even if you wanted such a thing in the context of when absolutely everybody had been offered a vaccine.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, who is leading the review, told MPs: \"A system that relied purely on vaccination would not be appropriate.\n\n\"What would be right was a system that ensured we could open up our economy to the maximum extent that takes into account both vaccine status but also of recent test status and indeed potentially also antibody status as well,\" he added.\n\nUnder government plans to ease the lockdown in England, pubs will be able to start serving customers indoors - with a size limit applied to groups - from 17 May at the earliest.\n\nThe idea of asking pub-goers to show a so-called vaccine passport or certificate was raised at Wednesday's House of Commons Liaison Committee hearing when Boris Johnson was asked whether they were \"compatible with a free society such as ours\".\n\nMr Johnson said the concept \"should not be totally alien to us\" - pointing out that doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs - although he stressed such a move in future \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nA Downing Street source earlier said the review would include looking at how people's vaccination and testing status could be stored securely and displayed on a mobile phone, and the circumstances under which such a system could apply.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Johnson said \"all sorts of things were being considered\" and it was \"really a bit premature\" to speculate on details about how a possible vaccine passport would apply to pubs.\n\nThe boss of Young's pubs said requiring vaccine passports would be \"unworkable\", while Greene King and the City Pub Group also voiced their opposition to any such measure.\n\nThe chief executive of the Shepherd Neame pub chain said asking pub-goers to show vaccine passports was a \"fairly poorly thought out idea\" he would not be adopting.\n\nJonathan Neame told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's absolutely fine to exclude people where there is a situation of bad behaviour or drunkenness, and that's already enshrined in law.\n\n\"But if you're going to exclude people for what they are, or what they have not done, that's a wholly different issue which does touch on discrimination, civil liberties, and in this case data protection issues.\"\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said the industry was \"very nervous\" about the \"damage\" such a measure could do to it and \"the future of the Great British Pub\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"They're asking us to enforce this at each venue and that's impossible for some of our venues to do - particularly our smaller community pubs in rural locations.\"\n\nHowever, Peter Marks, from nightclub owner Rekom UK, said a vaccine certificate \"could work\" in his industry and would probably be accepted by customers already used to carrying IDs to get into venues. However, he said he was concerned introducing such a measure could delay the reopening of businesses.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Labour was \"happy to look\" at any government proposals for vaccine and testing certification, but he called for clarity for the hospitality industry about how the measures could work in practice.\n\nHe said the hospitality industry had been through \"incredibly difficult times over the last year\", adding: \"And suddenly the prime minister comes along, out of the blue, to say here's a new responsibility you're going to have to deal with, without much clarity.\"\n\nSenior Tory backbencher Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Tory Covid Recovery Group, also expressed concern that businesses would be able to turn away customers \"from communities which have shown an unfortunate hesitancy to take up the offer of a vaccine\".", "Science is winning the race between coronavirus and the vaccine, Pfizer's UK medical director has said.\n\nDr Berkeley Phillips told BBC News NI it was important people were \"allowed to start living again\".\n\nWhile the main threat continues to come from new variants, Pfizer is already designing an updated vaccine that will work, he said.\n\nDr Phillips said \"incredible progress\" had been made in the past year and \"we're winning that race\".\n\n\"If you look at what's happening in the UK there are dramatic reductions in the death rate, dramatic reductions in hospitalisations and in the number of cases,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think we have to start living again.\n\n\"It's obviously down to the governments of the devolved nations to decide exactly the right approaches - science is only one part of the decision making and that's why these decisions are so difficult.\"\n\nDr Phillips said the right balance should be struck between lockdown and unlocking too quickly\n\nWhen asked about the importance of reopening society, Dr Phillips said the right balance should be struck.\n\n\"There are many cancers going undiagnosed and people are going into hospital with suspected heart attacks and strokes and there are so many other conditions,\" he added.\n\n\"It is a balance between lockdown and unlocking too quickly.\"\n\nPfizer UK has been at the heart of vaccine research and trials since the start of the pandemic and is forecast to deliver over two billion vaccines by the end of this year.\n\nAccording to the doctor, a turning point for him and the team based at Surrey, were the pictures of Irishwoman Margaret Keenan, the first person to receive the vaccine on the NHS.\n\n\"It was a momentous moment,\" he said.\n\nGrandmother Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer jab\n\n\"Obviously I knew of 44,000 people who had been given the vaccine as part of the trial, but this was the first person on the NHS.\n\n\"I recall watching it and thinking this is the beginning of the fight back. It has been a war and has been a war against an invisible enemy.\n\n\"That moment when I saw her wearing her Christmas jumper felt like the tables were turning and the fight back against the virus was beginning.\"\n\nHe said he never imagined he would be working on a vaccine that would have such a huge impact on society and the global population.\n\nRecalling the morning when he got the news the vaccine had worked, he said it was an amazing feeling.\n\n\"First the person told me it had worked, then he said it was 95% efficacious which was just unbelievable when we thought it might just be 50% to 60% - so yes it was incredible.\"\n\nPregnant women in the UK are taking part in trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab\n\nPfizer and its partner BioNTech have now launched clinical trials to study the safety and effectiveness of its coronavirus vaccine on pregnant women.\n\nBesides studying levels of protection, researchers will also assess the safety in infants of vaccinated women and whether protective antibodies have been transferred to the infants.\n\nWomen in the UK are part of the trials.\n\n\"We haven't seen any adverse effects which is reassuring but we have a long way to go,\" said Dr Phillips.\n\nAs the global rollout of vaccines continue and demand grows, Pfizer UK said it remained confident that it could honour its global supply commitments.\n\nThe company is \"absolutely committed to keeping all our contractual agreements around the world regarding supply and in terms of the UK we are completely on track for this and the next quarter,\" he added.\n\nWhen asked about its data on blood clots, the doctor said there had not been any signal that blood clots had been happening at any higher incidence than compared to the general population.\n\n\"We have been discussing it with the regulators all around the world and they have not seen anything to be concerned about, so that is very reassuring from our perspective,\" he said.\n\nThe pandemic has focussed minds on the readiness of countries to respond to a global health crisis and the need for public health to be better equipped to cope with a health emergency.\n\nIt is referred to by scientists as \"pandemic preparedness\" - or the ability to be ready.\n\nThe pandemic has shone a spotlight on, among other things, the importance of research and science and how the two can no longer be separated, Dr Phillips said.\n\n\"I think research and science has come to our rescue to defeat this pandemic - they're also important for the health of our nation and its economy.\"\n\nThe medical director, who said he joined Pfizer to help improve people's lives, revealed they were now working on potential antiviral treatments, both intravenous and oral, for dealing with Covid-19.\n\n\"There are many exciting things to come, I am very optimistic about the future,\" he said.", "Hauliers expect to have to take a Covid test when coming to the UK from mainland Europe\n\nA haulage industry source has said they have been told by the government to expect drivers to have to take a Covid test when coming into the UK from mainland Europe.\n\nThe tests are expected to take place on the UK side.\n\nLorry drivers had previously been exempt from testing coming into the UK.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"carefully monitoring\" an increase in cases in Europe and would keep all measures under review.\n\nFour days ago Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a third wave of the pandemic in Europe could \"wash up on the UK's shores.\"\n\nThis week Germany was due to extend its lockdown over Easter due to a third wave of infections, although it soon reversed the decision. France's president Emmanuel Macron said he wanted vaccinations \"morning, noon and night\" after an increase in intensive care cases and hospital admissions.\n\nNow, some in the haulage industry say they've been told to expect that lorry drivers will be required to take a Covid test after travelling from mainland Europe to England.\n\nFrance has stopped mandatory testing for hauliers travelling from the UK to France, a measure that had been in place from December due concerns about a UK variant of the disease.\n\nHauliers travelling from the UK to Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands still require a test.\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"We are carefully monitoring the increase in cases in Europe and will keep all measures under review as we cautiously remove restrictions throughout our roadmap.\"\n\nThe government has been encouraging international hauliers due to be in the UK for more than 48 hours to take a free coronavirus test.\n\nHauliers leaving the UK can also take a free test.\n\nTrade volumes with the continent declined in January due to Covid-19 restrictions and the impact of new arrangements under Brexit.\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that UK goods exported to the European Union fell 40.7% in January, while imports tumbled 28.8%.\n\nNevertheless, the Prime Minister has indicated the government might further tighten restrictions on arrivals from France, including hauliers, to stop new variants of the Covid-19 virus spreading from the rest of Europe.\n\nBritain has banned foreign travel until at least 17 May, except for essential work, education or health reasons. Ministers are due to review that position in April.\n\nQuestioning the PM at the Liaison Committee on Thursday, Labour's Yvette Cooper said every week 20,000 people arrived from France, and two-thirds of them - including lorry drivers - were exempt from those restrictions.", "While Europe faces a shortage of vaccines and governments argue about who gets what, one company in north Wales is producing jabs solely for the UK population.\n\nAlmost all of the UK's AstraZeneca supply comes through here; it's where the vaccine's filled into sterile vials, inspected dozens of times, and sent out for distribution.\n\nThe Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it a \"saviour of humanity\" and it's fair to say the staff inside are feeling immense pressure - and pride - from their role in the vaccination programme.\n\nBBC Breakfast was given world-first access to the production line.", "Martin used to sleep rough under a bridge, but now is in privately-rented accommodation\n\nA scheme to bring all rough sleepers indoors at the start of the pandemic has seen a large disparity in the outcomes of those supported across England, new data has revealed.\n\nIn some areas over 80% of those helped are in longer-term accommodation. In others it is less than 15%.\n\nThe charity Crisis said the government must provide a clear national strategy.\n\nRough sleeping minister Eddie Hughes said many councils were \"doing an exceptional job\".\n\nHe said local authorities were best placed to allocate funding in their area, and that the UK government had provided £4.6bn of support to be spent by them.\n\nMartin, from Shrewsbury, was one of those helped by Everyone In.\n\nHe slept rough in a concrete alcove under a bridge next to the River Severn for a year prior to the pandemic.\n\n\"I used to have a bit of carpet underneath me, and a sleeping bag and a pillow basically. And that's it,\" he said.\n\n\"I never felt so down in my whole life.\"\n\nHe said he had asked his local council for support when he first became homeless, and was told he did not qualify as he was not considered a priority need.\n\nMartin said when he asked for support before the pandemic, he was told he was not eligible\n\nThen on 26 March 2020, the government announced all rough sleepers in England should be brought indoors regardless of their situation. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland had similar schemes.\n\nOver the course of a few days, thousands of vulnerable people were placed in emergency housing.\n\nMartin was given a hotel room - and has since been helped into privately rented accommodation.\n\nHe admits to being \"a bit emotional\" when he first found out he would be living in his new home.\n\n\"It's just opened doors for me. I'm now able to work again,\" he said.\n\nThe stability had also enabled him to become closer to his family and given him a sense of purpose again, he added.\n\nHe said he believed he would still be homeless if it was not for the pandemic.\n\nThe scheme has so far helped around 37,000 people.\n\nBut figures obtained by the BBC through the Freedom of Information Act, from 174 councils that responded, have shown a disparity in the levels of long-term support provided by different local authorities.\n\nAmong the top 20 best-performing councils, on average 82.5% of those helped by the scheme have been moved into supported or settled accommodation.\n\nThis includes social housing, privately rented homes, longer-term placements in hostels and refuges, and self-contained accommodation with support worker visits.\n\nBut in the worst-performing councils, an average of just 13% have had that same outcome.\n\nJasmine Basran, policy manager at Crisis, said the government's decision to end its emergency funding for the scheme in May created a \"lack of clarity\" for councils.\n\nShe said it meant there was no longer the nationwide approach that had proved so successful at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThis led to vulnerable people's housing needs being affected by their local authority's financial situation and individual decision-making as to who remained eligible for support, she added, alongside the availability of social housing.\n\nCrisis said the government must ensure England moved away from \"a postcode lottery approach\".\n\nIt has written an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alongside charities The Trussell Trust and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, calling for a long-term strategy to tackle poverty and destitution.\n\nJasmine Basran from Crisis said the government must lead the way with a clear, national strategy\n\nAccording to the latest government figures, of the 37,000 helped by the Everyone In scheme in England, 11,263 are currently in emergency housing.\n\nPaul, in Oxford, has been in emergency accommodation since the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe said being housed had been a \"blessing\", enabling him to get better support for his medical conditions and ease his mental health problems.\n\n\"The depression began to fall away,\" he said.\n\nBut he now fears that support will run out.\n\nPaul said he was worried about what would happen to him if his emergency accommodation ended\n\nOriginally from Zimbabwe, he has lived in the UK for 21 years. But as he has an immigration status, there is no duty for the council to help him long-term.\n\n\"The uncertainty of not knowing what the future holds means the anxiety is starting to creep back into life,\" he said.\n\n\"[If the scheme ends] it's back to square one, isn't it?\"\n\nMinister Eddie Hughes said councils had always had to make \"difficult decisions\", but the government had been working to help ensure those with an immigration status could access support where eligible.\n\nHe said its Rough Sleeper Accommodation Programme would be providing 3,000 new homes this year, and 6,000 in total.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it plans to ensure all those placed in emergency accommodation during the pandemic are helped into permanent housing.\n\nScotland has said it is \"transforming temporary accommodation by transitioning to rapid rehousing [of homeless individuals] by default\".", "Iain Duncan Smith, Nusrat Ghani and Tom Tugendhat have been banned from entering China\n\nFive UK parliamentarians sanctioned by China have released a joint statement vowing to \"redouble\" their efforts to campaign against human rights abuses.\n\nThree MPs, including ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, and two peers said the action by China was an attempt to stifle \"free and open debate\".\n\nThe PM said he \"stands firmly\" with those targeted by China for criticising its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe sanctions follow similar moves by the UK, US, Canada and the EU on China.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and US president Joe Biden \"expressed their concern about retaliatory action taken by China,\" during a phone call on Friday, Downing Street said.\n\nChina has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens in total - including the five parliamentarians - who are among its most vocal critics in the UK.\n\nIt said it was sanctioning the group for spreading what it called \"lies and disinformation\" about China.\n\nIn response, Sir Iain, along with MPs Nusrat Ghani and Tim Loughton, and the peers Lord Alton and Baroness Kennedy, said: \"Today's sanctions have unmasked the Chinese Communist Party.\n\n\"These actions are not only an attack on us as individuals but an attempt to stifle the free and open debate that is at the heart of our parliamentary democracy.\"\n\nThe group added that \"intimidation\" would only encourage them to \"redouble\" their efforts, as they pledged to continue advocating on behalf of \"the Uighurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers and all other persecuted groups in China\".\n\n\"These are the true victims of the Chinese government's authoritarian rule, not us,\" they added.\n\nIn common with the government, the group also called for \"international investigations into the alleged abuses\" in Xingjian against the Uighur people.\n\nBritain's relations with China are going from bad to worse.\n\nOn Monday, the UK imposed its first ever sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.\n\nNow Beijing has retaliated, announcing sanctions on some of its most vocal critics in Britain.\n\nIt matters because the government is trying to strike a balance in its relations with Beijing.\n\nIn its recent foreign policy review, the UK described China as a \"systemic competitor\" and \"the biggest state-based threat to the UK's economic security\".\n\nBut it also spoke of pursuing \"a positive trade and investment relationship\" and co-operating with China on climate change and biodiversity. All that just became a little harder still.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the Foreign Office (FCDO) said the minister for Asia, Nigel Adams, had summoned Yang Xiaoguang, the Chinese embassy in London's chargé d'affaires, over Beijing's actions.\n\nAn FCDO spokesperson said Mr Adams had made it clear that China's decision to impose sanctions on Britons and UK entities was \"unwarranted and unacceptable\".\n\nMr Adams also noted that China's decision to target those \"seeking to shine a light on human rights violations\" would \"not distract attention away from those very violations taking place in Xinjiang\".\n\nEarlier Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that the British citizens facing sanctions were \"performing a vital role\" in highlighting the treatment of Uighur Muslims, adding: \"Freedom to speak out in opposition to abuse is fundamental and I stand firmly with them.\"\n\nMore than a million Uighurs and other minorities are estimated to have been detained at camps in the north-west region of Xinjiang, where allegations of torture, forced labour and sexual abuse have emerged.\n\nUighurs living in the region speak their own language, similar to Turkish, and see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations.\n\nThe Chinese government has been accused of carrying out forced sterilisations on Uighur women and separating children from their families.\n\nIt has denied the allegations of abuse and claimed the camps are \"re-education\" facilities used to combat terrorism.\n\nSanctions were imposed on Chinese officials on Monday, as part of a co-ordinated action by the European Union and the UK, the US and Canada.\n\nAfter UK sanctions were announced on Monday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the abuse of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang \"one of the worst human rights crises of our time\".\n\nMr Raab also said that if Beijing wanted to \"credibly rebut\" the claims, it should allow the United Nation's commissioner for human rights to access Xinjiang.\n\nThey will all be banned from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau, their property in China will be frozen and Chinese citizens and institutions will be prohibited from doing business with them.\n\nMs Ghani said the move had made her \"even even more determined\" to speak out about the Uighurs, while Sir Iain argued that those who lived free lives \"must speak for those who have no voice\".\n\nMr Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, told the BBC: \"I view this as a direct assault on British democracy and an attempt to silence the British people who have chosen me to speak for them.\"\n\nHe added that the government had been too soft on China, which he said had been \"constantly and continuously seeking to intervene\" in the internal matters of the UK.\n\nAcademic Dr Smith Finley tweeted: \"I have no regrets for speaking out, and I will not be silenced.\"\n\nChina has created a sprawling network of detention camps for minorities in the Xinjiang region\n\nFour groups have also been sanctioned - the China Research Group, the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, the Uighur Tribunal, and Essex Court Chambers.\n\nA legal opinion by senior barristers at Essex Court Chambers had concluded there was a \"very credible case\" that the Chinese government was committing genocide against the Uighurs.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the sanctions were a \"direct attempt to silence those who criticise the actions of the Chinese government\".\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the UK's decision to impose sanctions \"flagrantly breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations, grossly interferes in China's internal affairs, and severely undermines China-UK relations\".\n\nHe added that the Chinese foreign ministry had summoned the British Ambassador to China to \"lodge solemn representations, expressing firm opposition and strong condemnation\".\n\nHua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, later told a press briefing China was forced to act \"in self-defence\" in response to UK sanctions \"based on lies\".", "MPs have voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers for another six months.\n\nThey backed the health secretary's call to renew \"essential\" emergency rules to deal with the pandemic as England moves out of lockdown.\n\nBut some Conservatives voted against the measures saying they were \"out of step\" with the roadmap for lifting restrictions.\n\nMinisters say the powers will stay in place \"only as long as necessary\".\n\nThe Coronavirus Act came in to force in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic with ministers pledging to use the measures \"when strictly necessary\".\n\nThe law gave the government wide-ranging powers unlike others seen before - from shutting down pubs, through to detaining individuals deemed at risk as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nMPs voted by 484 to 76 to extend it - 36 Conservative MPs rebelled, by opposing the legislation. Twenty-one Labour MPs also voted against it.\n\nMPs agreed to extend it until the end of September as well as voting on England's roadmap out of lockdown and the continuation of virtual proceedings in the Commons.\n\nOpening the debate ahead of the vote, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the legislation had been a \"crucial part\" of the government's response to coronavirus, enabling ministers to bring forward measures such as furlough and statutory sick pay for those self-isolating.\n\nBut he said 12 provisions in the legislation were no longer needed because of progress that had been made in dealing with the virus.\n\nMatt Hancock told MPs powers would only be retained \"as long as the are necessary\"\n\nThese include easing some responsibilities on the social care sector, laws governing the retention of biometric data for health and security purposes, and obligations on businesses that work in the food supply chain.\n\nMr Hancock acknowledged some people were concerned about the powers contained in the act.\n\nHe said: \"Although this act remains essential and there are elements of it which we are seeking the renewal of, we have always said we will only retain powers as long as they are necessary.\"\n\nBut the chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he would vote against because \"it is important we make the case for a return to normality and trusting people with their own lives\".\n\nHe said: \"These powers were given by Parliament to government last March as a very temporary set of extreme emergency measures. Nobody then envisaged that they would still be in place a year later, still be in use 18 months on.\n\n\"I think we need to be very cautious about the dangers of normalising what is actually a very extreme policy response.\"\n\nThe deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of lockdown sceptics, Conservative Steve Baker, said the vote was a \"rare opportunity\" for MPs to \"say no to a new way of life in a checkpoint society\".\n\nHe said he was reassured by the prime minister's comment at the Liaison Committee on Wednesday that \"anything that is redundant will go\".\n\nTonight's rebellion by 35 Conservatives won't trouble Boris Johnson - overall MPs backed the renewal of sweeping powers to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMany of the Tories who voted against the government have been persistent critics of its approach to restrictions and lockdowns.\n\nFor them, it's about trust.\n\nReassurances from ministers about powers only being used when necessary in extreme circumstances don't cut it.\n\nThere is deep unease about the scope of these powers and the very fact they are available to the government, even if they're not being used.\n\nBut the pandemic has changed expectations of what governments can and should do in extreme circumstances. Freedoms considered sacrosanct have been suspended in the spirit of saving lives.\n\nThe public may have been willing to largely comply, but there are at least a few dozen MPs willing to argue the price society has paid has been too high.\n\nLabour backed the extension of the emergency powers but said its support was not offered \"with any enthusiasm\".\n\nThe shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said: \"Given the loss of life we have suffered and given the risks of mutations that could set us back, we must have zero tolerance to letting the virus rage unchecked.\n\n\"For that reason we do accept that restrictions have to stay in place and for that reason we support the renewal of the act and the public health regulations.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also voted against the measures.\n\nOne of its MPs, Tim Farron, said the powers were \"an over-reach\" that the government \"does not need\" and he described them as a \"default knee-jerk attempt to seek draconian powers\" that he said \"fit in to a pattern\" of eroding civil liberties.\n\nA government review into the possible use of coronavirus passports or status certificates to allow people to visit pubs and other venues is taking place under the plans to ease England's lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister said there would be an update on the idea in April, and a review will report in June.\n\nThe leader of the Covid Recovery Group, Conservative Mark Harper, said the idea of vaccine certificates to enter pubs was \"unconscionable\" and raised \"practical, moral and ethical issues\".\n\n\"We've asked young people to do a lot over the last year and I think the least we can do is to get the economy open, so that their futures are not damaged any further,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to west London, the prime minister rejected suggestions he was no longer concerned about protecting individual freedoms.\n\nHe said: \"The libertarian in me is also trying to protect individual's fundamental right to life and their ability to live their lives normally and the only way really to restore that for everybody, is for us to beat the disease.\n\n\"The best path to freedom is down the cautious but irreversible roadmap that we've set out. That's what the freedom lover wants.\"", "Nichola Murphy is a former PSNI head of firearms and explosives\n\nThe PSNI's former head of firearms and explosives singled out a member of staff because of his trade union activities, a tribunal has ruled.\n\nIt awarded claimant Gavin Walsh £3,000 for injury to feelings after finding Nichola Murphy had made \"unfounded allegations\" about his integrity.\n\n\"We believe Ms Murphy was motivated by a desire to undermine the claimant in his Nipsa role,\" said panel members.\n\n\"He had been a thorn in her side for some months.\"\n\nThe tribunal panel heard the relationship between Ms Murphy and Mr Walsh became fractious and confrontational as a result of unrest and discontent within the PSNI's firearms branch.\n\nMr Walsh had tried to resolve the issues, but this was not to the liking of senior PSNI management, including Nichola Murphy, the tribunal panel was told.\n\nThe situation escalated when the claimant - who had worked for the police for more than 30 years - made an application to have his firearms certificate conditions varied.\n\nMs Murphy mistakenly alleged he had jumped the applications' queue by using his Nipsa union role within the firearms branch to obtain preferential treatment for his application, said the tribunal.\n\nIt said the allegations in an email she sent to Mr Walsh's Nipsa colleague were \"damaging and defamatory\".\n\nHowever, when Ms Murphy later discovered he had not sought to jump the queue, she failed to tell his Nipsa colleague.\n\nThis showed \"Ms Murphy had no regard for the damage she could have caused to the claimant's reputation\", said the panel.\n\nIt also questioned why another person within the firearms branch had specifically picked out Mr Walsh's application from thousands of others, and brought it to Ms Murphy's attention.\n\nThe tribunal members said it was not credible that Ms Murphy could not remember which staff member had made her aware of the application form.\n\n\"As the respondent accepted, there were thousands of applications in the process and it seems more than unfortunate that the claimant's claim form was the one singled out for scrutiny in this way,\" said the panel.\n\nThey described Ms Murphy's actions as \"completely inappropriate\".\n\n\"We believe that this action was only taken because the claimant is a trade union representative and its sole or main purpose was to penalise the claimant for being such a representative,\" they said.\n\nAfter a direct request from Ms Murphy to Nipsa, a union colleague took on Mr Walsh's trade union duties in the firearms branch, leaving him with less involvement there.\n\n\"We believe that Ms Murphy was motivated by a desire to undermine the claimant in his Nipsa role,\" said the panel members.\n\n\"He had been a thorn in her side for some months and this was an opportunity to discredit him in his role.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond says his new party wants to build \"a supermajority for independence\"\n\nFormer SNP leader Alex Salmond has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will contest the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nThe former first minister said he would be among the candidates who will stand for the Alba Party on regional lists.\n\nMr Salmond said the aim was to build \"a supermajority for independence\" at Holyrood after the election in May.\n\nOther parties described Mr Salmond as \"discredited\" and questioned his suitability for public office.\n\nThe announcement came at the end of a dramatic week at Holyrood.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Salmond said he would take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.\n\nA report by MSPs on Tuesday described the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond as \"seriously flawed\".\n\nThe previous day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.\n\nAlex Salmond is no stranger to making a political comeback - he was twice elected leader of the SNP and served for two separate spells as an MSP.\n\nOn the day he stood down from Holyrood for the second time, he told me he would consider returning if Scotland became independent.\n\nFive years later, he's decided to attempt a comeback anyway - on the basis that the SNP and Greens need his help to make independence happen.\n\nThe SNP has questioned the appropriateness of his return to public life given the controversy over his personal conduct in recent years.\n\nWhen I asked him today if he owed an apology to any or all of the women who have complained about his behaviour, Mr Salmond said he accepted the outcomes of the two court cases and three inquiries and wanted to move on.\n\nMr Salmond was acquitted of all charges in a criminal trial and successfully challenged the Scottish government's process for handling harassment complaints against him in the civil court.\n\nThat his reputation has suffered damage along the way would come as no surprise. But it will now be for voters to decide whether or not they want one of the biggest figures in modern Scottish politics back in the frontline.\n\nMr Salmond said that under his leadership, the Alba Party was seeking to \"build a supermajority for independence in the Scottish parliament\".\n\n\"The party's strategic aims are clear and unambiguous - to achieve a successful, socially just and environmentally responsible independent country,\" he said.\n\n\"We intend to contribute policy ideas to assist Scotland's economic recovery and to help build an independence platform to face the new political realities.\"\n\nIt plans to field at least four candidates on the regional lists in every part of the country.\n\nPeople have two votes in Holyrood elections - one for a constituency MSP, and another in a regional ballot designed to make the overall result more proportional.\n\nMr Salmond claimed that if Alba won regional list seats, this could lead to there being 90 or more MSPs at Holyrood who support independence.\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Scottish Parliament have? MSPs pass laws on most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes and welfare benefits. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible, so long as they are aged 16 or over on the day of the election. You can register to vote online.\n\nHe said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has already dismissed the SNP's request for a second independence referendum, would \"find it much more difficult to say no to a parliament and a country.\"\n\nThe SNP said there were \"real questions\" about Mr Salmond's suitability to return to public office.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This is perhaps the most predictable development in Scottish politics for quite some time.\n\n\"At this time of crisis, the interests of the country must come first and should not be obscured by the self interest of someone who shows no sign whatsoever of reflecting on serious concerns about his own conduct.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"Alex Salmond is a discredited figure who admitted appalling behaviour towards women during his time as SNP first minister and right-thinking people will want nothing to do with him or his new party.\"\n\nHe added that his party would do \"everything possible\" to block another independence referendum and \"ensure the Scottish Parliament works towards rebuilding and recovery after the pandemic\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the people of Scotland deserved more than \"score settling\" and \"old politics\".\n\nHe said: \"We are still in the midst of a pandemic. Lives and livelihoods are still at risk.\n\n\"This election must be about our national recovery and the people of Scotland's priorities, not the old arguments between personalities who believe their interest matters more than the national interest.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats chair Alistair Carmichael MP said the move was evidence of a feuding within the Nationalist movement.\n\nHe said: \"There are no questions about Scotland's future to which Alex Salmond is the answer.\n\n\"This astonishing announcement shows just how divided the SNP are. A few years ago no one could have imagined that the former first minister and his protege would be at one another's throats.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens' Ross Greer told the BBC News Channel: \"This is the very public meltdown of a thoroughly disgraced individual.\"\n\nHe said the election should be about the future and described Mr Salmond as \"a man from Scotland's past who is obsessively pursuing personal vendettas\".\n\n\"Alex Salmond is less popular in Scotland than Boris Johnson. I'm quite sure that very quickly after today we can go back to ignoring what is a very sad sideshow.\"\n\nIn 2019, the Scottish government admitted it had acted unlawfully while investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond, which he strongly denied.\n\nThe following year he was acquitted of all 13 charges of sexual assault after a trial at the High Court.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Salmond said that in hindsight he wished he had been \"more careful with people's personal space\".\n\nHis defence lawyer, Gordon Jackson, told the court Mr Salmond had not always behaved well and could have been \"a better man on occasions\" - but had never sexually assaulted anyone.", "More than 230 ships are waiting to enter the Suez Canal, through which all navigation has been suspended\n\nThe blockage of Egypt's Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing a \"traffic jam\" in the Red Sea, according to a merchant seaman on a nearby ship.\n\nJoe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk Ohio, told the BBC the number of vessels waiting at the canal's southern entrance was \"growing exponentially\".\n\n\"It's going to affect shipping schedules around the world,\" he warned.\n\nTugboats and dredgers are trying to dislodge the Ever Given, which is wedged diagonally across the waterway.\n\nThe 400m-long (1,300ft), 200,000-tonne vessel ran aground on Tuesday morning amid high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.\n\nSpecialist salvage companies have been brought in to help refloat the ship, and an adviser to Egypt's president has said he hopes the situation will be resolved within two to three days. But experts have said it could take weeks if the vessel's containers need to be removed.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the 193km (120-mile) canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nAn alternative route, around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, can take two weeks longer.\n\nMr Reynolds told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Maersk Ohio, a US-flagged container ship that is 292m long and weighs 50,000 tonnes, was \"stacked up\" alongside dozens of other vessels near Port Suez.\n\n\"I think you can imagine there was a queue of ships waiting to go through to begin with, and now that queue has just grown exponentially,\" he said. \"Standing outside, as you look, everywhere around you is ships.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A salvage company, working to free the Ever Given, says the operation could take weeks\n\nHe said there was still a lot of work to be done on board his ship, and that he and his fellow crewmembers had not yet had a chance to communicate with the other vessels.\n\n\"It's just a long waiting game. There's not a lot to see... We are ships sitting at anchor, just waiting as if you were in a traffic jam on the M5,\" he added, referring to a British motorway.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "David Anderson's company got a contract managing health and safety work when a flyover was demolished\n\nLiverpool City Council awarded a contract to a firm run by a son of then-mayor Joe Anderson, despite it not being on an approved contractors' list.\n\nA government-commissioned report has revealed Safety Support Consultants (SSC) got the deal managing safety work when a flyover was demolished.\n\nSSC chief executive David Anderson said he was considering defamation action in relation to the report's claims.\n\nThe government is appointing officials to oversee parts of the council.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick announced the decision on Wednesday, saying a \"serious breakdown of governance\" compelled him to act.\n\nHe told Parliament a \"Best Value inspection\" of the council had found \"multiple apparent failures\" and said he was proposing to appoint commissioners to run some aspects of the council.\n\nInspector Max Caller raised questions about why and how a 2019 contract came to be awarded to SSC, which in addition to not being on the approved contractors list had never before worked directly for the council, according to the report.\n\nMr Caller's report also said the mayor's \"myopic view that suppliers of services must have a Liverpool postcode... demonstrates, at best, a lack of understanding... and at worst, an attempt to stifle healthy competition in tender processes\".\n\nOf the awarding of the Churchill Way flyover project contract to SSC, the report said this \"exposed the site teams to considerable Health and Safety risk\".\n\n\"It also increased the commercial risk to the council of budget over run and additional compensation event claims,\" it added.\n\nJoe Anderson was elected as Liverpool mayor in 2012\n\nThe council has been under scrutiny since police began investigating building and development contracts.\n\nMr Jenrick sent in inspectors following allegations of fraud, bribery, corruption, misconduct in public office and witness intimidation at the authority.\n\nDavid Anderson was one of the five men - including his father Joe Anderson and Liverpool's former deputy leader Derek Hatton - arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nNo charges have been brought and all deny wrongdoing as the police investigation continues.\n\nReferring to the report's findings, David Anderson described the allegations as \"false accusations which are slanderous, unfounded, biased, tactical and politically motivated\".\n\n\"I refute strongly the claims made regarding the experience, payments, contract and work facilitated by SSC on the dismantling of the Churchill Way Flyovers for Amey plc,\" he added.\n\n\"The report regarding SSC is factually incorrect and damaging to the company. SSC was not invited to assist Max Caller in the preparation of the report or respond to the accusations made.\n\n\"I am seeking legal advice on defamation and will not be making any further comments regarding this matter at this stage. Evidence held by my legal team refutes the claims made.\"\n\nThe government appointed an inspector to scrutinise Liverpool City Council in December\n\nJoe Anderson, who stepped aside as mayor in December after being arrested, has questioned why the government was taking action against the council.\n\nHe said the reality of the situation \"does not reflect the dramatic success that we have generated over the last 11 years. With success brings jealousy\".\n\nMr Caller's report also found many people described the atmosphere in the council's regeneration department as \"intimidating\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Jenrick dated 19 March, the inspector wrote: \"It would be my normal practice to include in the report a complete list of people to whom we spoke or received documentation from.\n\n\"However, the number of individuals who spoke to us as 'whistle-blowers' or who did not want to be identified, because of concerns about their safety, but who provided information that could be separately verified meant that I concluded that it was safer to not include this information at all.\"\n\nMr Jenrick is proposing to appoint the commissioners for a minimum of three years.\n\nHe said it was only the fifth time a \"statutory intervention\" had happened in England, as the move was regarded as a \"last resort\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A salvage company, working to free the Ever Given, says the operation could take weeks\n\nThe stranded Ever Given mega-container ship in the Suez Canal is holding up an estimated $9.6bn (£7bn) of goods each day, according to shipping data.\n\nThis works out at $400m an hour in trade along the waterway which is a vital passageway between east and west.\n\nData from shipping expert Lloyd's List values the canal's westbound traffic at roughly $5.1bn a day, and eastbound daily traffic at around $4.5bn.\n\nDespite efforts to free the ship, it could take weeks to remove experts say.\n\nThe Ever Given, operated by the Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine, is the length of four football pitches and one of the world's biggest container vessels. The 200,000-tonne ship is capable of carrying 20,000 containers.\n\nIts blockage is causing huge tailbacks of other ships trying to pass through the Suez Canal.\n\nThe canal, which separates Africa from the Middle East and Asia, is one of the busiest trade routes in the world, with about 12% of total global trade moving through it.\n\nAccording to Lloyd's List tracking data there are more than 160 vessels waiting at either end of the canal. These include 41 bulk carriers and 24 crude tankers.\n\nAlong with oil, the sea traffic is largely consumer products such as clothing, furniture, manufacturing components and car parts.\n\n\"We're hearing reports now that shipping companies are starting to divert their ships around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, which adds about 3,500 miles to the journey and up to 12 days,\" Guy Platten, the secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nHe said the ship appeared to be \"hard fast aground\", adding that freeing the vessel from the bank was taking much longer and was more complicated than had been initially expected.\n\nMr Platten added there would be \"some major real-world effects on the supply chain\", explaining that consumers would would ultimately bear the cost.\n\nThe Ever Given had been scheduled to arrive in the port of Felixstowe in early April.\n\nContainer ships have nearly doubled in size in the past decade as global trade expands, making the job of moving them much harder when they get stuck.\n\n\"What are we thinking? Have vessels gotten too large? Containers being jettisoned overboard, delayed transits due to terminal congestion and let us not forget the long line of vessels at many ports waiting for a berth,\" said Jon Monroe, who runs his own ocean transportation consultancy.\n\nWork continues on freeing the Ever Given mega-container ship.\n\nBIMCO, an international shipping association, says the delays will only continue to grow and affect supplies.\n\n\"For each day of delay my thought is it will take two days to undo the delays,\" said Alan Baer, president of logistics provider OL USA.\n\n\"Right now three days creates six days of ongoing delays. I'm not sure this is a perfect formula, but it will be close,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIn addition to delaying thousands of containers loaded with consumer items, the stranded ship has also tied up empty containers which are needed for exports.\n\nIf the delays are short, most companies will absorb the extra delay in transit times. But salvage officials said the congestion could last days or even weeks, in a blow to global supply chains already strained by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSome companies will be considering flying replacement merchandise for higher value products, or transporting them via trains.\n\nTwo major shipping companies, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, said they are looking into options to avoid the Suez Canal.\n\nEgypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was doing all it could to refloat the ship with tug boats, dredgers and heavy earth-moving equipment.\n\nKitack Lim, secretary general of the International Maritime Organisation, said: \" I am aware of the implications of the temporary closure of the canal, and I ask for patience from stakeholders across the supply chain as everyone works to ensure that the ship, its crew, its cargo and the environment remain protected.\"", "Soma Sara set up the Everyone's Invited website to highlight victims' stories of sexual abuse\n\nAllegations of sexual assault at London schools are being investigated by police, after being highlighted by an online campaign.\n\nThe website \"Everyone's Invited\" asked victims to post anonymous accounts of abuse they had suffered, and has now received more than 5,000 testimonies.\n\nThe Met Police said it has been \"reviewing the content\" of the site and contacted schools it could identify.\n\nThe testimonies include accounts from victims as young as nine.\n\nThe Met's lead for rape and sexual offences, Det Supt Mel Laremore, said: \"It is deeply concerning to see the number of accounts published on this website, many of which appear to relate to previous or current experiences within educational settings in London and across the country.\n\n\"We take all allegations of sexual assault very seriously. We understand the complex and varied reasons why many victim-survivors do not contact law enforcement, but I want to personally reassure anyone who needs our help that we are absolutely here for you.\"\n\nPeople who were abused years ago should still come forward and report the incidents, Det Supt Laremore said.\n\nIn June 2020, Soma Sara, who is now 22, shared her experience on Instagram of what she calls \"rape culture\".\n\nWithin a week she had received and shared more than 300 anonymous responses of people with stories of \"misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault\".\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website now carries thousands of victims' testimonies, often from schools and universities.\n\nExperiences range from being drugged and raped at parties to explicit images being shared over messaging platforms.\n\nThis week, pupils at Highgate School in North London walked out of classes in protest at a perceived \"rape culture\".\n\nOne male ex-pupil told BBC Newsnight that girls were \"hounded\" for naked selfies at the school. The school's governing body said it was \"truly sorry\" and had commissioned an external review.\n\nOther private schools in London have reportedly passed allegations of sexual abuse onto police.\n\nMs Soma, the founder of the site, told the BBC this month: \"The testimonies [on the site] expose rape culture and the scale of sexual violence amongst young people in the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The event was held last March, despite concerns about the emergence of the pandemic\n\nThe world's biggest dog show, Crufts, has been cancelled due to \"ongoing uncertainty\" around the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe event was due to take place in July having already been moved from its usual March slot.\n\nLast year, the show at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) went ahead at the beginning of March, despite concerns about coronavirus.\n\nThe show has been rescheduled for March 2022.\n\nDiscussions on how to try and make the rearranged July event Covid-secure have been ongoing for months, The Kennel Club statement said.\n\nA survey commissioned by The Kennel Club found 63% of people did not feel comfortable or were unsure about attending an inside event in the near future.\n\n\"We are very disappointed that we have had to cancel Crufts for the first time since 1954, in what would have been its 130th anniversary year, and it is a decision we have not taken lightly,\" Tom Mather, Crufts chairman, said.\n\n\"We have tried desperately hard to make this year's show happen, including the decision we took last November to postpone the event to July. However, of course this was before we were hit by the devastating second wave of the pandemic.\"\n\nMr Mather said following the the emergence of a \"third wave of coronavirus in Europe\", it would have meant overseas judges and exhibitors would not be able to attend.\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming everyone back to Crufts next year in its full glory from 10 - 13 March 2022,\" the statement concluded.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Alexander Price says the issues he raised in his blogs were in the public interest\n\nA teacher who was struck off after mocking pupils for \"dressing like Eastern European prostitutes and Kardashian clones\" has defended himself and said he has \"no regrets\".\n\nAlexander Price, 43, was found guilty of professional misconduct for his anonymous blog about the annual prom at Denbigh High School in north Wales.\n\nMr Price will not be allowed to work as a teacher for two years.\n\nDenbighshire council has been asked to comment.\n\nMr Price told BBC Wales he did not think he should apologise for his remarks.\n\nThe comments had offended parents, pupils and staff, his professional misconduct hearing was told.\n\nThe \"Provoked Pedagogue\" blog, which Mr Price wrote for 18 months, also claimed pupils snorted cocaine at the school prom, which he said was more important to both pupils and the school than education and exam results.\n\nIn one blog post, pupils were mocked for having fake tans and being overweight\n\nBut speaking after he was struck off, Mr Price said his blog was satirical and he had never intended to offend anyone.\n\nHe also said he took it down and offered his resignation as soon as he was suspected of being its author, but maintained he should not have been struck off.\n\n\"The second I believed that the school might have an indication [I was the author], I took the blog down because it was never my intention to cause offence,\" he said.\n\n\"Paradoxically, it was the school that ended up putting the material in the public sphere,\" he said.\n\n\"If they had just let me resign, as I offered to, then the matters would never have reached the public sphere.\"\n\nAlexander Price likened the way some pupils dressed to the Kardashian sisters\n\nAsked if his comments had been wise, Mr Price said: \"Absolutely it's wise.\n\n\"If children taking drugs and dressing in ways that are sexually inappropriate for their age is not in the public interest, then I don't know what is.\"\n\nIn its decision, the misconduct panel's chairman Steve Powell said it was \"particularly concerning\" Mr Price had focussed on \"families from poor backgrounds in an unnecessary and unwarranted way\".\n\nBut Mr Price said his intention had been to highlight how poorer pupils were being let down.\n\n\"Why are we teaching them that these values are more important than the opportunity for education?\" he asked.\n\n\"And why is the school putting importance on that prom event, more importance than it is on their educational achievement?\n\n\"If children are going to work their way out of poverty one of the key ways to do that is through education.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you read the blog in its entirety, it makes the absolute opposite points that they claim it does.\"\n\nMr Price said the tribunal and school had \"cherry-picked\" comments to make the case against him.\n\nAsked if he thought he should apologise, he replied \"absolutely not\", adding he had \"no regrets\".\n\nMr Price can apply to be restored to the teaching register in two years, but he said he has no intention of trying to return to the teaching profession.", "The owner of Liberty Steel has asked the government for £170m in financial support.\n\nIn a letter sent to the Department of Business last night, Sanjeev Gupta said the support was required to pay day-to-day operating expenses and absorb recent losses.\n\nConcerns over the future of Liberty Steel have grown after key financial backer, Greensill Capital, went bust.\n\nLiberty Steel employs about 5,000 people in the UK.\n\n\"The collapse of Greensill has put financial pressure on the GFG Alliance and our British steel operations,\" Mr Gupta writes in the letter.\n\n\"We are still refining the details with my management team and our external advisors, but preliminary indications are that the steel manufacturing and processing operations would need in the range of £170m to fund working capital and some additional capital to fund operating losses in the short term, which we are in the process of finalising.\"\n\nSanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance employs a total of 5,000 people in the UK - 3,000 of them in steel and aluminium businesses across 12 UK sites.\n\nThere have been grave concerns for the future of Liberty Steel since its main financial backer Greensill Capital went bust in early March.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC they have not yet responded and have concerns about the \"opaque\" nature of Mr Gupta's empire.\n\nGFG employs 35,000 worldwide and given its international footprint the government would certainly need assurances any support would not find its way abroad.\n\nMr Gupta said he envisaged the support \"could be structured in a way that works to ensure value for money and appropriate protections for the taxpayer\".\n\nGovernment sources also indicated that it was unlikely government support would be offered to the company with its current structure and management - with any assistance likely to come after an administration process.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said: \"The government is closely monitoring developments around Liberty Steel and continues to engage closely with the company, the broader UK steel industry and trade unions.\"\n\nBoth the Business Secretary and the Prime Minister have pledged in recent days to look at all options to ensure the business survives.", "Coronavirus infection levels in secondary school-age children have risen slightly in England, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nTests carried out during the second week back at school, ending 20 March, found an increase in 11-16 year olds.\n\nBut infections fell in older teenagers and young people, the ONS estimates.\n\nOverall, the percentage of people testing positive has levelled off in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and risen in Scotland.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported another 6,187 confirmed cases - an increase of 1,385 on last Friday's figure, but a decrease of 210 from Thursday.\n\nAnother 70 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were also reported - a decrease of 31 from last week, but an increase of seven from Thursday.\n\nAccording to the ONS analysis, which tests a random sample of adults and children in the community, infections remain at a low level after falling steeply since January.\n\nIt estimates that in the week up to 20 March:\n\nAt the height of the winter peak, the percentage testing positive was around 2% in most of the UK.\n\nThis week's figures from the ONS also reflect the effect of schools re-opening in England on 8 March on infection levels, which were always expected to rise when children, staff and parents started mixing again in large numbers.\n\nThe findings show a slight rise in children testing positive in years 7-11, from 0.31% the previous week to 0.43% this week.\n\nHowever, in primary schools the trend among younger children is less certain and much flatter, and in children in year 12 and upwards, the ONS estimates that infections fell.\n\nYoung people in their 20s and 30s also saw infections fall during that week.\n\nSchools in Scotland opened to the youngest pupils at the end of February and ONS data has already suggested infections could be gradually rising there. Schools in Wales opened to some children on 22 February.\n\nBut identifying more infections in schools, which is possible through regular rapid testing, does not automatically mean there will be more cases and more serious illness across all age groups - because of the Covid vaccination programme.\n\nMore than half of the UK's adult population has now had one dose of a vaccine, which 'real-world' studies have shown to offer high levels of protection against Covid-19.\n\nAs a result, deaths as well as hospital admissions with Covid have fallen sharply, and particularly in older age groups which were vaccinated first. Millions of under-50s are yet to be offered a jab, however.\n\nProf James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, at the University of Oxford, said caution was still needed.\n\n\"Even in a full-blown third wave, the number of hospitalisation and deaths for every thousand people who become infected would be much lower because of vaccination.\n\n\"However, no one who has not been vaccinated is entirely safe from serious illness and a large wave of infection in young people will lead to hospitalisations,\" he said.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, said infections levelling off was \"inevitable\" as the country relaxes restrictions after lockdown.\n\n\"This is why the roadmap is taking a cautious approach - leaving gaps between each relaxation so that the impact on infections can be carefully monitored,\" he said.\n\nThe R number is now between 0.7 and 0.9, narrowing slightly from last week's estimate, but still below 1 in most regions. However, the government says the figure does not yet fully reflect the re-opening of schools in England.\n\nSarah Crofts, senior statistician for the ONS's Covid-19 Infection Survey, said their study found different trends in infections across regions.\n\n\"The North West saw an increase in the percentage of people testing positive while in the South East and East of England it decreased. There were slower decreases in London, West Midlands and the South West.\"\n\nShe said the ONS would continue to closely monitor infections by age group.", "Police have cleared protesters out of Bristol city centre after a third mass gathering in a week.\n\nHundreds of people had marched in opposition to the government's Police and Crime Bill before stopping close to Bridewell Police Station, the scene of disorder on Sunday.\n\nAfter a stand-off, police in riot gear began dispersing the protesters just after 22:10 GMT.\n\nMounted officers and dog units were used as the crowds were driven back.\n\nPolice pushed protesters out of the city centre\n\nSome protesters were detained by police after officers attempted to clear the centre\n\nSeveral warnings were given over a loudhailer before riot police moved forward.\n\nProtesters were driven down side streets away from Bridewell Police Station, with dog units part of the operation.\n\nThere were 10 arrests, three of them also detained in connection with last Sunday's first march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Avon and Somerset Police\n\nEarlier, the city's main bus company halted services through the city centre to avoid the protest.\n\nAs darkness fell a large crowd blocked streets in the city centre\n\nHundreds sat during the demonstration - the third in Bristol in a week\n\nSunday's demonstration started off peacefully with about 3,000 attending but descended into disorder when around 500 people marched on Bridewell Street.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is investigating assaults on 40 officers and one member of the media.\n\nNine people have been arrested in connection with the disorder, which saw officers attacked, police vehicles set on fire and the windows of a police station smashed.\n\nA second protest took place on College Green on Tuesday night and resulted in 15 arrests.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Muammar Gaddafi supplied weapons, including Semtex explosives, to the IRA during the Troubles\n\nVictims of IRA bombs have expressed anger at news the UK government cannot use frozen Libyan assets for compensation.\n\nThe father of a 12-year-old boy killed in the 1993 Warrington bomb has also questioned the government's rejection of calls to publish a report commissioned to examine the issue.\n\nLibyan-supplied Semtex explosive was thought to have been used.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Parry said the public \"may never know\" the reasons behind the government's refusal to compensate the victims of Libyan-backed terrorism.\n\n\"It's not as if it's a financial block - it's clearly a political decision,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a decision I can only imagine is based on the multi-layered complexity when it comes to historical issues related to Northern Ireland terrorism.\n\nThe government has said it would be against international law to use some £12bn in frozen Libyan assets to compensate victims.\n\nColin Parry said the issue could be easily resolved by releasing the assets\n\nOn Wednesday, it emerged that a report examining compensation options, completed last year by government investigator William Shawcross, will not be published.\n\nMr Parry asked why William Shawcross was given the remit to look into the issue \"if [the government] weren't prepared to act upon what he might say\".\n\n\"It's easily resolved through seized Libyan assets, but for reasons we may never know, the government is sitting on this report. I can only conclude that the government fears it will open up all sorts of matters which have been buried deep for some time now.\"\n\nMervyn Lewers, from Londonderry, who lost his legs following an under-car booby-trap bombing in 1988, said the government \"wants all victims to die off and go away\".\n\nHe said his life is \"a continuing battle\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme: \"It's 33 years since I was injured and I'm heading again to Musgrave Hospital today.\"\n\nCompensation would have \"meant a lot\", he said, as he has to pay someone to assist with \"ordinary things around the house\".\n\nFormer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime supplied large amounts of weapons and explosives to the IRA during the Troubles.\n\nMr Lewers questioned why William Shawcross, who was appointed by the government to look into the issue of compensation, met representatives of Sinn Féin, but not victims, before filing his report.\n\n\"It's public knowledge that members of Sinn Féin were convicted terrorists. For me, it's wrong.\"\n\nMr Shawcross, who appeared before the NI Affairs Committee on Wednesday, said he could not disclose details of his own report.\n\nIn a written statement to parliament on Tuesday, Minister for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly said the \"internal scoping report\" was commissioned to provide advice to ministers and draws on \"private and confidential conversations\".\n\nLibyan Semtex was used in the Remembrance Sunday bombing in Enniskillen\n\nHe said the \"frozen assets may not be seized by the UK government\".\n\nHe also ruled out using public funds to pay compensation to victims and then recouping the money from the Libyan government.\n\nHe said the responsibility for providing compensation lies with the Libyan state and the government had urged the authorities at the \"highest level\" to engage with UK victims.\n\nUnionist peer Lord Empey described the refusal to use the assets to compensate victims as \"a very murky business\".\n\n\"Other countries - the United States, France and Germany - all of them have got compensation for their victims. The United Kingdom hasn't even asked for it. So there's something wrong.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson, of Innocent Victims United, said: \"For two years the UK government has been responsible for heaping further pain upon those already treated so shamefully.\n\n\"The Shawcross Report can't even be described as a 'whitewash' because it continues to be held back from victims, the full contents remain hidden.\"", "Britain has lost \"significant\" access to EU policing data under the Brexit deal negotiated at the end of last year, a House of Lords report has said.\n\nIt also concluded that post-Brexit law enforcement arrangements are \"complex\" and \"untested\".\n\nAnd peers warned it would take much longer for vital data to be passed to frontline police officers.\n\nA government spokesman said the UK \"continues to be one of the safest countries in the world\".\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it lost automatic access to EU databases with information on criminal records, fingerprints and wanted persons.\n\nUnder a deal struck between the two sides at the end of last year, the UK secured access to certain sets of information, for example air passenger data.\n\nThe Lords EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee has been examining the deal reached.\n\nIt found that the agreement \"avoids a cliff-edge departure\" by ensuring data, such as DNA, fingerprints and criminal records could still be shared.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Ricketts, a former national security adviser, said the government had \"succeeded in avoiding an abrupt end to years of effective UK-EU joint working, which would have put the safety of citizens in the UK and across the EU at greater risk.\"\n\nHowever he added that there were \"grounds for considerable caution\".\n\nHe said new arrangements were \"complex and untested... and their effectiveness will depend crucially on how they are implemented at the operational level\".\n\nSpecifically the report draws attention to the UK's loss of access to the EU's criminal database - the Schengen Information System (SIS II).\n\nLeaving the system meant the UK lost access to 40,000 alerts about investigations in other European countries.\n\nThe committee said this represented a \"most significant gap\" for law enforcement and that the SIS II replacement meant information was available in \"a matter of hours, not seconds\".\n\nIt also warned that data sharing between the sides meant the EU would hold the UK to \"higher standards\" on data protection and could suspend any agreement \"if the UK chooses not to stay aligned with EU data protection rules in the future\".\n\nResponding to the report, Home Office Minister Kevin Foster said: \"The UK agreed a comprehensive security agreement with the EU that ensures the UK continues to be one of the safest countries in the world.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with domestic and EU partners to monitor the new arrangements and have excellent cooperation with EU member states on a wide range of law enforcement and criminal justice issues.\"", "The chancellor has warned bosses that staff may quit if they are not allowed to work from the office as the UK emerges from lockdown.\n\nRishi Sunak told the Telegraph that employees would \"vote with their feet\" and could consider leaving for a rival if made to work from home full time.\n\nA number of companies have announced plans to close offices prompting fears for city centres.\n\nBut now the chancellor has urged firms not to abandon the office altogether.\n\nMr Sunak told the newspaper that home working is no substitute for an office environment with \"people riffing off each other\".\n\n\"You can't beat the spontaneity, the team building, the culture that you create in a firm or an organisation from people actually spending physical time together,\" he said.\n\nThe chancellor argued that an office environment was particularly important for younger workers looking to understand how a company works.\n\nHe said it was \"important that we try and get back to a good degree of that\".\n\nAlthough he acknowledged that hybrid working, using tools like Zoom to communicate, could work for some businesses.\n\nHis comments come amid concern from businesses that rely on busy cities that workers may spend more time at home.\n\nMore than 17,500 chain stores and other venues closed in the UK last year, but there are fears that the true impact of the pandemic on High Streets is still yet to be felt.\n\nOn Thursday, building society Nationwide revealed plans to allow 13,000 of its staff to \"work anywhere\" as it closed three of its offices in Swindon, while Santander announced plans to reduce the amount of office space it rents in London and move its headquarters from the capital to Milton Keynes.\n\nSantander will close a number of its offices across the country and ask staff to work from home more often or travel in to one of its remaining offices.\n\nThe bank also said it would close 111 of its branches in yet another blow for the High Street.", "On the first official day of campaigning in the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections, polling expert Sir John Curtice considers the \"intense\" battle for every vote ahead of polling day on 6 May.\n\nVoters go to the polls in six weeks to elect a new Scottish Parliament. The ballot looks set to be another crucial chapter in Scotland's continuing debate about how it should be governed.\n\nAccording to the polls, voters are evenly divided on whether Scotland should be an independent country or whether it should remain part of the United Kingdom. On average recent polls put Yes to independence on 50%, No on 50%.\n\nThe issue seems set to influence the way in which many people will vote in an election in which voters will have two votes - one for their local constituency MSP, the other for a regional party list.\n\nThe SNP and the Greens will be arguing that there should be another referendum on independence. The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats take the opposite view.\n\nAs our graph above shows, recent polls suggest that nearly nine in 10 of those who currently support independence are currently minded to support the SNP on the constituency vote.\n\nLess than one in 10 of those who oppose independence indicate that they will vote for Nicola Sturgeon's party.\n\nHowever, whereas most Yes supporters are nearly all backing the same party, the preferences of No voters are scattered across different parties.\n\nSlightly less than half are supporting the Conservatives, just under a third Labour while one in eight are backing the Liberal Democrats.\n\nTrue, the Greens have the support of 11% of Yes supporters on the list vote (and only just 3% of No voters), but this still leaves the SNP a long way ahead among those who back independence.\n\nNot least of the reasons why support for independence, at 50%, is higher than the 45% recorded in the 2014 referendum, is that there has been swing in favour of leaving the UK among those who oppose Brexit.\n\nOn average the polls suggest that while just 34% of those who voted Leave in 2016 are in favour of independence, well over half (56%) of those who supported Remain now back the idea.\n\nThis has also opened up a division in party support that was largely not in evidence at the last Scottish Parliament election - which took place seven weeks before the EU referendum.\n\nAs our Brexit graph above shows, in 2016 SNP support differed little between those who went on to vote Remain and those who backed Leave. Now support for the party is 25 points higher among Remain supporters as it Leave voters.\n\nIn contrast, support for the Conservatives is now three times higher among Leave voters (45%) than among Remain supporters (15%).\n\nThe increased support for independence together with opposition to Brexit has enabled the SNP to establish a substantial lead in the polls, as the graph above shows.\n\nOn average the party is 26 points ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote and 20 points ahead on the list vote. Labour are trailing a little further behind in third place.\n\nAs the opposition parties have acknowledged, it will take a dramatic change of fortunes between now and the beginning of May for anyone other than the SNP to come first.\n\nHowever, the target the unionist parties appear to have set themselves is to try to deny the SNP an overall majority - something which is very difficult to achieve under Scotland's proportional representation system.\n\nIt was the SNP's success in winning an overall majority in 2011 that paved the way for the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nIf the SNP were to repeat that feat it would be more difficult for the prime minister simply to say 'No' to another referendum.\n\nFrom the figures in our chart, the SNP might just miss out on an overall majority - or might just make it. With the outcome of the election seemingly on such a crucial knife edge, it looks as though there will be an intense battle for every vote between now and polling day in May.\n\nJohn Curtice is Professor of Politics and Senior Research Fellow, ScotCen Social Research and 'The UK in a Changing Europe'", "Ross Peters and his wife Shauni owe everything to Ross' heart donor\n\nEveryone in Scotland is now an automatic organ donor - unless they opt out of a new system.\n\nFrom Friday, it is presumed that people have consented to donation unless they have stated otherwise.\n\nExperts say this will mean that many more people can be given life-saving and life-changing transplants.\n\nPeople who do not want their organs to be donated for a transplant can opt out through the Organ Donation Scotland website.\n\nUnder the old system, more than half of Scotland's population were registered to donate their organs or tissue after their death.\n\nBut it is hoped the number of potential donors could increase further under the new scheme.\n\nIn two years, a similar system in Wales has increased family consent by 50%.\n\nThe Scottish law was due to change in November but was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nOrgan donation means people like 27-year-old Ross Peters, who was diagnosed with a heart condition at 21, have a second chance at life.\n\nBy last summer Ross' health was so bad that he was put on the urgent transplant list - just months before his wife Shauni was about to have their first child.\n\nLuckily for Ross, he got his new heart in August, and now he is able to play a more active role as dad to baby Louis, who was born in November.\n\n\"It's just perfect,\" he said. \"I can do things now I wasn't able to do before without even thinking about it. I was always breathless and tired. All the symptoms of heart failure, I had them all and now I'm just living a totally normal life. It's perfect.\"\n\nA heart transplant has changed the kind of dad Ross Peters can be to his new baby son\n\nRoss was in hospital for two months before he got the transplant. His wife Shauni, 28, said getting the new heart had changed their lives.\n\nShe said: \"There's a huge difference. We can go for walks for hours, and even just lifting the pram - before he wouldn't have been able to do that.\n\n\"He's a lot healthier now than he was last year, so he'll be so much better bringing Louis up and able to play with him when he's ready to kick footballs and run about in the garden.\n\n\"It was a hard, crazy start, but thankfully because of organ donation, it's been a brilliant end.\"\n\nSome are not as lucky as Ross.\n\nOnly about 1% of people die in circumstances where their organs can be used for transplants, which means there is always a shortage, and a long waiting list.\n\nAnother obstacle has been that people who would be in favour of donating their organs have not got round to registering.\n\nConsultant transplant surgeon John Casey said the new system should make more organs available.\n\nMedics say the change means more people can be given life-saving and life-changing transplants.\n\nHe said: \"About 500 patients are waiting for a transplant every year and a significant number die on the waiting list. It's extremely important that we try to provide a transplant service for as many of these patients as possible.\n\n\"The opt out legislation is really part of a whole package of measures we've been taking to increase the number of donors, and therefore transplants, that we do.\"\n\nThere is a small group of exemptions, including:\n\nExperts stress the importance of families discussing the issue so they know what to do should one of them die in a situation where they could be a donor.\n\nIt was something that Jamie Murray had talked about with his brother Craig who had a heart and lung condition and died at the age of 26.\n\nJamie Murray's brother Craig died at the age of 26, and being able to donate organs to help three people gave his family some comfort\n\nJamie told the BBC: \"It gives us a massive sense of pride also a sense of relief to know that Craig has helped other people extend their lives.\n\n\"Obviously for us it's difficult because Craig was taken away at 26, but Craig ended up donating his pancreas, liver and kidneys and they went on to help three men.\n\n\"To know there are people walking about because of Craig, that otherwise wouldn't have been here gives us a massive sense of pride as a family and a sense of comfort as well. \"\n\nJamie Murray and his brother Craig whose death gave life and hope to three men\n\nPublic Health Minister Mairi Gougeon said it was important to know what your family's wishes are.\n\n\"This is still going to be a very personal decision for people and it's absolutely vital that people have that discussion with their families, so that any decision they make, whether they want to opt in or opt out, that they make their families aware.\n\n\"We think that's what's really important and hopefully all the information will have started to arrive at households across Scotland and we hope that will encourage those kind of conversations to take place.\"\n\nBritish Heart Foundation spokesman David McColgan said evidence from other countries suggested it made a positive difference.\n\nHe said: \"Of the top 10 countries in terms of donation rates, nine of them operate an opt-out system.\n\n\"This is not a new system. It's been in place in countries for nearly half a century now, so we know it increases the families' ability to make the decision and we know it then increases the pool of individuals available for organ donation, and that will ultimately increase the number of people whose lives can be saved.\"\n\nWales adopted the opt-out system in 2015 and England started its opt-out system last year.\n\nIf people want to opt out - or opt in - they can go onto the Organ Donations Scotland website to register their wishes.", "The return of Alex Salmond to the political fray has sent a shockwave through the Holyrood election campaign.\n\nFew would have imagined in the years that followed his defeat as an MP in the 2017 general election that his comeback would be at the helm of a new party.\n\nHe insists that Alba is not a threat to the SNP. But given he has also announced a series of high-profile defections, the idea of a split seems inescapable.\n\nMr Salmond believes that adding a bloc of Alba Party MSPs would create an independence \"supermajority\" at Holyrood.\n\nThe former first minister has no designs on going back into government, in a coalition or other formal agreement with the SNP.\n\nHe may hope his group could act a bit like a pressure group that has enough votes to bend the rest of parliament to its will, and hold First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's feet to the fire on a second independence referendum.\n\nIt remains to be seen if there is a public appetite for Mr Salmond's new vehicle.\n\nBut by running candidates across Scotland, it has the potential to change the nature of the race in more or less every seat - partly because of the way Scotland's voting system works.\n\nUnder that system, MSPs can be elected either as a representative of a constituency, or from one of eight regions of Scotland using a \"top up\" system of proportional representation.\n\nThe more constituency seats you win in any area, the harder it is to win list seats. In 2016, the SNP won the vast majority of constituency seats - and as a direct result returned just four regional list MSPs.\n\nMr Salmond believes this means most SNP list votes are \"wasted\", and could instead be given to his new list-only party - which would have zero constituency MSPs, and thus a better chance of winning regional seats.\n\nHowever, the SNP cannot afford to just ignore the lists. When they won a majority in 2011, it was with the help of no fewer than 16 list seats.\n\nThey are unlikely to win every single constituency, and thus must try to balance out any local defeats with list seats - from a pragmatic standpoint, their campaign has to be \"both votes SNP\".\n\nThe campaign could now see Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon go head to head again\n\nThere is an impact on other parties beyond the SNP, too. Two start-up groups, Action for Independence and the Independence for Scotland Party, have already withdrawn all of their candidates in support of Mr Salmond's goals.\n\nThe Scottish Greens stand primarily on the regional lists, and usually aim to sweep up the \"second votes\" of pro-independence types who vote SNP in their constituencies.\n\nThe party has put independence at the heart of its campaign for 2021, pledging that all of its MSPs in the next term will back a push for indyref2.\n\nThe likes of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats will no doubt have watched Mr Salmond's announcement with popcorn in hand, hoping it will put a dent in the SNP's electoral juggernaut.\n\nHowever, there are only 56 list seats to go around, so even the Unionist parties might be casting a nervous eye over the margins in some regions.\n\nThey might not be chasing the same voters, but they could still face being edged out if Alba wins some of those seats.\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Scottish Parliament have? MSPs pass laws on most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes and welfare benefits. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible, so long as they are aged 16 or over on the day of the election. You can register to vote online.\n\nThere may be two different ways of winning seats at Holyrood, and two different ballot papers - but there is only one campaign.\n\nThe emergence of a new party could have a huge impact on the debate as a whole, and on the questions posed each day - potentially recasting the whole campaign.\n\nNicola Sturgeon had hoped to spend this campaign talking about her pandemic leadership, and about her vision for independence - not Alex Salmond's.\n\nNow, she may be doomed to the \"Sturgeon vs Salmond\" psychodrama of recent months dragging on for another six weeks.\n\nOne immediate example of how Mr Salmond may change the debate was when he was asked about an independence referendum at the Alba launch event, and mused about what other routes there may be to securing self-determination.\n\nSo already there are questions for Ms Sturgeon about her strategy. She could now be continually asked to react to Mr Salmond's position on independence, rather than dictating the debate on a topic which should really be home turf for her.\n\nMr Salmond also wants to move on from the questions of recent years about the government's mishandling of complaints against him and about the \"malicious plot\" he claims there was against him.\n\nIn every interview, he has been asked about his own conduct. Each time he responds that there have been several court cases and judges, a jury - which acquitted him of charges of sexual assault in March 2020 - and a number of inquiries. And that should be the end of the matter.\n\nHowever, the problem for politicians is that they cannot control the questions they are asked on the campaign trail.\n\nMr Salmond will not be able to make questions about his past behaviour and the events of the last three years simply go away. If he is to make a success of his new party, he needs to maintain convincing answers to them.", "Prof Chris Whitty says the British people understand the vaccine is effective Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty says the British people understand the vaccine is effective\n\nThe BBC's Fergus Walsh asks if the safety concerns over the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine might have put some people off having their jab.\n\nThe PM says the best testimony he can give is of the views of the medical professionals around him - as well as of the European medicine regulator, which earlier today published new findings to confirm there was no additional risk of blood clots in people who have had the jab.\n\nProf Whitty adds the \"overwhelming professional view\" in the global scientific comunity is that the vaccines are very safe and effective.\n\n\"It is clear that the British public also have taken that message,\" he says, pointing to figures which suggest the uptake of the jab has been over 90% in the age groups that have already been offered the vaccine.\n\n\"The general public is, as always, sensible and steady on this - they understand this is a dangerous disease and [an] effective vaccine,\" he adds.", "Covid-free sites must be developed to protect surgeries in the event of another coronavirus wave, a leading consultant has said.\n\nMark Taylor, from the Royal College of Surgeons in Northern Ireland, said lessons must be learned from the past year.\n\n\"The conditions that need surgery don't go away because of Covid,\" he said.\n\nHis warning comes as the BBC learned an estimated 1,600 cancer patients have been missed because of the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, a research body which helps inform decision-making, hundreds of people with serious cancers have yet to be diagnosed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cancer: \"It's awful to think of her as collateral damage\"\n\nThe Department of Health said every attempt had been made to protect the most urgent surgeries and to reschedule postponed operations as quickly as possible.\n\nThere were fewer cancellations during this latest surge than at the height of the first surge last March due to \"robust planning and prioritisation\" despite more service pressures, it added.\n\nAmong those patients adversely affected by the pandemic is Flo McClements.\n\nThe 72-year-old grandmother was diagnosed with an ovarian tumour last December.\n\nHer surgery was postponed for three weeks earlier this year and when it did happen, doctors found the cancer had spread.\n\nHer family have said they feel like \"collateral damage\" for the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nDaughter-in-law Christine McClements told BBC News NI: \"It was awful. She is my mother-in-law and means everything to us.\n\nGregg McClements said the delay has been \"detrimental\" to his mother.\n\n\"The consultant had advised us we have gone from being able to cure my mum's cancer to now just being able to treat it and give her chemotherapy. Hopefully that might get it in remission, but there is no guarantee.\n\n\"So it is all devastating.\"\n\nAt his most recent appearance before a Stormont scrutiny committee, Health Minister Robin Swann said he wanted to see action to repair some of the damage Covid-19 had caused to the health service.\n\n\"I am keen that we scale up this high-priority surgery as quickly as possible,\" he told assembly members.\n\n\"This can be done by initially creating green pathways, as they have become known elsewhere.\n\n\"Eventually turning Belfast City Hospital into a green site which will serve the region.\"\n\nMark Regan, chief executive officer of the private Kingsbridge Hospital in Belfast, said the sector had provided an \"essential\" lifeline for the health service over the past year and maintaining that co-operation should be part of the solution.\n\nHe told BBC News NI that 1,754 surgeries had been performed on NHS patients and 13,267 CT, MRI and ultrasound scans carried out since the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"The outcome is ultimately that patients that may not have been able to be seen within the NHS are now being treated in each of the three independent hospitals,\" he said.\n\n\"Those are patients that are time dependent, red flag, cancers and things that could progress and could have a bigger impact if left.\"\n\nDeirdre Heenan, professor of social policy at Ulster University, said finding a way forward would ultimately depend on \"long-term strategic planning\".\n\n\"It's not good enough to say we don't have the resources.\n\n\"It's up to the Department of Health to make sure they have those resources; buy in those resources from the private sector if that's what is required.\n\n\"If we look at NHS England - they have set out a recovery plan with targets which talks about workforce planning; realises there will have to be specialists within the workforce and they have set out how they are going to do that.\n\n\"We should expect the same.\"", "A US private investigator has told BBC News he was paid by the Sun newspaper to obtain personal information about the Duchess of Sussex in the early days of her relationship with Prince Harry.\n\nBut Daniel Hanks says he unlawfully accessed detailed information including Meghan's social security number.\n\nThe Sun's publisher said it requested legitimate research and instructed Mr Hanks he must act lawfully.\n\nMeghan and Harry said it was a \"moment of reflection\" for the media industry.\n\nBBC News has seen the so-called \"comprehensive report on Meghan and her family\" which the investigator, also known as Danno Hanks, passed to the Sun.\n\nIt included her phone number, addresses and social security number as well as information on her family members. His report also included information on her ex-husband and a former boyfriend.\n\nIn the US, licensed private investigators are allowed full access to databases of personal information for some permitted reasons such as court reports. But accessing this additional level of detail for journalistic purposes is unlawful.\n\nMr Hanks said: \"Pretty much everything I found out they could find out themselves using legal means - with the exception of the social security numbers.\n\n\"When you have that information… it's the key to the kingdom.\"\n\nWhile there is no evidence it happened in this instance, social security numbers in particular could potentially be used to further other intrusive investigations.\n\nA spokesman for Harry and Meghan said: \"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex feel that today is an important moment of reflection for the media industry and society at large, as this investigative report shows that the predatory practices of days past are still ongoing, reaping irreversible damage for families and relationships.\n\n\"They are grateful to those working in media who stand for upholding the values of journalism, which are needed now more than ever before.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan recently took part in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey\n\nThe duke and duchess have had a fraught relationship with the UK's tabloid press. During the couple's recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, they said this had created a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\" and was largely to blame for them leaving the UK.\n\nPrince Harry is currently suing the publisher of the Sun, and the former publisher of the Daily Mirror, over allegations of phone hacking before 2011.\n\nSeveral stories appeared in the Sun, and other newspapers, at the beginning of the couple's relationship. They included an article claiming Prince Harry had \"bombarded\" his future wife with text messages and another detailing a weekend they spent together at Meghan's home in Toronto.\n\nDanno Hanks worked as a private investigator in the US for over 40 years gathering information on celebrities and high-profile people including Michael Jackson and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHe achieved some notoriety in the 1990s via appearances on daytime television and has been jailed four times, most recently in 2017 for extortion.\n\nMr Hanks said he had provided reports for most of the British tabloid newspapers.\n\nHe said the Sun wrote to him after the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and asked him to sign documents, seen by the BBC, committing to act within the law and he repeated this assurance when he billed the Sun for his work.\n\nBut he claims no-one ever asked where he got his information. \"They didn't care. They just wanted the information,\" he said.\n\nMr Hanks came forward after being approached by Graham Johnson, a freelance journalist and editor of Byline Investigates, which publishes stories on the British media.\n\nMr Johnson, a former investigations editor at the Sunday Mirror, pleaded guilty to two counts of phone hacking in 2013.\n\nMeghan and Harry at the Invictus Games in Toronto in 2017, their first public appearance together\n\nHis website has received money from prominent supporters of press reform, including actors Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan, who were both victims of phone hacking, and his partner Emma Jones is on the board of Hacked Off, the press reform campaign group.\n\nMr Johnson, who paid Mr Hanks for access to his documents, said: \"This story definitely sticks out in the post-Leveson world because it has taken place five years after we thought these practices had stopped.\"\n\nMost victims of phone-hacking have settled their claims. Prince Harry hasn't. That's the vital context of this story.\n\nIn the course of nearly a year reporting on the complex, often fraught relationship between the monarchy and the media, it's become clear that he is, in an important sense, the last man standing among those victims.\n\nA News UK source told me that it was a \"huge priority\" and \"preoccupation\" for the company to repair relations with the royals after the severe damage done by the hacking revelations.\n\nBut the revelation that the Sun paid a private investigator to supply information on Meghan and her family, and that too in the period leading up to Prince Harry's bombshell public statement of 8 November 2016 in which he said a line had been crossed, will not improve relations.\n\nPrince Harry has been advised by many people both to make peace with Britain's tabloids, and to settle his claims against them. He hasn't. He may strike some journalists as an unlikely champion of press reform. But it is a role he seems keen on.\n\nMr Hanks, who has now retired, said watching Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah had also prompted him to speak out.\n\n\"I'm just doing it to clear my conscience,\" he said.\n\nAsked what he would say to Meghan and Harry directly, he said: \"I'm deeply sorry for what I did... and I'm available if your lawyers need to talk to me. I'm ready to give you what I know. Supply you with any information. I just wish this had never happened.\"\n\nIn a statement, News Group Newspapers - publishers of the Sun - said: \"In 2016, the Sun made a legitimate request of Mr Hanks to research contact details and addresses for Meghan Markle and possible relatives using legal databases which he had a license to use. He was paid $250.\n\n\"Mr Hanks was not tasked to do anything illegal or breach any privacy laws - indeed he was instructed clearly in writing to act lawfully and he signed a legal undertaking that he would do so.\n\n\"The information he provided could not and did not raise any concerns that he had used illegal practices to obtain the information.\n\n\"At no time did the Sun request the social security number of Meghan Markle, nor use the information he provided for any unlawful practice.\n\n\"The Sun abides by all laws and regulations and maintains strict protocols in relation to the obtaining of information from third parties. Strict compliance is in place to cover all our reporting.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nA punter has won £250,000 from a £5 bet after deciding to 'cash out' on the final leg of his accumulator at Cheltenham.\n\nPaul Dean was eyeing a potential £511,000 payday on Thursday if the last runner in his five-horse wager - hot favourite Envoi Allen - triumphed.\n\nHowever, he decided not to risk it all and walked away with £250,000 hours before Envoi fell in the Marsh Novices' Chase.\n\nAs part of Dean's deal with Betfair, he would have received £300,000 if Envoi had won.\n\n\"So after celebrations last night, four hours sleep, an hour's walk at 5am, I've decided to take a partial cash out offer of 300 Envoi/250 the field,\" Dean said, earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"With other bets my position on the race is £322,000 Envoi or £250,000 the field.\"\n• None 'Out of this world' - Brilliant Blackmore in Cheltenham double\n• None 'I gambled £50,000 on a horse at Cheltenham and lost everything'\n\nDean's run began with two winners at Royal Ascot nine months ago, and two more have followed at Cheltenham this week.\n\nIf you've been affected by addiction, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n• None Why are Britons the fattest in Western Europe? BBC Food looks at the UK's problem with obesity\n• None Get ready with the brand new trailer", "Stuart Lubbock was found dead in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool in March 2001\n\nA 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the indecent assault and murder of Stuart Lubbock at the home of Michael Barrymore.\n\nMr Lubbock, 31, died in hospital after being found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex.\n\nHe had been attending a party at the home of Mr Barrymore, 68, with eight other people in March 2001.\n\nThe man, who was arrested in Cheshire, has since been released on bail, Essex Police said.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Lubbock had suffered \"horrific\" injuries prior to his death, police said.\n\nAlcohol, ecstasy and cocaine were found in his bloodstream.\n\nDet Supt Lucy Morris, Essex Police's head of major crime, said the arrest was made after \"significant new information\" came to light following a renewed appeal in February 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"This information has led to us making an arrest and over the coming days we will be contacting all those who were present at the party at the time as well as others who may have information,\" she said.\n\n\"As we stated last February and have continually stated over the last 20 years, we believe someone or some people at that party know what happened.\"\n\nDet Supt Morris said the investigation had been \"extremely lengthy and complex\", adding: \"We have never given up on finding out what exactly happened to Stuart and we will not stop in our pursuit of justice for him and for his family and friends.\"\n\nMr Lubbock, a butcher from Harlow, was described by neighbours at the time of his death as a \"pleasant, sociable\" man.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged with any offence in relation to his death.\n\nStuart Lubbock's father Terry said he had been living \"to get justice\" for his son\n\nReacting to news of the arrest, Mr Lubbock's father Terry said: \"There is just so much going on in my head. I can't get my head around it.\n\n\"Of course I'm happy. Of course this is good news. But it's been 20 years. This has nearly killed me.\"\n\nIn February, the 76-year-old from Harlow said he had only months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\n\"All I've been living for is to get justice for Stuart,\" he said.\n\nMr Barrymore and two other men were arrested in 2007 on suspicion of sexual assault and murder, but were later released without charge.\n\nThe TV personality, who was known for shows including Strike It Lucky, has always denied involvement in the death.\n\nSpeaking last year, he said: \"I have had nothing to do with this whatsoever and yet I keep getting bashed and bullied by the media.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a spokesman for Mr Barrymore said it would be inappropriate to comment following the arrest.\n\nMr Barrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Mr Lubbock died\n\nAn inquest into Mr Lubbock's death, in 2002, recorded an open verdict.\n\nThree years ago, the then-attorney general, Jeremy Wright, refused to let Terry Lubbock make a High Court application for a second inquest.\n\nIn 2009, the police watchdog published the findings of a review of the investigation into Mr Lubbock's death, concluding that officers missed crucial evidence and did not ensure vital forensic tests were completed until six years later.\n\nLast year's police appeal coincided with the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary about Mr Lubbock's death.\n\nThe death of Stuart Lubbock was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary in 2020\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The engines were ignited at around 16:37 local time\n\nNasa has carried out a successful test on part of the most powerful rocket in existence - the Space Launch System (SLS).\n\nEngines on the rocket's \"core stage\" were kept running for more than eight minutes - simulating the time it takes the SLS to go from the ground to space.\n\nIt's the second such test for the biggest segment of the SLS, after an attempt in January shut down early.\n\nThe SLS is to send humans to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.\n\nThe mission is part of Nasa's Artemis project, launched by the Trump administration in 2017.\n\nThe launcher consists of the orange core, with its four powerful RS-25 engines, and two boosters attached to the sides.\n\nThe test at Stennis Space Center, near Bay St Louis, Mississippi, began at 16:37 ET (20:37 GMT). The core was attached to a giant structure called the B-2 test stand.\n\nA massive plume of exhaust expanded from the stand as the engines shook the ground. The cloud was so enormous, it was spotted from space by the Goes-16 satellite.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA SPoRT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough the target was to fire the engines for eight minutes, teams from Nasa and prime contractor Boeing only had to keep them on for 250 seconds (four minutes) in order to gather all the engineering data they needed.\n\n\"It was a great day and a great test,\" said acting Nasa administrator Steve Jurczyk.\n\nThe chair of the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology congratulated Nasa on the successful test. Texas democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson said: \"Achieving this significant milestone is a story of tenacity and dedication.\"\n\nShe added: \"Today's successful test brings us one step closer to returning American astronauts to the Moon in preparation for the human exploration of Mars.\"\n\nThe core that was part of Thursday's test will be used for the maiden flight of the SLS - currently scheduled for late 2021.\n\nIn the 1960s, the stand tested engines used in the massive Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo astronauts to the Moon.\n\nThe four engines sent a plume of exhaust spiralling high into the air\n\nJohn Shannon, Boeing's vice president and program manager for the SLS, told me before the first hotfire attempt: \"When the engines start and then throttle up, we will do what's called a gimbal profile at 60 seconds. The engine nozzles move in a pre-programmed set of movements.\"\n\nThis gimbal movement of the nozzles allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\n\"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics,\" said Mr Shannon.\n\nBefore Thursday's hotfire, engineers filled the core stage with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of propellant.\n\nThat propellant consisted of liquid hydrogen, which is the rocket's fuel, and liquid oxygen, which helps the fuel burn. They react explosively inside the engines, generating super-heated water vapour from the exhaust.\n\nWhen they're fed to the engines, the propellants are at more than two hundred degrees below zero (F), but the exhaust that emerges is 6,000F (3,316C) - hot enough to boil iron.\n\nHundreds of thousands of gallons of water were directed into the flame bucket to cool the exhaust. In addition, tens of thousands of gallons were used to create a water \"curtain\" around the engines to suppress the noise generated when they fire for eight minutes.\n\nThis was done to protect the core stage from vibrations while it is anchored to the stand.\n\nThe RS-25s, built by California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne, are the same ones that powered the space shuttle.\n\nThe engines tested on Thursday contributed to 21 successful shuttle flights over the vehicle's 30-year operational history.\n\nTwo were used on the last space shuttle mission, STS-135 in 2011. One flew on the 1998 mission that launched the oldest person ever to go to space - US senator and Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time. The other was used on one of the flights to service the Hubble Space Telescope.\n\nThe engines were refurbished following shuttle missions, but they will be discarded after the maiden flight of the SLS later this year.\n\nThat mission, called Artemis-1, will send Nasa's next-generation crew vehicle, Orion, around the Moon to thoroughly test its systems.\n\nTom Whitmeyer, from Exploration Systems Development at Nasa, said it would take about a month to refurbish the core stage, after which it would be put on a ship to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare it for launch.\n\nHere, it will be installed on a structure called the mobile launcher between the two booster rockets, completing the SLS vehicle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said vaccine supply is \"always lumpy, but we're on course\"\n\nThe NHS has warned of a \"significant reduction in the weekly supply\" of Covid vaccines in England next month in a letter to local health organisations.\n\nThe letter says there has been a \"reduction in national inbound vaccines supply\" and asks organisations to \"ensure no further appointments are uploaded\" to booking systems in April.\n\nThe health secretary said it was a \"standard\" letter.\n\nThe BBC understands no-one who has booked a vaccine should lose a slot.\n\nAsked about it during a Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said the NHS regularly sent out \"technical letters\" that explained the \"ups and downs\" of supply.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there would be fewer AstraZeneca vaccines than expected because of issues with the company's international supply.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said he understood that the vaccine supply issue related to a consignment from a manufacturer in India, with half of the order delayed by four weeks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hugh Pym This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for the AstraZeneca said: \"Our UK domestic supply chain is not experiencing any disruption and there is no impact on our delivery schedule.\"\n\nWe were always warned supply was fragile - and these developments are a reminder of that.\n\nThe UK has its own plants that are supplying one to two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine each week.\n\nThere are also stocks coming from Pfizer's Belgium plant - these would be the ones that would be susceptible to any restrictions on exports the EU is threatening.\n\nThe Indian supplies were supposed to give the UK the \"bumper\" end to March, allowing the government to push ahead with vaccination of the under-50s within weeks.\n\nThis has now been put on hold, given significant numbers will need their second doses from the start of next month.\n\nThe government is still on track to hit its target to offer all adults a vaccine by the end of July.\n\nBy late Spring the first doses of Moderna - the third vaccine to have been approved in the UK - should start arriving.\n\nBut the delay to the second shipment from India means rollout is going to take a little longer than hoped at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter from the NHS in England says that \"over this next period it is vital\" that health organisations focus on vaccinating those in the priority groups one to nine, who are most vulnerable to coronavirus.\n\nIt advises vaccination services to work with local authorities, voluntary community and faith organisations \"to put in place reserve lists\" of people eligible for the vaccine - as well as targeting areas of lower uptake.\n\nThe NHS says vaccination centres and community pharmacy-led services should close unfilled bookings from the week commencing 29 March.\n\nEarlier, it was announced that almost half of British adults have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - more than 25 million people.\n\nAround 1.7 million people have also had a second dose.\n\nDuring Wednesday's briefing, Mr Hancock said the UK was \"ahead of schedule\" to offer a first dose to all over-50s by 15 April.\n\nHe also reiterated a commitment to ensuring that all adults in the UK are offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam encouraged people to get a vaccine when offered one\n\nSpeaking alongside the health secretary, Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said \"every day we vaccinate more people we are preventing more deaths\".\n\nAnd England's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said there was \"no evidence\" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine causes an \"increased risk\" of blood clots.\n\nThe EU's medicines regulator has said it remains \"firmly convinced\" that the benefits of the jab outweigh the risks, after several leading EU states paused their rollouts.\n\nProf Van-Tam added that all medicines have both side effects and benefits, and listed some of the rare side effects of paracetamol as examples, pointing out that most people had no issue with taking it.\n\nBBC politics correspondent Jonathan Blake said the hold-up would have an impact on the momentum of the vaccine rollout and possibly the government's targets.\n\nLabour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tweeted that people \"across the country\" would be \"anxious and worried\" about the news of delays.\n\n\"Matt Hancock must explain what the issue is with supply and what efforts are being made to resolve them,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU \"will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate\".\n\nThe EU and the UK have been engaged in a diplomatic row over the export of the vaccines, exacerbated by post-Brexit disagreements.\n\nAlso during the briefing, Mr Hancock confirmed that shielding guidance in England would end on 31 March - meaning that more than 3.7 million vulnerable people in England will no longer have to shield.\n\nA further 141 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive test, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard. A further 5,758 people have tested positive.", "The 61-year-old president died from heart complications on Wednesday\n\nTanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced.\n\nHe died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television.\n\nMr Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours had been circulating about his health.\n\nOpposition politicians said last week that he had contracted Covid-19, but this has not been confirmed.\n\nMr Magufuli was one of Africa's most prominent coronavirus sceptics, and called for prayers and herbal-infused steam therapy to counter the virus.\n\n\"It is with deep regret that I inform you that today... we lost our brave leader, the president of the Republic of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli,\" Vice-President Hassan said in the announcement.\n\nShe said there would be 14 days of national mourning and flags would fly at half mast.\n\nAccording to Tanzania's constitution, Ms Hassan will be sworn in as the new president within 24 hours and should serve the remainder of Mr Magufuli's five-year term which he began last year.\n\nMr Magufuli was last seen in public on 27 February, but Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa insisted last week that the president was \"healthy and working hard\".\n\nHe blamed the rumours of the president's ill-health on \"hateful\" Tanzanians living abroad.\n\nBut opposition leader Tundu Lissu told the BBC that his sources had told him Mr Magufuli was being treated in hospital for coronavirus in Kenya.\n\nMagufuli was first elected president in 2015\n\nWhen Covid-19 arrived in Tanzania, Mr Magufuli called on people to go to churches and mosques to pray. \"Coronavirus, which is a devil, cannot survive in the body of Christ... It will burn instantly,\" he said.\n\nHe declared Tanzania \"Covid-19 free\" last June, saying the virus had been eradicated by three days of national prayer.\n\nHe also mocked the efficacy of masks, expressed doubts about testing, and teased neighbouring countries which imposed health measures to curb the virus.\n\n\"Countries in Africa will be coming here to buy food in the years to come… they will be suffering because of shutting down their economy,\" he said, according to the Associated Press.\n\nTanzania has not published details of its coronavirus cases since May, and the government has refused to purchase vaccines.\n\nOn Monday, police said they had arrested four people on suspicion of spreading rumours on social media that the president was ill.\n\n\"To spread rumours that he's sick smacks of hate,\" Mr Majaliwa said at the time.\n\nThe country is in a sombre mood - for the first time in its six decades of existence, Tanzania has lost a sitting president, John Pombe Magufuli.\n\nThe news of his death was received with shock and disbelief - although there were rumours of his illness, the authorities reassured the country that all was well with him.\n\nFrom his home district of Chato to the capital of Dodoma to the business hub of Dar es Salaam, most Tanzanians have been mourning Magufuli.\n\nThere are those with a different view, especially on social media led by exiled opposition politician Tundu Lissu, who has been speculating that President Magufuli had contracted Covid which led to his death, however the authorities have insisted the death was caused by heart complications.\n\nTanzanians are now turning their minds to the succession, which should see current Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan become the country's first female president.\n\nMr Magufuli was declared president on his 56th birthday in October 2015. He was elected for a second term following a disputed poll last year.\n\nHe was hailed for his anti-corruption stance during his time in office, but he was also accused of cracking down on dissent and curtailing certain freedoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: John Magufuli, the son of a peasant farmer who became Tanzania's president\n\nHis critics agree that Mr Magufuli contributed to Tanzania's development. He invested in large infrastructure projects such as a standard-gauge railway to connect the country with its neighbours, major highways, and a bus system in the commercial hub of Dar es Salaam.\n\nHe also increased electricity production, reducing the need for power rationing.\n\nBut it is his approach to Covid-19 that many analysts say will define his legacy.\n\nIn Tanzania, people have reacted with grief and disbelief to the news of Mr Magufuli's death.\n\nOne, Joseph Petro, told the BBC he thought Mr Magufuli was a \"caring\" leader, adding \"he was helping people in one way or another\".\n\n\"I am really pained. I am personally pained,\" he said.\n\nTanzania has declared 14 days of national mourning for the president\n\nAnother, Illuminata Abel, offered similar sentiments: \"He was not my relative, but he was someone who listened to people's problems, and he was down to earth.\"\n\nAfrican leaders have also come out to pay tribute.\n\nKenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said: \"I have lost a friend, colleague and visionary ally,\" and declared a seven-day period of national mourning in Kenya.\n\nFormer Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called Mr Magufuli a \"partner in democracy\" and a \"patriot who loved his country\".\n\nBut Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu told the BBC that Mr Magufuli's \"politics, policies and Covid denialism\" had \"driven the country towards disaster\".", "Northern Ireland's four main Churches will return to public worship in time for Easter.\n\nThe Church of Ireland, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in Northern Ireland will resume in-person services from Good Friday, 2 April.\n\nThe Catholic Church has confirmed there will be a \"cautious\" return a week earlier, from 26 March.\n\nThe four Churches voluntarily suspended in-person gatherings in January of this year due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nGeneral Secretary of the Methodist Church in Ireland Rev Dr Heather Morris said churches could make a \"careful\" return to services, adding \"this will allow time for preparation to celebrate the major Christian festival of Easter\".\n\nPresbyterian Churches may also resume services on that date, but it will be up to individual congregations when they return, and will require \"all the mitigations in place to ensure the safety of people,\" the church said.\n\nIn a statement, the bishops of the Church of Ireland in Northern Ireland said the time had come for a \"cautious and careful\" reopening.\n\nThey said: \"A difficult year has passed, and a hard road has been travelled but we have reached a new junction.\n\n\"This news will be warmly welcomed but is simply permissive rather than instructive. Some may wish to continue online and or drive-in services for the time being due to their own local situation.\"\n\nThe bishops also noted the \"strong working relationship\" between the four churches.\n\nCatholic bishops in Northern Ireland emphasised the need for \"continued caution\" and a \"rigorous application of all mitigations and safeguards required\" to ensure a safe return to Mass on 26 March.\n\nThey said public worship would only be after a \"thorough risk assessment\", which means some parishes may decide to delay reopening for worshippers \"until a later date\".\n\nAnnouncing relaxations to coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, First Minister Arlene Foster said she and the deputy first minister had spoken with Church leaders about their desire to resume public worship.\n\nMrs Foster has defended the pathway out of lockdown, which has been criticised by some business leaders for its lack of dates.\n\nSpeaking at the assembly, she said: \"We need to continue to acknowledge how much people need hope and solace... we acknowledge the risk involved and the mitigations required by the churches.\n\n\"Some places of worship will find it easier to continue with online services, of course. We know this will be taken forward carefully and we have been grateful to leaders across all faiths who have worked closely with us on a voluntary basis.\"", "Health Minister Robin Swann says every adult in Northern Ireland will still get their first vaccine dose by the end of July.\n\nIt follows an expected reduction in the UK's Covid-19 vaccine supply.\n\nThat is partly due to a delay in a delivery from India of five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses.\n\nMr Swann said officials were doing all they could to ensure any delays to the department's timeline were shortened as much as possible.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Newsline, Mr Swann said he did not expect any changes to the lifting of Northern Ireland's coronavirus restrictions in light of the vaccine supply.\n\n\"We don't put dates to anything and I think it's exactly these sorts of unforeseen circumstances that allow us to take that approach,\" he said.\n\n\"The announcements made on Tuesday in regards to the next phase of lifting restrictions won't be affected by the delay of this supply of vaccine.\n\n\"I don't think this delay should have an effect on what the executive wants to do in easing further restrictions.\"\n\nA paper from the Department of Health shows that the R number in Northern Ireland is currently at between 0.9-1.10.\n\nThe minister said it showed the rate of infection was still decreasing, which meant the executive had been allowed to progress with making some changes to the lockdown regulations.\n\n\"One of the things we've always been aware of is keeping R below one... considering where we were back in mid-December, early January we are still moving in the right direction,\" he added.\n\n\"That comes about by the observance of restrictions and regulations but also by greater uptake of the vaccine as well and when we look to the hope that the vaccine brings that will allow us to come out of an incredibly dark time.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme told the Stormont Assembly more Pfizer doses would be used until extra AstraZeneca jabs arrive.\n\nShe said anyone expecting a second dose or who had already booked their first would have their appointments honoured.\n\nFirst jabs would continue in April, if at a slightly reduced rate, she added.\n\nOn Thursday, another Covid-19-related death and 169 new cases of the virus were recorded in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were no coronavirus-related deaths reported in the Irish Republic on Thursday.\n\nHowever, there were 582 confirmed new cases of the virus in the country.\n\nVaccine delivery issues could put the rollout plan back by four weeks in a \"worst-case scenario\", Ms Donnelly told Stormont's Health Committee, but the delay was more likely to be about two weeks.\n\n\"The mitigation measures that we put in place we hope will only delay us by two weeks, so it won't have a huge impact,\" she said.\n\nIt had been hoped vaccinations would be on offer to all people over the age of 40 when a mass vaccination centre at Belfast's SSE Arena opened on 29 March, but this would likely be delayed by two weeks, said Ms Donnelly.\n\n\"It will very much depend on the remaining deliveries that we get from AstraZeneca,\" she said.\n\n\"We have tried to find some mitigation through further use of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nMs Donnelly said three of Northern Ireland's five health trusts would now rely mainly on Pfizer doses until more AstraZeneca supplies arrived.\n\nOn Wednesday, NHS England warned there could be a \"significant reduction\" in the number of doses available in April.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Robin Swann said Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout was ahead of schedule and would be able to adapt.\n\nNews of the UK vaccine shortage was frustrating, if not surprising, said the chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The pace of vaccination has depended on the supply from the outset,\" tweeted Dr Alan Stout.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alan Stout This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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've done so well, so far, that the vast majority of those people who are at risk have now had their first dose,\" He told The Nolan Show.\n\n\"If it does mean that the consequences of delaying a first dose to someone we know who is at less risk, then that's going to have to be a decision that's made to protect those second doses.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland was still on course to meet its target of having most adults vaccinated by June or July, said Justice Minister Naomi Long.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 300 pharmacies have signed up to be part of the vaccination scheme.\n\nOfficial launch of the rollout will begin on 30 March, although some pharmacies may start before then.\n\n\"Their contribution to getting as many people vaccinated as possible will be invaluable,\" said Mr Swann.\n\nThe chief executive of Community Pharmacy NI, Gerard Greene, said. \"The accessibility and reach of the community pharmacy network, with pharmacists as skilled vaccinators, means they are well equipped to take part in the vaccine programme.\"\n\nMr Greene called their inclusion in the programme \"a fantastic and welcome step forward\" and said that this will not affect other pharmacy services.\n\nCommunity pharmacies were used to having to deal with supply issues, he said, adding that the anticipated drop in vaccine supply was unlikely to undermine Northern Ireland's programme.", "The UK government is to make an unprecedented move to give the Northern Ireland secretary new powers to compel Stormont to implement abortion laws.\n\nNorthern Ireland's abortion laws changed last March after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution.\n\nBut the commissioning of full services has been stalled due to differences within the five-party executive.\n\nStormont and Westminster are facing legal action from the Human Rights Commission over the delay.\n\nThis latest development, first reported by the Guardian, will see Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis lay new regulations in Parliament early next week.\n\nThe move will let him direct Northern Ireland's Department of Health to commission the services.\n\nA Whitehall source said there was frustration and disappointment at the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive to act.\n\n\"It has not commissioned abortion services consistent with the regulations originally set out by the UK government nearly a year ago,\" the source said.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis will lay new regulations in Parliament early next week\n\nThey added Mr Lewis was clear that the devolution settlement should not be a barrier.\n\nHowever, the move is likely to draw criticism from some of the Stormont parties.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and First Minister Arlene Foster and one of the party's MPs Sir Jeffrey Donaldson met the Northern Ireland secretary on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Sir Jeffrey said the government's move would \"raise serious questions about when and in what areas [it] can make interventions in a devolved administration\".\n\nHe said the DUP would \"vigorously oppose such steps\" and warned that the government \"should leave it with the devolved structures to make such decisions\".\n\nLate on Thursday night, Northern Ireland's Department of Health said Mr Swann's position was that the issue of abortion services was controversial and required the support of the whole executive.\n\n\"He does not believe that a ministerial decision to commission and fund abortion services would be defensible in court in the absence of executive approval,\" it added.\n\nThe timing of this move by Brandon Lewis is far from coincidental.\n\nIt's almost a year exactly since the UK government introduced the abortion laws that were supported by Westminster MPs but opposed by a number of Northern Ireland parties who accused No 10 of trampling over devolution.\n\nThe government remains bound by law to ensure the services are implemented and it's understood frustration was mounting behind the scenes at the slow pace within Stormont.\n\nThere is also an incoming legal challenge which may have focused minds in London.\n\nThis development will certainly turn up the political heat but it won't lead to imminent change as Mr Lewis will likely take the powers and wait to see how the executive reacts before deciding to go further.\n\nSinn Féin's Emma Sheerin called on the health minister to \"fulfil his legal obligations and responsibilities\" by commissioning abortion services.\n\nAlliance Party MLA Paula Bradshaw said it was \"bewildering\" that legislation approved last year had not been put into effect.\n\n\"The requirement in law and in treaty is for women in Northern Ireland to have the same access to health services as in the rest of the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no excuse for any minister, either though action or inaction, to stand in the way of that.\"\n\nThe law changes meant abortion laws in Northern Ireland altered significantly last year, with terminations available in all circumstances of the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is legal in other circumstances up to 24 weeks and beyond that for cases of non-fatal fetal disabilities and fatal fetal abnormalities.\n\nA change to the law last year allows abortions in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy\n\nHowever, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is challenging the UK government, the Stormont executive and the Department of Health for delaying the commissioning of services.\n\nAt present health trusts are carrying out interim services for early medical abortions up to 10 weeks, meaning women seeking a termination beyond that are required to travel to England.\n\nThe DUP, which opposed the changes to the abortion laws by Westminster, has proposed a piece of legislation at Stormont seeking to restrict abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities.\n\nIt passed its second reading on Monday with the support of a number of parties.\n\nSinn Féin abstained on that vote but has separately called for the Department of Health to commission full abortion services as required under the regulations.\n\nThe Alliance Party, the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists view the issue as a matter of conscience for individual assembly members.", "The incident happened in York Street in north Belfast\n\nFour women have been treated for stab wounds after an incident in north Belfast early on Wednesday.\n\nPolice received a report just after 02:00 GMT that a woman had been stabbed and a man attacked in the York Street area.\n\nWhen officers arrived, four women reported injuries as a result of being stabbed.\n\nTwo of the women, one in her teens and the other in her 20s, remain in hospital.\n\nThe other two, both in their 20s, were treated at the scene by the ambulance service.\n\nA man in his 20s suffered a minor injury to his hand.\n\nTwo women, aged 26 and 27, were later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.\n\nPolice at the scene on Wednesday morning\n\nA 20-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and attempted grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThey all remain in custody.\n\nDet Sgt O'Flaherty said: \"Our enquiries into this incident, which we are treating as attempted murder, are continuing and we are working to establish exactly what happened.\"\n\nHe appealed for witnesses to contact police.", "BBC director general Tim Davie has said the plans will \"get us closer to audiences, create jobs and investment\"\n\nThe BBC is to move some of its key departments and staff outside London to make the corporation more reflective of the UK as a whole.\n\nIt said its plans represent a \"top-to-bottom change\" and its biggest transformation in decades.\n\nEntire departments and news divisions will be moved to Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and Salford.\n\nThe BBC's 22,000 employees, many of whom are currently working from home, were briefed on the plans on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC has a commitment to commission and produce \"a clear majority\" of TV programmes across the UK and not in London\n\n\"Our mission must be to deliver for the whole of the UK and ensure every household gets value from the BBC,\" said director general Tim Davie.\n\n\"These plans will get us closer to audiences, create jobs and investment, and develop and nurture new talent.\"\n\nOther changes to the corporation will include:\n\nMr Davie said the BBC had been \"an essential part of the UK's culture, democracy and creativity for almost a century\" and had faced some of its \"toughest moments\" over the last year.\n\n\"Now, as we look to the future, we must play our part in supporting social and economic recovery; rebuilding the creative sector and telling the stories that need to be heard from all corners of the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC newsroom is based in New Broadcasting House, London\n\nPlans set out in detail in the BBC's 13-page Across the UK document include:\n\nIn an address to staff on Thursday morning, Mr Davie said the plans would make the BBC \"a genuinely UK-wide organisation\" and \"a post-Covid success story admired worldwide\".\n\n\"People must feel we are closer to them,\" he said. \"This shift will create a much more distributed model that moves not just people, but power and decision-making to the UK's Nations and regions.\n\n\"Taken together, our proposals mean the BBC will cumulatively spend at least an extra £700m outside London by 2027/28.\"\n\nBroadcasting trade union Bectu said it was \"good to see the BBC wanting to build on its strong local offering and prioritise getting closer to communities\".\n\nBut its \"immediate concern\" was how the plans would affect is members, adding \"the devil will be in the detail\".\n\nIt said it would examine the proposals closely to ensure \"workers are properly supported through these changes and that the need for redundancies is minimised\".\n\nMP Julian Knight, chairman of the DCMS committee, said it welcomed the BBC's decision to \"rebalance\" and \"give licence fee payers greater bang for their buck\".\n\nHe expressed caution over the financial implications, however, saying he hoped the BBC would not repeat \"some of the costly mistakes made by the BBC in its previous move to Salford\".\n\nWhen Mr Davie was named the BBC's new director general last June, he said the BBC's mission had \"never been more relevant, important or necessary\".\n\n\"Looking forward, we will need to accelerate change so that we serve all our audiences in this fast-moving world,\" he said.\n\nWhen he took over the job later in the year, he said there had to be \"a radical shift\" in the BBC's focus to ensure everyone got value from the licence fee.\n\n\"If current trends continue, we will not feel indispensable enough to all our audience,\" he said. \"We must evolve to protect what we cherish.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The previous model, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20, was released last August\n\nSamsung, the world’s biggest computer-chip manufacturer, has warned of a “serious imbalance” in the semiconductor industry, as global shortages cause disruption.\n\nIt also said it might skip the launch of the next Galaxy Note smartphone, to streamline its lineup.\n\nThere are growing fears market shortages could slow economic recovery after coronavirus.\n\nEU, US and Chinese governments are seeking to boost production.\n\n“There’s a serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally,” Samsung's co-chief executive and mobile chief, Koh Dong-jin, said at a shareholder meeting.\n\n\"It is hard to say the shortage issue has been solved 100%.\"\n\nSamsung was working with overseas partners to meet demand, he added.\n\nThe semiconductor shortage began last year, as the pandemic hit.\n\nSuffering from poor sales, car manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nIn response, the chip supply from factories was transferred to other sectors that had high demands.\n\nAnd unable to retrieve cancelled orders when demand for cars grew, Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota and General Motors all had to reduce production.\n\nMeanwhile, as technology sales boomed, with people staying at home, the other sectors were also affected.\n\nNew graphics cards were scarce, Apple staggered the release of some iPhones, and the latest models of Xbox and PlayStation consoles are selling out each time a new stock is announced.\n\n\"The semiconductor manufacturers are working hard to fill the gaps in supply,\" Counterpoint Research partner Peter Richardson said.\n\n\"But it will take time before investment translates to more supply.\n\n\"This means that shortages for some products may continue for several months - possibly even in to 2022.\"\n\nHowever, most consumers were unlikely to feel the impact, unless buying a new car, he added.\n\nSamsung's release of a new Galaxy Note smartphone may now be delayed until 2022, Mr Koh signalled.\n\nAs a high-end model, “it might be difficult to release”, he said.\n\nAnother popular model, the Samsung Galaxy S21, was launched in January.\n\n“It could be a burden to unveil two flagship models in a year,” Mr Koh added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\nQuilter Cheviot research analyst Ben Barringer said: \"Growing trade tensions between the US and China put the semiconductor industry in uncertainty, even before the pandemic.\n\n\"This shortage illustrates how important certain countries have become in terms of supply chain - and how important access to semiconductors is.\"\n\nAnd last month's closure of its chip-fabrication plant by adverse weather conditions in Texas had exacerbated Samsung's problems.\n\nTaiwanese research firm TrendForce estimated the shutdown could reduce global smartphone production by 5% in the second quarter of this year.\n\n\"They are trying to differentiate between absolute demands and nice-to-haves,\" Mr Barringer added.", "Asante Campbell had kissed his fiancée and baby daughter goodnight before he was stabbed to death\n\nA drill rapper who tried to deflect the blame on to his identical twin after a new father was stabbed to death has been convicted of murder.\n\nDNA matching the profile of 18-year-old Javell Hall was found on the sheath of a knife used to kill Asante Campbell in north London, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nAsked about the DNA, Hall said: \"I never touched that knife. If it's not mine it must be [my twin brother's].\"\n\nKofi Abusah, 19, was also convicted of rail worker Mr Campbell's murder.\n\nThe 24-year-old was attacked by a group of males on an estate in Hendon on 29 February 2020, the trial heard.\n\nMr Campbell, who was stabbed through his car window, had been waiting to meet a colleague before setting off for a night shift, jurors were told.\n\nEarlier, he had kissed his fiancée and baby daughter goodnight.\n\nMr Campbell was found with stab wounds in Parson Street, Hendon\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC had asked Hall if he could think of any reason his DNA or his brother's DNA had been on the sheath, but the defendant claimed to have never touched the knife.\n\nHall, from Hayes, and Abusah, from Edgware, were remanded into custody ahead of sentencing on 23 April.\n\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict in relation to a third defendant, Hafid Omar, 20, from Mill Hill.\n\nHe was remanded into custody pending a decision about whether he will be tried again for murder.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As I write, nine members of the Scottish Parliament are still in a virtual meeting, discussing, voting, likely indeed arguing, over their conclusions on the future of the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nTheir inquiry is part of the machinations of a long running dispute between one of the most successful political duos this country has seen for decades, as the first minister and her predecessor, and very much former friend, have come to blows. Remind yourself what the very sorry saga is all about here.\n\nWhat we know from inside that committee room is that the MSPs have voted by a margin of one vote, 5-4, that Nicola Sturgeon misled them.\n\nBefore we see the final report, which may not come for a while, it's hard to know what caveats they have applied, precisely what the circumstances are that they describe. The details will matter.\n\nMs Sturgeon's team is already trying to dismiss the findings as a partisan attack, a predictable political play from a committee of MSPs, designed to damage the first minister, whose popularity they envy, who has been almost untouchable for so long.\n\nThe findings they really fear are from the separate Hamilton Inquiry, being carried out by an independent lawyer in to whether she broke the rules that govern ministers' behaviour.\n\nIf she's found to have done that, convention suggests she would have to resign.\n\nIt is clear that Nicola Sturgeon has no intention of giving into opposition demands out there to get her to quit on the basis of the MSPs' conclusions.\n\nOf course this is intensely political, it's not just about who said what, when and where.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave evidence to the committee earlier this month\n\nBut a public finding from a parliamentary committee that she misled them can't just be brushed away.\n\nIt's a serious accusation from a group of senior politicians after an investigation that looked at thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nIt's a huge distraction just before the official start of vital Scottish elections. It underlines the bitter lines drawn inside the SNP during this saga.\n\nAnd it's damaging to the reputation of one of the country's most important politicians, whose personal standing is key not just to what happens in Scotland, but what happens to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe SNP has been all powerful under Ms Sturgeon's leadership. And her personal profile has been a vital part of creating a powerful political sense, although importantly never a certainty, that another referendum on Scottish independence was somehow inevitable.\n\nThe SNP hope to hold another referendum on independence\n\nIf the SNP clinches a majority in May, it's her intention to use that to claim a mandate for another ballot. (Remember, it is also the UK government's firm intention to say no, which is, as things stand, its legal right.)\n\nBut in turn, anything that tarnishes her, could damage the SNP's standing in those May elections.\n\nAnd anything that harms her credibility, chips away at the sometimes lazy political sentiment, that the events of the last few years have set Scotland firmly on a path out of the UK.\n\nThe arguments of a group of politicians won't settle all of this.\n\nBut what they decide is one part of the overall wrangle over the future of the union itself.", "Merthyr Tydfil has a seven-day case rate of 159.1 per 100,000 population compared to the Wales average of 43.3\n\nExtended households and workplaces are behind a rise in Covid cases in Merthyr Tydfil, a health chief has said.\n\nThe flare-up was down to \"a bit of a loss of discipline\" said Dr Kelechi Nnoaham, director of public health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nLocalised hotpot Gellideg and Merthyr Town has had 44 cases in the past week, nearly half of those in the local area.\n\nThe county has a seven-day case rate of 159.1 per 100,000 population compared to the Wales average of 43.3.\n\nThis was the fourth highest case rate in the UK on Thursday.\n\nCovid rules currently allow most people to only meet indoors with people they live with.\n\nMerthyr council has responded by setting up a mobile testing unit at the Swansea Road estate.\n\nThe hotspot in Gellideg and Town is at a rate of 625.6 per 100,000 for the past seven days, by far the highest of these localised case rates in Wales.\n\nDr Nnoaham told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We have identified about four different clusters that are largely responsible for the increase in cases that we have had.\n\n\"We know that a number of workplaces have been involved in this cluster, we know there has been an extended household cluster in one of the areas.\n\n\"I think we understand exactly why this has happened and I just want to use the opportunity to appeal to people out there that whilst we're making progress in the vaccination programme we're by no means home and dry and we still need to maintain those precautions and be extra vigilant.\"\n\nHe said the spread was largely down to young people in the area.\n\n\"When we looked at the age profile of the majority of the cases and these clusters, what we're talking about is largely young people who have not had their vaccination,\" he said.\n\n\"And secondly, it does appear that the loss of discipline around the social distancing [and] face masks has been more likely in the younger populations.\n\n\"There's a bit of a loss of discipline that has happened more recently\".\n\nHe urged people to watch Saturday's Grand Slam between Wales and France at home and not with friends and family.\n\nOnly those who live alone, are single and live in a house share, single parents, families with babies and 16 and 17-year-olds who do not live with an adult had been able to form a so-called \"support bubble\".\n\nFour people from two households can meet outdoors to socialise, including in gardens.\n\nA graffiti artist hopes his work around valleys communities will remind people to wear their masks\n\nThe case rate in Merthyr Tydfil was again the highest case rate in Wales.\n\nThis is the highest point reached locally in the past six weeks, but still a long way from the levels seen in previous months.\n\nCases in the area hit a peak of 1,349 per 100,000 on 18 December, two days before Wales was placed under a national lockdown, with the county having the worst case rate in the UK.\n\nAt the time officials blamed the spike in cases on the \"closeness\" and \"tight-knit\" nature of valleys communities, with people living close to extended family and friends and popping round to check on their neighbours.\n\nIn an area with high rates of deprivation, there were also concerns about people having to make tough choices between going to work to get paid and isolating if contacted by tracers.\n\nAt the start of February there was a feeling of hope as case rates fell to some of the lowest in Wales, but there were warnings they could rise again as people became weary of lockdown measures.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 1,200 people are said to be in intensive care in hospitals across Paris\n\nThe French capital is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave.\n\nSome 21 million people in 16 areas of France will be placed under the measures from midnight on Friday.\n\nThese measures will not be as strict as the previous lockdown, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, with people allowed to exercise outdoors.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 35,000 new infections within the past 24 hours.\n\nMr Castex said a \"third wave\" of infections in the country was looking increasingly likely.\n\nThe situation in Paris is particularly worrying with 1,200 people in intensive care there, more than at the peak of the second wave in November, Health Minister Olivier Véran said.\n\nUnder the new measures, non-essential businesses will be forced to close, but schools will remain open, along with hairdressers if they follow a \"particular sanitary protocol\".\n\nGovernment spokesman Gabriel Attal stressed there would be differences with the two earlier lockdowns and said further details would be given of which business could stay open or would have to shut.\n\nPeople will be allowed to exercise outdoors within 10km (6 miles) of their home and are not allowed to travel to other parts of the country unless they have a valid reason. Those in the affected areas will have to fill out a form to explain why they have left their homes.\n\nThere is a weary resignation about Paris, as people prepare for another four weeks of tedium. Yes, we know this third lockdown won't be quite as bad as the second - which was itself a lighter version of the first. But still.\n\nAnother month of bits of paper for the police; another month of having to justify a trip to the supermarket; another month without meaningful social contact. It's enough to drive you to distraction.\n\nFrance's SNCF train company reported a surge in bookings ahead of the new lockdown\n\nExcept it hasn't. In general, most Parisians simply knuckle under. Those who can are leaving by train or car, but because schools are staying open, most families will stick it out in the city.\n\nEveryone's made the calculation. The long Easter weekend in two weeks is a bust. But the Paris school holidays start on 17 April - exactly when the lockdown is supposed to end.\n\nThat's the light that will keep people going. Spring break.\n\nAs well as the greater Paris region, the northern Hauts-de-France, Seine-Maritime and Eure areas will go under lockdown as well as the Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera.\n\nFrance's nationwide curfew will remain in place. However, it will begin an hour later at 19:00 (18:00 GMT), taking into account the longer hours of daylight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFears of a third wave come as the French government faces criticism for its slow vaccine rollout.\n\nFrom Friday, France will resume vaccinating using the AstraZeneca jab following the EMA's announcement that it was fit for use. Mr Castex said he would be getting the vaccine straight away to prove that it was OK.\n\nFrance had suspended the jab after a number of people in Europe reported blood clots developing after the vaccine was administered.\n\nA survey conducted just as the suspension was announced found that only 20% of the French have confidence in AstraZeneca.", "Tokyo Olympics creative head Hiroshi Sasaki will resign after making derogatory comments about a female comedian\n\nTokyo Olympics' creative chief has resigned after suggesting that a female comedian could appear as an \"Olympig\", in the latest setback for the Games.\n\nHiroshi Sasaki said plus-size entertainer Naomi Watanabe could wear pig ears at the opening ceremony.\n\nHe later apologised and admitted his remarks were \"a huge insult\" to her. Ms Watanabe has yet to respond.\n\nThe incident comes after ex-Games president Yoshiro Mori was forced to quit for making sexist remarks.\n\n\"There was a very inappropriate expression in my ideas and remarks,\" Mr Sasaki said in a statement released through the Games organising committee. \"I sincerely apologise to her and people who have felt discomfort with such content.\"\n\nNaomi Watanabe is one of Japan's most well-known comedians\n\nMs Watanabe, 33, is one of Japan's most famous comedians, and is known for her celebrity impersonations and body positivity advocacy work.\n\nIn recent years she has spearheaded a body positive movement called \"pochakawaii\", which translates to \"chubby and cute\", and in 2014 she started one of Japan's first brands to offer plus-size clothing.\n\nMr Sasaki, 66, who is in charge of the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, had made the suggestions involving Watanabe last year via a group chat on messaging app Line. The proposal was immediately rejected by his colleagues, who told him it was inappropriate.\n\nHis resignation came shortly after weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported his remarks on Wednesday.\n\nOrganisers have said that current Games president Seiko Hashimoto plans to address the matter at a news conference on Thursday.\n\nFormer Olympian and Japan's ex-Olympics minister Ms Hashimoto was appointed Games president last month after Mr Mori sparked backlash when he said that women talk too much. He also said that meetings with many female board directors would \"take a lot of time\".\n\nSince taking on the role, Ms Hashimoto has pledged to make gender equality a top priority at the Games, adding 12 female directors to the organising committee's executive board.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in seven years with a 3-0 aggregate win over Atletico Madrid.\n\nHaving established a slender first-leg lead, Emerson Palmieri's late strike sealed the win after Hakim Ziyech had earlier put the hosts firmly in control with a low effort after good work from Kai Havertz and Timo Werner.\n\nUntil then their dominance in possession had not translated into chances in front of goal, and in a nervy opening they also appeared fortunate to survive a penalty appeal after visiting winger Yannick Carrasco was pulled back by Blues captain Cesar Azpilicueta.\n\nItalian official Daniele Orsato waved away the claim, and the incident was not examined by VAR.\n\nAtletico knocked Liverpool out of the competition in dramatic fashion at the same stage last term, but the La Liga leaders rarely looked capable of recovering after Ziyech's goal.\n\nInstead Chelsea, who remain unbeaten in 13 games since Thomas Tuchel took charge, had opportunities to extend their lead before Emerson's stoppage-time effort and deservedly progressed against an Atletico side that had Stefan Savic sent off late on for elbowing Antonio Rudiger.\n\nThe Blues join Premier League rivals Liverpool and Manchester City in the draw for the quarter and semi-finals on Friday at 11:00 GMT.\n• None It is like having 'half a man more' - is Kante back to his best?\n• None How Tuchel harmonised Chelsea - now can he find more goals?\n\nEfficient rather than entertaining has been the mantra since Tuchel took charge at Chelsea, with the club's defensive solidity contributing to 11 clean sheets in their 13 matches in all competitions.\n\nAnd while this performance can also be filed away under that description, it delivered a fine result against seasoned European campaigners.\n\nDiego Simeone's side may not be known for their flair or invention but they showed at Anfield just over a year ago how dangerous they can be.\n\nHowever, Tuchel set his side up perfectly with N'Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic stifling the space in midfield and using the ball intelligently when in possession.\n\nForwards Ziyech, Werner and Havertz were also integral in that regard, with one of the trio often triggering the Chelsea pressing game and setting the tone as they stifled their opponents.\n\nWerner, who has endured a difficult time in front of goal since his switch to Chelsea, was particularly impressive.\n\nExhibiting pace and composure, the German forward accelerated onto a Havertz pass before superbly playing the ball into Ziyech's path for the opening goal.\n\nIt proved a pivotal moment on the night and laid the platform for the assured way in which the Blues saw out the tie.\n\nWhile Atletico can now turn their attention to holding off Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, this was another disappointing exit for a club that has reached the final twice in the past decade.\n\nSimeone and his side have been known for revelling in these occasions, using their energy and application to often emerge as winners when tagged as the underdogs.\n\nHowever, this performance exhibited few of those qualities and there was also a noticeable vulnerability in defence whenever Chelsea attacked with pace and purpose.\n\nThey were no better in attack. Luis Suarez, the man they had hoped could unlock Chelsea's defence, was withdrawn before the hour mark after getting little change from Kurt Zouma, Rudiger or Azpilicueta and looking like a player very much in final stages of his career.\n\nThey were restricted to just a single chance of note in added time - when Joao Felix saw home goalkeeper Edouard Mendy save his fierce drive - underlining the gulf between the sides.\n\n'You need to feel it' - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: \"The most important thing is that we feel we deserve this.\n\n\"It's most important you feel it and that no one has to convince you - you need to feel it.\n\n\"They play with a special bond and performances and results like this give you a certain edge and glue to achieve special things. You can only achieve this through results and experiences.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure no one wants to play against us. It's a super difficult challenge ahead because we are already in the last eight. It's a big step, but no need to be afraid, we take what we get and prepare as best as possible.\"\n• None After a run of four consecutive eliminations when appearing at the last-16 stage in the Champions League, Chelsea have progressed to the competition's quarter-finals for the first time since 2013-14 under Jose Mourinho.\n• None Atletico Madrid have lost three consecutive knockout stages games in the Champions League/European Cup for the very first time, also losing both legs of a two-legged knockout tie in the competition for the first time.\n• None Chelsea are yet to lose in 13 matches under Thomas Tuchel in all competitions (Won nine, drawn 4), making this now the longest unbeaten start to a tenure by any manager in the club's history, overtaking Luiz Felipe Scolari's 12 games in 2008.\n• None Chelsea are yet to concede a goal in six home games under Tuchel in all competitions; indeed, the Blues have kept 11 clean sheets in 13 games under the German, more than any other Premier League club since his first game in charge in January.\n• None Chelsea became the first English club to eliminate Atletico Madrid from the knockout stage of a major European competition since Gary Megson's Bolton Wanderers in the 2007-08 Uefa Cup last 32.\n• None Atletico Madrid have now lost more Champions League games against Chelsea (four) than any other opponent.\n• None Hakim Ziyech scored his first home goal in 12 appearances at Stamford Bridge for Chelsea; four of his seven goals in the Champions League have come against Spanish sides (2 v Real Madrid, 1 v Valencia, 1 v Atletico Madrid).\n• None In all competitions, Timo Werner (10 goals, 7 assists) has been directly involved in more goals this season than any other player for Chelsea.\n• None Atletico Madrid defender Stefan Savic received his third Champions League red card; only Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edgar Davids and Sergio Ramos (all four) have had more in the competition's history.\n\nChelsea host Sheffield United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Sunday, 21 March (13:30 GMT) in a game that will be broadcast live on BBC One. Atletico Madrid face Alaves in La Liga on the same day (17:30 GMT).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Atletico Madrid 0. Emerson (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Saúl Ñíguez (Atletico Madrid) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. João Félix (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Atletico Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt saved. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic.\n• None Stefan Savic (Atletico Madrid) is shown the red card for violent conduct. 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. Dominic Cummings tells MPs the deal he struck to work at Number 10\n\nThe prime minister's former aide, Dominic Cummings, has criticised the Department of Health as \"a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe said that was why Boris Johnson had taken direct control of the vaccine programme.\n\nHe also told MPs Mr Johnson approached him about working in Downing Street the week before he took office.\n\nHe said he asked him to \"help sort out the huge Brexit nightmare\".\n\nMr Cummings said he agreed but one of his preconditions was that science funding should be doubled.\n\nHe was giving evidence to MPs on the Science and Technology Committee about the creation of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency know as Aria.\n\nBut in his first public appearance since leaving office, he also criticised the health department's response to the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"In spring 2020 you had a situation where the Department for Health was just a smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE and all of that, you had serious problems with the funding bureaucracy for therapeutics on Covid.\"\n\nHe said the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, had advised Number 10 that the vaccine rollout should not be run out of the Department for Health and that a separate task force should be created.\n\n\"It's not coincidental that the vaccine programme worked the way it did. It's not coincidental that to do that we had to take it out of the Department of Health,\" he added.\n\n\"We had to have it authorised very directly by the prime minister and say strip away all the normal nonsense that we can see is holding back funding.\"\n\nBut a source at the health department told the BBC's chief political correspondent Adam Fleming that getting the vaccine programme established was a \"massive team effort\".\n\nThey added: \"Everyone in DHSC was and is spending their time focused on saving lives, expanding the world leading vaccine rollout and getting through this pandemic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Vaccine Taskforce is a team of almost 200 people at the Department for Business that was established to make sure the UK got promising vaccines.\n\nMr Cummings said as the country emerges from lockdown there needs to be an \"urgent very, very hard look\" by Parliament at \"what went wrong and why\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"One of the most obvious lessons is the incredible value potentially of getting science and technology stuff right, the disaster that can come if you don't get it right.\"\n\nIt was this \"horrific Whitehall bureaucracy\" he wanted to strip away when he championed the new \"high risk\" Aria scientific research agency, he told MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The prime minister came to speak to me the Sunday before he became prime minister and said: 'Would I come in to Downing Street to try and help sort out the huge Brexit nightmare?'.\n\n\"I said, yes, if first of all you are deadly serious about actually getting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum; secondly, double the science budget; third, create some Aria like entity, and fourth support me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works because it is a disaster zone. And he said 'deal'.\"\n\nAnswering MPs' questions about science funding, Mr Cummings said scientists had been lobbying for the creation of a body such as Aria that would have \"extreme freedom\" but he said he was aware that this was \"completely hostile to normal bureaucracy\".\n\nThe government says Aria will fund \"high-risk, high-reward\" scientific research and \"help to cement the UK's position as a global science superpower\".\n\nIt 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\", ministers say.\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, the government has allocated £10.36bn for its research programmes and bodies.\n\nLabour said there needed to be greater transparency around how the agency would operate.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler, who sits on the science committee, said because Aria was exempt from freedom of information requests this would undoubtedly \"raise alarm bells\" about how taxpayers' money would be spent given \"the recent PPE scandals\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng insisted the \"corporate governance arrangements are very robust\".\n\nHe added he would be responsible for reporting to Parliament on Aria and that the agency would have to submit accounts that would be scrutinised by MPs.\n\n\"I think there will be a great deal of transparency and oversight,\" he added.\n\nAt the start of the hearing, chair Greg Clark said Mr Cummings had agreed to give evidence on the Covid pandemic to a joint inquiry by the science and health committees.", "Bennylyn Burke was last seen at her South Gloucestershire home on 17 February\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter Jellica have discovered two bodies in Dundee.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the bodies were found concealed within a house in the city's Troon Avenue.\n\nIt followed \"extensive inquiries\" by detectives and forensic experts.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place. However relatives of Ms Burke, 25, from South Gloucestershire, have been informed of the development.\n\nPost-mortem examinations will be carried out to establish the causes of death.\n\nThe house on Troon Avenue was cordoned off\n\nPolice at the property in Troon Avenue, Dundee\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, of Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"This is a significant development in what has been a particularly challenging inquiry for everyone involved.\n\n\"Bennylyn's family have been informed of this development and we will continue to support them at this difficult time as our investigation continues.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in this investigation are with them at this time.\"\n\nDet Supt Mackie thanked the local community for its co-operation in what he said was a \"large and complex\" police operation involving many specialist resources.\n\nOfficers first attended the property at about 15:20 on Friday, 5 March - four days after Ms Burke and two children had been reported missing from South Gloucestershire.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said Ms Burke had last been seen at her home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, on 17 February.\n\nTributes to the mother and daughter have been left in the street\n\nThe second child reported missing has been traced and is being supported.\n\nLast week Andrew Innes, 50, appeared in court on 8 March charged with the murder of Ms Burke and Jellica.\n\nHe is accused of killing the mother and daughter at his home in Dundee.\n\nMr Innes made no plea and was remanded in custody following an appearance in private at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nHe made a second appearance in court on Tuesday, with the case being fully committed for trial.", "Sarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nAn inquest into the death of Sarah Everard has been opened and adjourned until the conclusion of criminal proceedings.\n\nThe 33-year-old vanished as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nMs Everard's family were following the hearing at South East Kent Coroner's Court via video-link.\n\nNo cause of death was given and her body was released for a funeral.\n\nA second post-mortem examination has been carried out as the first was inconclusive, the inquest was told.\n\nSenior coroner Patricia Harding heard evidence from the Met Police's Acting Det Insp Lee Tullett, one of the investigating officers on the case.\n\nHe told the coroner that police first became involved on the afternoon of Thursday 4 March, when Ms Everard's boyfriend Josh Lowth got in touch as he was concerned he had not been able to contact her.\n\nThe officer said there had been no activity on her phone after a call to Mr Lowth the night before, and that Ms Everard had failed to attend a meeting at work on the Thursday.\n\nHundreds of floral tributes to Sarah Everard have been placed at the Clapham Common Bandstand\n\nHe said that CCTV evidence was gathered by police and searches were conducted in London.\n\n\"Our inquiries led us to an area of woodland, Hoads Wood, just outside Ashford in Kent and we discovered Sarah there on 10 March at about 16:20,\" the officer said.\n\nAdjourning the inquest, the coroner said: \"It remains for me to say to Sarah's family members how very sorry I am for your loss.\"\n\nPC Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with the murder and kidnap of Ms Everard.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 9 July ahead of a trial that is set to start on 25 October.\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. Metal on rock: The sound of Perseverance driving on Mars\n\nAfter sending back sounds of the wind and the zaps of its laser, the robot has just recorded the noise coming from its metal wheels as they clank across the planet's rocky surface.\n\n\"If I heard these sounds driving my car, I'd pull over and call for a tow,\" joked Dave Gruel, a lead engineer working the rover's cameras and microphones.\n\nThey were included on the robot to give the public a keener sense of what Mars is like, but they also have some scientific value. The nature of the sounds says something about the physical properties of the surface - how hard or how soft the rocks are, for example.\n\nThe newly released recording was made during a 27m drive by Perseverance on 7 March. The media at the top of this page is an abridged version of a sequence that runs for 16 minutes in raw form.\n\nSounds come across a little differently on Mars compared with Earth, due to the much reduced air pressure and contrasting composition. The sounds can seem somewhat muffled. The noise from the wheels is certainly loud, though.\n\nIn amongst the clatter, engineers say they can hear a kind of scratching noise, the source of which they are still trying to identify.\n\nThey are not sure if this is electromagnetic interference from one of the rover's electronics boxes or just another aspect of the general rattle that is produced in the interaction between the robot's mobility system and the surface.\n\nEngineers have been trying to identify a location to fly the helicopter\n\nPerseverance landed in Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 February. Most of its time since has been spent testing all its systems, tools and instruments.\n\nAn immediate goal is a helicopter experiment. The rover brought a small chopper with it from Earth.\n\nThe vehicle is looking for a suitable stretch of terrain where the 2kg device, called Ingenuity, can be put safely on the ground. At present, the aircraft is slung beneath Perseverance's belly.\n\nNasa says engineers have now identified a likely location which they will discuss in more detail in a briefing on Tuesday next week.\n\nThe team behind Ingenuity will be given 30 Martian days, or sols (31 Earth days), to conduct up to five test flights.\n\nOnce complete, the main mission can begin. Perseverance is on Mars to search for signs of past life and to collect rocks that can be sent back to Earth later this decade.\n\nAn early destination for the robot will be the remains of a delta - a structure built up from the silt and sand dumped by a river as it enters a wider body of water.\n\nIn Jezero's case, this wider body was very likely a crater-wide lake that existed billions of years ago.", "Kwasi Kwarteng said it was important to restore confidence\n\nProposals to reduce the dominance of the \"Big Four\" accountancy firms and scrap the industry regulator have been unveiled by the government.\n\nThe aim is to improve regulatory standards after high profile corporate failures such as Carillion and BHS.\n\nAlso, company directors will face more responsibility to ensure accounts are accurate, or face tougher penalties.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the changes would help restore confidence in business.\n\nThere will now be a 16-week consultation on the proposals.\n\nThe business of auditing companies' accounts, and ensuring they are a fair reflection of their financial health, is dominated by four accountancy firms: KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY.\n\nHowever, there is concern that providing both accountancy and auditing services creates a conflict of interest.\n\nUnder the new rules, large companies would be required to use smaller auditing firms to conduct part of their annual audit, in an attempt to dilute the Big Four's dominance.\n\nThe new proposals would require KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY to make their audits more rigorous.\n\nThey could face a cap on the number of companies on the FTSE 350 index they may audit, if those improvements don't go far enough.\n\nThe government said last year almost a third of audits inspected on the FTSE 350 were in need of improvement.\n\nThe largest private companies in the UK would also face greater scrutiny from regulators under the new rules.\n\nThe collapse of construction giant Carillion shed a light on failings in the audit profession.\n\nSir Donald Brydon, a former chairman of the London Stock Exchange who authored a government review on improving corporate governance, said the new proposals would help to \"restore trust\" and that similar measures had worked in the US.\n\n\"So many of us depend on business for our living and our life, whether it is suppliers, customers, employees or shareholders,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"What really matters is that the information on which those people make their decisions is accurate and honest, and an auditor's role is to ensure as far as humanly possible, at a reasonable cost, that information is truthful.\"\n\nHe added: \"People want to know three things about a business - how is it performing, is it honestly run, and will it survive. And auditors are key to answering all three.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng said: \"Restoring business confidence, but also people's confidence in business, is crucial to repairing our economy and building back better from the pandemic.\n\n\"When big companies go bust, the effects are felt far and wide with job losses and the British taxpayer picking up the tab.\n\n\"It's clear from large-scale collapses like Thomas Cook, Carillion and BHS that Britain's audit regime needs to be modernised with a package of sensible, proportionate reforms.\"\n\nA new accountancy watchdog, the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA), would be launched to implement the changes, replacing the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). It would have legal powers to force auditors and companies to resubmit their accounts without the need for court action.\n\nUK companies and directors also face curbs on dividend and bonus payments if there is misconduct, they publish inaccurate accounts, or have insufficient cash reserves. Directors of failed firms could also see their bonuses clawed back up to two years after a pay award is made, to clamp down on \"rewards for failure\", the government added.\n\nBy providing more transparency over company accounts the new rules should also help deter firms that could be facing insolvency from making largescale dividend and bonus payments. They will also be required to produce \"resilience statements\".\n\nAccountancy firms welcomed the proposals, with Jon Holt, head of audit at KPMG UK, saying: \"It is an ambitious package of strategic reform. Prioritising and clarifying the audit reform agenda is an important step to rebuild trust in the profession.\"\n\nKevin Ellis, chairman and senior partner at PwC UK, also stressed that importance of \"driving trust and confidence\" in the profession.\n\n\"We welcome comprehensive consultation. For lasting change, we need a coherent set of measures and for all parties to play their part. Listening to the views of a wide range of businesses, investors and other interested parties will be key to achieving this,\" Mr Ellis said.\n\nThe proposals also won the support of employers' groups. The CBI saying the reforms would \"inject focus and momentum behind efforts to maintain the highest possible standards\".\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said the changes would be a \"positive step\". But Suren Thiru, BCC head of economics, cautioned: \"Government and regulators must tread carefully to avoid unintended consequences, including adding to the already onerous cost burden on firms and undermining the UK's global reputation as great place to do business.\"", "Scotland has delivered more than two million doses of the coronavirus vaccine\n\nScotland is to get 500,000 fewer vaccine doses over the next month due to UK supply issues.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the country remains on track to meet its targets despite the shortfall.\n\nUK ministers have faced calls to explain why there would be a significant reduction in incoming vaccines from the end of March.\n\nIt is partly due to a delay in a delivery from India of five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs: \"We expect that over the next month we will have approximately 500,000 fewer doses than we had previously anticipated.\n\n\"For that reason there may be periods in April where we need to prioritise second doses.\"\n\nSecond doses should be administered within 12 weeks of a first dose.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that the government still intends to offer first doses to all people in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) top priority groups by mid-April.\n\nThis covers everyone aged over 50, unpaid carers and people with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe first minister said she \"still expects\" to offer a dose to all adults in the population by the end of July.\n\nShe added: \"We have always known that supplies will be subject to some volatility but the roll-out of the programme overall continues to be really encouraging and it does give us real cause for optimism now about the months ahead.\"\n\nEarlier, Scotland's national clinical director told Holyrood's Covid-19 committee that targets should be met despite a \"significant reduction\" in UK vaccine supplies.\n\nProfessor Jason Leitch said ministers may have to think about \"who comes next and when they come next\" after April.\n\nHe added: \"We do not anticipate it will affect our second doses at all because we can prioritise them and just now they are mainly Pfizer.\"\n\nProf Leitch said there is no suggestion from either Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca that they will not be able to meet their end targets.\n\nThe national clinical director has made it clear that disruption to the vaccine supply will not affect two key targets.\n\nAll those over 50 or with underlying health conditions should still get their first jab by mid April, and the whole of the adult population should still be offered a jab by July.\n\nOne big question is when people in their 40s with no underlying health conditions - who may have been assuming they would be vaccinated in mid to late April - will now get their jab.\n\nAnother is whether disruption to the supply will have any effect on the easing of lockdown.\n\nAs the plan was to vaccinate over-50s by mid April and it takes three weeks for someone to get as much protection as one dose offers, it would seem unlikely that there will be any effect on the changes planned for 5 and 26 April.\n\nBut will progress be sufficient to allow other restrictions to ease in May and June as hoped?\n\nThe groups who will be vaccinated by mid-April account account for 99% of Covid deaths and the overwhelming majority of hospital admissions.\n\nBut with a growing amount of evidence that vaccination also reduces transmission, immunising younger people will also play a part in keeping case numbers down and providing even more protection to those most at risk.\n\nIt will be well worth watching the numbers in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UK government said neither a single factory nor a country was responsible for the expected slow down.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick told the BBC that UK supplies would be lower \"than we might have hoped for in the coming weeks\", but this was expect to increase in April.\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the JCVI, said the supply issues meant efforts would focus on the first phase of the programme to vaccinate the over 50s.\n\nSecond doses for those immunised earlier in the year would also be prioritised\n\nThe Bristol University academic told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that phase two - to vaccinate the remaining adult population - would move forward when supplies were restored.\n\nProf Finn said: \"We have seen this in the past with other vaccines. Because they are biological agents rather than straightforward drugs they are more difficult to manufacture at scale.\n\n\"So we always try and make sure that we have got more than one supplier for vaccination against any particular disease.\"\n\nProf Finn said the issues should only result in a \"partial interruption\" to UK's vaccination programme and said it remains \"on track\".\n\nThe Scottish government said that \"appointments will be fulfilled\" for anyone already scheduled to have their first dose or second dose.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Supplies of the vaccine have dipped before and our vaccination programme will continue to manage the stock available to get vaccines into arms as fast as possible.\"\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced that more than two million people in Scotland had received their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nThe Scottish government said the milestone meant that 44% of the eligible population had been reached.\n\nLatest vaccination figures reveal 2,023,002 had received their first dose of the vaccine - an increase of 41,184 - as of 08:30 on Thursday.\n\nA total of 192,100 people have so far received a second dose of the vaccine, an increase of 10,221.", "Retail groups are unhappy that no dates for reopening have been set\n\nArlene Foster has said she knows people want Covid restrictions eased faster, but the last thing she wants is to have to \"step backwards\" again.\n\nThe first minister was speaking after the executive announced the first key changes to the restrictions on Tuesday.\n\nBusiness groups have criticised the lack of dates provided for when they will be able to reopen.\n\nIt comes as Northern Ireland's four main churches will return to public worship in time for Easter.\n\nThe Church of Ireland, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in Northern Ireland will resume in-person services from Good Friday, 2 April.\n\nThe Catholic Church has confirmed there will be a \"cautious\" return a week earlier, from 26 March.\n\nMeanwhile, the Health Minister Robin Swann on Wednesday addressed a reduction in vaccine supplies announced by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nMr Swann tweeted that \"we are currently considering what impact if any\" the announcement would have on vaccination plans in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Our vaccination programme will continue in the coming weeks and more people will continue to receive first and second doses,\" he said.\n\n\"As has been the case since the programme began, the number of vaccinations carried out over time will vary due to supply however our programme is presently ahead of schedule and as ever we will be able to adapt to any changes in circumstances as they arise.\"\n\nEarlier, on Good Morning Ulster, Mrs Foster said it was vital that coronavirus was kept under control in Northern Ireland and that restrictions have to be lifted \"in a slow way\".\n\n\"We are in a five-party executive; from my perspective we would like to move in a more steady way, others are more cautious.\n\n\"However I do think it is very important that we do need to protect all of our services in our healthcare - and the best way to protect all of our services and our healthcare system is to make sure that we don't see another rise in Covid cases.\"\n\nMrs Foster added: \"I know that there is a great desire to open up in a faster fashion. Our taskforce in the executive will not just look at the health data, which of course is important, but the economic and societal data as well\n\n\"We're doing that on a rolling basis.\n\n\"Last year, when we had that flexibility built into our plan, it allowed us to move a little faster that some other jurisdictions and my hope and desire is that that will be the case in this case as well.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December.\n\nMeasures announced on Tuesday to ease the lockdown include the return of all primary school children to school from Monday, other school groups from 12 April and more people allowed to meet outdoors from 1 April.\n\nGarden centres can resume click-and-collect services from 1 April and other non-essential shops from 12 April.\n\nRetail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" that the executive had given \"no dates, no timeframes, no nothing\" for businesses to reopen.\n\n\"It is exceptionally frustrating when we are putting forward ideas on how we can make our high streets safe, cut down transmission levels of the virus and reassure consumers, but nothing is being done,\" Mr Roberts said.\n\nArlene Foster said she would have liked to see more restrictions eased but caution was necessary\n\n\"If we don't get some indication of when our economy is allowed to reopen, then we're going to off-the-scale unemployment, business failure, huge off-the-scale levels of mental health problems in our society.\"\n\nDawn McLaughlin, chief executive of Derry Chamber, said some business felt like they are no further forward.\n\n\"What we would ask the executive is to provide a bit of hope to our members and to businesses throughout NI, give them some clarity in terms of indicative dates, not necessarily actual dates, but at least give them time to plan, time to organise,\" she said.\n\n\"A bit of clarity, a bit of time - we all understand if the numbers go the wrong way it'll have to be postponed, but give them that hope and that clarity.\"\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\nWilliam Montgomery, who runs a garden centre in County Armagh, said the return of click and collect was a small but welcome step.\n\n\"Realistically we're probably only going to be looking at 10%-15% of sales probably that we would normally do at this time of year,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will get us through, it will get rid of some stock that we have there that currently we can't sell.\"\n\nNo new Covid-19 related deaths were reported in NI on Wednesday.\n\nThe Department of Health said there had been 161 new coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland the Irish Department of Health announced 17 more deaths related to Covid-19 on Wednesday.\n\nNine of those deaths occurred in March, four in February, and four occurred in January or earlier bringing the total to 4,566 deaths overall.\n\nThere were 557 more confirmed cases bringing the total number to 228,215 to date.", "Countries around the world are celebrating St Patrick's Day on Wednesday, with online events replacing traditional parades.\n\nLandmarks across the globe turned green for the day in honour of Ireland's patron saint.\n\nLarge gatherings were ruled out in many parts of the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTraditional parades in Belfast and Dublin were cancelled for the second year in a row.\n\nHowever events marking the day took place across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which are being streamed online.\n\nThey included an online disco and live music events in Belfast, while more than 100 online events were held in the Republic of Ireland and broadcast around the world.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nTraditionally, a bowl of shamrock is presented to the US president every year on 17 March by the visiting taoiseach (Irish PM).\n\nThe bowl was placed on President Joe Biden's desk during his meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders discussed, among other things, combating Covid-19 and supporting political and economic stability in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey might not have been in the same room but President Biden and the taoiseach were still able to virtually wish each other a Happy Saint Patrick's Day.\n\nIt was a day of a firsts - a first for Joe Biden as president who pledged his support for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nReferring to the Good Friday Agreement he said: \"We strongly support y and think it is critically important that we maintain it. The political and economic stability of Northern Ireland is very much in the interest of all our peoples.\"\n\nAnd it was also Mr Martin's first St Patrick's Day as taoiseach.\n\nHe said he wanted to move forward with a \"positive relationship with the UK.\"\n\n\"That means standing by what has been agreed and working together to make a success of it.\n\n\"That in turn then can help maintain peace and promote greater reconciliation on our shared island - goals I know you support,\" he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers also held a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nA range of issues were covered during the meeting including progress on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recovery, as well as highlighting regional strengths and priorities.\n\nMichelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster Ministers also expressed hope that President Biden and Vice President Harris would visit Northern Ireland at some point in the future.\n\nHundreds of extra police officers were on duty in Northern Ireland for a \"robust\" response to St Patrick's Day rule breakers.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster had warned that St Patrick's Day \"must be different\" in Northern Ireland this year, to ensure progress made during the coronavirus lockdown continues.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, Gardaí (police) had a significant operation in place to deal with planned protests in Dublin city centre.\n\nSixteen people were arrested in the city for failing to comply with directions from garda to abide by Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIrish dancers at the Sailortown Regeneration St Patrick's Day festival in Belfast\n\nThe Irish Guards' new mascot, Irish Wolfhound Turlough Mor, getting ready for his shamrock at his London barracks\n\nThe Queen extended her best wishes to the people of Ireland for St Patrick's Day, 10 years after she visited.\n\nIn her message to Irish President Michael D Higgins, she said: \"We share ties of family, friendship and affection, the foundation of our partnership that remains as important today as 10 years ago.\"\n\nSince 2010, landmarks around the world have gone green in honour of St Patrick and this year, with a record number of places taking part.\n\nSome 690 sites in 66 countries will take part in Tourism Ireland's Global Greenings initiative.\n\nAlongside more famous landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Leaning Tower of Pisa were more quirky ones such as an abandoned sauna tilted on its side beside a lake in Finland, and a solar power-generated giraffe in Mozambique.\n\nSydney Opera House was one of the first landmarks to take part in the Global Greenings Initiative, which is in its 12th year\n\nThe Tilted Sauna in Kirkkonummi, Finland, joined in the fun\n\nGwrych Castle in north Wales has gone green for the first time this year\n\nIn Chicago, officials had cancelled the annual colouring of the Chicago River but the city's mayor decided to continue with the tradition, minus the fanfare.\n\nSt Patrick lived in the 5th Century and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nSt Patrick's Day started as a religious feast to celebrate his work, but it has grown to be an international festival of all things Irish.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said England's roadmap out of lockdown will not be disrupted by vaccine supply issues\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, Boris Johnson has said, adding he will be receiving it himself on Friday.\n\nThe benefits of the vaccine preventing Covid far outweighed any risks, the prime minister said, as he urged people to take up the jab when offered.\n\nIt comes after UK and EU regulators said there was no evidence the Covid vaccine caused blood clots.\n\nMr Johnson also said delays to vaccine supply next month would not affect England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\n\"The progress along the road to freedom remains unchecked,\" he told a Downing Street briefing, after NHS England warned vaccine supplies would be reduced in April.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, told the briefing the Covid vaccines were \"very effective\" against what remained a \"very dangerous disease for many people\".\n\nHe added that there were \"real issues that we always have to think about with all drugs\", but they were \"so much smaller than the benefits of getting the vaccine\".\n\n\"The risk-benefit is really strongly in favour of getting vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nRegulators have received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot occurring in the brain, prompting some European countries to pause rollout.\n\nBut earlier, the MHRA and the EMA said people can have confidence in the vaccine's benefits and should get immunised.\n\nFrance and Italy have since announced that they will resume using the jab.\n\nA phrase used repeatedly today is the risk-benefit ratio. But what does that mean?\n\nThe EU and UK regulators were unable to completely rule out the vaccine as a cause of rare blood clots that have been seen.\n\nBecause the clots are so rare, it is hard to tell if they are above the levels you would normally expect without vaccination.\n\nBut even if a link is proven - and there is no suggestion it will be - the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks.\n\nThere have been 18 cases of this rare blood clot out of 20 million vaccinations in Europe. That's about one in a million.\n\nSomeone who is over the age of 75 and becomes infected with Covid has a one in nine chance of dying.\n\nEven in younger age groups the benefits are clear. Someone in their 40s has a one in 1,000 risk of dying.\n\nThe vaccines have been proved to be highly effective. They will save lives, rather than cost them.\n\nAlso during the briefing, Mr Johnson confirmed that supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been affected by a delayed shipment from the Serum Institute of India.\n\nAfter opening up appointments to all over-50s on Wednesday, the NHS in England was then told not to offer jabs to younger age groups throughout April.\n\n\"There is a delay as I have described, as there are very frequently in vaccine rollout programmes,\" he said.\n\nHe put it down to \"various technical reasons\" and said the Indian government \"hasn't stopped any export\".\n\nThe Serum Institute of India is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines and is making one billion doses of the AstraZeneca jab this year for low and middle-income countries.\n\nEarlier this month, it agreed to supply 10 million doses for the UK, but only half of these will arrive this month with the rest held up by four weeks.\n\nThe Serum Institute said: \"Five million doses had been delivered a few weeks ago to the UK and we will try to supply more later, based on the current situation and the requirement for the government immunisation programme in India.\"\n\nIts chief executive, Adar Poonawalla, has previously called for patience over global vaccine deliveries, saying the company has been \"directed to prioritise the huge needs of India\".\n\nHe has also raised concerns about raw material shortages, attributing this to US export bans on specific items needed to make vaccines, such as specialised bags and filters.", "The sprawling Waterside complex opened in the 1990s.\n\nBritish Airways will let staff split their working lives between the head office and home in another example of big firms offering flexible employment.\n\nThe airline is also exploring the sale of its huge Waterside HQ near Heathrow Airport, where 2,000 people worked before the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"It's not clear if such a large office will play a part in our future,\" BA said in a message to staff.\n\nThe firm is in a race to cut costs after the virus led travel to collapse.\n\nBA, part of the IAG airline group that also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus, has shed more than 10,000 jobs and is raising billions of pounds of extra cash from shareholders to shore up its finances.\n\nStuart Kennedy, the airline's director of people, said in his message to staff that one of the very few positives to come out of the pandemic was how well staff had coped with working from home.\n\n\"We'll want to consider what the ideal office layout for the future will be. Perhaps it's less fixed desks and more casual meeting areas, and we need to consider colleague wellbeing, too,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he emphasised that plans to sell Waterside were still at a very early stage. It is thought the airline has only recently hired property consultants to evaluate options.\n\nIn a separate statement to the BBC, BA said on Thursday: \"The global pandemic has shown us that many of our colleagues enjoy working remotely and want to continue, and this has accelerated our approach to offering more agile and flexible ways of working.\n\n\"Our aim is to find a hybrid working model that suits our business, blending the best of office and remote working for our people. We've also re-structured our business to emerge from the crisis and are considering whether we still have the need for such a large headquarters building.\"\n\nThe move to hybrid working after the pandemic is growing.\n\nThe Nationwide building society has indicated that it does not intend to force people to return to the office if they have been successfully able to work from home during the pandemic.\n\nOil giant BP has told office-based staff they can spend two days a week working from home after lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nAnd banks HSBC and Lloyds are among many other companies looking into split working arrangements.\n\nEarlier this month the boss of IWG, which provides office space across the world, told the BBC he expected hybrid working \"to become the norm\" for many companies.\n\nMark Dixon said: \"It works for companies, because it's a lot cheaper. It's also much, much better for the environment.\"", "Evha Jannath, 11, died while on a school trip to the theme park in May 2017\n\nThe former operator of a theme park has been fined £1m after a girl died on a ride, but the penalty will never be paid as it is in administration.\n\nEvha Jannath, 11, was on the Splash Canyon rapids ride at Drayton Manor during a school trip in May 2017 when she was \"propelled\" into the water.\n\nEvha, who could not swim, fell from the boat at the park in Tamworth, Staffordshire, when it hit a barrier.\n\nIn 2019 an inquest jury concluded she died accidentally.\n\nDuring a sentencing hearing at Stafford Crown Court on Thursday, Mr Justice Spencer said: \"This was an utterly tragic waste of a young life.\"\n\nHe added there was \"no prospect of the fine being paid\" given the company operating the park at the time had since gone into administration.\n\nThe park has been sold to Looping Group, which runs attractions in Europe and the UK including West Midland Safari Park and Pleasurewood Hills.\n\n\"It is important that lessons are learned and the seriousness of the defendant company's failing in this case is marked by an appropriate punishment,\" Mr Justice Spencer said.\n\nDrayton Manor Park Ltd previously admitted a breach under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) brought the prosecution.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since Evha's death\n\nThe park had a history of failings on the same ride before the death of Evha, from Leicester, the court was told during the two-day hearing.\n\nAt the start of the hearing on Wednesday, James Puzey, barrister for the HSE, told the judge the accident had happened \"in context of the systemic failures of safety on this ride\".\n\n\"The control measures they had were failing every day,\" he added.\n\nBetween 2011-2013, park records show there were four instances of people falling into the water at the ride before it was closed following Evha's death.\n\nOne of the incidents was in 2013, when 10-year-old Patrick Treacy fell into the Splash Canyon attraction and had to be rescued by a member of the public.\n\nEvha, who was on an end-of-year school trip with Jameah Girls Academy, was unsupervised on the ride and at times, along with other pupils, was standing up.\n\nMr Justice Spencer said: \"The public and Evha's family must not be led to think that this serious offence, which resulted in the death of a child, can properly be met by only a nominal [financial] penalty.\n\n\"In my judgment it would be wholly inappropriate to do other than impose the fine which the offence merited,\" he added.\n\n\"No sentence of the court can begin to reflect the tragedy of this case for Evha's family.\"\n\nEvha drowned while she was on an end-of-year school trip with friends from Jameah Girls Academy\n\nVictim impact statements from Evha's father and brother were not read out to the court but Mr Puzey spoke of the \"devastating impact\" on Evha's family.\n\n\"She was a bright and promising student who had spoken of wanting to become a teacher herself,\" he said.\n\nThe former Leicester East MP Keith Vaz, who has supported Evha's family, said they had gone through \"torture\" and that \"lessons need to be learned\".\n\n\"No-one has lost their jobs as a result of this, the company will not pay this fine, no individual has said they are responsible, but there remains a hole in the heart of the family,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, HSE principal inspector Lyn Spooner said Evha died \"at the end of what should have been a fun day out\".\n\nMs Spooner added: \"The risks from ejection from the raft had been evident to Drayton Manor for some time, yet they still failed to take the action that could have prevented Evha's death.\"\n\nRichard Matthews QC, representing Drayton Manor Park Ltd, told the hearing the park had co-operated with the HSE investigation fully and had no previous convictions.\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 death of Sarah Everard has triggered conversations about women's safety\n\nThe government has said it will \"on an experimental basis\" ask the police to record crimes of violence motivated by a person's sex or gender.\n\nThe announcement is a concession to campaigners who have been calling for misogyny to be made a hate crime.\n\nWomen's groups have argued this would help provide \"critical data\" on violence against women and girls.\n\nThe Law Commission has carried out a review of hate crime legislation.\n\nIt is expected to make its official recommendations to the government in 2021.\n\nHome Office Minister Baroness Williams said the change would \"inform longer term decisions\" while the government awaited the outcome of the commission's review.\n\nThe Labour MP Stella Creasy said it represented \"success\" for those who'd been campaigning on the issue, adding that changes to legislation were needed to make sure such crimes could be prosecuted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA hate crime is deemed to have been committed when someone is assaulted or harassed because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.\n\nSeven police forces in England and Wales have already introduced their own misogyny hate crime policy - including Nottinghamshire Police.\n\nAn evaluation of the policy in Nottinghamshire said the move had led to \"shifting attitudes as a result\".\n\nHowever others have urged caution including minister Victoria Atkins who said in 2018 that: \"Women are not a minority, and I would be hesitant to put us forward as one.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Lords, Home Office Minister Baroness Williams said \"On an experimental basis we will ask police forces to record and identify any crimes of violence against the person including stalking and harassment, and sexual offences where the victim perceives it to have been motivated by a hostility based on their sex\".\n\nShe said data collection would \"help us find solutions\" to the problem of violence against women and girls.\n\nHowever she added it was important \"to ensure the law itself is coherent\".\n\nResponding to the announcement, Fawcett Society chief executive Felicia Willow said: \"This is a major step forward in changing how we understand, address and prevent violence against women - and one that we hope will help change attitudes towards women.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has recently passed a hate crime law which extends protection for vulnerable groups, but an amendment that would have included women as a protected group was defeated.\n\nThe government in Edinburgh has instead set up a working group to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\n\"Significant institutional failings\" by the Football Association meant it \"did not do enough to keep children safe\" - according to the findings of an independent review into historical child sexual abuse in the game.\n\nIt found the FA was \"too slow\" to have sufficient protection measures in place between October 1995 and May 2000.\n\nIt said there was no evidence the FA knew of a problem before summer 1995.\n\nThe report focused on the abuse of children between 1970 and 2005.\n\nIt said: \"The FA acted far too slowly to introduce appropriate and sufficient child protection measures, and to ensure that safeguarding was taken sufficiently seriously by those involved in the game. These are significant institutional failings for which there is no excuse.\"\n• None Survivors say game 'must learn from mistakes'\n\nIn a statement, FA chief executive Mark Bullingham offered \"a heartfelt apology\" from the English game's governing body to all survivors and added there was \"no excuse\" for its failings.\n\n\"No child should ever have experienced the abuse you did,\" he continued in an address to those affected.\n\n\"What you went through was horrific and it is deeply upsetting that more was not done by the game at the time, to give you the protection you deserved.\"\n\nThe long-awaited 710-page review, led by Clive Sheldon QC and commissioned by the FA in 2016, found:\n• None Following high-profile convictions of child sexual abusers from the summer of 1995 until May 2000, the FA \"could and should have done more to keep children safe\".\n• None There was a significant delay by the FA in putting in place sufficient child protection measures in football at that time. In that period, the FA \"did not do enough\" to keep children safe and \"child protection was not regarded as an urgent priority\".\n• None Even after May 2000, when the FA launched a comprehensive child protection policy and programme, \"mistakes were still made\" by the FA.\n• None The FA failed to ban two of the most notorious perpetrators of child sexual abuse, Barry Bennell and Bob Higgins, from involvement in football.\n• None There were known to be at least 240 suspects and 692 survivors, yet relatively few people reported abuse and the actual level was likely to be far higher.\n• None Where incidents of abuse were reported to people in authority at football clubs, their responses were \"rarely competent or appropriate\".\n• None Abuse within football was \"not commonplace\". The overwhelming majority of young people were able to engage in football safely.\n• None While several of the perpetrators knew each other, there was not evidence of a \"paedophile ring\" in football - Sheldon says: \"I do not consider that perpetrators shared boys with one another for sexual purposes, or shared information with one another that would have facilitated child sexual abuse.\"\n\nSheldon, whose review made 13 safeguarding recommendations, said: \"Understanding and acknowledging the appalling abuse suffered by young players in the period covered by the review is important for its own sake.\n\n\"Survivors deserve to be listened to, and their suffering deserves to be properly recognised. As well as recognising and facing up to what happened in the past, it is also important that this terrible history is not repeated, and that everything possible is done now to safeguard the current and future generations of young players.\"\n\nBullingham said the report was \"a very important piece of work\" made possible by \"survivors bravely\" coming forward.\n\nHe added that \"today is a dark day for the beautiful game\" and a \"critical moment\" for English football, which he admitted had been \"too slow to act\".\n\n\"We must acknowledge the mistakes of the past and ensure that we do everything possible to prevent them being repeated,\" he continued.\n\n\"Thankfully there have been huge strides in safeguarding in sport and football over the past two decades, and the report recognises that English football is in a very different place today.\"\n\nHow did this start?\n\nOn 16 November 2016, former footballer Andy Woodward waived his right to anonymity to talk about how he was sexually abused by Bennell at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11 to 15.\n\nSeveral other people contacted police in the following days, before former England and Tottenham player Paul Stewart said he was abused as a child by a coach, later named as Frank Roper.\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC set up a hotline with the FA, dedicated to footballers who had experienced sexual abuse - more than 860 calls were received in the first week.\n\nAfter investigations involving several police forces started, the FA announced an independent inquiry into non-recent child sex abuse, led by Sheldon.\n\nThe independent review made its first call for evidence in January 2017, writing to all football clubs in England and Wales, amateur and professional, asking for information about allegations between 1970 and 2005.\n\nSheldon's review said the FA was not aware that abuse had actually occurred in football prior to the summer of 1995, before Bennell had been convicted in Florida in connection with a football-related tour.\n\nThe report found the provision of child protection guidance was \"not something which was happening widely within sport\".\n\nWho are the offenders?\n\nBarry Bennell - the former Crewe Alexandra and Manchester City coach is serving a 34-year sentence after being convicted of child sexual abuse five times.\n\nHe has been convicted of sexual abuse against 22 boys in total, although it is believed more than 100 victims have come forward to say they were abused by Bennell.\n\nGeorge Ormond - the former Newcastle youth coach was jailed in 2002 for six years after being found guilty of abusing seven boys under 16 between 1975 and 1999.\n\nOther victims subsequently came forward and Ormond was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2018 after being found guilty of 36 counts of sexual abuse against 18 victims between 1973 and 1998.\n\nEddie Heath - Chelsea announced in November 2016 they were investigating allegations of sexual abuse by former chief scout Heath, who died in 1983.\n\nEvidence from 23 witnesses detailed how Heath groomed and abused young boys aged 10 to 17 in the 1970s. An external review said some adults at Chelsea must have been aware of Heath's abuse but \"turned a blind eye\". Chelsea apologised unreservedly after the review was published in 2019.\n\nBob Higgins - the former Southampton and Peterborough youth coach was jailed for 24 years and three months in 2019 on 45 counts of indecent assault against 24 boys.\n\nHiggins went on trial in the early 1990s but was acquitted. Multiple former players came forward with allegations of abuse by Higgins in 2016 and 2017.\n\nMichael 'Kit' Carson - the 75-year-old killed himself by crashing into a tree on the first day of his trial in 2019. He was accused of sexually abusing boys under 16, from 1978 to 2009. Carson had worked for Peterborough United, Cambridge United and Norwich City.\n\nTed Langford - the former Aston Villa and Leicester City part-time scout was jailed in 2007 for the sexual abuse of four boys between 1976 and 1989.\n\nFrank Roper - worked as a scout in the north west of England. Roper, who died in 2005, sexually abused young footballers while recruiting players to Blackpool's school of excellence.\n\nPhil Edwards - former Watford physio who died in 2019 while on bail for an alleged child sex offence. Hertfordshire police were subsequently contacted by 16 people who made complaints about Edwards.\n\nSome of the former players affected\n\nAndy Woodward - was abused by Bennell as a junior Crewe player from the ages of 11 to 15. He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the abuse had a \"catastrophic\" impact on his life.\n\nChris Unsworth - the ex-Manchester City youth player was abused by Bennell from the age of nine. Unsworth told the BBC he had been \"raped between 50 and 100 times\".\n\nSteve Walters - was abused by Bennell and said it began at the age of 12 when he would stay at the former coach's house in the town during the school holidays. He told the BBC the abuse was \"absolutely petrifying\".\n\nPaul Stewart - the former Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool player was abused by Roper daily for four years up to the age of 15.\n\n\"He was threatening that he would kill my parents and my two brothers if I ever spoke out. I was just absolutely frightened,\" Stewart told the BBC.\n\nPaul Collins - played briefly for Charlton Athletic and was groomed by Heath with free boots and holidays. The trauma Collins suffered led to him quitting the game early in his career. Watch the interview here.\n\nGary Johnson - the ex-Chelsea player joined the club as an 11-year-old in 1970 and said he had been groomed by Heath from the age of 13. He said the club paid him a £50,000 settlement that included a confidentiality clause.\n\nDavid Eatock - the former Newcastle United player told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show he had been groomed by Ormond from the ages of 18 to 21. He said he \"froze\" with fear during an assault in Ormond's van.\n\nTony Brien - said he was abused by Langford from the age of 12 when he was playing for a local youth team Dunlop Terriers in the early 1980s - a feeder team for Leicester and Aston Villa.\n\nFormer Villa manager Graham Taylor is alleged to have discouraged Brien from going public with his allegations. Taylor died in January 2017.\n\nWhat about the individual football clubs?\n\nThe report said that for much of the period the review covered:\n• None club staff and officials were generally unaware of child protection issues;\n• None they were not trained in child protection issues;\n• None they did not identify or respond to signs of potential abuse;\n• None and if they were aware of the signs, they did not examine them with curiosity or suspicion.\n\nIn March 2019, Manchester City set up a multi-million pound compensation scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse carried out by former coaches.\n\nThe report said that City senior management were aware of rumours and concerns about Bennell's conduct in the early 1980s.\n\nIt added: \"The club did not investigate these rumours. It should have done so. The club should also have investigated the arrangements for boys staying at Bennell's house.\"\n\nCity commissioned an independent review in November 2016, led by Jane Mulcahy QC, that was also published on Wednesday.\n\nIn addition to personal apologies made by the club to survivors, City said its board of directors wished to \"apologise publicly and unreservedly for the unimaginable suffering experienced by those who were abused as a result of the club's association\" with Bennell and two other convicted abusers, John Broome and Bill Toner.\n\nIt added: \"The club also extends its heartfelt regret and sympathy to the multiple family members and friends affected by these traumatic events, the ramifications of which are felt by so many to the present day and will continue to be felt for a long time to come.\"\n\nCrewe Alexandra have reiterated they were not aware of any sexual abuse by Bennell until 1994 when he was convicted of sexual assault, and did not receive a single complaint about sexual abuse by him.\n\nThe Sheldon report said: \"It is likely that three directors of Crewe Alexandra FC discussed concerns about Bennell which hinted at his sexual interest in children.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the advice of a senior police officer to the club's former chairman to keep a 'watching brief' on Bennell was heeded.\n\n\"The club should also have ensured that there were appropriate arrangements in place for boys staying overnight at Bennell's house.\n\n\"The boys should have been spoken to periodically to check that they were being properly cared for. Had such steps been taken, this might have led to boys making disclosures to the club.\"\n\nSheldon said former Crewe manager Dario Gradi \"should have done more\" to investigate concerns about Bennell but was not involved in a cover up.\n\nGradi, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is also criticised in the report for not doing more when a claim of abuse by Heath was reported to him while assistant manager at Chelsea in 1975.\n\nThe report states that Gradi \"did not consider a person putting their hands down another's trousers to be an assault\", but that he changed his mind after Sheldon insisted it was.\n\nGradi, 79, was suspended in 2016 pending an FA investigation and retired from his position of director of football at Crewe three years later.\n\nBullingham said on Wednesday that Gradi was \"effectively banned for life\" from football but could not go into the reasons.\n\nThe FA's director of legal and governance Polly Handford said it was \"for safeguarding reasons\" but that was \"as far as we can go\".\n\nStoke City were \"also aware of rumours about Bennell\" during his time associated with the club in the early 1990s, said the report, and steps should have been taken to monitor his activities.\n\nPremier League clubs Aston Villa and Leicester paid damages to five victims of Langford in March 2020. The report said Aston Villa should have reported disclosures about sexual abuse by Langford to the police when his role as a scout was terminated in July 1989.\n\nAnd on Wednesday, Southampton admitted \"considerable failings\" and said they were \"deeply sorry\" to young footballers abused by Higgins.\n\nThe report found Southampton and Peterborough United FC were also aware of rumours about the inappropriate behaviour of Higgins, and were aware that boys were staying at his home.\n\n\"This awareness should have resulted in greater monitoring by the clubs. Had Higgins been properly monitored this might have prevented some of his abuse of young players,\" the report added.\n\nAt Chelsea, in relation to Heath, the Sheldon report said steps should have been taken to protect the young player who had made a disclosure about abuse in or around 1975.\n\nNewcastle United should have acted more quickly following disclosures of abuse by Ormond at the youth club Monty's in early 1997.\n\nOrmond was only removed from the club many months later, and after he had been permitted to travel abroad with young players.\n\nThe report found that despite being aware of the allegations, no additional safeguards were put in place by the club.\n\nIn a statement, Newcastle expressed their \"sincere apologies and sympathy to all individuals affected by historic abuse in football and commend the bravery of those who have come forward and shared their stories\".\n\nThe club added that they now have \"comprehensive and robust safeguarding measures in place to protect and support young people throughout the football club\".\n\nWhat are the review recommendations?\n\nAmong Sheldon's recommendations are the introduction of safeguarding training at several levels in the game, including all players and young people as well as the FA board and senior management team.\n\nHe also recommends there should be safeguarding officers employed by all Premier League and English Football League (EFL) clubs.\n\nBoth league governing bodies say they and associated clubs have safeguarding leads at board level, as well as dedicated safeguarding staff.\n\nThe Premier League said it accepted the report's \"findings and insight it provides\", and added the recommendations \"will further strengthen safeguarding arrangements across the game\" as \"there is no room for complacency\".\n\nThe EFL also said it accepted the advice and would work with the FA, clubs and other stakeholders \"to ensure [the recommendations] are implemented as a minimum [standard], where they have not been already\".\n\nBoth the Premier League and EFL said they were \"well placed to meet all the recommendations\" and that the findings would inform a review of safeguarding governance, support and awareness arrangements.\n\nThe Offside Trust, the organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in sport, said the recommendations were \"blindingly obvious to anyone\" after the scandal broke in 2016.\n\nIt added it was \"disappointed not to see anything stronger in terms of mandatory reporting\" and it would have liked to have \"seen more on wealthy clubs supporting grassroots safeguarding\".\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said: \"The failure of the FA to keep children safe is truly shocking.\n\n\"There can be no excuses for the critical delays to act or provide guidance to those working on child protection. We could be looking at the biggest safeguarding scandal in football's history.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City junior player Gary Cliffe was among the survivors of Bennell's abuse. He said the ex-coach abused him hundreds of times between the ages of 11 and 15.\n\nCliffe told BBC Sport this was an \"absolutely monumental day\" because of of the publication of the findings.\n\n\"It matters so much because it's impacted on my life and numerous other people's lives,\" he added. \"We are hoping and looking for answers and culpability within that report.\"\n\nBut Cliffe said he was disappointed with the suggestions in the report that suspicions of abuse were not acted upon.\n\n\"I don't think he's gone far enough,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout the whole report that I've read, there's a theme that people knew or suspected, but none of the officials had the gumption to raise it with anyone - police, social services - anyone at all.\n\n\"It's a theme running through it, so it's disappointing from that respect.\"\n\nIan Ackley was a youth player when he was abused and raped by Bennell over a four-year period.\n\nNow working as an abuse survivor support advocate for the Professional Footballers' Association, he said it would be \"naive\" to believe abuse had been eradicated.\n\n\"Make sure your children are safe,\" he said. \"Don't assume that just because someone has got a badge, whistle or tracksuit that they're OK to leave your children with.\"\n\nFormer England international Paul Stewart, who was abused by Roper, told BBC News that there were \"suspicions and rumours\" of abuse, but they were \"totally ignored\".\n\n\"It caused a lot of survivors a lot of damage as we got on through adult life,\" he added. \"I don't think the report has shown how damaging the effects of abuse have been to individuals.\n\n\"We have to make sure we don't get complacent and the abuse doesn't happen again.\"\n• - a three-part series examining historic child abuse in youth football all across England between the 1970s and the 1990s, airs on BBC One, from Monday, 22 March.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Piers Morgan has defended his \"right to be allowed to have an opinion\"\n\nPiers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom.\n\nSome 57,000 complaints have been made about the show's coverage of the Oprah Winfrey interview on 8 and 9 March.\n\nOn 9 March, Morgan said he \"didn't believe\" a word Meghan had said. He left the ITV programme later that day.\n\nThe total of 57,121 complaints is 12,600 more than those made over a race row on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007.\n\nThe duchess herself is among those who have complained to the watchdog.\n\nMorgan responded on Twitter: \"Only 57,000? I've had more people than that come up & congratulate me in the street for what I said. The vast majority of Britons are right behind me.\"\n\nOfcom, which has regulated British TV since 2003, has already launched an investigation into Good Morning Britain. On Wednesday, a spokeswoman said the investigation was ongoing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson gives the lowdown on Piers Morgan's departure from GMB\n\nA further 4,398 complaints have been made about the Oprah interview itself, which was broadcast on ITV on 8 March. Some objected to the duke and duchess' claims about the Royal Family, some about the timing given the Duke of Edinburgh's ill health, and some about the use of allegedly misleading press headlines in the programme.\n\nOfcom said: \"We're assessing the complaints against our broadcasting rules, before deciding whether or not to investigate.\" The regulator did not say which aspect of the interview had attracted the complaints.\n\nIn the in-depth interview, Meghan told Oprah her mental health became so bad she \"didn't want to be alive any more\", that she did not receive the help she asked for from Buckingham Palace, and that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had queried \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe day after its UK broadcast, Morgan said he did not believe her, adding that \"the fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our Royal Family I think is contemptible\".\n\nHe briefly walked off the programme after clashing with weather presenter Alex Beresford, and he was criticised by mental health charity Mind.\n\nMorgan later conceded that it was \"not for me to question if she felt suicidal\", but has defended his \"right to be allowed to have an opinion\".", "Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others died when a helicopter crashed in California last year\n\nThe widow of Kobe Bryant has published the names of Los Angeles County police officers who she said shared graphic photos of the scene of her husband's death in a helicopter crash last year.\n\nVanessa Bryant is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy.\n\n\"We will refrain from trying this case in the media,\" the sheriff said in response.\n\nBasketball star Bryant died with his daughter and seven others in the crash.\n\nOn Wednesday Vanessa Bryant, 38, posted on Instagram the names of four sheriff's deputies.\n\nShe says they took graphic pictures of the nine people who died in the crash close to Calabasas, California, in January last year.\n\nShe alleges that one of the officers shared with a bartender photos of Kobe Bryant's body and the others distributed \"gratuitous photos of the dead children, parents, and coaches\".\n\nThe Los Angeles Times newspaper reported in February last year that an internal police investigation found officers shared photos of victims' remains.\n\nShe claims the pictures, including those of her 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were taken and shared \"for no reason other than morbid gossip\".\n\nLast week a judge rejected an attempt to stop publication of the officer's names, allowing Bryant to disclose them.\n\nLA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva responded on Twitter to Bryant's post, saying that the department would wait for a court to decide the outcome of the case.\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\nBryant alleges that at least eight officers took pictures of the crash site for their personal use, and claims that one took between 25 and 100 photos.\n\nIn February safety investigators said the helicopter pilot, Ara Zobayan, may have become disoriented in fog before the aircraft smashed into a hillside.\n\nAn investigation found the pilot in the helicopter crash had probably become disoriented\n\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board 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\nAs well as Bryant, his daughter and the pilot, those killed included two of Gianna's basketball teammates, their relatives and a coach. The group were on their way to a tournament in Thousand Oaks where Bryant had been set to coach.\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\nMrs Bryant has also sued the estate of the pilot, Mr 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 Mr Zobayan's estate.\n\nCalifornia 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. African basketball stars discuss Kobe Bryant's legacy one year since his death in a helicopter crash.", "The government is to cut grants aimed at encouraging people to buy electric vehicles in a move that has been criticised by the motor industry.\n\nThe Department for Transport will reduce the grant from £3,000 to £2,500 and restrict it to cars under £35,000.\n\nBut Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said it is \"the wrong move at the wrong time\".\n\nIt said the decision goes against the government's zero emissions ambitions.\n\n\"This sends the wrong message to the consumer, especially private customers, and to an industry challenged to meet the government's ambition to be a world leader in the transition to zero emission mobility,\" said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.\n\nFord of Britain said the grant cut was \"disappointing and is not conducive to supporting the zero emissions future we all desire.\"\n\n\"Robust incentives - both purchase and usage incentives - that are consistent over time are essential if we are to encourage consumers to adopt new technologies,\" the carmaker's chairman Graham Hoare said.\n\nBusiness group the CBI also criticised the move, saying \"this is the wrong time to stunt a green recovery by making a sudden change to the grants on offer.\"\n\nMatthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director, said \"we must avoid sending mixed messages to consumers and businesses.\"\n\n\"Switching to an electric vehicle still has many barriers, including high upfront costs and availability of reliable charging points.\n\n\"A clear and consistent pathway for incentives will ensure business can continue to deliver the government's ambitions for reducing transport emissions,\" Mr Fell added.\n\nThe government said that higher-priced vehicles are typically bought by drivers who can afford to switch to electric vehicles without a subsidy.\n\nIt said the changes will allow funding for the grant to go further.\n\nTransport minister Rachel Maclean said: \"We want as many people as possible to be able to make the switch to electric vehicles.\"\n\n\"The increasing choice of new vehicles, growing demand from customers, and rapidly rising number of chargepoints means that while the level of funding remains as high as ever, given soaring demand, we are re-focusing our vehicle grants on the more affordable zero emission vehicles.\"\n\nThe government will also alter how it calculates the plug-in van grant, and change the eligibility for the grant to vehicles that are able to travel for 60 miles without any emissions.\n\nThe plug-in car grant was introduced a decade ago, and was designed to reduce the price of electric cars, which generally cost more to make than petrol or diesel equivalents, to encourage more people to buy them.\n\nElectric cars are expensive to make and expensive to buy compared with traditional vehicles.\n\nThe grant was introduced to reduce the price difference between electric models and conventional cars, to encourage people to buy them.\n\nThe government's argument is that now battery prices are falling, and with a range of cheaper cars coming onto the market, the size and scope of the grant can be reined in, and the available money can be better spent.\n\nThe market has certainly changed since the grant was introduced a decade ago. Electric car sales are now rising rapidly and relatively affordable vehicles with a practical range are becoming much more common.\n\nWith the government now planning to ban the sale of new non-hybrid petrol and diesel cars from 2030, it seems to be relying less on incentives and more on compulsion to bring about change.\n\nLess carrot and more stick.\n\nBut the industry believes this approach is wrong and that reducing the grant threatens to choke off the growth in electric car use, at a time when many other countries are offering much bigger subsidies.\n\nSince 2018, the government has been narrowing the scope of the grant, bringing the level down in stages from £5,000 and tightening the eligibility criteria.\n\nIt said in 2018 that it wanted to gradually get rid of the grants. In March 2020, it extended the grant schemes for three years with £582m funding.\n\nSales of electric cars have increased rapidly over the past year, but remain a relatively small proportion of all cars sold.\n\nThe government says that by 2030 it wants to ban the sale of new cars powered only by petrol or diesel engines.\n\nAs part of a plan to make the UK carbon neutral, it unveiled a £2.8bn package to support the switch to greener cars, including £1.3bn for charging infrastructure.\n\nBut in February, the Policy Exchange think tank said the rollout of charging points had fallen behind what was needed to meet the planned ban on diesel and petrol cars.\n\nIt said there was a risk of \"charging blackspots\" in small towns and rural areas unless the rollout speeds up.\n\nPrice comparison site Carwow said cutting the subsidy for electric vehicles was a \"strange direction\" for the UK to take.\n\n\"For the most part, electric vehicle variants still carry a notable price premium versus traditional petrol or diesel variants,\" said Sepi Arani, commercial lead at Carwow.\n\n\"The lowering of the cap to £35,000 limits the support to a much smaller proportion of cars, which in turn will no doubt have an effect on the UK's electric vehicle adoption.\n\n\"It's difficult to see why the grant scheme does not instead work on a tapered scheme, where the amount offered is staggered for different price points instead,\" Mr Arani added.", "NHS staff in Wales are not receiving the regular lateral flow tests they were promised, according to staff and the British Medical Association (BMA).\n\nThe Welsh health minister last year announced \"a programme of regular asymptomatic testing\" for NHS staff.\n\nSome doctors said they have not received any tests at all.\n\nThe Welsh government said more than 1.5 million lateral flow tests had been provided and Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he would investigate.\n\nThe rapid tests can identify those who could be carrying coronavirus and may not be showing symptoms.\n\nThe BMA said NHS workers were concerned the tests, which take 20 to 30 minutes to show a result, had not been available to everyone and were easier to get hold of in some parts of Wales than others.\n\nDr Dai Samuel said it was \"concerning\" the health minister was not aware of the lack of tests\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant and prominent BMA Cymru member, told Newyddion S4C he had been only been tested twice since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nHe added there were large variations in receiving the tests across Wales.\n\nHe said: \"Testing is happening occasionally and at some locations. But on the whole, especially when speaking to those working on the front line, it is not happening every week.\n\n\"If you are symptomatic, you do get tested. But for those without symptoms, it is not happening regularly.\"\n\n\"I think [BMA Cymru] members are angry. We are more than willing to put ourselves at risk of contracting Covid. But we speak to those working in the film industry or in schools and they are getting lateral flow tests.\n\n\"But then, those working for health boards aren't always getting them. When I talk to friends, they are shocked to hear that.\"\n\nWhen questioned at the Welsh government's Covid press conference on Wednesday, Mr Gething said he was unaware there was an issue.\n\nHe said: \"They should be available. In the information I've had, they're going out regularly across the service.\n\n\"I'm concerned, which is why I'd like to get the detail to be able to give you an answer and resolve the issue.\n\n\"The whole point of providing these lateral flow tests is they are part of what we can do to give people to give people that extra reassurance, to give us an extra tool in our armoury to make sure we understand where coronavirus is and to help people protect themselves and the people around them.\"\n\nWhen asked at a Welsh government press conference, the health minister said he was unaware of these concerns\n\nDr Samuel on behalf of BMA Cymru, \"It is concerning that the health minister doesn't seem to be aware what's happening at the coalface.\n\n\"Perhaps the government need to talk to health boards and understand why this testing isn't happening currently. If the government say they think it is happening, that isn't true.\"\n\nAt the health minister's request, Newyddion S4C supplied his office with further information so that he could offer a fuller response and address the issue.\n\nA spokesperson later issued a statement which said: \"We have supplied more than 1.5 million lateral flow tests to health boards and NHS trusts in Wales to support the delivery of asymptomatic workforce testing.\n\n\"We are also in the process of expanding the programme and providing supplies to primary care independent contractors and independent hospitals across Wales.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plans to change how government decisions are challenged in the courts have been announced by the justice secretary.\n\nRobert Buckland says the move is to \"protect\" judges from being drawn in to politics and to \"strike the right balance\" between public scrutiny and the \"need for effective government\".\n\nIt comes after an independent review into the issue.\n\nLabour says it is an attempt to \"trample on values we all hold dear\".\n\nLast year, the prime minister ordered a review into the relationship between the government and the courts.\n\nThe review was headed by the independent peer, Lord Faulks. The Ministry of Justice said the review found \"courts were increasingly considering the merits of government decisions themselves, instead of how those decisions were made - moving beyond the remit of judicial review\".\n\nJudicial review is a procedure that allows anyone who has been affected by a decision or a failure to act by a public authority to apply to the courts to rule whether its actions were lawful or not.\n\nRecently, there have been high profile challenges to the government's management of the Brexit process by the Remain campaigner, Gina Miller.\n\nAddressing MPs, Mr Buckland said while judicial review was an \"important\" and \"vital\" check on power, reforming the process would \"protect\" judges from being dragged into issues beyond their remit.\n\nMr Buckland said ministers were considering putting a set of rules in place that would \"clearly delineate\" which issues the courts could rule on and which they could not.\n\nHe said the reforms would \"restore a more sensible balance of responsibilities between Parliament and the courts\".\n\nJudicial review helps the public hold power to account because it allows any of us to ask a judge to scrutinise a decision by a minister or public body, where we have an arguable case that they've acted unlawfully.\n\nRecent cases have led to improvements in NHS critical care guidelines during the pandemic - and the Supreme Court declaring that Boris Johnson unlawfully shut down Parliament.\n\nHis 2019 election manifesto promised to curtail judicial review to prevent judges taking political decisions.\n\nCritics say JR currently allows judges to retake political decisions about how a policy should operate.\n\nBut the government's own review panel found some of the most controversial cases have only come about because the courts had to step in to clarify the law, after Parliament had failed to do so.\n\nGina Miller, who brought one of the two cases against Parliament's shutdown said the public had to ask themselves whether they felt comfortable placing all their trust in politicians, or whether they preferred independent courts to continue to act as a defence against potential abuses by the executive.\n\nThe shadow justice secretary, David Lammy, accused the government of trying to impose \"new limits\" on judicial reviews.\n\nHe said it was an attempt to \"trample on values we all hold dear - including fairness, accountability and the rule of law\".\n\n\"Judicial review is the only mechanism by which members of the public can challenge the government and public bodies when they break the law,\" he added.\n\nA type of court case that allows members of the public to challenge the legality of a government decision.\n\nNote 19 May 2021: This story was amended to make clear that the quote assessing the review came from the Ministry of Justice.", "Ms Sturgeon gave evidence to the inquiry in a marathon eight-hour session earlier this month\n\nA majority of MSPs on the Alex Salmond committee have said Nicola Sturgeon misled their inquiry, sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt is understood MSPs on the committee voted by five to four that the SNP leader had given them an inaccurate account.\n\nThe committee's final report is expected to be published next Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted she stands by all of the evidence she gave to the committee earlier this month.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has called for the first minister to resign.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon told Sky News: \"What has been clear is that opposition members of this committee made their minds up before I uttered a single word of evidence. Their public comments have made that clear.\n\n\"So this very partisan leak tonight before they've actually finalised the report is not that surprising.\n\n\"Let's wait and see the final report, but more importantly the question of whether or not I breached the ministerial code is being considered independently by James Hamilton and I hope and expect he will publish that report soon.\"\n\nMr Hamilton, a senior Irish lawyer, has been specifically examining whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code, which says that any minister who knowingly misleads parliament would be \"expected to offer their resignation\".\n\nHis inquiry is separate from the committee and is also expected to publish its report in the coming days.\n\nThe cross-party committee includes four SNP MSPs, two Conservatives, one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and independent Andy Wightman.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Parliament said the committee was still finalising its report, and it would not make any comment until it was published.\n\nMs Sturgeon and Mr Salmond - her predecessor as first minister and SNP leader - have both taken part in lengthy evidence sessions in front of the committee in recent weeks.\n\nMr Salmond claimed to have been the victim of a \"malicious scheme\" drawn up by figures within the SNP who are close to Ms Sturgeon.\n\nMr Salmond was Ms Sturgeon's political mentor, but the pair have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon told the inquiry that any suggestion there had been conspiracy were \"absurd\", and insisted she had not been out to \"get\" Mr Salmond.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that Mr Salmond and his \"cronies\" In the \"old boys' club\" had been spinning \"conspiracy theories\" which opposition politicians had bought into.\n\nIt came after Conservative MP David Davis - a longstanding friend of Mr Salmond - used parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons to read out messages that he suggested showed a \"concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints\" against the former first minister.\n\nNicola Sturgeon did not intervene in the investigation into harassment complaints against Alex Salmond. The dispute is about whether or not she was ever prepared to.\n\nAlex Salmond claims she was and is backed up in that by his lawyer, Duncan Hamilton who went with him to see Nicola Sturgeon on 2 April 2018.\n\nNicola Sturgeon claims she made clear an intervention would not be possible, although she has also acknowledged that in trying to let Mr Salmond down gently she may not have been blunt enough.\n\nHer testimony is understood to be supported by written evidence from one of her colleagues, shared with the committee in private.\n\nThe opposition majority appears to have found Team Salmond's evidence more persuasive. SNP members refuse to accept Team Sturgeon has given a misleading account.\n\nWith the committee divided along party lines over the first minister's conduct, the conclusions of James Hamilton - the Irish lawyer who's independently examining the evidence - gain ever greater importance.\n\nSome MSPs on the committee - including the SNP MSP who chairs it - have accused the government of attempting to frustrate its work\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"All the evidence points to the fact that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament, misled the people of Scotland and has to resign.\n\n\"I have said for weeks that evidence against Nicola Sturgeon has been mounting, it has been growing and it is clear she has breached the ministerial code.\n\n\"You cannot continue as first minister of Scotland if you have misled Parliament and breached the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it would be \"incredibly serious\" if the committee concluded that the first minister had misled parliament and potentially breached the ministerial code.\n\nHe added: \"This is about the integrity of our Scottish Parliament and upholding standards in public life.\"", "The killing of Sarah Everard has prompted a public debate on women's safety\n\nOne in 40 women aged between 16 and 24 in England and Wales experience rape or assault by penetration, including attempts, each year, Office for National Statistics estimates suggest.\n\nOverall, 0.1% of men and 0.8% of women aged over 16 said they were victims of these crimes in the year to March 2020.\n\nSome 773,000 adults aged 16 to 74 said they were victims of any type of sexual assault during the same period.\n\nThe survey captures crimes that were not reported to or recorded by police.\n\nIt comes amid a wider discussion of women's safety following the killing of Sarah Everard.\n\nThis week hundreds of people joined a vigil in memory of the 33-year-old, who disappeared on her way home in south London on 3 March.\n\nFlowers and messages have been placed at a memorial to Sarah Everard in south London\n\nThe ONS figures also found that, of people who had ever experienced rape or penetration (including attempts),\n\nThere were almost four times as many female victims of sexual assault as men, at 618,000, compared to 155,000.\n\nPolice in England and Wales recorded a total of 162,936 sexual offences in the year ending March 2020, a drop of 0.7% compared to the previous year, the ONS said.\n\nHelen Ross, from the ONS Centre for Crime and Justice, said: \"The drop was driven by reductions in indecent exposure or unwanted sexual touching, however there was no change in the prevalence of rape or assault by penetration.\n\n\"In the same period, the number of sexual offences recorded by the police has fallen slightly, after nearly tripling in recent years.\n\n\"The number of offences recorded by the police remains well below the number of victims estimated by the survey, with fewer than one in six victims of rape or assault by penetration reporting the crime to the police.\"\n\nSarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nMs Everard went missing while walking home from a friend's house. Her body was later found in woodland in Kent.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said women must feel \"properly heard\" in the wake of her killing, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described it as a \"turning point\" for how violence against women and girls is dealt with.\n\nMet police officer Wayne Couzens, who is accused of her kidnap and murder, is due to go on trial in the autumn.", "Survivors of childhood sexual abuse say football must not be complacent after the release of an independent review into historical abuse in the sport.\n\nThe review found the Football Association \"did not do enough to keep children safe\" between 1970 and 2005.\n\nFormer England international Paul Stewart said football had to ensure \"this doesn't happen again\".\n\nEx-youth player Ian Ackley said it was \"incredibly naive\" to think childhood sexual abuse is only in the past.\n\nThe long-awaited 710-page review, led by Clive Sheldon QC and commissioned by the FA in 2016, found there were \"significant institutional failings\" by the English game's governing body, which was \"too slow\" to have sufficient measures put in place to protect children.\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham offered \"a heartfelt apology\" to all survivors and added there was \"no excuse\" for the organisation's failings.\n\n'Report not end of the matter'\n\nStewart, who played for a number of clubs including Tottenham, Manchester City, Liverpool and Blackpool, was abused by coach Frank Roper for four years as a child and says the game now needs \"to make sure we don't get complacent\".\n\n\"I just hope that we learn from our mistakes and not, because of this report, think that by any means our children are safe now,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAckley, who was abused and raped by paedophile football coach Barry Bennell, works as a survivor support advocate for the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) - a role part-funded by the FA.\n\nHe said the report \"was a new starting point\" from which football can \"springboard forward from\".\n\n\"Eyes are on the FA to see how much they are committed to endorsing the recommendations and learning lessons from the past and carrying on doing more learning,\" he said.\n\nAckley said the game must remain \"vigilant\", adding it is \"absolutely naive to think it couldn't happen again or that it isn't happening right now\".\n\nHe said recommendations made in the review, which include the introduction of safeguarding training at several levels in the game, are \"positive\" but also \"very broad brush\".\n\nAckley added he hoped to see an independent watchdog organisation assigned to monitor the FA's child protection measures.\n\nThe Offside Trust, a group set up by survivors for survivors of childhood sexual abuse in sport, said the report - which it criticised for being \"long overdue\" - should be \"a key milestone in making sure safeguarding is never sacrificed in the future, at any level\".\n\n\"It is shocking that we have had to wait nearly five years to have someone suggest that a bit of safeguarding training every three years might be a good idea,\" the Trust said in a statement.\n\n\"It is disappointing not to see anything stronger in terms of mandatory reporting.\n\n\"The dates for this report were arbitrary and there is a narrative that the issue of child sexual abuse in sport is historic. It is not.\n\n\"Sadly cases are still happening today. We implore the FA and all sporting bodies to recognise that reports like this are not the end of the matter.\"\n\nFormer footballer David Lean was abused by Bennell.\n\nLean's case was referred in 2013 to the Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel, a joint enterprise between the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Crown Prosecution Service, and resulted in Bennell being charged.\n\n\"Time will tell whether it [the report] goes far enough,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's good that they have picked up some failings and they've obviously apologised.\n\n\"I want this to happen in every sport. I think that's crucial. I want the national governing bodies from other sports to look at this and go, 'are we right?' The FA is a wealthy organisation, there is more money in the FA than in other many governing bodies - there are certain things that they can implement.\n\n\"This isn't just about football. If we ring fence football and make it really secure and tight, some of these offenders will look at other ways of getting towards children.\n\n\"We need to look at that and make sure this isn't the end. This is the start now.\"\n\nStewart, who works with the English Football League delivering awareness sessions around safeguarding at club academies, said professional football had made \"great strides\" in protecting children, but he remains worried about the wider game.\n\n\"Ultimately where these people [offenders] preyed was grassroots football,\" he said.\n\n\"I was one of those youngsters that had a dream and felt that the dream could be shattered by the individual who was abusing me.\n\n\"I would still be a little concerned when we look at the grassroots side of football and how these people may be able to operate at that level.\"\n\nAckley said authorities must try to establish \"how big a problem\" sexual violence and abuse remains in football and the wider sporting community if they are to \"make sure we eradicate\" it.\n\n\"Thankfully a majority of people that either partake in sport and football or volunteer to make it happen are wonderful people,\" he said.\n\n\"However, we really need to make sure those good, well-intentioned people are as protected as the children or the vulnerable adults that participate in it.\n\n\"Don't just assume that because someone has a badge, a whistle or a tracksuit that they are OK to leave your children with. Do the right thing and make sure - it's everyone's responsibility.\"\n\nThe Offside Trust said it wanted to see \"wealthy clubs\" support the grassroots in their efforts.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed that the opportunity to create a world-class standard for child protection and safeguarding in sport has been missed,\" the Trust said.\n\nBullingham said that since 2016, when survivors came forward, new processes in grassroots football were brought in \"which set standards that every county must meet, and that are independently assessed\".\n\nHe also said the FA has worked in conjunction with Operation Hydrant - set up by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) in 2014 to oversee cases of \"non-recent\" child sex abuse within institutions or by people of public prominence - investigating \"anyone brought to our attention by the review team\", and have \"taken action where necessary\".\n\nSheldon, who led the review, said he wants \"to make sure that clubs in the lower leagues also have access to paid, dedicated safeguarding staff\".\n\n\"Further steps need to be taken within the grassroots game to ensure that safeguarding is taken even more seriously than it is now,\" he told the BBC.\n• - a three-part series examining historic child abuse in youth football all across England between the 1970s and the 1990s, airs on BBC One, from Monday, 22 March.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Individuals' human rights may have been breached in more than 500 cases where \"do not resuscitate\" decisions were made during the Covid pandemic, the care watchdog for England has said.\n\nSome 508 'do not attempt resuscitation' (DNAR) decisions made since March 2020 were not agreed in discussion with the person or their family, a report found.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission is calling for improvements to care planning.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said decisions should be made in consultation with families.\n\nThe CQC has recommended that a ministerial oversight group be created to work with health and care providers, local government and the voluntary sector to deliver improvements.\n\nIt wants to see a consistent national approach to advance care planning, with staff training, accessible information for families and records of conversations and decisions agreed.\n\nThe findings come after the CQC was asked by the Department of Health and Social Care to conduct a rapid review of how DNAR decisions were used at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt followed concerns that decisions were being made without the involvement of patients or relatives, and that they were being applied in a blanket way to particular groups - to people with learning disabilities, for example.\n\nAn interim report published by the care watchdog in December found that doctors may have made \"do not resuscitate\" decisions on a blanket basis in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said: \"The NHS has repeatedly instructed local clinicians and services that the blanket DNA(CPR) decisions would be unacceptable - including on three separate occasions in less than a month at the start of the pandemic, and again last week - and that access to treatment and care for people should be and is made on an individual basis in consultation with family and carers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sonia died last year and her sister alleges her family weren't informed of a do not resuscitate order\n\nIn its latest report, the CQC said that a combination of \"unprecedented pressure\" on providers and \"rapidly developing guidance\" may have led to situations where DNAR decisions were incorrectly conflated with other clinical assessments.\n\nThere were examples of good practice but the regulator also found a \"worrying picture\" of poor involvement of people using services, poor record keeping, and a lack of oversight and scrutiny of the decisions being made.\n\nHowever, it noted that the issues raised - such as the need for proper, consistent processes around timely conversations about people's care - pre-dated the pandemic.\n\nThe report includes evidence from seven Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), responses from adult social care providers, a public survey and voluntary sector organisations.\n\nSome 2,048 adult social care providers responded to the CQC, and said that 508 DNAR decisions made since 17 March 2020 had not been agreed in discussion with the person, their relative or carer.\n\nAround a third (180) were still in place in December.\n\nAnd, while responsibility for making DNAR decisions does not largely rest with adult social care providers, 119 providers said people in their care had been subject to blanket DNAR decisions since March 2020.\n\nThe CQC said the figures raised concerns about whether the providers making these decisions were at risk of breaching the Equality Act 2010.\n\nMost providers of adult social care, and primary and secondary care, said they were not aware of inappropriate DNAR decisions.\n\nBut other stakeholders, service users, families and carers said blanket DNAR decisions had been proposed locally.\n\nThe regulator heard evidence that these decisions were \"quickly challenged and retracted\".\n\nRosie Benneyworth, chief inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care at the CQC, said: \"It is vital we get this right and ensure better end-of-life care as a whole health and social care system, with health and social care providers, local government and the voluntary sector working together.\n\n\"Covid-19 has brought this to the fore but these are not new issues.\"\n\nAge UK said the approach to advance care planning needed a \"complete overhaul\", with strengthened support for professionals and families with concerns.\n\nIt is also calling for a review so that any \"hasty, ill-informed decisions\" could be removed from older people's records.\n\nMeanwhile, Dan Scorer, head of policy at the learning disability charity Mencap, said the review highlighted \"the urgent need for better staff training and support to ensure the right of people with a learning disability, and their families, to be involved in decisions about care and treatment is upheld\".", "Crowds in Botanic Park were cleared in less than an hour\n\nPolice were called to clear crowds of young people from Botanic Gardens in south Belfast on Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of young people had gathered in the open park on St Patrick's Day.\n\nHowever, when officers were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon, it took less than an hour for the area to be cleared.\n\nPSNI Ass Ch Con Alan Todd had urged parents to ask their children and young adults to \"return home\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme he said: \"There have been people out and enjoying themselves - by and large, people have heeded the messaging from ourselves, from politicians and civic leaders in terms of how they've conducted themselves.\n\n\"While places have seen steady footfall and traffic flows, by and large the vast majority of people have done so responsibly.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course a few haven't, we've had to turn a number of people away at different points, we've had to introduce traffic controls just to manage traffic flows in some areas and regrettably we've had a couple of early days in terms of house parties and a small number of tickets have been issued there as well.\n\nOn Wednesday evening there was a heavy police presence patrolling the Holyland in Belfast's university area to ensure Covid regulations are complied with and to break up house parties.\n\nPSNI patrolling the Holyland in Belfast on Wednesday evening\n\nMeanwhile in the Republic of Ireland, 21 people were arrested at anti-lockdown protests in Dublin.\n\nIt comes as part of a Gardaí (Irish police) operation to prevent planned lockdown protests, which were being planned on social media.\n\nThirteen men and three women arrested by 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nTen people have been charged and were due to appear before a sitting of Dublin District Court on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMore than 2,500 Gardaí have been deployed at checkpoints and arterial routes across the country.", "Sanaa Seif has now been sentenced to prison three times since 2014 (file photo)\n\nA court in Egypt has sentenced the prominent human rights activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in jail after finding her guilty of \"spreading false news\".\n\nSeif was detained in June as she tried to file a complaint about an assault that she had allegedly suffered.\n\nProsecutors later accused her of making unfounded claims about the handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in Egyptian prisons.\n\nAmnesty International said she had been convicted \"on bogus charges stemming purely from her peaceful criticism\".\n\nPresident Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has overseen what human rights groups say is an unprecedented crackdown on dissent since leading the military's overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013 following protests against his rule.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ten years after protests in Egypt ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak, what has changed?\n\nSanaa Seif is the daughter of the late human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif al-Islam and the Cairo University professor and veteran activist Laila Soueif. Her brother is Alaa Abdel Fattah, an influential blogger and activist who has been imprisoned since September 2019.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who had already been jailed in connection with two other cases since 2014, was detained on 23 June outside the Public Prosecutor's Office in Cairo. She had been trying to report a physical assault the day before, according to Amnesty International.\n\nThe rights group said Sanaa Seif had been waiting outside the Tora prison complex for a letter from her brother along with her mother and her sister Mona when a group of women beat them with sticks and stole some of their belongings. One police officer reportedly pushed her mother towards the assailants, it added.\n\nProsecutors subsequently accused Sanaa Seif of disseminating \"false news on the deterioration of the country's health situation, and the spread of the coronavirus in prisons\", as well as \"misusing social media\" and insulting a police officer.\n\nAfter Covid-19 reached Egypt, she accused prison authorities of mishandling outbreaks. Human Rights Watch documented several suspected outbreaks at prisons and police stations between last March and July, during which time it believes at least 14 prisoners died of Covid-19 complications.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mona Seif said her sister had been convicted and sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison.\n\n\"Sisi's Egypt is a nightmare. He is intent on wasting their lives and health in prison #FreeSanaa #FreeAlaa,\" she wrote on Facebook.\n\nLast week, the US and 30 other countries issued a joint declaration expressing deep concern about the human rights situation in Egypt.\n\nIt highlighted \"restrictions on freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly, the constrained space for civil society and political opposition, and the application of terrorism legislation against peaceful critics\".\n\nThe Egyptian foreign ministry said it completely rejected the statement, which it said was astonishing and included \"claims based on inaccurate information\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nationalise Liberty Steel if necessary, says Miliband\n\nThe government should step in to save Liberty Steel, says shadow business secretary Ed Miliband\n\nHe said the situation was \"urgent and worrying\" and nothing should be off the table, including nationalisation, to save thousands of jobs in a key strategic industry.\n\n\"These are crucial jobs for communities up and down this country,\" he said.\n\nLiberty owns 12 steel plants in the UK, including at Rotherham, Motherwell and Newport, and employs 5,000 people.\n\nMr Miliband told the BBC the plants are \"a crucial part of our strategic infrastructure, are crucial for the aerospace sector to automotive. Let's hope that Liberty steel can find that the refinancing that it's looking for but the government needs a plan B to make sure whatever happens, these jobs are saved.\"\n\nThe collapse of the company's main financial backer, Greensill Capital, last week has sparked grave concerns about the future of those jobs.\n\nMr Miliband said the government needed a to consider every option available to save the company. \"If there's one lesson we learned from this pandemic it's that our strategic infrastructure, our resilience really matters. And steel is a key part of our strategic infrastructure and resilience.\n\n\"We cannot afford to let these jobs go. Government has got to make sure it doesn't happen.\"\n\nMr Miliband added it was a demonstration of the need for a comprehensive industrial strategy; a strategy he accused the government of abandoning with the recent abolition of the industrial strategy council of senior business leaders.\n\n\"We absolutely need an industrial strategy. Because we face such massive challenges as a country like the green transition, we have to undertake. And we can only do that without proper partnership between public and private sectors. Now, that does mean a clear roadmap, government showing the direction which is going, it also means public finance.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Times, the Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, hinted that the government could intervene in the Liberty Steel crisis.\n\n\"We have done in the past. I think Liberty Steel is consonant with our decarbonisation agenda. I think it's a fundamentally good product... I can't anticipate or guarantee forms of intervention.\n\n\"The management has their own plan as well and I've got to see how that works out.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the government announced a plan to cut industrial carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2035 - allocating a billion pounds of money announced in the government's ten point plan to hit net zero by 2050.\n\nIts strategy for fostering private investment in offshore wind is a roaring success and we have just witnessed the largest state intervention in the private sector outside of wartime.\n\nBusiness Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, hinted that the government could intervene in the Liberty Steel crisis\n\nI asked Mr Milliband whether the Labour Party had been outflanked on green investment and state intervention? He unsurprisingly disagreed.\n\n\"We're generating the offshore wind here but we're not manufacturing many turbines here, the world leader is Denmark. Why are they the world leader, because they have a proper industrial strategy, where government is willing to put its might alongside the private sector behind it.\n\n\"Businesses are deeply frustrated, angry even, that the government has torn up the work that was being done on an industrial strategy. If the government doesn't want to have one, we'll have one. Because we know we've got to work with business on the challenges we face.\"\n\nHe insisted that the people who presided over the last ten years were unlikely to be able to deliver transformation over the next ten years - and Britain was falling behind the US, France and Germany on investment.\n\nMany businesses do indeed say they liked the old industrial strategy - the sector deals that made them feel the government was holding their hand while setting big policy targets. Some feel we have destinations but no detailed map. But it is also true that the government has a trump card to play in this debate - and we can expect them to play it often.\n\nMinisters and officials point to the vaccine response as an exemplar of how the public and private sector can work together successfully. They also use it as an example of how a government freed from the meeting rooms of Brussels can be nimble when required.\n\nWhen asked what the UK will do with its supposed new found freedoms, insiders will find it difficult to make a list but would point to the vaccine success of \"knowing it when you see it\".\n\nThat argument works less well of course on the government's PPE procurement and the eye watering sums poured into test and trace.\n\nThe government insists it does have an industrial strategy - it just doesn't want to call it that. It prefers a \"plan for growth\", \"build back better\" - and it prefers its run by Number 10 and the Treasury rather than the Department for Business. It also says it is monitoring the Liberty Steel situation very closely.\n\nLabour's dilemma perhaps is that it has never had to fight against a conservative party in a situation like this. Unprecedented intervention in the private sector, running a huge budget deficit and choosing to pay for some of it with a whopping hike in business taxes in 2023.\n\nIt's been a strange year for everyone.", "There is no evidence the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine causes blood clots, say UK and EU regulators after a \"thorough and careful review\".\n\nThe MHRA and the EMA say people can have confidence in the vaccine's benefits and should get immunised, despite some countries pausing use.\n\nBut anyone with a headache lasting more than four days after vaccination should seek medical advice, as a precaution.\n\nThe same advice applies if someone develops unusual bruising.\n\nThat is because the regulators have received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot occurring in the brain.\n\nIt is this type of clot that triggered some European countries to pause rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nIn the UK, five cases of cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT), among 11 million people who have received the vaccine, occurred in men aged between 19 and 59. One of these was fatal.\n\nThe EMA has received an additional 13 reports of CSVT.\n\nCSVT can occur naturally and no link to the vaccine has been established. The patients also had low blood platelet counts - cells involved with clotting.\n\nCovid infection can make clots more likely.\n\nDr June Raine, chief executive of the MHRA, said regulators would continue to closely monitor the situation and people should have the vaccine when it is their turn: \"The public can have every confidence in the thoroughness of our review.\"\n\nProf Sir Munir Pirmohamed, chair of the Commission on Human Medicines, said the gains from getting vaccinated were clear.\n\n\"Given the extremely rare rate of occurrence of these events, the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with the latest data suggesting an 80% reduction in hospitalisation and death from Covid disease, far outweigh any possible risks,\" he said.\n\nProduct information on the vaccine will be updated to include information about rare blood clots.\n\nEMA executive director, Emer Cooke, said: \"Drawing attention to these possible rare conditions and providing information to health care professionals and vaccinated people will help to spot and mitigate any possible side effects.\"\n\nThe EMA review, based on data from around 20 million people vaccinated, concluded:\n\nIt said any of the following symptoms after vaccination should prompt a medical check as a precaution:\n\nThese occur very rarely and are different to the common side-effects people can expect with any vaccine, such as some tenderness where the injection was given.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peloton has warned parents to keep children away from its treadmills after the death of a child.\n\nBoss John Foley called it \"tragic accident\" - one of a \"small handful\" of incidents in which children have been hurt on the firm's exercise equipment.\n\nHe did not disclose further details about what happened.\n\nIn a separate incident, a 3-year-old suffered head injuries after getting trapped under a Peloton treadmill, but will make a full recovery.\n\nThe latest incident report into that accident, disclosed on Wednesday, said the child \"was found to have tread marks on his back matching the slats of the treadmill\".\n\nMr Foley, Peloton's founder, said children should stay away from the firm's machines, which have surged in popularity during the pandemic.\n\n\"We design and build all of our products with safety in mind. But in order to help ensure that you and your family members stay safe with Peloton products in your home, we need your help,\" he wrote in the letter to customers.\n\n\"Keep children and pets away from Peloton exercise equipment at all times. Before you begin a workout, double check to make sure that the space around your Peloton exercise equipment is clear.\"\n\nThe US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it was investigating the incident.\n\nPeloton sells cycling machines and treadmills that can be connected online to virtual fitness classes. Its business has boomed as people look for alternative ways to exercise during lockdowns and gym closures.\n\nThe firm has said the skyrocketing demand has created supply chain pressures, leading to backlogs in orders for the machines.\n\nIts treadmills, which sell for more than $2,400 (£1,722), were designed for use by those aged 16 and older, who weigh at least 105 pounds, it said.\n\nMr Foley said the company did not intend to release more information about the accidents, in order to respect privacy of those involved.\n\n\"While we are aware of only a small handful of incidents involving the Tread+ where children have been hurt, each one is devastating to all of us at Peloton, and our hearts go out to the families involved,\" he wrote.\n\nThe company is \"currently assessing ways to reinforce our warnings about these critical safety precautions to hopefully prevent future accidents,\" he added.\n\nLast year, Peloton recalled pedals on about 27,000 bikes in the US, citing problems after clip-on pedals broke unexpectedly during use.\n\nThere were an estimated 22,500 treadmill-related injuries treated at US emergency departments among all ages, including around 2,000 involving children under the age of eight, according to the consumer product safety commission.\n\nBetween 2018 and 2020, it received reports of 17 deaths related to the use of a treadmill, including one involving a 5-year-old.", "Donald Trump's net worth dropped by about $700m to $2.3bn (£1.65bn) during his time as president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic hit his fortunes hard, with Mr Trump's office buildings, branded hotels and resorts losing revenue and falling in value.\n\nHis fleet of planes and golf courses have also seen drops in their value.\n\nMr Trump is currently under a criminal investigation into his financial affairs and his family business.\n\nBloomberg analysed financial documents and other filings from May 2016 and January 2021 to calculate Mr Trump's wealth before and after he became US president.\n\nMr Trump's commercial real estate accounts for about three-quarters of his net worth. The office towers he owns or co-owns have seen big drops in valuations as more people work from home, a trend that could last in the long term.\n\nBloomberg, which provides financial news and data, estimates a 26% drop in the value of his main commercial property holdings.\n\nHe also owns, manages or licenses his name to about a dozen hotels and resorts, plus 19 golf courses.\n\nAlthough golf has become popular during the pandemic as a socially distanced outdoor sport, Mr Trump's two courses in Scotland have consistently lost money, filings show.\n\nAfter the Capitol Hill siege in January, the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America ended an agreement to host its 2022 championship tournament at Mr Trump's New Jersey golf course, saying it would hurt the group's brand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeutsche Bank, the only bank willing to lend to him after his bankruptcies in the 1990s, also said after the riots that it would not do business with him again.\n\nMr Trump also owns a fleet of planes that includes a Boeing 757. These planes are decades old and have been marked down in value over the years, according to financial disclosures seen by Bloomberg.\n\nSeven planes were valued at around $59m in 2015 and five were valued at about $6.5m in 2020. The value of Mr Trump's aircraft has dropped over the years, in part because he has sold some of his fleet.\n\nDuring his presidency, Mr Trump's finances were regularly in the spotlight and he has been very secretive about how much tax he pays.\n\nLast month the Supreme Court ordered Mr Trump to hand over his tax returns and other financial records to prosecutors in New York.\n\nFor months they have been trying to obtain eight years' worth of Mr Trump's personal and corporate tax returns.\n\nThe investigation was originally started in 2018 to examine the Trump Organization's role in hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who said they had had affairs with Mr Trump.\n\nAs a former president, Donald Trump can expect to sign some lucrative media deals to recover some of his lost wealth, such as a post-presidential memoir.\n\nBarack and Michelle Obama reportedly got paid about $65m for their memoirs, while Bill Clinton earned a $15m advance for his 2004 book.\n\nBloomberg says the most obvious way Mr Trump can profit post-presidency is with a news channel or social media platform that would appeal to his 74m voters in the 2020 election.", "Sarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nA second post-mortem examination is being carried out on Sarah Everard's body after the first proved inconclusive, police have said.\n\nThe 33-year-old vanished as she walked home in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nThe second post-mortem comes ahead of an inquest which is expected to take place in Maidstone on Thursday.\n\nThe Met said it continues to search parts of London and Kent.\n\nLarge portions of the historic town of Sandwich are still cordoned off.\n\nSpecialist divers have been called up from Devon and Cornwall to search a small stretch of water.\n\nOn Monday, officers were seen searching a shopping trolley shelter outside a Co-operative supermarket and looking under vehicles.\n\nOfficers continue their searches along The Rope Walk in Sandwich, Kent\n\nPC Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with the murder and kidnap of Ms Everard.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on 9 July ahead of a provisional trial in the autumn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England was ill-prepared for the seismic shock of the Covid pandemic, a hospital chief has said.\n\nThe service was already running at nearly full capacity with long waits for non-urgent operations even before coronavirus arrived, according to Prof Marcel Levi, the University College London Hospitals trust's chief executive.\n\nProf Levi leaves his role at the end of March, after four years, to return to his native Holland to become chief scientific adviser to the Dutch government.\n\nIn a BBC interview, he argues that it could take \"a very long time\" to clear the backlog of routine surgery and procedures which has built up because of cancellations during the pandemic. He says more money will be needed quickly to run weekend and evening sessions in operating theatres.\n\nProf Levi also believes the most successful responses to the pandemic were those under the control of the NHS - in contrast to those which were run by independent contractors.\n\n\"If you want to get something done, ask the NHS and don't outsource it to all these private companies,\" he said.\n\nProf Levi started his job in London having been chairman of the executive board of the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam.\n\nA magazine in the Netherlands named him as Dutchman of the year in 2016. He is a practising consultant, and continued seeing patients as well as carrying out his chief executive role.\n\nHe believes hospitals coped extremely well in the face of intense pressure when infection rates surged during the second wave in early 2021.\n\n\"I do not think there is any country with such a high number of Covid patients presenting with such a steep rise like we've seen in January and February, that were dealt with in any health system in such a proper way,\" he said.\n\n\"So I'm very proud of how the NHS behaved and acted with the skill available to provide sufficient hospital care for what patients needed.\"\n\nHowever, the first wave was a very different story. He says the NHS was not as robust as it should have been, a key factor being that the UK was one of the countries with the lowest number of intensive care beds per 1,000 of population.\n\n\"You cannot run a healthcare system at the capacity we run the NHS. We are always 95% full, so it's impossible to quickly respond to an emergency situation.\"\n\nEvery winter with influenza circulating there are peaks in demand, resulting in cancellations of operations because there is not enough intensive care space.\n\n\"We should have seen that and said this is just flu, what would happen if we had a real pandemic - and then we would probably have been better prepared.\"\n\nThe same argument applies to routine surgery and procedures: there were already long waiting lists even before the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 300,000 patients have waited more than a year in England, but Prof Levi points out they had waited a long time before Covid forced hospitals to postpone operations.\n\n\"Covid is actually a magnifying glass, making it clear that capacity in the NHS is not sufficient - that has now become very obvious. It's going to take, I am afraid, a very long time to get where we want to be.\"\n\nProf Levi's comments came as Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced £6.6 billion extra for health and care in England in the first half of the 2021/22 financial year.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs the money was in addition to funding committed as part of the spending review to help the NHS meet additional Covid costs and starting work on the elective recovery.\n\nProf Levi's analysis makes sobering reading, because he has experience of other health systems, and has seen the front line in the UK with a fresh perspective.\n\nBut he also believes that the NHS has many strengths - and takes a swipe at the use of private contractors in some areas of the Covid response.\n\n\"Everything that has been a big success - addressing these massive peaks for patients needing intensive care and also vaccination - was the part done by the NHS.\n\n\"Everything that was actually not so successful - test-and-trace, PPE provision, all these things - was outsourced to companies which failed to deliver what they promised.\n\n\"That is a reminder for the future - the NHS is a very strong organisation. If you want to get something done ask the NHS and not outsource it to all these private companies.\"\n\nAnd the best thing about the NHS? The people who work in it, he said.\n\n\"The resilience and the quality and the camaraderie of people I have been working with - doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, porters, cleaners, teamwork - that's something I have never encountered before.\"", "BT has said it will \"build like fury\" to roll out full-fibre internet connections after new rules announced by the UK's telecoms regulator.\n\nOfcom has decided not to impose price caps on full-fibre connections provided by the firm's Openreach subsidiary.\n\nThis gives the company the certainty it had been looking for ahead of a planned £12bn investment.\n\nHowever, the decision lays Ofcom open to criticism that is has given a near-monopoly operator a generous deal.\n\nThat could mean more expensive internet connections for the public than might have been the case.\n\nOfcom also froze the price curbs it levels on what Openreach charges internet service providers for its slower copper-based connections.\n\nOpenreach lays down and maintains the fibre-optic cables involved as well as operating the associated telephone exchanges, and then sells use of these services to individual internet service providers. They in turn sell access to the public.\n\nThe business has said it can now confirm a plan to build fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connections to 20 million homes and offices by the mid- to late-2020s.\n\n\"Today's regulation will allow us to ramp up to three million premises per year providing vital next generation connectivity for homes and business right across the UK,\" said Openreach's chief executive Clive Selley.\n\n\"It's true we certainly want to make sure that BT can have a fair bet on this investment, but at the core of our approach is that we are trying to get competition into the wholesale network layer, of broadband for the future, really for the first time in quite a new way,\" Dame Melanie Dawes told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.\n\n\"And the reason we believe in competition is we actually think that's best for the consumer. It gives us all more options to choose from, not just on pricing but also on service quality and reliability.\"\n\nAs part of the measures, Ofcom will effectively freeze the wholesale fees Openreach charges for providing \"superfast\" data speeds of up to 40 megabits per second, which rely on copper links via fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) or older technologies.\n\nThe watchdog had previously forced these to fall by about 20% over recent years.\n\nThe price Openreach charges for faster and more reliable FTTP connections will remain unregulated.\n\nThere is, however, one new restriction.\n\nOpenreach will not be allowed to offer geographic discounts on its full-fibre wholesale services. A similar limitation already existed on its provision of \"superfast\" links.\n\nAnd Ofcom has said it will review all long-term discount arrangements offered by Openreach to its clients, and will intervene if necessary to prevent the firm from stifling investment by rivals.\n\nIt said it believed its approach should mean about 70% of the UK would still end up with a choice of networks.\n\nVirgin Media, CityFibre and Hyperoptic are among alternative providers.\n\nTheir ability to profit from building rival networks would have come under pressure if they had been required to match new full-fibre price caps imposed on Openreach.\n\n\"Rolling out infrastructure is a costly and time-consuming venture, that comes with a long pay-back on investment,\" commented Kester Mann, an analyst at the tech consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"This is particularly true in less-densely populated areas where the economics may be considerably less appealing.\n\n\"As such, Openreach needed certainty that it would be able to make a sufficient return on investment before embarking on the next stages of roll-out.\"\n\nOpenreach will also be allowed to turn off copper-based networks in areas where faster full-fibre internet connections to properties have already been deployed.\n\nThis should help reduce its costs by removing the need to maintain two different systems in parallel.\n\nOfcom said this would also help promote take-up of faster fibre services.\n\nHowever, it indicated that any such switch off must be done \"progressively... over a number of years\".\n\nAnd it added that customers would be \"protected\" during the transition to ensure they would continue to have access to the net.\n\nOfcom had to walk a difficult line with this review.\n\nIf it set regulation too tight by capping wholesale prices at a low level, the risk was that BT and its fibre network rivals would be reluctant to invest the billions needed to roll out ultrafast broadband.\n\nIf it loosened the reins it would be accused of going soft on BT, sparking anger from the likes of Sky, which use the Openreach network and would have to pass on the higher prices to their retail customers.\n\nBy opting to impose no price controls on BT's fibre product for a decade, Ofcom has chosen the second option, insisting that it is the only way to spark the frenzy of competitive network building needed to move the UK up into the broadband fast lane.\n\nWhat this review does not do is ensure ultrafast connections reach the 20% of the country where BT and its rivals still don't believe they can make a commercial return.\n\nThe broadband industry is waiting impatiently to hear how the government plans to spend the £1.5bn of public money it has promised by 2025 to spur investment in rural fibre coverage. An announcement on that is expected imminently.", "Simon Beswick was the leader of a specialist paramedic team on the night of the attack\n\nA senior paramedic has told an inquiry he was wrong not to send three colleagues straight to the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nSimon Beswick arrived at the arena 40 minutes after the blast, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nThe inquiry has heard how only three paramedics treated casualties in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nThree additional paramedics were held back to treat patients on the Victoria Station concourse outside the arena.\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\nMr Beswick told the public inquiry into the attack that two of his North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) colleagues had gone into the City Room foyer while he and three other colleagues, who arrived later, remained outside to assist with casualties there.\n\n\"On reflection and with the benefit of hindsight, yes I believe I was incorrect in my decision making there and we could have moved forward,\" he said.\n\n\"But on the evening, the challenges we faced, I believe I was robust in my decision making not to overcommit members of the team and to allocate [them] to treat critically-ill patients at that point.\"\n\nMr Beswick, who was acting up as team leader of NWAS's Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), said making the decision had caused him a \"great deal of disquiet and concern\".\n\nHe said he had been informed the scene had not been declared safe at that stage and there was a concern over secondary devices or another terrorist attack.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nMr Beswick told the inquiry Dan Smith, a NWAS operational commander, had asked him to stay back and set up a casualty collection point on the station concourse while two paramedics were sent into the City Room to triage and treat patients.\n\nWhen asked if he was surprised he was not sent to the scene, Mr Beswick said the \"amount of patients was overwhelming and there was nowhere to treat them\".\n\nWhen three more members of the HART team arrived, they were asked to treat patients who were being carried out on makeshift stretchers, rather than go into the foyer, the inquiry heard.\n\nAt one stage Mr Beswick spent three minutes helping three casualties walk across the road outside the station, the hearing was told.\n\nHe accepted that a paramedic with his skills \"could have been more effective moving forward\" to help other patients.\n\nChristopher Hargreaves was one of the paramedics who was sent into the City Room\n\nMr Beswick also told the inquiry he had to \"play the role of a parking officer\" at times because there was no traffic officer on the scene.\n\nThe inquiry also heard from HART paramedic Christopher Hargreaves, who said he was with Mr Beswick when a radio message came through at about 22.40 BST regarding an \"ongoing bombing or shooting\" at the arena.\n\nHe said: \"It seemed a little bit chaotic trying to get some more information from control once we had set off.\"\n\nHe told the inquiry Mr Beswick looked on Twitter to try to gather more information, which he agreed was not ideal.\n\nHe said: \"At the time it was our only option.\"\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.", "Several European countries are experiencing a new surge in coronavirus infections, while a number have also suspended use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine over safety concerns.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency is standing by its decision to approve the vaccine and has reiterated there is \"no indication\" the jab causes blood clots. It is investigating further and its results are due to be released on Thursday.\n\nCorrespondents in six cities explain how Europeans are reacting to the new wave of infections and the stuttering rollout.\n\nVaccinations 857,792 |14.81 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared with last week +2,484\n\nDenmark was the first country in Europe to suspend the AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, followed by Norway and Iceland. It is yet another blow to its vaccine plans, writes Adrienne Murray in Copenhagen.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 people here have now received at least one vaccine dose, a quarter of which were supplied by AstraZeneca.\n\nAll adults were expected to be vaccinated by the end of June, but delivery delays have seen that target pushed back a number of times. Health authorities on Wednesday suggested the end of July.\n\nDanes have expressed disappointment about the rollout on Twitter. \"It's simply going too slow,\" writes Lone Juul Lang. But most have supported the government's handling of coronavirus and a survey in January revealed that almost nine out of 10 Danes want to be vaccinated.\n\nSince the new year, infections have fallen sharply and Denmark is slowly emerging from a second lockdown. But signs of fatigue are beginning to show. Anti-lockdown protests have recently been held in some Danish cities and there's political pressure to do more.\n\nHowever, concerns about new variants of coronavirus, have made the government hesitant to open up faster.\n\nVaccinations 7,552,120 | 11.19 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared with last week +25,912\n\nAfter an unpromising start, the AstraZeneca jab has come to hold a key place in France's inoculation programme, but a new poll on public confidence is not reassuring, writes Hugh Schofield in Paris.\n\nIt's the worst anniversary that Emmanuel Macron can have imagined, says Nicolas Beytout, editor of France's L'Opinion newspaper.\n\nExactly a year ago the president announced the first lockdown and said France was \"at war\" with the virus. But now his strategy has been knocked dangerously off course by the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nIn recent weeks the AstraZeneca jab has overtaken Pfizer/BioNTech in the number of doses delivered.\n\nBut if people turn away from AstraZeneca, waiting for new vaccines like Johnson and Johnson, then Mr Macron's calculations go awry. The sweet moment when immunity starts biting is postponed, leading to lockdowns and public anger.\n\nAccording to an Elabe survey conducted just as the suspension was announced, only 20% of the French have confidence in AstraZeneca. For Pfizer/BioNTech, the figure is 52%.\n\nVaccinations 9,853,966 | 11.76 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared to last week +23,889\n\nCoronavirus infections are spreading fast again in Germany and there's already growing dissatisfaction over a slow vaccine rollout, writes Jenny Hill in Berlin.\n\n\"We wonder now when we will ever be vaccinated?\" says kindergarten worker Tanya.\n\nJust 8% of the German population has received a first jab in a country which, most experts agree, is firmly in the grip of a third wave.\n\nGermany has relied largely on Pfizer/BioNTech, but ministers need AstraZeneca if they're to keep their promises and speed things up.\n\nSo the decision to suspend the jab has caused dismay, anger and concern.\n\nNot least because, even in a country that is broadly open to vaccination, AstraZeneca has a bit of an image problem; in part, because the government initially blocked its use in older age groups.\n\nMinisters argue now, as then, that they're acting to create public trust. Many here would say they've had the opposite effect - undermining faith not just in the vaccine but, in an election year, the government itself.\n\nVaccinations 4,557,060 | 12.04 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared to last week +29,557\n\nIn Poland, new infections are rising at an alarming rate as the country's third wave continues to gather momentum, writes Adam Easton in Warsaw.\n\nIn response to the health ministry's latest tweet about the number of new cases, which rose by 45% compared with a week earlier, some wanted tougher restrictions.\n\n\"In Germany, a hard lockdown, in Poland indignation that you can't go to the pub in the evening,\" writes @JMojzych, adding that there is a higher rate of infection here than in Germany.\n\nIn terms of the vaccination rollout, Poland has just fallen out of the top 10 EU countries with the highest rate of administering jabs. A recent opinion poll found that 53.1% of respondents agreed the EU had failed to provide sufficient vaccines to member states.\n\nUnlike many EU countries, Poland is continuing to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut people questioning, or deferring their AstraZeneca jab has become \"a noticeable phenomenon\", Prof Agniezka Mastalerz-Migas, from Wroclaw Medical University, told broadcaster TVN24 .\n\nVaccinations 7,039,518 | 11.64 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared to last week +12,018\n\nThe timing could hardly have been worse for Italy, writes Mark Lowen in Milan.\n\nOn the day that most of Italy entered another lockdown and new vaccine sites opened to ramp up rollout, they were abruptly shut again with the AstraZeneca suspension - and those waiting for their longed-for panacea were turned away.\n\n\"Another failure by Europe,\" cried Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League. He adds that he hoped the Sputnik V vaccine would arrive soon - a comment not lost on those noting Mr Salvini's pro-Russia sympathies.\n\nAt a Pfizer vaccination centre in Milan, most seem unfazed.\n\n\"If my mother had got AstraZeneca today, not Pfizer, it would be the same,\" says Elena Grazena. \"I trust the science.\"\n\nMaria Polizzi tells me she is a little worried by the suspension. \"Luckily AstraZeneca wasn't the vaccine I got,\" she says. \"It's right they're suspending until they investigate.\"\n\nAmid a third wave and frustration at a slow vaccine rollout, it's as though this exhausted country has been kicked while it's down.\n\nVaccinations 1,079,144 | 11.98 doses per 100 people | Increase in cases compared to last week +1,876\n\nIn Austria, there are mixed feelings about AstraZeneca, writes Bethany Bell in Vienna.\n\nOn one of Vienna's main shopping streets, I meet Angelika, who tells me she is relieved to have had her first jab of AstraZeneca last week.\n\n\"I'm really happy and glad to have it because I'm a teacher,\" she tells me. \"I feel great. It was fine.\" She says it is much better to be inoculated than to get a bad case of Covid-19.\n\nAustria halted one batch of the vaccine last week, while they investigate the death of a nurse who died several days after being inoculated.\n\nAustria's health minister Rudolf Anschober has called for a swift European solution, instead of individual national decisions.\n\nEveryone will have to make up their own minds, says Angelika. \"I think we take a lot of other medicines where we don't know what's inside.\"\n\nAnother shopper, Manfred is more suspicious.\n\n\"In general, I am pro-vaccination,\" he tells me. But he says he won't take AstraZeneca at the moment, \"because of the serious adverse events. I'm a bit scared to get ill from the vaccine\".\n\nHe says he might change his mind if the studies are okay.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to see the full interactive Enter a country or territory to find out the progress of the vaccine rollout No vaccine data available. In some cases there may be a delay between announcements of vaccine programmes getting underway and data on doses delivered becoming available.", "More pupils will be returning to classrooms over the next few weeks\n\nSupport in schools needs to be targeted to avoid trying to get children to \"catch up on everything\" when classes resume, according to researchers.\n\nSchools are yet to know the impact of months away from face-to-face teaching.\n\nCardiff University researcher Catherine Foster said children from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely to have fallen behind while learning from home.\n\nThe Welsh government said the equivalent of about 2,000 extra full-time teaching staff had been hired.\n\nBut opposition parties have said classroom return plans lack detail.\n\nPrimary school children and some secondary pupils have returned to school after learning from home since before Christmas, but pupils will not all be back in class full time until 12 April.\n\nOn top of the face-to-face teaching missed this term, pupils also had to learn at home from March to July last year and many spent periods having to isolate, even when they were allowed back in class.\n\nDr Foster is part of a team at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data which has surveyed young people in years 7 to 12 about their home learning experiences.\n\nShe said international research suggested children had fallen behind in terms of educational attainment and \"the progress lost is even worse for children from more disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nResearch suggested many children would not have engaged with their school work and motivation could be a problem when they are back in class, but experiences would differ, she added.\n\n\"Everyone has lost something - it varies a lot. But if there's a focus on catching up and trying to say 'well you've got to catch-up on everything you've missed, plus the work you've got to do this year', it's not going to help\", she said\n\n\"There's a lot of logic in saying that maybe we should just be identifying what young people need to progress and focusing on filling in those particular gaps, rather than trying to chuck everything at them and expecting them to do two years in one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teachers not focussed on \"catch up\" for pupils\n\nAt Ysgol y Ddraig in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, the school believes that working towards the core aims of Wales' new curriculum will help with addressing the effects of the pandemic on children.\n\nBut executive head teacher Ty Golding thinks talk of \"catching-up\" is not helpful.\n\nHe said: \"I think we're trying to avoid the term catch-up if I'm honest, because it does suggest that learning is a linear process by which if children miss a chunk of work they'll never be able to engage in that level of learning.\n\n\"Really for us at the moment it's about the social reconnection, it's about getting the children back into routines\".\n\nGethin Bickerton said some pupils responded well to online learning, but others were the \"polar opposite\"\n\nAt Ysgol Glan Morfa in Cardiff, Gethin Bickerton has been employed as a teaching assistant since autumn 2020, one of hundreds of extra staff employed through the Welsh government's Recruit, Recover and Raise Standards programme.\n\nBefore the pandemic, he was an actor travelling around schools helping children learn about figures from Welsh history.\n\nNow he uses those skills to do role play with children to improve communication and help small groups with their reading.\n\n\"We have a mixture of pupils here. We have some who have engaged really well with online learning and those who can really engage with the work, but then we have the polar opposite,\" he said.\n\nMr Bicketon said the schools main focus is getting the children back into routine and socialising in Welsh\n\nMr Bickerton works with young children in the foundation phase where improving literacy is a key priority.\n\n\"The main focus at the moment is getting them back into some sort of routine and getting them back socialising with other people through the medium of Welsh - that's our main aim.\n\n\"But also going back to basics with some individuals as well, learning letters, words and forming sentences.\"\n\nLast summer, the Welsh government announced £29m to fund 900 extra teaching staff, followed by a further £72m investment announced earlier this month.\n\nIt said it had outstripped the recruitment target and so far the equivalent of around 2,000 extra full time staff had been employed.\n\nNew figures from the government showed that included 472 new full time teaching assistants and 248 new full time teachers, as well as hundreds of part time appointments and existing staff taking on extra hours.\n\nA spokesman said an evaluation of recruitment through Recruit, Recover and Raise Standards would be commissioned this year.\n\nHe added: \"Initial data suggests the funding has supported the recruitment of mostly new, rather than existing, staff.\n\n\"1,508 new full-time equivalent posts have been recruited to, compared to 487 (FTE) posts created from increased hours for existing staff.\"\n\nBut opposition parties have said the plans failed to provide a longer-term vision.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said without a detailed roadmap for education recovery \"nobody's sure of how it will be spent and whether it will be spent effectively\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said a recovery plan needed to be part of \"an ambitious plan to invest in teaching\" in the long term.\n\n\"What we're hearing from the government is yet more announcements about funding but no plan about how that funding is going to be used.\"", "The outlook for the UK economy remains \"unusually uncertain\" despite the rapid rollout of the vaccine programme, the Bank of England has said.\n\nIt said it expected an economic rebound this year, as lockdown measures were eased and government support for jobs continued.\n\nBut it said the recovery still depended on the \"evolution of the pandemic\" and measures to protect public health.\n\nIt came as the Bank held interest rates at historic lows of 0.1%.\n\nAccording to official figures, the UK economy shrank by 2.9% in January amid the third lockdown, as restaurants and non-essential shops were shuttered.\n\nBut the drop was much smaller than expected, suggesting businesses have adapted to trading in lockdown.\n\nIt's added to growing expectations that the recovery will be stronger than previously expected, thanks in large part to the vaccine programme.\n\nDespite concerns about supply, everyone above the age of 50 and all adults in risk groups are set to have their first jab by the end of May, followed by all adults by the end of July.\n\nLast week, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC that he expected the economy to \"get back at the end of this year to where it was at the end of 2019\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government's fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, forecasts that unemployment will peak at 6.5% instead of the 11.9% predicted last July.\n\nHowever, an official statement on Thursday from the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rates, was more cautious.\n\nIt said recent plans to ease lockdown \"may be consistent with a slightly stronger outlook\" in the near term, but it was unclear whether they would make a difference in the medium-term.\n\n\"The outlook for the UK economy, and particularly the relative movement in demand and supply during the recovery from the pandemic, remains unusually uncertain,\" it added.\n\n\"It continues to depend on the evolution of the pandemic, measures taken to protect public health, and how households, businesses and financial markets respond to these developments.\"\n\nSilvia Dall'Angelo, senior economist at the International Business of Federated Hermes, said the cautious tone of the MPC's statement was in line with other central banks.\n\n\"The Bank of England is facing the same cross-currents. Since its previous meeting in February, most developments - notably fresh rounds of fiscal stimulus domestically and abroad - have had positive implications for the economic outlook, but downside risks and uncertainty concerning the evolution of the pandemic are still prominent.\"\n\nThere have been warnings that inflation could breach the Bank's 2% target this year, but Mr Bailey has played the threat down.\n\nOn Thursday, the MPC said it would continue to monitor the situation closely but had no immediate plans tighten monetary policy.\n\nBut it said if the outlook for inflation weakens, \"the committee stands ready to take whatever additional action is necessary to achieve its remit\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve also played down warnings of rising inflation, saying any increases above its own 2% target were likely to be \"transient\".\n\nToday's Monetary Policy Report plays down the risk of a rate rise any time soon. And the BoE has more than one reason to do so.\n\nThe pandemic has brought weirdness to many of our lives. The same applies to the Bank of England. It continues to insist it doesn't engage in monetary financing, where the central bank simply creates money from nothing (once upon a time you could say \"prints money\" but now it's digital) and \"lends\" it to the government.\n\nHowever, what's happening now is not much different. As the Financial Times has noted, of the money being borrowed by the government this financial year by issuing gilts - a sort of IOU note also known as a government bond - 92.7% of it will be owed to the Bank of England.\n\nNot only is the government \"borrowing\" most of its money from another branch of the public sector. If it pays interest on that debt it gets it straight back. Easy money. But the money the BoE creates from nothing is used to buy gilts from big City players like pension funds, hoping they'll invest the cash in productive industry (the last 12 years by no means supports that hope).\n\nWhat they get in exchange is BoE reserves, which pay interest at the official rate. So if rates rose, the BoE - underwritten by the Treasury - would be one of the biggest losers.", "More than 3.7 million vulnerable people in England will no longer have to shield from the coronavirus from 1 April.\n\nIt comes as the numbers of Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions have declined for the past couple of weeks.\n\nLetters will be sent out to this group in the next two weeks.\n\nIn them, people will still be advised to keep social contacts at low levels, work from home where possible and stay at a distance from other people.\n\nSince 5 January, they have been asked to stay at home as much as possible to reduce their risk of being exposed to the virus.\n\nBut at a Downing Street press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed shielding guidance, which had been extended to 31 March for all those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, would end on 1 April.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries recommended the change based on the latest scientific evidence and advice.\n\nShielding guidance has applied to people thought to be at very high risk of serious illness from coronavirus.\n\nAnd they were all entitled to priority access to a Covid vaccination before the general population.\n\nThey include people who have had stem cell transplants or are having chemotherapy treatment for cancer and adults with chronic kidney disease.\n\nAnd in February, another 1.7 million people in England were added to the list, based on the clinical judgement of their GP or hospital doctor.\n\nThe four nations of the UK can decide who should be shielding in each country.\n\nShielding guidance is also due to end on 1 April in Wales, where more than 130,000 people are staying at home.\n\nMeanwhile, the NHS has warned of reductions in vaccine supplies during April, saying no extra appointments should be added to the national booking system next month.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said vaccine supply was \"always lumpy\" and the focus should be on vaccinating those in the top nine priority groups, who are most vulnerable.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mothers face more insecure and lower-paid work after having children, official figures suggest.\n\nWomen with dependent children are seven times more likely to work part-time than men, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nMore than 15% of mums also say they are economically inactive because of caring responsibilities, versus 1.9% of dads.\n\nOne analyst said \"millions of mums\" were being forced to \"pay the price\" of a less secure career.\n\nThe new research found that while mums who are employed were more likely to work part-time, only 25% of mothers with a one-year-old worked full-time.\n\nMore than nine in 10 of the women in part-time work surveyed by the ONS said that they did not want a full-time job.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I would like to work. However, I'm still taking care of my grandson at home\"\n\nBut Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that there was a clear financial cost associated with the decision to work part-time or take a career break.\n\n\"This doesn't just take a toll during the early years with young children, but throughout the rest of their working life,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only do they receive lower pay, but later in life, if someone needs to stop work to look after someone else in the family - such as grandchildren or elderly parents - the job typically falls to the lower-earning mum.\"\n\nThe new figures from the ONS found that employment among mothers fluctuates as children get older and peaks at the age of 15 at 82.1%, before falling back again.\n\n\"This insecurity feeds into women's ability and willingness to put money aside for the long term. It's one reason why women overwhelmingly favour cash Isas and men are more likely to put money into a stocks-and-shares Isa or a pension,\" Ms Coles added.\n\nSeparate research published on Monday by Scottish Widows has found that the average woman in her 20s today will retire with £100,000 less in her pension than her male peers.\n\nThe pension firm said that women would have to work an extra 37 years if they wanted to close the gap.\n\nIt blamed their lower average earnings, the higher probability of working part-time and heavier childcare burden.\n\nAccording to the research, over the first 15 years of their careers, women on average save about £2,200 a year, compared to £3,300 for men.\n\nThe difference widens over a lifetime as wage increases lead to \"significant inequalities in retirement income\", it said.\n\nHowever, it added that if women increased their pensions contributions at the start of their careers by 5%, they could close the gap almost completely by the time they retired.\n\nJackie Leiper, managing director of pensions at Scottish Widows, said: \"We know that young women have been some of the hardest hit by the short-term financial impact of the pandemic and this has only exacerbated the challenge of reaching pensions parity.\n\n\"At the same time, caring responsibilities and high childcare costs are keeping women out of the workforce, lowering their contributions and denting their pension pots.\"\n\nA Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: \"Our ground-breaking pension reforms, including automatic enrolment, have helped millions more women save into a pension, many for the first time.\n\n\"Pension participation among eligible women working in the private sector has risen from 40% in 2012, to 86% in 2019.\"", "Grace Victory has amassed more than 221,000 subscribers on YouTube with videos about body image and her recent pregnancy\n\nA popular YouTuber with Covid-19 who was placed in an induced coma has said she is \"awake\".\n\nGrace Victory, 30, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was taken into intensive care on Christmas Day.\n\nThe move came a day after she gave birth to her first child, a boy, who was not due to be born until February.\n\nIn successive posts on Twitter on Monday, she said \"I'm awake\", followed by another tweet which read: \"Baby boy is thriving at home x.\"\n\nMiss Victory, also known as \"The Internet's Big Sister\", joined YouTube in March 2011 and has amassed more than 221,000 subscribers with her videos about body image and pregnancy.\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 gracefvictory 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\nAfter it was announced she was in an induced coma, messages of support flooded in, including those from Miss Victory's celebrity followers such as Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock and model and campaigner Katie Piper.\n\nIn December her family said they were \"truly overwhelmed\" by the \"amount of love\" sent to Miss Victory.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The BBC's Ben Wright asks if Johnson and Harries accept that infection rates will go up now that children in England are back in the classroom - and what would be an acceptable level.\n\nThe PM says a risk of increased transmission now that schools are back is \"inevitable\".\n\nBut he adds that immunity has \"bedded in\" for millions of people who have now had their first dose of the Covid vaccine, which means it's safe to continue with the reopening plans.\n\nAs we approach the next steps of lockdown easing we must be \"very, very cautious,\" the PM warns.\n\nHarries adds that education is of public health importance \"just as much as Covid is\" so the UK should press on with getting children back to school.\n\nShe adds that it will be difficult to tell what impact a return to schools has to the numbers, because social interaction will also increase as the roadmap continues.\n\nWhile the news conference is about the continuing pandemic, the PM is asked about the big story of the day - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\n\"I've always had the highest admiration for the Queen and the unifying role that she plays in our country and across the Commonwealth,\" he says.\n\nHe says he's spent \"a long time\" not commenting on Royal Family matters and doesn't plan to make that change.", "A pathologist said Amy-Leanne Stringfellow died following a 'sustained and forceful' attack\n\nA former soldier was fatally beaten and stabbed by her fiancé who was on bail for assaulting her, an inquest has heard.\n\nTerence Papworth, 45, used a vodka bottle and ornamental sword in the \"sustained\" attack against Amy-Leanne Stringfellow, 26.\n\nMr Papworth had been charged and released on bail over an assault on his partner a month earlier.\n\nDoncaster Coroner's Court heard a post-mortem examination found 58 different injuries, including a stab wound to Ms Stringfellow's neck and fractures to her cheek, jaw and eye sockets.\n\nThe former Army reservist, who had served in Afghanistan, met Mr Papworth in October 2019 and got engaged two months later on New Year's Eve, the court heard.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Stringfellow's mother, Jacqueline Fareham, said Mr Papworth had \"initially appeared to be perfect\" and she had treated him \"like one of the family\".\n\nHowever, the inquest heard, Mr Papworth was charged in May with assault after he allegedly threatened Ms Stringfellow with a gun.\n\nHe was bailed on the condition he would not have any contact with Ms Stringfellow, and was released to appear at court again in July.\n\nBut on 5 June Ms Stringfellow, who had told her mother she was going to stay with a friend in Bridlington, went to Mr Papworth's home in Dryden Road, Balby, Doncaster.\n\nWhen officers were called to the house shortly before midnight they found her \"motionless and covered in blood\" in an upstairs bedroom. She was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.\n\nTwo small silver ornamental swords were found next to the bed and there was broken glass on the floor.\n\nPathologist Dr Charles Wilson, who performed the post-mortem examination on Ms Stringfellow, said she died from a \"sustained and forceful multi-modal assault.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Papworth had left the house before officers arrived and gone to his mother's home before handing himself in to police.\n\nHe also called several people to confess, telling one friend \"I've killed her, I've done it, I've had enough\".\n\nRecording her conclusion, coroner Mrs Slater said: \"Amy-Leanne was obviously very much loved and cherished by her family and friends and clearly will not be forgotten.\"\n\nMr Papworth died in Leeds Prison in November 2020. The Prison Service would not confirm how he died and said it would be a \"matter for the coroner\" to investigate.\n\nFollowing Mr Papworth's death, South Yorkshire Police said it was not looking for anyone else in relation to Ms Stringfellow's death.\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation looking at officers' involvement in the case is ongoing, the inquest heard.\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.", "Harry: We asked for help but couldn't get it\n\nHarry says his biggest concern while living in Canada was that their security was going to be removed and people knew their location. He adds in a jibe at the Daily Mail newspaper at this point - saying that people knew their exact location \"courtesy of the Daily Mail\". He says the Palace's justification for removing security was \"a change in status\"- but Harry says he \"pushed back\" and asked whether there had been a change of threat or risk, to which the Palace said no. They decided to move to California because they felt they were not safe in Canada. Oprah asks them what was the tipping point to their decision to step back as senior royals. \"It was desperate,\" says Harry. \"I went to all the places which I thought I should go to to ask for help, we both did, separately and together. Oprah asks: \"So you left because you were asking for help but couldn't get it?\", \"Yeah, basically,\" says Harry. \"But we never left,\" he says. \"We never left the family,\" adds Meghan, saying they only wanted to have a type of role that already exists - a non-senior royal. Harry says they wanted to \"take a breath\" from this \"constant barrage\".", "A 1% pay offer for nurses in Northern Ireland would be a \"massive slap in the face\", according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in NI.\n\nThe union has set up a £35m fund for possible strike action after the proposal was made for nursing staff in England.\n\nIt has called for a 12.5% pay rise.\n\nThe RCN's NI director, Pat Cullen, said the union would await the outcome of a pay review before considering its next steps in NI.\n\nThe government has said the 1% offer represents what is \"affordable\" at a difficult time for public finances because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMs Cullen, referring to the clap for carers initiative, said \"it didn't take very long for government to move the claps to slaps\".\n\nShe said that members, who \"have carried us right through Covid... working 15-hour days on most days\", were now feeling angry and let down.\n\n\"Did we anticipate this happening as quickly and to be let down as quickly? Probably not, but the government just seems to have a very short-term memory on this occasion,\" she added.\n\nPat Cullen said nurses feel let down by the government offer after their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nMs Cullen said the RCN had \"put substantial evidence to the pay review body\", which is assessing the policy in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said she anticipated the results of this to be known by May or June.\n\n\"Let's see what will happen then\", she said, referring to the potential for members to be balloted for industrial action.\n\nThe prospect of a strike comes just more than a year since NI's largest health unions agreed to end months of industrial action over a pay and staffing levels dispute.\n\nIt is almost inconceivable that health workers find themselves in a position where they are talking about strike action again.\n\nIn fact, if these threats come to fruition, an already astonishing year will be bookended by walkouts and industrial action.\n\nIn the 14 months since, health and social care workers have gone from the picket line to the front line, as they joined the fight against Covid-19.\n\nAfter the most difficult of years, it does feel scarcely credible that there's friction once again over a pay rise.\n\nThe government argues that 1% is all they can offer when there is a public sector pay freeze. But this offer has triggered \"dismay and anger\" among health unions.\n\nOne could argue health workers have the better hand. The support of the public will have been strengthened immensely over the last 14 months and that's something governments across the UK will have to filter into their negotiations.\n\nThe pay proposal in England covers most hospital staff, but does not cover GPs or dentists.\n\nA government spokesperson said the plan was a \"real-terms increase\" as the latest official inflation figure was 0.9%.\n\nRCN general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair said 1% would represent about £3.50 more per week in take-home pay for an experienced nurse.\n\nStormont's Department of Health said \"any decision on a pay award for NI health workers will be taken after the pay review bodies make their recommendations\".\n\n\"We do not intend to pre-empt those recommendations.\n\n\"Our pay award decisions can also only be taken in the context of a wider public sector pay policy set by the Department of Finance.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a joint statement issued by the RCN, Unison, Nipsa and Unite unions said members in NI had responded to the government proposal with \"dismay and anger\".\n\n\"They know their worth and value, as does the public and all those who have been cared for by them over the last year,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 and schools: Pupils 'looking forward to playing with friends'\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir is to bring forward a proposal to scrap the plan to pull P1-P3 children back out of classes on 22 March.\n\nNI's youngest pupils returned to school on Monday for the first time since before the Christmas break.\n\nChildren in primary one to primary three (aged four to seven) and those in nursery and pre-school went back to class.\n\nThe plan is that they will then return to remote learning on 22 March.\n\nHowever, Mr Weir said this does not make \"enormous sense\" and he will bring a specific proposal to the executive for those year groups to continue in the classroom.\n\n\"I think we need to see continuity of learning,\" he said.\n\nThe return to the classroom was sweet for Braniel primary school children\n\nOn Monday a further two coronavirus-linked deaths and 144 new cases were reported by the Department of Health.\n\nIt brings the death toll recorded by the department to 2,077.\n\nThere are 220 inpatients being treated for coronavirus in Northern Ireland hospitals and 35 people in ICU, 25 of whom are ventilated.\n\nAs of Monday, 631,654 Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland, of which 588,803 were first doses and 42,851 were second doses.\n\nMeanwhile no further coronavirus-linked deaths have been recorded in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAs of Monday, the country's death toll remains at 4,422. A further 437 new cases were reported.\n\nThere are 418 patients currently being treated for Covid-19 in the Republic, 103 of which are in ICU.\n\nOnly special schools in Northern Ireland have remained open to all pupils since the start of term in January.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers have also been able to attend school and can keep doing so.\n\nThat has meant about 90% of Northern Ireland's 350,000 children have been learning remotely for more than two months.\n\nThe executive has decided that the youngest pupils should return to school first.\n\nIt is then planned that they will resume remote learning on 22 March to enable the return of post-primary pupils in years 12 to 14 until the start of the Easter holidays.\n\nHowever, that has been criticised by some primary school principals and the executive is expected to decide this week whether children in primaries one to three can remain in school until the Easter break.\n\n\"I'll be bringing proposals forward [to the executive] which will say actually particularly for P1 to P3, they should carry on throughout and I think we don't want to see any more disruption to our young people's education,\" said Mr Weir.\n\nHe said health officials would need to consider this proposal and his suggestion that other primary school year groups - P4-P7 - also return to classes this month.\n\nHe said there was \"no substitute for children being directly in school themselves on a face-to-face basis\".\n\nPupils in primaries four to seven and years eight to 11 in post-primaries do not yet know when they will return to school.\n\nBalloons, music and free ice cream greeted children on their return to Braniel school in east Belfast\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Weir said the return was a \"significant step\" and his main aim was for all pupils to be back in the classroom.\n\n\"A couple of weeks ago when we took the initial decisions it was probably quite a precautionary mood,\" Mr Weir said.\n\n\"I want to see that moving as quickly as can be safely accommodated.\n\n\"I want to see the P1 to P3s remaining in school throughout and I want to see an early return for the remainder of primary and also the remainder of secondary school pupils.\"\n\nThe minister said he could not guarantee that this would happen but he would be acting as a \"persuader\" with the executive.\n\nIt was a thumbs up for a return to the classroom in east Belfast\n\nThe minister said he was also working alongside health experts to examine how Covid-19 testing might work in schools and he confirmed that face coverings would also be worn.\n\n\"It's not necessarily ideal but all these things are about a balance,\" Mr Weir said.\n\nSchools have also been told that breakfast clubs, education visits, inter-school sports and after-school activities should not take place until at least after Easter.\n\nThe Department of Education (DE) has previously advised teachers to avoid using terms like \"catch up\" when children return to school.\n\n\"The vision is for a balanced day where children are able to play, are ready to learn and feel able to re-connect,\" the DE guidance said.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) has previously said that schools - including special schools - are not a major source of transmission of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, schools are expected to continue to keep pupils in class 'bubbles' to limit children from different classes mixing.\n\nSome pupils in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland have already gone back to the classroom as part of a phased return to school.\n\nSchools in England are reopening to all pupils on Monday.\n\nThat will be accompanied by mass rapid Covid testing in post-primary schools, although the tests for pupils are voluntary and need parents' permission.\n\nSticking to the school rules on the first day back at Braniel school\n\nFrom Monday, there are also some slight changes to Northern Ireland's rules on click-and-collect for non-essential retail.\n\nClothing and footwear, baby equipment and electrical goods shops can all restart their contactless services, in line with public health advice.\n\nThe number of people allowed to meet outdoors in a public space has now also increased to 10 people from two households.\n\nThe executive will formally review the coronavirus restrictions again next week.", "Jamie Kingscott said he hopes his photo will inspire more people to take an interest in wildlife\n\nAn ecologist who photographed thousands of starlings as they surrounded his car has said \"you can't help but be slightly impressed\" by the birds.\n\nJamie Kingscott, 26, from Puriton, was on his way to work on the Somerset Levels when the birds flew directly across the road in front of him.\n\nHe said: \"There was several thousand of them. They were all over the place.\n\n\"They lend themselves to impressive photography. They show off to the camera quite nicely.\"\n\nMr Kingscott took the photo on his way to work at Secret World Wildlife Rescue\n\nMr Kingscott, who works for Secret World Wildlife Rescue as a wildlife release co-ordinator, said that unlike in a standard murmuration, the birds were very low to the ground.\n\n\"They crossed the road in front of me and then turned and crossed back over, so I just stopped the car and watched,\" he said.\n\n\"I fumbled around for my phone to try and catch something of it and that was the only photo I managed.\n\n\"Then I put it on twitter and it's gone mad, it has about 3,000 likes.\"\n\nHe added: \"They were really low, so less of the standard murmuration, but they did do a bit of a flourish to show off, and they came right over the bonnet... it was quite something.\"\n\nMr Kingscott said that he often makes a \"special effort\" to see the stunning winter murmurations, but the fact they \"came to see me on my way to work, was quite nice of them\".\n\n\"You can't help but be slightly impressed,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\nBoris Johnson has called for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges, to be released \"permanently\" so she can be reunited with her family in the UK.\n\nShe has had her ankle tag removed at the end of her five-year sentence.\n\nHowever, her husband Richard Ratcliffe has been told a new court case against her is scheduled for next Sunday.\n\nThe PM said he was \"pleased\" about her tag, but \"her continued confinement remains totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe wrote in a tweet: \"She must be released permanently so she can return to her family in the UK, and we continue to do all we can to achieve this.\"\n\nThe charity worker had been under house arrest in Tehran since being moved from jail last March. She has always denied the charges against her.\n\nSpeaking after her ankle tag was removed on Sunday, Mr Ratcliffe said told the PA news agency it was \"a mixed day for us\" and \"Nazanin is genuinely happy\" to be free of her electronic bracelet.\n\n\"I'm a bit more guarded - it feels to me like they have made one blockage just as they have removed another, and we very clearly remain in the middle of this government game of chess,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC that his wife had gone to see her grandmother and was \"determined to enjoy the afternoon and not think about what it all means\".\n\n\"I don't think we expected something clean but how muddy this is I'm not quite sure yet,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Iran \"continues to put her and her family through a cruel and an intolerable ordeal\".\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is pictured on Sunday, after she was released from house arrest in Tehran\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, had been out of prison since last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic but had been confined to her parents' house. Her sentence was due to end on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nShe has not yet had her British passport returned to her, according to Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in London where her family live.\n\nMs Siddiq told the BBC: \"She does have to go back to court and we don't know what awaits her there.\n\n\"Nazanin is quite worried because there was talk of another case being put against her which may of course mean another sentence, and we don't know how long for.\"\n\nHowever Ms Siddiq said the removal of her ankle tag meant she could visit her elderly grandmother \"which is the thing she mentions every time I speak to her\".\n\n\"So on one hand they are celebrating that she has some elements of freedom in terms of not having the tracker anymore, but we just don't know what's going to happen in the court case,\" she added.\n\n\"I know her daughter has been counting down the days on her calendar at home for her mother to return.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since she left the UK in 2016\n\nJeremy Hunt, who served as foreign secretary while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in jail, said Iran's actions were \"totally and utterly inhumane\".\n\n\"At the centre of this is an innocent woman, her husband and her daughter,\" he told the BBC, adding that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be allowed to return home to the UK.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there had been \"an increasing use of this totally unacceptable hostage diplomacy from Iran\", and that the government was right to condemn the use of individuals such as Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"as a bargaining chip in this wider political game\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrat's spokeswoman for foreign affairs, Layla Moran, has called for the UK to impose sanctions if she is sentenced for a second time.\n\n\"Strong words must be backed by the threat of real action if the Iranian authorities do not do the right thing,\" she said.\n\nAntonio Zappulla, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's employer at the time of her arrest, said he had spoken to her on Sunday and she was \"ecstatic\" to be able to have a coffee in a café.\n\n\"Nazanin should be allowed her permanent liberty and to walk away from this appalling affront to justice; instead, for all intents and purposes, she is still held hostage,\" he said.\n\nAnd Kate Allen, director at Amnesty International UK, said the news that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle tag had been removed was \"bittersweet\" and \"yet another example of the calculated cruelty of the Iranian authorities\".\n\n\"Nazanin was convicted after a deeply unfair trial the first time around and this spurious new charge and possible trial is clearly designed to delay her release and exert yet more pressure on Nazanin and her family,\" she said.\n\n\"This won't be over until Nazanin has her passport and is on a flight heading home to the UK,\" she added, urging the government to take \"serious diplomatic action\".\n\nGabriella has been counting down the days until her mother's release, her father said\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence has included eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations and hunger strikes to press for medical treatment.\n\nPrior to her arrest, she lived in London with her husband and child.\n\nIn November, she was taken to court on fresh charges of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nHer family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.", "The UK's lead Brexit minister has called on the EU to \"shake off any remaining ill will\" over the UK's decision to leave the organisation.\n\nLord Frost said the EU's previous threat to block vaccine exports had \"significantly undermined\" post-Brexit measures in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe insisted the UK's unilateral move to extend grace periods on border checks was legal under the Brexit trade deal.\n\nThe EU disputes this, and is preparing to launch a legal challenge.\n\nThe UK has said it will delay new checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, agreed as part of the UK's withdrawal deal.\n\nEU Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič has called it a \"violation\" of the part of the deal relating to Northern Ireland and said legal action was imminent.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Lord Frost insisted the delayed border checks was a \"temporary\" measure justified to implement the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister added that the measures were justified by the \"fragile\" situation in Northern Ireland.\n\nNew checks under the UK's Brexit deal have led to disruption at Northern Irish ports\n\n\"They are about protecting the everyday lives of people in Northern Ireland, making sure they can receive parcels and buy the usual groceries from the supermarket.\n\n\"Without this threat of disruption, we can continue our discussions with the EU to resolve difficulties arising from the Protocol constructively,\" he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods, so products arriving from Great Britain have to undergo EU import procedures.\n\nBoth sides agreed the arrangement as part of the Brexit withdrawal deal, to avoid the need for border checks between NI and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it has led to disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, increasing tensions with the EU.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK extended a grace period on new checks on food products from the end of March to October, without the prior agreement of the EU.\n\nIt then delayed the introduction of similar checks on parcels, which had been due to come in on 1 April, until the same month.\n\nThe logistics industry had said it was not ready to deal with that volume of new administration. The grace periods mean procedures will not yet be fully applied.\n\nLord Frost, who negotiated the UK's Brexit trade deal with the EU, said he wanted to work with the EU towards \"common goals\" after the UK formally cut legal ties at the end of the Brexit transition earlier this year.\n\n\"I hope they will shake off any remaining ill will towards us for leaving, and instead build a friendly relationship, between sovereign equals,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour has said the UK's actions risk \"plunging Northern Ireland into further instability\".\n\nThe party's shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh said it could mark out the region as \"the arena for wider UK-EU conflict for years to come\".\n\nAnd Lord Frost has been accused by a former senior civil servant of \"burning trust\" with the EU by \"playing hard ball\" over the protocol.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, who led the Department for Exiting the EU between 2017 and 2019, told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour while there were issues around the protocol it was the \"least-worst option\" and had to be made to work.\n\n\"Traders simply aren't ready to do the things that are required on the protocol, not least because the government spent the best part of last year saying to them they wouldn't have to do anything, despite knowing full well that all of these checks would have to come in,\" he said.\n\n\"Extending those grace periods is not an unreasonable thing to ask for,\" he added.\n\n\"But the way that David Frost has gone about this, to tell the Commission he was unilaterally extending without doing his opposite number in the Commission the courtesy of picking up the phone, suggests that they're still playing games around Brexit.\n\n\"It is so important to the peace process in Northern Ireland that this protocol is able to work and that's going to require a huge amount of goodwill and trust on both sides.\"", "Babies with SMA need help to breathe\n\nA life-changing drug has been approved by the NHS to treat babies with a rare fatal genetic disorder.\n\nThe gene therapy Zolgensma offers hope to infants with a type of severe spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).\n\nWith a list price of £1.79m it could become the most expensive drug ever approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).\n\nNHS England says it has negotiated an undisclosed discount that is 'fair to taxpayers'.\n\nThe Scottish Medicines Consortium also announced later on Monday that it has approved the drug.\n\nAround 80 babies and young children with type 1 SMA could benefit from the treatment each year in England, say experts.\n\nThe condition causes muscle weakness and affects movement and breathing, meaning most babies who have it do not live past two years without intervention.\n\nChildren with the condition often need breathing assistance or a feeding tube.\n\nThe one-off treatment has been described in the British Medical Journal as \"the most expensive drug course of treatment ever\" .\n\nIn draft guidance, Nice ruled that although the drug was hugely expensive, its use is justified by the exceptional impact it can have on young children.\n\nIt is hoped that if the drug is given to children in their first six months of life before they develop symptoms, it might come close to being a cure by halting disease progression.\n\nTora received the gene therapy treatment while living in the US\n\nRajdeep Patgiri's daughter Tora had the treatment in the US when she was nearly 11 months old.\n\nRajdeep says it has made a big difference to her life and what she can now do: \"She has been able to sit independently...she can stand independently and walk with assistance. So a lot of progress.\n\n\"Before, at the time of diagnosis and before treatment, time felt like an enemy because every day you expect something to deteriorate. And now, time is a friend because every day she improves even by tiny bits so there is always something to look forward to.\"\n\nThe drug contains a replica of the missing gene SMN1.\n\nIn studies, it has helped babies to reach milestones such as breathe without a ventilator, sit up on their own and crawl and walk after a single infusion treatment.\n\nAt present only limited data about the impact of Zolgensma is available from clinical trials, so any decision to give it to older children aged between six and 12 months will have to be taken by a national team of clinicians.\n\nAnother drug called Spinraza, which is already available, can help slow the degeneration in some SMA patients, but it must be taken for life.\n\nMeindert Boysen, deputy chief executive and director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at Nice, said: \"Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a very serious, debilitating and distressing condition that has very significant effects on every aspect of life of those with SMA, and their families and carers.\n\n\"As is the case with many new treatments for very rare diseases, limited evidence means there are uncertainties about the long-term benefits.\n\n\"But for some babies who are diagnosed before they have symptoms, it might come close to being a cure.\"\n\nNHS England Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens said they had \"moved mountains\" to make the treatment available.\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. Mark Drakeford was filmed making the comments after a Cobra meeting last year\n\nThe first minister of Wales said the prime minister \"really, really is awful\" after a meeting with Boris Johnson last year.\n\nMark Drakeford's comments featured in an S4C documentary, which filmed his response to the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe suggested he felt a \"sense of despair\" following the Cobra meeting where a lorry travel ban in France was discussed.\n\nThe UK government said it has confronted the virus as \"one UK\".\n\nSunday night's broadcast also shows the Welsh Government cabinet was split last year when it decided to go it alone by only allowing two households to meet at Christmas.\n\nFrance banned lorry traffic from Britain last December amid concern over a new variant of the virus found in the UK.\n\nOn the call, Mr Johnson can be heard to say he wants to \"urgently look at the implications of the travel bans that some of our European friends have imposed\".\n\nFrance later eased the measures after an agreement to have lorry drivers tested. Travel bans were also implemented by other nations.\n\nThe programme cuts away from most of the meeting, saying it cannot record it for security reasons.\n\nMark Drakeford and Boris Johnson met shortly after Mr Johnson became prime minister in 2019\n\nBut Mr Drakeford is then heard to say: \"Dear me, he really, really is awful.\n\n\"Imagine that some deadly new variant of the virus had been discovered in France and they were trying to persuade us that there was no need to take any action to stop French lorry drivers from driving across the continent.\"\n\nWhen asked by an adviser whether he wanted any minutes from the meeting, Mr Drakeford said: \"No, I don't think there is anything at all, other than wringing our hands, a sense of despair.\"\n\nEarlier in the programme, he said he and the PM were \"very different people\".\n\nThey had both studied Latin \"but it's hard to find anything else that's common between us as people\", he added.\n\n\"The world through Boris Johnson's eyes is so different to the world that people in Wales see. It's difficult sometimes to understand where he's coming from and why he's doing what he's doing.\"\n\nIn response, a UK government spokesman said: \"Now more than ever, the people of the United Kingdom want to see all parts of the country working together to protect lives and livelihoods.\n\n\"We have confronted this virus as one UK, working closely with the devolved administrations, including the Welsh Government. This will continue as we move to build back better together.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"This type of rhetoric might play well with the nationalists ahead of Senedd coalition talks, but I'm not sure this is a good look for Labour's first minister.\"\n\n\"While the first minister might not like the rosette on the prime minister's lapel, he should respect the office.\"\n\nWales went its own way over Christmas get-togethers\n\nThe documentary shows the decision-making behind the Welsh Government's move to allow only two households to mix over Christmas.\n\nIt was due to be three, under the four nations' agreement, but Mr Drakeford changed the policy in Wales at a press conference in December.\n\nWhen announced, it was unclear if it would be guidance or an enforceable law, but the programme shows the first minister initially supported doing the former.\n\nAppearing to speak about the media, the first minister said: \"Let's hope nobody is bright enough to ask, 'is that 'should' as in regulation or 'should' as in advice'?\"\n\n\"They are asking already,\" an official said, to which Mr Drakeford swears in response.\n\nThe documentary goes on to show the proceedings of a later cabinet meeting, where ministers were split on whether to make the rule legally enforceable.\n\nFour of those present - including Health Minister Vaughan Gething - supported making it law, while four others were opposed.\n\n\"Our rates are materially different,\" Mr Gething said at the time, \"and at such a high level that I think we need to change the law\".\n\nJane Hutt and Dafydd Elis-Thomas were among those who wanted to stick with the four nations' approach.\n\nAt the end of the discussion, Mr Drakeford decided to go ahead putting the guidance into regulations, although he said he did so reluctantly.\n\nThe film also shows that the first minister felt it would have been unaffordable if last year's short autumn lockdown had gone on for three weeks.\n\nKnown as the firebreak, the two week break began at the end of October and lasted into November.\n\nLee Waters, deputy minister for the economy, is shown asking colleagues to consider a three-week firebreak.\n\n\"I simply don't think a three-week firebreak is affordable, let alone sustainable in the public mind,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"A three working week firebreak is a completely different proposition in terms of its impact on businesses and our ability to be able to support those businesses.\"", "Some care home residents in England are now being allowed one nominated visitor, as lockdown restrictions begin to ease.\n\nAnne Thompson was happy to be able to hold hands with her mum Kathleen, who is in a care home in Scarborough.\n\nHowever, different care homes are operating different systems.\n\nRead more: Can I hug my relative in a care home?", "A total of 811 people have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic\n\nEight people are in hospital suffering from Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, including one in intensive care.\n\nThe number of new infections rose by 56 overnight, a fall from the record high of 81 that were recorded on Sunday.\n\nThere are now 369 active coronavirus cases on the island, with public health director Henrietta Ewart warning the total was still set to rise.\n\nShe said many people would have \"caught the virus in the community before the circuit breaker began\" last week.\n\nShe said the Isle of Man had still not reached the peak of the current outbreak, but the numbers should \"drop down\" this week.\n\nHealth Minister David Ashford said the healthcare service would be able to “adapt” if there were further ICU admissions and up to 18 beds could be made available “if necessary”.\n\nEight people with Covid-19 are now being treated in Noble's Hospital\n\nInfection rates among young people and children remain high compared to previous outbreaks, with 135 of the active cases being recorded for those aged under 19.\n\nBecause of this, the government announced it would not reopen a hub school for the children of critical workers on Tuesday as previously planned.\n\nSchools were closed to all pupils, including vulnerable children and those of key workers, on Friday and remained shut on Monday.\n\nEducation Minister Alex Allinson said any provision would need to be done “safely” and concerns about “gathering children from multiple households” remained.\n\nThe government was “working around the clock” to establish a solution and a further update would be made later this week, he added.\n\nA total of 811 people have tested positive for Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, 25 of whom have died.\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.", "Traditionally the Palace protects the family by drawing a curtain between the public, formal stuff and the personal stuff; its refusal to comment on the personal is a strategic interpretation of the family's maxim - \"never explain, never complain\".\n\nThe public/personal divide has always been an artifice. Royals get married in front of tens of millions of people, have state funerals, release photos on birthdays and anniversaries, exchange insights into their lives in return for easy-going and generous coverage.\n\nBut the divide, however often disregarded, remains the guiding principle of the family's formal relationship with the outside world. Now the contradictions that spring from the mix of personal and public are playing out.\n\nSome key allegations are about the personal behaviour and comments of members of the Royal Family and how, through collective neglect and perhaps some malicious intent, they left Harry and Meghan no choice but to leave.\n\nOther statements painted a terrible portrait of unfeeling staff and courtiers. The entire institution was portrayed as if nothing had been learnt from the days of Diana - Prince Harry and Prince William's late mother.\n\nThe duchess is a formidable communicator and has proved herself a very bad woman to pick a fight with. A newly-liberated Harry spoke with almost-eloquence.\n\nMeghan dealt some of the heaviest blows. What is the Palace to say about the accusation that an unnamed member of the family made a comment - more than one by the sounds of things - about the skin colour of the couple's child-to-be? The mind boggles.\n\nBut alongside the personal pain and anger rippling through the duchess's testimony, there came from Harry condemnation of the institution - the suggestion that it was incapable of change, incapable of love, incapable of understanding.\n\nThe contradictions of the Palace, and of the monarchy, are exactly that which makes it so special, so strange, so interesting and so difficult to work within - the merging of personal and public roles, the accretion of tradition, the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest and the need to remain relevant.\n\nHarry's suggestion that his family too - his father Prince Charles, his brother Prince William - are \"trapped\" in their world, and that he felt \"compassion\" for them, was a velvet-covered knife into the heart of the modern monarchy.\n\nRoyal life is conducted from within a gilded cage; the players are not meant to rattle the bars from the outside.\n\nThere is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair\n\nThese are the contradictions Harry walked away (or, in his words, stepped back) from. He was uncomfortable with them before he was married. And when he saw his wife suffering as a result of his being \"trapped\" in royal life, he found a way out with her.\n\nThere are also the contradictions that lie behind many of the decisions that they both spoke out about and are clearly very unhappy about.\n\nIt is public money that pays for security. It is tradition that dictates who gets what title. There is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair. What you do in front of the cameras matters because it reflects on the institution as a whole.\n\nThis meshing of personal and public is unique. It is what being a modern royal is all about. And inside it is often a hugely uncomfortable place to be. Harry knew that. Presumably he warned Meghan. But that warning wasn't enough.\n\nHarry and Meghan's experience suggests that the contradictions are too great. Maybe their interview will act as a catalyst for change. But the Crown has been around for a very long time, and change does not come easily to a body in which the past plays such an outsize role.", "More people are set to be allowed to meet outdoors in Scotland - although a return to the \"rule of six\" is not expected\n\nCovid-19 restrictions in Scotland are expected to be eased slightly to allow more people to meet up outdoors.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs about the state of the pandemic and lockdown at Holyrood.\n\nOn Monday, her deputy John Swinney said \"the data is going in the right direction\" and that ministers were \"hopeful\" that measures could be eased.\n\nHowever the overall \"stay at home\" order is expected to remain in place for some weeks to come.\n\nMr Swinney said changes would have to be made in a \"sustainable\" manner so that transmission of the virus does not run out of control again.\n\nAt present, only two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors in Scotland.\n\nThis was due to increase to four people from two households from 15 March, but this is expected to be brought forward as a result of progress in suppressing new cases.\n\nThe move - dubbed \"relatively minor but important\" by Ms Sturgeon on Friday - may also see more young people allowed to participate in non-contact sports.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will discuss plans with ministers on Tuesday morning, then announce them to MSPs in the afternoon\n\nMore pupils are expected to return to classrooms from next Monday, including remaining primary school years and some secondary students.\n\nBy late April, the government hopes to move back to a local \"levels\" system of regional restrictions across Scotland, albeit with tougher rules than before.\n\nMs Sturgeon will review the latest advice and data with her cabinet ministers on Tuesday morning, before announcing their decisions in the Holyrood chamber in the afternoon.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Swinney said there were \"a lot of grounds for optimism\" - but warned that changes would have to be made carefully.\n\nHe said: \"The number of cases is falling, the test positivity rate is low, the vaccination programme is going well and the pressure on our hospitals, while still significant, is not as grave as it was earlier on.\n\n\"The first minister has been clear that we will try to relax lockdown as quickly as we possibly can do, but we have to do it in a sustainable manner.\n\n\"That means taking the appropriate steps in the appropriate sequence to make sure we don't risk the virus running away from us again.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative have welcomed the easing of restrictions on outdoor meetings but want to see ministers \"move faster\".\n\nTheir public health spokesman Miles Briggs told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland he wanted to see gyms reopened before the scheduled date of 26 April.\n\nScottish Labour education spokesman Michael Marra told the programme the public need a \"proper plan\" that delivers hope.\n\nHe also highlighted the mental health impact of the pandemic and added: \"Everybody is incredibly frustrated.\"\n\nMinisters have stressed that their approach will be dictated by the latest data and scientific evidence about the pandemic.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Sturgeon said that the progress of the vaccination programme and declining number of people falling seriously ill \"should give us all real encouragement that greater normality is firmly on the horizon\".\n\nHowever she warned on Sunday that mass gatherings like those seen in Glasgow after Rangers were confirmed as the Scottish Premiership football champions \"could delay exit from lockdown for everyone else\".\n\nMr Swinney reiterated this on Monday. He said: \"We will be driven by the data. If the data suddenly - because of all of that commotion at the weekend - goes in the wrong direction, we will have difficult decisions to make. There are consequences that flow from these events.\"", "Police Scotland has condemned Rangers for failing to ask fans to return home after they gathered in Glasgow for title celebrations.\n\nA senior officer said there had been a \"lack of support\" from the club despite repeated requests from police.\n\nEarlier Deputy First Minister John Swinney also criticised Rangers for a \"lack of leadership\".\n\nRangers insisted its fans had been urged to follow the lockdown guidelines.\n\nLarge numbers of supporters flouted Covid rules to gather at Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square on Sunday after the club won the Scottish Premiership.\n\nOfficers made 28 arrests and handed out fixed penalty notices for a variety of offences including assaulting police officers, sectarian-related breaches of the peace, breaking Covid rules, and use of pyrotechnics.\n\nPolice later said no officers were injured and confirmed those arrested were aged 18 to 44.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said the behaviour of some supporters was \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe added: \"I also strongly condemn the lack of support from Rangers Football Club over the messages we repeatedly asked them to put out to persuade fans not to go out celebrating and encourage those who did gather in large numbers to return home.\n\n\"We've been planning for the conclusion of the football season for some time since the league was allowed to resume and the sport is in a very privileged position given the restrictions seen across the country for almost a year.\n\n\"It was very clear through the lack of messaging that Rangers did not take seriously their responsibilities in terms of seeking to persuade their fans to celebrate safely and responsibly.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney condemned the scenes as \"an absolute disgrace\" which had undermined recent progress against the virus.\n\nHe said Rangers had been reminded of the need for fans to adhere to the restrictions by the Scottish government and Police Scotland during meetings on 26 February and 5 March.\n\n\"The Scottish government will be making our extreme disappointment at the lack of leadership clear to the team management.\"\n\nMr Swinney acknowledged that the title win was a \"special moment\" for the club and praised those fans who celebrated at home but he said it was \"shameful\" to see so many people deliberately flouting the rules.\n\n\"Events like yesterday risk spreading the virus and they show no regard or respect at all for the millions of households across Scotland who have stuck to the rules, who have not been able to meet up with friends and family to fully celebrate birthdays and other milestones or, in some case, attend funeral services of their loved ones,\" he said at the government's coronavirus briefing.\n\nUnder current Scottish government coronavirus guidance, public gatherings are banned and a maximum of two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glasgow City Council #StayHome This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlasgow City Council said a number of memorial benches donated by grieving relatives were damaged in George Square, and that it was working to trace the families.\n\nThe council promised that the benches, one of which was apparently in memory of a 10-year-old girl, would be restored.\n\nA crowdfunding appeal to pay for the repairs, set up by the owner of the Louden Tavern at Ibrox Stadium, quickly raised its £5,500 target, with any extra funds being donated to the Anthony Nolan cancer charity.\n\nRangers took the title for the first time since 2011 after Celtic failed to beat Dundee United on Sunday.\n\nCrowds of fans took to the streets after the game. Some let off flares while others chanted and waved flags outside the club ground, while supporters also gathered in George Square to celebrate.\n\nRangers issued a statement on Monday, in which the club said it had \"proactively engaged\" with its local MP, the justice minister, the Scottish government, Police Scotland and the SPFL in a bid to to maintain \"a cohesive message regarding public safety during the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nThe statement continued: \"We understand the jubilance of our support across the world who recognise this has been a historic year for the club.\n\n\"Nevertheless, it has been of great frustration for all football fans across the world that they have not been able to watch their team within stadiums, especially for the loyal Rangers season-ticket holders who have stood by this football club through thick and thin in the last decade.\n\n\"We reiterate the message from our manager, Steven Gerrard, who highlighted that fans should adhere to government guidelines - stay safe, socially distance and look after each other in this difficult time.\"\n\nOn Twitter, the statement was accompanied by a clip of Gerrard from Friday's pre-match press conference.\n\nThe club said it was aware that there could be more \"significant milestones\" this season, and would \"continue to proactively engage with key stakeholders to maintain a cohesive message in relation to government guidance at this present time\".\n\nHowever, Mr Swinney said messaging from the club on Sunday could have helped diffuse the situation and disperse the crowds.\n\n\"I think it would have been the duty of Rangers to say clearly and simply to fans that they shouldn't have come out to celebrate and when they did they should have gone home,\" he said.\n\n\"The silence from Rangers was deafening - that's a matter of profound regret.\"\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith warned there was a \"real risk\" the celebrations would lead to a spike in Covid infections in the coming weeks.\n\nHe added: \"It was quite demoralising to see so many people coming together.\n\n\"I am sure my colleagues across the NHS who at this stage in the pandemic are pretty exhausted felt the same way when they saw so many people mixing so freely without distancing or masks.\"\n\nFootball supporters have also been accused of breaking coronavirus rules in Belfast and in Corby - which is known as \"little Scotland\" - following Rangers' win.\n\nLast May thousands of Liverpool fans flouted social distancing guidelines and gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier league title in 30 years.\n\nAnd in November hundreds of Celtic supporters defied the level four restrictions and converged on Celtic Park to call for the removal of the club's then manager Neil Lennon.", "People in flats with and without cladding have been left unable to move without the safety checks\n\nNew guidance has been released aimed at reducing the number of wall safety surveys being requested by banks and building societies on blocks of flats.\n\nThousands of flat owners have been unable to sell or remortgage because they cannot get the checks done.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said it would help lenders save time when the inspections were not needed.\n\nMost lenders are likely to follow the advice but there is no guarantee.\n\nThe checks were first developed to assess the potential financial impact of cladding on high-rise flats, after 72 people died at Grenfell Tower.\n\nTo begin with, only those who owned flats in tall buildings with dangerous flammable cladding were affected.\n\nBut after the government extended its advice to smaller properties in January 2020, mortgage lenders began demanding fire surveys from a much wider range of sellers.\n\nHundreds of thousands of leaseholders have since been asked for EWS1 external wall safety forms when they sell or remortgage.\n\nThis requires a specialist survey - but there haven't been enough qualified surveyors to do the checks, leaving thousands of owners \"in limbo\", according to the government.\n\nSome owners have also reported being asked for EWS1s when there appears to be little or no flammable materials attached to their building.\n\nRICS said its new guidance would clarify types of properties which will, and will not, require additional inspections to speed up mortgage approvals.\n\nIt said the guidance was the result of \"painstaking\" consultation with valuers, leaseholders, lenders' fire safety experts and government.\n\n\"This announcement is a crucial step in unlocking the market, by ensuring that only those buildings where there are risks of costly remediation as a result of safety concerns from cladding are subject to additional checks,\" said Dame Janet Paraskeva, chair of the RICS Standards & Regulation Board.\n\n\"The guidance is anticipated to result in a reduction in the number of EWS1 requests which will therefore allow more focus on the assessments of higher risk buildings, which should speed up the overall process whilst ensuring appropriate protection for lenders and purchasers.\"\n\nSome flat owners feel stuck \"in limbo\", Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said\n\nLast year the government tried to solve the backlog by saying that flats in buildings without cladding would no longer need EWS1 checks.\n\nBut mortgage lenders refused to recognise the directive.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said RICS' new guidance would mean \"nearly 500,000 leaseholders will no longer need an EWS1 form - helping homeowners to sell or re-mortgage more quickly and easily\".\n\nHe added that the government had paid for an additional 500 surveyors to be trained to carry out EWS1 checks when they are necessary.\n\n\"The government has also provided an unprecedented investment of £5bn to protect leaseholders from the costs of cladding remediation,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement, UK Finance and the Building Societies Association, which represent lenders, said that they expected many lenders to follow the guidance \"which should see the number of EWS1 requests fall\".\n\nBut they added that it was still a decision \"for each lender to make based on their own risk appetite\".\n\nRICS said it would work with the government and other stakeholders to ensure the guidance is implemented by 5 April.\n\nIt will also publish advice for buyers and sellers about the risks associated with multi-story, multi occupancy buildings.\n\nNHS worker Holly Ciesielczuk bought 75% of her first-floor flat in Redbridge in March 2019, under shared ownership.\n\nBut when she tried to borrow more money to increase her share of ownership a year later, she hit a stumbling block.\n\nFollowing their initial survey, her mortgage lender requested an EWS1 form, which can be obtained following an assessment of a building's external walls.\n\nThe reason Holly was given by her lender was that a balcony on the building had a wooden floor.\n\nHowever, she says her housing association would not agree to an EWS1 because, it said, the building was not high enough to meet the criteria.\n\nThe lender refused a mortgage without it, as did the next bank she tried. The combination of this and her partner's cancer diagnosis took its toll.\n\n\"I properly broke down. If I knew how much stress this was going to cause, I would never have bought my flat,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe remains unable to get a new mortgage but holds out hope.\n\n\"Naively or optimistically, I hope the guidance will provide clarity about whether I will be able to get a mortgage,\" Holly says.", "Nazanin, pictured here with husband Richard, was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016\n\nIt's more than 1,800 days since Richard Ratcliffe waved goodbye to his wife Nazanin at the departure gate at London's Gatwick Airport, worrying only about how their young daughter would cope with the long flight to Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken Gabriella to spend time with her Iranian grandparents three times before.\n\nAnd Richard had no reason in the world to think he wouldn't be back at the airport a fortnight later to pick them up.\n\n\"It was a slightly rushed goodbye,\" he recalls. \"Gabriella, at the time, was one and three quarters and a bit of handful. So I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight.\"\n\nThat was the last time he saw his wife in person.\n\nNazanin was arrested by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at Tehran Airport as she prepared to fly home.\n\nSince then, she's endured eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations, hunger strikes to press for medical treatment, false promises of release, and almost five years of separation from her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\n\"At the beginning, I just thought that this was so profoundly unfair that if we just shouted it from the rooftops, the right people would intervene and it would get sorted,\" Mr Ratcliffe told me. \"Never in my imagination did I think this would take five years or more.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Now the end of her actual sentence - which was once the worst-case scenario - looks like a good outcome, at this point.\"\n\nAt a secret trial in 2016, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail for \"membership of organisations working against the Iranian state\" - a reference, her husband says, to her work for the charities BBC Media Action and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And no, she wasn't training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nSunday 7 March is the official date of her release - her lawyer has seen it marked in the computer of the Iranian judiciary. She's been counting down the weeks on a calendar at her parents' home, where she is now under house arrest with an ankle tag.\n\nBut her husband - who has fought an extraordinary, high-profile campaign for her release - doubts that she will be allowed to fly home.\n\nHe describes his wife as a hostage - used as a bargaining chip over a long-standing debt that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nNazanin misses her daughter Gabriella, six, \"all the time\", her husband has previously said\n\n\"The Revolutionary Guard have been completely consistent over the past five years - that they arrested Nazanin as leverage for the tank debt,\" says Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"They've held her all the time that it's not being paid. And I think that if the tank debt is not paid, not only will Nazanin and other dual nationals continue to be held but more collateral will be taken.\"\n\nHer case may also be caught up in negotiations over Iran's nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which the UK is working with European allies to revive.\n\n\"There's the potential for this to drag on and on,\" says Mr Ratcliffe. \"It's perfectly possible that Nazanin gets a new court case thrown at her.\n\n\"The family have never seen a copy of the charges on which she was sentenced. There is no written documentation on anything. So they preserve the space to make it up as they go along at every stage.\"\n\nHe worries about the impact that any prolongation of the family's separation will have on both his wife and Gabriella, now six, who has also been counting down the days until her mother's release - on a calendar she made herself.\n\nShe returned to the UK to live with her father and start school in October 2019, hoping that her mother would soon follow behind.\n\n\"Gabriella has been promised so many times that 'Mummy is coming home soon,'\" says her father.\n\nNazanin was temporarily reunited with her daughter while on a three-day release from prison in 2018\n\nThe darkest period for Nazanin herself came in 2016, when she was held alone in a dark room, incommunicado. Her interrogators told her, wrongly, that Richard was having affairs and that they had photographic evidence.\n\n\"I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through,\" Mr Ratcliffe says.\n\n\"It's a very practised technique of really breaking someone. That fear and abuse led her to feel suicidal. She said to me: 'It would be better if I just died and you could get on with your lives.'\"\n\nIn her first letter from jail to her husband, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote in despair: \"Every day and every second I would submerge more and more in an ocean of doubt, fear, threat, loneliness... my wails would go unheard in that tiny, dingy, cold, grey cell.\"\n\nBeing parted from her daughter for so long has been a source of agony and guilt.\n\nShe apologised to her daughter from jail, saying: \"Forgive me for all the nights I was not by your side to hold your warm, little hand till you fall asleep.\n\n\"Forgive me for all those moments you missed the bosom of your mother, for all those teething fever nights that I was not there for you; forgive me.\"\n\nGabriella returned to the UK to start school in 2019\n\nSeparated by thousands of miles, the family now speaks twice a day over Skype.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is now 42, watches Gabriella draw and they play games together.\n\nGabriella looks forward to swimming with her mother, and going to a toy shop - one day.\n\nThe couple hope to have another child, but fear that time may now be against them.\n\nLate last month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, phoned Ms Zahari-Ratcliffe in Tehran, reassuring her that the government is doing all it can to bring her home, but managing expectations of an imminent release.\n\nThe Foreign Office says that she and other dual British-Iranian nationals are \"arbitrarily detained\" by the Iranian government. It adds: \"We do not accept Iran detaining dual nationals as diplomatic leverage.\"\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe has been critical of the UK government's approach.\n\n\"Not to do anything that's going to rock the boat means there's no cost whatsoever to the hostage takers to continue the practice and to continue to wait,\" he says.\n\n\"And so both sides can wait each other out because they're not the ones bearing the cost of the waiting - whereas the victim and the family certainly are.\"\n\nAs for what might happen on Sunday and over the next few months, Richard says, stoically: \"Fate will deal us the hand it deals us. But one day the sun will come.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Williamson: We intend for schools reopening to be 'irreversible'\n\nLonger school days and shorter holidays are among the measures the government is considering to help pupils in England catch up on lost learning, the education secretary has said.\n\nGavin Williamson told the BBC ministers were looking at \"how the school year runs\" after the disruption of Covid.\n\nHe also told Sky News a five-term year and changes to summer holidays were under consideration.\n\nSchools in England are reopening to all pupils on Monday.\n\nIt marks the first step of the \"road map\" out of the national lockdown, which has been in place since the beginning of January and has seen most children learning from home since before Christmas.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether the government was going to extend the school day, Mr Williamson said: \"I think we should be evidence-based and we're looking at that, we're looking at how the school year runs.\"\n\nMr Williamson also told Sky News' Sophy Ridge that ministers were considering \"a whole range of proposals\".\n\nThe education secretary was asked whether schools would remain open if the R number rose above one, which means the number of cases is continuing to increase.\n\n\"We are very much factoring in as part of the road map that actually schools will be staying open,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\n\"That is why we are taking a cautious approach because we intend for it to be an irreversible approach and that schools will continue to remain open.\"\n\nHe also gave a guarantee that schools would return after the Easter holidays.\n\nSecondary pupils in England are being asked to take regular Covid tests when schools reopen\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, deputy director of Public Health England, said she did not think the reopening of schools should be paused if the R number rose above one.\n\nWith three weeks before the Easter holiday, she told the BBC there would be time to look at the data \"very carefully\".\n\nShe said the relationship between the number of cases and the number of deaths and hospitalisations would also change in the next phase of the pandemic because of the impact of vaccinations.\n\n\"Then we will be able to accept some cases in the community without needing further restrictions,\" she added.\n\nDr Hopkins said measures such as the testing of pupils to find asymptomatic cases would also help to keep R \"at the lowest level possible\".\n\nAttendance at school will be mandatory for all pupils when they reopen in England - meaning they should not miss lessons without a valid reason.\n\nHowever, pupils who are shielding have been asked to remain at home for a bit longer.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"very hopeful\" the reopening of schools would go to plan.\n\n\"I think the risk is actually in not going back to school tomorrow, given all the suffering, all the loss of learning we have seen,\" he added.\n\nIt is well-established that children are at incredibly low risk from the virus, while research by the Office for National Statistics has shown that teachers are at no higher risk of infection than other working-age people.\n\nBut what role schools will play in the wider spread of the virus remains more open for debate. Children, after all, come home and mix with their families.\n\nGovernment advisers say schools have not been a key driver of infections so far. This much can be seen from the impact of the second national lockdown in England in November when infection levels fell despite schools being open.\n\nBut this was before the new UK variant became dominant. Modelling has suggested reopening schools now could be enough to drive the R number above one, which would lead to a growing epidemic.\n\nMinisters have already indicated this matters less than it used to because the vaccination programme has begun to break the link between infection rates and serious illness and death - the R number is not one of their tests for slowing the pace of lifting lockdown. Only such high infection rates that risk a surge in hospitalisations that threatens the NHS is seen as a problem.\n\nSecondary schools have been told that year groups can return on different days over the first week to allow for Covid testing.\n\nSecondary pupils will be tested three times in the first two weeks of school and will then be given two tests each week to use at home.\n\nThese will be lateral flow tests, which involve taking a swab of the nose and throat and give a result within 30 minutes.\n\nAll primary and secondary school staff are also being offered twice-weekly rapid tests, and parents and carers can also get a twice-weekly test.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised that false positive results could mean pupils and their families being forced to self-isolate unnecessarily.\n\nTests done at home require a confirmatory PCR test - which are more accurate - but Dr Hopkins said those taken at school would not because they are done in a \"specialised environment and individuals are trained to deliver it\".\n\nShe added that evidence from lateral flow tests taken over the last eight weeks in real-life scenarios suggested the false positive rate was \"extremely low\" - less than one in 1,000.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Education Union (NEU) has warned that secondary schools have struggled to get parental consent for testing of pupils, and said there needed to be a bigger ministerial push to encourage take-up.\n\nMr Williamson said the rollout of testing in schools over the last few weeks suggested they had the \"highest take-up of any employment setting around the country\".\n\nThe NEU has called for a phased return to schools in England - similar to the process in Scotland and Wales, where whole year groups are returning separated by several weeks.\n\nThe union also accused the government of failing to put adequate safety measures in place ahead of schools reopening.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said schools should reopen but safety measures including adequate ventilation should have been put in place.\n\nHe added that it was also \"disappointing\" that teachers had not been prioritised for the coronavirus vaccine\n\nAs well as undergoing testing, secondary school and college students are also being asked to wear face coverings in classrooms, where social distancing cannot be maintained, with the measure to be reviewed at Easter.\n\nBut this is not mandatory, and in primary schools pupils are not being required to wear face coverings when they return to face-to-face lessons. Nor will they be tested.\n\nMr Williamson said he hoped mask-wearing would be a \"temporary measure\".\n\nMeanwhile, a survey has shown that the majority of parents in England will be happy to send their children back to school.\n\nBut two-thirds are concerned about the amount of learning lost, with some parents worried their child will never catch up.\n\nThe Department for Education has announced a £700m package to help pupils catch up on lost learning, including tutoring and summer schools.\n\nThere are different rules on schools across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe youngest pupils have already returned to school in Scotland and Wales, while some primary school pupils in Northern Ireland also return to school on Monday.", "Deliveroo's chief executive, Will Shu, founded the business in 2013\n\n\"I never set out to be a founder or a CEO. I was never into start-ups,\" says Will Shu, founder of food delivery chain, Deliveroo.\n\nHis comments came as the firm set out plans to issue shares to the public which could value it at about £7bn.\n\nDeliveroo has not yet made a profit and it reported a £223.7m loss for last year, despite a surge in sales.\n\nThe float will see the busiest riders share in a £16m fund, and customers will also get the chance to buy shares.\n\nDeliveroo is making £50m worth of shares available to customers who will be given the opportunity to buy up to £1,000 worth of shares each, although if demand is high they may see their orders scaled back.\n\nMr Shu's letter, contained in the official notice of the intention to float, also says: \"I'm not one of those Silicon Valley types with a million ideas. I had one idea.\n\n\"At the end of the day, I started the business because I wanted something better than what was available to me.\n\n\"Today, the business is so, so much bigger than I ever would have thought possible.\"\n\nDeliveroo said that last year, its gross transaction value - the total amount of transactions it processes on its platform - jumped by 64.3% to £4.1bn from £2.5bn in 2019.\n\nHowever, the business remains loss-making, although its underlying loss for 2020 reduced to £223.7m from £317.3m in 2019.\n\nDemand for takeaway meals has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, after lockdown measures were first implemented a year ago and restaurants have been forced to close.\n\nRestrictions on hospitality businesses in England are currently set to start to ease on 12 April at the earliest.\n\nAnna Macdonald, fund manager at Amati Global Investors, told the BBC's Today programme: \"Losses have actually been mounting at Deliveroo over the last few years, but given the environment for tech listings at the moment, that doesn't seem to put too many investors off who are prescribing quite a hefty valuation for the company.\n\n\"There's no doubt that it's done tremendously well during lockdown and the founder Will Shu says in the last six months to the end of 2020 it was operating profitably. But, yes, there's a good deal of hope in the share price valuation.\"\n\nAs part of the flotation, riders in Deliveroo's 12 markets who have worked with the firm for at least a year will be paid a bonus of either £10,000, £1,000, £500 and £200 depending on the number of orders they have delivered.\n\nHow can a company that lost over £200m in a year when trading conditions could not have been more favourable be worth so many billions?\n\nThat's the question many will be asking when trying to work out why Deliveroo is expected to hit that valuation when it makes its stock market debut in London.\n\nThe answer, of course, is that stock markets are all about pricing future profits, or at least in Deliveroo's case, the hope of future profits. The online food delivery service has grown quickly during the pandemic - sales last year were more than £4bn, nearly two-thirds up on 2019 - and it has been able to reduce its annual loss.\n\nIt is also investing heavily in technology and geographical expansion, and is eager to show investors that it has now honed its model and operating systems to the point that they can be quickly introduced into many more markets.\n\nThis promise of rapid growth and eventual bumper profits is what will drive Deliveroo's share price when it eventually comes to market. The challenge for its management team, led by founder Will Shu, is turning the promise into reality.\n\nThe shares will be listed on the London Stock Exchange, where Will Shu is planning to maintain a firmer grip on how the company is run than has been traditional for London-listed companies.\n\nUnder a proposed dual-class share structure, each share Mr Shu will hold will carry 20 times the voting power of ordinary shares.\n\nA recent government-commissioned review of the UK's listing rules recommended a number of measures to make the country a more attractive place for companies to float.\n\nThe review, led by former European Commissioner Lord Hill, recommended allowing companies with dual-class share structures to be allowed in the premium listing segment of the London Stock Exchange, which allows them to be included in FTSE indexes. A decision on any changes to the current system will be made by the Financial Conduct Authority but will not come until the end of this year.\n\nMajor tech companies such as Facebook and Google-owner Alphabet have so-called dual-class shares.\n\nSusannah Streeter, share analyst for stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said that because of the proposed dual-class share structure, people \"need to be aware if they invest under these terms they don't have the same voting rights as they would do if they owned shares in other companies listed on the London market\".\n\nShe added that there were other factors for potential investors to consider.\n\n\"Competition in the sector is fierce, and Deliveroo competes with Uber Eats, Just Eat and a host of others,\" she said.\n\n\"Profitability can be tough and margins tend to be slim thanks to competition and high variable costs.\n\n\"There is of course a risk that demand for home deliveries will wane once the pandemic has eased. It's likely that the public will be desperate to eat out as soon as they can.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA series of explosions on Sunday in Equatorial Guinea is now known to have killed 31 people, officials say. The number of those injured rose to 600.\n\nThe blasts hit a military base in the country's main city, Bata. Officials blame badly stored dynamite along with stubble burning by nearby farmers.\n\nTeams including volunteers continue to search the wreckage of buildings and homes for victims.\n\nThree young children were found alive and taken to hospital.\n\nThere are fears the death toll could rise further as some victims may still be trapped.\n\nAlmost all buildings and homes in the city suffered \"huge damage\", President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said.\n\nIn a statement, President Obiang Nguema said the blasts had been caused \"by the negligence of a unit charged with the care and protection of stores of dynamite and explosives\" at the Nkoantoma military base.\n\nHe said the base had \"caught fire due to neighbouring farmers clearing farming land by setting it alight, leading to the explosion\". The president has appealed for international aid.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the health ministry called for volunteer health workers to go to Bata Regional Hospital and for urgent blood donations. The ministry said mental health teams were also being deployed to help victims.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guinea Salud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of patients admitted, state TV reported. It broadcast images of wounded people lying on the floor of a crowded hospital.\n\nVideo of the aftermath of the explosions showed a chaotic scene with distressed people fleeing as smoke drifted over the area.\n\nOne resident told AFP news agency: \"We haven't slept all night. The houses were burning all night long and we kept hearing small explosions.\"\n\nAnother described how his uncle had found the burned bodies of five members of his family.\n\nThe only opposition party, the CPDS, described the blasts as \"the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the history of Equatorial Guinea\" and called on Spain, France and the United States to send aid, including rescue teams, medical staff and medicines.\n\nThe Spanish embassy said its nationals should remain at home and issued a series of emergency numbers.", "Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has married a science teacher at her children's school, two years after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nMs Scott is one of the world's richest women and has given away more than $4bn (£2.9bn) of her fortune.\n\nThe news of her marriage to Dan Jewett was revealed via the Giving Pledge philanthropy website.\n\n\"Dan is such a great guy, and I am happy and excited for the both of them,\" Mr Bezos said in a statement.\n\nMs Scott, who is worth around $53bn according to Forbes's most recent estimate, has stated her intention to give the majority of it away.\n\nShe has devoted much of her donations on women-led charities, food banks and Black colleges.\n\nMs Scott was married to Mr Bezos for 25 years and helped him start Amazon in 1994. She is also the author of two novels.\n\nHer Amazon author page now says that she \"lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan.\" He teaches at the prestigious school attended by her children.\n\nAt the time of their 2019 divorce, Mr. Bezos was the wealthiest person in the world, with his stake of more than 16% of Amazon. Ms Scott received 4% of Amazon's shares as part of their divorce settlement.\n\nThe Amazon founder regularly jostles with Tesla's Elon Musk for the title as the world's richest person, which changes in line with the share prices of their companies.\n\nMs Scott currently ranks the 22nd richest person while Mr Bezos is in top spot with a fortune of $177bn.\n\nThe Giving Pledge website was set up for billionaires who have promised to donate most of their fortune to philanthropic efforts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It is strange to be writing a letter indicating I plan to give away the majority of my wealth during my lifetime, as I have never sought to gather the kind of wealth required to feel like saying such a thing would have particular meaning,\" Mr Jewett's post said.\n\nThe pledge was started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010. Mr Bezos hasn't joined the pledge.\n\n\"In a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know - and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others,\" Mr Jewett added in his Giving Pledge letter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK must prepare for a \"hard winter\" because the population immunity to respiratory viruses other than Covid could be lower than usual, one of England's top medics has warned.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins said the NHS must be \"ready\" for surges in flu and other similar illnesses.\n\nIt comes ahead of England's first step towards easing lockdown, with all pupils returning to school on Monday.\n\nMost pupils have been learning from home since Christmas.\n\nDr Hopkins, who is in charge of Public Health England's Covid strategy, said the UK needed to be \"better prepared\" than it was last autumn, when new, faster-spreading variants of the virus emerged.\n\nThese drove infection rates up and forced further lockdown measures over the winter.\n\nDr Hopkins told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show: \"I think we have to prepare for a hard winter, not only with coronavirus, but we've had a year of almost no respiratory viruses of any other type. And that means, potentially the population immunity to that is less.\n\n\"So we could see surges in flu. We could see surges in other respiratory viruses and other respiratory pathogens.\"\n\nDr Hopkins said her role as a government advisor was to \"prepare for worst-case scenarios\".\n\n\"It doesn't mean that they'll necessarily happen, but my job is to make sure that we have options available for the country in case things are not as satisfactory as we'd all like them to be,\" she said.\n\nDuring last year's winter, some 30 million people - more than ever before - were invited to get a free flu jab as ministers feared the dual threat it posed alongside coronavirus.\n\nFlu can be a serious condition - it kills around 11,000 people in England each year and many more people receive hospital treatment for it.\n\nPeople at high risk from flu are also most at risk from Covid-19.\n\nFlu poses additional threats during the Covid pandemic because:\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's roadmap out of national lockdown aims for all coronavirus restrictions to be lifted by 21 June at the earliest.\n\nBut top scientists and medics have warned that restrictions to curb Covid infections could continue into next winter.\n\nMask-wearing and working from home could be among \"baseline\" measures expected to continue until then, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said.", "Two men are in police custody following the incident\n\nA murder investigation has now been launched, with police naming a 16-year-old who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSouth Wales Police closed off Baglan Street, Treorchy, at about midday on Friday, with the girl reported to have died and two men injured.\n\nOfficers have now named the victim as Wenjing Xu, with her death being treated as murder, and men aged 38 and 31 in custody.\n\nIn a tribute, her family said she had \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nDescribing her as \"a very quiet person\", it continued: \"Wenjing helped the whole family, working in the family takeaway.\n\n\"She enjoyed school and worked very hard. She was loved by her family.\"\n\nA police cordon was erected around a takeaway restaurant called Blue Sky on Friday, with a small white tent placed outside the premises.\n\nSenior investigating Officer, Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis, said: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident - our thoughts are with Wenjing's family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I can reassure the community that at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\"\n\nA 31-year-old man, known to the victim, was arrested on suspicion of murder, and a 38-year-old man is also in police custody in connection with the incident.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called to Baglan Street at about 12:00 GMT\n\nBoth are being treated in hospital as a result of injuries sustained during the incident.\n\nThe public had been urged by police to \"refrain from speculation\" about the incident. Local MP Chris Bryant tweeted he was aware of \"disturbing events\".\n\nThe girl's family is being supported by specially trained officers and efforts are being made to contact other relatives.\n\nResident Sarah Belgrove, 54, who lives a few doors from the scene, said the air ambulance was forced to land some way from Baglan Street.\n\n\"The paramedics who got out of the helicopter flagged down some cars to give them a lift to the scene,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to an \"incident at an address in the Ynyswen area of of Treorchy\" at 12:00 GMT.\n\n\"We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, our hazardous area response team and the Wales Air Ambulance,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nSupt Rich Jones, from South Wales Police, said there would be a \"significant police presence in Baglan Street over the weekend\" as investigations continued.\n\nRhondda MP Mr Bryant said lots of people knew the girl and her family and would be \"absolutely devastated\".\n\n\"You don't think of these kind of events happening in the Rhondda,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n• None Girl, 16, dead and two hurt in 'serious incident'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chat show host, who attended the couple's wedding in 2018, has said there will be \"nothing off limits\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's highly-anticipated TV interview with Oprah Winfrey is set to air in the US.\n\nIt marks the first sit-down interview with the couple since they quit their roles as senior working royals in 2020.\n\nThey are expected to discuss their new life in the US and their experiences in the UK.\n\nHours before the programme, the Queen stressed the importance of \"closeness and community\" in her Commonwealth Day message - broadcast on BBC One.\n\nShe did not comment on the upcoming interview, focusing instead on the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSenior royals including the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also joined forces to appear in the special programme on Sunday to celebrate Commonwealth Day.\n\nIn a clip released earlier this week, Meghan told Oprah it was \"really liberating\" to now feel \"able to speak for yourself\".\n\nThe interview with will air in the US on CBS on Sunday (01:00 GMT, Monday) and in the UK on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt comes as Buckingham Palace is investigating claims the duchess bullied royal staff.\n\nThe report about the allegations of bullying levelled at Meghan were first published in the Times after the interview with Oprah was recorded.\n\nMeghan has called it the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nThe duke and duchess announced they were stepping down as working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nPrince Harry recently said he had to step back from royal duties to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press, as it was \"destroying my mental health\".\n\nDeals have been struck in more than 17 countries across the world for the rights to screen Oprah's interview.\n\nThe chat show host, who attended the couple's wedding in 2018 and is thought to live near them in California, has promised it will be \"shocking\" with \"nothing off limits\".\n\nMeghan will be interviewed about marriage, motherhood, life as a royal and \"how she is handling life under intense public pressure\", CBS has said. The couple will also discuss their move to the US and their future plans.\n\nSeveral clips have already been released by CBS and have racked up millions of views.\n\nIn a clip shown on CBS's This Morning show earlier this week, Meghan was asked why she has decided to give an interview now.\n\nShe said it was the result of \"so many things\", including that \"we're on the other side of a lot of life experience that's happened and also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn't have said yes to then\".\n\nIn two earlier clips released by CBS, Meghan said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was \"perpetuating falsehoods about us\", while Prince Harry drew parallels between the treatment of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Meghan.\n\nAfter these two clips were released, the Times published its report saying Meghan faced a complaint of bullying from her staff while she was a working royal at Kensington Palace.\n\nThe palace said it was \"concerned\" about the accusations and an HR team would look at the circumstances outlined in the article.\n\nOn the reported allegations of bullying, the duchess has said in a statement through her spokesman she was \"saddened\" by the \"attack on her character\".\n\nThe timing of the broadcast has come during a tumultuous period for the Royal Family.\n\nWhile the interview was recorded before the Duke of Edinburgh, Harry's grandfather and the Queen's husband, went into hospital, it will air as the prince continues his recovery in hospital following a procedure for a heart condition.\n\nIt also comes on the back of a more light-hearted interview Prince Harry gave to James Corden on The Late Late Show, which aired last week - again while Prince Philip was in hospital.\n\nIn her Commonwealth day address, the Queen spoke about staying in touch with family and friends during \"testing times\", and how there had been a \"deeper appreciation\" of the need to connect to others during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"The testing times experienced by so many have led to a deeper appreciation of the mutual support and spiritual sustenance we enjoy by being connected to others,\" she said.\n\nAs footage was played of the Queen's numerous official video calls, the 94-year-old acknowledged, \"we have had to become more accustomed to connecting and communicating by our innovative technology\" to stay in touch with friends, family, colleagues, and others during the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"Increasingly, we have found ourselves able to enjoy such communication, as it offers an immediacy that transcends boundaries or division, helping any sense of distance to disappear.\"\n\n\"We have all continued to appreciate the support, breadth of experiences and knowledge that working together brings.\n\n\"And I hope we shall maintain this renewed sense of closeness and community.\"\n\nAnd she praised the \"selfless dedication to duty\" of medical staff and other key workers.", "Inspectors said a \"decrepit\" isolation block was unfit for habitation\n\nAsylum seekers were housed in cramped and filthy conditions at a military barracks, inspectors have said.\n\nSome of the most vulnerable people were living in a \"decrepit\" block unfit for habitation at Kent's Napier Barracks.\n\nThe Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons also visited Penally Camp in Pembrokeshire. They said both sites were \"run-down\".\n\nThe Home Office said it had instructed service providers to make improvements.\n\nLabour has said the findings are \"utterly unbelievable\", and Plaid Cymru called for Home Secretary Priti Patel to \"consider her position\".\n\nInspectors raised concerns over cleanliness at both camps, and said some areas were filthy\n\nInspectors said both sites - which witnessed protests over living conditions in January - were \"run-down and unsuitable\", but particularly criticised Napier.\n\nThey said given the cramped, communal conditions, \"once one person was infected [with Covid] a large-scale outbreak was virtually inevitable\" at the site.\n\nIn January, 178 people tested positive for the virus at Napier.\n\nMany men said they were depressed, and a survey found a third of respondents at both sites had mental health problems, while a third at Napier had felt suicidal.\n\nInspectors said contractors were given less than two weeks to make both sites operational, and local stakeholders, including healthcare, were not consulted and were given insufficient time to prepare.\n\nThey listed concerns about the asylum process, including that many residents were told they would be there for weeks, but had been there several months - a major cause of distress that left them not trusting anything they were told.\n\nMs Patel, who has repeatedly defended the use of Napier, last month said: \"This site has previously accommodated our brave soldiers and army personnel. It is an insult to say that it is not good enough for these individuals.\"\n\nShadow immigration minister, Holly Lynch, said: \"The Home Secretary has recklessly put the lives of all those staying at the sites, those working there, and the surrounding communities, at risk during a pandemic.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Ms Patel \"must consider her position\" in the wake of the report, which highlighted \"fundamental failures of leadership and planning by the Home Office\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said: \"During these unprecedented times we have met our statutory duty to provide asylum seekers, who would otherwise be destitute, with suitable accommodation and three meals a day all paid for by the British taxpayer.\n\n\"We expect the highest possible standards from our service providers and have instructed them to make improvements at the site.\"\n\nFollowing inspections in February and a follow-up visit to Napier on Thursday, inspectors will now produce a detailed report that will be submitted to Ms Patel.\n\nResidents had spent months at the sites after being told they would be there for weeks\n\nThe findings were released on the same day that 115 people crossed the English Channel in seven boats in continued attempts to reach the UK, which the government has said are facilitated by criminals.\n\nLast year, nearly 8,500 people attempted the journey.\n\nThe Home Office has said people should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach rather than making the crossings, and has said illegal migrants are being returned to safe countries.\n\nInspectors visited both sites in February and returned to Napier last week\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Sgt Gavin Hillier died during a live-fire training exercise in Pembrokeshire on Thursday\n\nThe family of a soldier who was killed during a live-fire training exercise at an army range have said they are \"heartbroken\" by his death.\n\nIn a statement, Sgt Gavin Hillier's wife Karyn and his two sons Declan and Connor said they were \"not ready to say goodbye\".\n\nSgt Hillier, of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died at Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire on Thursday.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the death.\n\nSgt Hillier served in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan during his career in the Army, and in 2019 was presented with the Long Service and Good Conduct medal by the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Guards said he was \"universally loved\" across the battalion and his death had been a \"terrible shock\".\n\nPrince Charles presented Sgt Hillier the Long Service and Good Conduct medal in 2019\n\nIn a statement, his wife and sons said: \"I thank you for the day you came into my life and made me your wife and became the father to our two beautiful boys.\n\n\"We are absolutely heartbroken and can't express how proud we are of you. Our boys will continue to make you proud and you will forever live on through them.\n\n\"Daddy, we are not ready to say goodbye just yet so until we meet again, we love you always. Love, your heartbroken wife and boys.\"\n\nHis mother, Karen Selway, said: \"You made me so proud of you from the day you were born and we will be proud for always. Rest in peace my son, you will always be my little boy.\"\n\nSgt Gavin Hillier's mother said she would be \"proud for always\"\n\nSgt Hillier's platoon commander said his style of leadership \"got the best out of the platoon\" and his personality was \"infectious\".\n\nHe added: \"He was my rock when I needed guidance, never afraid to offer me advice and was a fierce Welshman.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had opened an investigation into the death of the soldier.\n\nPolice said officers were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive and the Ministry of Defence.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries.\n\nSgt Hillier is the fourth soldier to die at Castlemartin since 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerry Kelly 'not deterred' after firework attack on home\n\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly has condemned an attack in which two large fireworks were thrown at his west Belfast home.\n\nIt happened at 19:15 GMT on Sunday on the Falls Road. No-one was injured in what police called a \"reckless\" attack.\n\nMr Kelly said he was getting out of the shower when he heard \"a huge bang\".\n\nThis was the latest in a \"sinister pattern of attacks and threats against public representatives\", he said, but it would not deter him from serving the community.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Mr Kelly said the fireworks were thrown out of a car which slowed down, then stopped.\n\nOne landed in the back yard and the other appeared to have hit the front of his house.\n\nThe scene was cordoned off for about two hours as Army technical officers found the fireworks and destroyed them.\n\n\"This is one of a number of incidents between my home and my office,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not the only public representative who has been threatened and - may I say - journalists as well.\n\n\"This stuff has to be condemned and has to be put down.\n\n\"The message I would like to put out to them is that while they frightened my family and my neighbours, what they're doing will have no effect on public representatives - we will not be deterred from serving people as we have been serving for years. This has to stop and we need to stand up against it.\"\n\nMr Kelly said he did not know who was behind the latest attack but he did know that loyalists were responsible for an earlier bomb scare at his office.\n\nSpeaking about Sunday's attack, Supt Nigel Henry said: \"Officers attended and conducted a search of the area.\n\n\"ATO examined what is believed to have been the remnants of fireworks, both of which had been destroyed.\n\n\"Thankfully, no one was injured in this reckless attack\".", "The network of emergency Nightingale hospitals set up to cope with a surge of Covid-19 cases is to close from April, the NHS has said.\n\nEstablished last spring amid fears that the NHS might be overwhelmed, the temporary hospitals in England were largely not needed.\n\nSome were used as rehab centres and the sites in London and Sunderland will stay open for vaccinations.\n\nThe NHS said they had been the \"ultimate insurance policy\".\n\nSeven Nightingale hospitals were built in England, starting in April 2020 with the 4,000-bed facility at London's ExCel centre. Another was set up in Belfast, while Scotland and Wales had their own temporary hospitals.\n\nBut they were never used on a large scale, because the NHS did not have enough trained staff to fill the Nightingales as well as the permanent hospitals.\n\nDuring the winter surge in coronavirus cases, Chris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, said they had been built to avoid a situation like that seen in northern Italy in spring last year. But he said it would be a \"success\" if they were not used.\n\nYorkshire's 500-bed hospital, opened by Capt Sir Tom Moore, will close next month without treating a single patient. It will operate as a testing centre until then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse captures the transformation of London's ExCeL centre into the Nightingale Hospital\n\nThe London site treated 20 patients during the first wave of the pandemic. It reopened in January and was used to treat non-coronavirus patients to free up beds for a surge in Covid-19 cases and other very seriously ill people.\n\nIt was built in nine days, with its first 500 beds fully equipped with oxygen and ventilators. If it had reached full capacity, it would have been one of the world's largest hospitals.\n\nExeter's Nightingale hospital began admitting patients in November, when cases in the South West of England exceeded the first wave of the pandemic, with the NHS describing it as an \"invaluable resource\".\n\nAn NHS spokesman said that as the health service learned more about Covid-19 and how to successfully treat it, existing hospitals were able to adapt to increase critical care capacity.\n\n\"Even in the winter wave - which saw more than 100,000 patients with the virus admitted in a single month - there were beds available across the country,\" the spokesman said.\n\nBut the NHS said the Nightingale hospitals had been \"on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed\".", "Police patrols check on people driving to Dinas Dinlle beach in Gwynedd on Saturday\n\nStay at home rules banning all but essential travel could be eased when Wales' Covid regulations are reviewed.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said guidance could be changed to \"stay local\" as part of moves to \"restore more freedoms\".\n\n\"I think there is a case for an intermediate step between stay at home and being able to travel anywhere across Wales,\" he said.\n\nA review of lockdown measures is due to be announced on Friday.\n\nWales went into lockdown on 20 December following a spike cases.\n\nSince then the case rate, which measures the number of Covid infections per 100,000 people over a seven-day period, has fallen to an all-Wales average of 46, down from 437 in the run up to Christmas.\n\nAnd almost one million people have received their first dose of the Covid vaccine in Wales.\n\nNon-essential shops could open in Wales from 15 March\n\n\"I said two weeks ago at the last review that I hoped that this will be the last three weeks of the stay at home regulation,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"So, that is what we will be trying to make happen on Friday of this week.\n\n\"We will be looking carefully this week at whether an intermediate period of stay local - people are used to that, we had a period of that last year in Wales - whether that would be a first step on a journey.\n\n\"Remembering that in Wales that is how we are trying to approach the whole business - carefully, cautiously, step by step, not doing too many things at once - so that we can monitor the impact of changes, and then restore more freedoms to people and to the economy once we are confident that it's safe to do so.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price has previously said there should be a \"careful\" approach to easing restrictions due to new Covid variants.\n\nThe Conservative leader in the Senedd Andrew RT Davies has called for a \"clear roadmap out of lockdown\".", "Prof Clement was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing and said the investigation had affected his health\n\nThere has been a \"catastrophic failure of governance\" at Swansea University, according to a dismissed academic cleared of criminal wrongdoing.\n\nProf Marc Clement was sacked for gross misconduct, with bribery allegations reported to police.\n\nDetectives told the BBC they sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which concluded it was \"not in the public interest\" to proceed.\n\nThe university said its disciplinary investigation was a separate matter.\n\n\"The criminal investigation and the university's internal disciplinary processes are and have always been entirely separate,\" said a Swansea University official.\n\nThe allegations were made in relation to a £200m wellness village that was planned in Llanelli.\n\nPolice concluded that \"the correct procurement guidelines were followed and overseen by specialist law firms\".\n\nIt is not known whether the CPS made the decision not to proceed because of a lack of sufficient evidence or on different grounds. The service has been asked to comment.\n\nThe Wellness and Life Science Village was at the centre of police investigations\n\nProf Clement welcomed the decision by police, saying that he had not had \"a good night's rest\" throughout the months of the investigation.\n\nHe was accused by Swansea University of being in line to personally profit from the wellness village project.\n\nThe former dean of the school of management was dismissed along with a colleague, Steve Poole.\n\nAnother member of staff, Bjorn Rodde, resigned from the university.\n\nSwansea University officials had complained to the Serious Fraud Office\n\nThe former vice-chancellor Prof Richard Davies was also dismissed for gross misconduct and gross negligence, following a disciplinary process by the university.\n\nProfessor Davies was not part of the police investigation.\n\nThe four have taken a case against Swansea University to an employment tribunal but it has been delayed due to the police investigation and the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe university claimed the dismissals were for \"serious breaches of the university's procedures, and not for a finding of criminal conduct\" and said the decision by the CPS has \"no bearing on this whatsoever\".\n\n\"Swansea University dismissed Marc Clement in July 2019, following a detailed and thorough independent investigation which found evidence that he had significant undeclared interests worth millions of pounds,\" it added.\n\nProf Clement said the events showed \"a catastrophic failure of governance on behalf of Swansea University, allowing one or a small number of executives to lead the university into this situation and spend enormous amounts of money, public money from a charitable institution, on Europe's most expensive legal advisors, leading to an outcome, where Tarian, the regional Organised Crime Unit, have decided that they don't want to take things further\".\n\nHe added he was disappointed the wellness village project in Llanelli had stalled.\n\n\"My overwhelming emotion is the sadness about the catastrophic loss of opportunity for the people of south-west Wales, who I think are the true victims here. There's been huge injustice,\" said Prof Clement.\n\nHe argued that the project had attracted some of the world's biggest companies including Pfizer and Siemens.\n\n\"In the spring of 2021, which is where we now are, there would have been 1000 high added value jobs in Llanelli, an area of deprivation,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activist Malala Yousafzai has signed a multi-year deal with Apple TV+, to produce programming including documentaries, dramas, comedies and films.\n\nThe Nobel Prize laureate said she wanted to inspire women and girls to \"make the change that they want to see happen\".", "The nurse's arm is outstretched and pointing forward in the fashion of a superhero on a mission\n\nStreet artist Banksy hopes to raise more than £3m for the NHS with the auction of a painting offering a \"universal tribute\" to staff.\n\nGame Changer appeared at Southampton General Hospital during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe anonymous graffiti artist is now auctioning the original canvas to raise funds for the NHS, with a reproduction of the work to remain in the hospital.\n\nThe painting has a pre-sale estimate of between £2.5 to £3.5m.\n\nIt shows a young boy kneeling and playing with superhero dolls.\n\nWhile Batman and Spiderman are discarded in a bin, the child clutches a figure of a masked nurse wearing a cape.\n\nThe image, which measures 1m (3ft) x 1m, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.\n\nAuction company Christie's said the painting \"offers an image of hope\" and represents a \"personal tribute to those who continue to turn the tide of the pandemic\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKatharine Arnold, of Christie's, added: \"Game Changer is a universal tribute to all those fighting worldwide on the front line of this crisis.\n\n\"The work pays tribute to the strength and resilience of those who have demonstrated true leadership throughout the pandemic, the staff of our vital NHS\", she added.\n\nShe also described Game Changer as a \"beacon of light for the staff and patients\" at the hospital.\n\nWhen the picture was first unveiled, a note said: \"Thanks for all you're doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if it's only black and white.\"\n\nGame Changer will be seen outside of the hospital for the first time when it goes on display at Christie's headquarters in London from 8 to 15 March, ahead of the auction on 23 March.\n\nBanksy's latest artwork appeared on the wall of Reading Prison on 1 March, which shows a prisoner escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Crowds gathered in George Square to celebrate Rangers winning the Scottish Premiership\n\nPolice say arrests were made and fines issued after crowds of fans gathered to celebrate Rangers winning the Scottish Premiership.\n\nLarge numbers of supporters made their way to Ibrox Stadium and Glasgow's George Square to mark the achievement despite warnings to stay at home.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the crowds were \"infuriating and disgraceful\" and could delay the end of the Covid lockdown.\n\nRangers took the title after Celtic failed to beat Dundee United.\n\nThe result gave Rangers an unassailable 20-point lead and the title for the first time in 10 years.\n\nUnder current guidance, public gatherings are banned and a maximum of two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nFootball games are taking place behind closed doors with no fans in the stadium.\n\nHowever, following Sunday's game, crowds of fans took to the streets, as some let off flares while others chanted and waved flags outside the club ground. In Glasgow city centre fans flocked to George Square to celebrate being crowned Scottish champions.\n\nIn a tweet, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated Rangers on the title win, but added: \"Gathering in crowds just now risks lives, and could delay exit from lockdown for everyone else.\"\n\n\"If those gathering care at all about the safety of others & the country, they will go home,\" she said.\n\nIn a later tweet she said: \"I share folks' anger at this.\"\n\nShe added it was \"infuriating and disgraceful\" to see the crowds \"risk our progress\" after everyone complying with lockdown rules has made \"so many sacrifices\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Mark Sutherland said officers attended gatherings at both George Square and outside Ibrox stadium.\n\nArrests were made and fixed penalty notices issued for breaches of the Covid restrictions, disorder incidents and the use of pyrotechnic devices, he added.\n\nIn a statement published shortly before 21:00, he urged fans to make their way home.\n\nThe PA news agency reported that by 21:30 police officers had encircled a depleting group of fans at the base of the Scott Monument in George Square.\n\nLast May thousands of Liverpool fans flouted social distancing guidelines and gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier league title in 30 years.\n\nAnd in November hundreds of Celtic supporters defied the level four restrictions and converged on Celtic Park to call for the removal of the club's then manager Neil Lennon.\n\nDavid Hamilton, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, said he was \"appalled\" by the scenes.\n\nHe also told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that officers, many of whom have not been vaccinated, were put in \"jeopardy\" by the supporters' actions.\n\nMr Hamilton said he understood why people were frustrated by the Police Scotland response but said that was an operational matter for the force, which would have considered factors such as wider public order issues and road safety.\n\nHe highlighted that it can take up to 20 minutes to issue a fixed penalty fine for breaches of the Covid restrictions.\n\nMr Hamilton said: \"If we were to ticket everybody in George Square yesterday we would still be doing it just now.\"\n\nBut he also criticised the club for being \"silent\" and failing to address the mass gatherings on its social media accounts.\n\nHe added: \"There is a responsibility to the club here. It should not take the government to have to ask the club to tell people to go home.\n\n\"That should have been something the club should have taken on themselves proactively.\"\n\nThe club tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times in the hours after they were crowned champions but did not address the mass gathering of fans.\n\nSocial psychology expert Prof Stephen Reicher said the celebrations were \"completely predictable\" and \"in some ways encouraged\".\n\nThe St Andrews University academic said it was \"disappointing that the club did not have a dialogue with the fans about how one can celebrate but in ways that are safe, in ways that don't endanger the public, that don't endanger and, indeed, don't endanger Scottish football\".\n\nHe warned that it undermined the argument for safely reopening mass events including the Euros championship in Scotland.\n\nGlasgow Kelvin MSP Sandra White described the celebrations as \"absolute chaos\" and questioned what plans were in place to prevent mass gatherings.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"They [the fans] should never have been allowed to leave Ibrox and march into the city centre in large numbers. It could have been stopped there and then.\n\n\"People have lost loved ones and people can't visit loved ones and yet this is being facilitated.\"\n\nRangers fans in Northern Ireland also breached lockdown rules, with a large crowd gathering on Belfast's Shankill Road to celebrate on Sunday evening.\n\nPolice Service Northern Ireland urged people to celebrate \"at home safely and within the current health regulations\".\n\nEarlier on Sunday Scotland's justice secretary urged fans not to put lives at risk by flouting lockdown rules.\n\nHumza Yousaf also warned that Uefa would be paying \"close attention\" in anticipation of the European Championships coming to Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'From 10 years of misery to this... bouncing' - Rangers fans celebrate at Ibrox\n\nFollowing their win, some Rangers players made their way to the fence to celebrate in sight of fans outside.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross called the actions of fans outside Ibrox \"completely wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"We've all done so much to get the virus rates down.\n\n\"I understand passions run high with football fans, but it clearly didn't match what we expect people to do during a Covid period, while many people still can't even leave their homes.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oprah Winfrey: \"Neither his grandmother nor grandfather were part of those conversations [on skin colour]\".\n\nOprah Winfrey has said Prince Harry clarified it was neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh who questioned what his son's skin colour would be.\n\nWinfrey told CBS News on Monday the prince \"did not tell me who was part of those conversations\".\n\nThe revelation that a family member wondered \"how dark\" Archie's complexion might be came during a TV interview that aired overnight in the US.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex had described the remarks as a low point.\n\n\"He did not share the identity with me but he wanted to make sure I knew, and if I had an opportunity to share it, that it was not his grandmother or grandfather that were part of those conversations,\" Winfrey said.\n\nWhen asked for further details on Monday, Winfrey said she \"tried to get that answer on camera and off\" but the prince did not elaborate.\n\nShe told CBS This Morning that she was shocked to hear about the skin colour remarks during the interview. \"Even on the take, you can hear me go, 'whoa I cannot believe you are saying this now'.\"\n\nWhen asked why she thinks the couple agreed to speak with her, Winfrey said she felt they \"were ready to do it\" after having been \"lied about for a series of years\".\n\n\"I said to my team, the most important question to be answered here at the end of this show will be, 'why did they leave'?\" Winfrey said.\n\n\"And I think the stories of blindsiding the Queen were very damaging to them and also hurtful because they understood clearly that there had been months and months of preparation.\"\n\nCBS has also shared new clips from the couple's three hour interview with the chat show host.\n\nIn one, when asked by Winfrey if the couple left the UK because of racism, Prince Harry said that \"was a large part of it\".\n\nIn another clip discussing how the UK press treated other members of the royal family, Meghan told Winfrey that \"rude and racist are not the same\".\n\n\"You've also had a press team that goes on the record to defend you especially when they know something's not true, and that didn't happen for us,\" the duchess said.\n\nWinfrey also asked Prince Harry if any family members had apologised to him for the reasons he felt he had to leave.\n\n\"The feeling is that this was our decision therefore the consequences are on us.\"", "The last confirmed sighting of Ms Everard was 30 minutes after she left her friend's home in Clapham\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday in south London have confirmed where she was last seen.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last spotted on CCTV walking alone on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road, in the direction of Tulse Hill.\n\nThe time was about 21:30 GMT, 30 minutes after she had left her friend's home in Leathwaite Road, Battersea.\n\nHer walk home to Brixton was expected to have taken her 50 minutes.\n\nDetectives said it was unclear whether she returned to her home address but think she may have walked across Clapham Common.\n\nHer parents have said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them\n\nAn extensive investigation is under way, including searches and house-to-house inquiries, to establish whether there were any further sightings of Ms Everard beyond that which was captured on CCTV.\n\nThe investigation continues to be treated as a missing person's inquiry, but due to its complex nature and concerns for her welfare, the Met's Specialist Crime Command is now leading the case.\n\nHer family said it was \"totally out of character\" for her to not be in contact with them.\n\nVolunteers from London Search and Rescue are helping the police\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"I would like to stress that there is no information at this stage to suggest anything untoward may have happened to Sarah.\n\n\"The focus remains on returning her home to her family safe and well and that is our number one priority.\n\n\"I would like to thank Sarah's family and friends, the local community and members of the public for their help to raise awareness of this appeal and for coming forward with information.\n\n\"I would urge anybody who has information or noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact us if you haven't already. \"\n\nMs Everard was wearing wearing clothes and earphones like these when she was last seen\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nDetectives have urged people to check any dashcam or doorbell cameras for sightings of her, particularly along these roads:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pair were first pictured together at the 2017 Invictus Games after months avoiding the cameras\n\nMeghan Markle was the American actress, with a passion for humanitarian and feminist causes. Harry was the rebel prince turned soldier, considered the world's most eligible bachelor.\n\nIn the summer of 2016, the two were brought together on a blind date by a mutual friend in London.\n\n\"Beautiful\" Meghan \"just tripped and fell into my life\", Harry later told the press, and he knew immediately she was \"the one\".\n\nAfter just two dates, the new couple went on holiday together to Botswana, camping out under the stars.\n\nThey fell in love \"so incredibly quickly\", proof the \"stars were aligned\", said Harry.\n\nTo the British press, their romance was catnip. Here was a golden couple who were able to draw vast crowds, speak the language of younger generations and sprinkle royal stardust on any cause.\n\nFor months the couple avoided the cameras and it wasn't until the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto that the the two were first photographed holding hands in public, smiling and laughing.\n\nBut there had been signs early on that the fairytale was some way off a \"happily ever after\".\n\nWhen Harry first confirmed the relationship in late 2016, it came with a stark attack on the media, accusing them of subjecting his girlfriend to \"a wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nHe spoke of nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers, attempts by reporters and photographers to get into Meghan's home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nIt was a problem that was only going to get worse.\n\nDespite that - or perhaps because of that - the two grew ever closer and in September 2017, Meghan declared to Vanity Fair magazine: \"Personally, I love a great love story.\"\n\nThe two of them had been enjoying a special time together and were really happy and in love, she said.\n\nThe media was now on high alert for the sound of royal wedding bells - and they didn't have to wait long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posed for the cameras in the garden at Kensington Palace\n\nIn November 2017, Harry got down on one knee to propose to Meghan as they made roast chicken together at their home in Kensington Palace.\n\nHarry had designed the ring, made with two diamonds which had belonged to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. At the centre was a diamond from Botswana.\n\nThe couple shared their story in a candid interview with the BBC, and appearing brimming with positivity for the future.\n\nThey revealed Meghan would give up acting to focus on causes close to her heart, working alongside her husband-to-be.\n\n\"I know that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it,\" said Harry.\n\nThings began to shift as preparations got under way for a May 2018 wedding in Windsor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt quickly became clear that this was a royal couple who wanted to do things differently - their way.\n\nThe wedding, which much of the world tuned in to watch, had all the traditions - a stunning dress, cheeky bridesmaids and heartfelt vows.\n\nBut, as our royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said at the time, the service with its gospel choir, young black cellist and breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, marked it out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple, which seemed to point to a different future for the Royal Family.\n\nMarried life brought with it new titles - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - and a new home at Windsor in Frogmore Cottage.\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside, the duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn October of that year, the couple embarked on their first royal tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, over 16 days. It was there that they shared the news that they were expecting their first baby.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, seventh in line to throne and the Queen's eighth great-grandchild, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nTo Harry, who was by Meghan's side at the birth, little Archie was \"absolutely to die for\".\n\nThroughout Meghan's pregnancy, the continual redrawing of battlelines had gone on between the press and the couple.\n\nThis was to be no repeat of the Duchess of Cambridge's birth with the circus of journalists and photographers lying in wait outside hospital doors for days on end.\n\nThe press had been told there would be no information about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nSuch scrutiny and pressure proved to be a struggle for the newly-wed Meghan during her pregnancy and in early motherhood, she later admitted in an ITV documentary filmed during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\n\"Not many people have asked if I'm OK,\" she said, looking lost. She spoke of her vulnerability during pregnancy and the challenges of having a new-born - \"it's a lot\".\n\nAsked if she could cope, she said she had long told Harry it was not enough to just survive - \"that's not the point of life - you have got to thrive\".\n\nArchie was christened in a private ceremony, from which the press and the public were excluded\n\nThere were further signs that the couple were not happy, when the prince opened up about his mental health.\n\nHe said it was under constant management and he lived with the pressures of avoiding a repeat of the past that took his mother, the Princess of Wales, from him.\n\nShe died in a car crash in Paris when Harry was just 12. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\n\"Everything that she went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue,\" he added.\n\nIt has also been suggested the scrutiny of Meghan has been greater because of her African-American heritage.\n\nFormer US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wanted to hug Meghan for the British media's \"racist\" treatment of her, while Harry has highlighted how \"unconscious bias\" can lead to racist behaviour even if people do not consider themselves to be racist.\n\nTheir struggles were shared in an interview while touring southern Africa\n\nThe couple's frustration and anger with some sections of the press has gone from being a matter between the palace and editors into the full glare of the public spotlight.\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters and Harry filed proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nAs such a dramatic year came to a close, the royal couple took an extended break from royal duties over Christmas, taking Archie to the Canadian province of British Columbia.\n\nIt gave them time to mull over their next move and, within days of the start of a new decade, they dropped their bombshell announcement.\n\nNeither Harry's father, Prince Charles, nor his older brother, Prince William, with whom Harry has said he has \"good days\" and \"bad days\", were consulted.\n\nHarry and Meghan were, they told their Instagram followers, planning to leave their royal duties - and the royal purse - behind.\n\nThey hope their next chapter, spent in North America as well as the UK, will see the two of them, together with baby Archie, make their own path to the future.", "Posters promoted by the Swiss People's Party featured a woman in a black niqab and captions such as \"Stop extremism!\" and \"Stop radical Islam!\"!\n\nSwitzerland has narrowly voted in favour of banning face coverings in public, including the burka or niqab worn by Muslim women.\n\nOfficial results showed the measure had passed by 51.2% to 48.8% in Sunday's referendum.\n\nThe proposal was put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) which campaigned with slogans such as \"Stop extremism\".\n\nA leading Swiss Islamic group said it was \"a dark day\" for Muslims.\n\n\"Today's decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority,\" the Central Council of Muslims said in a statement, adding that it would challenge the decision in court.\n\nThe Swiss government had argued against the ban saying it was not up to the state to dictate what women wear.\n\nAccording to research by the University of Lucerne (in German), almost no-one in Switzerland wears a burka and only around 30 women wear the niqab. About 5% of Switzerland's population of 8.6 million people are Muslim, most originating from Turkey, Bosnia and Kosovo.\n\nSwiss people are given a direct say in their own affairs under the country's system of direct democracy. They are regularly invited to vote on various issues in national or regional referendums.\n\nIt is not the first time Islam has figured in a Swiss referendum. In 2009 citizens went against government advice and voted to ban the building of minarets - a proposal also put forward by the SVP which said minarets were a sign of Islamisation.\n\nThe proposal in Sunday's referendum did not mention Islam directly and was also aimed at stopping violent street protesters from wearing masks. However, the vote was widely referred to as \"the burka ban\".\n\nThe latest proposal predated the coronavirus pandemic, which has meant all Swiss adults having to wear masks in many settings.\n\nWas today's vote about all face coverings, from niqabs and burkas to the scarves rioters sometimes pull over their faces?\n\nThat's what the Yes campaigners from the Swiss People's Party insisted - but their posters and literature said otherwise, showing threatening looking women in black niqabs, and warning of Islamic extremism.\n\nSo does the result mean the Swiss are becoming more extreme? Are they Islamophobic?\n\nPerhaps not. In the end, the ban only just squeaked through. In the past the Swiss People's Party has had much bigger majorities for its populist initiatives, often aimed at restricting asylum and immigration.\n\nIt successfully pushed through a ban on minarets in 2009 with a similar campaign to this one. But the debate around face coverings touched all sorts of different nerves. Many Swiss feminists view the burka and niqab as oppressive to women but they also oppose laws telling women what they can and cannot wear.\n\nWhen it came to voting they were torn. A regular answer from women asked whether they would support the ban was \"Jein\", a cross between \"Ja\" (yes) and \"Nein\" (no). Today's close vote in Switzerland was probably very much a \"Jein\" as well.\n\nSanija Ameti, a member of Switzerland's Muslim community, told the BBC that the campaign - and the depiction of Muslim women in the posters - had been upsetting.\n\n\"So many Muslims in Switzerland will feel insulted and not part of this society, and pushed into a corner where they don't belong. We don't look like these women in the pictures, we just don't,\" she said.\n\nHowever, others in the Muslim community supported the ban.\n\nImam Mustafa Memeti, from the city of Bern, told the BBC he thought the motivation behind the campaign was \"probably Islamophobic\". But he said he supported the ban anyway because it could help to emancipate Muslim women in Switzerland.\n\nAhead of the vote, Walter Wobmann, chairman of the referendum committee and an SVP lawmaker, described Muslim face coverings as \"a symbol for this extreme, political Islam which has become increasingly prominent in Europe and which has no place in Switzerland\".\n\n\"In Switzerland our tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic freedoms,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four Muslim women discuss their relationship with the veil\n\nAmnesty International spoke out against the proposed ban, calling it \"a dangerous policy that violates women's rights, including to freedom of expression and religion\".\n\nThe wearing of Islamic veils in public has been a controversial topic in other European countries. France banned wearing a full face veil in public in 2011 while the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Bulgaria have put in place full or partial bans on wearing face coverings in public.", "A French schoolgirl has admitted to spreading false claims about a teacher before he was murdered last year.\n\nSamuel Paty was beheaded in October after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nThe girl, whose complaints sparked an online campaign against Paty, has now admitted that she was not in the class.\n\nMr Paty's killing stunned France and led to an outpouring of support at memorial ceremonies and marches around the country.\n\nThe 13-year-old girl, who has not been officially named, originally told her father that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the classroom while he showed the cartoon during a class on free speech and blasphemy.\n\nAccording to evidence given by the girl seen by French media she said: \"I didn't see the cartoons, it was a girl in my class who showed me them.\"\n\n\"She lied because she felt trapped in a spiral because her classmates had asked her to be a spokesperson,\" her lawyer, Mbeko Tabula, told AFP news agency.\n\nThe girl's father filed a legal complaint against the teacher and began a social media campaign over the incident based on his daughter's account. He identified Paty and the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris.\n\nProsecutors said shortly after the killing that there was a \"direct causal link\" between the online incitement against Paty and his murder.\n\nThe perpetrator, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police shortly after the attack.\n\nIt then emerged that the campaign against the history and geography teacher had been based on a distorted account of what had happened in class days earlier.\n\nAs he had done in similar lessons on free speech in previous years, Paty warned students that he was about to show a depiction of Muhammad. He said anyone who thought they might be offended could close their eyes.\n\nThe girl had originally claimed the teacher had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room. When she objected she was suspended from school, she said. It now appears that the girl was suspended the day before the class was given, according to Le Parisien newspaper, because of repeated absence from school.\n\nThe girl explains in her leaked testimony that she made up the story so as not to disappoint her father. He posted two videos on social media in response to the allegations.\n\nSpeaking on French radio on Tuesday, the Paty family's lawyer said the girl's family knew that she had not been in class on the day in question and why she had been suspended. \"So to come and say now, sorry, I believed my daughter's lies, that's really weak,\" Virginie Le Roy told RTL radio.\n\nIn a separate development, two university professors have been given police protection after they were accused of Islamophobia by student protesters.\n\nAn investigation has begun after posters were put up last week at Sciences Po university in Grenoble that read \"Fascists in our lecture halls, Islamophobia kills\", naming the two professors.\n\nJunior Interior Minister Marlène Schiappa said their lives were in danger and the campaign was reminiscent of the harassment of Samuel Paty. \"We can't tolerate this kind of thing,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Macron paid tribute to Samuel Paty during a memorial ceremony in October\n\nAfter Paty's murder, President Emmanuel Macron presented the teacher's family with the nation's highest honour, the Légion d'honneur.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad are widely regarded as taboo in Islam, and are considered highly offensive by Muslims.\n\nThe issue is particularly sensitive in France because of the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet.\n\nTwelve people were killed by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 after the images were published.\n\nBoth the Charlie Hebdo murders and Samuel Paty's beheading struck a deep chord in a country where secularism - or laïcité - is central to national identity.\n\nUnder that principle, the state cannot intervene in matters of religion, and thus should not curb expression to protect the feelings of a particular community.", "The interview took place in the garden of a house near where the couple live in Montecito, west of Los Angeles\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said racism from the tabloid press that filtered into the rest of society was a \"large part\" of why he and his wife left the UK.\n\nPrince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that the UK tabloid media is \"bigoted\" and creates a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\".\n\nHe said he thought the Prince of Wales had to \"make peace with it\".\n\nThe Society of Editors said the media is not bigoted and is holding the \"rich and powerful to account\".\n\nMeghan said social media had made the relationship with the press like \"the wild, wild West\" and said the Royal Family's press operation failed to defend her and Harry from untrue stories.\n\nIn the much-anticipated interview with Oprah, Harry and Meghan covered a range of deeply personal topics, including racism, mental health, their relationship with the media and Royal Family dynamics.\n\nThe two-hour interview was broadcast last night in the US and was screened in the UK on ITV on Monday night and on ITV Hub, courtesy of Harpo Productions/CBS.\n\nUS President Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, said it had taken \"courage\" for Harry and Meghan to tell their own personal story and speak about struggles with mental health.\n\nAsked about the claims that the Royal Family had failed to look after the Sussexes' mental health and that one family member had speculated on their unborn child's skin colour, Prime Minister Boris Johnson declined to comment, except to say he \"always had the highest admiration for the Queen and the unifying role she plays\".\n\nHe said \"when it comes to matters to do with the Royal Family, the right thing for prime ministers to say is nothing\", after being asked specifically if he believed the Royal Family was racist.\n\nIn previously unseen footage from the three hour 20 minutes interview, Oprah asked the prince if the couple left the UK because of racism. Prince Harry replied: \"It was a large part of it.\"\n\nHe said that shortly after the couple announced they would step back from royal duties, someone who was \"friends with a lot of the editors\" had warned him about their confrontational stance with the press: \"Please don't do this with the media, they will destroy your life.\"\n\nThe conversation happened at a fundraising dinner in January 2020, a few months after Meghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a private letter and Prince Harry said he feared his wife would fall \"victim to the same powerful forces\" that he lost his mother to.\n\nThe friend of the editors told him: \"You need to understand that the UK is very bigoted.\" But the duke responded: \"The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids.\"\n\nSpeaking to Oprah, the prince added: \"But, unfortunately, if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased then that filters out to the rest of society.\"\n\nHe said that \"sadly\" no-one in the family had said they were sorry that the couple felt they had to move away from royal life because they did not feel supported.\n\n\"The feeling is that this was our decision, therefore the consequences are on us.\"\n\nHe said it was \"really hard because I am part of the system with them, I always have been\".\n\nPrince Harry said he was warned about the media shortly after announcing the couple would step back as senior royals\n\nPrince Harry said he is \"very aware\" that his brother Prince William \"can't leave that system but I have\".\n\nAsked if William wanted to leave the system, he replied: \"I don't know, I can't speak for him.\"\n\nHarry said the \"relationship and that control and the fear by the UK tabloids, it's a really, it's a toxic environment\".\n\nThe duke said he will \"always be there\" for his brother and the rest of his family and he has \"tried to help them to see what has happened\".\n\nHis father, the Prince of Wales, \"had to make peace\" with the relationship with the media.\n\nBut Meghan said she and the duke could not make peace with it themselves, saying it was \"different\" because of social media, describing it as \"like the wild, wild West\".\n\nThe Society of Editors criticised the couple for accusing the media of racism without \"any supporting evidence\".\n\n\"The UK media has never shied away from holding a spotlight up to those in positions of power, celebrity or influence. If sometimes the questions asked are awkward and embarrassing, then so be it, but the press is most certainly not racist,\" said executive director Ian Murray.\n\nIn another unaired clip shared by broadcaster CBS on social media, Prince Harry said that in January last year the couple had an invitation to visit the Queen at Sandringham suddenly withdrawn by her private secretary, who said she was \"busy all week\".\n\n\"When you're head of the firm there are people around you that give you advice. And what has also made me really sad is some of that advice has been really bad,\" said Harry.\n\nAlso in the unaired footage, the Duchess of Sussex said her treatment in the press had been worse than other royals, saying that although the Duchess of Cambridge being branded \"Waity Katie\" before her marriage to Prince William must have been \"really hard\", it was \"not the same\".\n\n\"If a member of his family would comfortably say 'we've all had to deal with things that are rude', rude and racist are not the same,\" she said.\n\n\"And equally you've also had a press team that goes on the record to defend you, especially when they know something's not true, and that didn't happen for us.\"\n\nMeghan said there had been an \"obsession about anything in my world\", including the media offering money to track down her parents.\n\n\"I did everything I could to protect both of them in that media frenzy for over a year,\" she told Oprah.", "The Nicola Faith has been missing for five weeks\n\n\"Mummy, have they found the red boat yet?\"\n\nA small boy and his mother walk past Conwy's medieval castle, the child looking down towards the quayside and a gap in the line of fishing boats anchored there.\n\nIt is a gap which would normally have been filled by the Nicola Faith, a ten metre vessel that was a familiar sight to Conwy residents.\n\nPeople on a late-night dog walk would exchange hellos with her owner and skipper Carl McGrath as he unloaded his catch of whelks.\n\nAlan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were all aboard the Nicola Faith went it went missing\n\nDown on the quayside, Nathania Minard is also looking at the space where the Nicola Faith would be.\n\nHer son Alan was one of the three men on board when the boat set sail on 27 January - and never returned.\n\n\"He was 20, and quite a bit younger than the other two lads on board\", she says, \"but he always felt like everyone's big brother.\"\n\nAlan has three siblings, Poppy, 16, Jessica, 6, and two-year-old Percy.\n\nAlan Minard was the eldest of four siblings\n\n\"He had waited 18 years to have a little brother. He's just got one and it's devastating that he's not going to be here to see him grow,\" she added.\n\n\"Every day the other children ask if the policeman is bringing Alan home today. It's heart-breaking.\n\n\"Jessica keeps asking if I can try ringing his phone again. It makes you feel like a failure as a mother.\"\n\nA fundraising page has been set up to help look for Alan Minard and the other crewmen\n\nThis is one of the reasons why Nathania and her wife Rebekah have joined with families of the other two missing men to set up a fundraising page on the internet site JustGiving.\n\nRelatives of 39-year-old Ross Ballantine and 34-year-old Carl McGrath have formed close links with the Minard family to offer support, share information and co-ordinate fund-raising.\n\nThe families want to hire additional deep sea search expertise to help look for the Nicola Faith and her three crew, working alongside the official investigation currently being run by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).\n\nIn less than a week, the appeal had raised £27,000. The families say it's an impressive total, but they still need to raise more.\n\n\"Everything raised is a great comfort to us at the moment. There's so much love towards the boys. It shows how much people care and that they haven't forgotten,\" added Nathania.\n\n\"They deserve better than for the case to remain open for years, we can't do that.\n\n\"Alan had his whole future ahead of him. He was a natural engineer and kept our ancient vacuum cleaner going for years by constantly repairing it.\n\n\"We bought him a games console for Christmas one year and he took it to bits within six months, then forgot how to put it back together again!\n\n\"He's one of those people who will always have work. He'd got a marine engineering apprenticeship in Devon, but when work dried up because of the pandemic, he headed back to north Wales and landed a job on board the Nicola Faith.\n\n\"He's a grafter. Over the last year, he'd turned from a boy into a man and we were so proud of him.\n\n\"He got on really well with Carl on board the Nicola Faith. Carl appreciated Alan because he was a hard worker - they really hit it off. It's hard to believe Alan had only been on the crew two weeks.\"\n\nAlan was not the only man new to the crew. Ross had come on board the when his work as a carpet fitter also slowed down because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRoss Ballantine joined the Nicola Faith to be spend more time with his sons\n\nHis sister Lowri Taylor said: \"He's a devoted dad. Working on a fishing boat isn't easy, but he loved it.\n\n\"The job meant he could see his two boys more often. He could stay local for them rather than having to work away during the week.\"\n\nThe mother of those two boys is one of the many people around the Conwy area helping the families begin their private search.\n\nZoey Walker runs Dollybirds Beauty Parlour in Llandudno and is co-ordinating a fundraising auction.\n\nShe said: \"My boys feel we are doing something to help after a horrendous month of not knowing and such a devastating time for them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missing fishermen are \"out there somewhere\"\n\nSinger Tom Stockdale is to shave his head live online over the weekend.\n\nAnother local supporter is running laps of the Great Orme headland in Llandudno to raise funds. Others are organising raffles.\n\nIt reflects the warmth felt towards all three crewmen on the quayside in Conwy and in the wider community.\n\nOne boat owner mentions how he and Carl would lend each other engine spares. Others speak of the energy he brought to the local fishing industry and the time and effort he spent maintaining and upgrading the boat.\n\nThe boat's empty life raft was found on Friday off the coast of Scotland\n\nNathania added: \"We've been overwhelmed at the support we've had from our own community and from further afield.\n\n\"We're not going to give up, we need to know where they are, we need to know what happened.\n\n\"It's not just to answer our questions today but as the children get older, there'll be questions that they'll ask and I don't want years to go by without us knowing.\"\n\nDavid Mearns found the plane which was carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala\n\nThe expert who is advising the families about their private search is David Mearns, who successfully found the wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson when it crashed into the English Channel in 2019.\n\nHe is confident that the Nicola Faith can be located. The families say more sonar surveys will take place this weekend on behalf of the MAIB.\n\nOn land they continue to raise money and awareness, while pausing to reflect by the vigil candles and tributes that have been placed on Conwy quayside.\n\nBut for the moment, the answer to the little boy's question of whether the red boat has been found remains a painful \"no\".", "The organiser of a protest against the government's controversial 1% pay rise plan for NHS staff in England has been fined £10,000 by police.\n\nAbout 40 people attended a rally in Manchester city centre at midday, officers said.\n\nPublic gatherings are banned by coronavirus rules and police said most demonstrators dispersed after officers asked them to leave.\n\nA woman who works for the NHS, aged 61, was fined for organising the protest.\n\nAnother NHS worker, aged 65, was arrested for failing to provide details after initially refusing to leave.\n\nShe was de-arrested and fined £200 after complying, police said.\n\nThe government's plan has been widely criticised\n\nSupt Caroline Hemingway said that \"regardless of one's sympathies for a protest's cause, we would ask the public to maintain social distancing and follow legislation\".\n\n\"We sought to engage with and peaceably disperse those attending this afternoon's protest, explaining that the gathering was in contravention of government lockdown rules,\" she added.\n\n\"Unfortunately officers were met with a degree of non-compliance and it was therefore necessary to enforce issue fixed penalty notices.\"\n\nA protest was also held outside Downing Street on Sunday\n\nThe government has faced a backlash after giving evidence on Thursday to the NHS pay-review body, which looks at nearly 1.5 million people, including nurses and health assistants - but not doctors, dentists and some senior staff, who have their own pay bodies or agreements.\n\nIt suggested a 1% pay rise for 2021-22, citing the \"uncertain\" financial situation. However inflation forecasts for this year indicate the proposed figure could be a real-terms cut.\n\nThe pay-review body will take evidence from other groups, including unions and NHS bodies, before making its recommendation around May.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "In her emotional interview with broadcaster Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of Sussex said that racism she experienced as a member of the British Royal Family contributed to her having suicidal thoughts.\n\nRacism from within the Royal household and the media had played a part in her feeling she \"didn't want to be alive anymore\", Meghan said.\n\nWatching in the US, a number of prominent black women said this showed the devastating effect of bigotry.\n\nThe impact of \"systematic oppression and victimisation are devastating, isolating and all too often lethal,\" tennis star Serena Williams, who is a friend of Meghan, posted on Instagram.\n\nOthers said Americans were likely to be shocked by Meghan's revelation that concerns were raised about the colour of the couple's baby's skin.\n\nThe Royal Family has not yet responded to the claims made by Meghan and Prince Harry.\n\nTennis champion Serena Williams was a guest at Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding in 2018\n\nWriting that she knew first-hand how sexism and racism were used \"to vilify\" women of colour, Williams said: \"I want Meghan's daughter, my daughter and your daughter to live in a society driven by respect.\"\n\nThe couple revealed in the interview that they are expecting a baby girl in the summer.\n\nBernice King, daughter of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, tweeted \"royalty is not a shield from the devastation and despair of racism\", adding: \"I'm grateful that Meghan Markle is still here.\"\n\nTalking about her and Prince Harry's son Archie, Meghan said that within the Royal household there were \"concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born\".\n\nErin Vanderhoof, a journalist with Vanity Fair magazine, told the BBC that it was \"really really taboo\" in America to ask questions about a baby's skin colour, calling it \"past the line\".\n\n\"That taboo against inter-racial marriage and the ways that it does still survive is something that we know as being racist,\" she explained.\n\nAlthough she suggested most people in the US understood that the Royal Family was \"not representative\" of all British people, Ms Vanderhoof said that seeing \"a self-made person rejected and mocked\" nonetheless confirmed some ideas about elitism in Britain.\n\nMeanwhile, Stephanie Guerilus, secretary of the New York Association of Black Journalists, told BBC News that \"bullying Meghan Markle has become a national past-time\" in Britain.\n\nEnquiring about a baby's skin tone could come from ignorance, she said, but asking questions in succession would suggest to her that they were motivated by racism.\n\nIn asking these questions, \"you are othering this child while he is still in the womb,\" she explained.\n\nUS Youth Poet Laurate Amanda Gorman spoke at US President Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nMeghan's candour and \"brave\" decision to leave the Royal Family was also praised, including by US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.\n\n\"Meghan's strength will certainly redefine family everywhere,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Think of the women who will be inspired to stand up for their lives, the partners who will be kinder and more courageous than the kin they were born into,\" she said.\n\nIn Britain too, some black women have reacted to the interview. Political and women's rights activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu told BBC News that \"racism is so normalised\" that many white viewers would deny that what Meghan experienced was racism.\n\nPeople \"want to deny that the Royal Family as an institution is rooted in colonialism, racism and white supremacy\", she added.\n\nWhile the couple said they had difficult moments with some members of the Royal Family, including Harry's father Prince Charles, they talked fondly about the Queen who Meghan said reminded her of her grandmother.", "A cautious approach to easing restrictions on travel is \"in line\" with the scientific advice received by the Welsh Government, according to the education minister.\n\nKirsty Williams said a potential \"move from a 'stay at home' message to a 'stay local' message\" at Friday's lockdown review announcement would allow the government to \"monitor\" the decision's impact \"before moving to the next stage\".\n\nShe said there communities where unlocking to quickly caused a \"great deal of concern.\"\n\nMs Williams, who represents Brecon and Radnorshire, said: \"We haven't had visitors in the [Brecon] Beacons for very many months.\n\n\"Suddenly having an influx of people in to these areas could cause some concerns in those communities, especially if those communities have been fortunate enough to bring down levels low.\n\n\"We need to follow the advice that in unlocking restrictions we do not undo the tremendous hard work of the Welsh public.\n\n\"We want to ensure that when we unlock we do that on a permanent basis and not find ourselves in a situation where we will see cases rise quickly again and potentially hospital admissions rise quickly again.\"\n\nKirsty Williams said there was concern that, even with the vaccination rollout, an increase in community transmission of the virus \"potentially leads to the situation where we can see the development of new variants.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are at a critical juncture in the management of this pandemic, where there is much to be hopeful and optimistic about, but could so easily be thrown away.\"", "Arlene Foster said the prime minister should discuss sharing surplus vaccines with Taoiseach Micheál Martin\n\nThere should be more co-operation between the NI Executive and the Irish government over the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, First Minister Arlene Foster has said.\n\nThe DUP leader told RTÉ Radio's This Week she was \"alarmed\" about the slower pace of the rollout in the Republic.\n\nShe said she wanted everyone on the island to be vaccinated \"in the fastest way possible\".\n\nNI's Department of Health has reported three more Covid-related deaths.\n\nThat brings its total during the pandemic to 2,075.\n\nThere have been 113,645 positive cases of the virus recorded in Northern Ireland, after an additional 138 cases were confirmed on Sunday.\n\nIn the Republic, three more coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded, bringing the death total to 4,422. The total number of confirmed cases rose to 223,219 after another 525 positive cases were confirmed.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures show that about 30% of Northern Ireland's entire population have now had a first dose of a vaccine. That number rises to almost 40% amongst the adult population.\n\nBy contrast, figures from this week show that about 6% of the Republic of Ireland's population have received a first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, it was announced that the Republic of Ireland had hit a milestone of 500,000 vaccines administered, a figure which includes both first and second doses.\n\nMrs Foster said the latest figures on Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout showed a \"tremendous move forward\" but that she was \"alarmed to see the figures in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"Obviously we've been taking advice from our chief medical officer on what is the best way forward.\n\n\"But it is my desire, of course, as a neighbour to see everyone vaccinated on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nShe added that she hoped the programme in the Republic picked up pace, saying it was important for Northern Ireland given that people regularly travel across the border but also that it was important \"for the population of the Republic as well\".\n\nShe added that medical advice indicated that \"a lot of people coming up who aren't vaccinated could have an impact on the strength and the efficacy of the vaccine for those who are\".\n\nMrs Foster also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson \"should have a conversation\" with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin about potentially sharing any surplus vaccines.\n\n\"I believe it would be to the benefit not just of the Republic of Ireland but to Northern Ireland as well if we had a vaccine programme in the Republic that was moving at a faster measure, yes absolutely,\" she told the programme.", "Emma Hardy was elected as the Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle in 2017\n\nA Labour MP has resigned her shadow ministerial post citing an increase in constituency work during lockdown.\n\nEmma Hardy said due to the coronavirus pandemic the number of people seeking her help had \"risen dramatically\".\n\nThe Hull West and Hessle MP was appointed as the shadow further education and universities minister last year after Sir Keir Starmer was elected party leader.\n\nIn her resignation letter she said she was leaving with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nMs Hardy blamed the government's handling of the pandemic for \"taking a heavy toll on the place I love\".\n\n\"In the past year, the number of residents contacting me needing help and support has risen dramatically; I was elected as their representative and their needs will always come first,\" she said.\n\nMs Hardy added: \"I will no longer be able to give the role of shadow minister the time it deserves.\"\n\nThe former primary school teacher was elected to parliament in 2017, when she replaced the long-serving Labour MP Alan Johnson.\n\nIn the 2019 election Ms Hardy held on to the seat with a majority of 2,856, a drop of 10.4% in her vote compared with the 2017 result.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ruth Williams was killed by her husband of almost 50 years at their home in Cwmbran, south Wales\n\nA review into the death of a woman who was killed by her husband has been ordered by the home secretary.\n\nAnthony Williams, 70, was jailed for five years after admitting to the manslaughter of his wife Ruth, 67, in south Wales.\n\nIt led to calls from MPs to review the sentence, claiming it was too lenient.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"not satisfied\" with Torfaen council's decision not to carry out a domestic homicide review (DHR).\n\nAfter writing to the council, Ms Patel said: \"This was an appalling case and my thoughts are with the family and friends of Ruth Williams.\"\n\nThe local authority's public service board said it will now carry out the inquiry.\n\nA trial cleared Williams of murdering his wife in their Cwmbran home during the first Covid pandemic lockdown in March last year.\n\nHowever, he admitted a charge of manslaughter by diminished responsibility, after strangling her to death.\n\nA group of MPs, including former justice minister Harriet Harman, argued Williams's sentencing was \"unduly lenient\" and called for a review by the attorney general.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Wales, Ms Patel said she had \"personally reviewed\" the case and the decision to not conduct a DHR.\n\nShe said: \"I am not satisfied with the conclusions reached by the Torfaen County Borough Council Public Service Board that there are no lessons to be learned from this tragic death.\"\n\nShe added in the letter: \"You have focused your decision not to conduct a review on the fact that the victim and perpetrator did not have any meaningful contact with local agencies or services and consequently determined that there were no lessons to be learned.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel said a DHR should look into why there was no contact and if there were \"circumstances which prevented the victim from gaining access to services\".\n\nShe said: \"DHRs offer a rare opportunity to understand the victim's life, learn practical lessons and provide the victim's family with closure - even if the outcome is neutral.\n\n\"You believe Ruth Williams' death to have been a spontaneous event, but I do not accept that there are no lessons to be learned here.\n\n\"A DHR would help to uncover whether there were missed opportunities and support your understanding about how to prevent further tragedies in cases where there do not appear to be any abuse.\"\n\nAnthony Williams had anxiety and depression and admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility\n\nIn response, the Torfaen public service board said: \"The home secretary has directed that a domestic homicide review be undertaken and we will now progress this.\n\n\"This is a very sad and tragic loss of life and on behalf of the Torfaen public service board we once again pass our sincere thoughts and condolences to the family of Ruth Williams.\n\n\"The family are central to all domestic homicide reviews and one of our first priorities will be to contact the family and ensure appropriate support is provided throughout the review.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The interview took place in the garden of a house near where the couple live in Montecito, west of Los Angeles\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has said she found life within the British Royal Family so difficult that at times she \"didn't want to be alive any more\".\n\nIn a deeply personal TV interview, Meghan told Oprah Winfrey that she did not get help when she asked for it.\n\nShe said a low point was when Harry was asked by an unnamed family member \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nOprah later said Harry had told her it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh who made the comment.\n\nThe highly-anticipated interview with Oprah, which the couple were not paid for, aired overnight in the US.\n\nDuring the two-hour CBS special, to be screened in the UK on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday night and on ITV Hub, Courtesy of Harpo Productions/CBS, the couple covered a range of topics, including racism, mental health, their relationship with the media and Royal Family dynamics.\n\nThe couple moved to California after formally stepping down from royal duties in March 2020, and it was announced last month that they would not be returning as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nMeghan referred to the Duchess of Cambridge as \"Kate\" during the interview\n\nMeghan said that she started to feel lonely when limits were placed on what she could do, revealing that at one point she did not leave the house for months.\n\nAt one point she thought she \"could not feel lonelier\", she told Oprah.\n\nAsked by Oprah if she was thinking of self-harm and having suicidal thoughts at some stage, the 39-year-old replied: \"Yes. This was very, very clear. Very clear and very scary. I didn't know who to turn to in that.\"\n\nMeghan said that she felt \"haunted\" by a photograph from an official event she attended with Harry at the Royal Albert Hall while she was pregnant.\n\n\"Right before we had to leave for that (event), I had just had that conversation with Harry that morning,\" Meghan said.\n\nWinfrey asked: \"That you don't want to be alive any more?\"\n\nShe said that she attended the event with Harry that night because she felt she could not be \"left alone\" and recalled Harry gripping her hand tightly while in attendance at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nHarry and Meghan attended the premiere of Cirque du Soleil's Totem at the Royal Albert Hall in January 2019\n\nOprah also asked the duchess why she thought the Royal Family did not make her son Archie a prince - which Meghan said she wanted so that he would get police protection.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's children do not automatically become princes or princesses because of a rule that has been in place since 1917 - unless the Queen steps in.\n\n\"In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time so we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born,\" Meghan said.\n\nShe said the remarks about skin colour were made to Harry and he relayed them to her.\n\nAsked by Oprah whether there were concerns that her child would be \"too brown\" and that would be a problem, Meghan said: \"If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one.\"\n\nWhen pressed, she refused to reveal who the individual was, saying: \"I think that would be very damaging to them.\"\n\nThe couple's first child, Archie, was born in May 2019\n\nHarry also refused to give further details, saying: \"That conversation, I am never going to share.\"\n\n\"At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked,\" he added.\n\nThe 36-year-old prince said that none of his relatives spoke out in support of Meghan following the racism he said his wife faced from the media.\n\n\"No-one from my family ever said anything over those three years. That hurts,\" Harry said.\n\nMeghan and Harry have upended the narrative created by Britain's bestselling newspapers.\n\nThey have revealed the terrible strains inside the palace. They have drawn a picture of unfeeling individuals lost in an uncaring institution. They have spoken of racism within the Royal Family. This was a devastating interview.\n\nBut Harry describing his brother and father as \"trapped\", and Meghan revealing that she repeatedly sought help within the palace only to be rebuffed, is a body blow to the institution.\n\nIt's not at all clear if and how the palace will respond. Many of the revelations are so personal that getting any reaction seems unlikely. The Queen has made clear repeatedly the affection in which the couple are still held.\n\nAs for the newspapers that the couple so despise - will they change their tune? It is not in their nature.\n\nThere were pages of bile in some Sunday newspapers prior to the interview. Meghan and Harry have given up on getting a fair hearing from many of the most popular publications. It seems highly unlikely that they will see anything published that will make them change their minds.\n\nDuring the interview, the Royal Family were also accused of failing to protect the duke and duchess, with Meghan saying the situation \"started to really worsen\" after the couple married in May 2018.\n\n\"I came to understand that not only was I not being protected but that they were willing to lie to protect other members of the family.\n\n\"But they weren't willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband.\"\n\nShe was referencing rumours that she had made the Duchess of Cambridge cry during a disagreement about flower girl dresses - a story that prompted a flurry of tabloid stories.\n\nMeghan said the opposite happened. She added that Catherine later apologised, bringing flowers and a note to make amends.\n\nJoining his wife and Oprah for the second half of the interview, Harry talked about his relationship with the rest of his family.\n\nHe said his relationship with his grandmother, the Queen, was \"really good\" and that the two of them speak often.\n\nHowever, his relationship with his father, the Prince of Wales, has suffered.\n\nHarry said that he feels \"really let down\" by his father. He added that he will always love him, but \"there's a lot of hurt that's happened\".\n\nHe described his father and his brother as \"trapped within the system\" of the Royal Family.\n\n\"They don't get to leave,\" he added.\n\nOf Prince William, he said they were on \"different paths\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dean Stott, a friend of Prince Harry, suggested that he didn't think the Royal Family had \"a voice\"\n\nThe interview aired while Harry's grandfather, Prince Philip, was recovering in hospital after a heart procedure - although it was recorded before Prince Philip was admitted.\n\nWhen he went into hospital, Meghan said she phoned the Queen \"just to check in\".\n\nShe said the monarch had \"always been wonderful to me\" and recalled her sharing her blanket while travelling together between visits.\n\nHarry also revealed that his family had cut him off financially at the beginning of last year, after the couple announced their intention to step back as senior royals.\n\nHe said deals with Netflix and Spotify were \"never part of the plan\" but they needed them to pay for security staff.\n\nIn new footage not included in the original interview, Prince Harry was asked if the couple left the UK because of racism, and replied: \"It was a large part of it.\"\n\nHe recalled a conversation he had with someone with media connections who advised him not to take on the British tabloid press.\n\nHe said he was told he had to understand that the UK was \"very bigoted\". But Harry recalled that he immediately responded: \"The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids.\"\n\nThe prince told Oprah: \"But unfortunately if the source of info is inherently corrupt or racist or biased then that filters out to the rest of society.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Meghan's allegations about racism and lack of mental health support should be taken \"very seriously\".\n\nAsked whether Boris Johnson agreed with this, the prime minister's official spokesman said it was \"a matter for the palace\" and Mr Johnson had not seen the interview.\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know is feeling emotionally distressed, these organisations offer advice and support. For mental health issues, there are these organisations.", "Marks & Spencer is to launch 46 new websites in overseas markets from Iceland to Uzbekistan, as part of moves to grow its online business.\n\nIt expands the retailer's online reach to more than 100 countries, offering M&S clothing and homeware.\n\nThe firm said the expansion would enable it to capitalise on growth without considerable upfront costs.\n\nLast year, M&S posted its first loss in its 94 years as a publicly-listed company as coronavirus hit store sales.\n\n\"Our international business has seen strong online growth since the start of the pandemic as increasing numbers of customers choose to shop through our range of flagship websites,\" said Paul Friston, international director at M&S.\n\nOnline e-commerce sales were up 75% according to its latest interim results, as overall losses across the business reached £87.6m in the six months to 26 September.\n\nM&S is in the midst of a wide-reaching transformation programme which last year saw 7,000 job cuts across stores and management.\n\n\"Under our Never the Same Again programme we're focused on turbo-charging our online business both in the UK and internationally, and as part of this we see a real opportunity in extending the number of countries where we run an online channel further,\" Mr Friston said.\n\nThe expansion has been achieved using a \"low-cost approach\", the retailer added.\n\nUsing an \"adaptable\" website platform designed for international sales, orders are fulfilled through M&S' distribution network.\n\n\"This means that ongoing costs mirror customer demand, and by having an adaptable website platform M&S can further increase the localisation of its offer quickly and efficiently in response,\" the company said.\n\nM&S' international online channels have been translated into 10 more languages and additional currencies.\n\nSteve Rowe, chief executive of M&S, has previously said his goal is to deliver long-term transformation and build a brand that is more digital \"in a world that will never be the same again\".\n\nThe latest move follows a joint venture with Ocado last year which allows customers to order M&S food through the online supermarket for home delivery.\n\nM&S created more than 750 new lines, including in grocery and homecare to broaden its appeal on the Ocado platform.", "The Premier League and English Football League have been asked by a senior officer to work better with police to tackle racist abuse against players.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts, wrote to both in January, but only had replies to his letter this week.\n\nWith more online abuse against players, he wants leagues and clubs to use the time without fans in grounds to work out how to stop the problem growing.\n\nSupporters could return in May, with some possible pilot events in April.\n\nMr Roberts fears that with some people thinking racism is acceptable online, there will be a new spike in hate crimes once fans are back inside stadiums.\n\n\"Before the lockdown we were already seeing a rise,\" he said. \"So the plea to the leagues and the clubs is while we have got this short hiatus, where we don't have fans in the stadium, let's be ready.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swansea City's Yan Dhanda talks about the racist abuse he's received from social media trolls\n\nThe BBC obtained a copy of the letter sent to the English Football League (EFL) by Mr Roberts, who leads on football for the National Police Chiefs' Council, under Freedom of Information legislation.\n\nIn it, he calls for a single reporting mechanism for racist incidents both at grounds and on social media.\n\n\"Currently reports go to forces, leagues, Kick it Out, clubs and Crimestoppers to name the obvious ones,\" he writes.\n\n\"This inevitably leads to confusion on the part of the public, fragmentation of the information and inconsistencies in response.\"\n\nThe letter was emailed to EFL chairman Rick Parry, and a very similar one was emailed to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nThe BBC contacted both organisations this week, and a few hours later, the EFL replied to the letter. It said it was working with stakeholders, including the police, to combat racism.\n\nThe Premier League said Mr Masters was only made aware of the letter after the BBC got in contact. However, it has now replied and said it had been involved in regular discussions with Mr Roberts and his colleagues, responding to the points he had raised.\n\nMr Roberts said: \"It is disappointing it has taken so long to receive a response to the letter sent to the Premier League and English Football League as it outlines the positive action we can take together to deal with this.\"\n\nHe added that he wants better co-operation from clubs in getting access to players who have suffered abuse.\n\n\"We have had experiences where a force has been making real attempts to try to get to a player and they've hit this wall at a club.\n\n\"And publicly the player is saying: 'Where are the police, why are they not making contact?'.\"\n\nMr Roberts also described delays by social media giants, saying Twitter took nearly six months to respond to a request for information about one incident of racist abuse.\n\n\"Their answer was that the account had by then been deleted and they couldn't provide any information. That denies justice to the player, and it means that someone gets away with it.\"\n\nThere are currently 16 live investigations where police forces in England are awaiting details from Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, he said.\n\nIt is understood the majority involve Twitter but the platform declined to comment.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook, which also owns Instagram, said: \"We do not want discriminatory abuse on Facebook or Instagram.\n\n\"We work closely with UK law enforcement and respond to valid legal requests for information in hate speech cases.\"\n\nThis would not cost the leagues anything, he says: \"The request isn't for cash, it's a request for focus and commitment and to back up all the things that people have been saying.\n\n\"Let's see some action as well and let's look after the players.\"\n\nA Premier League spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything possible to eradicate online racial abuse being experienced by players.\"\n\nAnd the EFL said it had now written to DCC Roberts to suggest how football and policing could work together better to combat racist abuse.", "Meghan pictured during her and Prince Harry's royal tour of South Africa in 2019\n\nThe Mail on Sunday has been ordered to publish a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex winning her copyright claim against the newspaper.\n\nMeghan sued the paper for a copyright breach over the publication of a letter to her father and won most of her claim.\n\nA High Court judge ruled the MoS must print on its front page and page three that it infringed her copyright.\n\nThe MailOnline must also publish the statement \"for a period of one week\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mail On Sunday said: \"We will be applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal, including in relation to aspects of the judgment today.\"\n\nMeghan, 39, brought the legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - the publisher of both the MoS and MailOnline.\n\nIt was over a handwritten letter to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018, parts of which were later published in news articles.\n\nLast month, she won her privacy claim and most of her copyright claim. The judge ruled the letter was \"personal and private\" and Meghan had a \"reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private\".\n\nThe publisher's lawyers applied for permission to appeal earlier this week but Lord Justice Warby refused.\n\nIn Friday's ruling the judge Lord Justice Warby said the MoS must print a single statement on the front page, referring readers to a further statement on page three.\n\n\"The defendant devoted a very considerable amount of space to the infringing articles, which it continued to publish for over two years,\" he said.\n\n\"It has devoted a very considerable number of further column inches, and many hundreds if not thousands of words, to coverage of earlier stages of this litigation and commentary upon them.\n\n\"The wording sought is modest by comparison and factual in nature.\"\n\nThe MailOnline must publish the statement for a week with a link to his full judgment.\n\nThe judge also granted Meghan a declaration that ANL \"misused her private information and infringed her copyright\".\n\nAlthough the judge found the publication of the letter infringed the duchess's copyright, there will still be a trial to decide whether Meghan is the exclusive owner of copyright in all parts of the letter, or whether any other person owns a share.\n\nThere will also be further hearings to determine whether the duchess is entitled to any profits or financial remedies relating to her claim.", "Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson have lived in Downing Street since July 2019\n\nTop-level discussions have taken place within Downing Street about the cost of renovating Boris Johnson's official flat, the BBC understands.\n\nSources said setting up a charity to allow members of the public to donate towards the revamp has been considered to cover the cost.\n\nWork on the flat, where the PM lives with his fiancee Carrie Symonds, is understood to be largely complete.\n\nThe PM's spokesman declined to comment on press reports about the cost.\n\nWhen asked whether a charity had been set up, as first reported by the Daily Mail, he said they \"wouldn't comment on speculation\".\n\nA source has told the BBC the interior designer Lulu Lytle has been involved in the upgrade.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, Mr Johnson is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, the chancellor's official residence.\n\nMr Johnson and Ms Symonds moved into No 11 in July 2019. Their son Wilfred was born in April 2020.\n\nThe four-bedroom flat, which is much larger than the one above No 10, was extensively refurbished by David and Samantha Cameron in 2011.\n\nThe Camerons spent £30,000 on their revamp - the maximum annual public grant available to prime ministers for the upkeep of their accommodation.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, Mr Johnson and his fiancee are considering options for how any expenditure over this annual limit could be covered.\n\nSources have suggested the matter has been of some considerable concern in Downing Street, with high-level meetings taking place.\n\nDesigner Lulu Lytle (L), pictured here with Prince Charles on a visit to her firm's workshop, is involved in the upgrade\n\nInterior designer Ms Lytle is a co-founder of Soane Britain, an upmarket London-based interior design firm which specialises in traditional craft methods.\n\nAccording to the company's website, its furniture can be found in \"fine hotels and restaurants,\" private members' clubs, yachts and private houses.\n\nLondon's Connaught and Claridges hotels, the Somerset Georgian manor Babington House and Shoreditch House private members' club are listed as clients.\n\nDowning Street has said details of any work carried out on the Downing Street property would be published in the normal way later this year.\n\nOn Friday, the PM's spokesman said the Downing Street complex was a \"working building\" where refurbishments were made periodically.\n\nOpposition parties have questioned the cost of the refurbishment, and whether conflicts of interest could arise if Conservative donors are approached to contribute.\n\nLabour MP Sarah Owen has written to the PM asking him for details of taxpayers' contribution.\n\nShe has said the British public \"rightly expect probity, integrity and transparency when it comes to spending public money\".\n\nThe SNP has said the move would be \"grossly inappropriate\", suggesting the PM - who is paid £150,000 a year - should fund the works out of his own pocket.\n• None Call for inquiry into Symonds' influence in No 10", "Police stopped the car and found four people on a ghost hunt\n\nPeople on a ghost hunt about 60 miles (96km) away from home have been fined by police for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nCovid fines were issued to four people who drove from Cwmbran in Torfaen to Mumbles, Swansea, to \"ghost hunt and view castles\".\n\nA car was also seized due to the driver having no insurance and a provisional licence.\n\nCurrent lockdown rules in Wales say you can only travel when essential.\n\nReporting the incident, South Wales Police tweeted it would be a \"long walk home\" for offenders.", "Emergency crews were called at about midday to reports of a stabbing\n\nA 16-year-old girl has died and two men have been arrested after suffering serious injuries in the Rhondda.\n\nThe teenager's death in Treorchy was \"sudden and unexplained\" and a post-mortem examination is due, South Wales Police said.\n\nEmergency crews were called at about midday to reports of a stabbing in Baglan Street, which is sealed off.\n\nPolice said those involved were known to each other and no one else was being sought over the matter.\n\nThe girl's family is being supported by specially-trained officers and efforts are being made to contact other relatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 16-year-old died in the incident and two men, who are in hospital, were arrested\n\nSupt Rich Jones, said: \"This is clearly a very serious incident which has caused significant shock and concern for both the local and wider community.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives working hard to establish the exact circumstances that have led to the tragic death of this young girl.\"\n\nThe investigation was \"still in its early stages\".\n\nPolice have urged the public to \"refrain from speculation\" about what has happened\n\n\"There will be significant police presence in Baglan Street over the weekend but we will reopen the road at the earliest opportunity,\" Supt Jones said.\n\n\"In the meantime, the support and understanding of the local community is very much appreciated.\"\n\nThe police cordon was erected around a takeaway restaurant called Blue Sky, with a small white tent placed outside the premises.\n\nThe public has been urged by police to \"refrain from speculation\" about the incident.\n\nPolice are not looking for anyone else in connection with the inquiry\n\nA spokesman said: \"We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, our hazardous area response team and the Wales Air Ambulance.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted he was aware of \"disturbing events on Baglan Street\" and later said he understood police were not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said: \"Because there have been so many emergency services turning up, people thought there must be some massive manhunt going on.\n\n\"I can reassure everyone the police are in control of the situation.\"\n\nMr Bryant described what had happened as \"a very worrying and upsetting episode\".\n\n\"You just don't think that something like this is going to happen in the Rhondda,\" he said.\n\n\"But I can reassure everyone, having spoken to the police, they are completely on top of the situation.\n\n\"They are not looking for anybody else as I understand it.\"\n\nMr Bryant also said that primary school Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Ynyswen had been aware and had taken \"all necessary precautions\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said his thoughts were with \"everyone in the community\".\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\nSarah Belgrove, 54, who lives a few doors from the scene, said the air ambulance was forced to land some way from Baglan Street.\n\n\"The helicopter was in the sky and had to land in the school, in the playground - it's like a football field,\" she said.\n\n\"The paramedics who got out of the helicopter flagged down some cars to give them a lift to the to the scene.\"\n\nNeighbour Mavis Wakeford, 79, added: \"I've lived here all my life and nothing like this has ever happened before.\"\n\nAndrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, tweeted his thanks to emergency services for \"the significant attendance which is ongoing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Cllr Andrew Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Wales Air Ambulance landed in Ynyswen at 13:00 GMT from Mid Wales Airport in Powys.\n\nPolice urged anyone who may have witnessed the events in Baglan Street to contact the force.\n\nDid you witness the incident? Tell us your story 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.", "Sonja was told she wasn't eligible for a priority vaccine for her asthma\n\nPeople with asthma who are eligible for a coronavirus vaccine are being refused it by some GPs who are not following government guidance, the BBC has found.\n\nAn NHS England letter sent to GPs in mid-February says people who have \"ever had an emergency asthma admission\" to hospital fall into priority group six, which is currently being vaccinated.\n\nBut some patients are being told a hospital admission within the past 12 months is required.\n\nGPs say they look at various factors.\n\nThese include age and ethnicity, as well as some degree of clinical judgement, the Royal College of GPs said.\n\nSonja Chenier, 47, from Colchester, has had three hospital admissions in the past 15 years and takes multiple medications daily for her asthma.\n\nHer GP surgery told her she wasn't eligible for the vaccine yet because her hospital admissions weren't in the past year, and so \"it wasn't relevant\". She was told to expect a call for a vaccine along with her age group in around June.\n\n\"I was really shocked and so upset I put the phone down and sobbed,\" she said. \"I'm due to go back to work in schools next week and I'm absolutely scared witless.\n\n\"I'd just like some clear clarification on where the 'within the last 12 months' criteria has come from.\"\n\nPeter had four hospital stays for asthma when he was younger\n\nPeter Smith, a 37-year-old from Bristol, said his GP dismissed the NHS guidance as \"irrelevant\".\n\nHe had four hospital stays because of his asthma when he was younger - twice after an emergency ambulance was called - and says respiratory illnesses like flu are a trigger for him now.\n\nHe says his GP \"alluded to the fact that my admissions weren't recent\".\n\n\"GPs are working hard and providing a great service, and I don't want to queue jump,\" he said. \"I just wish it was all clearer.\"\n\nOthers spoke of feeling \"anxious\" and \"frustrated\", with their mental health suffering after a year of trying to be careful with their condition, which they were told at the start of the pandemic put them in the clinically vulnerable group.\n\nNow some younger asthma sufferers in their 20s face a much longer wait to get the jab.\n\nCharity Asthma UK says a lot of people have been in touch with them to report a similar issue, and they've had thousands of calls to their helpline asking for advice on coronavirus and the vaccine rollout over the past year.\n\nSarah Woolnough, chief executive of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, said: \"We know that there are different interpretations of the official guidance from GP surgery staff and we're not sure why exactly this is happening.\n\n\"We know that GPs are very busy and trying to vaccinate so many people quickly, and keep on top of very complex daily new information about Covid-19 and the vaccination programme.\n\n\"But it's essential that GPs follow official guidance, so that people with asthma who need to be prioritised are protected now.''\n\nThe most severe asthma sufferers who have received a letter advising them to shield are part of the fourth vaccine priority group.\n\nThose with asthma requiring hospitalisation join those who have had three oral (tablet or liquid) steroid prescriptions over a three-month period as being in group six.\n\nThe millions of people with asthma who do not fit these criteria must wait until their age range is called.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"The focus for GPs and our teams is currently to offer vaccinations to patients from group six... this is a large group of approximately seven million patients, and it is likely some patients in this group will not yet have been invited for their first jab.\n\n\"Prioritisation within this group will consider a number of factors, including age and ethnicity as well as some degree of clinical judgement.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Our priority is to save lives and protect the most vulnerable, and based on clinical risk the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended that adults with severe asthma should be vaccinated in priority group six.\n\n\"This includes anyone who has ever had an emergency asthma admission to hospital and those who require regular steroids.\n\n\"Mild asthma, including that which can be treated by an inhaler alone, has not been found to carry a higher risk of serious outcomes from Covid-19.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 26 February and 5 March.\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\nChasing rainbows: James Williamson from Livingston Village captured this shot of his Hungarian Vizsla Isla as the sun made a much-welcome reappearance.\n\nRibbit up: Laura Rutherford spotted these frogs at Flanders Moss in Stirlingshire\n\nChris Rainford took this picture from the Old Town Cemetery, next to Stirling Castle, on a walk with his girlfriend Jenna.\n\nMargaret Silf from Dalry took this photo of her cats Monty and Luna self-isolating in Ayrshire\n\nSteven Caudrey took this photo of his wife Nina as she swam in their local loch near Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park\n\nPauline Moss said: \"This is a snap of Houston and Killellan Kirk in Renfrewshire in the spring sunshine with a lovely blanket of crocuses taken by me on one of our family wanders through the village.\"\n\nKeith Jack captured this pastoral picture of a ewe and two lambs near Uphall, West Lothian\n\nCarrie Blair took this atmospheric shot on an early morning stand-up paddle board trip on the Forth. She said: \"To begin with the bridges were cloaked in fog, but as I paddled it lifted to reveal amazing light and colours.\"\n\nDylan Walker captured the \"thick and beautiful\" fog from Law Hill in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire.\n\nStretch your wings: Joyce Grieves took this photo of a swan landing on a small pond beside her home in Findo Gask, near Perth\n\nInesa Strielciunaite from Fort Augustus sent in this photo, adding: \"The crocus reminds that spring always returns!\"\n\nFrog chorus: Jim Murdoch from Glasgow captured this trio at a local pond\n\nJohn Lamb took this dramatic photo of Milngavie reservoir while taking his daily walk\n\nLynda Hardman took this shot as the sun went down at Barassie Beach, Ayrshire. She said: \"The boys thought they had been transported to another planet, like Mars!\"\n\nKen Le Grice from Monifieth in Angus took this close-up of a curious Highland cow which \"appears to be showing me that he cleaned his teeth that morning.\"\n\nAlexa Kershaw said: \"After a wild, stormy day, an incredible double rainbow with supernumerary bands appeared over Rubha Nan Gall Lighthouse on the Isle of Mull, with sunset lighting Ben Hiant in the distance.\"\n\nBrian Colston from Falkirk said: \"We were out for our lockdown walk the other day and passed an old red and rusty corrugated iron barn as the sun was going down in the west and a beautiful full moon was rising in the east.\"\n\nChris Bell from Strathblane took this photo of Greylag geese \"in perfect formation\"\n\nKirsty Maclean said: \"Here's a picture of Loch Tay looking towards Kenmore. The Northern Lights weren't visible to our eyes but the camera managed to pick them up!\n\nSophie Blanchard sent in this photo of the Italian Chapel in Orkney taken through a glass ball\n\nWalter Baxter from Galashiels said: \"I noticed someone flying a large model plane in field at Melrose and managed to grab a couple of shots before the flight ended.\"\n\nSusan Asher took this almost silhouette shot of Sunday surfers at Dunnet Bay, Caithness.\n\nJacki Gordon from Glasgow sent us the latest of her popular miniature creations. She said: \"There were so many spectacular red skies this week, I cherry picked my own...\"\n\nStuart Rowell sent us this photo of Leaderfoot Viaduct in the Borders at sunset with the trees silhouetted through the arches.\n\nSteven Thom sent in this dramatic shot of Princes Street in Edinburgh from Calton Hill\n\nLouise Love took this picture of the aurora over Broadford Bay, Isle of Skye\n\nIngrid Deschryver from Lochcarron sent us this \"sheep being Zen and looking towards Skye on a perfect day.\"\n\nGraeme Whipps took this photo of the aurora over Aberdeenshire. He said: \"It turned out much better than I could have expected, with a double aurora arc and bright rays for a brief spell.\"\n\nTom Kelly from Edinburgh took this photo of a rather dapper-looking squirrel on his daily walk along the Water of Leith\n\nGordon Bain captured this shot of Inverness riverside and the full moon\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 UK government has announced unilateral moves to ease the trade in plants from GB to NI.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods, which includes following EU plant health rules.\n\nThis has meant soil from other parts of the UK cannot legally enter NI, causing difficulties for garden centres.\n\nThe government is now temporarily relaxing that rule.\n\nIt means that bulbs or vegetables that have been grown in soil can be sent from GB to NI with soil attached.\n\nThe move has been taken without the agreement of the EU which has already said it is preparing legal action against the UK for changing the implementation of the NI Brexit deal without its agreement.\n\nPlants grown in soil can also be moved with soil attached, provided they are from an authorised business meeting GB plant passporting requirements for soil.\n\nThe move has been taken without the agreement of the EU\n\nTraders can move used agricultural machinery without the need for a plant health certificate, providing they have been washed to remove excessive soil and plant debris.\n\nThis means machinery can still be moved if small amounts of soil remain.\n\nThe government said: \"These temporary, practical arrangements recognise the need to ensure biosecurity on the island of Ireland is not compromised whilst addressing barriers which stop goods moving into Northern Ireland.\"\n\nEU Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said the UK still remained bound to take \"practical steps\" relating to the implementation of the NI Protocol.\n\n\"If people are talking about us trying to find agreement on prolonging the grace periods, which must be a joint decision in the context of the joint committee, then the UK also has to do its homework on those practical steps that it has to implement.\n\n\"It should have implemented some of them already some time ago.\n\n\"We are looking to the UK to respect and implement those commitments.\"\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons acknowledged the announcements to extend grace periods. He said he was sure it was \"a welcome breathing space for local businesses\".\n\n\"However, I will continue to press both the UK and EU for permanent solutions that ensure GB's agri-food business can trade unfettered with NI,\" he added.\n\nShadow NI Secretary Louise Haigh said that the action did not take Northern Ireland \"a single step closer to any lasting solutions that ease the red tape the prime minister's deal created\".\n\n\"Ministers have a responsibility to secure lasting solutions that benefit Northern Ireland, and ensure stability,\" she added.\n\n\"Without trust that will be impossible, and that trust is being undermined.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard said the UK government had \"gone off on a further solo run\".\n\n\"This is another reckless and unnecessary move by the British government and, instead of providing the certainty required, only adds to the confusion,\" he said.", "Levels of coronavirus infections in the UK have continued to fall, Office for National Statistics data shows.\n\nThe figures, for the seven days up to 27 February, reveal around 1-in-230 people has the virus in the community.\n\nIt suggests that the number infected has fallen by about a third in the most recent week of data.\n\nInfections have also dropped in the over 70s age group in England, potentially as a result of the vaccine rollout, say experts.\n\nThe latest R number - 0.7 and 0.9 - suggests infection numbers are shrinking overall in the UK. It means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 7 and 9 other people.\n\nPeople are still being advised to take precautions to stop the spread.\n\nLow virus levels are needed to get the best out of the vaccination programme. It takes time for immunity to build after having a jab and protection may not be absolute even after two doses. People who are vaccinated may still be able to pass on the virus to others.\n\nHigh infection rates also give the virus more opportunities to mutate. Experts are already concerned about new and emerging variants that could evade some immunity from vaccination or prior infection.\n\nMore than 20 million people across the UK have now received a first dose, with a target to invite all over-50s by mid-April and people in their 40s and 30s after that.\n\nSchools are reopening on Monday in England in the first easing of rules. It remains to be seen what effect this will have on infection rates.\n\nThe ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, suggest:\n\nSarah Crofts from the ONS said: \"Infections continue to head in the right direction across the UK, with levels now similar to what we saw in early October and around a quarter of levels seen at the start of the year.\"\n\nThere is some regional variation, with the rate decreasing faster in some areas than others.\n\nThe trend in the north-east England, the East Midlands and eastern England is uncertain, the ONS said.\n\nNorth-east England had the highest proportion of people of any region in England likely to test positive for coronavirus at around one in 150 people.\n\nThe West Midlands had the next highest estimate, one in 160.\n\nProf Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics with The Open University, said: \"Overall, the position is looking good. The virus hasn't gone away yet, and hasn't yet fallen to levels that we could live with in the longer term, in my view. But we're getting there, and we've got effective vaccines now.\"\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?\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. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has shared details of how the missing P.1 variant case was tracked down\n\nA mystery person in the UK infected with the Covid variant of concern first found in Brazil has now been traced.\n\nLast week, it was announced that six cases of the P.1 variant had been found in the UK - but the identity of one of the cases was unknown.\n\nThe person, who lives in Croydon, has been traced, as have their contacts.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the person \"stayed at home\" and there was no sign of any onward transmission - but local testing is being rolled out.\n\nScientists say the variant appears to be more contagious and there are concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said it hoped vaccines would have a strong impact on reducing hospitalisations and deaths in cases of the new variant.\n\nNews that the Brazil variant had been found in the UK was released last Sunday. Three cases were found in England, and separately three in Scotland.\n\nThe three cases in Scotland were all oil workers who were returning to their families from Brazil, via Paris and London. Health officials have been trying to trace all the passengers who were on their flight from Heathrow to Aberdeen.\n\nIn England, two of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire who tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February.\n\nThe third case in England - now confirmed to be in Croydon - was unknown for several days after he or she failed to register their test properly.\n\nDr Hopkins said the person was finally identified when they called the NHS 111 number, after officials had spent days contacting potential households.\n\nThe person lived in a household that had recently returned from Brazil and all of them had quarantined at home, she added.\n\nMr Hancock said contact-tracers had worked \"flat out\" to narrow the search.\n\n\"The best evidence is this person in question stayed at home and there's no sign that there's been any onward transmission but as a precaution we're putting more testing in in Croydon, where they live, to minimise risk of spread,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Hancock said work was under way to tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of the new strains.\n\nDr Hopkins said there was not yet data to show whether the vaccine was effective against this variant - but there was some data for the variant from South Africa \"and we expect that it should at least perform in a similar way\".\n\n\"And therefore we think that it's likely there may be some reduction in risk of transmission, or reducing the risk of transmission, but we at least hope at the moment that it will have a strong impact in reducing hospitalisations and deaths.\n\n\"We do need to wait for studies to come out from South America and in particular Brazil, and those will come but it will take weeks rather than days I'm afraid.\"\n\nThe variant has been designated \"of concern\" because it shares some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade some of the immunity people may have already built against Covid.\n\nPreliminary data from Manaus - the Brazilian city hit hard by this P.1 variant - suggested the variant could be up to twice as transmissible as earlier Covid.\n\nBut experts said this should not be used to predict what might happen in the UK.\n\nOne of the lead researchers said it was unlikely P.1 would quickly take off in Britain when only six cases had been identified and these were being closely monitored.\n\nMeanwhile, two-fifths of all adults in the UK have now had their first dose of the vaccine, Mr Hancock also said at Friday's press conference.\n\nHe said the fall in the number of deaths was accelerating - down 41% compared with last week - which suggested the vaccination programme was working.\n\n\"What this all shows is that the link from cases to hospitalisations and then to deaths that had been unbreakable before the vaccine - that link is now breaking,\" he said.\n\nLatest government figures show the total number of people who have had their first dose of vaccine has now reached 21,358,815, while the number who have had their second dose has topped one million.\n\nThere have been another 5,947 cases announced and a further 236 people recorded as having died within 28 days of testing positive.", "Money to support children and young people's mental health after the \"disruption\" of the pandemic has been cautiously welcomed.\n\nIt is part of a £500m pot for mental health services across the board, announced in November.\n\nThe government confirmed £79m would be allocated to support children in school and in the community.\n\nCharities and campaigners said the pandemic had significantly impacted young people's mental health.\n\nOne in six young people are now estimated to have a mental health problem, according to Emma Thomas, head of charity Young Mind.\n\n\"Before Covid, we were looking at one in nine young people with a mental health diagnosable need,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas warned against \"medicalising\" what are natural feelings of distress, saying school might be the appropriate place for many children, who don't need formal mental health treatment, to seek support.\n\nShe said it was \"absolutely right\" to boost mental health support in schools and the community.\n\nBut others, like the Children's Society, have condemned it as a \"sticking plaster\".\n\n\"Only about a third of children will receive support this way by April 2023,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"That still leaves millions of children without help which they need right now. Young people have been through so much in this last year and the government must explain what it is providing for the millions of children left behind.\"\n\nAnd mental health services were struggling to meet demand even before Covid-19 hit,\" according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists.\n\nSaadia, an 18-year-old from Swansea and volunteer for the charity Mind, said the pandemic had been a \"rollercoaster\" for her.\n\n\"There's a lot of time when I feel very tired. I miss my friends. I miss being in that learning environment. There have been a lot of highs and lows\".\n\nNow in her first year of university, Saadia was able to get support for her mental health - though she's mindful not all schools and colleges have such good support teams.\n\n\"I relied on [school support services] - more than on my friends and family - because when I was younger I didn't feel able to open up.\n\n\"I was very fortunate to be in that place where the right services were around, but I'm aware not every school has that.\"\n\nShe says the funding announcement is \"a big step forward\", but hopes young people will keep being involved and consulted at all stages of the process.\n\nMind originally asked government for a £1bn investment in mental health - twice was what pledged.\n\nThe £79m should pay for more mental health support teams in schools and therapy in the community, including for eating disorders.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the money would be aimed at:\n\nCommunity mental health care includes talking therapies, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aimed at teaching people to change the way they think about and act on their problems.\n\nBen, who is 18 and from Cumbria, says he was also \"very lucky\" at his school.\n\nWhile they didn't have a team of mental health support staff, teachers took on the role outside of their usual jobs to support students.\n\nHe says extra support and funding for both teachers and students is needed with demand for such services \"growing all the time.\"\n\nNHS mental health director Claire Murdoch said the pandemic had \"turned our lives upside down and hit children and young people particularly hard\".\n\nShe said NHS mental health services had been working \"around the clock, proactively reaching out to and caring for children and young people despite challenging circumstances\".\n\nAnd as young people go back to school from Monday, Emma Thomas from the charity Young Minds called for their wellbeing to be prioritised as much as their need to catch up academically.\n\n\"It's a really unsettling time…they're going back into a school environment they haven't been in, to their social networks they haven't had, and many of them are uncertain about whether they'll have the support.\n\n\"Day one is just that first step,\" she said. \"Let's take each step as it comes\".", "Mason Fitzgerald's \"qualification\" had appeared on numerous official documents\n\nAn incoming NHS Trust chief executive who was facing an inquiry into his qualifications has withdrawn his application for the position.\n\nMason Fitzgerald was due to take up the role at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), which is in special measures.\n\nA Master of Laws degree had appeared by his name on annual reports submitted to Parliament, but he had not graduated.\n\nMr Fitzgerald will return to the East London Foundation Trust.\n\nHe had been due to leave his current role as NSFT deputy chief executive to take up the leadership role at the trust in April.\n\nHe would have overseen an annual budget of approximately £260m.\n\nThe Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust said its recruitment process is robust\n\nThe qualification appeared alongside Mr Fitzgerald's name on three annual reports submitted by both NSFT, a mental health trust, and the East London Foundation Trust, where he previously worked.\n\nMr Fitzgerald's LinkedIn profile also stated the degree had been awarded by the University of Georgia in the US.\n\nBut the university had said he \"did not graduate but was in the law school graduate program\".\n\nNSFT commissioned a leading law firm to investigate after the BBC revealed the discrepancy.\n\nIn an internal email seen by the BBC, the trust's chairwoman Marie Gabriel said Mr Fitzgerald had been clear about his qualifications.\n\nShe said: \"Mason submitted two applications for roles at NSFT, in both he was clear with the trust that he did not have a masters of law qualification from the University of Georgia.\n\n\"We confirmed that he did have all relevant qualifications\".\n\nMs Gabriel added the review had found NSFT \"had and continues to have a robust recruitment process in place\".\n\nThe trust confirmed Mr Fitzgerald had \"withdrawn his application for the role of chief executive at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust\".\n\nIt added: \"The independent review concluded that NSFT has robust recruitment processes in place.\"\n\nThe trust said the review had found it should strengthen its process regarding information submitted for inclusion in annual reports.\n\nCurrent NSFT chief executive Jonathan Warren is set to retire on 31 March.\n\nThe trust is looking for an interim chief executive prior to appointing a permanent successor.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust's Marie Gabriel said Mason Fitzgerald had been clear in his job application that he did not have the law degree\n\nThe East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) said Mr Fitzgerald would return \"to ELFT from which he was seconded\".\n\nThe trust added: \"It would be inappropriate to comment any further at this stage while ELFT's processes remain ongoing.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is set to look at the case.\n\nA spokeswoman said it would \"consider whether the information raises a fit and proper persons concern\".\n\nThe Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust is currently rated as \"requires improvement\" by the CQC.\n\nIn 2015, NSFT became the first mental health trust to be placed in special measures and was rated \"inadequate\" on three occasions by the CQC.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The Duke of Edinburgh has undergone a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe palace said the duke would remain in hospital for treatment, rest and recuperation for a number of days.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, has already spent 16 nights in hospital.\n\nHe was being treated for an infection and moved to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on Monday for tests and observation on his heart condition.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the procedure took place on Wednesday.\n\nIn 2011, Prince Philip was taken to hospital by helicopter from Sandringham after suffering chest pains as the royal family was preparing for Christmas.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire and had a stent fitted.\n\nThe duke, who turns 100 in June, travelled by car from Windsor to King Edward VII's hospital in Marylebone, central London, on 16 February as a precaution after feeling unwell.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission was not disclosed, but it was not related to coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, Buckingham Palace announced he had been transferred to Barts by ambulance.\n\nSt Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London is an NHS hospital and home to Europe's largest specialised cardiovascular unit.\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father at King Edward VII's Hospital, the weekend after his admission.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Queen, have continued with their official duties during the duke's hospital stay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We'll keep our fingers crossed\": Camilla gave an update to staff at a vaccination centre\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall gave an update on Prince Philip's condition when she visited a Covid vaccination centre in Croydon on Wednesday.\n\nWhen a volunteer asked about the duke, Camilla said: \"We heard today that he's slightly improving. So, that's very good news. We'll keep our fingers crossed.\"\n\nThe duke has received treatment for other health conditions over the years, including a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nHe retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal Family's Twitter feed has issued a photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Balmoral Castle in 1976 to mark World Book Day.\n\nThe palace update on Prince Philip's hospital treatment came days before Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex airs on US television.", "Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years for perverting the course of justice, fraud and child sexual offences\n\nA new investigation has been launched into the disastrous Metropolitan Police VIP abuse inquiry, Operation Midland.\n\nMerseyside Police will examine why Scotland Yard did not refer two false accusers for criminal investigation despite an official recommendation.\n\nA third accuser, Carl Beech, is in jail for falsely accusing public figures of murder and child sexual abuse.\n\nBeech was only investigated when the Met followed a recommendation that he be looked at by an independent force.\n\nThe recommendations for Beech and the two other accusers came in a damming 2016 report by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques, who found more than 40 failings in Operation Midland.\n\nBeech, referred to as \"Nick\" during Operation Midland, made false claims of sexual abuse and child murder about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMet officers searched the homes of former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall, and former home secretary Lord Brittan's widow, Lady Diana Brittan.\n\nThe issue of why the other two false accusers, known as A and B, were not investigated was first highlighted by the BBC.\n\nSir Richard Henriques found that both men \"deliberately lied\" and that their allegations had extended the 18-month inquiry.\n\nHe recommended that \"offences of attempting to pervert the course of justice be considered in the cases of A and B\" and said it would be appropriate for another police force to carry out such investigations.\n\nScotland Yard did not refer the men to another force, but this only emerged three years later when a largely unredacted version of the report was published.\n\nHe is now serving 18 years in jail for perverting the course of justice, as well as paedophile offences uncovered by Northumbria detectives.\n\nA and B, who both have criminal records for dishonesty, were first interviewed by Operation Midland officers in September 2015, nearly a year after the operation started.\n\nFollowing Sir Richard's recommendation, Scotland Yard decided against referring the pair for investigation despite a senior officer privately saying they were liars.\n\nThe Henriques report quoted from a presentation given to Sir Richard in August 2016 by then Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who oversaw Operation Midland, in which he said: \"I am satisfied that both A and B have told deliberate lies.\"\n\nDespite this admission, months earlier Scotland Yard had publicly stated that Operation Midland detectives \"have not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled by a complainant\".\n\nThe new referral followed a complaint from ex-MP Harvey Proctor\n\nIn October 2019, Harvey Proctor submitted a formal complaint that A and B had not been investigated, which resulted in the Met asking the police watchdog to examine an apparent failure to record the decision not to start an inquiry to a sufficient standard.\n\nLast summer, Merseyside Police were asked by the Met to conduct a probe into the issue, but it has taken months to agree the terms of reference.\n\nMerseyside will now examine Mr Proctor's complaint about why A and B were not investigated for perverting the course of justice and wasting police time, despite Mr Rodhouse allegedly stating that he knew they were deliberate liars.\n\nMr Proctor told the BBC: \"I am very pleased that Merseyside Police are investigating these matters.\"\n\nA Met spokesman said the force would co-operate fully with the Merseyside inquiry.", "Almost 23 million people saw the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nPolice have ruled out a criminal inquiry into the background to BBC reporter Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nA former employee of Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, claimed false documents were allegedly used to win Diana's trust before her Panorama appearance.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said correspondence alleging unlawful activity had been \"carefully assessed\".\n\nThe BBC has launched an independent investigation into the claims.\n\nEarl Spencer had alleged last year that Bashir used forged bank statements which wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister.\n\nA legal representative for Alan Waller, who worked for Earl Spencer as head of security, subsequently made a formal complaint to the Met alleging unlawful activity.\n\nScotland Yard said \"no further action\" will be taken.\n\nCommander Alex Murray said: \"Following this detailed assessment and in view of the [legal] advice we received, we have determined that it is not appropriate to begin a criminal investigation into these allegations.\n\n\"In this matter, as in any other, should any significant new evidence come to light we will assess it.\"\n\nAt the time of the Panorama programme, Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nAlmost 23 million people tuned in to watch the programme. In it, the princess famously said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to the Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\nDiana died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.\n\nBashir, 58, currently BBC News religion editor, has been recovering from heart surgery and complications from Covid-19 and had been unable to comment on Earl Spencer's allegations.\n\nThe BBC investigation is looking at the steps Bashir and the corporation took to secure the interview.\n\nLord Dyson, who was Master of the Rolls - the second most senior judge in England and Wales - for four years until he retired in October 2016, is leading the probe.\n\nThe BBC said it was handing over \"all of its relevant records\" to him.\n\nIt has revealed that a previously missing note from Diana, thought to indicate she was happy with the way her interview by BBC Panorama was obtained, had been found.", "Prince Philip, pictured last summer, was admitted to hospital on 16 February\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been moved back to King Edward VII's Hospital in London after his \"successful\" heart procedure, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nHe is expected to remain in that hospital for continuing treatment for a number of days, the palace said.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, underwent a procedure on a pre-existing condition at St Bartholomew's Hospital on Wednesday.\n\nHe has spent 17 nights in hospital since being admitted on 16 February.\n\nThe duke, who turns 100 in June, was first admitted to King Edward VII's after feeling unwell at home. He was treated for an infection before being moved to Barts on Monday for tests and observation on his heart.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission was not disclosed, but it was not related to coronavirus.\n\nMembers of the Royal family, including the Queen, have been continuing with their duties while the duke has been in hospital.\n\nOn Wednesday the Duchess of Cornwall said Prince Philip was \"slightly improving\", during her visit to a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nDuring his first stay at King Edward VII's, Prince Philip was visited by his son, the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe hospital is a private clinic in central London which has treated the Queen on several occasions as well as the duke and other senior royals.\n\nIn 2011, Prince Philip suffered chest pains as the royal family was preparing for Christmas. He was treated for a blocked coronary artery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire and had a stent fitted.\n\nThe duke, who retired from royal duties in 2017, has received treatment for other health conditions over the years, including a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nPrince Philip has been married to the Queen for 73 years, making him the UK's longest-serving consort\n\nThe couple have spent most of lockdown at Windsor Castle for their safety and received their first Covid-19 vaccinations in January.\n\nThe palace update on Prince Philip's hospital treatment comes two days before Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex airs on US television.", "A 16-year-old boy video-called his mum as he lay bleeding in the street after being stabbed, worried he was about to die.\n\nJames Bascoe-Smith was trying out a new bike and had been gone no more than 10 minutes when he was randomly attacked on 23 February, his family said.\n\nThe teenager told his mum Lisa what had happened and she stayed on the phone with him until she found him on Henry Road in Brixton, south London.\n\nJames has been described as a \"bubbly, funny person\"\n\nJames's aunt Rachel Duncan said: \"He was out no more than 10 minutes and then he FaceTimed his mum to say: 'I've been stabbed.'\"\n\n\"His mum ran to him. I thank God he had the strength and courage to FaceTime his mum; she was there with him and I believe that's what kept him alive, the fact his mum was coming to him,\" she said.\n\nMs Duncan said the stabbing had left the entire family feeling \"broken\" and that his mum would \"never be the same again\".\n\nShe described her nephew as a \"bubbly, funny person who is always caring for others\".\n\nRachel Duncan said her nephew was usually with his family or studying\n\nShe said he had always been involved in community projects and had never been involved in gangs.\n\n\"The way the media portray young black boys as being that boy out there in a gang, that's not James. He's not like that at all. He doesn't have time to think about being in a gang. He's always with his family or studying.\"\n\nMs Duncan added: \"We need to find the people who did this... I know there's been stabbings since James's attack - why are they still doing it? Why do they want families to go through this?\"\n\nShe has implored anyone who knows what happened to James to share the information with the police.\n\nThe Met Police has said the driver of a white van who was in the area between 18:15 and 18:20 GMT on Tuesday 23 February might have vital information and officers are urging that person to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists have identified 16 cases of another new variant of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nPublic Health England has designated it as a 'variant under investigation' (VUI), meaning it is on their watch list, but not one they are immediately concerned about.\n\nIt has a mutation in common with the South Africa and Brazil variants.\n\nThat change, E484K, may help the virus evade some immunity from vaccination or prior infection, experts believe.\n\nThe cases were first identified on 15 February by the UK's variant surveillance system.\n\nExperts suspect it originated in the UK.\n\nAll 16 individuals who tested positive, and their contacts, have been traced and advised to isolate.\n\nPHE said the cases were geographically spread across the UK. And it confirmed that surge or mass testing would not be necessary - this is only done for variants of concern (VOC), such as the Brazil one.\n\nThe UK now has 8 variants on its watch list - 4 VUIs and 4 VOCs.\n\nMost recently, officials had been trying to track down a person in England known to have been infected with the Brazil VOC.\n\nThe search was narrowed to 379 households in the south of England, and the case was traced to Croydon.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said incidents like this are rare and only occur in around 0.1% of tests.\n\nIt's not unexpected that variants are appearing or that the virus will continue to change. All viruses mutate as they make new copies of themselves to spread and thrive.\n\nBut some changes may affect how well current vaccines work.\n\nScientists are looking at tweaking coronavirus vaccines to keep pace with the new, emerging variants to ensure that they continue to offer high protection against the disease as the virus mutates.\n\nThe UK's drug regulator the MHRA has said new vaccines can be fast-tracked through the approval system without \"lengthy\" clinical studies.\n• None BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron: How worried should we be?", "A rescuer was lowered into the sinkhole and the farmer lifted to safety with ropes\n\nA farmer has been pulled to safety from a 60ft (18m) sinkhole which \"swallowed\" him and the quad bike he was riding.\n\nThe ground opened up as he rode across a field at Bowesfield Farm in Stank, south Cumbria, on Thursday.\n\nHe was recovered using ropes and pulley systems in an operation involving fire crew and mountain rescue volunteers.\n\nThe man, in his seventies, was then airlifted to hospital for treatment to chest and back injuries.\n\nThe farmer was extracted using safety lines and a rope system\n\nIan Westall of Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service said they were called out at 12:00 GMT.\n\n\"The ground just fell away with the weight of the bike on that particular spot and he was swallowed up into the sinkhole\", he said.\n\n\"We peered down and could see the farmer sat up, and we could just make out the outline of his bike under a mound of earth. I'm sure he was in deep shock.\"\n\nThe opening was about 8ft (2m) wide at the top, but below that opened up \"like a wine carafe\" which posed additional risk to rescuers, Mr Westall said.\n\n\"You've got a lip at the top which went down into a narrow throat, and then there was a large bulbous bottom which opened up 10m (33ft) in one direction and 4m (13ft) in the other.\n\n\"Obviously, with unstable ground and people on the surface unsighted, there was an inherent risk.\"\n\nThe farmer was transferred to hospital by air ambulance\n\nJohn Wealthall, from the Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team, described it as \"out of the scope of our normal rescues\".\n\nThe main concern was keeping the rescuers properly roped and securely attached amid concerns another sinkhole could appear.\n\nOf the farmer, he said: \"Amazingly he wasn't too badly hurt.\n\n\"He had chest pains and quite severe pains in his back and after being assessed by ambulance crew was airlifted to hospital.\n\n\"I assume the quad bike has taken quite a lot of the impact on going down, so he has been extremely lucky.\"\n\nThere are a number of early 19th Century disused iron ore mines in the area, making sinkholes an ever-present danger.\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 Castlemartin Range is one of a dozen Army training estates in the UK\n\nA soldier has died during a live-fire training exercise at a British Army firing range.\n\nThe victim, who has not yet been named, was a sergeant in the Welsh Guards, the BBC understands.\n\nHe was fatally wounded at the Castlemartin base in Pembrokeshire, on Thursday night.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said next of kin has been informed. Dyfed Powys Police are being assisted by the Royal Military Police in the investigation.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries into the soldier's death.\n\n\"It is with great sadness we can confirm the death of a soldier on 4th March. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this tragic time,\" an Army spokesman said.\n\n\"The circumstances surrounding this death are being investigated and it would be inappropriate to comment any further.\"\n\nIt the latest in a number of accidents at Castlemartin.\n\nIn 2017, two soldiers died in a tank explosion, which a coroner ruled was due to a design flaw.\n\nAn Army captain was jailed in July 2018 after a 21-year-old soldier was killed by a stray bullet during an exercise at the range in 2012.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the Welsh Guards have a \"dual role\" as \"light role infantry\" and \"world class ceremonial soldiers, guarding the Royal Family and Royal palaces such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London and conducting state ceremonial duties\".", "Displaced Yemenis in the western province of Hodeida receive food aid donated by a British organisation\n\nMore than 100 UK charities have condemned the government's decision to cut aid to Yemen, following cross-party criticism.\n\nAt least £87 million has been pledged in aid to the Middle Eastern country, down from £164m in 2019-2020.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the government remained \"steadfast\" in its support to the Yemeni people.\n\nYemen is among several Middle Eastern and African countries whose UK aid is at risk, a leaked email suggests.\n\nFirst reported by openDemocracy, a leaked document dated last month suggests officials are considering cutting aid to Syria by 67% and Lebanon by 88%.\n\nAid to Nigeria could drop 58%, Somalia 60%, South Sudan 59% and the Democratic Republic of Congo by 60%, it says.\n\nIn a letter to Boris Johnson, charities say the government has made a \"misjudgement\" by thinking the public is happy to turn away from countries affected by poverty, war and disease.\n\n\"History will not judge this nation kindly if the government chooses to step away from the people in Yemen and thus destroy the UK's global reputation as a country that steps up to help those most in need,\" the letter says.\n\nOxfam, Christian Aid, Save the Children and Care International are among the 101 signatories.\n\nDanny Sriskandarajah, Oxfam GB chief executive, said: \"Aid cuts are a false economy that will remove a vital lifeline from millions of people in Yemen and beyond who can't feed their families, have lost their homes and whose lives are threatened by conflict and Covid.\"\n\nHe also urged the government to stop the \"immoral\" practice of selling arms to the war-torn state.\n\nThe government wants to reduce its overall international aid budget by about £4bn in 2021-2022, which will mean missing the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut it has yet to say where the axe will fall.\n\nThe leaked Foreign Office email gives the first indication of which countries might lose out.\n\nKevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children, said the UK's decision to cut aid would have \"devastating real-life consequences\".\n\nMPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the reduction in aid.\n\nConservative former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said the \"unimaginable\" move would \"condemn hundreds of thousands of children to starvation\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the change represented the UK \"abandoning our moral obligations\".\n\nThe decade-long conflict in Yemen has left an estimated 20 million people - two-thirds of the population - dependent on humanitarian assistance while two million children are acutely malnourished.\n\nIn Syria, the country has been left devastated by a conflict that erupted after President Bashar al-Assad's government responded with deadly force to peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011.\n\nThe fighting has left at least 380,000 people dead and caused half the population to flee their homes, including almost six million refugees abroad.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"We are still working through what this means for individual programmes and decisions have not yet been made.\n\n\"We remain a world-leading aid donor and we will spend more than £10 billion this year to fight poverty, tackle climate change and improve global health.\"", "More than 1.7 million people in Scotland have now received their first dose of the vaccine\n\nHealthcare workers have branded disparities over pay for Covid vaccination shifts as an \"injustice\".\n\nCurrent and former staff have spoken out after it emerged some professionals were being paid five times more for the same roles.\n\nThe Scottish government said staff were paid in accordance with nationally-set terms and conditions.\n\nLatest figures reveal that more than 1.7 million people in Scotland have received the first dose.\n\nThe rollout has involved current and former healthcare staff but, as well as the pay row, concerns have also been raised about access to the shifts.\n\nCatherine Dunnet came out of retirement to help out with the programme.\n\nThe former NHS speech and language therapy manager said the clinical role was one of the most rewarding things she has done.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel very good that I can contribute but the injustice is difficult to swallow.\"\n\nAs well as administering the jab, vaccinators have a discussion with the patient about issues ranging from their medical history to any fears or concerns they may have.\n\nThose paid more under the current model include dentists, pharmacists, opticians and independent contractors.\n\nFormer NHS speech and language therapy manage Catherine Dunnet said the pay situation is \"discriminatory\"\n\nMs Dunnet said: \"It feels discriminatory that some professionals are valued more but we are all doing exactly the same role.\"\n\nMs Dunnett says she is not asking for \"inflated rates\" and added: \"We are asking for the job to be evaluated, given a band and for everyone to be paid the same regardless of their clinical background.\"\n\nLiz Allen, a clinical nurse specialist for a private firm, said: \"Everyone has got no more responsibility doing a vaccination than anyone else.\n\n\"The job is exactly the same but the pay is vastly different. It makes me feel as if nurses have been undervalued.\"\n\nShe added that in some cases nurses could not reserve shifts on the dedicated vaccination app as they were being booked out by independent practitioners.\n\nMs Allen said: \"It is all about equality. Everyone should be getting the same pay.\n\n\"It is very disheartening when you are on a 12-hour shift and you are getting up to five times less than some of your colleagues.\"\n\nDuring her daily media briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was asked about the concerns of nursing staff who felt \"undervalued\".\n\nShe said nursing staff were \"hugely valued\" for their work during the pandemic and the way vaccinators are paid reflects the job they do.\n\nThe first minister added that nurses' rates had already changed to reflect the band they were currently in.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We have become aware that, due to a misunderstanding of national guidelines, some individual pharmacists participating in the programme have been paid the incorrect rate.\n\n\"We are actively looking into this matter, and updated guidance will be issued shortly, reaffirming the existing position.\n\n\"All staff employed to work on the programme are paid in accordance with nationally-set terms and conditions and are working to agreed job roles, which come with specified rates of pay, and we value the contribution of everyone who has offered their services.\"", "Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has said it could be forced to close stores due to the cap on business rates relief announced in the Budget.\n\nIt said the £2m cap rendered the package \"near worthless\" for large retailers.\n\nThe group, which includes Sports Direct, House of Fraser and Evans Cycles, said retailers needed a total overhaul of the business rates model.\n\nThe rates holiday for non-essential retailers in England will end in June.\n\nFrom the start of July, business rates - which are taxes on properties used for commercial purposes - will then be discounted by two-thirds for nine months, up to a maximum of £2m if businesses are closed.\n\nFrasers Group said in a statement that the business rates relief package would \"mean we need to review our entire portfolio to ascertain stores that are unviable due to unrealistic business rates\".\n\nIt warned last month that it expected a £100m hit due to continuing restrictions on trading.\n\nFrasers Group, which is owned by Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, had already announced a number of store closures in 2020.\n\nThe group suggested that many retailers would have expected further rates relief \"until structural reform is implemented\", adding that firms \"should pay the fair amount of rates in line with realistic rateable values, but instead we continue to have an unwieldy, overly complex, and out of date business rates regime\".\n\nRetail property expert Jonathan De Mello agreed. He told the BBC that the rates relief cap would \"place a significant rates burden on retailers with more than just a handful of stores\".\n\nHe suggested that retailers with stores in large shopping centres and city centre locations would be hit hard: \"Some retailers pay more than £2m rates from just one store alone!\n\n\"The government missed an opportunity here to reform rates root and branch,\" he added.\n\nIn response to the chancellor's Budget, the British Retail Consortium also said it hoped to see the ongoing business rates review by government reduce the \"burden\" on retailers.\n\nIt added: \"Without further funding, it is likely that many 'non-essential' retailers will struggle under sluggish consumer demand and high Covid costs.\"\n\nIn Scotland, retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation businesses will not pay non-domestic rates throughout the next financial year. The Welsh government has said hospitality, retail, leisure and tourism will get full rates relief for another 12 months.\n\nFrasers Group also said on Friday that the business rates relief cap in England would \"make it nearly impossible to take on ex-Debenhams sites with the inherent jobs created\".\n\nThe Debenhams brand and website were bought by fast fashion firm Boohoo in January, leaving many of the chain's 118 remaining shops vacant.\n\nIt has been reported that Frasers Group is currently in talks over taking on a number of former Debenhams stores.\n\nBillionaire Mike Ashley had made an offer for Debenhams when it was initially put up for sale last April, which was rejected.\n\nThe businessman had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nThe rise of online shopping, expensive rents and coronavirus shutdowns have put department stores chains under increased pressure.\n\nLast year, 139-year-old Beales closed all of its shops after falling into administration, while the BBC understands John Lewis is considering closing up to eight further department stores, on top of those already announced in 2020.", "Adam Price says Wales faces a \"moment of truth\" as Plaid Cymru offers a referendum on independence Image caption: Adam Price says Wales faces a \"moment of truth\" as Plaid Cymru offers a referendum on independence\n\nCovid has exposed Britain's \"crushing poverty\" and \"corrupt elite\", Plaid Cymru's leader will say later.\n\nAdam Price will tell a virtual party conference that Wales faces a \"moment of truth\", and should seek independence.\n\nHe will point to research which suggests fewer than half of care workers are paid the real living wage and more than 70,000 children in poverty do not qualify for free school meals.\n\nHe will also cite a row over the furlough scheme between the Welsh and UK governments last autumn.\n\nThe UK government increased the wage subsidy when a lockdown was announced in England, mid-way through Wales's firebreak.\n\n\"The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the reality of modern Britain: a state defined by crushing poverty, ruled by a corrupt elite that gives contracts to its friends and denies furlough to its neighbours,\" Mr Price will say.\n\nPlaid wants to hold a referendum on Welsh independence if it wins May's Senedd election, although the power to call such a poll lies at Westminster.", "Sophie Buchan was told to get pregnant as a way of controlling her pain\n\nWomen in their early 20s are still being told to \"get pregnant\" as a way of treating the debilitating gynaecological condition endometriosis.\n\nExperts have criticised GPs for lack of understanding of the disease which affects one in 10 women.\n\nThey are calling for more research and awareness for the condition that has few treatments and no cure.\n\nThe shocking advice was given to 22-year-old Glasgow journalist Sophie Buchan last year.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme she was shocked.\n\n\"Last year I had a really bad flare-up,\" she said. \"I was just in pain, I couldn't move. So I went to my GP and he told me to get pregnant. I was 21.\n\n\"He just said that a lot of women tend to find that their symptoms are better after they get pregnant. I was just really angry, to be honest.\"\n\nProf Andrew Horne, a leading expert on endometriosis at the University of Edinburgh, disagrees with the suggestion.\n\n\"That is awful,\" he said. \"I think it's a thing we had hoped as gynaecologists was out of date and was not happening. We shouldn't be telling people to get pregnant for any reason that improves their health and for the other reason that it is simply not true.\n\n\"We know patients' symptoms get better during pregnancy but it is definitely not a cure or a treatment.\"\n\nThe condition means cells such as the ones in the lining of the womb (uterus) are found elsewhere in the body.\n\nEach month these cells react in the same way to those inside the womb - building up, then breaking down and bleeding, but with no way to escape.\n\nPainful periods are just one of the potential symptoms, which can also include pain during sex, heavy, prolonged or irregular periods, pain when passing urine, symptoms of irritable bowel, back and leg pain, fatigue, infertility and depression. Surgery can also cause adhesions - which are bands of scar tissue that can bind two organs together.\n\nBecause some symptoms are shared by other illnesses, diagnosis is very difficult. On average, it takes almost eight years between a woman first seeing a doctor about their symptoms and receiving a firm diagnosis.\n\nThe cause is unknown and there is no definitive cure.\n\nFaye Farthing is the campaigns manager for Endometriosis UK.\n\nShe said \"Comments such as 'just get on with it', 'the pain is all in your head', or even myths such as 'just get pregnant and your endometriosis will be cured', must become a thing of the past if we are to ensure those with endometriosis are accessing the support they need to manage this condition, and to reduce diagnosis time which currently averages at a shocking 8.5 years in Scotland. There is no cure for endometriosis, and it's time to call an end to such myths.\"\n\nDuring endometriosis awareness month, there is also a call for more research and awareness among women with endometriosis from Scotland's black, Asian and ethnic minority communities.\n\nScottish broadcaster Afua Adom has had really bad symptoms since she was 15 and was finally diagnosed at the age of 25.\n\nAfua Adom worries about the amount of painkillers she takes to manage her condition\n\nShe said: \"I have been on painkillers every single day since I started getting symptoms, whether that is paracetamol, mefenamic acid naproxen, ibuprofen or co-codamol.\n\n\"You name it - I've thrown it at the situation. And I have not had less than two paracetamol every single day of my life since then.\"\n\nIt took 10 years for Afua to get a diagnosis, and that is not uncommon.\n\nShe is now worried about the number of painkillers she is taking just to keep going.\n\n\"It's absolutely shocking. I mean, what are your options?,\" she said. \"You take painkillers every day, like I do. You have invasive laser surgery, which I had and perforated my bowel. And then it comes back so you have another surgery, you have another incision, and it comes back.\n\n\"There is no effective treatment, there is no effective cure. Essentially we are being told this is a horrible thing that happens inside of your body - go away and deal with it.\"\n\nAbout 1.5m UK women are dealing with it, including radio presenter Katy Johnston, 25, from Glasgow.\n\nShe was put into a chemical menopause in an attempt to ease her pain.\n\nKaty Johnston has had the menopause induced to help the symptoms of endometriosis\n\nShe said: \"A 22-year-old should not know what it feels like to be kept up all night with hot flushes. But for me it was a case of menopause or crippling pain, can't get out of bed, can't function. At this point I was so poorly I hadn't left the house in months, I had to drop out of my postgrad in journalism. My quality of life was just zero.\"\n\nAnother issue flagged up by campaigners is a lack of research among BAME communities.\n\nAfua Adom said: \"We need to know how it affects black and Asian women differently and how long it takes them to get a diagnosis, how it ties in with fibroids and is it more prevalent and how the two sit together in the body.\n\nProf Horne agrees this is an area that needs inspection.\n\n\"I run a number of research studies and we would like hear from the BAME community and make sure everybody gets involved, not just a subset of the population,\" he said.", "Dozens of Covid contracts had not been published when Boris Johnson told MPs they were \"on the record for everyone to see\".\n\nThe High Court has confirmed that 100 contracts had yet to be revealed at the time the PM made his comments.\n\nLast month, a judge ruled the health secretary had acted unlawfully by not publishing contracts in the required timeframe.\n\nMinisters said remaining contracts would be published as soon as possible.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care struck deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe government is required by law 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\nIn the High Court in February, Mr Justice Chamberlain said the public were entitled to see who the money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded.\n\nHe ruled that Health Secretary Matt Hancock acted unlawfully when his department failed to publish award notices for contracts it had agreed during the Covid pandemic within 30 days of them being signed.\n\nThe judge also found the health secretary had acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the government's own policy of publishing the contracts within 20 days of them being awarded.\n\nMatt Hancock is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care\n\nThe contracts have attracted scrutiny because many were awarded directly, without being opened to competition, because of the urgency of the pandemic.\n\nChallenged about the ruling in the House of Commons on 22 February, Mr Johnson said: \"All the details are on the record.\"\n\nThe prime minister added: \"The contracts are there on the record for everybody to see.\"\n\nBut three days later, in a written legal response to the Good Law Project, seen by the BBC, government lawyers admitted 100 contracts for suppliers and services relating to Covid-19 signed before 7 October had yet to be published.\n\nThe court had asked the government to declare the number of contracts which had been published late.\n\nGovernment lawyers also confirmed that 482 out of 513 contract award notices - 94% of them - had been published outside the 30 days required by law.\n\n\"It is only when details of contracts are published that they can be properly scrutinised, otherwise there is no way of knowing where taxpayers' money is going and why,\" says Gemma Abbott, the Good Law Project's legal director.\n\n\"We have a government contemptuous of transparency and apparently allergic to accountability.\"\n\nThe court order handed down on Friday by the High Court confirmed that 608 out of 708 relevant contracts had been published and that in some or all of these cases, the health secretary had acted unlawfully by not making them public in the required timeframe.\n\nThe Good Law Project said this showed the prime minister had \"falsely reassured\" MPs about the number of contracts that remained to be published.\n\nThe judge also ordered the government to pay £85,000 towards the campaign group's costs.\n\nAs officials attempt to the clear the backlog of unpublished contracts, more evidence is emerging of personal protective equipment (PPE) bought at vast expense that cannot be used as intended.\n\nLast October the government published a contract summary detailing PPE worth £34m it had bought from the Chinese firm Qingzhou Yaowang Pharmaceutical.\n\nAn example of an FFP3 mask\n\nThe firm was contracted to supply high-grade FFP3 masks, which are used by medics working in intensive care units.\n\nBut the contract, which was only published this week, has revealed that officials knew the masks they had bought came only with ear loops.\n\nSince signing the deal, the government has changed its technical requirements to say that these should not be used in masks of such a high grade because of concerns they do not fit securely enough.\n\nRachel Reeves MP, Labour's shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responding to reports that dozens of Covid contracts were yet to be published, said: \"It is deeply concerning how much the government has relied on crony contracts throughout the pandemic, while leaving our frontline workers exposed.\n\n\"First the government acted unlawfully, then the prime minister falsely claimed everything had been published.\n\n\"It is a basic right for the public to know where and how our cash is being spent. The government needs to come out of hiding, simply publish the contracts it has sitting around and support our frontline staff with PPE not pay cuts.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We have been working tirelessly to deliver what is needed to protect our health and social care staff throughout this pandemic, within very short timescales and against a backdrop of unparalleled global demand.\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. We are committed to publishing all contracts and to date have published 99% of these in the Official Journal of the EU and we are working to publish outstanding contracts as soon as possible.\n\n\"As the 2020 NAO report recognised, all of the NHS providers audited were always able to get what they needed in time, thanks to the effort of government, the NHS, Armed Forces, civil servants and industry, who delivered over 8.8 billion items of PPE to the frontline at record speed.\"", "Provisional grades for A-level and GCSE pupils in Wales will be given out in June\n\nA-level and GCSE pupils in Wales will be told provisional grades by teachers in June, ahead of official results days in August.\n\nQualifications Wales said it meant pupils could appeal to the school or college before final results were confirmed.\n\nThis summer's grades will be decided by teachers, after exams were cancelled.\n\nResults days will be earlier than usual - A-levels and AS-levels on 10 August and GCSEs on 12 August.\n\nExams regulator Qualification Wales said in its latest guidance on how A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs will be assessed, that there would be a three-stage appeals process, beginning with the release of provisional grades in June.\n\nExam board the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) will not change the grades once they have been submitted by schools or colleges, but they can approach them about \"atypical\" grading.\n\nA second stage, after official results are published, would be an appeal to the exam board if candidates feel the grades given by their school or college are unreasonable or a procedural error has been made.\n\nThe final stage of appeal is to the watchdog, Qualifications Wales.\n\nBut Gareth Evans, director of education policy at the University of Wales Trinity St David's, said it was \"another very, very late decision, another change\" and that \"there are going to be number of very frustrated and disappointed teachers\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"I think this is a way of building in another safety net to give pupils that opportunity to challenge and to probe the rationale behind the awarding of their grades.\n\n\"That doesn't however excuse the fact this announcement has been made in March when I think decisions could have been taken in the autumn if not earlier.\"\n\nThere will be a three-stage appeals process, Qualifications Wales says in its assessment guidance\n\nThe process is different to what is happening in England, where appeals are only possible after results day in August.\n\nPhilip Blaker, chief executive of Qualifications Wales, said they had been working with the WJEC exam board and the Design and Delivery Advisory group of schools and college leaders to come up with an effective appeals process.\n\nThey had also considered the recommendations of a highly critical independent review into last summer's exams fiasco.\n\n\"As with all the decisions being taken for this summer, there are no easy answers,\" Mr Blaker said.\n\n\"We are committed to putting the needs of the learner at the heart of our work.\"\n\nThe guidance also covers arrangements for private candidates, who are not registered at a particular school or college, including home-educated children and some students who are resitting.\n\nSchools and colleges across Wales will be identified as hubs for some private candidates to take assessments which will be graded by the exam board.\n\nResults days for A-level and GCSE pupils in Wales will be earlier than usual this year\n\nWales' Education Minister Kirsty Williams announced summer exams were cancelled in November, and a system of assessments was put in place instead.\n\nHowever they also had to be scrapped when schools and colleges were closed in January, and it was decided that teachers and lecturers would determine their students' grades.\n\nSummer 2020 grades were eventually based on teachers' grades after uproar about the \"downgrading\" of results as a result of a standardisation process.", "Amy Hart and eventual winner Amber Gill pictured entering the villa in the last summer series\n\nLove Island will return to screens this summer, nearly 18 months since it was last on air, ITV has confirmed.\n\nHowever, the broadcaster has not announced any further details, such as the location of the villa.\n\nPrevious summer series have taken place in Mallorca, but reports this week suggested ITV had identified the island of Jersey as a possible back-up.\n\nThe channel has also announced a slate of new dramas and entertainment shows which will air in the coming months.\n\nEarlier this year, ITV's CEO Dame Carolyn McCall said they were \"looking at all options\" to bring Love Island back.\n\nShe told the BBC's Amol Rajan: \"We will want to put Love Island on air because it's been off air for a little while, we didn't do it last summer. We're looking at all our options at the moment because the pandemic makes that hard.\"\n\nThe most recent series of Love Island took place in the winter, concluding in February 2020, when Paige Turley and Finley Tapp were crowned the winners. (They're still together, a year later.)\n\nThat series took place just before the coronavirus pandemic, and marked the first winter run for a show which had previously only aired during summer months.\n\nSince the series has been off air, ITV2 has been broadcasting international editions of the series in its place to fill the air time, such as Love Island Australia.\n\nLaura Whitmore is expected to return to hosting duties\n\nLaura Whitmore will likely return to hosting duties, after she previously stood in for former presenter Caroline Flack, who died last February.\n\nIt's unclear how the show would operate if social distancing measures remain in place by this summer.\n\nHowever, it's likely that Covid-19 restrictions will be significantly reduced by then, in light of the government's four-step plan to ease most lockdown rules by June, and the continued success of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.\n\nEven if some measures are still in place, other series like Strictly have used daily testing and contestant bubbles as a way to stay on air.\n\nBut the pandemic has caused significant disruption to TV productions. Both Strictly and Dancing On Ice saw contestants leave after testing positive for Covid-19, while I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here relocated from Australia to Wales.\n\nLove Island was one of several commissions ITV confirmed on Thursday, as it announced details of its summer programming.\n\nThe channel will also air a previously-announced new drama about the killing of Stephen Lawrence, which will star Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People wait on higher ground on Great Barrier Island amid the tsunami alert\n\nThree earthquakes, including one of the strongest ever to hit the region, struck off the coast of New Zealand on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings that have now been stood down.\n\nThousands were evacuated from some coastal areas of the North Island after the third, 8.1-magnitude quake struck.\n\nThere were reports of traffic gridlock as people tried to reach higher ground.\n\nThe national tsunami warning was lifted at 15:43 (02:43 GMT), some 13 hours after the first quake.\n\nSome wave surges hit parts of the coast but, by Friday afternoon, authorities said the largest waves had passed. Residents were told they could return home but were warned to stay off beaches.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand: \"What happens if there is another earthquake?\"\n\nThe South Pacific archipelagos of New Caledonia and Vanuatu have been warned to prepare for dangerous waves.\n\nTheir coasts could see wave surges as high as 3m (10ft), while parts of South America - including Peru, Ecuador and Chile - were warned they could see 1m waves reaching their coasts.\n\nThe Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said \"tsunami waves have been observed\", but as yet no damage had been reported.\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern posted on Instagram: \"Hope everyone is ok out there.\"\n\nThe three earthquakes, all above 7.0 magnitude, came during the early hours of Friday.\n\nThe last, at 8.1, struck at around 08:30 near the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, 1,000 km (621 miles) north-east of New Zealand.\n\nWhile earlier tsunami warnings had been called off, the third quake prompted the National Emergency Management Agency to send out a new alert and tsunami sirens sounded in some areas.\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 agency told people near the coast in several areas to move immediately to high ground or get inland as far as possible.\n\nIt said \"strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges\" with tsunami activity continuing for several hours.\n\nLocal media reported gridlock in towns such as Whangarei and Whakatane as people tried to flee their homes, schools and workplaces.\n\nIn nearby Ohope town, resident Leslie Peake was quoted by the New Zealand Herald as saying the traffic was \"bumper to bumper\" with \"huge queues of people evacuating\".\n\nNew Zealand's civil defence department advised people to walk or cycle to avoid getting caught in traffic\n\nMeanwhile local media posted footage of waves rolling into Tokomaru Bay.\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\nJust last week, New Zealand marked the 10th anniversary of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that destroyed parts of Christchurch in the south Island, killing 185 people.\n\nTsunami warnings were also issued for Hawaii and American Samoa, but later stood down.\n\nPatrick Ti'a Reid, 37, was among those in American Samoa, situated some 3,300 km (2,000 miles) north-east of New Zealand, who had been told to evacuate to higher ground in an emergency bulletin.\n\n\"Alarms went off in our executive office building and we immediately took for higher ground,\" Mr Ti'a Reid, who works for the government in the US territory, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the tsunami of 2009, which was triggered by an 8.1-magnitude earthquake, was \"very much vivid in many Samoans' minds\".\n\nAre you in the region? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Fire fighters will be affected by the pay freeze\n\nSome 1.3 million public sector workers will see a pay freeze next year, but low-paid and NHS staff will get raises\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he could not justify across the board rises when many people in the private sector had seen cuts in pay and hours.\n\nHowever, he said 2.1 million public sector workers earning below the median wage of £24,000 were \"guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250\".\n\nMore than a million NHS workers will also get a raise, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the minimum wage - which has been rebranded as the National Living Wage - will increase by 2.2% - or 19p - to £8.91 an hour, with the rate extended to those aged 23 and over.\n\nThe pay freeze, which was trailed in unconfirmed news reports last week, has sparked anger from unions which say it will affect key workers who have played a vital role during the pandemic.\n\nDelivering his Spending Review, the chancellor said the \"majority\" of the UK's public sector workers will see their pay increase in 2021.\n\nBut he added that pay rises for the rest - about 1.3 million out of a total of 5.5 million public sector workers - will be paused \"to protect jobs\".\n\nHowever, that figure only covers 1.3 million people working for the central government. The total rise could be much higher if local government and devolved pay agreements are frozen.\n\nHe highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he \"cannot justify a significant, across-the-board\" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.\n\n\"Instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most,\" he said.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation union, called the pay freeze a \"kick in the teeth\" for police officers.\n\n\"Rewarding those who have played a vital role in the fight against the virus with a pay freeze is nothing short of a disgrace,\" he said.\n\n\"A handful of officers will get the additional £250 for the lowest paid workers, but only those who are already on an appallingly low starting salary for the dangerous job they do.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said nursing staff would oppose plans to freeze the pay of equally skilled professionals.\n\n\"Those working in social care and the community deserve a pay boost as much as their NHS colleagues.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the chancellor had delivered a \"body blow\" to staff in schools and colleges.\n\n\"Education workers are key workers who have kept the country going during the pandemic but pay cuts are their only reward from this government.\"\n\nTeacher Esme says she is not surprised the government is freezing pay for many workers.\n\n\"Clearly money will need to be clawed back from the damage to the economy, however the concern is how long for?\"\n\nShe says it will have \"quite an impact\" on her as someone fairly new to the profession, after what has been an \"incredibly challenging year in education\".\n\n\"After getting barely any support, the proposal to freeze pay is another confirmation that the government has very little appreciation or respect for the profession, or those working within it.\"\n\nAt the end of last year, the Low Pay Commission - which advises the government on the National Living Wage wage - had said the rate would rise by 6% in April 2021.\n\nBut the commission has revised this down amid fears it would cost struggling businesses too much and damage jobs.\n\nMr Sunak said the plans would mean the average full-time worker on the rate will see their annual income rise by around £345 next year.\n\n\"Compared to 2016 when the policy was first introduced, that's a pay rise of over £4,000,\" he added.\n\nHe added that around two million people would benefit from the widened eligibility for the National Living Wage.\n\nBryan Sanderson, chair of the low pay commission, said: \"Recommending minimum wage rates in the midst of an economic crisis coupled with a pandemic is a formidable task.\n\n\"We have opted for a prudent increase which consolidates the considerable progress of recent years and provides a base from which we can move towards the government's target over the next few years.\"", "People with breathing problems related to Covid-19 who receive no medical help could still suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, a study suggests.\n\nOne in three of those on ventilators and one in five in hospital was badly affected, it found.\n\nBut 11% of thousands who stayed at home with breathing difficulties also experienced flashbacks of that time.\n\nThe researchers stress the importance of following up on mental health.\n\nThe study surveyed more than 13,000 people who had had confirmed or suspected Covid-19, most of whom did not have breathing problems.\n\nA third of patients who had been on ventilators had all of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which the researchers, writing in BJPsych Open, say is to be expected.\n\nBut 40% of all Covid patients, including those with no breathing difficulties, had at least one of the symptoms to an \"extremely\" high degree.\n\nStudy author Dr Adam Hampshire, from Imperial College London, said the pandemic was likely to be having \"an acute and lasting impact, including for a significant proportion of patients who remained at home with respiratory problems and received no medical help\".\n\n\"Struggling to breathe is a traumatic thing to go through,\" he said.\n\n\"And there are so many people in that category.\"\n\nA traumatic event is one where someone's life is threatened, they see they are in danger or they see others dying or being injured.\n\nPTSD symptoms can start within six months and continue for years, preventing people moving on with their lives, the study says.\n\nThe survey was in May, soon after the peak of the first wave in the UK, when 3,000 patients were being admitted to hospital every day.\n\nAnd in early January, this rose to 4,000 a day.\n\nAs of this week, nearly 30,000 Covid patients are in UK hospitals, more than 3,000 on ventilators.\n\nAnd since the start of the UK epidemic, about 400,000 have been admitted.\n\nThe study authors say it is essential to understand the full impact of the virus on mental health to prepare for demand for services.\n\nRoyal College of Psychiatrists president Dr Adrian James said: \"It is clear that Covid-19 can have serious mental-health consequences.\n\n\"This virus isn't just a threat to our physical health.\n\n\"It also poses significant risks to mental health, during and following the illness.\n\n\"Many of those fortunate enough to survive their ordeal will experience a significant impact on their mental health.\n\n\"Effective and joined up follow-up care must be provided after discharge.\n\n\"And mental-health services must be adequately expanded to treat increasing numbers of people with PTSD symptoms.\"\n\nThe main treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are psychological therapies and medication, according to the NHS website.\n\nBefore the pandemic, there was evidence that one in 10 of those admitted to intensive care would go on to experience PTSD.\n\nRosie Weatherley, from the charity Mind, said the increase suggested by the study was \"concerning\".\n\n\"While some will recover without long-term effects, others will need help to overcome the trauma they have experienced,\" she said.\n\n\"If you (or someone you know) have been living with distressing symptoms for over a month after being treated in ITU, or after any other traumatic event, you should speak to your GP, who can refer you for specialist help.\"\n\nThe charity gives advice on how to access treatment and support.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nWarning - this article contains an image that some people may find distressing\n\nLeading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has been banned for 12 months with the last six months suspended after being found guilty of bringing the sport into disrepute.\n\nIt followed the emergence of a photograph showing him sitting on a dead horse while on his phone.\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) issued the punishment on Friday.\n\nIt said the photo showed \"appalling bad taste\" by the Aintree Grand National-winning trainer and a \"complete absence of respect\" for the horse.\n\nIt added that the incident had caused serious damage to the reputation and integrity of horse racing.\n• None What now for racing and trainer after dead horse photo?\n• None The extraordinary rise and fall of Grand National-winning racehorse trainer\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has reciprocated the IHRB sanction and Elliott will now miss the Cheltenham Festival which starts on 16 March and the Grand National Festival next month\n\nHowever, the BHA added that if horses are transferred directly to other licensed trainers before Elliott's suspension starts on 9 March then they will be able to run at both meetings.\n\nIn a statement, 43-year-old Elliott, who has also been ordered to pay costs of 15,000 euros (£12,900), said he accepted the punishment and would not appeal.\n\n\"I am in this situation by my own action and I am not going to dodge away from this,\" he said.\n\n\"I was disrespectful to a dead horse, an animal that had been a loyal servant to me and was loved by my staff.\n\n\"I am paying a very heavy price for my error but I have no complaints. It breaks my heart to see the hurt I have caused to my colleagues, family, friends and supporters. I have a long road ahead of me but I will serve my time and then build back better.\"\n\nElliott said that the photo was taken in 2019 on the gallops following the death of the horse Morgan and that he took a phone call and sat down on the horse \"without thinking\".\n\nThe IHRB referrals committee accused the trainer of \"an extraordinary lack of judgement\" in allowing the photo to be taken when he knew or ought to have known that the result might well end up in public.\n\nIt also said that that Elliott offered no credible explanation.\n\nHowever, it added that the case was not one of cruelty to animals nor related to animal welfare, and the IHRB chief executive Denis Egan revealed after the verdict that an unannounced stable inspection of Elliott's yard this week led to no concerns about the horses in his care.\n\nThe committee further stated its belief that the publication of the photo was part of a \"concerted attack upon Mr Elliott, the full circumstances of which are unknown\".\n• None Can eating certain foods help?\n• None Daniel Radcliffe on his tense new prison-break thriller", "The government can expect a \"backlash\" if it goes ahead with a proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff in England next year, a nursing union has warned.\n\nThe health department has made the recommendation in a submission to the independent panel that advises on NHS salaries.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing called the suggested rise \"pitiful\" and said nurses should be getting 12.5% more.\n\nNHS staff have been excluded from a pay freeze for most public sector workers.\n\nThe NHS Pay Review Body is due to recommend salary levels for health service staff before early May, before ministers then make a final decision.\n\nIn its submission, the health department said awarding NHS staff a \"headline\" pay increase of more than 1% \"would require re-prioritisation\".\n\nHealth department officials said the Covid pandemic had placed a \"huge strain\" on NHS finances, whilst the economic outlook \"remains uncertain\".\n\nThey added that this increase was still above the CPI rate of inflation, whilst some staff would see a higher rise under a previously agreed three-year deal.\n\nSome 1.3 million public sector workers will see a pay freeze next year, while those earning less than £24,000 guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250.\n\nThe PM and his fiancee Carrie Symonds outside 10 Downing Street joining in clap for carers in May\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he was sure the pay round \"has been discussed and established at the right level\".\n\n\"No one is doubting that the NHS hasn't been absolutely first class in this pandemic. What I am suggesting is that the whole economy has been under pressure,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour said a 1% increase for NHS staff was \"the ultimate kick in teeth to our NHS heroes who have done so much to keep us safe over the past year\".\n\nThe party's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said staff \"deserve a fair pay rise,\" adding the proposal was \"an absolute insult\".\n\nNHS pay in England has been out of the news since 2018 when a three year deal was agreed and welcomed by unions.\n\nBut the issue is firmly back on the agenda with a new deal needed for the upcoming financial year.\n\nThis is just the start of the process.\n\nThe government has made its submission to the NHS Pay Review Body. But the fact that ministers think a 1% pay rise is reasonable has angered health unions.\n\nThey see it as scant reward for the huge efforts of staff during the pandemic.\n\nGovernment sources say that inflation is so low that 1% still represents a real terms increase and that public finances are constrained.\n\nThis is shaping up to be a tense few months with pay added to the many difficult issues facing the NHS.\n\nRCN Chief Executive Dame Donna Kinnair said the government was \"dangerously out of touch with nursing staff, NHS workers and the public\".\n\n\"Nursing staff would feel they are being punished and made to pay for the cost of the pandemic. It is a political decision to underfund and undervalue nursing staff.\n\n\"With the time remaining before the Pay Review Body recommendation, the government can expect a backlash from a million NHS workers. Taxpayers are supportive of a significant and fair pay rise for NHS workers - this year of all years.\"\n\nOne nurse, Carmel O'Boyle, said she was \"disgusted\".\n\n\"We just want something that reflects the work that we do. We want a fair wage and I don't think the government understands at all what the nursing workforce does,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand it is a very difficult year for the whole world... but this is a political decision,\" she added.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the recommendation was \"a kick in the teeth\".\n\nIts chair of council, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, accused the government of a \"total dereliction\" of its \"moral duty and obligation to a workforce that is keeping the NHS on its feet and patients alive\".\n\nHe said: \"Throughout the pandemic, doctors have cared for more critically ill patients than was ever thought possible and worked round the clock despite suffering from extreme stress and exhaustion.\n\n\"The government should demonstrate that it recognises the contribution of a workforce that has literally kept this country alive for the past 10 months.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said they would \"consider carefully\" the recommendations made by the NHS Pay Review Body when it reports in the spring.\n\nThe government \"will continue to provide pay rises for NHS workers\", despite the wider freeze on pay in the rest of the public sector, the spokesperson said.\n\nThey added multi-year pay deals had delivered a pay rise of over 12% for newly qualified nurses, and will increase junior doctors' pay scales by 8.2%.\n\nIf you are an NHS worker, what are your views about your pay? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC TV 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.", "Pages from the diary of Alastair Denniston - the head of Bletchley Park at the time - have been released\n\nNew documents have been released about the birth of a secret intelligence pact between the US and UK 75 years ago.\n\nThe documents, including diary entries, detail the war time meetings that began at Bletchley Park and led to the UKUSA deal being signed in March 1946.\n\nThe alliance involved working together to intercept communications and break codes, sharing almost everything.\n\nIt grew into what is today called the \"Five Eyes\" pact of the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.\n\n\"Together, we are greater than the sum of our parts,\" said Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, and director of the US National Security Agency, Gen Paul Nakasone, in a joint statement to mark the anniversary, amid talk of expanding the group even further.\n\nA short entry from February 1941 in the diary of Alastair Denniston, released for the first time today by GCHQ, marked the beginning of what was once the most secret of relationships.\n\n\"The Ys are coming!\" it read - meaning the Yanks.\n\nDenniston was head of Bletchley Park and he was welcoming a group of American code breakers at a time when the US had not yet entered the Second World War.\n\n\"There are going to be four Americans who are coming to see me at 12 o'clock tonight. I require you to come in with the sherry. You are not to tell anybody who they are or what they will be doing,\" he told his assistant.\n\nAnother entry from Alastair Denniston's diary from February 1941 reads the \"Ys arrive\" - meaning Yanks\n\nThe Americans had undertaken a perilous crossing with their boat shot at by Nazi planes but they arrived at the home of British code breakers on a mission of huge importance.\n\nWith the permission of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the two groups of spies would share their most sensitive secrets - that the UK had broken the German Enigma code and the US the Japanese code called Purple.\n\nFurther diary entries reveal how key figures would travel back and forth over the Atlantic, including Denniston to meet with his opposite number as well as code breaker Alan Turing.\n\nThe relationship forged in that visit would outlast World War Two and, after a series of meetings, be formalised at the start of the Cold War with a document signed in Washington on 5 March 1946.\n\nThe agreement was something of a \"marriage contract\" - each agreed honesty, openness and commitment to the other including a \"no spy agreement\" in which they would not target the other side.\n\nThey would share nearly all the intelligence they produced through breaking codes and intercepting communications (known as signals intelligence or SIGINT) although the agreement did allow some wiggle room if one side felt they had to act independently.\n\nInitially known as UKUSA, over the next 10 years it would be expanded as Australia, Canada and New Zealand joined, making up what is known today as the Five Eyes alliance. Details of the original deal were secret until 2010.\n\nThe power of the alliance in WW2 has made it the heart of what is sometimes called the \"special relationship\" between the two countries. The term seems increasingly outdated but the one place where it has always been real is when it comes to code breaking.\n\n\"This alliance defines how we share communication, translation, analysis, and code breaking information, and has helped protect our countries and allies for decades,\" said Mr Fleming of GCHQ and Gen Nakasone in their joint statement.\n\n\"The modern digital world is constantly evolving. Threats don't respect international borders. Global partnerships are key to our security and economic prosperity - and none more so than the one between our two countries.\"\n\nThe relationship meant that the allies divided up the world between them when it came to intercepting communications. In the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this meant a GCHQ outstation in Scarborough would end up playing a critical role in delivering intelligence to the desk of President Kennedy in Washington.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2016: A look at the intelligence relationship between the US and the UK\n\nThe NSA and GCHQ continue to divide up tasks - GCHQ for instance monitors the hackers of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency and passed intelligence to the US when they saw them hacking into the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 US Presidential election.\n\nThe relationship remains close with staff from each side travelling over the Atlantic to work in the other side's agency and is far more intimate than that of MI6 and CIA, which deal with human, as opposed to signals intelligence.\n\nBut the relationship has not always been smooth. Intimacy creates risks. In the early Cold War, there were fears that the other side might be \"leaky\".\n\nIn Britain this came after revelations about the Cambridge Five showed individuals within British intelligence had betrayed secrets to the Soviet Union. The UK also has worried about showing it was contributing enough, especially given US resources dwarf its own (although expertise in code breaking has often made up for this).\n\nMore recently, there was tension after a GCHQ whistleblower, Katharine Gun revealed an NSA memo that showed plans to spy on the UN in the run up to the Iraq War in 2003.\n\nAnd former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent to which the two allies had built a vast capability to intercept global communications with almost no public awareness and little oversight.\n\nFormer NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed much about the close relationship between US and UK intelligence gathering\n\nOther countries have sometimes suggested they wanted in on the deal. Germany made noises about a \"no spy deal\" in the wake of the Snowden revelations which showed the US spying on it. But Five Eyes is not simply an intelligence sharing alliance but an intelligence production alliance where members are expected to contribute and this appeared to be an obstacle.\n\nRecently, Western intelligence agencies have focused more on China, making Australia's role increasingly important.\n\nThe sensitives were also on display when the US warned about limiting intelligence sharing if the UK continued to use Chinese telecoms Huawei in its new 5G network (the UK changed its position in 2020 to exclude the company).\n\nThe changing focus has also led to talk about Japan and perhaps others in Asia joining Five Eyes.\n\nOfficials say this is unlikely even though they do expect closer co-operation. The reality is that the alliance still remains one rooted in the trust and personal connections first forged during the WW2.", "The government has been hit by a double whammy of reports from MPs criticising its performance on climate change.\n\nThe influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says ministers have \"no plan\" to meet climate change targets, two years after setting them in law.\n\nAnd the business committee says the vital UN climate conference scheduled for Glasgow in November will fail unless its goals are made clear.\n\nThe government says both reports are inaccurate and unfair.\n\nThe PAC's report says ministers still don't have a coordinated strategy to realise the goal of removing almost all the carbon emissions from Britain by 2050.\n\nThe report notes that the government intends to publish what the MPs call a \"plethora\" of strategies setting out how it will reduce emissions in sectors ranging from transport to heating buildings.\n\nBut, it says, the policies aren't agreed yet.\n\nThe MPs say the Treasury has changed its guidance to ensure departments place greater emphasis on the environmental impacts of their policies, but hasn't explained how this will work in practice.\n\nWhat's more, the MPs say, the government is not yet ensuring that its activities to reduce emissions in Britain are not simply transferring those emissions overseas - where so many of the carbon-intensive goods bought in Britain's shops are made.\n\nThey also blame the government for failing to engage with the public.\n\nMeg Hillier, the committee's Labour chairwoman, said: \"The government has set itself a huge test in committing the UK to a net zero economy by 2050 - but there is little sign that it understands how to get there.\n\n\" We must see a clear path plotted, with interim goals set and reached - it will not do to dump our emissions on poorer countries to hit UK targets.\n\n\"Our new international trade deals, the levelling up agenda - all must fit in the plan to reach net zero.\n\n\"COP26 (the vital climate conference in Glasgow in November) is a few months away. The eyes of the world, its scientists and policymakers are on the UK - big promises full of fine words won't stand up.\"\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow will host the COP26 conference in November\n\nMeanwhile, the business committee says the government has provided no details so far about how success at the conference will be measured.\n\nTheir report urges the prime minister to set out a clear list of ambitions for the summit, with a set of accompanying measures of success.\n\nIt points out that the UK is currently guiding the summit to focus on key areas for change chosen by Britain.\n\nBut the committee says: \"We have concluded the current 'themes'-based approach is too broad, without clear measures for success.\n\n\"More focus needs to be given to the overriding necessity to agree deliverable policies that keep global temperature rises to as close to 1.5C as possible.\"\n\nA COP26 spokesperson said the government was making \"good progress\" but added \"there is no time to waste\".\n\n\"The COP26 President, Alok Sharma, our teams, and the full weight of our diplomatic network are all working tirelessly to push for accelerated action from our partners around the world\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWildfires in California have been associated with climate change\n\nNick Mabey, from the think tank e3g, argues that multiple potential goals must be achieved - and he believes those goals should be debated publicly.\n\n\"This debate is up for grabs\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It should be a public debate because we're talking out how to change whole economies. A lot of the outcomes from Glasgow will be decided in the court of public opinion.\"\n\nRichard Black from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"The lack of clarity on the vision for COP26 is seriously concerning. It is surely obvious that COP26 has to set the global economy on track to net zero emissions by mid-century.\n\n\"This means brokering agreements that kick-start decarbonisation in various sectors and it also means Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab and Rishi Sunak stepping up to the plate on finance to help the poorest nations.\n\n\"Failure to sort this will fatally compromise COP26 - and the failure will lie squarely at the door of Downing St.\"\n\nScientists say climate change had an impact on bush fires in Australia in recent years\n\nWhatever global goals are eventually agreed, green groups warn the UK's negotiating position will be weakened unless it consistently cuts carbon domestically - it's currently slipping away from its long-term targets.\n\nMr Black added: \"Coming on the back of a Budget that didn't even try to get the Conservatives on track to their net zero target, the conclusion that they don't have a plan for reaching it, just months before the UK hosts a major UN climate summit for the first time, should stimulate some serious thinking right across Whitehall.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"It is nonsense to say the government does not have a plan when we have been leading the world in tackling climate change, cutting emissions by almost 44 per cent since 1990 and doing so faster than any other developed nation in recent years.\n\n\"Only this week in the Budget we built on the prime minister's Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution by encouraging private investment in green growth, and we are bringing forward bold proposals to cut emissions and create new jobs and industries across the whole country.\"", "Tracks in the dust: The rover should cover some 15km in its first Martian year\n\nThe US space agency's Perseverance rover has wiggled its wheels and undertaken its first Martian drive.\n\nIt didn't move far - just 6.5m (21ft) in total.\n\nBut Nasa's deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan said it was a significant moment.\n\n\"While the rover is still doing a lot of engineering checkouts, the minute the rover begins to move we can consider ourselves explorers on the surface of Mars,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIt's two weeks now since the one-tonne robot made its dramatic descent to the Red Planet.\n\nEngineers have spent the time commissioning the vehicle and its many complex systems, including its instruments and robotic arm.\n\nPerseverance has gone to Mars with tougher wheels than its predecessors\n\nEveryone, however, has been waiting for Perseverance to start rolling. It happened on Thursday. The robot went forward a short way, spun on the spot 150 degrees, and then backed up a bit.\n\n\"You can see the wheel tracks that we left on Mars; I don't think I've ever been happier to see wheel tracks,\" said Perseverance mobility engineer Anais Zarifian.\n\n\"This is just a huge milestone for the mission and the mobility team. We've driven on Earth but driving on Mars - that's the ultimate goal, and just so many people have worked towards this very moment for years.\"\n\nThe robot's landing site has been named in honour of scifi author Octavia E. Butler\n\nPerseverance was put down in a near-equatorial crater called Jezero, to search for evidence of past life.\n\nThis will involve roving some 15km over the coming Martian year (roughly two Earth years).\n\nScientists want to reach a number of enticing rock formations in the crater that might retain a record of ancient biological activity.\n\nAmong these is what looks in satellite imagery to be a delta - a structure built up from the silt and sand dumped by a river as it enters a wider body of water. In Jezero's case, this wider body was very likely a crater-wide lake that existed billions of years ago.\n\nAn early target for study could be the layered rocks in this mound\n\nThe mission team is considering two possible routes to the delta, one of which would give scientists a preview by taking the robot past an isolated remnant.\n\n\"This (mound) is about a mile-and-a-half away from the rover. You can actually resolve layering within the rocks,\" said Dr Stack Morgan.\n\n\"In this outcrop, these resistant layered rocks were likely deposited by rivers flowing into the ancient Lake Jezero, and scientists on the team are hard at work trying to understand the significance and origin of rocks like this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spin me round: A video simulation of Perseverance's first drive\n\nAn immediate goal for Perseverance is its helicopter experiment. The rover brought a small chopper with it from Earth.\n\nThe vehicle will spend the next few weeks driving from its present location to a suitable stretch of terrain where the 2kg device called Ingenuity can be put safely on the ground. At present, the aircraft is slung beneath Perseverance's belly.\n\n\"We're still figuring out the possible flight zones,\" said Robert Hogg, Perseverance's deputy mission manager. \"We're taking navigation camera images, stereo images, to be able to analyse the terrain. And also the team's been looking at orbital images looking at possible flight zones. Long story short, we're still aiming for getting that done in the spring,\" he told reporters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four images in a sequence that show the end part of the drive\n\nPerseverance is the fastest rover Nasa has ever put on Mars. This is not so much because of the rate at which the wheels can turn (about 5cm/s), but rather because of advances in autonomous navigation.\n\nThe robot takes pictures to assess the road ahead. Previous vehicles had to stop while these images were processed onboard. Perseverance can do this on the fly.\n\n\"Perseverance can walk and chew gum at the same time,\" said Anais Zarifian.\n\nNasa announced on Friday that it had named Perseverance's landing site in Jezero Crater after the celebrated American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. The same honour was given to scifi author Ray Bradbury in 2012. His name will forever be associated with the touchdown location of the US space agency's previous rover, Curiosity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The journey to the surface of Mars made by the Perseverance rover", "University students in England should be given financial compensation for the disruption to their studies from the pandemic, says Sir Anthony Seldon.\n\nThe former University of Buckingham vice-chancellor said it would be \"right and just\" for students to have refunds.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, National Union of Students president, backed his call, saying: \"Students deserve better than to be pushed into financial hardship.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said refunds were a matter for universities.\n\nStudents have complained about paying rent on accommodation they cannot use and paying full tuition fees while studying online and not having access to campus facilities.\n\nSir Anthony, who has been a university and school head as well as a political biographer, said despite the best efforts of universities, it had been a \"restricted\" experience for many students.\n\n\"Students deserve something,\" he said, including \"financial recompense\", in recognition of how much they had missed during the pandemic.\n\nMany are still studying online at home and do not have a date for going back to face-to-face teaching. Those in their third year will have had two successive years of disruption.\n\nMaya Cooper in Liverpool has been among the students paying rent on a room she could not use\n\nBut rebates for students should be funded by the government, because many universities \"cannot afford to pay\", said Sir Anthony.\n\nThis week the university complaints watchdog, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, revealed that a university had to pay a student £5,000 in compensation for lost teaching time during lockdown.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, students are to receive £500 each in recognition of the disruption caused to their studies during the pandemic.\n\nSir Anthony, also writing in the Times, says universities should be more assertive in \"challenging the government to come up with money to compensate students\".\n\nHe argues that universities should have a higher status after their role in tackling the pandemic, including developing Covid vaccines.\n\nSir Anthony Seldon says universities should have a higher status after their vaccine research\n\nBut instead, Sir Anthony says universities are being publicly blamed by ministers for \"one misdemeanour after another\" and \"put on the naughty step\".\n\nHe wants universities to take a tougher collective line with politicians and to start \"punching their weight\".\n\nOn rebates on tuition fees, Universities UK said: \"The government is clear that there should not be blanket tuition refunds.\"\n\nA spokesman said additional measures were in place for students, such as online learning, \"enhanced wellbeing and mental health support and significant hardship funding\".\n\nMany student rooms are privately rented, but Universities UK said universities were \"actively working with government and looking at ways to ensure a fair deal for students\".\n\nNUS president, Ms Kennedy, warned the \"economic strain\" of the pandemic meant many students faced \"difficult decisions as to whether they will be able to continue their education\".\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said universities were autonomous and claims for a fee refund would depend on the contract between the individual student and university.\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We have been clear that universities should maintain the quality and quantity of tuition, and ensure it is accessible to all students, regardless of their background, and the Office for Students is monitoring online teaching to ensure this is the case.\"", "Hancock pays tribute to Test and Trace for finding Brazil case\n\nSky News asks the health secretary about the time it took find the Brazil variant, and Dr Susan Hopkins how helpful it would be to close the UK's borders at the moment. Matt Hancock says it's a tribute to Test and Trace \"that despite the fact the case was one of the few where the correct details weren't attached to the test itself, they managed to track down the individual\". He also says it's \"reassuring that all the evidence shows that that individual and all six where we found this variant of concern followed the rules and we obviously then put in the testing around that\". And he adds: \"We wouldn't know about any of this without the huge testing and sequencing capacity.\" On border restrictions, Dr Susan Hopkins says people coming into the country and leaving should only be doing it for essential reasons. She also says the day two and day eight tests in quarantine give extra reassurance in terms of detecting cases. And she details other restrictions currently in place, saying that even with smaller numbers of individuals coming into the country these work to minimise the risk.", "There is huge variation in the percentage of frontline NHS healthcare staff who have been vaccinated against Covid in England.\n\nMore than 98% in the North East and South West have had a first dose - but only 79% in London, leaving around 35,000 staff unvaccinated there.\n\nMinisters are considering whether to make the jab mandatory for NHS staff.\n\nHealth and social care workers across the UK were one of the first groups to be offered a vaccine.\n\nIn England, NHS data suggests 93% of eligible frontline staff have been vaccinated - equivalent to one million doses.\n\nBut, nearly three months after the vaccination programme began, up to 80,000 frontline staff have still not taken up the offer.\n\nDr Lara Alloway, chief medical officer of Hampshire Hospitals, told the BBC that the trust was contacting staff individually if they haven't been vaccinated and \"making sure they understand why having a vaccine is so important\".\n\nWeekly online Q&A sessions are being held for staff, a dedicated helpline has been set up and clear information on the vaccine is provided to try to combat misinformation.\n\nMore than 90% of staff at the trust have had a first dose.\n\nDr Alloway said some had chosen to delay getting the jab because they were pregnant or breastfeeding or had already had Covid. Some were also concerned about their allergies.\n\n\"We need to make sure we are providing as much information to people to allow them to make the right decisions,\" Dr Alloway said.\n\nThe idea of making the vaccine compulsory for NHS staff will be looked at as part of a government review in England into whether vaccine passports or certificates are a good way of proving someone's Covid status.\n\nNurses, doctors, ambulance staff and other NHS staff were prioritised early in the vaccine rollout if they:\n\nBut an estimated one in 10 frontline health care workers in England and Wales has not yet had their first dose, according to NHS England figures.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland were not able to provide comparable figures, although the Scottish government said it had exceeded its target to vaccinate frontline staff. Almost 123,000 health and social care staff have been vaccinated in Northern Ireland.\n\nLeon Ghulam, the Hampshire trust's black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) workforce lead, said language barriers were one reason why some staff, including Eastern Europeans, were hesitant to have the vaccine.\n\nA video in several languages has been shared with staff to reassure them.\n\n\"Family and friends can put pressure on staff - but we recommend all workforce to take the vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"There is still progress to be made, but we are heading in the right direction.\"\n\nA nurse, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC she was prepared to accept the risk of choosing not to being vaccinated.\n\nShe said being forced to have the jab \"would be against my human right - I should be able to make my own decision\".\n\nIn London, where just over three-quarters of frontline staff have been vaccinated, senior doctor Anton Emmanuel said he had met several staff members who decided to reject the vaccine for personal reasons.\n\n\"One of the most common reasons is about trust. When it comes to staff belonging to black, Asian and other minority communities, for example, some feel they haven't been at the front of the queue for anything in terms of health before, and question why they are suddenly at the front of the queue now,\" he said.\n\n\"Aside from the historical inequalities in healthcare, these staff have seen patients from these same communities dying of Covid in disproportionate numbers. And they feel too little was done to prevent it.\"\n\nDr Emmanuel has taken part in several events and discussions with healthcare workers about the vaccine and said having humble, honest discussions was crucial.\n\n\"I start by saying, 'I understand we don't deserve your trust but please do ask all your questions'.\"\n\nHe tells them he's had the vaccine and gives them the facts they ask for, saying it can protect them.\n\n\"You see people's eyes suddenly widen as their minds change.\"\n\nSir David Sloman, regional director of the NHS in London said they were \"continuing to reach out to eligible groups, working with local authorities, care homes, faith and community groups and others to encourage uptake of the safe, effective vaccines which will help save lives\".\n\nHowever, in Yorkshire, GP registrar Henna Anwar said she hadn't come across a single healthcare worker who had decided not to take the vaccine when offered it. She says vaccine uptake is high in this group and, in her experience, frontline staff are excited to have it.\n\n\"Although I don't feel vaccines should be mandatory, I felt it was almost a professional obligation,\" she said.\n\n\"It was not only about me - I could potentially have been carrying the virus without knowing it.\n\n\"For me it was about my patients and my family.\"\n• None Covid-19- Will a vaccine give us our old lives back- - BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We all thought my unborn child had passed away'\n\nOn 3 March 2016, Natalie Queiroz shared a picture on social media of her rapidly growing baby bump. She was eight months pregnant and looking forward to the birth of her daughter and life with partner Babur \"Bobby\" Raja. Twenty-four hours later she was being flown by air ambulance to hospital. She had been stabbed more than 20 times, and paramedics feared for the lives of both her and her unborn child.\n\nAhead of the fifth anniversary of the attack, I met Natalie at the scene - Trinity Hill in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.\n\nHer hands were shaking and she described being back as \"really, really tough\", adding: \"To think this could have been the final place I would have been [alive].\" Revisiting the scene has become part of how she has dealt with the trauma.\n\nNatalie, 45, remembers most of what happened vividly. It was raining, she had her coat pulled up and was holding an umbrella as she walked towards the town centre. Her mind was on shopping.\n\n\"I just remember these footsteps running behind me,\" she said. She feared she was about to be mugged, but felt she was safe because she was such a short distance from the shops, and, as it was 15:00, there were plenty of people about. That's when her attacker jumped her from behind and began stabbing her.\n\nShe desperately held on to her bump to try to protect her baby, but described the attack as \"incessant\". Two men intervened and tried to drag the attacker off her, incurring injuries themselves.\n\nNatalie didn't know who the knifeman was. Raja, her partner, had disguised his appearance and had a hood covering his face. She told me that she caught a glimpse and thought it was him, but then disregarded the idea.\n\nBabur Raja was disguised when he unleashed a stab attack on pregnant partner Natalie Queiroz\n\nAs the others fought with Raja, Natalie tried to escape. Despite bleeding heavily she managed to get to her feet and stagger away. \"I was looking at the town centre… and I remember thinking 'I've just got to get there, because if I can get there, I can get help'.\"\n\nHer wounds were too severe and she collapsed next to a wall and passed out. \"The two guys who'd been holding the attacker said they thought that I'd gone - they thought that that was it, that I had died.\"\n\nRaja managed to fight off the other men and came at Natalie again just as she regained consciousness. \"I put my head down and he pulled up in front of me, and he crouched down and he began the attack again.\"\n\nNatalie doesn't remember much of what happened next. A third rescuer, Callum Gibson, had run up Trinity Hill and joined the other men, John Mitchell and Anthony Smith, in finally stopping Raja's attack. West Midlands Police officers arrived to help, and closed nearby roads to allow an air ambulance to land.\n\nNatalie had suffered eleven chest wounds, her right lung had collapsed and she had also been stabbed in the liver and uterus.\n\nParamedics stabilised her as she was taken to hospital. Natalie had regained consciousness again, but there seemed to be little hope for her child. \"To be honest, we all thought she'd passed away,\" she said.\n\nNatalie underwent lifesaving surgery and was put into an induced coma. It was only when she came round that she was given the news her daughter had survived and had been safely delivered by Caesarean section. \"To get that news, that she was alive, was almost incomprehensible.\"\n\nIn June 2016, Raja pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to attempted murder and was jailed for 18 years. During the hearing, at which Natalie was present, the court heard he attacked her after being forced to choose between his conservative Muslim mother's faith and the \"love of his life\". This, it was said, had \"tipped him over the edge\".\n\nA court order remains in place meaning that Natalie's daughter cannot be named. On Thursday, the family has been celebrating her fifth birthday. It will be impossible to keep the full details of the story from the little girl forever. As she grows up, Natalie is gradually explaining to her what happened, but she doesn't know everything yet.\n\n\"She's a funny little girl with a big heart... she knows that mummy got hurt the day she was born, she knows it was very serious, and that mummy went in a helicopter... she knows that because of what happened she had to be born that day.\"\n\nNatalie is amazingly upbeat despite what happened. She still suffers physically because of some of her wounds, but jokes that her breast implants saved her life. She has also visited Raja in prison despite being warned against it.\n\nShe said it was a cathartic experience. \"I needed to face him and I needed to look him in the eye.\" However he still wouldn't fully acknowledge what happened. He has also sent her letters in which he said he was \"proud\" of the way she had dealt with the attack. She sees this as an attempt at controlling behaviour.\n\nNatalie Queiroz is set to marry Simon Lyttle after the end of Covid restrictions\n\nI asked her whether she ever thought she would be able to achieve closure.\n\n\"Anyone who's been through a major trauma will say you never get over it, you learn to live with it and it becomes part of your life. I've dealt with it by all my fundraising and talking to young people about the reality of knife crime… to me that's the best way of coming to terms with everything.\"\n\nNatalie's positivity is clear in the work she's undertaken since the attack. She has already raised tens of thousands of pounds for Midlands Air Ambulance and is to walk the 140 miles between its three bases in four days as soon as it is possible.\n\nShe also has something else to look forward to. Last year she got engaged to Simon Lyttle, a fellow fundraiser, and once lockdown is over they will be married.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The worst-case scenario map warns of increased coastal erosion and flooding in Northern Ireland, which could lead to more landslides around locations such as Giant's Causeway\n\nA \"game-changing\" new map shows the threats climate change may have on the UK's stately homes and landscapes.\n\nThe National Trust warns the number of its sites facing a high level of threat from issues such as coastal erosion, extreme heat and flooding could rise from 5% to 17% over the next 40 years.\n\nIts map plots a worst-case scenario where nothing is done over that time to drive down global carbon emissions.\n\nThe charity says planning for the worst will help it protect sites effectively.\n\nThe map is intended to help highlight potential future hazards in heritage or countryside sites across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe map shows the different potential climate change threats - including the risk of overheating and humidity\n\nInterventions can then be made to reduce the hazards - such as planting trees to provide shade in higher temperature areas, or restoring peat bogs to prevent flooding.\n\nThe charity wants to plant 20 million trees before 2030, and said the map will ensure trees are planted where they are needed most.\n\nThe National Trust's map can highlight potential hazards to aid intervention - for example, heat-tolerant plants are already being grown at Ham House in London\n\nNational Trust director for land and nature Harry Bowell said: \"This map is a game-changer in how we face the threat climate change poses to the places we care for.\n\n\"While the data draws on a worst-case scenario, the map paints a stark picture of what we have to prepare for. But by acting now, and working with nature, we can adapt to many of these risks.\"\n\nThe charity says staff are already taking action to cope with rising temperatures:\n\nThe map plots the impacts of extreme heat and humidity, landslides, coastal erosion, shrinking and shifting ground due to wet and dry conditions known as \"soil heave\", and high winds, in 2020 and 2060.\n\nMalham Tarn barn in the Yorkshire Dales collapsed as a result of soil shrinkage\n\nA row of cottages sit near the edge of an eroding cliff at Birling Gap and the Seven Sisters, East Sussex\n\nIt uses data from a number of sources and plots them in 5km hexagonal grids across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe National Trust is also sharing available data on flooding with staff on properties prone to flooding and action that can be taken, but the information is too localised to be included on the map.", "Chancellors like to claim their Budgets include something for everyone, and Rishi Sunak's tax and spend statement on Wednesday certainly cast the net wide. There were short-term policies to tackle the impact of Covid-19 and long-term plans for righting the nation's finances.\n\nBut some people still feel there were gaps, areas where he could have done more: for those struggling to make ends meet, for example, and on action to fast-track the switch to a low carbon economy.\n\nHere are four areas where critics and commentators were surprised by what was left out of the chancellor's economic recovery Budget.\n\nThe BBC has put their points to the Treasury for a response.\n\nRishi Sunak wasn't silent on the environment in the Budget.\n\nHe handed the Bank of England a duty to support the move to zero emissions. He set up a new infrastructure bank, to invest mainly in green projects, and a new green savings scheme.\n\nBut does that amount to the revolution many people hoped would be kick-started in the Budget? Hardly, say critics.\n\nMr Sunak held off a fuel duty rise for the 11th year in a row. And he is accused of clawing back money from a key home insulation scheme that supporters say was an easy win for the environment.\n\nThe £1.5bn Green Homes Grant (GHG), launched last year, offered money for people to insulate their homes and install low carbon heating such as heat pumps.\n\nThe deadline to apply is the end of this month and people must have their improvements completed by March 2022.\n\nBut many householders couldn't contact installers, and some installers didn't get paid because the system was so creaky. Only 6% of the cash has been spent, so environmentalists want the money to be rolled over.\n\nBut Sunak didn't mention it in the Budget so that won't happen and the scheme will be withdrawn as planned at the end of March.\n\nFatima Ibrahim, from the group Green New Deal UK, said: \"Our response to the climate crisis should have been front and centre of the Budget, not a footnote.\"\n\nMoney has been showered on government departments to deal with pandemic costs: £150bn this year and the same again next.\n\nBut there was no planning for Covid costs beyond April 2022, said Richard Hughes, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which provides independent financial forecasts to the Treasury. He called it a \"source of risk\" for the public finances.\n\nThe government's own roadmap out of lockdown has talked of the possible need for an annual vaccination programme and continuing test and trace capacity.\n\nAdd to this the backlog of hospital appointments, additional help needed for school children, and reduced revenues for public transport, and many economists calculate that Covid costs will continue well beyond the next two years.\n\nMr Hughes said: \"We don't know what the government's plans are for dealing with these legacy costs beyond this year.\n\nIn fact the government has announced a reduction in spending after two years, he points out.\n\n\"Faced with these looming pressures, the chancellor's response so far has been to cut around £15bn a year from total departmental spending in the years beyond 2021-22, including a further £4bn cut in this Budget.\"\n\nAnother respected economist, Paul Johnson, director at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, agreed that the Budget left a big question mark over Covid costs. He tweeted: \"Spending plans from 2022 include precisely nothing for dealing with additional pressures arising from the pandemic, of which there are plenty. In fact they involve spending cuts relative to pre-pandemic plans. Is that really credible?\"\n\nThere was no support for struggling renters in the Budget, pointed out social research group the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"The chancellor was silent on support for the 700,000 households already in rent arrears,\" it said.\n\nThe Local Housing Allowance which is used to work out housing benefit will be frozen from April too, piling further pressure onto renters, the Foundation added.\n\nOn the other hand, for those buying a home, the chancellor extended the stamp duty holiday for another three months and launched a new 95% mortgage guarantee scheme.\n\n\"These policies will compound the UK's housing crisis, driving up house prices and making it harder to address the issues faced by people in poverty,\" the JRF said.\n\nHigher house prices can have a knock-on effect, pushing up rents, and squeezing the finances of renters who are often struggling already.\n\nJon Sparkes, chief executive of homeless charity Crisis, said: \"It is very disappointing to see the housing support announced is limited to home buyers. Hundreds of thousands of renters in arrears are facing eviction in a matter of weeks and must not be forgotten.\"\n\nExtending the £20 boost to universal credit and the furlough scheme until September will help tenants plan ahead, \"but much more is required to avoid a mounting crisis in the private rented sector,\" said Timothy Douglas, policy & campaigns manager for letting agents' organisation Propertymark.\n\n\"As the impact of Covid continues to bite and unemployment rates rise, we are increasingly concerned about how tenants will avoid future rent arrears,\" he added.\n\nAfter the pandemic took the lives of more than 40,000 mostly elderly care residents there were widespread calls for reform of the social care sector.\n\nBut the chancellor failed to offer even a whisper of fresh support for care homes or their staff.\n\n\"The sector was already on its knees before the pandemic hit, and now it is at crisis point,\" said Helen Wildbore, director of the Relatives & Residents Association.\n\n\"Following a year of unremitting challenges, with care services stretched to breaking point and staff burnt out, support from the chancellor was desperately and urgently needed.\"\n\nShe said the Association's helpline hears daily from people who are relying on these services who already feel neglected and left behind by the government.\n\n\"The Budget is an insult to older people needing care, and their families,\" she added.\n\nThe day after the Budget, parliament's Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee launched an enquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care, conceding that the problems in the sector aren't simply a consequence of the pandemic.\n\n\"We have seen year-on-year the demand on services increasing, while local authority budgets have been stretched more and more,\" said committee chair Clive Betts MP.\n\n\"Unless the funding of social care is resolved there will continue to be more cuts to other council services.\"\n\nBut many wish reforms to social care and how it is funded had been tackled much earlier.\n\n\"The silence on social care funding proposals in the Budget was deeply disappointing,\" said Steven Cameron, director at pension firm Aegon.\n\n\"The devastating impact the pandemic has had on our most elderly has shown just how valuable but stretched our care system is, making it even more urgent that the government delivers on previously promised reforms to social care funding.\"", "The government has settled with former civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam over his claim for unfair dismissal.\n\nSources close to Sir Philip confirmed to BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he received £340,000 plus his legal costs.\n\nThe ex-Home Office boss quit amid bullying claims against Home Secretary Priti Patel, which she denies.\n\nLabour's Nick Thomas-Symonds has written to Ms Patel to ask how much taxpayers' money has been spent settling the case.\n\nSir Philip said he had been the victim of a \"vicious and orchestrated\" briefing campaign after trying to get Ms Patel to change her behaviour.\n\nThe claims had been due to be heard at an employment tribunal this September.\n\nThe Home Office said the government and Sir Philip had \"jointly concluded that it is in both parties' best interests to reach a settlement at this stage\".\n\n\"The government does not accept liability in this matter and it was right that the government defended the case,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe former official was earning more than £150,000 a year as Home Office permanent secretary.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"Taxpayers will be appalled at having to pick up the bill for the home secretary's unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nIn his letter to Ms Patel, Mr Thomas-Symonds asks how much in total the settlement has cost, and whether any other bullying cases have been opened by the Home Office since July 2019.\n\n\"This whole episode continues to raise serious questions about standards of behaviour, responsibility and leadership at the highest level of government,\" he added.\n\nSir Philip said Home Office staff had come to him with allegations against Ms Patel, including \"shouting and swearing\" and \"belittling people\".\n\nHis resignation led the Cabinet Office to launch an inquiry into whether Ms Patel had broken the code governing ministers' behaviour.\n\nBoris Johnson's standards chief Sir Alex Allan found that she had - but the PM rejected his findings and kept her in post. Sir Alex resigned in response.\n\nIn his report, Sir Alex found Ms Patel's \"approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by individuals.\"\n\n\"To that extent her behaviour has been in breach of the ministerial code, even if unintentionally,\" he concluded.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has launched legal action to try to get Mr Johnson's decision overturned at the High Court.\n\nMs Patel apologised for her alleged behaviour, saying \"any upset I have caused was completely unintentional\".\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think Ms Patel was a bully, and had \"full confidence\" in her.\n\nPriti Patel was appointed home secretary by Boris Johnson after he entered No 10 in July 2019\n\nIn a statement issued via the FDA civil servants' union on Thursday, Sir Philip said he was \"pleased\" the government had settled his unfair dismissal claim.\n\n\"I now look forward to the next stages of my career,\" he added.\n\nOn its official website, the government said it \"regrets the circumstances surrounding Sir Philip's resignation\".\n\n\"The government and Sir Philip are now pleased that a settlement has been reached to these proceedings,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said Ms Patel still had \"very serious questions to answer about her conduct\", and Mr Johnson had \"shown terrible judgement\".\n\n\"It can't be right that his adviser on ministerial standards resigned when he found that the home secretary bullied colleagues, while the home secretary herself remained in post,\" he added.", "The Duchess of Sussex has said being a royal was \"different than I think what people imagine it to be\".\n\nIn a clip from the couple's interview with Oprah Winfrey, due to air in the US on Sunday, Meghan was asked why she has decided to give an interview now.\n\n\"We have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn't have said yes to then,\" she said. \"That wasn't my choice to make.\"\n\nShe said it was \"really liberating\" to now feel \"able to speak for yourself\".\n\nIt comes as Buckingham Palace is investigating claims the duchess bullied royal staff.\n\nThe report about the allegations of bullying levelled at Meghan were first published in the Times after the interview with Oprah was recorded. Meghan has called it the \"latest attack on her character\".\n\nThe interview with Oprah, which will air in the US on CBS on Sunday and in the UK on ITV at 21:00 GMT on Monday, is expected to hear details about Meghan and Prince Harry's short period as working royals together before they stepped down for a life in the US.\n\nIn the latest clip, shown on CBS's This Morning show, Oprah said to Meghan: \"So I just want to say, I called you either February or March 2018 before the wedding asking, would you please give me an interview. And you said 'I'm sorry, it's not the right time'. Finally we get to sit down and have this conversation.\"\n\nMeghan replied: \"I remember that conversation very well. I wasn't even allowed to have that conversation with you personally, right? There had to be people [from the communications team] sitting there.\"\n\nAsked why now was the right time, Meghan said: \"Well, so many things. That we're on the other side of a lot of life experience that's happened and also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn't have said yes to then. That wasn't my choice to make.\n\n\"So, as an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is different than I think what people imagine it to be, it's really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say, yes, I'm ready to talk, to say it to yourself.\n\n\"To be able to just make a choice on your own and to be able to speak for yourself.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CBS This Morning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 CBS This Morning\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, and now live in California.\n\nPrince Harry recently said he had to step back from royal duties to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press, as it was \"destroying my mental health\".\n\nDeals have been struck in more than 17 countries across the world for the rights to screen Oprah's interview.\n\nThe chat show host has promised it will be \"shocking\" with \"nothing off limits\".\n\nMeghan will be interviewed about marriage, motherhood, life as a royal and \"how she is handling life under intense public pressure\", CBS has said. The couple will also discuss their move to the US and their future plans.\n\nHarry and Meghan married at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and their son Archie was born the following year\n\nSeveral clips have already been released by CBS and have racked up millions of views.\n\nAfter the first two clips were released, the Times published its report saying Meghan faced a complaint of bullying from her staff while she was a working royal at Kensington Palace.\n\nThe palace said it was \"concerned\" about the accusations and an HR team would look at the circumstances outlined in the article.\n\nOn the reported allegations of bullying, the duchess has said in a statement through her spokesman she was \"saddened\" by the \"attack on her character\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government will not set an \"artificial ceiling\" on any Welsh NHS pay rise recommendations\n\nMinisters will not try to cap any pay rise for Welsh NHS staff in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nThe UK government has faced a backlash after saying a pay rise for staff in England should be capped at 1%.\n\nVaughan Gething MS said on Friday that Welsh NHS workers \"deserved a pay rise\".\n\nHe said the Welsh Government had \"not tried to set a ceiling\" on any proposed wage increase.\n\nThe NHS Pay Review Body - an independent body - looks at potential wage increases for NHS workers.\n\nIt then recommends what pay rises - if any - should take place.\n\nBoth governments had made suggestions to the body. In England, the nurses' union has threatened possible strike action after the Department of Health suggested the 1% pay rise.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh submission would be made public, saying Wales had not suggested a \"ceiling\" on any increase in the same way.\n\nTrade unions said Welsh NHS staff are 'exhausted' a year into the Covid pandemic in the UK\n\n\"We're waiting to see the outcome of the pay review body and we expect to publish the evidence we've provided to that pay review body if not today then in the very near future,\" he said.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said it had met with Mr Gething on Friday, and made it clear that England's proposals were \"nothing short of an insult to a profession which has gone above and beyond during the pandemic\".\n\nChair of the Welsh council, Dr David Bailey said: \"We implore him to ensure that [the pay rise] is fair, given that doctors have given their all during the last year - their sacrifices deserve to be recognised.\"\n\nNicky Hughes said the pandemic had affected NHS workers' mental health after some became patients themselves\n\nThe Royal College of Nurses (RCN), who are threatening strikes over the proposals in England, said the Welsh Government should commit to a \"12.5% increase\" for all staff.\n\nNicky Hughes, RCN Wales Associate Director of Nursing, said the sector was struggling with staff shortages and could not attract graduates if the pay was not fair.\n\n\"In a week's time, we will be holding a memorial for all those health and social care workers who lost their lives during Covid-19,\" she said.\n\n\"This was the ultimate sacrifice. What more do nurses have to do to prove their valuable contribution to health care? A one-percent up-rise in pay is non-negotiable. We don't want excuses; we need action.\"\n\nThe UK government said the 1% pay rise for NHS workers was \"what's affordable\" whilst acknowledging the \"work and commitment\" of staff over the last 12 months.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Westminster had done all it can \"to protect jobs and save livelihoods\", and over a million NHS staff in England continued to benefit from existing multi-year pay deals.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the proposed 1% pay rise in England was \"absolutely disgusting\" and represents a real terms pay cut.\"We support the call from the RCN and other health unions for a meaningful pay rise\".\"This 1% isn't even a pay rise. Inflation is running at around 1.5 to 1.8%. It's a pay cut\".", "Businessman John McAfee, creator of the McAfee anti-virus software, has been charged in the US with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.\n\nMr McAfee and his bodyguard Jimmy Gale Watson Jr are accused of promoting cryptocurrencies to Mr McAfee's large Twitter following to inflate prices.\n\nThe currencies were then allegedly sold, making the pair $2m (£1.45m), prosecutors said.\n\nThe men have not commented on the charges.\n\nMr McAfee, 75, is currently being detained in Spain in relation to separate criminal charges relating to tax, which he denies. He faces possible extradition to the US.\n\nMr Watson was arrested in Texas on Thursday.\n\n\"Jimmy Watson is a decorated veteran and former Navy Seal. He fought for other people's rights and liberties, and he is entitled to and looks forward to his day in court to exercise some of those very rights,\" said his lawyer Arnold Spencer.\n\nThe latest charges were filed in the Manhattan federal court in New York. The pair are accused of buying the cryptocurrency assets before promoting them on Twitter, where Mr McAfee has more than one million followers.\n\nThey would then sell the assets as soon as Mr McAfee's endorsements saw prices rise, according to the US justice department and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.\n\nThey allegedly made a further $11m (£8m) in payments from cryptocurrency start-ups for promoting their assets on Twitter, payments which were not disclosed to investors who bought them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat amounted to having \"exploited a widely used social media platform and enthusiasm among investors in the emerging cryptocurrency market to make millions through lies and deception,\" federal prosecutor Audrey Strauss said.\n\nIn the separate tax evasion case - which was announced last October - Mr McAfee is accused of failing to file any tax returns from 2014 to 2018. Prosecutors also say he used other people's names to conceal his assets, including a yacht and property.\n\nA controversial figure, he came to prominence in the 1980s when his company released the first commercial anti-virus software - McAfee VirusScan - and helped spark a multi-billion dollar industry.\n\nAlthough that business has since been sold to Intel, he still develops cyber-security products of his own.\n\nThe entrepreneur, who was born in the UK, also launched unsuccessful bids to become the Libertarian Party's candidate for the US presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.\n\nMr McAfee has previously expressed his disdain for taxes, tweeting in 2019 that he had not filed tax returns for years because \"taxation is illegal\".\n\nIn 2012, he made headlines after police in the Central American country of Belize investigated the death of one Mr McAfee's neighbours and named him as a \"person of interest\".\n\nMr McAfee left the country saying he feared for his own safety. Officials ultimately said he was not a suspect.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rules around the number of people who can meet outdoors are set to be eased\n\nRules around outdoor socialising are likely to ease next week, the first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said more opportunities to see loved ones would be the \"first steps\" taken out of lockdown.\n\nOnly two people from two households are currently allowed to meet outdoors, with people being urged to stay at home apart from for essential reasons.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped to announce \"relatively minor but important\" changes on Tuesday.\n\nShe said these would relate to restrictions on meeting outdoors and how young people are able to interact with friends.\n\nThe government's recent plan for easing lockdown said that allowing four people from two households to meet outdoors was unlikely to happen before 15 March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the progress with the vaccine programme and the decline in hospital admissions and case number should give encouragement that \"greater normality is firmly on the horizon\".\n\nBut she added: \"It's really important we don't get carried away yet.\n\n\"The overall stay at home message needs to stay for a bit longer so that we don't send our progress into reverse.\n\n\"But I'm very keen if we can we should all get a bit more opportunities to see loved ones as the first steps we take out of this lockdown.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has been considering accelerating its exit plan out of lockdown, which currently says that the country will return to a levels system towards the end of April.\n\nHowever, new rules are set to make it harder for areas to drop down to lower tiers of these restrictions.\n\nIf an area is to see restrictions lifted, the number of positive cases will need to be far lower than when the system operated last year.\n\nIt is also expected that non-essential retail, hospitality and services such as gyms and hairdressers will reopen as part of the levels system.\n\nBut business leaders have said a return to this framework would be \"devastating\" and have called for more clarity on how the system would work.\n\nThe first minister and Chief Medical Officer haven't quite started playing Ian Dury's Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 during the daily briefing, but the change of tone in recent days has been dramatic.\n\nFrankly, the figures are improving far faster than anyone dared hope.\n\nThe rolling death toll is falling and is at its lowest since early October. The number of patients in hospital with Covid - while still high - is falling rapidly, as are new Covid admissions.\n\nThere is growing confidence this is down to the vaccination programme as well as lockdown.\n\nVirtually everyone over 65 has now had their first jab as have nearly 40% of those between 60 and 64 and a third of those aged 55 to 59.\n\nPositive tests are falling and the proportion of positive tests is consistently below the crucial 5pc benchmark.\n\nBecause those most at risk are being vaccinated first, jabs should mean far fewer hospital admissions or deaths. The portion of positive tests where the patient is asymptomatic or only mildly unwell may rise. Vaccinations also appear to cut transmission rates.\n\nWhile some scientists argue for a strategy based around the complete elimination of Covid, the argument made to the public has always been about saving lives and protecting the NHS.\n\nThere is a question over whether the public would support harsh measures if the risk of death and hospitalisation had been greatly reduced.\n\nThe challenge for those responsible for regulations is to strike the right balance between persuading people that difficult measures are still needed, ensuring people follow the rules and offering the tantalising prospect that the dark clouds may now be lifting and the sun will soon shine again.\n\nAs part of the lockdown easing plans, it was announced on Tuesday that all secondary school pupils in Scotland will return to classrooms part-time from 15 March - a month earlier than originally planned.\n\nThe latest statistics showed that further 498 people have tested positive for Covid-19 - the lowest daily figure since 27 September - representing 3.1% of the tests carried out.\n\nThe FM said 11 new deaths had been reported of people who had tested positive for coronavirus within 28 days, bringing the total under that measure to 7,409.\n\nA further 29,064 people received the first dose of the vaccine while 8,139 received the second dose.\n\nAnd the number of people in hospital with the virus has fallen by 52 to 666, with 64 patients in intensive care - three fewer than yesterday's figures.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar welcomed the improving statistics, but said the number of vaccinations and tests being carried out was \"nowhere near\" the level it should be.\n\nHe added: \"The vaccine is the way that we try to defeat the virus - or defeat it as best we can.\n\n\"The target was 400,000 vaccinations a week and we are nowhere near that.\n\n\"But the vaccine is only one part of this. People need to see that testing and tracing is still a huge, huge part of getting back some level of normality.\"", "Residents woke up to the new Banksy artwork on Monday morning\n\nStreet artist Banksy has confirmed he was behind the artwork that appeared on the wall of Reading Prison on Monday.\n\nThe picture shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.\n\nIt comes as campaigners continue to lobby for the former jail to be turned into an arts hub rather than being sold for housing.\n\nThe guerilla artist confirmed the work through a video on his website.\n\nThe clip - entitled Create Escape - shows the piece being created under the cover of darkness, set to archive commentary from American painter Bob Ross.\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\nThe Ministry of Justice said it was \"aware that Banksy has confirmed he is responsible for the graffiti\".\n\n\"We are considering next steps and will provide an update in due course,\" it added.\n\nReading Borough Council said Banksy's involvement suggested he was backing the campaign to save the prison.\n\nIt said: \"We are thrilled that Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind the council's desire to transform the vacant Reading Gaol into a beacon of arts, heritage and culture with this piece of artwork he has aptly called Create Escape.\n\n\"The council is pushing the Ministry of Justice, who own the site, to make suitable arrangements to protect the image.\"\n\nMatt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East, said there was a \"growing sense of excitement\" in the town since the artwork had been confirmed as real.\n\nThe Save Reading Gaol campaign tweeted: \"We're thrilled to hear it is, after all, a Banksy!\n\n\"Thanks to the elusive artist & their team. We are incredibly grateful. Your support & gift to the town will be appreciated for many years to come!\"\n\nSome people believe the artwork is related to plans to develop the prison\n\nToby Davies, the artistic director for Rabble Theatre in Reading, described it as \"fantastic\".\n\nHe said: \"It adds real kudos to the whole campaign to have someone who knows a thing or two about culture take a risk and come and do this on a Ministry of Justice building.\n\n\"It is phenomenal, it really displays how much it means to people.\n\n\"Whenever I speak to people, not just those in the culture world but those who walk past it every single day, they get very emotional about it.\"\n\nHe added: \"Reading has never had the opportunity to have a go at an international culture centre that brings people together.\n\n\"It should be a bubbling centre of UK culture but it isn't and that's because we've never been given a chance.\n\n\"If there was ever a chance then this is it and it won't come again.\"\n\nThe prison was immortalised in Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol\n\nMr Davies said having created the piece during lockdown would have been a \"significant personal risk\" for Banksy.\n\n\"It speaks volumes. He could have gone to wider issues around the world, there are plenty of them, but he has come to Reading to highlight this.\"\n\nThe jail famously housed Wilde between 1895 and 1897 and was immortalised by his poem Ballad of Reading Gaol during his stay, which reflected on the brutality of the Victorian penal system.\n\nHe was convicted after his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed.\n\nThe prison has been derelict since 2013 and was put up for sale by the government in 2019.\n\nHowever, a deal to sell the Grade II-listed building to developers fell through last year and Reading council said it hoped to revive its bid to turn it into an arts complex.\n\nHollywood actors Sir Kenneth Branagh, Natalie Dormer and Dame Judi Dench are among the stars who have lent their support to the campaign.\n\nBanksy caused a stir when a hula-hooping girl appeared on a residential street in Nottingham in October...\n\nBanksy expert and vice-chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, Prof Paul Gough, said the artwork could possibly be about the future use of the building or commentary on what is happening with news media and Facebook.\n\nHe said: \"It's probably one of Banksy's less well-known features is that he has in the past donated quite a lot of work to what he thinks are charitable causes.\n\n\"So to give a piece of work to an organisation or at least in the interest of art has happened before - he's painted pictures on the side of youth clubs or in organisations he wants to be seen lending a hand.\n\n\"So there is a charitable arm to Banksy, which doesn't get written about or get celebrated very often.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it's terrific for art, public discourse, and draws attention to a brick wall - a lovely brick wall - that normally people would walk straight past, so it helps you see your public realm in different ways.\"\n\n...and with a piece on the London Underground in July\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nThe disappearance of a woman who has not been heard from since Wednesday night is causing \"increasing concern\", police have said.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, vanished as she walked home to Brixton, south London, from the Clapham Junction area.\n\nMs Everard spoke to her partner en route but has not been heard from since that point, friend Rose Woollard said.\n\nShe said her phone signal was picked up last near Clarence Avenue, between her home and where she left another friend.\n\nFriends, who last heard from the 33-year-old at about 21:30 GMT on the day she went missing, were unable to contact Ms Everard on Thursday and notified the police.\n\nShe is 5ft 4in (162cm), has a slim build and blonde hair, and was wearing a green coat, dark trousers and trainers, her best friend Ms Woollard said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lambeth Police | Central South BCU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 teacher described the 33-year-old as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\".\n\nShe said: \"Sarah and I met many years ago whilst studying together at Durham University. She has always been an exceptional friend, dropping everything to be there to support her friends, whenever they need her.\n\n\"It was only recently that she was telling me the good news about her new role as a senior marketing account manager, which she was excited to start.\n\n\"It is extremely uncharacteristic of her to have gone missing, which is why we are all deeply concerned something has happened to her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid testing will mean a staggered start for secondary schools beginning from Monday\n\nHead teachers are warning of problems getting parental consent for Covid tests, ahead of pupils returning to school in England next week.\n\nA survey found more than half of secondary head teachers had faced difficulties getting parental approval.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL union which carried out the survey, said parents might have heard \"misinformation\" about testing.\n\nThe Covid tests for pupils are voluntary and need parents' permission.\n\nThe survey of more than 930 head teachers also found 76% of secondary schools have planned a phased return next week, such as different year groups starting on different days, allowing time for pupils to have Covid tests.\n\nIn 7% of schools, this staggered return will stretch into a second week.\n\n\"There will be a full return but it will be from - not on - Monday, 8 March,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nSchools have already begun testing ahead of pupils returning next week\n\nThe head teachers' union says the biggest problem, reported by 52% of heads, has been obtaining parental consent to carry out Covid tests on pupils.\n\n\"This is most likely to be simply a matter of oversight with some parents not returning forms,\" said Mr Barton.\n\n\"There may also be parents who are nervous about testing because they have seen or heard misinformation,\" he said.\n\nLabour MP Siobhain McDonagh has raised concerns about this in the House of Commons, calling for parental consent for testing to be \"opt out rather than opt in\".\n\nShe told MPs last week that in some schools up to half of pupils did not have parental consent for testing - and warned that could put other pupils at risk.\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb responded: \"We expect parents to give permission to the school to allow secondary school pupils to be tested twice a week.\n\n\"This is an important initiative that helps to minimise the risk of transmission in the secondary school estate.\n\n\"After the first three tests, home-testing kits will be sent to homes with pupils, and we hope that the twice-weekly testing of pupils will continue for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe Department for Education says it does not have data on levels of parental consent for testing.\n\nSecondary schools will have to carry out three swab tests on pupils as they start returning from Monday - and Mr Barton said schools had to set up testing centres that looked like \"field hospitals\".\n\nSchools also reported difficulties in finding staff to run the Covid testing.\n\nPupils in secondary schools will be expected to wear face masks in classrooms, where social distancing is not possible, but few heads anticipated any \"significant numbers\" refusing to comply.\n\nBut there were concerns about a lack of clarity in guidance, which recommends wearing face masks, but does not make them mandatory.\n\nMr Barton said the government had left schools with a logistical \"nightmare\" to sort out testing arrangements, when it had \"nothing to do with the core business of education\".\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"Secondary schools and colleges can stagger the return of their students over the first week to help them offer rapid testing in a safe and orderly way, but all students should be back no later than Monday 15 March.\"", "Science is winning the race between coronavirus and the vaccine, Pfizer's UK medical director has said.\n\nDr Berkeley Phillips told BBC News NI it was important people were \"allowed to start living again\".\n\nWhile the main threat continues to come from new variants, Pfizer is already designing an updated vaccine that will work, he said.\n\nDr Phillips said \"incredible progress\" had been made in the past year and \"we're winning that race\".\n\n\"If you look at what's happening in the UK there are dramatic reductions in the death rate, dramatic reductions in hospitalisations and in the number of cases,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think we have to start living again.\n\n\"It's obviously down to the governments of the devolved nations to decide exactly the right approaches - science is only one part of the decision making and that's why these decisions are so difficult.\"\n\nDr Phillips said the right balance should be struck between lockdown and unlocking too quickly\n\nWhen asked about the importance of reopening society, Dr Phillips said the right balance should be struck.\n\n\"There are many cancers going undiagnosed and people are going into hospital with suspected heart attacks and strokes and there are so many other conditions,\" he added.\n\n\"It is a balance between lockdown and unlocking too quickly.\"\n\nPfizer UK has been at the heart of vaccine research and trials since the start of the pandemic and is forecast to deliver over two billion vaccines by the end of this year.\n\nAccording to the doctor, a turning point for him and the team based at Surrey, were the pictures of Irishwoman Margaret Keenan, the first person to receive the vaccine on the NHS.\n\n\"It was a momentous moment,\" he said.\n\nGrandmother Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer jab\n\n\"Obviously I knew of 44,000 people who had been given the vaccine as part of the trial, but this was the first person on the NHS.\n\n\"I recall watching it and thinking this is the beginning of the fight back. It has been a war and has been a war against an invisible enemy.\n\n\"That moment when I saw her wearing her Christmas jumper felt like the tables were turning and the fight back against the virus was beginning.\"\n\nHe said he never imagined he would be working on a vaccine that would have such a huge impact on society and the global population.\n\nRecalling the morning when he got the news the vaccine had worked, he said it was an amazing feeling.\n\n\"First the person told me it had worked, then he said it was 95% efficacious which was just unbelievable when we thought it might just be 50% to 60% - so yes it was incredible.\"\n\nPregnant women in the UK are taking part in trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab\n\nPfizer and its partner BioNTech have now launched clinical trials to study the safety and effectiveness of its coronavirus vaccine on pregnant women.\n\nBesides studying levels of protection, researchers will also assess the safety in infants of vaccinated women and whether protective antibodies have been transferred to the infants.\n\nWomen in the UK are part of the trials.\n\n\"We haven't seen any adverse effects which is reassuring but we have a long way to go,\" said Dr Phillips.\n\nAs the global rollout of vaccines continue and demand grows, Pfizer UK said it remained confident that it could honour its global supply commitments.\n\nThe company is \"absolutely committed to keeping all our contractual agreements around the world regarding supply and in terms of the UK we are completely on track for this and the next quarter,\" he added.\n\nWhen asked about its data on blood clots, the doctor said there had not been any signal that blood clots had been happening at any higher incidence than compared to the general population.\n\n\"We have been discussing it with the regulators all around the world and they have not seen anything to be concerned about, so that is very reassuring from our perspective,\" he said.\n\nThe pandemic has focussed minds on the readiness of countries to respond to a global health crisis and the need for public health to be better equipped to cope with a health emergency.\n\nIt is referred to by scientists as \"pandemic preparedness\" - or the ability to be ready.\n\nThe pandemic has shone a spotlight on, among other things, the importance of research and science and how the two can no longer be separated, Dr Phillips said.\n\n\"I think research and science has come to our rescue to defeat this pandemic - they're also important for the health of our nation and its economy.\"\n\nThe medical director, who said he joined Pfizer to help improve people's lives, revealed they were now working on potential antiviral treatments, both intravenous and oral, for dealing with Covid-19.\n\n\"There are many exciting things to come, I am very optimistic about the future,\" he said.", "The walrus was basking in the sun\n\nAs people travelled to beauty spots on the first day of lockdown easing in Wales, one walrus continued its jaunt around the Welsh coast.\n\nThe large creature was spotted basking in the sun on the RNLI's slipway at Tenby in Pembrokeshire on Saturday.\n\nIt is thought it is the same walrus seen around the west Wales coast at Broad Haven's South beach last weekend - and also at County Kerry in Ireland.\n\nWalruses are more often seen in the North Pole or in the Arctic Ocean.\n\nWhile there are believed to be about 20,000 in the North Atlantic, they are rarely seen in the UK and Ireland.\n\nDr Rhian Field, who runs the Tenby Art of Science centre, was one of a number of people who took photographs of it in Tenby on Saturday.\n\n\"It was basking in the sun on the RNLI's slipway,\" she said.\n\n\"The walrus looked perfectly happy on its seaside refuge.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West said the \"big, beautiful animals never usually venture so far south\"\n\nThe large, tusked mammal was first spotted in Wales on rocks at Broad Haven on 19 March, with the RSPCA urging people to keep away from it.\n\nOnlookers described it \"chilling\" at the foot of cliffs, before going into the sea.\n\n\"It was about the size of a cow,\" said Cleopatra Browne of Welsh Marine Life Rescue\n\n\"It was a whopper. I've seen them on telly and the news but it was huge.\"", "Another march against the government's proposed Police and Crime bill is taking place in Bristol city centre.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered on College Green at 16:00 GMT before walking through the main shopping streets.\n\nLines of riot police and vans prevented anyone reaching Bridewell Street, the scene of disorder on Sunday night.\n\nFull story: Third protest in a week closes down city centre", "Millions of people across England are preparing for outdoor grassroots sports being allowed again from Monday 29 March.\n\nIt follows the restart in Wales, and Scotland earlier this month, while Northern Ireland follows suit on Thursday 1 April.\n\nIt’s the third time that all English grassroots sports have emerged from a shutdown and all clubs will be hoping Zoom sessions will be a thing of the past.", "Scientists believe they have worked out why biting down on ice or drinking something really cold causes excruciating pain for some people.\n\nThey have located the cells and signals in sensitive teeth that detect big temperature drops and trigger toothache and brain jolt.\n\nPeople with dental decay are prone to it because the pathway is exposed.\n\nIt provides a target for new treatments, such as toothpastes, dental patches or chewing gum, they say.\n\nProf Katharina Zimmermann is lead investigator of the work, published in the journal Science Advances.\n\n\"Once you have a molecule to target, there is a possibility of treatment,\" she explained.\n\nThe target is called TRPC5, and Prof Zimmermann's team at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany traced its location to a specific cell type - the odontoblast - that resides between the soft inner pulp and the hard outer layer of teeth composed of dentine, then enamel.\n\nThe odontoblasts in this mouse tooth are coloured bright green on this scan\n\nEnamel has no feeling, unlike the next layer dentine. The dentine connects to the innermost pulp, where nerve cells live.\n\nIf the dentine becomes exposed, following tooth decay or gum disease for example, painful stimuli such as temperature or certain liquids will cause pain.\n\nThe researchers studied mice and humans to understand how the pain arises, recording what was happening in cells and nerves.\n\nDr Zimmermann told the BBC: \"In human teeth with pits and dental caries we found a much upregulated number of TRPC5 channels, and therefore we believe that engineering a TRPC5 blocker that can be locally applied to teeth via strips or chewing gum would probably be a great help in treating tooth pain or dentine hypersensitivity.\"\n\nOne common home remedy - clove oil - contains a chemical called eugenol that blocks this TRPC5 pathway.\n\nThe scientists are not recommending DIY treatments though. People who are experiencing any worrying toothache should still see a dentist, they stress.\n\nProf Damien Walmsley from the British Dental Association (BDA) said blocking the pain might provide temporary relief, but it was vital to treat and prevent the cause. Brushing regularly could stop tooth and gum disease, he advised.\n\n\"The research is interesting but we can't ignore the underlying causes of tooth sensitivity, nor people's perception of pain. Dentists can treat the cause by removing the tooth decay, and advise on toothpaste for sensitive teeth.\"\n\nHe said that in the future, TRPC5 blocking agents might be included in toothpastes and dental products to prevent the pain of sensitivity.\n\nProf Zimmermann's team did not receive any commercial financing for the work. It was funded by the German Research Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US.\n\nTooth decay happens when the enamel and dentine of a tooth become softened by acid attacks after eating or drinking anything containing sugars, says the BDA.\n\nOver time, the acid makes a cavity (hole) in the tooth.\n\nYour risk of tooth decay is increased by how often you have sugary or acidic foods or drinks, so it is best to limit them to mealtimes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reporter Dan Whitworth was phoned by a fraudster and managed to record the call\n\nPhone companies must do more to stop fraudsters who spoof phone numbers to trap victims, one of the UK's top law enforcement officers has said.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Crime Agency's National Economic Crime Centre, says the UK needs \"a step change in our response\" to fraud.\n\nIt costs the economy up to £190bn each year.\n\nPhone companies say they are committed to taking action over nuisance calls.\n\nMr Biggar says there has been an \"explosion\" in the number of criminals spoofing phone numbers in the past 12 months.\n\n\"Phone companies have been used for fraud since they've been invented and it's a constant arms race to stop vulnerabilities and then stop them.\n\n\"With HMRC scams alone, more than 2,700 numbers have been taken out of circulation after they've been reported, but there is definitely a lot more that the phone companies need to do and can do.\"\n\nHis comments are backed up by a recent report from industry body UK Finance, which suggests the number of reported cases of impersonation fraud - including spoof calls - last year nearly doubled to 40,000.\n\nHowever, the real figure is likely to be much higher, because many victims won't report fraud to their bank or building society, or even tell their family or friends, because of feelings of embarrassment or guilt.\n\nEarlier this year, the level of fraud in the UK was labelled a \"threat to national security\".\n\nThe communications watchdog, Ofcom, describes number spoofing as people who deliberately change the telephone number and the name that is relayed as the Caller ID information.\n\n\"They do this to either hide their identity or to try to mimic the number of a real company or person who has nothing to do with the real caller,\" explains Ofcom on its website.\n\n\"For example, identity thieves who want to steal sensitive information such as your bank account or login details, sometimes use spoofing to pretend they're calling from your bank or credit card company.\"\n\nOpe Oladejo, a 21-year-old law student, had nearly £2,000 stolen from her last summer - money she'd been saving whilst working as a carer for help pay for a law course.\n\n\"The number spoofing was the most important part [of the deception],\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"At first I was a bit sceptical...but they said: 'Check the number [we're calling you on] on the back of your card'.\n\n\"I checked and it matched and that's when I let my guard down completely.\"\n\nOpe Oladejo had nearly £2,000 stolen from her by criminals who spoofed her bank's phone number\n\nBecause the criminals had convinced Ope she was speaking to her bank, they were able to get key details and information from her, which allowed them to steal the money.\n\nThankfully, the money was refunded by Ope's bank and she has been able to continue her studies, but she says the incident hit her hard.\n\n\"Emotionally it just made me really sad, I just cried a lot about it,\" she says.\n\n\"Financially I think it made me smarter... I basically ignore any phone calls I've not got saved as they might be a spoof.\"\n\nThe BBC approached Mobile UK, which represents the four big mobile phone companies, as well as BT, for comment.\n\nThe mobile operators and BT said they were committed to taking action against nuisance calls and to working with Ofcom and law enforcement bodies to reduce the threat.\n\nThey added that they take customers' security very seriously and advised people to hang up straight away if they are suspicious about any call.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme on Saturday at 12pm on Radio 4 or by listening again here shortly after broadcast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there are \"significant questions\" about Alex Salmond's political comeback.\n\nHer comments came after Mr Salmond revealed he would be among the new Alba Party's regional list candidates.\n\nThe former first minister said his aim was to build \"a supermajority for independence\" after the May election.\n\nIn response, the Scottish Conservatives wrote to Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats and urged them to work together.\n\nBut Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar accused the party of playing games and added: \"This election cannot be about an SNP psychodrama.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Liberal Democrat campaign chairman Alistair Carmichael insisted that the politics of Tory leader Douglas Ross were \"far too dark and divisive\".\n\nAs the news of the new party broke on Friday, other Holyrood leaders questioned Mr Salmond's character.\n\nSpeaking on the campaign trail on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I take no pleasure whatsoever in saying this but I think there are significant questions about the appropriateness of his return to public office given the concerns that have been raised about his behaviour previously but that's for voters to judge and decide.\n\n\"This is an election. We live in a democracy. For my part, in this campaign, I am focused on the interests of the country.\"\n\nShe added that the Covid pandemic and its consequences made this \"probably the most serious election in any of our lifetimes\".\n\nAsked about Mr Salmond's vision of securing a \"supermajority\", Ms Sturgeon said: \"I know Alex Salmond very well. He makes big claims which often don't stand up to scrutiny.\"\n\nThe first minister added her predecessor has changed his mind on how to secure independence due to \"self interest and, dare I say it, ego\".\n\nShe added: \"Alex Salmond is a gambler. It is what he enjoys doing. But this is not the time to gamble with the future of the country.\"\n\nMr Salmond is seeking a return to Holyrood for the first time since 2016\n\nMeanwhile, on the first weekend of the campaign it emerged that MP Kenny MacAskill has left the SNP to join the Alba Party.\n\nThe former justice secretary will stand as a candidate on the Lothian regional list. He is now the Alba Party's first MP at Westminster.\n\nDuring an online launch on Friday Mr Salmond said the party planned to field at least four candidates on the regional lists in every part of the country.\n\nPeople have two votes in Holyrood elections - one for a constituency MSP, and another in a regional ballot designed to make the overall result more proportional.\n\nMr Salmond claimed that if Alba won regional list seats, this could lead to there being 90 or more MSPs at Holyrood who support independence.\n\nHe added that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has already dismissed the SNP's calls for a second independence referendum, would \"find it much more difficult to say no to a parliament and a country.\"\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Scottish Parliament have? MSPs pass laws on most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes and welfare benefits. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible, so long as they are aged 16 or over on the day of the election. You can register to vote online.\n\nIn response to the new party, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross requested a meeting with Mr Sarwar and Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie in a bid to \"rediscover the Better Together spirit\".\n\nMr Ross asked his counterparts to sign a Unionist manifesto which pledges to vote against a second independence referendum regardless of the result in May's election; rule out a coalition or confidence deal with any party who seeks to hold an independence referendum in the next parliament; and agree to form a pro-UK, anti-referendum coalition if the opportunity arises.\n\nHe also warned that another independence poll would be divisive.\n\nMr Ross said: \"The prospect of that referendum, held without the UK government's consent, has increased dramatically with the formation of Alex Salmond's party. This new Nationalist party is designed solely to deliver an independence super-majority.\n\n\"The threat of a Scottish Parliament focused entirely on breaking up the UK for the next five years, instead of on the essential task of rebuilding our country, is now very real.\"\n\nAs the biggest opposition party, Mr Ross vowed to stand up to the SNP but added: \"If we can work with other pro-UK parties to further our chances of preventing a nationalist government, we will do so.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross hopes Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats will sign his Unionist manifesto\n\nMr Sarwar responded to the letter by confirming Scottish Labour did not support Scottish independence or a second referendum.\n\nBut he also said the focus of the election must be how the country emerged from the pandemic.\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"It cannot be about Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond settling old scores. And it cannot be about your petty agenda of game playing.\n\n\"This election must be about the people of Scotland, their families and a national recovery. As you have recognised yourself, one of the largest threats to the Union is the leader of your own party.\"\n\nThe new Scottish Labour leader said he did not want to waste time and energy \"on the imagined conflicts that divide us\" and would rather focus on major issues, such as child poverty.\n\nHe concluded: \"Rather than entertain your latest desperate plea for attention, I am focusing our energy on what matters - guaranteeing a fairer recovery and a stronger Scotland.\n\n\"Scotland deserves a better government and - as your letter demonstrates - it deserves a better opposition.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat campaign chairman Alistair Carmichael said: \"Lib Dems will work with others to deliver a constructive and ambitious plan for recovery, but Douglas Ross's politics are far too dark and divisive.\n\n\"We will focus on winning seats and ensuring that the next government is focused on putting the recovery first, not independence.\n\n\"As a football referee Douglas Ross has a knack for uniting the fans of opposing teams. As a party leader he seems to do the exact opposite.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, said: \"I think a great many people in Scotland want an election based on the big issues facing our country. Not just the constitutional future but the response to the pandemic, how we build a green recovery from the pandemic that creates a fairer and more equal society, the climate crisis - especially with COP26 coming to Glasgow - and the poverty and inequality that still blights our society.\n\n\"I don't think Alex Salmond is the answer to any of these questions. He's clearly a discredited figure in Scottish politics.\"\n\nMr Harvie said the behaviour that Alex Salmond had admitted - ignoring the criminal offences he was acquitted over - would have seen summary dismissal for gross misconduct from many other jobs.\n\n\"I don't think any credible party would have him as a candidate today,\" he added.\n\nIn 2019, the Scottish government admitted it had acted unlawfully while investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond, which he strongly denied.\n\nThe following year he was acquitted of all 13 charges of sexual assault after a trial at the High Court.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Salmond said that in hindsight he wished he had been \"more careful with people's personal space\".\n\nHis defence lawyer, Gordon Jackson QC, told the court Mr Salmond had not always behaved well and could have been \"a better man on occasions\" - but had never sexually assaulted anyone.\n\nThe Alba's Party's unexpected launch came at the end of an dramatic week at Holyrood.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Salmond said he would take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.\n\nA report by MSPs on Tuesday described the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond as \"seriously flawed\".\n\nThe previous day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.", "Isaac said his family had been placed in eight different properties\n\nA young boy had to make a four-hour round trip to school after his family was placed in temporary accommodation 85 miles away.\n\nIsaac, 11, and his family were placed at a B&B in Manchester by Birmingham City Council due to a lack of social housing available in the city.\n\n\"By the time we got home we just went straight to bed,\" he said.\n\nThe council said the national housing crisis had created \"significant challenges\" for all local authorities.\n\n''Our family has stayed at eight different places,\" Issac said.\n\n\"There was one B&B where we stayed for two months in Manchester, but we still had school here in Birmingham which took us two hours to get there and two hours to get back.\"\n\nIsaac told an event, organised by the charity Citizens UK: Birmingham, that his younger brother had spent all of his life in different homeless accommodation.\n\nThe two-month placement in Manchester happened after his mother approached the council for help finding emergency accommodation.\n\n\"A year ago, we were in a bed and breakfast, we were all in one room, all six of us.\n\n\"There were not enough bed spaces. I slept on the top bunk because there were cockroaches, and I didn't like it,\" he said.\n\nThe event was organised to issue a list of \"citizens demands\" to candidates standing to become the next West Midlands Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner.\n\nAndy Street, the Conservative candidate for West Midlands Mayor, said hearing Isaac speak showed \"how much work still has to be done to provide affordable housing.\"\n\nLiam Byrne, the Labour candidate described the stories as \"heartbreaking\" and a \"complete scandal.\"\n\nThe city council said: \"Our strategy going forward is very prevention focussed, working closely with private landlords to expand our portfolio to source good quality and affordable accommodation through our Help to Rent scheme and running a number of additional schemes that enable households to remain in their home.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ship's Japanese owners said tugboats and dredgers were working to free the ship\n\nThe large container ship trapped in the Suez Canal could be dislodged as soon as Saturday, the vessel's Japanese owners have said.\n\nYukito Higaki, president of Shoei Kisen, told a news conference on Friday that 10 tugboats had been deployed to dredge the banks and canal bottom.\n\nThe US has also offered to send help, including a team of US Navy experts.\n\nThe Ever Given became wedged in the canal on Tuesday, forcing companies to reroute ships around Africa.\n\nThe blockage has also caused a huge traffic jam of more than 200 ships in the Red Sea.\n\nMr Higaki told a press conference in the western Japanese city of Imabari that they were \"continuing work to remove sediment as of now, with additional dredging tools\".\n\nHe added that crews were hoping to dislodge the ship as early as Saturday evening Tokyo time, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.\n\nThe Ever Given is almost as long as Manhattan's Empire State Building is high\n\n\"The ship is not taking water,\" he said. \"There is no problem with its rudders and propellers. Once it refloats, it should be able to operate.\n\n\"We are continuing work to remove sediment as of now, with additional dredging tools.\"\n\nMeanwhile Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), the ship's technical manager, said on Friday that an attempt to refloat the vessel had failed.\n\nA specialised suction dredger, which can shift 2,000 cubic metres (70,000 cubic feet) of material every hour, arrived on site on Thursday, it added.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki also said the US had offered assistance to get the Suez Canal reopened, and that they were \"tracking the situation very closely\".\n\nJoe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk Ohio, told the BBC on Friday that the number of vessels waiting at the canal's southern entrance was \"growing exponentially\".\n\n\"It's going to affect shipping schedules around the world,\" he warned.\n\nThe 400m-long (1,300ft), 200,000-tonne vessel ran aground on Tuesday morning in high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.\n\nSpecialist salvage companies have been brought in to help refloat the ship, and an adviser to Egypt's president had said he hoped the situation would be resolved within two to three days. But experts have said it could take weeks if the vessel's containers need to be removed.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the 193km (120-mile) canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nAn alternative route, around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, can take two weeks longer.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nJohn Denholm, president of the UK Chamber of Shipping, told the BBC that if the diggers and tugs were not successful, salvage teams would have to start the slow process of \"lightering\" the ship - transferring its cargo to another vessel or the canal bank.\n\nThat would involve bringing in specialist equipment, including a crane that would need to stretch more than 60m (200ft) high, he said.\n\n\"If we go through the lightering process, I suspect we're talking weeks.\"\n\nService provider Leth Agencies said a total of 237 vessels were waiting in the area on Friday - 107 at Port Suez in the Red Sea, 41 at the canal's midway point in the Great Bitter Lake, and 89 at Port Said in the Mediterranean.\n\nThe blockage is holding up an estimated $9.6bn (£7bn) of goods each day - or $400m an hour - according to data from Lloyd's List.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A salvage company, working to free the Ever Given, says the operation could take weeks\n\nDid you witness the incident? Are you on board another vessel on the Suez Canal? Tell us your story 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:", "Nasa said the Apophis asteroid no longer poses a threat to Earth within the next century\n\nEarthlings can breathe a sigh of relief after US space agency Nasa confirmed the planet was \"safe\" from a once-feared asteroid for the next 100 years at least.\n\nNasa had deemed Apophis to be one of the most dangerous asteroids to Earth after its discovery in 2004.\n\nClose calls in 2029 and 2036 were predicted and later ruled out. A slight threat still remained for 2068.\n\nBut now Nasa has dismissed that threat based on new analysis of the asteroid.\n\n\"A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility any more, and our calculations don't show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years,\" Davide Farnocchia, a scientist who studies near-Earth objects for Nasa, said in a statement on Friday.\n\nNamed after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and darkness, Apophis is estimated to measure 340m (1,100ft) across - about the length of three UK football pitches.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sampling an asteroid: This image sequence is speeded up and repeated\n\nThe asteroid recently made a distant flyby of Earth on 5 March, passing within 17 million km (10 million miles) of the planet.\n\nAstronomers were able to use radar observations to refine their estimate of the asteroid's orbit around the Sun, allowing them to confidently rule out any impact risk in 2068 and long after.\n\n\"When I started working with asteroids after college, Apophis was the poster child for hazardous asteroids,\" said Mr Farnocchia. \"There's a certain sense of satisfaction to see it removed from the risk list.\"\n\nHe said Nasa was \"looking forward to the science we might uncover during its close approach in 2029\".\n\nThe close approach Mr Farnocchia referred to will happen on 13 April, 2029. On that date, the asteroid is expected to pass within 32,000 km of the Earth's surface.\n\nThat is about one-tenth of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.\n\nDuring that 2029 close approach, Apophis will be visible to observers on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth, which includes Asia, Africa and parts of Europe.\n\nPixelated images of asteroid Apophis were recorded by radio antennas\n\nNo telescope or binoculars will be required, unlike for Nasa's 5 March observation.\n\nStill, even on that occasion, the radar images of the asteroid had \"remarkable resolution\", the agency said.\n\n\"If we had binoculars as powerful as this radar, we would be able to sit in Los Angeles and read a dinner menu at a restaurant in New York,\" Nasa scientist Marina Brozovic said.\n\nNasa keeps track of asteroids that could one day make threatening close approaches to Earth, designating them as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA).\n\nThey all have codenames befitting robots from the Star Wars film series. Here are three.", "Maj Gen Nick Welch retired in 2018 as Assistant Chief of the General Staff\n\nAn Army major general who dishonestly claimed £48,000 for his children's boarding school fees has been jailed.\n\nNick Welch, 57, claimed to live in London rather than Dorset, near their schools.\n\nWelch was convicted of fraud by a panel of senior officers after a four-week trial at Bulford Military Court and handed a 21-month sentence.\n\nHe is believed to be the most senior officer to be court-martialled since 1815.\n\nJudge Advocate Gen Alan Large also sentenced Welch to retrospective dismissal from the Army, meaning he can no longer benefit from his rank of retired major general.\n\nWelch, who left the military in 2018, has been ordered to pay back the fraudulently claimed cash.\n\nThe Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) allows children to remain at the same schools to enable their serving parent to be accompanied by their spouse as they are posted to different locations.\n\nHowever, it cannot be claimed if a soldier's spouse is away from the military home for more than 90 days per year, the trial heard.\n\nThe prosecution said Welch applied for the allowance on the basis both he and his wife would not be living close to the children.\n\nWelch was awarded medals for his service in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and for long service with good conduct\n\nBut it said his wife Charlotte actually spent most of her time at a cottage in Blandford Forum, Dorset, close to the £37,000-a-year Clayesmore School and the £22,500-a-year Hanford School.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a neighbour told authorities about the family's absence from London.\n\nJudge Large said: \"A disciplined organisation such as the Army relies on those in rank and authority to set an example and to be beyond reproach.\n\n\"The higher your rank, the more important it is that you uphold the values and standards of the Army in which you serve and when an officer of the rank of major general offends as you have, the potential to erode discipline and undermine morale is considerable.\"\n\nWelch joined the Army in 1984 and when he retired he held the position of the assistant chief of general staff at Ministry of Defence (MoD) headquarters in London.\n\nHe had been awarded medals for his service in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and for long service with good conduct.\n\nJudge Large told him: \"In stark contrast to the events leading to your conviction in this trial, you had a highly successful military career, served your country with distinction on operations and you were a fine ambassador for your service and nation.\"\n\nDuring the trial, Welch denied being dishonest and said his wife was living with him for the majority of the time.\n\nHis barrister, Sarah Jones QC, had argued that the CEA system and the 90-day rule were a \"mess\" and not strictly enforced.\n\nWelch claimed an allowance for the £37,000-a-year Clayesmore School...\n\nMiss Jones said the sentence would \"shake the foundations of the man and what he has achieved and what he has failed in two things he cared about most\".\n\nShe said his career had been \"brought to an ignominious end and his family life has been shattered as his children are distraught and his wife puts a brave face on things\".\n\nWelch was remorseful and acknowledged \"he had not taken enough care\", she added.\n\nA character reference from the former Commander of Joint Forces Command, General Sir Richard Barrons, said Welch was of \"unimpeachable integrity\".\n\nBut prosecutor Sarah Clarke QC said he had attempted to manipulate the figures regarding his family's locations to cover up his dishonesty.\n\nWelch will spend half his sentence in prison before being released on licence.\n\nFollowing his sentencing, an MoD spokesperson said: \"It has been proven in this case that retired Major General Nicholas Welch OBE did commit fraud and he has been sentenced accordingly.\"\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.", "Soma Sara set up the Everyone's Invited website to highlight victims' stories of sexual abuse\n\nAllegations of sexual assault at London schools are being investigated by police, after being highlighted by an online campaign.\n\nThe website \"Everyone's Invited\" asked victims to post anonymous accounts of abuse they had suffered, and has now received more than 5,000 testimonies.\n\nThe Met Police said it has been \"reviewing the content\" of the site and contacted schools it could identify.\n\nThe testimonies include accounts from victims as young as nine.\n\nThe Met's lead for rape and sexual offences, Det Supt Mel Laremore, said: \"It is deeply concerning to see the number of accounts published on this website, many of which appear to relate to previous or current experiences within educational settings in London and across the country.\n\n\"We take all allegations of sexual assault very seriously. We understand the complex and varied reasons why many victim-survivors do not contact law enforcement, but I want to personally reassure anyone who needs our help that we are absolutely here for you.\"\n\nPeople who were abused years ago should still come forward and report the incidents, Det Supt Laremore said.\n\nIn June 2020, Soma Sara, who is now 22, shared her experience on Instagram of what she calls \"rape culture\".\n\nWithin a week she had received and shared more than 300 anonymous responses of people with stories of \"misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault\".\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website now carries thousands of victims' testimonies, often from schools and universities.\n\nExperiences range from being drugged and raped at parties to explicit images being shared over messaging platforms.\n\nThis week, pupils at Highgate School in North London walked out of classes in protest at a perceived \"rape culture\".\n\nOne male ex-pupil told BBC Newsnight that girls were \"hounded\" for naked selfies at the school. The school's governing body said it was \"truly sorry\" and had commissioned an external review.\n\nOther private schools in London have reportedly passed allegations of sexual abuse onto police.\n\nMs Soma, the founder of the site, told the BBC this month: \"The testimonies [on the site] expose rape culture and the scale of sexual violence amongst young people in the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV personality Sharon Osbourne has left US chat show The Talk after a heated on-air debate about racism earlier this month.\n\nOsbourne defended broadcaster Piers Morgan over his criticism of a high-profile TV interview given by the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThat led to a clash with co-host Sheryl Underwood, who accused Osbourne of giving \"validation\" to \"racist\" views.\n\nTV network CBS took The Talk off air while it carried out an investigation.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, CBS said the events of the 10 March episode \"were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home\".\n\nIt said Osbourne's behaviour towards co-hosts during the episode \"did not align with our values for a respectful workplace\".\n\nThe review did not, CBS said, find any evidence to support Osbourne's allegation that the controversial discussion had been \"orchestrated\" by producers.\n\nHowever, CBS said it acknowledged the network, studio teams and producers were \"accountable for what happened during that broadcast\" because \"it was clear the co-hosts were not properly prepared by the staff for a complex and sensitive discussion involving race\".\n\nMorgan has stood by his criticism of the Duchess of Sussex\n\nThe row on The Talk came after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave an explosive interview with American talk-show host Oprah Winfrey.\n\nIn the interview, the duchess said she had suffered with her mental health and had suicidal thoughts during her time as a working member of the royal family.\n\nThe day after the interview aired in early March, Morgan told viewers on the Good Morning Britain breakfast show he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had said.\n\nThose comments drew condemnation, leading to Morgan's departure from the programme on ITV.\n\nOsbourne, 68, was one of the first people to voice support for her friend Morgan, arguing he had the right to express his own opinion.\n\n\"@piersmorgan I am with you. I stand by you,\" she tweeted. \"People forget that you're paid for your opinion and that you're just speaking your truth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Osbourne: He has a right to his opinion\n\nWhen Underwood raised the tweet with her in an episode of The Talk, Osbourne said: \"I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist.\"\n\nOsbourne then challenged Underwood, who is black, to explain where she had heard Morgan \"say racist things\".\n\nUnderwood replied: \"It is not the exact words of racism, it's the implication and the reaction to it.\"\n\nOsbourne later issued an apology, saying she had \"felt blindsided\" and had let her \"fear and horror of being accused of being racist take over\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with Entertainment Tonight last week, Osbourne suggested she had been \"set up\" as a \"sacrificial lamb\" and had not been sufficiently prepared by The Talk's producers.\n\n\"I wish we could go on and have an adult conversation calmly and work it out but I don't know whether we can,\" she said.\n\nShe is yet to comment on CBS's announcement of her exit from The Talk.\n\nOsbourne, who is married to rock star Ozzy and has appeared as a judge on The X Factor and other shows, had been a panellist on The Talk throughout its 11 years on air.", "Protesters gathered for a second day outside Batley Grammar School on Friday\n\nSharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils an \"offensive\" cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could result in police action, a watchdog has warned.\n\nProtests were held outside Batley Grammar School, where the staff member was suspended after complaints.\n\nBaroness Kishwer Falkner said making a teacher fear for their safety was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission chair said the school \"ought to be trusted\" to take action.\n\n\"A teacher's identity being shared, making them fear for their safety, is simply unacceptable and could result in enforcement action from the police,\" she said.\n\nGary Kibble, head teacher of the West Yorkshire school, said the teacher had \"given their most sincere apologies\" for the caricature being shown and said an investigation had begun.\n\nDemonstrators, who first gathered outside the grounds on Thursday morning, staged a second protest on Friday but had moved on by mid-afternoon.\n\nSome had demanded the teacher's sacking and accused staff of failing to take the issue seriously.\n\nBaroness Falkner said children's education \"should not be disrupted by protests in what has already been a difficult year\".\n\n\"Schools are places where children learn about ideas, values, difference and respect.\n\n\"This sometimes involves exposing them to contentious issues and different views and ideas.\"\n\n\"For schools to meet their legal duty to foster good relations between people from different groups, this should be done in a balanced, respectful and sensitive way.\"\n\nSpeaking on Friday morning, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick called for the \"deeply unsettling\" scenes outside the school to \"come to an end\".\n\nHe defended the right of teachers to \"appropriately\" show images of the Prophet Muhammed and said \"no-one should be feeling intimidated or threatened as they go into school\".\n\nA petition calling for the teacher to be reinstated has received more than 10,000 signatures.\n\nRobert Jenrick described the protests as \"deeply unsettling\"\n\nDr Shazad Amin, deputy chair of MEND, which helps Muslims engage with British media and politics, said its Islamophobia Response Unit had been helping several parents liaise with the school.\n\nHe said he saw \"no problem\" with blasphemy being discussed at the school but said the particular image shown to pupils was \"deeply offensive\" and \"furthered stereotypes and anti-Islamic tropes\".\n\nAs a result, he said, people in the local community had \"a right to feel hurt and a right to feel angry\" but called for them to allow the matter to be properly investigated.\n\nHe said parents were \"fairly positive\" about the action taken so far by the school.\n\nFormer Conservative Party chairwoman Baroness Warsi said the debate had been hijacked by \"extremists on both sides\" to fuel a \"culture war\" at the expense of \"kids and their learning\".\n\nLabour MP for Batley and Spen, Tracey Brabin, condemned those who \"seek to fan the flames of this incident\", and said she welcomed the school's apology.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said no arrests had been made and officers remained at the school.\n\nParts of the Koran are taken to mean that neither Allah nor Muhammad can be captured in an image by human hand and any attempt to do so is seen as an insult.\n\nKirklees Council said Batley Grammar is an academy school so the authority only has a \"very limited role\" in its running, but it praised staff for taking \"swift action\".\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.", "Germany is among those European countries facing 'a third wave' of coronavirus Image caption: Germany is among those European countries facing 'a third wave' of coronavirus\n\nMore from Boris Johnson who was speaking at the Conservatives' virtual spring forum.\n\nThe prime minister said \"bitter experience\" has taught him that the surge in cases - or \"third wave\" - currently being experienced in parts of Europe could hit the UK \"three weeks later\".\n\n\"The question is - is it going to be, this time, as bad it has been in the past?\n\n\"Or have we sufficiently mitigated, muffled, blunted the impact by the vaccine rollout?\" he added.\n\n\"There's lots of promising evidence that a lot of people who could be vulnerable are now protected against death and serious disease, that's my hope - my hunch.\n\n\"But we haven't yet seen the real conclusive proof - in the sense that we haven't seen a take-off in infection rates that hasn't been accompanied by a lot of hospitalisations and deaths.\n\n\"That'll be the key difference this time round, if we're lucky.\"", "Mr MacAskill is bidding to return to Holyrood where he was an MSP from 1999 to 2016\n\nThe MP Kenny MacAskill has announced he is quitting the SNP to stand for Alex Salmond's new party at the Holyrood election.\n\nThe former Scottish justice secretary said the Alba Party, that launched on Friday, would help achieve independence.\n\nThe SNP have called for a by-election in response, and described his departure as \"somewhat of a relief\".\n\nMr MacAskill is the most high-profile SNP name to defect to the new party.\n\nHe is now the Alba Party's first MP at Westminster and said he would be forming an Alba Party group there. He said the membership of Alba was \"going through the roof\".\n\nMr MacAskill told the BBC News Channel: \"The gamble isn't going for an independent supermajority, the gamble is remaining in a United Kingdom led by Boris Johnson enforcing austerity and making the world a riskier place.\n\n\"This is a chance to deliver the right for Scotland to decide its own future and to reject the right of Boris Johnson to veto Scotland's right to choose.\"\n\nHe said he would continue to serve in East Lothian.\n\n\"This is about continuing to drive forward the cause of independence,\" he said. \"I didn't leave the SNP - that I've been a member of for more than 40 years - lightly, but I've been committed to the cause of independence throughout all of my life and it's never been more vital or necessary than now.\n\n\"Now is the time for Scotland to choose a different way, a different direction, but to be able to do that we require the powers of an independent nation and that's why Alba was formed and that's what a supermajority for independence will deliver in May.\"\n\nHe added: \"This isn't just the Alex Salmond party or even the Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill Party, it's a party for those who support the cause of independence and who want to make sure we grasp that nettle which is badly required because of the risks and challenges that we face.\"\n\nA total of 48 SNP MPs were elected in December 2019, making it the third largest party at Westminster.\n\nNews of Mr MacAskill's defection will not come as a surprise to many as the East Lothian MP has long been a close ally of Mr Salmond and has been critical of the SNP's leadership.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"He has been an increasing embarrassment to many in the SNP and his departure is somewhat of a relief.\n\n\"That he is joining a party with serious questions to answer about its leader's suitability for public office is no surprise.\n\n\"He should now resign his seat in the House of Commons to let a by-election take place immediately so the people of East Lothian can elect a new MP who will focus on their interests, rather than self-interest.\"\n\nScottish Labour MP Ian Murray said: \"The Scottish and Westminster parliaments are not places for people to play at politics and Kenny McAskill must now stand down to allow the people of East Lothian to make his obsession with division history. The people of East Lothian deserve better than to be cast aside without a second thought.\"\n\nLib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael added: \"Kenny MacAskill wants to go from being the SNP MP for East Lothian, to the Alba party MSP for Lothians. I will be interested to see how he pursues this role from his home in Banffshire.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said: \"Instead of focusing 100% on recovery and rebuilding Scotland, Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill's new party are seeking to game the electoral system and boost nationalist seat numbers so they can get an independence super-majority.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Greens said: \"This election should be about putting forward a positive vision for Scotland's future, not settling personal vendettas. Kenny MacAskill has simply joined the public meltdown of a man disgraced by his own behaviour.\"", "Militants have been battling the Mozambican army around Palma for days\n\nIslamist militants have ambushed a convoy that was trying to rescue civilians from a hotel amid fighting in northern Mozambique, reports say.\n\nA South African man has been confirmed as dead, but many details are unclear.\n\nHundreds of people fled the fighting, which began on Wednesday in the town of Palma. Evacuees included foreign gas workers.\n\nFrench energy giant Total said it was forced to suspend operations at a huge gas project nearby.\n\nThe company had only just announced it would restart work on the $20bn (£14.5bn) project which it had halted in January over security concerns.\n\nIn a statement, the company said none of its staff were killed in the incident, but the \"remobilisation of the project that was envisaged at the beginning of the week\" had been halted.\n\nTotal added that it trusted the Mozambican security forces, who were working to regain control of the area.\n\nHuman Rights Watch said that witnesses described seeing \"bodies on the streets and residents fleeing after the... fighters fired indiscriminately at people and buildings\".\n\nNorthern Mozambique has been torn apart by an insurgency since 2017.\n\nMilitants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind the conflict in the predominantly Muslim region of Cabo Delgado. The fighting has left more than 2,500 people dead and 700,000 displaced.\n\nThere are unconfirmed reports of British citizens being caught up in the hotel siege.\n\nA UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson told the BBC: \"Our High Commission in Maputo is in direct contact with authorities in Cabo Delgado to urgently seek further information on these reports.\"\n\nInsurgents launched a surprise assault on Palma earlier in the week, attacking shops, banks and a military barracks.\n\nHundreds of people fled the fighting, running into forests, mangroves or nearby villages. About 180 foreign and local gas workers took refuge in the Amarula Palma hotel.\n\nSome tried to escape the hotel in a convoy of vehicles on Friday, aiming for a nearby beach, Reuters news agency quoted Lionel Dyck as saying. Mr Dyck runs a South African private security company that works with the Mozambique government.\n\nBut they were ambushed outside the hotel, Mr Dyck said, adding that at least 20 people were initially flown to safety in helicopters.\n\nThe South African man confirmed to have been killed was thought to have been driving one of the escape vehicles.\n\nOne source told the BBC several people were successfully evacuated and reached the city of Pemba, 420km (260 miles) south of Palma.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A third night of protests in Bristol led to 10 arrests after a Kill the Bill protest ended in violent scuffles.\n\nA \"minority\" of protesters \"showed hostility\" and arrests came after some who had sat in front of a police station were cleared.\n\nBridewell police station was the scene of disorder last Sunday, with a small number of protesters smashing windows and torching police vans.\n\nThe protests have been opposing the government's Police and Crime Bill.\n\nArrests have also been made at the previous two protests.\n\nProtesters sat close to Bridewell police station after they had marched from College Green\n\nSupt Mark Runacres, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: \"The majority of people acted peacefully however there was a minority who once again showed hostility to officers.\n\n\"Items, including glass bottles and bricks were thrown at officers, fireworks were launched at our mounted section while one of our horses was also covered with paint.\n\n\"This violent conduct is not acceptable.\n\n\"Officers repeatedly encouraged people to disperse but once the atmosphere changed and people became physical it was necessary to take action.\n\n\"At times reasonable force had to be used - this is not something we ever want to do but we have a duty to uphold the law, prevent crime, and protect people and property.\"\n\nThe police moved in to clear the area shortly after 22:00\n\nPolice pushed protesters out of the city centre\n\nFriday's protest started peacefully on College Green before 1,000 people marched with a \"significant\" number stopping outside Bridewell police station.\n\nPolice were seen charging the protesters, using riot shields to hit them and police horses were used to move protesters back.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said its officers moved in after eggs and glass bottles were thrown at them, and after protesters attempted to remove their riot shields.\n\nIn total, 10 were arrested. One has been given a fixed penalty notice while the other nine remain in custody.\n\nA clean-up operation was under way on Saturday morning\n\nThe protest had started peacefully earlier in the day\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told BBC Breakfast that \"whenever there is violence, that is completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe said protesters should be using \"other ways of expressing whatever dissatisfaction they have\".\n\nAsked whether the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which Labour has opposed, seeks to prevent the sort of scenes seen in Bristol, Ms Dodds said the party's criticism concerned \"the lack of measures within that bill to protect women and girls\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Cumulonimbus incus: The anvil shape forms when the rising cloud reaches the tropopause\n\nWe've all seen those majestic anvil storm clouds that form on a hot summer's day, but what do you think is the temperature right at the very top?\n\nIt's very cold, obviously; at high altitude it is well below freezing.\n\nBut would you be surprised to learn it is sometimes below even -100C?\n\nIndeed, scientists have just published research showing the top of one tropical storm cloud system in 2018 reached -111C. This is very likely a record low temperature.\n\nIt was seen on 29 December that year, just south of the equator in the western Pacific. The measurement was made by a passing American satellite, Noaa-20.\n\nWhen a powerful upward draft reaches the top of the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, it will normally flatten and spread out to form that classic anvil shape.\n\nBut if the storm is very energetic, the upward movement of air can punch through the troposphere's ceiling, the tropopause, to keep on rising into the stratosphere, the next layer up in the atmosphere. In the 2018 event, the cloud top was at about 20.5km in altitude.\n\n\"It's called an overshooting top,\" explains Dr Simon Proud, a Nerc research fellow in satellite remote sensing at the National Centre for Earth Observation and Oxford University, UK.\n\n\"Overshooting tops are reasonably common. We get them over the UK as well, sometimes - like last August when we had a number of massive storms. But this was a very big overshoot. Normally, an overshooting top cools by about 7C for every kilometre it goes above the tropopause; and this one was about 13C or 14C cooler than the tropopause - so, a pretty big overshoot,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAn example of an overshooting top: See the area of unevenness bursting through the flat surface\n\nDr Proud and Scott Bachmeier, a research meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, report the event in a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.\n\nThey describe the contributing factors. Although big storms in that part of the Pacific are frequent around the December-January timeframe, this one seemed to get an extra boost.\n\nIn part, this came from some very warm ocean water in the region, but there was help too from a phenomenon meteorologists refer to as the Madden-Julian Oscillation. The MJO is an eastwards-moving zone of winds that can accentuate wet and dry weather.\n\nWhat's noteworthy, however, is the hint in the long-term data that these super-cold thunderstorms may be increasing in frequency.\n\nThere have been as many such events across the globe in the past three years as there were in the 13 years before that. That's relevant as, in general, the colder the storm, the more likely it is to produce hazardous weather, such as lightning and flooding.\n\n\"The storm we report on was in the middle of nowhere, and just as well,\" says Dr Proud.\n\n\"If you'd been there you would have got drenched and very probably a load of hail on your head as well - and a lot of lightning.\n\n\"Over the last 20 years, it seems these super-cold thunderstorms are becoming a little bit more common. It's interesting that in this part of the world, the tropopause is actually getting warmer, so we might expect to see warmer clouds, not colder clouds, which likely means we're seeing more extreme storms as we're getting even bigger overshoots than we used to.\"\n\nArtwork: Noaa-20 is an American low-orbiting satellite that feeds data into weather forecasts\n\nThe meteorological agencies are aware that not all the satellite sensors they fly today are capable of measuring the extreme low temperatures recorded by Noaa-20’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer (Viirs). Improved capability is therefore necessary, especially since the American spacecraft on that day probably didn’t capture the absolute low temperature reached in the cloud top.\n\nIt flew over at three o’clock and the peak of activity was about half-four.", "The owner of Liberty Steel has asked the government for £170m in financial support.\n\nIn a letter sent to the Department of Business last night, Sanjeev Gupta said the support was required to pay day-to-day operating expenses and absorb recent losses.\n\nConcerns over the future of Liberty Steel have grown after key financial backer, Greensill Capital, went bust.\n\nLiberty Steel employs about 5,000 people in the UK.\n\n\"The collapse of Greensill has put financial pressure on the GFG Alliance and our British steel operations,\" Mr Gupta writes in the letter.\n\n\"We are still refining the details with my management team and our external advisors, but preliminary indications are that the steel manufacturing and processing operations would need in the range of £170m to fund working capital and some additional capital to fund operating losses in the short term, which we are in the process of finalising.\"\n\nSanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance employs a total of 5,000 people in the UK - 3,000 of them in steel and aluminium businesses across 12 UK sites.\n\nThere have been grave concerns for the future of Liberty Steel since its main financial backer Greensill Capital went bust in early March.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC they have not yet responded and have concerns about the \"opaque\" nature of Mr Gupta's empire.\n\nGFG employs 35,000 worldwide and given its international footprint the government would certainly need assurances any support would not find its way abroad.\n\nMr Gupta said he envisaged the support \"could be structured in a way that works to ensure value for money and appropriate protections for the taxpayer\".\n\nGovernment sources also indicated that it was unlikely government support would be offered to the company with its current structure and management - with any assistance likely to come after an administration process.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said: \"The government is closely monitoring developments around Liberty Steel and continues to engage closely with the company, the broader UK steel industry and trade unions.\"\n\nBoth the Business Secretary and the Prime Minister have pledged in recent days to look at all options to ensure the business survives.", "Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's page after he claimed without evidence that a herbal remedy could cure Covid-19.\n\nHe claimed in January that a thyme herb solution could cure the disease. He will be unable to post for 30 days.\n\nThe company said the leader had repeatedly violated its policies on coronavirus disinformation.\n\nMr Maduro is not the only world leader to face a pushback from social media companies over Covid.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have also faced action over Covid posts.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson told the BBC: \"We removed a video posted to President Nicolás Maduro's page for violating our policies against misinformation about Covid-19 that is likely to put people at risk for harm.\n\n\"We follow guidance from the WHO [World Health Organization] that says there is currently no medication to cure the virus. Due to repeated violations of our rules, we are also freezing the page for 30 days, during which it will be read-only.\"\n\nLast year, Facebook deleted a video from Brazil's President Bolsonaro over a claim that the drug hydroxychloroquine was totally effective in treating the virus.\n\nAnd previously a Twitter post by Mr Maduro about a different fake remedy was also deleted.\n\nIn October, Facebook deleted a post in which Donald Trump claimed Covid-19 was \"less lethal\" than the flu.\n\nIt removed another in August that included a video of him falsely asserting that children were \"almost immune from Covid-19\".\n\nA dozen people are responsible for spreading thousands of anti-vaccine posts on Facebook and Twitter, according to analysis by the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).\n\nAmong them is Robert F Kennedy Jr, a nephew of the former US president, who leads an anti-vaccine group.\n\nMadagascar's President Andry Rajoelina last year promoted an unproven herbal concoction called Covid-Organics, prompting the WHO to say traditional remedies should have scientific evidence to back their use.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nTeenager Lauren James scored as Manchester United claimed victory over struggling West Ham on a historic day that saw Old Trafford host a Women's Super League match for the first time.\n\nJames, 19, rose to flick home Maria Thorisdottir's header from a corner to make it 1-0 just after the break.\n\nUSA forward Christen Press thumped in a second after she was slipped through by Jackie Groenen six minutes later.\n\nUnited, who usually play at Leigh Sports Village, sit third in the table.\n\nJames, one of England's most promising youngsters, was excellent in the first half and was rewarded for her fine performance when she became the first woman to score at Old Trafford just five minutes after the restart.\n\nShe has now scored the first goal for Manchester United women in the Championship, the WSL, the FA Cup and now at Old Trafford.\n\nJames showed skill, intelligence and pace throughout, coming close again in the second half when her curling strike flew inches past the right post.\n\nBefore her opener, the hosts were struggling to break down West Ham, who remain bottom of the table and without a win in seven WSL matches.\n\nPress had opportunities to score and twice fizzed balls across the six-yard area which evaded James and midfielder Ella Toone.\n\nSloppiness in possession almost proved costly for the hosts too as West Ham's Martha Thomas, Kenza Dali and Dagny Brynjarsdottir all had chances to get in behind the home defence in the first half after being gifted the ball.\n\nThe Hammers were made to pay for not taking their chances though as James and Press provided the clinical edge Manchester United had craved, before Laura Vetterlein's second yellow card made life even harder for the visitors in the final stages.\n\nThe result leaves Casey Stoney's side six points above Arsenal, who take on north London rivals Spurs at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium later on Saturday (15:30 GMT).\n\nWest Ham are one point below Bristol City, who face fellow relegation rivals Birmingham City on Sunday (16:00 GMT).\n\n'You wouldn't even dream it!' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Casey Stoney: \"We weren't good in the first half - that was probably the worst I've seen us in a long, long time, so I think there was definitely a case of the occasion. That's done now. They know what it's like.\n\n\"Players know when they are not good enough. I said [at half-time] if you want to qualify for Champions League football, you have to play at a Champions League standard and we weren't.\n\n\"When we started playing collectively in the second half we were better.\"\n\nManchester United midfielder Ella Toone: \"As a Manchester United fan it was a dream come true to play on such an amazing pitch so it was a special occasion and I'm glad we went out there and got the three points.\"\n\nWest Ham boss Olli Harder on playing at Old Trafford: \"The players all thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to be here. It was a decent promotion for women's football.\n\n\"For somebody who grew up at the bottom of the world and only seeing Old Trafford on TV, to say it was a dream to come here and coach is not even true because you wouldn't even dream it! It's not real when you live in New Zealand.\n\n\"It was a fantastic occasion for myself personally but more importantly, for the girls to come and play at arguably one of the most historic stadiums in the world.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Mayumi Pacheco (West Ham United Women) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kate Longhurst following a set piece situation.\n• None Hayley Ladd (Manchester United Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kirsty Hanson (Manchester United Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ella Toone.\n• None Offside, Manchester United Women. Jane Ross tries a through ball, but Jackie Groenen is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ella Toone (Manchester United Women) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jessica Sigsworth.\n• None Jessica Sigsworth (Manchester United Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Maisy Barker (West Ham United Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Gilly Flaherty following a corner.\n• None Nor Mustafa (West Ham United Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Millie Turner (Manchester United Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ella Toone with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The very real highs and lows of having someone else carry your baby\n• None Binge your way through a selection of his documentaries this weekend", "Boris Johnson has hailed the role of the \"free market economy\" in the UK's coronavirus jab rollout as he launched the party's local election push.\n\nThe prime minister called on activists to remind voters about the \"incredible scientific breakthrough\" of the vaccine ahead of May's elections in England.\n\nMr Johnson said one difference between the Tories and Labour was a belief in the need for \"capitalist energy\".\n\nThe party leader said the UK would recover \"jab by jab, job by job\".\n\nHe told activists at a virtual party forum: \"Let's not be put off our stride. Let's remember that across the country it is Conservatives, Conservative councils and Conservative councillors that deliver better value for money. And let's take our great one nation message to the people.\"\n\nThe 6 May elections will include polls for district and county councils, police and crime commissioners and city mayors, including in London.\n\nVoting in Scottish and Welsh parliament elections will take place on the same day and there will be a parliamentary by-election in Hartlepool.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech filmed and broadcast by the Conservative Party, Mr Johnson championed investment in communities through measures like the reversal of the Beeching railway cuts and money for new green buses.\n\nHe said that Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget showed the party was \"holding taxes down and spending wisely\" and harnessing the advantages brought about through Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said he had spoken with \"amazing\" scientists in Scotland at a plant making a \"variant-busting vaccine\". And in Northern Ireland, the PM said he had visited engineers working on 3D technology.\n\nIn Wales, he championed a Wrexham factory that is packaging vials of vaccine \"to fight and defeat the armies of disease\".\n\nMeanwhile, opponents \"would literally try to smash up\" the United Kingdom \"and destroy forever the formula for British success\", he said.\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\nConservative co-chairman Amanda Milling has warned party members that Labour could see a \"post-Corbyn bounce\" under Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Milling said the Tories must defend an \"incredibly high base\" of almost 2,000 council seats that they currently hold in England.\n\nThe contests are Sir Keir's first since becoming Labour leader last April, with last May's elections having been postponed because of coronavirus.\n\nLaunching Labour's local election push earlier this month, Sir Keir said: \"Every vote in this election is a chance to show the Conservatives that the British people value our NHS and our key workers so much more than this government does.\"", "Coronavirus infection levels in secondary school-age children have risen slightly in England, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nTests carried out during the second week back at school, ending 20 March, found an increase in 11-16 year olds.\n\nBut infections fell in older teenagers and young people, the ONS estimates.\n\nOverall, the percentage of people testing positive has levelled off in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and risen in Scotland.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported another 6,187 confirmed cases - an increase of 1,385 on last Friday's figure, but a decrease of 210 from Thursday.\n\nAnother 70 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were also reported - a decrease of 31 from last week, but an increase of seven from Thursday.\n\nAccording to the ONS analysis, which tests a random sample of adults and children in the community, infections remain at a low level after falling steeply since January.\n\nIt estimates that in the week up to 20 March:\n\nAt the height of the winter peak, the percentage testing positive was around 2% in most of the UK.\n\nThis week's figures from the ONS also reflect the effect of schools re-opening in England on 8 March on infection levels, which were always expected to rise when children, staff and parents started mixing again in large numbers.\n\nThe findings show a slight rise in children testing positive in years 7-11, from 0.31% the previous week to 0.43% this week.\n\nHowever, in primary schools the trend among younger children is less certain and much flatter, and in children in year 12 and upwards, the ONS estimates that infections fell.\n\nYoung people in their 20s and 30s also saw infections fall during that week.\n\nSchools in Scotland opened to the youngest pupils at the end of February and ONS data has already suggested infections could be gradually rising there. Schools in Wales opened to some children on 22 February.\n\nBut identifying more infections in schools, which is possible through regular rapid testing, does not automatically mean there will be more cases and more serious illness across all age groups - because of the Covid vaccination programme.\n\nMore than half of the UK's adult population has now had one dose of a vaccine, which 'real-world' studies have shown to offer high levels of protection against Covid-19.\n\nAs a result, deaths as well as hospital admissions with Covid have fallen sharply, and particularly in older age groups which were vaccinated first. Millions of under-50s are yet to be offered a jab, however.\n\nProf James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, at the University of Oxford, said caution was still needed.\n\n\"Even in a full-blown third wave, the number of hospitalisation and deaths for every thousand people who become infected would be much lower because of vaccination.\n\n\"However, no one who has not been vaccinated is entirely safe from serious illness and a large wave of infection in young people will lead to hospitalisations,\" he said.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, said infections levelling off was \"inevitable\" as the country relaxes restrictions after lockdown.\n\n\"This is why the roadmap is taking a cautious approach - leaving gaps between each relaxation so that the impact on infections can be carefully monitored,\" he said.\n\nThe R number is now between 0.7 and 0.9, narrowing slightly from last week's estimate, but still below 1 in most regions. However, the government says the figure does not yet fully reflect the re-opening of schools in England.\n\nSarah Crofts, senior statistician for the ONS's Covid-19 Infection Survey, said their study found different trends in infections across regions.\n\n\"The North West saw an increase in the percentage of people testing positive while in the South East and East of England it decreased. There were slower decreases in London, West Midlands and the South West.\"\n\nShe said the ONS would continue to closely monitor infections by age group.", "The number of Covid-19-related deaths registered in NI has fallen for the eighth week in a row.\n\nThe virus was mentioned on 15 death certificates in the week to Friday 19 March, according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra).\n\nThat is 17 fewer than the previous week and brings its total of Covid-related registered deaths to 2,886.\n\nThe Department of Health recorded 2,104 deaths by the same date.\n\nNisra counts the number of deaths by looking at the death certificates where the virus has been recorded as a factor.\n\nThis is a different measure than that used by the Department of Health - it counts deaths by recording when someone dies within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures published by Nisra, the peak of the winter came in the week ending 22 January, when 182 Covid-related deaths were registered.\n\nNisra's figures show that the vast majority of deaths have occurred in hospitals and care homes and most have been among people aged 75 and over.\n\nOverall, the number of deaths in Northern Ireland in the past year has been markedly increased when compared to the five-year average death rate.\n\nThere have been almost 2,500 deaths above what would be expected in that time.\n\nOn Thursday, the Department of Health recorded no new deaths linked to Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours, meaning its total stayed at 2,107.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond says his new party wants to build \"a supermajority for independence\"\n\nFormer SNP leader Alex Salmond has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will contest the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nThe former first minister said he would be among the candidates who will stand for the Alba Party on regional lists.\n\nMr Salmond said the aim was to build \"a supermajority for independence\" at Holyrood after the election in May.\n\nOther parties described Mr Salmond as \"discredited\" and questioned his suitability for public office.\n\nThe announcement came at the end of a dramatic week at Holyrood.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Salmond said he would take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.\n\nA report by MSPs on Tuesday described the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond as \"seriously flawed\".\n\nThe previous day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.\n\nAlex Salmond is no stranger to making a political comeback - he was twice elected leader of the SNP and served for two separate spells as an MSP.\n\nOn the day he stood down from Holyrood for the second time, he told me he would consider returning if Scotland became independent.\n\nFive years later, he's decided to attempt a comeback anyway - on the basis that the SNP and Greens need his help to make independence happen.\n\nThe SNP has questioned the appropriateness of his return to public life given the controversy over his personal conduct in recent years.\n\nWhen I asked him today if he owed an apology to any or all of the women who have complained about his behaviour, Mr Salmond said he accepted the outcomes of the two court cases and three inquiries and wanted to move on.\n\nMr Salmond was acquitted of all charges in a criminal trial and successfully challenged the Scottish government's process for handling harassment complaints against him in the civil court.\n\nThat his reputation has suffered damage along the way would come as no surprise. But it will now be for voters to decide whether or not they want one of the biggest figures in modern Scottish politics back in the frontline.\n\nMr Salmond said that under his leadership, the Alba Party was seeking to \"build a supermajority for independence in the Scottish parliament\".\n\n\"The party's strategic aims are clear and unambiguous - to achieve a successful, socially just and environmentally responsible independent country,\" he said.\n\n\"We intend to contribute policy ideas to assist Scotland's economic recovery and to help build an independence platform to face the new political realities.\"\n\nIt plans to field at least four candidates on the regional lists in every part of the country.\n\nPeople have two votes in Holyrood elections - one for a constituency MSP, and another in a regional ballot designed to make the overall result more proportional.\n\nMr Salmond claimed that if Alba won regional list seats, this could lead to there being 90 or more MSPs at Holyrood who support independence.\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Scottish Parliament have? MSPs pass laws on most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes and welfare benefits. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible, so long as they are aged 16 or over on the day of the election. You can register to vote online.\n\nHe said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has already dismissed the SNP's request for a second independence referendum, would \"find it much more difficult to say no to a parliament and a country.\"\n\nThe SNP said there were \"real questions\" about Mr Salmond's suitability to return to public office.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This is perhaps the most predictable development in Scottish politics for quite some time.\n\n\"At this time of crisis, the interests of the country must come first and should not be obscured by the self interest of someone who shows no sign whatsoever of reflecting on serious concerns about his own conduct.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"Alex Salmond is a discredited figure who admitted appalling behaviour towards women during his time as SNP first minister and right-thinking people will want nothing to do with him or his new party.\"\n\nHe added that his party would do \"everything possible\" to block another independence referendum and \"ensure the Scottish Parliament works towards rebuilding and recovery after the pandemic\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the people of Scotland deserved more than \"score settling\" and \"old politics\".\n\nHe said: \"We are still in the midst of a pandemic. Lives and livelihoods are still at risk.\n\n\"This election must be about our national recovery and the people of Scotland's priorities, not the old arguments between personalities who believe their interest matters more than the national interest.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats chair Alistair Carmichael MP said the move was evidence of a feuding within the Nationalist movement.\n\nHe said: \"There are no questions about Scotland's future to which Alex Salmond is the answer.\n\n\"This astonishing announcement shows just how divided the SNP are. A few years ago no one could have imagined that the former first minister and his protege would be at one another's throats.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens' Ross Greer told the BBC News Channel: \"This is the very public meltdown of a thoroughly disgraced individual.\"\n\nHe said the election should be about the future and described Mr Salmond as \"a man from Scotland's past who is obsessively pursuing personal vendettas\".\n\n\"Alex Salmond is less popular in Scotland than Boris Johnson. I'm quite sure that very quickly after today we can go back to ignoring what is a very sad sideshow.\"\n\nIn 2019, the Scottish government admitted it had acted unlawfully while investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Mr Salmond, which he strongly denied.\n\nThe following year he was acquitted of all 13 charges of sexual assault after a trial at the High Court.\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Salmond said that in hindsight he wished he had been \"more careful with people's personal space\".\n\nHis defence lawyer, Gordon Jackson, told the court Mr Salmond had not always behaved well and could have been \"a better man on occasions\" - but had never sexually assaulted anyone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he's looking forward to a haircut and a pint in a video filmed and broadcast by the Conservative Party\n\nBoris Johnson has said the roadmap for easing England's coronavirus lockdown is still on track, even as a third wave of infections hits Europe.\n\nThe PM said he will soon \"be able to go to the barbers\" and eventually \"drink a pint... in the pub\".\n\nOutdoor gatherings are allowed from Monday, with more restrictions due to be eased on 12 April.\n\nMr Johnson added that nothing in the data dissuaded him \"from continuing along our roadmap to freedom\".\n\nFrom Monday, people will be allowed to meet outside - including in private gardens - in groups of up to six, or as two households. Shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality venues are due to reopen on 12 April.\n\nOn Saturday, the government said a further 58 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK and another 4,715 coronavirus cases had been reported - the first time this week the number has dipped below 5,000.\n\nA total of 411,305 first doses of the vaccine were given on Friday, the highest number since Saturday last week, and 283,654 second jabs given, which is more than double the number administered last Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales has become the first UK nation to suspend travel restrictions within its borders, allowing families to meet for the first time in months.\n\nSpeaking to the Conservatives' virtual spring forum, Mr Johnson said: \"In just a few days' time, I'm finally going to be able to go to the barbers.\n\n\"But more important than that, I'm going to be able to go down the street and cautiously, but irreversibly, I'm going to drink a pint of beer in the pub.\n\n\"And as things stand, I can see absolutely nothing in the data to dissuade me from continuing along our roadmap to freedom, unlocking our economy and getting back to the life we love.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was as yet unclear what impact a rising wave of infections on the continent might have on the UK, with \"bitter experience\" showing it could take three weeks to show up here.\n\nHe added: \"The question is - is it going to be, this time, as bad it has been in the past? Or have we sufficiently mitigated, muffled, blunted impact by the vaccine rollout?\n\n\"That's a question we still don't really know the answer to.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has said Mr Johnson risked being \"complacent about the threat of a third wave\" and called for a more comprehensive hotel quarantine system for international arrivals.\n\nIt came as Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said people aged over 70 could start receiving Covid booster jabs from September to protect them from new variants.\n\nMr Zahawi told the Daily Telegraph that deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam thought \"that if we are going to see a requirement for a booster jab to protect the most vulnerable, [it] would be around September\".\n\nThose first booster jabs would be given to those in the top four priority groups of the vaccine rollout.\n\nMr Zahawi also confirmed drive-thru vaccine sites are being considered to persuade younger people to take a Covid jab - as a scientist who advises the government said forcing pub-goers to provide a vaccine certificate might be \"counterproductive\".\n\nProf Stephen Reicher, who advises the government, said the idea risked making vaccine hesitancy worse.\n\nMr Zahawi also told the Telegraph that the government was hoping to have up to eight vaccines available by the autumn - with several made in the UK - including one that could guard against three different variants via a single jab.\n\nThe UK is currently using two vaccines - developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech - to protect people against Covid-19. A third - the Moderna vaccine - has been approved by the UK's medicines watchdog.\n\nAll have been shown to be effective at preventing people from becoming seriously ill and dying from Covid.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine offers a good level of protection against the \"Kent\" variant now dominant in the UK. Early research on other vaccines, including Pfizer, suggest they also protect against this variant.\n\nThere are concerns vaccines may not work as well against variants first spotted in South Africa and Brazil, and some UK variants too, but they can be updated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nThe government's latest vaccination figures show that more than 29 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, with more than three million of them having had a second dose.\n\nDespite ministers warning that the UK's vaccine supplies would fall in April, Number 10 said all adults in the UK will still receive a first Covid jab by the end of July.", "A civilian contractor was injured on a live firing range in Pendine on Thursday\n\nInvestigations are under way after a worker was injured in a \"serious incident\" on a live firing range in Carmarthenshire.\n\nA civilian contractor was injured at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility in Pendine on Thursday at about 11:00 GMT.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and the Health and Safety Executive are carrying out inquiries.\n\nIt is understood the casualty was airlifted to hospital.\n\nThe defence and technology company QinetiQ, which operates the site on a 25-year contract with the MoD, said it was also carrying out an internal inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson for QinetiQ said the \"serious incident\" resulted in \"injury to a member of QinetiQ personnel\".\n\n\"We are cooperating fully with the emergency services and a full investigation is under way.\n\n\"It is too early to comment further at this stage, but additional information will be made available in due course once all investigations have been completed.\"\n\nThe MoD Pendine range on the Carmarthenshire coast covers 20.5 sq km (5065 acres) and is used for testing, evaluation, and training with firearms and other weapons.\n\nWarnings published by QinetiQ on its website show the facility was carrying out activities with \"local gunfire and explosions\" on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the armed forces use the site, alongside engineers and scientists employed by QinetiQ.\n\nA danger area extends out to sea and for aircraft up to 23,000ft.\n\nIt is also the home of Nato's European test centre for small arms ammunition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protestors gathered outside Batley Grammar School on Thursday and Friday\n\nA petition defending a teacher who showed pupils a \"deeply offensive\" cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has gathered more than 44,000 signatures.\n\nThe staff member was suspended after protests were held outside Batley Grammar School.\n\nSome had demanded the teacher's sacking and accused the school of failing to take the issue seriously.\n\nThe petition said the teacher \"does not deserve such large repercussions\" and should be reinstated.\n\nThe organisers behind the online petition claim to be students at the West Yorkshire school.\n\nThey said the teacher \"was trying to educate students about racism and blasphemy\" and was \"not racist and did not support the Islamophobic cartoons in any manner\".\n\nIt added: \"This has got out of hand and due to this, students have missed out on lessons because of 'peaceful' protestors\" .\n\nHead teacher Gary Kibble has apologised and said an investigation has been launched\n\nDemonstrators, who first gathered outside the grounds on Thursday morning, staged a second protest on Friday.\n\nDr Shazad Amin, deputy chair of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an organisation which helps Muslims engage with British media and politics, said it had been helping several parents liaise with the school.\n\nHe said he saw \"no problem\" with blasphemy being discussed at the school but said the particular image shown to pupils was \"deeply offensive\" and \"furthered stereotypes and anti-Islamic tropes\".\n\nAs a result, he said, people in the local community had \"a right to feel hurt and a right to feel angry\" but called for them to allow the matter to be properly investigated.\n\nSpeaking on Friday morning, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick called for the \"deeply unsettling\" scenes outside the school to \"come to an end\".\n\nHead teacher Gary Kibble said the teacher had \"given their most sincere apologies\" for the caricature being shown and said an investigation had begun.\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.", "Police have cleared protesters out of Bristol city centre after a third mass gathering in a week.\n\nHundreds of people had marched in opposition to the government's Police and Crime Bill before stopping close to Bridewell Police Station, the scene of disorder on Sunday.\n\nAfter a stand-off, police in riot gear began dispersing the protesters just after 22:10 GMT.\n\nMounted officers and dog units were used as the crowds were driven back.\n\nPolice pushed protesters out of the city centre\n\nSome protesters were detained by police after officers attempted to clear the centre\n\nSeveral warnings were given over a loudhailer before riot police moved forward.\n\nProtesters were driven down side streets away from Bridewell Police Station, with dog units part of the operation.\n\nThere were 10 arrests, three of them also detained in connection with last Sunday's first march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Avon and Somerset Police\n\nEarlier, the city's main bus company halted services through the city centre to avoid the protest.\n\nAs darkness fell a large crowd blocked streets in the city centre\n\nHundreds sat during the demonstration - the third in Bristol in a week\n\nSunday's demonstration started off peacefully with about 3,000 attending but descended into disorder when around 500 people marched on Bridewell Street.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is investigating assaults on 40 officers and one member of the media.\n\nNine people have been arrested in connection with the disorder, which saw officers attacked, police vehicles set on fire and the windows of a police station smashed.\n\nA second protest took place on College Green on Tuesday night and resulted in 15 arrests.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nThere were no wild celebrations, no opportunity for Wales' players to share the moment with their supporters.\n\nBut that did not diminish Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones' pride at lifting the 2021 Six Nations trophy.\n\nJones and the majority of his team-mates gathered at their training base a day after Scotland's win over France in Paris ensured Wales won the title.\n\n\"Hopefully there will be a chance for fans to have their time with the trophy further down the line,\" said Jones.\n\nIt was very different from the scenes prompted by the four other Six Nations titles Jones has won since 2008.\n\nThe intimate celebration pictures were indicative of Covid-19 times as Wales clinched their sixth Six Nations trophy since the tournament expanded in 2000, thanks to Scotland's 27-23 victory against France in Paris on Friday\n\n\"It's funny because in a way it's very special because this is where we spend a lot of our time,\" said Jones.\n\n\"This is where I've been coming since I was part of the programme in under-16s to full senior.\n• None How Wales won the 2021 Six Nations\n\n\"To have the opportunity to do it here is special, but not to be able to share it with the fans is disappointing.\"\n\nJones said that due to domestic duties, he had not seen much of Scotland's win over France, which secured the title for Wales.\n\n\"It was a normal night, putting the kids to bed and then there was the small matter of a rugby match I caught the last 20 minutes of,\" said Jones.\n\n\"The last 12 months has been very different not only in the sporting world but everywhere.\n\n\"It's been a long week in not preparing for a game which has a bearing on where you finish.\"\n\nWales received a lot of criticism after only three wins in 2020, but their form has transformed spectacularly in the 2021 showpiece tournament.\n\n\"I'm proud of the attitude on the field, but also the discipline off it,\" said Jones.\n\n\"We've had our blips like most environments have, but to come through it like we have makes me proud not just in a rugby sense but an off-field sense.\n\n\"Considering the state of things and what was said going into the campaign, I'm proud to be associated with this group of players, staff and management.\"\n\nPivac had received the most intense scrutiny after his opening season in charge had resulted in wins over Italy and Georgia only.\n\n\"It's not about me. It's about the team,\" said Pivac.\n\n\"Genuinely, this group is a team and we put them first in every aspect.\n\n\"The board have been very supportive. We laid out a plan to the Rugby World Cup at the start of this tenure and we've stuck to that, and I've been regularly updating my board.\n\n\"It's just knowing you have the support and that's been evident.\n\n\"I know the rugby public hurt when we don't win a test match, just like how we hurt. That's expected - it goes with the territory. But moments like this make up for the bad times.\"\n\nPivac has had to make some difficult choices, with defence coach Byron Hayward departing and Gethin Jenkins taking on the role.\n\nHe also made some inspired decisions with George North moving to centre from wing, which in turn allowed Louis Rees-Zammit to flourish.\n\n\"There are some tough decisions that have to be made at times, and we haven't shied away from those,\" added Pivac.\n\n\"We stuck with our plan and made sure we were true to ourselves.\"\n\nPivac admitted it had been a strange week. Wales had to overcome the disappointment of missing out on a Grand Slam with a last-gasp defeat to France before waiting seven days to be presented with the Six Nations silverware.\n\n\"We watched ourselves win a championship from our individual lounges,\" said Pivac.\n\n\"We didn't know if it was good enough to win the championship, waiting six days for that match between France and Scotland and then going through that match with so many moments that kept us on our toes.\n\n\"It has been an emotional rollercoaster because we put in by far our best performance against the French and thought we had done enough to have won that game, but it wasn't to be.\n\n\"To lose it in the last play of the game was devastating, the boys wanted that Grand Slam, so we had the lows of not achieving that.\n\n\"It probably took me until Wednesday or Thursday to want to come out of the house, purely from the sickening feeling for the players who had worked so hard.\n\n\"We desperately wanted that Grand Slam for so many reasons. The hard the work that went in, the style of rugby and winning it for the people of Wales.\n\n\"They have had to put up with a lot in the last 12 months, and we've all had to live through this thing.\n\n\"It was hard to take, but the sun does come up in the morning.\"\n\nPivac outlined what lies ahead with a summer tour of South America planned - as it stands - for July while the British and Irish Lions are due to travel to South Africa, Covid-19 permitting.\n\n\"I'd like to think we'll get a good representation with the Lions which leads us to the summer tour, which is going to be an opportunity to blood more players,\" said Pivac.\n\n\"(There have been) a lot of conversations over whether we'll be touring or whether some will come here.\n\n\"Those discussions are ongoing and in the next week or two we'll be in a better position to talk exact opposition and dates.\n\n\"At the moment it's Uruguay and two Tests in Argentina, and we have to make sure everything meets up in line with the government's expectations with Covid.\n\n\"It's a moving thing we discuss on a regular basis.\"", "The inquest is examining the deaths of 10 people in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nThe findings of the Ballymurphy Inquest are due to be published on 11 May, Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan has announced.\n\nThe inquest, which began in November 2018, has examined the deaths of 10 people in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971.\n\nThe deaths took place immediately after the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe court heard more than 100 days of evidence from more than 100 witnesses.\n\nThese included more than 60 former soldiers, more than 30 civilians and experts in ballistics, pathology and civil engineering.\n\nThe most senior former soldier to testify was Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the Army and Chief of the General Staff.\n\nThe victims included a mother of eight and a priest\n\nThe killings happened during an Army operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial.\n\nThe victims included a priest trying to help one of the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nIn a statement, relatives of those who died said they welcomed the coroner's announcement and described it as a \"long and difficult road\".\n\nThe statement added that families \"had to sit through horrific evidence about how their loved ones died as well as how they were treated both before and after their deaths\".\n\n\"Gruesome details of their injuries and their last moments before death were revealed in evidence,\" it continued.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Danny was among the victims, said he had grown up \"searching for answers\" about his killing.\n\n\"Families have worked very hard to get to this stage when we will see the results of the many years of campaigning for truth,\" he said.\n\n\"We have confidence that the coroner's findings will vindicate our loved one's innocence.\"\n\nThe coroner will present the findings at 11:00 BST on 11 May at the International Conference Centre in Belfast.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice's office said a \"mix of physical and remote attendance is being arranged\" to allow as many people as possible to join the hearing in adherence with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe statement said \"priority is being given to the families of the deceased and those directly involved\".\n• None Ballymurphy: Who were the victims?", "Nine people were taken to hospital following two multiple-vehicle crashes on the A74(M) on Friday.\n\nThe first crash, that happened at about 14:20, involved eight vehicles on the northbound carriageway, near junction 16, at Johnstonebridge, Moffat.\n\nSeven people were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries.\n\nThe second crash, involving four vehicles, happened southbound, near junction 15 at 16:35. Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nA third person was injured but did not need hospital treatment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scuffles break out with the police at a third night of ''Kill the Bill'' protests in Bristol\n\nViolence at a third night of protests in Bristol has been condemned as \"disgraceful\" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nTen people were arrested after a Kill the Bill protest ended in scuffles.\n\nPolice said a \"minority\" of protesters \"showed hostility\" and arrests were made after a sit-down protest in front of a police station.\n\nOne journalist claimed he was assaulted by police during the operation to clear the streets.\n\nMr Johnson said a \"mob\" was \"intent on violence\" after \"bricks, bottles and fireworks\" were thrown.\n\nMass gatherings are currently banned under coronavirus legislation and anyone breaching regulations could be fined.\n\nProtesters said they were unhappy about an element of the Police and Crime Bill, which would ban residing on any private or public land in vehicles without permission where they are causing \"significant disruption, distress or harm to local communities\".\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\nDaily Mirror journalist Matthew Dresch posted a Tweet which he said showed him being assaulted by officers as they cleared the city centre, despite telling them he was a member of the media.\n\nIn response, the force said it was trying to contact Mr Dresch and that a free press was \"a cornerstone of our democracy\".\n\nOne Labour MP has called for an independent investigation into the policing of the most recent protest, after reports of journalists and marchers being injured.\n\nNadia Whittome, who represents Nottingham East, tweeted that the case for an investigation \"was 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 2 by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel criticised the disorder and the \"violence being directed towards the police\".\n\n\"I'm in no doubt the silent, law-abiding majority will be appalled by the actions of this criminal minority,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite repeated warnings to disperse, it's clear these thugs were only intent on causing trouble.\n\n\"I am receiving regular updates and the police have my full support.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe protest had started earlier in the day on College Green before moving during the evening to Bridewell police station, the scene of disorder on Sunday.\n\nPolice in riot gear blocked access to the road and protesters sat in front of them in response.\n\nBut officers moved in after 22:00 GMT after the \"atmosphere changed\" and \"people became physical\".\n\nFootage showed police in riot gear using shields to push protesters back.\n\nSupt Mark Runacres, from Avon and Somerset Police, said \"reasonable force had to be used\".\n\n\"This is not something we ever want to do but we have a duty to uphold the law, prevent crime, and protect people and property.\"\n\nHe said many of the marchers had heeded police warnings to go home, something he was grateful for, but that some who stayed in the centre had attacked officers by throwing missiles including bottles, a bicycle pedal and eggs.\n\nPolice say they are concerned there could be more protests in the coming days\n\nSupt Runacres added \"at least three\" of the people detained during the latest protest had been arrested for offences committed during Sunday's disorder.\n\nHe added the force was \"concerned\" there could be more protests in the city in the coming days, and that \"it is something we are preparing for\".\n\nOne protester, who did not want to be named, told the BBC she had decided to attend as the third reading of the new bill was on Monday.\n\n\"I think the government have deliberately put this bill for a time when people can't protest and I think that's really wrong,\" she said.\n\nAfter marching through the city centre some marchers sat down to continue their protest\n\n\"That's why I came. To show my support for the protest.\"\n\nAnother protester said he appreciated the seriousness of the pandemic, but the long-term impact of the bill was too important to ignore.\n\n\"What you need to consider is that this bill will last for decades if it does pass, and that will have very serious consequences over Covid currently.\"\n\nIndependent journalist Martin Booth, who has been covering news in Bristol for the past decade, said: \"At the start, some protesters placed daffodils in the lapels of police in the front line.\n\n\"The mood early on was calm, convivial even, as police wearing caps rather than helmets were happy to talk to protesters - a marked contrast to the previous Sunday and Tuesday.\"\n\nHe said at 22:00 GMT he saw more riot police and dogs arrive.\n\nSome police wore daffodils handed to them by protesters\n\nMr Booth said he then saw a line of police \"move as one\" toward the protesters, many of whom were still seated on the street.\n\n\"This is when I first saw protesters swinging their arms at police, who were using their shields both for defence and attack,\" he added.\n\nBristol's Labour mayor Marvin Rees said the violence was \"unwelcome\" and that some protesters had damaged their cause by confronting the police.\n\n\"The question those engaging in the action should be asking is: is what I am doing advancing the cause I claim to be campaigning for?\" he said.\n\n\"Many people protested peacefully but there are a number who refuse to go home and others who are here merely to cause conflict: the bill itself is not their cause, it is their opportunity.\n\n\"If the protests are meant to reduce the likelihood of the bill, then the actions of some of these protestors are politically illiterate and strategically inept.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed) is a drummer in a heavy rock combo. Lou (Olivia Cooke) is on vocals. They are partners on stage and off - soulmates in sound and recovery.\n\nHe is a heroin addict four years clean, she has a history of self-harm.\n\nThe band has a nihilist vibe as she screams and roars into a mic accompanied by feedback, dissonance and Ruben's impassioned drumming.\n\nHe likes to play shirtless, showing off his heavily tattooed torso with the words Please Kill Me scrawled in capitals across his chest.\n\nThey seem pretty hardcore at first, but looks can be deceptive as it quickly becomes apparent they are deeply in love having found a semblance of peace in each other's company.\n\nThey're on a never-ending American tour, driving around in an RV that is so cool you immediately think of booking yourself a coast-to-coast driving holiday and then realise you can't because of Covid, but then you have to dream.\n\nThey do. Of a new album, of a life together, of the open road.\n\nThe doctor doesn't know why, could be the music, could be an autoimmune problem. Either way it isn't coming back and Ruben can't expose what little hearing he has left to any more rock 'n' roll.\n\nRiz Ahmed is exceptional as the thwarted, scared, jumpy Ruben. He plays the character like a champion jockey, one moment he's reining in Ruben's brooding temper just before he explodes, the next he's giving him his head to make a connection with pupils attending a school for deaf children.\n\nHis nomination for an Oscar is well-deserved.\n\nOlivia Cooke also turns in a solid performance as Lou, Lauren Ridloff steals the screen as a deaf schoolteacher, and Paul Raci - who is also nominated for an Oscar (supporting actor) - does a fine job as Joe, the shamanic elder statesman and Vietnam veteran running a rural retreat for people who are deaf and have addictions.\n\nPaul Raci (in the check shirt) is in real life also a singer for a band that performs in American Sign Language\n\nWhile making the film Riz Ahmed had devices in his ears that emitted a white noise of varying intensity, to gain some experience of progressive deafness\n\nSound of Metal was co-written and directed by Darius Marder, a relative newcomer with a promising future.\n\nAt no point does he let you forget this is a film about the sensation of sound, from the ever-present subtitles to the constant switching between audio POVs: complete silence, natural sound, distorted interference. It's unusual and effective and, unsurprisingly, the sound team are also nominated for an Oscar.\n\nRiz with Lauren Ridloff (who plays the inspiring teacher Diane) getting direction from Darius Marder who says he drew on his grandmother's experience of being trapped between two cultures, the hearing and the deaf\n\nIt does have shortcomings, although at a gently paced two hours, duration isn't one of them. The plot lacks subtlety and depth. Ruben is taken to the edge but never forced to look over the precipice - instead he is allowed to exist in a comfort zone without the opportunity to fully reveal his character. And the binary position he is put in - either accept and embrace your hearing loss, or try to fix it and push off - is a little simplistic.\n\nBut Ahmed's performance rises above any patchiness in the script to make this one of the season's must-see movies.\n\nSound of Metal is available on Amazon Prime Video from 12 April and released in cinemas from 17 May.", "A much-promoted grants scheme to help householders in England insulate their home is to be scrapped within days.\n\nThe Green Homes Grant (GHG) reached just 10% of the 600,000 homes the chancellor promised would be improved.\n\nThe scheme will be stopped on Wednesday and the cash allocated to a separate insulation fund run by councils.\n\nThe £300m previously allocated for the GHG will now go into a programme administered by local authorities, targeted at lower income households.\n\nSome 19 million homes in the UK need to be insulated or the emissions from gas boilers will wreck the UK's chances of achieving its climate change targets.\n\nBut the GHG scheme, which launched in September in a bid to tackle that, has struggled from the start.\n\nThe government said many households were reluctant to apply for the grants - up to £10,000 - because they feared catching Covid from contractors coming into their homes.\n\nHowever, in some parts of the country installers were actually overwhelmed with demand, and families could not even get firms to answer the phone.\n\nThen checks on the way the money was spent were so stringent that some installers went out of business because payments were so badly delayed.\n\nAnd despite the checks, some builders appear to have hugely overcharged for their work. One joiner told me he had witnessed an installer carry out work worth £3,000 at most, then deliver an invoice for £5,000.\n\nIt seems clear there is frustration in Whitehall at the American consultants brought in to manage the scheme for able-to-pay families.\n\nThe parallel insulation scheme administered by local authorities is running much more smoothly but ministers still need to create a new programme to nudge able-to-pay home owners into improving their insulation for the UK to hit its climate change targets.\n\nThere is no sign yet what that new programme might look like, or when it might happen.\n\nA government source pointed out that the Conservatives promised in their manifesto to spend £9bn on insulation - and insisted that this cash would definitely be made available.\n\nCampaigners, industry figures, and MPs said the current scheme was botched and called for the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to create an insulation programme stretching for decades, so that installers and suppliers have the chance to build up stocks and expertise.\n\nPreviously many firms have been driven out of the sector following stop-start government funding.\n\nOn announcing the move, Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng chose to focus on the transfer of cash to the local authority fund, rather than the scrapping of the GHG.\n\nHe said: \"Upgrading the country's homes with energy efficiency measures means we can cut emissions and save people money on their energy bills.\n\n\"Today's funding boost will mean even more households across England are able to access these vital grants through their local authority.\n\n\"This latest announcement takes our total energy efficiency spending to over £1.3bn in the next financial year, giving installers the certainty they need to plan ahead, create new jobs and train the next generation of builders, plumbers and tradespeople.\"\n\nFirst announced last summer, the GHG scheme was extended in November for another year until the end of March 2022.\n\nGreenpeace UK described the rollout of the GHG scheme as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe organisation's Kate Blagojevic said the \"biggest hole\" in England's energy efficiency was private households and you can't \"boost the situation with a smaller pot of money\".\n\nShe added: \"The government is plain wrong to try and frame it as such.\"\n\nEd Matthew, from climate change think tank E3G said: \"The end of the government's flagship green homes scheme is a tragedy that was avoidable.\n\n\"There was plenty of demand for the grants but the scheme was plagued by incompetent administration. The reality is that we can't get to net-zero without decarbonising our homes.\"\n\nHe called for a new grant scheme to replace it - but said it was key to get the grants out quickly.\n\nThe demise of the GHG follows the previous failure of the government's Green Deal which flopped because householders could get cheaper finance through their bank.\n\nMatthew Pennycook, the shadow minister for climate change, said: \"The funding announced today doesn't even come close to plugging the investment gap created by the government's decision to slash more than £1bn from its Green Homes Grant scheme and then scrap it altogether.\n\n\"Ministers might talk a good game on energy efficiency but their staggering ineptitude when it comes to decarbonising the country's housing stock speaks for itself\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eighteen people have been arrested after protesters blocked tram lines in Manchester, police have said.\n\nThe Kill the Bill protest against the government's Police and Crime Bill was described as \"largely peaceful\" by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nBut \"significant disruption\" was caused by protesters sitting on the Metrolink line in St Peter's Square, police said.\n\nProtests were also held in towns and cities such as Bath, Falmouth, Nottingham and Sheffield.\n\nIn Brighton, hundreds of people gathered in front of the city's police headquarters to protest.\n\nIn Cambridge about 100 people gathered outside the Parkside police station, with some protestors climbing on top of the building's entrance lobby.\n\nMass gatherings are currently banned under coronavirus legislation and anyone breaching regulations could be fined.\n\nDemonstrators marched through Manchester city centre to protest against an element of the Police and Crime Bill, which would ban residing on any private or public land in vehicles without permission where they are causing \"significant disruption, distress or harm to local communities\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers gave repeated warnings to people who were obstructing the tram lines before making 18 arrests.\n\nThe majority of the crowd had left by 16:00 GMT, a force spokesman said.\n\nPolice said the protest was \"largely peaceful\"\n\nThe majority of the crowd had left by 16:00 GMT, a force spokesman said\n\nChief Superintendent Andy Sidebotham said the protest was \"largely peaceful and without issue\".\n\n\"However, as the day went on the remaining group caused significant disruption to the public of Greater Manchester,\" he said.\n\n\"I understand the desire to peacefully protest but by blocking trams this smaller group prevented passengers from travelling to work for essential journeys, including health and care workers.\n\n\"This was clearly unacceptable and, in our duty to serve the public, we could not allow to be tolerated any longer.\"\n\nDemonstrators were protesting against an element of the Police and Crime Bill\n\nViolence at a third night of protests in Bristol was condemned as \"disgraceful\" earlier on Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nTen people were arrested in the city after a Kill the Bill protest ended in scuffles.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales clinched the Six Nations as 14-man Scotland snatched their first victory in Paris since 1999 to wreck France's title hopes.\n\nThe hosts, needing a bonus point and a winning margin of 21 points, had only one try and a 13-10 lead at the break.\n\nDamian Penaud's second-half score showed France's danger, but they could never stretch clear of their visitors.\n\nScotland's Finn Russell was shown a late red but Duhan van der Merwe swooped for a decisive late try.\n\nIt was fitting that a Championship that has been packed with tight games and show-stopping finales should finish with another match-deciding score and the clock deep in the red.\n\nAs Scotland's players leapt skywards to celebrate Van der Merwe's step and finish, France's slumped to the sodden Stade de France turf.\n\nHowever, their hopes of swiping the trophy from Wales had long since gone.\n\nIt is the sixth title of the Six Nations era for a Wales side that came into the campaign as distinct underdogs after an underwhelming autumn.\n• None Wales 'over the moon' with Six Nations win\n\nIt could easily have come earlier, and with the added decoration of a Grand Slam for Wales - only for France to keep Wales' celebrations on ice and their own hopes alive with a last-gasp bonus-point victory over Wayne Pivac's men six days ago.\n\nBut the twin tasks of running in four tries and racking up a 21-point winning margin on a tight turnaround proved far too steep.\n\nFittingly, it was a Welshman who played a key part in denying France. Since arriving at the end of 2019, defence coach Steve Tandy has transformed Scotland into the meanest defence in the Six Nations.\n\nThey conceded the fewest points in last year's Championship and have similarly suffocated their opponents in this edition.\n\nThe critical period came either side of half-time.\n\nIn a drenched, empty Stade de France, Van der Merwe's short-range try had survived the suspicion of a double movement to help Scotland to a 10-6 lead.\n\nFrance soon wrestled their way into the ascendancy, camping on the Scotland line, but found themselves ushered down blind alleys at every turn.\n\nChris Harris' canny cover and bravery in contact was especially impressive.\n\nBrice Dulin breached the line before the break but, even with Scotland captain Stuart Hogg in the sin-bin for the first nine minutes of the second half, Scotland did not disintegrate.\n\nRomain Ntamack zipped through a hole, Virimi Vakatawa flipped an offload out of the back of his hand and Penaud chipped, chased and grounded for a fine score.\n\nBut France could not replicate those bursts of flair. And Scotland wouldn't let them.\n\nScotland's last win in Paris was so long ago that the Six Nations were Five, Emile Ntamack, rather than his son Romain, was in the France team and Scotland's coach Gregor Townsend was on the pitch rather than the touchline.\n\nScotland, though, started this campaign with an away victory over England that ended an even longer barren run, and never lost faith.\n\nCaptain Stuart Hogg admitted earlier in the week that France's public confidence had irritated his side and they took great delight in shredding the script.\n\nThe route to victory was not the one many might have expected.\n\nRussell, who has been lighting up Racing 92's futuristic home ground across town, produced a performance low on dazzle, but high on IQ.\n\nThe fly-half, along with Hogg, turned France's back three with long, raking kicks, penning them deep in their own half during the first quarter.\n\nAfter Russell's 70th-minute departure for a fending forearm into the throat of Dulin, it seemed Scotland would have to settle for a narrow defeat and pooping a party.\n\nBut Scotland's forwards, with Hamish Watson, Jamie Ritchie and Dave Cherry all excellent, took it to a tiring and dispirited French pack.\n\nAnd when stand-in fly-half Adam Hastings held his nerve to find Van der Merwe with a looping pass worthy of Russell, a famous win was assured.\n\nReplacements: Thomas for Vakatawa (61), Serin for Dupont (64), Gros for Baille (56), Chat for Marchand (56), Atonio for Haouas (60), Taofifenua for Le Roux (50), Cretin for Jelonch (63).\n\nReplacements: Jones for D Graham (66), Hastings for Johnson (73), Kebble for Sutherland (49), Cherry for Turner (59), Craig for Skinner (75), Wilson for Haining (67).", "Shops in England will be allowed to stay open until 22:00 six days a week when customers return from 12 April, the government has said.\n\nAfter months of coronavirus-related closures, non-essential retailers will be able to apply to trade from 07:00 BST Monday to Saturday.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the move would help businesses to recover and customers to shop safely.\n\nHe said councils will be asked to avoid \"unnecessary restrictions\" on hours.\n\nUnder the road map for easing England's coronavirus restrictions, non-essential shops are permitted to reopen from 12 April at the earliest, providing the government's four tests are met.\n\nShops will be able to extend their opening hours from 07:00 to 22:00 from Monday to Saturday, to help customers avoid peak times and to ease the pressure on transport, according to the Ministry of Local Government.\n\nDominic Curran of the British Retail Consortium said it welcomed the announcement of extended opening hours, as it would allow people to avoid the busier shopping periods.\n\nHe added: \"Retailers have invested hundreds of millions in making their stores Covid-secure, implementing additional hygiene measures, perspex screens, social distancing and more.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said the temporary measures would \"support businesses to reopen and recover\", alongside a £56m \"Welcome Back Fund\" announced by the government last week.\n\nHe said: \"This will provide a much-needed boost for many businesses - protecting jobs, reducing pressure on public transport and supporting people and communities to continue to visit their high streets safely and shop locally.\"\n\nIn a written ministerial statement on Thursday, Mr Jenrick said he would ask local councils to take a \"positive and flexible approach\" to shops wishing to extend their opening hours.\n\nHe said the government acknowledged that longer retail hours could have a \"temporary impact\" on local residents, but this had to be balanced by the \"significant public interest in ensuring there is a safe retail environment when non-essential shops reopen\".\n\nThe government said it would also continue to allow pubs and restaurants to put up marquees to help increase seating capacity in a Covid-secure way.\n\nFlexible working hours on construction sites will also be extended, and food deliveries to supermarkets will be allowed over more time periods, No 10 said.", "Forcing pub-goers to provide a vaccine certificate in a bid to encourage younger people to take a jab could be \"counterproductive\", a behavioural scientist has warned.\n\nProf Stephen Reicher, who advises the government, said the policy risked making vaccine hesitancy worse.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said this week a review was considering jab passports for places like pubs.\n\nBut the PM conceded there were \"ethical problems that need to be addressed\".\n\nIt came as Mr Johnson said England's roadmap for easing lockdown was still on course.\n\nProf Reicher, of the University of St Andrews, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was a lack of support for using vaccine passports to exclude people from social activities.\n\n\"People actually aren't averse to vaccine passports to be able to travel internationally,\" he said. \"But when it comes to negative incentives - to, in effect, barring people from their everyday lives, from social activity, then actually they work in a very different way.\"\n\nHe added this could lead to \"other problems like social division and social apartheid\" and could \"destroy any sense of community that has been so positive in the pandemic\".\n\nEarly research into Israel's vaccine passport system, called the \"green pass\", found that while incentives may increase vaccination rates, \"they may not be sufficient to overcome health concerns\" among those who are hesitant.\n\nAnd Prof Reicher pointed to data from countries like Israel and Germany that showed the suggestion of compulsory vaccines \"does indeed put people off\" taking a jab.\n\nMeanwhile, Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi said drive-through vaccination sites were being considered to encourage younger people to have the jab.\n\nHe told the Daily Telegraph: \"It's a great way as you do the under-50s, the under-40s, under-30s. Convenience becomes a much greater tool to deploy because you want to make sure for those people, where we think there may be greater hesitancy, we make it as convenient as we can make it.\"\n\nAt present, all over-50s, as well as health and social care workers and clinically vulnerable people, are eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine. Some 29.3m people have now received a first dose.\n\nMr Johnson said no decisions on vaccine passports had been made and the review of evidence would report in June, with an update next month.\n\nHe said previous coronavirus infections could be included if passports are adopted, with a government source suggesting a person's test results could also be reflected.\n\nThe prime minister said the concept \"should not be totally alien to us\" - pointing out that doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs - although he stressed such a move in future \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nBut some pub landlords have criticised the suggestion, saying requiring customers to produce vaccine passports would be \"unworkable\".\n\nPubs and restaurants are closed in England until 12 April, when outdoor service can resume\n\nOne industry body argued the proposals could breach equality rules. That is because some people are ineligible for a jab due to medical conditions or because they are pregnant, for example, and some will choose not to have one.\n\nUKHospitality's chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"It is crucial that visiting the pub and other parts of hospitality should not be subject to mandatory vaccination certification. It is simply unworkable, would cause conflict between staff and customers and almost certainty result in breaches of equality rules.\"\n\nThe review into vaccine passports is taking place under the plans to ease England's lockdown, with the latest relaxation due on Monday when the \"rule of six\" returns for outdoor gatherings.\n\nOutdoor hospitality returns from 12 April, and indoor hospitality can resume no earlier than 17 May in England.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales has become the first UK nation to lift a domestic travel ban, allowing families to travel anywhere within its borders.\n\nMr Zahawi has said the over-70s could start receiving Covid booster jabs from September to ward off new virus variants.\n\nDo you have any questions about the reopening of pubs and restaurants and what rules will be in place? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.", "Charlie Hughes went from having up to 120 seizures a day to fewer than 20, after receiving cannabis oil privately, his family said\n\nThe parents of a three-year-old boy with severe epilepsy have dropped a legal challenge after guidelines on prescribing cannabis were 'clarified'.\n\nCharlie Hughes went from having up to 120 seizures a day to fewer than 20, after receiving cannabis oil privately.\n\nMedical cannabis was legalised in 2018, but few NHS prescriptions have been handed out due to NHS guidance.\n\nA clarification to the guidance means specialist clinicians can prescribe medicinal cannabis where appropriate.\n\nWhen the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produced guidance for the NHS in 2019, it said there was not enough evidence to recommend cannabis-based medicines for severe, treatment-resistant epilepsy.\n\nCharlie's parents, Matt and Ali Hughes, began a legal challenge which was due to go to the high court later this year. NICE has since moved to issue further guidance.\n\nCharlie, from Norwich, has a rare form of treatment-resistant epilepsy called West syndrome which has left him with developmental delay.\n\nHe was given six different anti-epileptic drugs but his family said they saw no improvement in his condition.\n\nHowever, they said that after starting a private prescription for cannabis oil - costing between £1,000 and £3,000 a month - his seizures reduced and his development started to speed up.\n\nThe clarification from NICE states: \"The fact that NICE made no such population-wide recommendation should not… be interpreted by healthcare professionals as meaning that they are prevented from considering the use of unlicensed cannabis-based medicinal products where that is clinically appropriate in an individual case.\n\n\"There is no recommendation against the use of cannabis based medical products.\"\n\nDr Paul Chrisp, director of the Centre for Guidelines at NICE, said: \"NICE has published a clarification to our 2019 guideline on cannabis-based medicinal products relating to the treatment of severe-treatment resistant epilepsy in children.\n\n\"This clarification does not represent a change in our guideline, but both the clarification and the guideline should be taken into account by specialists when making a clinical judgement on prescribing medical cannabis.\n\n\"We hope this will make it clearer to specialists, and to children's parents and guardians, when it might be appropriate to prescribe cannabis medicines to individual patients.\"\n\nCharlie's father Matt says his son is thriving and his quality of life has drastically improved\n\nMr and Mrs Hughes said: \"We hope this will give paediatric doctors more confidence in prescribing on the NHS, on an individual basis for patients like Charlie who have shown amazing results on medicinal cannabis.\n\nIn January, it was announced that medical cannabis imports from the Netherlands - which would have stopped after Brexit - were given a six-month reprieve.\n\nParents, including those of nine-year-old Alfie Dingley, from Warwickshire, had feared their son would be in danger if he had to use a different product.\n\nAlfie Dingley, pictured with his mother, became the first person in the UK to be granted a licence for the drug Bedrolite\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police officers reporting hateful abuse while on duty are much more likely than members of the public to see their attackers charged with hate crime, according to an investigation by BBC Newsnight and the Law Society Gazette.\n\nThe new figures, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from some of the largest forces in England, show that police officers and staff were the victims in up to half of the hate crimes charged in some areas, despite making up a tiny proportion of the overall number of recorded cases. The vast majority are serving officers.\n\nPolice forces say the increased use of body cameras by officers may mean evidence of hate crimes against them is more easily captured.\n\nBut hate crime victims and experts have expressed concern about the data obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt suggests that prosecutions for hate crimes against officers are dominating case work at a time when the overall number of complaints is skyrocketing and the number that result in charges is falling.\n\nJust 7% of the 4,636 hate crimes recorded by West Midlands Police in the year ending March 2020 involved a police victim.\n\nBut the police were victims in 43% of the 711 hate crimes charged in the force area that year.\n\nData from three other forces paints a similar picture. The Metropolitan Police recorded 21,948 hate crimes in 2019/20, 4% of which involved police victims.\n\nJust 1,762 cases resulted in charges, but of those 29% had police victims.\n\nIn West Yorkshire, 4% of the 8774 recorded hate crimes involved police victims, compared to 33% of the 694 hate crimes charged.\n\nAnd in North Yorkshire, 53% of the hate crimes charged involved police victims. The force did not provide figures for the overall cases recorded.\n\nHate crime victims have accused the police of treating cases against officers more seriously.\n\nMichael, who wanted to be known only by his first name, suffered a vicious homophobic attack in Birmingham in September 2018. He told Newsnight that West Midlands Police let him down by failing to investigate.\n\nMichael was the victim of a homophobic attack in Birmingham in 2018\n\nMichael was walking home alone after a night out with friends in the city's gay village when he saw a group of people on the pavement outside a straight bar. As he passed, he said, a woman shouted a homophobic slur at him.\n\n\"So, I stopped, turned around and I thought, well, I'll go back and, you know, ask her why she's called me [that], but even before I could reach her, someone threw a glass or a beer bottle or something against my head. And then I blacked out.\"\n\nWhen he regained consciousness he had blood all over his face. He believes he was kicked in the head while on the ground.\n\nWest Midlands Police allocated an officer to the case and gave him a crime reference number in the days after the attack. The force told him it had requested CCTV from a straight bar nearby which had a camera overlooking the attack location. But, he told Newsnight, he heard nothing from police after that.\n\nChief Superintendent Mat Shaer, West Midlands' hate crime lead, admitted the force had got it wrong. He told the BBC: \"We requested CCTV from the bar but none was provided. The matter was later filed.\n\n\"We should have done more to follow-up that CCTV request and provide the victim with a better level of service.\"\n\nThe force said it had since changed its hate crime policy to ensure Michael's experience is not repeated.\n\nMichael told Newsnight that the police apology made him angry because \"these are the people you go to for help\".\n\nWhen Newsnight told him about the new data showing 43% of hate crimes leading to charges in the West Midlands area involved police officers as victims, he said: \"It's almost like they prioritise their own claims…They're putting themselves first.\"\n\nPolice admitted more should have been done to follow up on the attack against Michael\n\nChief Superintendent Shaer, denied this. \"We do not prioritise hate crime investigations against our own staff,\" he said. \"All allegations are investigated to the same set of standards and with impartiality.\"\n\nHe added: \"Offences against our staff will not be tolerated, they are obliged to record the offences and we will always look to prosecute crimes against them.\"\n\nHe said the statistics might be explained by evidence from body-worn cameras.\n\n\"With the increased roll-out of body-worn cameras in recent years, hate crimes against our officers and staff are likely to be recorded on video. That is strong, irrefutable evidence.\"\n\nHe added: \"Many hate crime offences against officers are committed after a suspect has been arrested for other matters so they are already in our custody when the hate crime is committed.\"\n\nMany forces, including West Midlands, have adopted policies on hate crime against officers, which say these will not be treated as \"secondary to other offences\" and that the chief constable will provide a personal impact statement for each case.\n\nProfessor Neil Chakraborti, director of the Centre for Hate Studies at Leicester University, said: \"I don't think this will do anything to build up levels of trust and confidence within communities who already feel stigmatised,\" said. \"There are tensions between the police and particular communities and groups and a disparity like that does nothing for those kinds of tensions.\"", "More than 230 ships are waiting to enter the Suez Canal, through which all navigation has been suspended\n\nThe blockage of Egypt's Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing a \"traffic jam\" in the Red Sea, according to a merchant seaman on a nearby ship.\n\nJoe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk Ohio, told the BBC the number of vessels waiting at the canal's southern entrance was \"growing exponentially\".\n\n\"It's going to affect shipping schedules around the world,\" he warned.\n\nTugboats and dredgers are trying to dislodge the Ever Given, which is wedged diagonally across the waterway.\n\nThe 400m-long (1,300ft), 200,000-tonne vessel ran aground on Tuesday morning amid high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.\n\nSpecialist salvage companies have been brought in to help refloat the ship, and an adviser to Egypt's president has said he hopes the situation will be resolved within two to three days. But experts have said it could take weeks if the vessel's containers need to be removed.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the 193km (120-mile) canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nAn alternative route, around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, can take two weeks longer.\n\nMr Reynolds told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Maersk Ohio, a US-flagged container ship that is 292m long and weighs 50,000 tonnes, was \"stacked up\" alongside dozens of other vessels near Port Suez.\n\n\"I think you can imagine there was a queue of ships waiting to go through to begin with, and now that queue has just grown exponentially,\" he said. \"Standing outside, as you look, everywhere around you is ships.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A salvage company, working to free the Ever Given, says the operation could take weeks\n\nHe said there was still a lot of work to be done on board his ship, and that he and his fellow crewmembers had not yet had a chance to communicate with the other vessels.\n\n\"It's just a long waiting game. There's not a lot to see... We are ships sitting at anchor, just waiting as if you were in a traffic jam on the M5,\" he added, referring to a British motorway.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map", "On the first official day of campaigning in the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections, polling expert Sir John Curtice considers the \"intense\" battle for every vote ahead of polling day on 6 May.\n\nVoters go to the polls in six weeks to elect a new Scottish Parliament. The ballot looks set to be another crucial chapter in Scotland's continuing debate about how it should be governed.\n\nAccording to the polls, voters are evenly divided on whether Scotland should be an independent country or whether it should remain part of the United Kingdom. On average recent polls put Yes to independence on 50%, No on 50%.\n\nThe issue seems set to influence the way in which many people will vote in an election in which voters will have two votes - one for their local constituency MSP, the other for a regional party list.\n\nThe SNP and the Greens will be arguing that there should be another referendum on independence. The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats take the opposite view.\n\nAs our graph above shows, recent polls suggest that nearly nine in 10 of those who currently support independence are currently minded to support the SNP on the constituency vote.\n\nLess than one in 10 of those who oppose independence indicate that they will vote for Nicola Sturgeon's party.\n\nHowever, whereas most Yes supporters are nearly all backing the same party, the preferences of No voters are scattered across different parties.\n\nSlightly less than half are supporting the Conservatives, just under a third Labour while one in eight are backing the Liberal Democrats.\n\nTrue, the Greens have the support of 11% of Yes supporters on the list vote (and only just 3% of No voters), but this still leaves the SNP a long way ahead among those who back independence.\n\nNot least of the reasons why support for independence, at 50%, is higher than the 45% recorded in the 2014 referendum, is that there has been swing in favour of leaving the UK among those who oppose Brexit.\n\nOn average the polls suggest that while just 34% of those who voted Leave in 2016 are in favour of independence, well over half (56%) of those who supported Remain now back the idea.\n\nThis has also opened up a division in party support that was largely not in evidence at the last Scottish Parliament election - which took place seven weeks before the EU referendum.\n\nAs our Brexit graph above shows, in 2016 SNP support differed little between those who went on to vote Remain and those who backed Leave. Now support for the party is 25 points higher among Remain supporters as it Leave voters.\n\nIn contrast, support for the Conservatives is now three times higher among Leave voters (45%) than among Remain supporters (15%).\n\nThe increased support for independence together with opposition to Brexit has enabled the SNP to establish a substantial lead in the polls, as the graph above shows.\n\nOn average the party is 26 points ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote and 20 points ahead on the list vote. Labour are trailing a little further behind in third place.\n\nAs the opposition parties have acknowledged, it will take a dramatic change of fortunes between now and the beginning of May for anyone other than the SNP to come first.\n\nHowever, the target the unionist parties appear to have set themselves is to try to deny the SNP an overall majority - something which is very difficult to achieve under Scotland's proportional representation system.\n\nIt was the SNP's success in winning an overall majority in 2011 that paved the way for the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nIf the SNP were to repeat that feat it would be more difficult for the prime minister simply to say 'No' to another referendum.\n\nFrom the figures in our chart, the SNP might just miss out on an overall majority - or might just make it. With the outcome of the election seemingly on such a crucial knife edge, it looks as though there will be an intense battle for every vote between now and polling day in May.\n\nJohn Curtice is Professor of Politics and Senior Research Fellow, ScotCen Social Research and 'The UK in a Changing Europe'", "The Met is investigating allegations of abuse published on the Everyone's Invited website\n\nAllegations about sexual abuse in schools involve more than only private institutions in London, a senior Met Police officer has said.\n\nSeveral independent schools in the capital have been accused of failing to deal with a \"rape culture\", in claims written on the Everyone's Invited site.\n\nDet Supt Mel Laremore told the BBC more than 100 institutions are named and it was \"a national issue\".\n\nThe website's founder said the focus on private schools was \"disappointing\".\n\nEveryone's Invited was set up last year as a place where victims can post anonymous accounts of abuse they had suffered.\n\nIt has now received more than 5,000 testimonies, including accounts from people as young as nine.\n\nSoma Sara set up the Everyone's Invited website to highlight victims' stories of sexual abuse\n\nAllegations by pupils who attended independent schools have recently been highlighted.\n\nOn Thursday, Highgate School in north London announced it had launched an external review into claims of sexual abuse.\n\nHowever, DS Laremore, the Met's lead for rape and sexual offences, told the Today programme she believed the issue was \"more widespread than private schools\".\n\n\"We're still looking into the exact scope of how wide this spreads but certainly I know there's already over 100 schools cited on the website which do reach out to national parameters,\" she said.\n\nPosting an article on Instagram which she had originally written for the I newspaper, the website's founder Soma Sara said the \"prevalence\" of \"rape culture\" in education was being \"overshadowed by the focus on a handful of institutions\".\n\nShe explained there had been an initial bias towards private schools on the site because of her own background but \"we are beginning to see a widening of the demographics, with a significant increase in the numbers of state schools, as well as universities, being mentioned\".\n\n\"Seeing this long-overdue discussion being narrowed down to private schools is disappointing,\" she wrote.\n\nOne 17-year-old girl who attended a London state school told the BBC she had been abused by a sixth former when she was aged 13.\n\nShe said she the boy had approached her when she was out with friends after school and then \"he started touching me... and he tried to take off my clothes\".\n\nThe teenager said a member of the public had intervened after she started shouting but when police got involved she was told there was not enough evidence for them to pursue the case.\n\nAsked how it made her feel, the 17-year-old said she was \"labelled as a girl who lied about something. That's serious and I didn't go to school for a while\".\n\nShe added she still does not \"go near men or boys\", as \"I'm scared of them and I get uncomfortable around them\".\n\nThe Met has been contacting institutions named on the site as part of investigations into the allegations made on Everyone's Invited.\n\nThe force has said it is looking into allegations written on the website.\n\nSpeaking about the online campaign, DS Laremore said the force \"welcome any initiative which encourages any victim-survivor of a sexual offence to speak out and seek support.\n\n\"We take all allegations of sexual assault very seriously.\n\n\"Regardless of how long ago an offence took place, I would like to remind any victim-survivor that support is available for you should you wish to speak to us,\" she said.\n\nIn June 2020, Ms Sara, who is now 22, shared her experience on Instagram of what she calls \"rape culture\".\n\nWithin a week she had received and shared more than 300 anonymous responses of people with stories of \"misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault\".\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website now carries thousands of victims' testimonies, often from schools and universities.\n\nExperiences range from being drugged and raped at parties, to explicit images being shared over messaging platforms.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fanny Quindot says she saw more of Scotland as tourist than she did when she lived here\n\nFanny Quindot had thought about moving to Scotland for a long time, but putting down roots in a new country during the Covid-19 pandemic was not easy.\n\nThe 26-year-old librarian, who lived in Belgium, says she fell in love with Scotland during her travels.\n\n\"It felt like a great idea,\" she says.\n\n\"It wasn't too far from Belgium, so my friends and family could come visit, and I could easily go back home, even just for a weekend, if I ever felt homesick.\"\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Fanny had found a job in St Andrews.\n\nAfter a few months working from home in Belgium, she decided to pack up her things and relocate to Fife, arriving in August for her first experience of living and working abroad.\n\nThe lockdown restrictions imposed at the start of the pandemic had eased, but in the autumn they began to be reintroduced as case numbers rose again.\n\n\"Because I arrived in the middle of the pandemic, I didn't meet anyone except my roommate and one of my colleagues,\" she says.\n\n\"So not being able to make friends, to have people visit from Belgium or go back home because of the quarantine requirements made things difficult.\"\n\nAnother strict lockdown at the beginning of this year made Fanny feel that things were not going to get better for a while - but the final straw was the introduction of the managed quarantine policy.\n\n\"I felt very lonely and the fact that travelling was going to be virtually impossible prompted me to leave Scotland and return home,\" she says.\n\n\"I didn't get to discover the country as much as I wanted to. It's quite ironic that I saw more of Scotland during my short trips than in the six months I actually lived there,\" she says.\n\nElena Artacho says she is still waiting to discover her new home city\n\nElena Artacho, 27, is still learning how to feel at home in Edinburgh.\n\nShe arrived in the capital from Spain in early August to start a master's degree in international development.\n\n\"At first, I wondered if it would be worth leaving Spain at all if the university didn't offer face-to-face classes,\" she says.\n\n\"But we were told there would be a hybrid system with at least some classes taught in person, even if, when I asked what percentage exactly, I never got a straight answer,\" she remembers.\n\n\"Now we're all studying from home and it's really hard to focus.\"\n\nMs Artacho grew up in the UK before going back to Spain for university, then living in the United States, Qatar and the Philippines.\n\nShe is usually a very active and social person and had expected to struggle with the two-week home quarantine at her arrival.\n\nBut she says this time was \"probably my favourite couple of weeks in Scotland\".\n\n\"The university put me in an accommodation with other international students who were going through the same thing.\n\n\"We got on very well and, in fact, the majority of people I know now, I met during quarantine.\"\n\nShe now lives in a flat-share where she it has been possible to create a \"home feel\".\n\n\"I'm really good friends with my flatmates. Hearing them talk about how much they love Edinburgh, I really can't wait for the restrictions to be lifted.\n\n\"I'm here, but it doesn't feel like it. Edinburgh is a home I'm building up to.\"\n\nEllen Marks has retired to the Highlands\n\nEllen Marks, from North Carolina, has lived in big cities from New York to Beijing, as she spent 40 years of her career evaluating services for vulnerable families across the world.\n\nThe 67-year-old researcher fell in love with Scotland during a trip and decided to retire in the Highlands.\n\nShe says Brexit rushed her decision. Holding a dual American-Lithuanian citizenship, she wanted to move to Scotland during the transition period, to avoid the paperwork linked to the end of the EU freedom of movement.\n\n\"I have been exposed to the country more than I've been exposed to the people,\" Ms Marks says.\n\n\"I haven't met many people, but I have become good friends with an American-Scottish couple who have been indispensable in welcoming me in my new community.\n\n\"They introduced me to some people who have become friends, oriented me to the closest supermarket, told me where to buy the best coffee.\"\n\nShe has admired the kindness and generosity of her neighbours, who she says have gone above and beyond to make her feel welcome.\n\n\"I love the sense of community caring for community,\"she says.\n\nLucie Aidart says she is enjoying life in Edinburgh\n\nAfter roaming the world for months and living in dozens of countries, Lucie Aidart started lockdown at home in France before making a move to live permanently in Edinburgh last summer.\n\nThe screenwriting student says one of the main advantages of the restrictions, especially when you have an international social circle, is that people are always available.\n\n\"Sometimes, not being able to socialise normally is tough but we can adapt,\" she says.\n\n\"I can meet people outdoors, even if it's dark and cold.\"\n\nShe is eager to discover life in Scotland with some degree of normality, whenever that may come.\n\n\"So many good things happened in my life when I decided to just let go, and follow my intuition,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't worry too much about the future. I'm just enjoying life in this city as it is.\"", "BBC Radio 4 Money Box reporter Dan Whitworth was phoned by a fraudster and managed to record the call.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says there's been \"an explosion\" in this type of impersonation fraud - when criminals spoof phone numbers to make it look like they're calling from genuine government departments or banks, for example.\n\nThere's much more about this story in an online article here.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme on Saturday at 12:00 or by listening again here shortly after broadcast.", "Body-editing apps advertised on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram are “triggering” young people with eating disorders, campaigners fear.\n\nAdverts show how the apps can be used to alter body parts, including making waists slimmer and adding muscles.\n\nEating disorder charities have said technology firms should consider the impact on vulnerable people.\n\nThe platforms said the apps did not break advertising guidance, but TikTok added it does reviews its policies.\n\nIt said it is “continually looking to enhance” its framework to “support a body-positive environment”.\n\nThe social media platform, popular with teenagers, banned adverts for fasting apps and weight loss supplements last year.\n\nSocial media companies need to be held to account and “stop this unhealthy and unhelpful messaging,” said eating disorder campaigner Hope Virgo.\n\n\"Over the last year, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people with eating disorders, and while eating disorders aren't necessarily caused by bad body image, we know there are some intrinsic links.\n\n“The fact that Instagram and TikTok are currently advertising body-changing apps will fuel this epidemic of eating disorders further.”\n\nEating disorder charity Seed said it has seen a 68% rise in children and teenagers aged between 10 and 19 seeking support since the pandemic.\n\nDanae Mercer is a health journalist with a history of disordered eating.\n\nShe regularly posts about body positivity on Instagram and Tiktok, filming “behind the curtain” videos of how bodies are edited.\n\n“I know from my own experience, these apps can be triggering,\" she told the BBC.\n\n“The apps make me thinner and curvier than my body, even if I trained all the time, could ever be. They eliminate my pores in a way that’s not even possible in nature. They create a ‘me’ that is, quite simply, unachievable - and they do it all with a click of a button.\n\n“The impact of technology like this is immense, and honestly I don’t think we’ll see the full result of it for years”\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said it was concerning these apps were being “targeted at particularly vulnerable teens.”\n\n“Teens and young girls don’t understand these things yet, not fully. In the same way, we wouldn’t allow weight loss products to be marketed at children, we need to really push for new regulation around what apps are allowed to target vulnerable audiences. Especially when those apps edit bodies.”\n\nThere are several free apps available on both Apple and Android app stores that allow for convincing body enhancements.\n\nUsers can edit photos or videos, changing the size and shape of bodies and faces, smoothing skin and enhancing muscles.\n\n“We are spending more time on these platforms than ever,” said Gemma Oaten, manager of Seed.\n\n“As we get back to normal life, we won’t be able to hide behind screens or apps.\n\n\"People are being offered ways to distort their image online but that puts pressure on them in the real world.”\n\nSocial media companies should accept a “duty of care” and signpost any adverts which could be detrimental to body image, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our skin is for life, not for likes'\n\nBeat, a UK eating disorder charity, said “body-changing apps that encourage the stigmatisation of weight, or promote the idealisation of thinness, could cause distress for people suffering from an eating disorder or vulnerable to one\".\n\nIts director of external affairs, Tom Quinn, said: “We urge the makers of these apps to consider the impact their portrayals have on vulnerable people.\n\n“We would also encourage anyone struggling to report triggering content wherever possible, but also consider taking a step away and instead focusing on other positive sources of support like Beat.”", "GP Dr John Porteous gave Arlene Foster her Covid-19 vaccine in Lisnaskea on Saturday\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said she is \"delighted\" to have received her first Covid-19 vaccine in County Fermanagh.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader was given the AstraZeneca jab at Castle Park Leisure Centre, Lisnaskea.\n\n\"There is a really positive community spirit here and across all of our centres in a collective effort to combat Covid-19,\" she said.\n\nA total of 711,673 people in Northern Ireland have had a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nMore than 110,000 people in Northern Ireland have received their second dose.\n\nMrs Foster said she was pleased to \"now be one of those important statistics\".\n\nShe became eligible to receive a vaccine when the vaccination programme opened to the 50-and-over age group this month.\n\n\"I am grateful to all of the wonderful team of medics and volunteers who are making this happen in GP practices and centres across Northern Ireland every day of the week,\" she said.\n\n\"The programme is having real results.\n\n\"We are seeing falling levels of infection in our over-60s and I'm heartened to see the number of active outbreaks in our care homes reduce well into single figures.\"\n\n\"The more of us that get the vaccine, the quicker we will find our way out of this,\" she added.\n\nThe programme is due to expand on Monday with the opening of the SSE Arena in Belfast as a vaccination centre.\n\n\"I would encourage everyone who is eligible to step up and get booked in, to help protect themselves and their community,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\nTwo more Covid-19-related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland by the Department of Health on Saturday, meaning the total number of deaths is 2,109.", "The return of Alex Salmond to the political fray has sent a shockwave through the Holyrood election campaign.\n\nFew would have imagined in the years that followed his defeat as an MP in the 2017 general election that his comeback would be at the helm of a new party.\n\nHe insists that Alba is not a threat to the SNP. But given he has also announced a series of high-profile defections, the idea of a split seems inescapable.\n\nMr Salmond believes that adding a bloc of Alba Party MSPs would create an independence \"supermajority\" at Holyrood.\n\nThe former first minister has no designs on going back into government, in a coalition or other formal agreement with the SNP.\n\nHe may hope his group could act a bit like a pressure group that has enough votes to bend the rest of parliament to its will, and hold First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's feet to the fire on a second independence referendum.\n\nIt remains to be seen if there is a public appetite for Mr Salmond's new vehicle.\n\nBut by running candidates across Scotland, it has the potential to change the nature of the race in more or less every seat - partly because of the way Scotland's voting system works.\n\nUnder that system, MSPs can be elected either as a representative of a constituency, or from one of eight regions of Scotland using a \"top up\" system of proportional representation.\n\nThe more constituency seats you win in any area, the harder it is to win list seats. In 2016, the SNP won the vast majority of constituency seats - and as a direct result returned just four regional list MSPs.\n\nMr Salmond believes this means most SNP list votes are \"wasted\", and could instead be given to his new list-only party - which would have zero constituency MSPs, and thus a better chance of winning regional seats.\n\nHowever, the SNP cannot afford to just ignore the lists. When they won a majority in 2011, it was with the help of no fewer than 16 list seats.\n\nThey are unlikely to win every single constituency, and thus must try to balance out any local defeats with list seats - from a pragmatic standpoint, their campaign has to be \"both votes SNP\".\n\nThe campaign could now see Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon go head to head again\n\nThere is an impact on other parties beyond the SNP, too. Two start-up groups, Action for Independence and the Independence for Scotland Party, have already withdrawn all of their candidates in support of Mr Salmond's goals.\n\nThe Scottish Greens stand primarily on the regional lists, and usually aim to sweep up the \"second votes\" of pro-independence types who vote SNP in their constituencies.\n\nThe party has put independence at the heart of its campaign for 2021, pledging that all of its MSPs in the next term will back a push for indyref2.\n\nThe likes of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats will no doubt have watched Mr Salmond's announcement with popcorn in hand, hoping it will put a dent in the SNP's electoral juggernaut.\n\nHowever, there are only 56 list seats to go around, so even the Unionist parties might be casting a nervous eye over the margins in some regions.\n\nThey might not be chasing the same voters, but they could still face being edged out if Alba wins some of those seats.\n\nWhat elections are happening? On 6 May, people across Scotland will vote to elect 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government. Find out more here.\n\nWhat powers does the Scottish Parliament have? MSPs pass laws on most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as health, education and transport. They also have control over some taxes and welfare benefits. Defence, foreign policy and immigration are decided by the UK Parliament.\n\nHow do I vote? Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible, so long as they are aged 16 or over on the day of the election. You can register to vote online.\n\nThere may be two different ways of winning seats at Holyrood, and two different ballot papers - but there is only one campaign.\n\nThe emergence of a new party could have a huge impact on the debate as a whole, and on the questions posed each day - potentially recasting the whole campaign.\n\nNicola Sturgeon had hoped to spend this campaign talking about her pandemic leadership, and about her vision for independence - not Alex Salmond's.\n\nNow, she may be doomed to the \"Sturgeon vs Salmond\" psychodrama of recent months dragging on for another six weeks.\n\nOne immediate example of how Mr Salmond may change the debate was when he was asked about an independence referendum at the Alba launch event, and mused about what other routes there may be to securing self-determination.\n\nSo already there are questions for Ms Sturgeon about her strategy. She could now be continually asked to react to Mr Salmond's position on independence, rather than dictating the debate on a topic which should really be home turf for her.\n\nMr Salmond also wants to move on from the questions of recent years about the government's mishandling of complaints against him and about the \"malicious plot\" he claims there was against him.\n\nIn every interview, he has been asked about his own conduct. Each time he responds that there have been several court cases and judges, a jury - which acquitted him of charges of sexual assault in March 2020 - and a number of inquiries. And that should be the end of the matter.\n\nHowever, the problem for politicians is that they cannot control the questions they are asked on the campaign trail.\n\nMr Salmond will not be able to make questions about his past behaviour and the events of the last three years simply go away. If he is to make a success of his new party, he needs to maintain convincing answers to them.", "The leaflets supporting Mark Drakeford went to some homes in the Fairwater area of Cardiff\n\nThe first minister has been criticised after English-only leaflets were sent in his name to some constituents ahead of May's Welsh Parliament election.\n\nThey were delivered to residents in an area of Mark Drakeford's Cardiff West consistency, carrying a photograph of him with the heading \"Labour news\".\n\nWelsh Labour said they were sent out by the local party group and leaflets by Mr Drakeford will be bilingual.\n\nRivals have accused the Welsh Labour leader as being \"hypocritical\".\n\nThe Welsh government announced plans in 2016 to almost double the number of Welsh speakers from the 562,000 recorded in the 2011 census.\n\n\"Leaflets coming from the first minister should be bilingual - in Welsh and English,\" said Cardiff West Plaid Cymru candidate Rhys ab Owen.\n\n\"It is one thing to set a target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050, but another to act on that. The fact that he's sending English-only leaflets show he isn't practising what he is preaching.\n\n\"To normalise the language it is important things are bilingual and receiving bilingual leaflets from the first minister is imperative.\"\n\nHe accused Mr Drakeford of being \"hypocritical\".\n\nNeil McEvoy, of the Propel Party, said: \"They have shown contempt towards the language... I am disappointed but am not surprised.\n\nThe drive to almost double the number of Welsh speakers by 2050 was unveiled in 2016\n\n\"At the end of the day, it doesn't matter because the language is growing. It has changed a lot here in Fairwater. I can hear the language being spoken in the shops and on the streets.\"\n\nThe Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party said in a statement: \"It is the hypocrisy that stinks. As first minister, Mark Drakeford spends untold millions cutting down forests to translate all his government leaflets into Welsh.\n\n\"Yet, when he is spending his own Labour Party money, he admits it is a ridiculous waste, and sensibly just prints his message in English.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, who has been Wales' first minister since 2018, has held his Cardiff West seat since 2011 and 2021 Senedd election leaflets supporting him were sent to homes in the Fairwater area of the city.\n\nWelsh Labour said it was \"aware a monolingual version of a leaflet by the local Labour party had gone out in some areas of Cardiff West\" but Mr Drakeford's \"election leaflets including the freeposts, are and will continue to be, bilingual\".\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats, Welsh Conservatives and the Green Party have also announced candidates standing in the Cardiff West Constituency - Heath Marshall, Sean Driscoll and David Griffin respectively - but did not offer any comment.", "Stutthof, near Gdansk, is now a memorial\n\nA court in Germany has declared a 96-year-old former Nazi camp guard unfit to stand trial but ruled that he should pay his own legal fees.\n\nThe man, named as Harry S, was accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people at Stutthof Camp.\n\nThe court in Wuppertal said there was a \"high degree of probability\" he was guilty of the crimes.\n\nHis is one of three recent cases related to the Stutthof camp, which was located in then Nazi-occupied Poland.\n\nBruno Dey, 93, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence last July after being found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.\n\nIn February, 95-year-old Irmgard F - who was a secretary at Stutthof - became one of the few women to be charged with aiding and abetting Nazi-era mass murder.\n\nHarry S was a guard at Stutthof between June 1944 and May 1945.\n\nHe is alleged to have overseen the transportation of nearly 600 prisoners to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in September 1944.\n\nHe was charged with aiding and abetting in their murder in 2017.\n\nStutthof also had gas chambers and was notorious for the atrocious conditions in which some 100,000 inmates were kept. Many died of disease and starvation, while others were gassed, shot or given lethal injections.\n\nThe victims included many Jews as well as non-Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers.\n\nThe west German court said in a statement on Wednesday that \"due to his physical condition,\" Harry S \"was no longer able to reasonably represent his interest in and outside of the trial\".\n\nBut it went on to say that, as a guard at the camp, he would have overseen the transports and \"recognised the scope and dimension of the mass murder committed\" there.\n\nAs there was a \"a high degree of probability\" of his guilt, Harry S should pay his own expenses, the court ruled. It is not known how much the costs are, or whether the defendant will appeal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStutthof was officially designated a concentration camp in 1942. It was the first such camp built outside German borders in the war and the last to be liberated, by the Soviet army on 9 May 1945.\n\nMore than 65,000 people are thought to have died in the camp. Guards began using gas chambers there in June 1944.\n\nGermany has been pursuing former Nazi camp workers since a landmark ruling in 2011 that convicted a former guard, John Demjanjuk, as an accessory to mass murder. He died pending an appeal, but the verdict set a legal precedent.\n\nPreviously, courts had required evidence of former SS guards' direct involvement in atrocities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe warns of the \"deep scars\" left by his wife's five-year imprisonment in Iran\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman held in Iran since 2016, needs urgent treatment for her mental health, according to a medical report sent by a charity to the UK government.\n\nThe charity worker faces a new court hearing in Tehran on Sunday, a week after her ankle tag was removed.\n\nThe report says she is suffering from major depression and PTSD.\n\nDespite her sentence coming to an end, she is still waiting to return to the UK to be reunited with her family.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for membership of organisations working against the Iranian government, allegations which she has always denied.\n\nPrior to the recent removal of the ankle tag, the dual national had been under house arrest in Tehran since being released from jail last March.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has called for her permanent release so she can return home to her husband and young daughter in the UK.\n\nThe report - commissioned by the human rights charity Redress - says she was interrogated for hours, often blindfolded, while in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence.\n\nThe Redress report was based on a medical evaluation carried out virtually by doctors while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was under house arrest towards the end of last year. It was completed last month and sent to the government on Thursday.\n\nNeither Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her husband Richard has felt able to read the report in full, but both feel that it is important to have her ordeal documented, giving the charity the go-ahead to share the details with the BBC.\n\nIn the medical evaluation, she also told doctors she suffered hair loss, had to listen to her female guard talking loudly to her child while separated from her own daughter, and developed OCD around washing.\n\nAccording to the report, her post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and obsessive stress disorder are due to \"extremely stressful, traumatising experiences in the prisons of Iran\" and the uncertainty about her fate - and warns things could worsen without her being treated and reunited with her family in the UK.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison in August 2018\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nWhilst in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence, she was interrogated - often blindfolded - for eight to nine hours a day, she told the doctors who examined her online.\n\n\"The interrogations were traumatising,\" she is quoted as saying in the report. \"They were threatening to send my child away, told me my husband was a spy, that he had already left me, that he was lying to me, that he worked for the British intelligence service.\n\n\"They said he was unfaithful, they said he was not an accountant and that he had always been lying to me. They told me I had been fired from my job.\"\n\nShe says she was in a tiny cell - a 1.5 to 2-metre square - during solitary confinement. It had no window, made her feel claustrophobic and she could not tell the difference between night and day.\n\n\"The light was left on all the time there was only a dirty mat on the floor with a thin blanket to sleep on,\" she says. \"There were times I could not breathe.\"\n\nShe was only allowed one sanitary pad a month during this time.\n\nGabriella, now six, counted down the days to her mother's release\n\nMr Ratcliffe says of his wife's documented experiences: \"This is mental torture. It's a really horrific experience. And it's cumulative. And it builds up. And of course, most of it has been hidden away.\n\n\"She didn't talk about it a lot when she came out. I don't talk to the media about some of the stuff. But I think it's important to put it on the record. It's important that our government takes responsibility for protecting people.\"\n\nThe two doctors carrying out the evaluation were told that, while in prison, she developed OCD centred around cleaning rituals.\n\nMr Ratcliffe spoke to the BBC of his wife's \"need to try and control what you can, leading to a sort of obsessive control about certain things and having certain routines to cope with the other things you can't control - all the things that are completely out of your hands\".\n\nHe adds: \"And of course, Nazanin's entire life is out of her hands.\"\n\nHer interrogators tried to pressure her into co-operating with them, in exchange for clemency, she told the doctors.\n\n\"I said that I could not do, that I said I needed so much psychological help that I was not even sure I could work for myself, let alone work for my captors,\" she reported.\n\nShe told the doctors that one of her female guards would talk loudly to her child just outside her cell, while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was separated from her own daughter.\n\n\"It was unbearable,\" Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe told the medics. \"I dreaded her shifts as I knew she would do that to torture me.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since 2016\n\nIn July 2018, she spent a week in a psychiatric hospital, accompanied by prison guards and chained to the bed by both her feet and hands.\n\nHer incarceration took a significant physical toll on her health as well, the report finds. At one point, in jail, her hair was falling out and she was too weak to climb up to the top bunk in the women's ward where she was held for most of her imprisonment.\n\nThe report details the continuing guilt and anguish she feels and says she has tried to put a brave face on her ordeal and hide her symptoms from her parents, with whom she now lives.\n\n\"She knows that her suffering traumatises her parents and that her post-traumatic symptoms, like irritation and anger, harm her parents' psychological health,\" the report says.\n\n\"She also knows that her absence might create serious traumatic problems in her daughter who is being forced to grow up without the presence of her caring mother. Her imprisonment is a huge burden on her marital relationship. As her husband is struggling to gain her freedom, these efforts also keep him in a constant state of stress and suffering instead of continuing the ordinary life of a parent and a husband.\"\n\nDr Michele Heisler, medical director of Physicians for Human Rights, is one of the doctors who conducted the evaluation for the Independent Forensic Expert Group.\n\nShe described Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a \"remarkably resilient woman\" who was \"trying to keep hope, trying to be strong\" during her evaluation.\n\nBut she said: \"Her current situation continues the psychological torture. Although she has finished five years of being imprisoned, she faces ongoing threat and uncertainty.\"\n\nShe may have spared her parents the details, but Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe reported to the doctors that she felt constant sadness, had suicidal thoughts, and suffered other manifestations of extreme anxiety - including trembling, tingling, and hot and cold sweats.\n\nConcern that lumps in her breasts could be cancerous have contributed to her anxiety. And she also has continuing neurological and muscular-skeleton problems, as a result of prolonged confinement, according to the report.\n\nThe doctors say it is \"possible that the positions in which she was handcuffed for extended periods led to nerve and joint injury\" in her right hand.\n\nAnd even once she is safely home in the UK with her family, the report makes clear that there will be a long road to recovery.\n\nShe will need medication as well as psychotherapy and treatment for her physical symptoms.\n\n\"Nazanin's healing can be only provided in the UK in the presence of her family after reunification,\" it concludes. \"In order to recover, she needs to be in a safe and non-threatening environment.\"\n\nBut it's not clear whether Sunday's court hearing will be used to block her return to the UK.\n\n\"The threat of a second trial remains very real,\" says Rupert Skilbeck of Redress, which acts as her and her husband's legal representative.\n\n\"This report is evidence of the severe suffering that Nazanin has experienced in Iran due to the mistreatment suffered and the cruelty of a legal process that has never followed the rule of law, making it impossible for Nazanin to know when she will be reunited with her family.\"\n\nHer treatment, Redress says, clearly amounts to torture.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Iran continues to put Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe through a cruel and intolerable ordeal. Nazanin must be allowed to return permanently to her family in the UK and we will continue to do all we can to achieve this.\"", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is pictured on Sunday, after she was released from house arrest in Tehran\n\nBoris Johnson has demanded the \"immediate release\" of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges, in a phone call with Iran's president.\n\nThe PM said her \"continued confinement remains completely unacceptable\" and that she must be allowed to return to her family in the UK.\n\nShe had her ankle tag removed on Sunday at the end of her five-year sentence.\n\nBut she faces a new court case against her - scheduled for next Sunday.\n\nThe charity worker had been under house arrest in Tehran since being moved from jail last March. She has always denied the charges against her.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister spoke to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday afternoon, and raised the case of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other British-Iranian dual nationals detained in Iran \"and demanded their immediate release\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"He said that while the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle monitor was welcome, her continued confinement remains completely unacceptable and she must be allowed to return to her family in the UK.\"\n\nMr Johnson, while stressing that the UK remains committed to making the Iran nuclear deal a success, also demanded that Iran cease all of its nuclear activity which breaches the deal, the spokesman said.\n\n\"He stressed the importance of Iran seizing the opportunity presented by the United States' willingness to return to the deal if Iran comes back into compliance,\" he said.\n\n\"The prime minister underlined the need for Iran to cease wider destabilising activity and be a positive force in the Gulf region.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife in person since she left the UK in 2016\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, had been out of prison since last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic but had been confined to her parents' house.\n\nShe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nSpeaking after her ankle tag was removed, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said it was \"a mixed day for us\" and \"Nazanin is genuinely happy\" to be free of her electronic bracelet.\n\n\"I'm a bit more guarded - it feels to me like they have made one blockage just as they have removed another, and we very clearly remain in the middle of this government game of chess,\" he said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison in August 2018\n\nAs of Sunday, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had not had her British passport returned to her, according to Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in London where her family live.\n\nMs Siddiq told the BBC: \"She does have to go back to court and we don't know what awaits her there.\n\n\"Nazanin is quite worried because there was talk of another case being put against her which may of course mean another sentence, and we don't know how long for.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence has included eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations and hunger strikes to press for medical treatment.\n\nPrior to her arrest, she lived in London with her husband and child.\n\nIn November, she was taken to court on fresh charges of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime.\n\nHer family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.", "Wenjing Lin died at the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway, in Ynyswen, on Friday\n\nA man has been charged with murder after the death of a 16-year-old girl in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nPolice launched a murder investigation after Wenjing Lin died at the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway, in Ynyswen near Treorchy, on Friday.\n\nChun Xu, 31, has been charged with Ms Lin's murder and the attempted murder of a 38-year-old man, said South Wales Police.\n\nMr Xu will appear at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nA 38-year-old man who was previously arrested in connection with the incident is no longer being treated as a suspect, police added. But he remains in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Baglan Street at about midday to reports of a stabbing, and a cordon was erected around the Blue Sky takeaway.\n\nScores of floral tributes were left at the restaurant where Ms Lin died\n\nOfficers later confirmed a 16-year-old girl had died and her family paid tribute to \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nScores of floral tributes were left at the takeaway restaurant as the community mourned her death.", "Analysis: New Brazil variant cases are no surprise\n\nIt was always known more cases of the P.1 Brazil variant were coming. When it was confirmed 11 days ago the variant was here, it was known two household members of the original cases in South Gloucestershire had tested positive for Covid. The results of the genomic sequencing to check which variant they had was not yet complete, but the expectation was it would be P.1. Where does this leave us? A quarter of all Covid cases are being checked for variants and all the indications are that they are not spreading. The new P.1 cases mean the total is now 10, while there have been just over 300 cases of the South Africa variant and another 113 cases where the UK virus has acquired the E484 mutation which allows it to escape some of the immune response. There will be more variants out there that have not been detected, but given that overall Covid infection levels are lower than when the variant was first discovered we can be confident it is not taking hold. Monitoring this though is crucial to help the UK decide if vaccines updates are needed ahead of next winter.", "LGBT+ campaigners have urged the government to \"make good\" the prime minister's promise to ban \"conversion therapy\" in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes as three advisers quit the government's LGBT+ advisory panel amid concern it is being too slow in bringing in legislation.\n\nMinisters have promised to \"work at pace\" to end conversion therapy.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had a \"blind spot\" on the issue that the PM had to \"address\".\n\nConversion therapy involves treatments ranging from psychotherapy to religious teaching and discussion.\n\nCampaigners want a \"meaningful\" law against the practice, which aims to change sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nAll forms of conversion therapy are already prohibited in Switzerland and parts of Australia and Boris Johnson pledged last summer to ban what he called an \"abhorrent\" practice in England and Wales.\n\nBut the government has not yet published the findings of a consultation on the issue which began in 2018.\n\nIn a debate in Parliament on Monday, equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said conversion therapy had \"no place in a civilised society\", but added that \"robust\" laws were already in place to deal with the most troubling examples, involving violence and sexual assault.\n\nAnd the government did not want to stop those who \"seek spiritual counselling as they explore their sexual orientation\", she said.\n\nBut LGBT+ groups and campaigners, including Stonewall, the LGBT Foundation and Trans Media Watch, say a ban on all forms of conversion therapy, not just the most distressing types, is needed.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Badenoch, they express \"deep concern\" over her comments, arguing they appeared to \"imply that you have been meeting with perpetrators of conversion therapy and those who want the practice to continue\".\n\nThe letter continues: \"This is very worrying and gives the impression that the government is more interested in appeasing the extreme fringes of religious people, despite the calls for a ban from senior religious leaders from across a wide range of faiths.\"\n\nTwo advisers quit the government's LGBT advisory panel on Wednesday, and a third resigned on Thursday.\n\nThere have been rumblings for a while about a growing unease amongst some panel members which are now playing out in a very public way.\n\nThe advisory group was first set up under Theresa May but hasn't met for some time - I'm told at least six months.\n\nAnd now we've heard claims that, even when it did meet, panellists didn't necessarily feel listened to.\n\nIf the group does appear increasingly defunct (and we'll have to see what happens) it may be seen, by some, as symbolic of a fading commitment to LGBT+ equality under this administration.\n\nMinisters would reject that and, during a debate on Monday, Kemi Badenoch said the government has a \"proud record\" of championing equal opportunity.\n\nBut it was her response overall that seems to have sparked these resignations.\n\nAmong concerns was her refusal to commit to a legislative \"ban\" of so-called conversion therapy, promising instead only to \"end\" the practice.\n\nThe equalities minister described the legal landscape as \"complex\". But it's an awkward one for Boris Johnson who did, last summer, use the word \"ban\" during a TV interview.\n\nJayne Ozanne, who resigned first, accused ministers of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT+ people.\n\nShe said there had been \"a lack of engagement\", telling ITV News that both Ms Badenoch and minister for women and equalities Liz Truss were known among the LGBT+ community as \"the ministers for inequality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jayne Ozanne spoke to the BBC in 2018 about her own experience of gay conversion therapy\n\nAnother of those who quit the panel, James Morton, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"For the past 12 months I've been increasingly concerned about the direction of travel on trans rights.\"\n\nHe added that it felt \"really scary\" being a trans person \"in the UK at the moment\".\n\nAnd Ellen Murray said she had resigned \"due to the government's persistent and worsening hostility towards our community\".\n\n\"From conversion therapy to trans healthcare, to the shameful treatment of LGBT refugees, the government has acted in appalling faith,\" she added.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government \"has a blind\" spot in the issue.\n\n\"The PM needs to address what is obviously a problem in his government and a pattern of behaviour he needs to address,\" he said at his party's local election campaign launch.\n\nAsked if he would ban conversion therapy if he were prime minister, Sir Keir said: \"yes, absolutely.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the government \"bows to nobody in terms of our pushing for LBTQ issues, LGBT rights and also rights of minorities\".\n\nOn Wednesday, a government spokesman said: \"We have repeatedly made clear that we will take action to end conversion therapy and we are working to bring forward plans to do so shortly.\"\n\nThe LGBT Advisory Council was set up in 2019, with the term of current panel members set to end on 31 March.", "A senior official from the Northern Ireland Office is to be sent to the US to try to build relations with the administration of President Joe Biden.\n\nIt comes amid UK-EU tensions over the UK's decision to extend an exemption on Brexit checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Irish supermarkets.\n\nThe two sides are also at odds in a row over Covid-19 vaccine exports.\n\nThe US president has previously expressed concerns about the situation in Ireland after Brexit.\n\nHe told reporters in November the US did not want a \"guarded border\" on the island of Ireland and that it had taken a lot of hard work to reach a settlement and end decades of conflict.\n\nAnd before his election, Mr Biden - an Irish American - said that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement and must not endanger the peace process.\n\nThe EU has complained UK's unilateral decision to extend grace periods on Brexit checks breaches part of the Brexit deal known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, and has threatened the UK with legal action.\n\nJoao Vale de Almeida, the EU's ambassador to the UK, told ITV's Peston programme on Wednesday it would \"move forward\" with its legal action in the coming days.\n\nHe said the bloc had to take legal action but he hoped that \"with some reflection\" the two sides could \"come to an understanding on the way forward\".\n\nBut earlier Brexit minister Lord Frost said London would defend \"vigorously\" any legal action brought by Brussels and that the measures taken were \"operational, technical and temporary\".\n\nAnd in response to criticism from MPs on Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis also insisted the move had been \"lawful\".\n\n\"My view is having spoken to businesses, if we hadn't have taken the action that we took last week, we would have had empty shelves in supermarkets in Northern Ireland imminently now,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that would have raised tensions further and it may well have undermined the protocol fatally in a way that is not actually in the best interests of either the EU, the UK or the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK has not \"blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components\", the PM tells the Commons\n\nThe UK and EU have also rowed over the export of Covid-19 vaccines, with Boris Johnson rejecting the bloc's claim that the government was stopping jabs from leaving the country.\n\nIn a briefing note, European Council President Charles Michel had said the UK and the US had imposed an \"outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory\".\n\nMr Michel had said his claim about the UK's position was based on \"facts\", but the Foreign Office decided to summon an EU official to explain what it called the president's \"incorrect assertions\".\n\nThe EU has faced production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nIn January, it introduced a a system of controls on exports, requiring manufacturers to seek permission from national governments for planned sales.\n\nThe bloc also drafted regulations which would have overridden the Northern Ireland Protocol, potentially allowing it to stop vaccines bound for Northern Ireland, but backed down after widespread criticism.", "Teachers' grades will be used instead of exam papers this summer\n\nParents are emailing teachers to lobby for higher GCSE and A-level grades, warn head teachers - with teachers' grades replacing exams this summer.\n\nRichard Sheriff, president of the ASCL heads' union, warned of parents with \"pointy elbows and lawyer friends\".\n\nHe suggested it was particularly schools in affluent areas where parents would try to sway teachers.\n\nMr Sheriff said it \"really worries me\" that this pressure could widen the social divide in exam results.\n\nGeoff Barton, the heads' union's general secretary, gave an example of a teacher who had been emailed by parents over the high grades needed for their daughter's ambition to become a doctor.\n\n\"We have to protect individual teachers,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nThis summer's GCSE and A-level exams have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and instead teachers will submit grades for pupils, based on evidence such as coursework, essays and assessments set by exam boards.\n\nMr Barton said that \"raises the spectre\" of parents trying to intervene on behalf of their children.\n\nHe urged schools to remind parents that exam boards would issue results - and not teachers - and that the boards would carry out spot checks on how grades were being decided.\n\nHe criticised the idea that the pupils' grades would be a \"negotiation\".\n\nThis should not be about parents who \"shout the loudest to get their child the furthest\", said Mr Sheriff, an executive head teacher in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.\n\nSimon Lebus, acting chief exam regulator, this week warned the Education Select Committee that parents could make teachers feel \"uncomfortable\" with an \"intrusive interest\" over exam grades.\n\nThere have also been concerns about grade inflation, if teachers are too generous in their grade estimations.\n\nSpeaking ahead of ASCL's annual conference, being held online, the head teachers' leaders also raised concerns about the risks of Covid being spread by young people meeting and mixing outside of school.\n\nMr Sheriff said schools \"only have control over a small part of the day\" - and that outside school, young people seem to \"have taken licence\" to start socialising.\n\n\"Young people, particularly teenagers, are gathering, they're meeting in each other's homes,\" said the North Yorkshire head.\n\nThere were warnings too about confusions over the rules of Covid testing - but head teachers said so far there seemed to be low numbers of positive cases being reported from the mass testing running in secondary schools this week.\n\nBut there had been isolated cases of pupils being sent home - including a third of one year group who had been in contact with a pupil who had tested positive.\n\nThis week millions of pupils have returned to school in England, and some younger children in Northern Ireland, and the heads reported \"very high levels of attendance\".", "Heathrow Airport regularly sees queues of three hours and sometimes six hours at border control, according to Emma Gilthorpe, its chief operating officer.\n\nEarlier this month, passengers complained of waiting up to seven hours, which one said was \"inhumane\".\n\nBut Border Force said many passengers were arriving without having bought mandatory Covid testing packages.\n\nThe enforcement body added that people should only be travelling for limited reasons.\n\nSeparately, hundreds of Heathrow passport control are set to take industrial action.\n\nUnions representing Border Force officials said the delays were partly caused by Covid restrictions requiring immigration officials to work in a bubble of 10.\n\nThey said this prevented more staff being deployed if the border was particularly busy.\n\nBut Nick Jariwalla, director of Border Force at Heathrow, said: \"We are in a global health pandemic - it is illegal to go on holiday and people should only be travelling for very limited reasons.\n\n\"Unfortunately, a large number of passengers are continuing to arrive without having purchased their mandatory testing packages for the second and eighth days of quarantine in the UK.\n\n\"This causes delays as passengers may receive a fine or be subject to other enforcement action.\"\n\nMr Jariwalla said all arriving passengers had to purchase the testing package before leaving the airport.\n\n\"We make absolutely no apologies for this,\" he added. \"Every essential check stops the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\n\"These people should not have been allowed to travel without their testing packages and we are following up with regulators and carriers to ensure the law is enforced.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Gilthorpe said that pre-Covid, the queues for EU arrivals were supposed to be 25 minutes, and 45 minutes for non-EU arrivals.\n\nWhile she said she expected the length of waiting to go up during the pandemic, Ms Gilthorpe said the levels the airport was currently seeing were \"unacceptable\".\n\nWhile Ms Gilthorpe said the measures in place for quarantine hotels were running relatively smoothly, with a small number of passengers, she said the same could not be said for the border.\n\nMs Gilthorpe said passengers who felt poorly treated at Heathrow would choose rival airports next time.\n\n\"We are seeing significant pressure on the border and we are seeing very long queues, and that is a worry,\" she said.\n\nAlthough Ms Gilthorpe said she knew additional resources had been introduced, the issues were caused by \"the level of complexity of the processes and the way resource is being deployed\".\n\nInternational arrivals must now provide proof of a negative Covid test taken 72 hours before departure to England and a passenger locator form which contains details of either a purchased hotel quarantine stay, or two test kits for at home quarantine.\n\nShe told the committee: \"It is deeply frustrating as the operator of the airport when you have a queue full of people and you only have two desks open.\n\n\"It is rare to see all the desks manned and we have to find our way to how we make that happen so we can get that flow.\"\n\nHeathrow's self-service e-gates at passport control are currently closed.\n\nMs Gilthorpe said she hoped that by the summer, the gates would also be able to scan passenger locator forms and pre-departure testing results, but that had not yet been integrated into the system.\n\nThe Heathrow executive also warned that if the long queues continued after international travel is permitted. it could risk the country's economic resurgence.\n\n\"Heathrow is Britain's hub airport, it is the front door. We have to get our economy moving and we have to make sure we are capable of receiving people,\" she said.\n\n\"If you have a poor experience at the border, there's a risk you won't come back again. That traffic will go to Charles De Gaulle [airport in Paris], it will go to Frankfurt and we will miss out on that economic resurgence,\" she said.\n\nThe queue delays come as staff in the PCS union served notice of industrial action over rosters they describe as \"unworkable\".\n\nThis will involve a month of action short of a strike by hundreds of staff, including working to rule and an overtime ban.\n\nThe roster changes include ending the ability of staff to swap and request certain shifts, the union said.\n\nIn February, staff voted for strike action over the changes, the union said.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA serving Met police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of Sarah Everard.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house.\n\nThe suspect, in his 40s, is an officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, the Met said.\n\nA woman, in her 30s, is also in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe Met said Ms Everard had not yet been found.\n\nHer cousin, Tom Everard, said the family want to \"focus on the facts as they emerge\".\n\n\"I want to encourage people to come forward with anything they might have, and to continue supporting the police investigation,\" the 36-year-old added.\n\n\"We have to believe Sarah will still be found and brought back safely.\"\n\nMet Police officers have been searching land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford, Kent\n\nOfficers are currently searching locations in London and Kent including a property in Deal and an area of woodland near Ashford.\n\nThe arrested officer, who was initially held on suspicion of kidnap, is also being questioned about a separate allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nHe was responsible for uniformed patrolling of diplomatic premises - including Downing Street, the Palace of Westminster, as well as foreign embassies in London.\n\nHe was off duty at the time of his arrest.\n\nMs Everard's family said it was out of character for her to disappear\n\nSince last Wednesday, officers have visited more than 750 homes in the Clapham area and have received more than 120 phone calls from the public, the Met said.\n\nMarketing executive Ms Everard vanished on 3 March and was last captured on a doorbell camera walking alone along the A205 Poynders Road towards Tulse Hill at about 21:30 GMT.\n\nMs Everard's family previously said it was out of character for her to disappear.\n\nShe is thought to have walked through Clapham Common towards her house in Brixton - a journey which should have taken about 50 minutes.\n\nSpeaking after the arrest on Tuesday, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said: \"The fact that the man who has been arrested is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports on Sarah Everard's last known movements\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Ms Everard and her friends and family.\n\nAfter the arrest the Met referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe IOPC said a mandatory referral was made in relation to the Met's actions after Ms Everard was reported missing.\n\nSpecialist officers have been drafted in from across the Met Police to help with the search\n\nSarah Everard is thought to have walked through Clapham Common towards her house in Brixton\n\nThis morning Mr Ephgrave described the arrest of a serving Met Police officer as both shocking and disturbing.\n\nThat officer has now been further arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nIt's unusual for such a senior officer to give a statement at this stage of an investigation and perhaps reflects the horror felt within the force - a profession where colleagues often describe themselves as family.\n\nWe have now learnt the arrested officer is in his 40s and works in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was to patrol diplomatic premises.\n\nUnderstandably, Sarah's disappearance has made some people in and around Clapham nervous for their own safety.\n\nSocial media users have said the arrest of a police officer has heightened anxiety.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: \"All women and girls should be able to feel safe on the streets of London at all times.\n\n\"I know how shocked and worried Londoners are by Sarah's disappearance and the developments in the case.\"\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.", "Post-Brexit checks on some EU goods coming into Great Britain have been delayed by six months in order to give businesses more time to prepare.\n\nThe government said the new timetable would help firms recovering in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe need for health certificates on imports such as meat and milk will be pushed back from next month to October.\n\nAnd in-person inspections on such animal products due from July will now begin in January 2022.\n\nIt is the second time that the timetable for these checks, originally due after the post-Brexit transition ended in January 2021, has been put back.\n\nThe European Union has been implementing full checks on goods sent from the UK since the start of this year.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the disruption caused by the pandemic had \"lasted longer and has been deeper than we anticipated\".\n\nIn a statement outlining the changes, he insisted the government had been \"confident of being ready on time\" for the checks to take effect.\n\nBut he added: \"We have listened to businesses who have made a strong case that they need more time to prepare.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium, which represents everything from major supermarkets to fast food chains and online businesses, said it would have been \"foolhardy\" not to delay checks given the current state of border infrastructure and IT systems.\n\nIts director of food Andrew Opie said the new timetable had come \"in the nick of time,\" with many border posts \"little more than a hole in the ground\".\n\nHe added that pushing ahead without a delay \"might otherwise have seen empty shelves for some products\".\n\nHe urged the government not to \"rest on its laurels,\" and use the next six month to \"establish and communicate the new systems\" with businesses.\n\nLabour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Jack Dromey said the government's \"chopping and changing\" of rules \"smacks of ill-preparedness and incompetence\".\n\n\"They have had years to prepare for this but can't stop missing their own deadlines,\" he added.\n\n\"The government need to pull their sleeves up, listen to businesses who have been desperately coming forward with practical solutions, and get this sorted.\"\n\nThis extension is not ideal, but it does mean that supermarket shelves, for example, should be kept relatively well-stocked during the recovery from the pandemic.\n\nIt is far from clear that all port infrastructure would have been ready to cope with these import arrangements.\n\nIt is theoretically possible that other countries exporting to the UK would argue these grace periods violate key world trade principles on offering the same access to all countries.\n\nIn practice, in the middle of a pandemic, it seems unlikely that a few months' continuation of favourable import arrangements for EU firms would really lead to a significant backlash.\n\nBritish exporters that are facing non-tariff barriers in trade with the EU and even with Northern Ireland, might, however, express concern about the impact of EU competitors having ongoing free access to the UK market.\n\nEffectively there has been a post-Brexit transition period - but only for EU firms exporting into the UK.\n\nThe latest delay comes amid a row over the UK's decision to postpone a separate set of border checks on GB goods arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal deal, Northern Ireland is following the EU's rules on goods in order to avoid border posts with the Irish Republic.\n\nBut that has required a new set of checks on goods going between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK has unilaterally pushed back the full implementation of some of these checks, after disruption to some food supplies and online deliveries.\n\nThe UK has insisted the move is lawful and justified - but the EU has threatened a legal challenge.\n\nEarlier, the EU's diplomatic representative in the UK called for a reset in relations, amid rising tensions over borders and other issues.\n\nJoao Vale de Alemeida said there was a need to \"change the mindset\" and \"give up on trying score points on the disputes of the past\".", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nHuman remains have been found in the search for missing Sarah Everard, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen on 3 March in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house.\n\nDetectives have not yet been able to confirm the identity of the remains, which were discovered in woodland near Ashford, Kent.\n\nIt comes after a serving Met Police officer was arrested on suspicion of Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nThe officer, who has not been named by police, was arrested in Kent and is also being questioned about a separate allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nMs Everard, a marketing executive, was last seen in doorbell video footage walking alone down a main road near Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear if she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nIn a televised statement, Dame Cressida confirmed officers searching an area near Ashford had \"found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\".\n\nThe Met Police commissioner said specialist officers had updated Ms Everard's family on the investigation.\n\nDame Cressida continued: \"Sarah's disappearance in these awful and wicked circumstances is every family's worst nightmare.\n\n\"I know Londoners will want to know that it is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.\n\n\"But I completely understand that despite this, women in London and the wider public - particularly those in the area where Sarah went missing - will be worried and may well be feeling scared.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cressida Dick: \"Detectives and search teams have found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\"\n\nDame Cressida said the arrest of a serving Met Police officer on suspicion of murder \"has sent waves of shock and anger through the public and through the whole of the Met\".\n\n\"I speak on behalf of all my colleagues in the Met when I say we are utterly appalled at this dreadful news,\" she added. \"Our job is to patrol the streets and to protect people.\"\n\nHundreds of officers have been drafted in to help with the investigation as searches continue in south London and Kent.\n\nPolice are continuing to search land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford\n\nThe arrested officer was responsible for uniformed patrolling of diplomatic premises - including Downing Street and the Palace of Westminster, as well as foreign embassies in London.\n\nHe was off duty at the time of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nA woman in her 30s was also arrested in Kent on Tuesday evening on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports on Sarah Everard's last known movements\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Ms Everard and her friends and family.\n\nThe former Durham University student, who is originally from York, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe is also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) because it involves a police officer.\n\nA spokesman said it had been decided that the Met Police would investigate any potential conduct issues linked to the kidnap and murder allegations itself.\n\nThe IOPC is currently assessing whether any further measures should be taken in relation to the actions of police after Ms Everard was reported missing.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said that if it did turn out that a Met Police officer had been involved then there would be a \"very strong sense of betrayal from the very top of [the organisation] down to the rank and file\".\n\nHe said the force would also feel the people of London \"above all\" will have been betrayed \"because they feel a deep sense of pride that their job is to protect the people of London and now here is one of their own officers suspected of doing the exact opposite in the worst possible way\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alison Johnstone from the Scottish Greens asks the first minister about air passenger duty and UK government plans to cut it. She also asks about plans to build new roads.\n\nShe calls it \"irresponsible\" because it flies in the face of the climate emergency, particularly in the build-up to the Cop26 conference later this year.\n\nShe asks the first minister if she will take responsibility to make sure APD is not cut in Scotland.\n\nThe FM says she has no plans to cut air passenger duty and says the Scottish government's economy recovery plan must be consistent with its moral obligation to meet net zero targets.\n\nShe says if anyone looks at the Scottish government's budget they will see strongly the commitment to a \"green sustainable recovery\".", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard are searching a home and woodland in Kent following the arrest of a serving Met officer.\n\nThe 33-year-old was last seen in Clapham, south London, on 3 March.\n\nThe policeman and a woman were arrested at a house in Kent on Tuesday. Searches are being carried out at a building in Deal as well as on land near Ashford.\n\nThe Met said it was \"shocking and deeply disturbing\" that the arrested man was a serving officer.\n\nMs Everard's family have been kept updated, the force added.\n\nAn area of woodland near Ashford is being searched by police\n\nMet Police officers have been searching land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford, Kent\n\nA tent has been erected outside a house in Deal and a car was earlier seen being taken away from the property.\n\nOfficers have also been carrying out searches on land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford.\n\nRetired farmer Derek Batt, 72, of nearby Fridd Farm, said officers visited his property late on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"They said they were investigating a missing person. I said 'is it Sarah that I have seen on TV?' and she (the officer) said 'yes'.\"\n\nMr Batt said he had not seen any suspicious activity in the area.\n\nFridd Farm is located almost three miles away from Great Chart Golf and Leisure complex\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said the man and the woman had both been taken into custody at a London police station.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said the arrests were \"a serious and significant development\".\n\n\"We will continue to work with all speed on this investigation but the fact that the arrested man is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing.\"\n\nDuring a later statement, he added the officer \"was not on duty at the time\" when Ms Everard went missing and would only confirm he had been arrested \"in connection\" with her disappearance.\n\nHe also would not say if the officer was known to the 33-year-old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen asked by reporters if police believed she was still alive, Mr Ephgrave replied: \"We are searching as hard as we can to find Sarah, so we really hope that is the case.\n\n\"As a father myself of four young women I can only imagine the anguish that Sarah's family are feeling at this very very difficult time.\"\n\nThe arrested woman has been held on suspicion of assisting an offender, the force has confirmed.\n\nOn Tuesday, officers searching for Ms Everard had put up a cordon outside a block of flats in Clapham near to where she was last seen on Poynders Road and sniffer dogs have been used to search the nearby Oaklands Estate and gardens.\n\nMs Everard's family said it was out of character for her to disappear\n\nOfficers were also seen searching drains along the street where Ms Everard was last seen.\n\nThe Met said officers had visited 750 homes in the area as part of the investigation and the force had received more than 120 phone calls from the public.\n\nFriends and relatives have issued appeals on social media to help find the marketing manager, who vanished on her walk home to Brixton after leaving a friend's flat in Leathwaite Road in Battersea at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nHer family has said it is out of character for her to disappear.\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nShe is believed to have walked through Clapham Common towards her home - a journey that should have taken her about 50 minutes.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were \"with Sarah and her friends and family\".\n\nForensics were seen on Tuesday night outside the Poynders Court housing complex in Clapham\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.", "M&S will start selling clothes from 11 rival brands on its website this spring in a bid to boost its online sales.\n\nMarks said the move to sell items from Hobbs, Joules, Phase Eight and White Stuff from March was part of its ongoing \"transformation programme\".\n\nAn M&S spokesman said the move came as part of plans to \"turbocharge online growth\".\n\nLast year, M&S posted its first loss in its 94 years as a publicly-listed company as Covid hit shop sales.\n\nOnline clothing and homeware sales were up 34% according to its latest interim results, as losses across the business reached £87.6m in the six months to 26 September.\n\nThe High Street stalwart is in the middle of a wide-reaching transformation programme, which last year saw 7,000 job cuts across stores and management.\n\nOther brands set to be marketed on the M&S website online from spring include the menswear brand Jack & Jones and lingerie firm Sloggi.\n\nThey will appear alongside other M&S items, while its own 'Classics' and 'Limited' ranges are being cut.\n\nThe firm had already been experimenting with selling other brands on its website, such as womenswear retailer Nobody's Child, which was the first to launch last autumn.\n\nExecutives hope new labels will draw in customers that might not typically shop with M&S, as well as offering existing customers something new.\n\nNeil Harrison, director of brands at M&S, said: \"The exciting mix will offer our 22 million customers products we already know they love and introduce them to some new brands.\"\n\nThis is a big shake-up for M&S fashion.\n\nNew tie-ups have been coming thick and fast these last few months giving customers more choice. Up until last year, M&S only stocked clothing from its own collections.\n\nNow it's branching out with other brands to complement its own offer - and it's a sensible move. So too is pruning its own, sometimes confusing, fashion ranges.\n\nThis pandemic has wreaked havoc for retail but it's also creating opportunities.\n\nTake Next, a business which already had lots of third-party brands on its website pre-pandemic. On Wednesday, it took a stake in Reiss, which will allow the chain to use Next's online infrastructure.\n\nBoohoo and Asos have also been snapping up High Street brands, like Karen Millen and Topshop, as they try to attract a broader range of shoppers.\n\nThere's been quite a battle for brands this last year and M&S clearly thinks that it's now taking a big, strategic, step in the right direction.\n\nAlthough M&S said that there could also be \"future opportunities\" in UK stores for some brands, its key focus in recent months has been on overhauling its website amid rising competition from fast fashion firms such as Asos and Boohoo.\n\nThe retailer recently announced that it will launch 46 new websites in overseas markets from Iceland to Uzbekistan in order to grow its online business.\n\nIn January it also confirmed that it had bought the Jaeger fashion brand, but not its scores of shops and concessions.\n\nSteve Rowe, chief executive of M&S, has previously said his goal is to deliver long-term transformation and build a brand that is more digital \"in a world that will never be the same again\".", "If approved, Mexico would be one of the world's largest regulated markets for cannabis\n\nMexico's lower house has approved a bill that would legalise the recreational use of cannabis.\n\nIt will now go to the Senate for a final vote, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party is confident will pass.\n\nThis would make Mexico one of the world's largest regulated markets for cannabis.\n\nMexico has struggled with a bloody war against powerful drug cartels, with violence killing thousands yearly.\n\nLawmakers voted in favour of the bill by 316 votes to 129. It had already been approved in the Senate in November but another vote is needed following some alterations by the lower house.\n\nThe legislation would let users with a permit carry up to 28g and grow as many as eight plants at home for personal use. At present, it is illegal to carry more than five grams.\n\nIt would also allow for other licences for the cultivation, transformation, research and export or import of cannabis, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nMr López Obrador has argued that the bill could help tackle the country's powerful drug cartels.\n\nOne lawmaker from his Morena party told AFP news agency that the law would help to achieve peace.\n\nHowever critics have argued that the bill could make marijuana more accessible to children. Others have questioned why Mexicans would be able to buy as much alcohol as they like, yet be liable for prosecution if they grow more than eight cannabis plants.\n\nShould the bill be approved, Mexico would become the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legalise cannabis for recreational use nationwide.\n\nA number of foreign cannabis-growing companies from Canada and California are said to be interested in tapping into the market opportunity presented by the legislation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFabinho is \"one of the best in the world at number six\", Jurgen Klopp said after the Brazil midfielder helped Liverpool beat RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThe 27-year-old has had to fill in at centre-back for large parts of this season because of injuries to Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip and Joe Gomez, while also suffering from a number of fitness problems of his own.\n\nBut restored to his preferred position in the centre of the Reds midfield, he excelled in the last-16 second-leg win over Leipzig, which was secured through second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.\n\nIt keeps alive the club's hopes of a second European title in three seasons at the end of a campaign where their title defence has fallen apart following a run of recent home defeats.\n\n\"The performance and the level we played was really good and necessary,\" Liverpool manager Klopp said. \"We did really well. Defending-wise [it] was really good. [The] front three worked well together - but missed a couple of chances in the first half.\n\nOn Fabinho, he said: \"We have to see what solutions we can find for the next games - but number six is his position.\n\n\"It was our hope to keep him there for the season. He is one of the best in the world in that position, that is clear - not only defending-wise but creating as well. He is so important to us.\"\n\nFor 70 minutes in Budapest's Puskas Arena, Liverpool were extremely wasteful in front of goal, but sealed the tie when Salah cut inside and finished with a low drive shortly after Leipzig substitute Alexander Sorloth had struck the bar with a header.\n\nMane made absolutely sure with a neat finish from Divock Origi's superb cross.\n\nKlopp's side will find out their last-eight opponents when the draw is made on Friday, 19 March.\n\n\"The only reason you play in the Champions League is to win, but we are not silly,\" Klopp continued on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"We wait for the draw. It will be tough whoever we get. We are [dangerous opponents] but it is nothing really. I don't want to create headlines about our hopes.\n\n\"We didn't have momentum in the Premier League but we have games to get that back and that would help us in the Champions League.\"\n• None Re-visit text coverage of Liverpool's second leg with RB Leipzig\n\nThe rapid, shocking decline in domestic form suffered by Klopp's side of late means that lifting the Champions League trophy is beginning to look like their most likely route back into the competition next season.\n\nSix home defeats on the spin have sent Liverpool tumbling down the table to eighth, seven points off fourth place.\n\nDuring that run they have looked a shadow of the side that utterly dominated the English top flight in 2019-20, with much-publicised injuries and resultant shuffling of a settled side stripping it of cogency and confidence.\n\nWednesday's display was a welcome step in the right direction for the Reds.\n\nThe central defence retained an unavoidable rookie feel, but in front of Ozan Kabak and Nathaniel Phillips the presence of Fabinho alongside Thiago Alcantara and stand-in captain Georginio Wijnaldum in attack gave Liverpool greater solidity, fluency and attacking threat.\n\nThat said, they could make their lives an awful lot easier by taking a few of the multitude of chances they create.\n\nSalah, Mane and Diogo Jota all had big opportunities to put the tie to bed before half-time, but were either denied by Leipzig keeper Peter Gulacsi or missed the target altogether.\n\nSalah was especially at fault, seeing a shot saved after breaking clear before later firing over from close range following Trent Alexander-Arnold's neat pull-back.\n\nThey were fortunate that the German side - such prolific scorers in the Bundesliga - were equally profligate.\n\nHampered by the absence of the injured Angelino, Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann spent the second half sending forwards on to the pitch from the bench, including Justin Kluivert, son of former Netherlands striker Patrick, but to no avail.\n\nThe fight left them at the moment Salah's low shot hit the back of the net, with Mane taking advantage soon after.\n\nThe duo's return to goalscoring form was timely in the context of this game but even more so for the sake of the Reds' season as a whole, which is still there to be salvaged.\n\n\"The result will help but we know Monday at Wolves [in the Premier League] is a different game,\" Klopp added. \"If we play like that tonight it will be a problem for Wolves.\n\n\"The game tonight was a summary of our season. We are good, created chances, didn't finish them all off.\"\n\nKlopp makes it 12 out of 13 in knock-out ties\n• None In all European competitions under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool have now progressed from 12 of their 13 two-legged knockout ties (including qualifiers), only failing in last season's last 16 against Atletico Madrid.\n• None Liverpool remain unbeaten in their last 12 meetings with German opponents in all European competition (won nine, drawn three) since a 2-4 loss to Bayer Leverkusen in April 2002.\n• None RB Leipzig have lost back-to-back games in European competition for only the second time (also November 2018), and the first time in the Champions League.\n• None Liverpool won both legs of a Champions League two-legged knockout tie while also keeping a clean sheet in each leg for the first time since the 2008-09 last-16 tie against Real Madrid.\n• None Having won three and lost just one of their first four meetings with English sides in all competitions (two against Spurs, two against Manchester United), RB Leipzig have lost both of their last two against Liverpool.\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has scored 25 goals in all competitions this season, the most of any player for all Premier League clubs.\n• None Since Liverpool's Alisson made his Champions League debut in September 2017, the Brazilian has kept more clean sheets in the competition than any other goalkeeper (16).\n• None Attempt missed. Konstantinos Tsimikas (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Divock Origi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Naby Keita.\n• None Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Naby Keita.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Christopher Nkunku.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The Fight of the Century - Ali v Frazier: A ringside seat at the fight that changed the world\n• None Delivering the laughs in his brilliant live show", "Uber and rival app Lyft plan to share with each other the names of US drivers they ban from their platforms because of \"serious\" safety incidents, such as sexual assault.\n\nThe two firms said the programme, to be managed by a background check company, was aimed at improving industry safety.\n\nThey said other US firms could opt to participate.\n\nBoth Uber and Lyft have faced scrutiny and legal action over their handling of sexual assault and other safety issues.\n\nThey have responded to the criticism by introducing measures such as recurring background checks and new features, such as emergency buttons in their apps.\n\nThe new programme, which is only active in the US, will also allow the two firms to share information about drivers involved in certain serious incidents such as rape and non-consensual kissing, as well as non-sexual physical assaults.\n\nScott Berkowitz, president and founder of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, said the effort meant \"perpetrators will no longer be able to hide or escape accountability by simply switching ridesharing platforms\".\n\n\"By putting aside competition, they are placing users first and building a safer rideshare community for all,\" he said in the announcement shared by the companies on Thursday.\n\nLawyer Kristen Barton of Estey & Bomberger, which represents women who have sued the ridesharing companies for inadequate protections from sexual violence, called the programme a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nBut she cautioned that the database's usefulness would be limited by its focus on drivers that the companies have banned.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that when a report against a driver is lodged that that is being followed up on and resulting in deactivation by the companies,\" she said, adding that only a small number of people who are assaulted even report the incident.\n\n\"While it is a good start, it's just not going to capture enough information to stop assaults from occurring,\" she said.\n\nIn 2019, Uber said it had received nearly 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the US in the previous two years. It said problems arose in a tiny fraction of the 2.3 billion rides during that time.\n\nIt later clashed with state regulators in California, who wanted access to the reports, ultimately leading to a fine.\n\nLyft has delayed publication of a similar report, citing the privacy disagreement. The company is also facing lawsuits from dozens of women in the US, who say they were harmed after the firm failed to protect passengers from its drivers.\n\nLyft is active in the US and Canada. Uber, which operates in 71 countries around the world, said the data-sharing initiative was limited to the US, with no plans to expand at this time.\n\nThe firm has faced concerns over its handling of safety incidents outside the US as well.\n\nIn the UK, Uber had its London licence suspended, in part because of safety concerns. However, in September last year, Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled the firm could continue operating, saying it had improved its record despite \"historical failings\".", "The steakhouse firm said all staff had got their money back plus 20% extra as a \"thank you\"\n\nA restaurant chain which asked furloughed staff to loan it 10% of their wages, amid claims of potential sackings, has paid the money back.\n\nTomahawk Steakhouse asked 500 workers to lend some of their pay to cover pension and national insurance contributions. All the workers agreed.\n\nThe firm denied the claim staff might lose their jobs, but said all staff had got their money back plus 20% extra.\n\nThe GMB union said the return of the cash was a \"massive win\" for workers.\n\nIn a letter to staff seen by the BBC, Tomahawk, which has restaurants in York, Middlesbrough, Beverley, Newcastle, Durham and Hoxton, east London, said it had a \"short-term cash flow issue and it requires your help and support\".\n\nAt the time of the company's request the GMB claimed staff who refused were told their \"suitability for the role will have to be reviewed\".\n\nStaff agreed to the request. Tomahawk says that money has now been returned with the 20% addition.\n\nA spokeswoman for Tomahawk said: \"As part of the voluntary agreement signed by all of our staff, we promised that any monies loaned would be returned as soon as we were financially able.\n\n\"Following the budget announcement last week, we are delighted to have been able to swiftly honour that promise this week.\n\n\"All staff have now received the loaned amount, along with an additional 20%, as a thank you for supporting the business at this critical time.\"\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said it was an \"abuse of the furlough scheme\"\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said: \"This was always an outrageous exploitation of both the furlough scheme and low paid, young workers.\n\n\"The cash should never have been taken in the first place as no employee can afford a further reduction in their take home pay - especially when it's to cover their employer's own obligations.\n\n\"Tomahawk's bullying behaviour was rightly condemned across the board. Their U-turn is a massive win for workers.\"\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.", "Artist's impression of how the new mine will look\n\nA public inquiry has been announced into plans for the first new deep coal mine in the UK for decades.\n\nThe government had previously decided not to intervene in the project near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which was in the hands of local officials.\n\nBut ministers have taken control because of \"increased\" controversy.\n\nGreen campaigners say the mine will increase carbon emissions and send the wrong signal in the run-up to a UK-hosted climate conference in October.\n\nThe Woodhouse Colliery would extract coking coal for the steel industry from the seabed off St Bees, with a processing plant at Kells, in Whitehaven.\n\nCumbria County Council councillors, who have been assessing the project since 2017, gave it the go-ahead last March - but have since decided to review the application.\n\nLast month it was reported that the government's climate tsar, Alok Sharma, was apoplectic the plans for the coal mine had not been stopped.\n\nMr Sharma, who is in charge of preparations for the COP26 UN climate conference, has faced calls to resign over the issue.\n\nHe told MPs only last month that the mine was a \"local issue\" and would be decided by the council.\n\nBut the government has now decided to \"call in\" the application, meaning Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick will get the final say over it.\n\nIn a letter to Cumbria County Council, Mr Jenrick said the application had raised issues of \"more than local importance\".\n\nHe added the reversal had also been prompted by new advice on carbon emissions from government climate advisers published in December.\n\nHowever, a public inquiry will first be held by independent planners at the Planning Inspectorate. The inquiry process could take a number of months.\n\nAsked on Friday whether the government backed the mine or not, Boris Johnson said he couldn't get involved as it was now a \"qausi-judicial planning decision\".\n\nMP Trudy Harrison, whose Copeland constituency would include the mine, is a ministerial aide to the prime minister and has described opponents of the mine as being in \"cloud cuckoo land\".\n\nMs Harrison has yet to comment on the decision to hold an inquiry, but the Tory MP for nearby Workington, Mark Jenkinson, called the decision a \"capitulation to climate alarmists\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cumbria, he said the \"screeching U-turn\" could open a \"Pandora's box\" over how the UK's contribution to climate change is measured.\n\nHe added there was \"nothing on the horizon\" to replace coking coal in the process for making steel, a sector that is due to play an important role in the UK's \"green recovery\".\n\nThe government could still decide to approve the mine, but given the amount of anger it's caused that seems unlikely - at least until after the UN climate conference.\n\nLocal Conservatives strongly supported the scheme and the employment it would bring.\n\nBut the government's climate advisers, along with a crowd of green groups, warned it would increase carbon emissions when the UK's committed to cutting them.\n\nWhat's more, it would harm Britain's international reputation before the UN conference, they said.\n\nOne of the world's leading climate scientists, the American James Hansen, warned Boris Johnson risked humiliation over the mine.\n\nThe US climate envoy John Kerry warned against it on Monday. And yesterday Alok Sharma was again rebuked by MPs over the plan.\n\nIt was too much pressure.\n\nProf Rebecca Willis and Prof Mike Berners-Lee from Lancaster University say the mine would produce 8.4m tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to the emissions from more than a million households.\n\nSupporters of the mine say that by producing coal to be used in Europe, the mine will reduce emissions from shipping coal from Australia or the USA.\n\nBut the mine proposal comes at a time when the government wants every sector of the UK economy to reduce CO2 emissions - not find new sources of carbon.\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary Ed Miliband said the government should \"block\" the mine and \"provide alternative jobs in the green industries of the future\".\n\n\"We owe people a long-term secure employment situation, the mine isn't the answer,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe added that whilst there was a \"current need\" for coking coal in steelmaking, \"all experts say over time the industry's going to need to move towards hydrogen as the answer\".\n\nLib Dem Tim Farron, MP for nearby Westmoreland and Lonsdale, said: \"In the year that Britain hosts COP26, it is blindingly obviously that we won't be taken seriously on the world stage with this coal mine hanging round our neck.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope this public inquiry leads to these plans finally being axed, and the government instead looks at bringing well-paid, long-term, green jobs to Cumbria.\"", "Rajan will leave The Media Show but will continue as the BBC's Media Editor\n\nThe BBC's media editor, Amol Rajan, is to join the presenting line-up of Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe will become the fifth presenter of the station's flagship news show, alongside Mishal Husain, Nick Robinson, Martha Kearney and Justin Webb.\n\nIn a statement, Rajan described Today as \"one of the most powerful institutions in British journalism\".\n\nHe is the first new presenter to be appointed since the departure of John Humphrys in September 2019.\n\nFor the last 18 months, the programme has continued with four hosts, supplemented by occasional cover presenters such as Sarah Smith and Simon Jack.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amol Rajan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKearney tweeted: \"Welcome @AmolRajan! See you at 4am.\" Webb joked: \"Finally some big news in the media world. Brilliant for us, you and the programme.\"\n\nRajan will continue in his role as the BBC's media editor, but will step down from presenting Radio 4's The Media Show later this year.\n\nHe will still present shows for Radio 2.\n\nThe broadcaster started his career as a researcher on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, and went on to become the editor of The Independent newspaper, before joining the BBC in 2016.\n\nBBC Director of News Fran Unsworth said: \"Amol conducts interviews with sharpness and grace, and I'm delighted we'll be able to showcase that to the widest possible audience.\"\n\nRajan said: \"Today is one of the most powerful institutions in British journalism; and the prevailing winds of our time make its job, and influence, yet more vital. It has a world-class team, both on and off air, under strong and effective new leadership.\n\n\"My aim is just to do them, and our listeners, proud. I've no intention of trying to reinvent news, and think the best thing is to keep it simple. Be fair, get to the truth, and don't screw up.\"\n\nThe Today programme's current editor, Owenna Griffiths, was appointed last summer, taking over from Sarah Sands.\n\nHumphrys left Today in 2019 and also recently announced his departure from Mastermind\n\nRajan will also front a new two-part royal documentary, as well as his own interview series on BBC Two.\n\nThe programme will see him talking to high-profile guests who shape society today, such as business leaders, tech bosses and cultural influencers.\n\nThe corporation said Rajan would \"bring his trademark insight and flair\" to the show.\n\nThe royal documentary will explore how The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have charted very different courses in their relationship with the media.\n\n\"Our deep, extensive reporting on the royals has uncovered some remarkable stories, on a subject of global - and growing - fascination,\" said Rajan.\n\nThe series will be accompanied by a Radio 4 podcast for BBC Sounds which will provide deeper analysis of various different aspects of the story.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The law aims to give protection for individuals around their sexuality and gender identity, among other protected characteristics\n\nThe legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups with a new offence of \"stirring up hatred\".\n\nIt was passed by 82 votes to 32 a day later than expected, after MSPs ran out of time on Wednesday while debating a raft of amendments.\n\nOpponents of the bill said they still have concerns about a possible chilling of free speech.\n\nThere were four abstentions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"I am delighted Holyrood has backed this powerful legislation that is fitting for the Scotland we live in.\n\n\"Parliament has sent a strong and clear message to victims, perpetrators, communities and to wider society that offences motivated by prejudice will be treated seriously and will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill was first introduced last April in response to an independent review of Scotland's hate crime laws by Lord Bracadale, but has sparked fierce debate.\n\nUnder the bill, offences are considered \"aggravated\" - which could influence sentencing - if they involve prejudice on the basis of age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or variations in sex characteristics (sometimes described as \"intersex\" physical or biological characteristics).\n\nIt also creates new offences of \"stirring up hatred\" - which previously applied only to race - and abolishes the offence of blasphemy which has not been prosecuted in Scotland for more than 175 years.\n\nAn earlier draft of the bill was criticised by the Law Society of Scotland for having a perceived low threshold for prosecution.\n\nA number of groups including religious and cultural groups, writers, journalists, campaigners and police raised concerns about its impact on free expression.\n\nMr Yousaf said the bill makes clear the government is listening to victims\n\nThe Scottish government responded by modifying the wording and strengthening freedom of expression provisions.\n\nThe changes meant \"stirring up hatred\" would only be considered an offence if it was intentional.\n\nOn Wednesday, two amendments designed to further strengthen the protection of free speech were passed unanimously by MSPs.\n\nDuring the final debate on Thursday, Humza Yousaf argued that those provisions were strong enough to prevent criminalisation.\n\nHe said: \"To those who think they may accidentally somehow fall foul of the law... because they believe sex is immutable, or they believe an adult man cannot become a female or they campaign for the rights of Palestinians... or those that proselytise that same-sex relationships are sinful, none of these people would fall foul of the stirring up of hatred offence for solely stating their belief - even if they did so in a robust manner.\n\n\"Why? Because solely stating any belief, which I accept may be offensive to some, is not breaching the criminal threshold.\n\n\"This bill makes clear that we are listening to the victims of hate crime.\"\n\nIt was described in a heated five-hour debate as \"the most controversial\" piece of legislation ever considered by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFrom its troubled beginnings, the Hate Crime Bill has been altered significantly. Changes were made during cross-party efforts in what some MSPs described as \"Holyrood at its best\".\n\nYet even with that scrutiny, concerns remain. Offences can now be committed even in private, an abandonment of an earlier \"dwelling defence\" in race hate law.\n\nEven with the Scottish government's insistence that the bar for prosecution is high, there are those who still believe this is an example of interference in private and family life. Why should any government, they ask, decide what can and can't be said in the privacy of one's home?\n\nWhat is the difference, though, if one intends to encourage others into action against a vulnerable section of the community, whether that encouragement is in public or in private? That's the position of the Scottish government.\n\nAnd then there is the issue of sex. Some - including Labour's Johann Lamont - say the bill should have done more to protect women. She referred to the violence and abuse women suffer at the hands of men.\n\nThis debate goes to the heart of how individuals identify themselves and asks how the authorities might permit them to discuss their place in society. MSPs have found themselves trying to strike a delicate balance between freedom of expression and freedom from persecution. Have they succeeded? Opinions vary.\n\nSo, having said all that, what does all this actually mean for you? Well, it depends on who YOU are and - crucially - how you're defined by this new law.\n\nHowever, Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr said there was \"inherent ambiguity\" in the language of the legislation.\n\nHe claimed it did not strike the right \"balance\" between free expression and protection from hate.\n\nAnother amendment from MSP Johann Lamont that would have included women as a protected group under the legislation was defeated.\n\nThe government has instead set a working group to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.\n\nThis group, led by QC Baroness Helena Kennedy, is due to report within a year.\n\nJohann Lamont said she would not support the bill\n\nScottish Labour's Neil Bibby agreed with Ms Lamont that the legislation was \"flawed\" because sex was not included as a protected characteristic.\n\nHowever he said we \"ultimately have to recognise this bill will give protection to minorities\".\n\nHe said: \"It makes sense that we should seek to consolidate, modernise and reform Scotland's hate crime laws. We need this bill because hate crime has become more widespread. Society has become more polarised and divided.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur also said he thought it was \"anomalous\" to leave out sex as a protected characteristic.\n\nHe said his concerns had \"not wholly disappeared\" but he had been \"persuaded on balance\" to vote for the bill.\n\nMSP John Finnie from the Greens dismissed suggestions from opponents that family dinners could be \"ruined by a flurry of arrests\" if people made controversial comments.\n\nHe said: \"The bill, like others, is about balance, and I think the balance between the freedom of expression and the right to private life has been struck by this bill, and countless organisations agree.\"", "Nicole Smallman (left) and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nA teenager has pleaded not guilty to murdering two sisters last summer in a north-west London park.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found in Fryent Country Park in Wembley on 7 June.\n\nThey were stabbed to death after spending the previous evening in the open air as part of a group celebrating Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, from Greenwich, south east London, appeared at the Old Bailey to enter his pleas.\n\nThe defendant also pleaded not guilty to possession of an offensive weapon - a knife - in Fryent Country Park on 6 June last year\n\nMembers of the victims' family were in court for the short hearing.\n\nMr Hussein was remanded in custody to appear for trial on 7 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warren Buffett has finally joined the exclusive $100bn (£72bn) club that includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.\n\nThe 90-year-old is the chairman of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, which has seen its shares rise to a record level this year.\n\nOn Wednesday his net worth edged above $100bn for the first time.\n\nRegarded as the world's most successful investor, Mr Buffett has given away billions of his wealth to charity.\n\nWhile Mr Buffett has been a fixture at the top of the world's wealth rankings for decades, his personal fortune hasn't topped $100bn until now.\n\nOne reason is his sizeable charitable donations - he has given away more than $37bn in Berkshire Hathaway stock since 2006.\n\nMr Buffett is a co-founder of the Giving Pledge, a campaign to encourage billionaire philanthropy. Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has also signed up to the pledge and gave away more than $4bn of her fortune in just four months last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shane Ryan of ready meals company Fiid: 'Learn from your knockbacks'\n\nThe fifth member of the exclusive cohort is LVMH's Bernard Arnault and his family.\n\nFacebook co-founder Mark Zuckerburg has just slipped out of the exclusive ranks, according to the Forbes real-time billionaires list.\n\nMr Buffett's net worth comes almost entirely from owning about one-sixth of Berkshire Hathaway, a roughly $600bn company.\n\nIts share price is up 15% this year, surpassing $400,000 a share. The investment firm had been struggling in recent years to find deals to spark its growth given its sheer size.\n\nThe Omaha-based company is a major shareholder in Apple and other tech stocks that have seen their values surge during the pandemic.\n\nBerkshire Hathaway was a failing textile company before Mr Buffett took control of it 1965. It now owns more than 90 businesses.", "Cancer patients are much less protected against Covid-19 than other people after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the first real-world study in this area suggests.\n\nWith a 12-week wait for the second dose this could leave them vulnerable, says the King's College London and Francis Crick Institute research team.\n\nAn early second dose appeared to boost cancer patients' protection.\n\nCancer charities are calling for the vaccine strategy to be reviewed.\n\nBut Cancer Research UK said the small study had not yet been reviewed by other scientists and people undergoing cancer treatment should continue to follow the advice of their doctors.\n\nThe government said it was focused on \"saving lives\" and the antibody response \"was only part of the protection provided by the vaccine\".\n\n\"The independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises government on vaccine use and prioritisation, regularly reviews data and evidence on vaccine efficacy and effectiveness,\" it said.\n\nAbout 1.2 million people at very high risk of being seriously ill with Covid-19 were prioritised for a first vaccine dose in the first phase of the UK rollout, which includes people with specific cancers.\n\nThe UK government decided to extend the gap between first and second jabs from three to 12 weeks in late December to give more people some protection as soon as possible.\n\nDr Sheeba Irshad, oncologist and senior study author from King's College London, said the findings were \"really worrying\" and recommended an urgent review of the timing of doses for people in clinically extremely vulnerable groups.\n\n\"Until then, it is important that cancer patients continue to observe all public health measures in place such as social distancing and shielding when attending hospitals, even after vaccination,\" she said.\n\nThe study, not yet published or peer-reviewed, recruited 205 people, including 151 with solid cancers, such as lung, breast and bowel, or blood cancers.\n\nThe researchers tested volunteers for antibodies and T-cells in their blood, which signals that the immune system can protect against illness from the virus in the future.\n\nThree weeks after one dose of the Pfizer jab, an antibody response was found in:\n\nFollowing a second dose three weeks after the first, which some cancer patients received, there was a sharp rise in their antibody response against the coronavirus, to 95%.\n\nBut among those who had to wait longer for their second dose, there was no real improvement in protection.\n\nFive weeks after the first dose, an antibody response was detected in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn trials of the Pfizer vaccine, two doses were given three weeks apart and although a longer gap between doses works for healthy individuals, the researchers say cancer patients do not respond in the same way.\n\n\"One size does not fit all,\" said Dr Irshad.\n\n\"Cancer treatments have profound effects on the immune system and cancer patients' immune mechanisms are inferior.\n\n\"We need to be concerned about other vaccines for this population too - they do need a second dose quickly.\"\n\nDr Irshad also said leaving people unprotected for many weeks could give new variants the space to emerge and allow the virus to spread among family members caring for patients.\n\nThere are around 370,000 new cases of cancer in the UK every year, with up to three million people living with the disease.\n\nPeople with compromised immune systems were not included in clinical trials of the vaccine, although previous studies suggested vaccines may not work as well in this specific group.\n\nCancer Research UK said the small study was \"interesting\" but there could still be limitations with the results.\n\nMartin Ledwick, the charity's head information nurse, said: \"We know that this information could be worrying, but anyone undergoing cancer treatment should continue to follow the advice of their doctors, and we encourage all who can to take up the vaccine.\"\n\nBreast Cancer Now has called on the UK's vaccine committee, the JCVI, to \"urgently review the evidence presented in this study and consider adapting its strategy\" to give people with cancer both doses within three weeks.\n\nBlood Cancer UK echoed this call, saying more research was needed urgently so that people don't \"face a future of shielding indefinitely, not knowing whether they are protected\". They added that blood cancer patients should still definitely have the vaccine.\n\nProf Stephen Evans, professor of pharmaco-epidemiology, from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: \"These data will undoubtedly need to be examined by JCVI, but the evidence that harm has been caused to patients with cancer by delaying a second dose has not yet been demonstrated conclusively.\n\n\"Full follow-up of those who get vaccinated with a delayed second dose will be very important.\"\n\nThe study will continue to follow cancer patients after their vaccinations for up to six months.", "People in England who are homeless or sleeping rough will be prioritised for Covid vaccines, alongside those aged 16 to 65 with underlying conditions that put them at increased risk.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the strategy would save more lives among those most at risk in society.\n\nThe move came following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nTwo in every five adults have now received at least one vaccine.\n\nThe JCVI's advice has been shared with experts leading vaccination programmes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, minister for Covid vaccine deployment, said this was a very challenging period for people who were homeless.\n\nHe added: \"We know those experiencing rough sleeping or homelessness are not always able to access healthcare routinely, and therefore can often have a range of health issues which can leave them at an increased risk of this virus.\n\n\"Following the recommendation by the JCVI, local teams will now be able to prioritise this group for vaccination alongside priority group 6 and make sure fewer people fall seriously ill or die from Covid-19.\"\n\nIn a letter to the health secretary, experts from the JCVI said people experiencing homelessness had a higher risk of poor outcomes from Covid-19 and high rates of other undiagnosed illnesses.\n\nThe team added: \"Due to current restrictions, many thousands of people who experience rough sleeping have been accommodated in emergency accommodation.\n\n\"This provides a unique opportunity to in-reach vaccination to a population that is otherwise often unable to access basic healthcare.\"\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said that during the pandemic, the government had helped provide accommodation for 37,000 people at risk of rough sleeping.\n\nJon Sparkes, of the homeless charity Crisis, welcomed the move and said the government should ensure local areas had adequate resources.\n\nHe added: \"But make no mistake, the vaccine will not make homelessness safe.\n\n\"Whether it is living on the streets, or in cars and sheds, or constantly moving between friends' sofas, homelessness is extremely damaging to both your physical and mental health.\n\n\"We desperately need a plan to ensure everyone has a safe and secure home.\"", "All of Scotland's 32 local authorities have frozen council tax rates at last year's levels.\n\nThe Scottish government offered councils incentives in return for not raising the cost of the bills.\n\nGlasgow and Stirling were the last authorities to consider council tax levels when they set their 2021/22 budgets on Thursday.\n\nOther councils had been through that process since last month, with all agreeing to a freeze.\n\nLocal authorities are to receive a cash equivalent of a 3% council tax increase in return for not putting up levels.\n\nThe move forms part of the Scottish government's spending plans for the coming year, which Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said were aimed at striking a balance between raising revenue to pay for public services and helping Scotland recover from the Covid pandemic.\n\nMs Forbes said she was pleased the freeze had been agreed by all the councils.\n\nShe said: \"With people facing unprecedented challenges and extra pressures, now is a time to work together to provide stability and certainty.\n\n\"I am pleased that councils have taken advantage of this additional support and have protected household finances. This will make a real difference to people across Scotland.\"\n\nPoints to note: Band D is highlighted above as the average council tax bill for householders in Scotland. The Band D figures do not include water and sewerage charges. Therefore, the final household bill will be bigger.\n\nIt will come as a relief to the Scottish government when they are finally able to confirm that council tax bills will not rise anywhere in Scotland this year.\n\nThe SNP believes it will be a popular measure at a time when some families are facing financial pressures because of the pandemic.\n\nSo it will be a relief for the government - but no real surprise.\n\nIf any council were to decide to put up the council tax, the rise would need to be significant to be worthwhile. This is because they would have lost out on some government funding if they put up bills.\n\nThe Scottish government will be hopeful that a new council tax freeze proves as popular with the public as they think the first one did.\n\nBetween 2007 and 2017 the basic council tax rate didn't rise anywhere in Scotland. Since then councils have been able to put it up within agreed limits, though it's worth noting that some still opted for lower rises and even freezes.\n\nThe basic argument between some in local government and Holyrood is not over whether voters will welcome another freeze - most accept they will. The argument is over whether councils have enough money overall and if they are too dependent on government cash.\n\nMost council income either comes directly from the government or, like council tax, is heavily influenced by it.\n\nCouncils had already been given extra government money to cope with the pandemic but have also lost income - sports centres have been closed, facilities cannot be hired out and they have lost income from car parking.\n\nThe underlying issue is whether the council tax itself is fit for purpose and whether councils should have a broader range of ways to raise finances.\n\nFourteen years ago when the SNP first took control of Holyrood, a council tax freeze was meant to be a temporary measure while a way to replace the council tax was found.\n\nFinding an alternative or finding palatable ways of giving councils more financial independence from central government is easier said than done.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William says Royal Family is \"very much not racist\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said the royals are \"very much not a racist family\" in his first comments after accusations by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a TV interview.\n\nPrince William also said he had not yet spoken to his brother but would do so.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry said a royal had expressed concern over \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the claim was \"concerning\" but it would be addressed privately.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace said \"recollections may vary\" but that the Sussexes would \"always be much loved family members\".\n\nDuring a visit to a school in Stratford, east London, on Thursday, Prince William was asked by a reporter: \"Is the Royal Family a racist family, sir?\"\n\nThe duke replied: \"We're very much not a racist family.\"\n\nAsked whether he had spoken to Prince Harry since the Oprah interview, Prince William said: \"No, I haven't spoken to him yet but I will do.\"\n\nPrince William's visit is not the first appearance by a senior royal since the interview aired - the Prince of Wales carried out an engagement earlier this week.\n\nDespite Prince William's team making clear to reporters he wouldn't be answering questions, he must have known they might come. One wonders if he had planned to engage or whether the answers were impromptu.\n\nWilliam will be well aware that anything he utters will be headline news.\n\nThe first question alluded to the rift between the two brothers. In the Oprah interview, Prince Harry said their relationship is \"space\" at the moment but that \"time heals all things hopefully\".\n\nWe don't know when they last spoke but we do now know that William does intend to speak to him.\n\nAs for the second and more direct question - \"Is the royal family a racist family, sir?\" - William could have ignored it. But, despite the Queen's statement saying the race issue would be dealt with privately, the prince clearly felt he had to push back on what has become a very public and damaging allegation.\n\nRemaining silent, he felt, was not the best option.\n\nIn the TV interview, Meghan told Oprah there were \"concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he was born\".\n\nBoth Prince Harry and Meghan refused to say who made the comment - but Harry later clarified to Oprah that it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nDuring the interview Harry also said it hurt him that his family never spoke out about the \"colonial undertones\" of news headlines and articles.\n\nAnd asked by Oprah if the couple left the UK because of racism from the tabloid media, Harry replied: \"It was a large part of it.\"\n\nThe visit was to mark the rollout to secondary schools of a mental health project Kate launched in primary schools in 2018\n\nIn the interview, Harry also spoke about his relationship with his family - especially with his father, the Prince of Wales, and brother Prince William.\n\nAt one point after stepping back as senior royals, Harry said Charles \"stopped taking my calls\".\n\nAnd of William, Harry said: \"The relationship is 'space' at the moment. And time heals all things, hopefully.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace issued a response to the interview earlier this week following crisis meetings involving senior royals.\n\nFigures from US TV network CBS suggest that nearly 50 million people around the world have watched Oprah's interview with the couple.\n\nThe fallout from the interview has also seen broadcaster Piers Morgan leave his role as host of Good Morning Britain, after his comments about Meghan attracted 41,000 complaints.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the Society of Editors - an industry body for the UK press - resigned after a row over its reaction to Harry's comments about the tabloid media.", "Hundreds of UK companies have been compromised as part of a global campaign linked to Chinese hackers.\n\nCyber-security firm Eset said more than 500 email servers in the UK may have been hacked, and many companies are not aware they are victims of the attack.\n\nIt comes as governments around the world warn organisations to secure their systems.\n\nBut some experts fear it may be too late, as at least 10 hacking teams are capitalising on the chaos.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre has joined US authorities in issuing warnings about the hack, but says it is still assessing the situation for UK businesses.\n\nMeanwhile, the Norwegian cyber-authority is actively scanning for at-risk companies in the country and warning them directly.\n\nThe hacking campaign was first announced by Microsoft on 2 March and blamed on a Chinese government-backed hacking group called Hafnium.\n\nMicrosoft said the group was using four never-before-seen hacking techniques to infiltrate the email systems of US companies.\n\nThe attackers targeted the popular email system Microsoft Exchange Server, used by large corporations and public bodies across the world.\n\nMicrosoft released software updates for the so called \"zero-day\" exploits and urged customers to install them to protect themselves.\n\nHowever, the hacking has escalated from straightforward espionage to crisis levels, with some reports estimating tens of thousands of organisations could be affected.\n\nAccording to cyber-security researchers at Eset, as many as 10 different hacking groups are now actively using the zero-days exploits to target companies in 115 different countries.\n\nCyber-researchers at FireEye also confirmed they had detected multiple groups, likely to be based in China, using the exploit in different waves.\n\n\"As always, it is complex but it is very likely that Hafnium gifted these 'zero days' to government-sanctioned groups to actively use the flaws once they were rumbled,\" Jake Moore at Eset said.\n\n\"The race is now on for all of those affected to patch immediately and then painstakingly check for any recent compromises and make sure no webshells are installed on the servers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The factory brought to its knees by ransomware hackers\n\nA webshell is a piece of computer code that can act like a backdoor into a computer network.\n\nOnce installed, hackers have a foothold in a network and can either steal or spy on email messages, or use the access to launch more crippling cyber-attacks.\n\nGlobally, Eset says it has detected the backdoors on 5,000 separate servers - and more than 500 of them are in the UK.\n\nCyber-security responders are racing to find out which companies have been hacked, and remove the webshells to kick the hackers out of their systems.\n\nCyberGuard Technologies says it is dealing with 42 separate cases where hackers have installed webshells, with the number rising by the hour.\n\nThe companies range from financial institutions, manufacturing and retail.\n\nSean Tickle, head of CyberGuard, said: \"It's widespread and very much a case of hackers hosing their attacks at as many targets as they can before companies can secure their systems.\n\n\"It only takes someone to alter this approach to drop a more malicious malware package and we're going to see some real hurt for the companies that fall behind.\n\n\"There's already rumblings that these shells are being used, and I think we're going to see mass ransomware attacks happen as a second wave of this.\"", "Labour has accused Boris Johnson of lying to MPs after he wrongly claimed Sir Keir Starmer had voted against a pay rise for NHS workers in England.\n\nThe party is calling on the PM to \"correct the record\" after he said Labour had voted against a 2.1% rise.\n\nThe 2.1% proposal - which has since been scrapped in favour of 1% - was approved without a vote in 2020.\n\nDowning Street said the mistake had been clarified and there was no need for the PM to apologise.\n\nDuring exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said: \"Two years ago he made a promise to the NHS - here in black and white, his document - it commits to a minimum pay rise of 2.1%. It's being budgeted for and now it's being taken away.\n\n\"He shakes his head - his MPs voted for it. So why, after everything the NHS has done for us, is he now breaking promise after promise?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"He voted against the document in question to crown the absurdity of his point.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called on Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to \"get the prime minister to return to the House and correct the record\".\n\nMr Ashworth said: \"The prime minister has twice, from that dispatch box, said that the Labour opposition voted against the NHS Funding Bill and the 2.1% increase for NHS staff. This is not the case.\"\n\nSir Lindsay said Mr Ashworth's intervention was not something he would rule on but added \"it is certainly a point of clarification - that part has been achieved\".\n\nWriting on Twitter later, Mr Ashworth said that Mr Johnson had \"lied at PMQs\" and repeated Labour's demand for a vote in Parliament on the 1% offer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer asks whether nursing staff deserve a bigger rise than the PM's former adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nHe has written to the PM to ask him to \"correct the record\", telling him: \"At all times in the debate, Labour attempted to secure a greater financial settlement for the NHS in order to improve patient care.\"\n\nLabour says the proposed 1% rise amounts to a pay cut, when inflation has been taken into account.\n\nMr Johnson says it is all the country can afford at the present time, and NHS workers are set for a rise amid a public sector pay freeze, to reflect the \"massive debt\" owed to them by the nation.\n\nThe PM says he will make a final decision on pay when an independent review reports back in May.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs Sir Keir Starmer voted against the 2019 long-term plan for the NHS, after the Labour leader referred to it.\n\nThat is not correct - there were no votes on the NHS Funding Bill 2019-20 during its main stages through parliament.\n\nSir Keir had referred to the plan, saying that it committed the government to a 2.1% pay rise for the NHS.\n\nThe government has now recommended that NHS staff in England should receive a 1% pay increase this year.\n\nOn Tuesday, the head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens told a committee of MPs that the plan had indeed assumed a 2.1% rise.\n\nBut he also said \"things have changed\" since then and that it should now be up to the pay-review body.\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary Allegra Stratton was asked more than 20 questions about the row at briefing for Westminster journalists.\n\nShe indicated that he would neither apologise nor correct the record.\n\n\"The key thing is that this was dealt with swiftly and the Speaker - who has enormous respect and authority in Parliament - regards it as a point of clarification and it has now been dealt with,\" she told reporters.\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson had a problem with facts, Ms Stratton said: \"No, he doesn't. The Speaker addressed this as a point of clarification and it has been dealt with today.\"\n\nThe ministerial code states that it is of \"paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nMs Stratton said Mr Johnson \"absolutely agrees\" with the ministerial code and \"in this instance the system worked\" because the Speaker had responded to Mr Ashworth.", "A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a 16-year-old girl.\n\nWenjing Lin died on Friday at her family's takeaway restaurant in Ynyswen, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nChun Xu, 31, appeared at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court earlier also charged with the attempted murder of a 38-year-old man. The information was relayed to him through a translator.\n\nHe will appear before Cardiff Crown Court on Friday. No application was made for bail.\n\nIt is understood Mr Xu is not related to Weijing.\n\nSouth Wales Police confirmed that a 38-year-old man, previously arrested in connection with the incident, remained in hospital in a stable condition and was no longer being treated as a suspect.\n\nOfficers were called to the Blue Sky takeaway in Baglan Street in the village at about midday on 5 March.\n\nWenjing Lin died on Friday at her family's takeaway restaurant\n\nTreorchy Comprehensive School paid tribute to Wenjing on Wednesday, describing her as \"kind, passionate, and ambitious\".\n\nThe school said Wenjing was a \"positive role model\" who had been in the middle of studying for her GCSEs.\n\nShe was a \"very responsible pupil\" who combined her academic ambitions with supporting her family business, it said.\n\nThe teenager's family said she was \"a very quiet person\" and had \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nSarah Everard's family have paid tribute to her, saying she \"brought so much joy to our lives\".\n\nHuman remains were found in woodland in Kent on Wednesday in the search for the 33-year-old, who was last seen in south London over a week ago.\n\nA serving Met Police officer in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of Ms Everard's murder remains in custody.\n\nThe Met has referred itself to the police watchdog over allegations the officer indecently exposed himself.\n\nHe is also being questioned over the separate indecent exposure allegation, which the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said happened at a fast-food restaurant in south London on 28 February.\n\nMs Everard was last seen on 3 March walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear if she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nAfter extensive searches, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick confirmed \"human remains\" were found in woodland near Ashford on Wednesday.\n\nA woman in her 30s, who was arrested in Kent on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail until mid-April.\n\nPolice are continuing to search land near Great Chart Golf Leisure Country Club in Ashford\n\nThe arrested man, who works with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was earlier taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.\n\nHe was being monitored in a custody cell by CCTV and received immediate first aid, the Met said.\n\nAfter going to hospital the officer was treated, discharged and returned to the police station where he is being held after an application to extend his detention was granted at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe IOPC said it was investigating whether Met officers responded appropriately to the report of indecent exposure.\n\nIt is one of five investigations being carried out by the watchdog in relation to the disappearance of Ms Everard.\n\nThe others include the serving officer being arrested, injured in custody and the Met's actions responding to the initial report of Ms Everard going missing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cressida Dick: \"Detectives and search teams have found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\"\n\nFormer Durham University student Ms Everard, who is originally from York, was wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers when she went missing.\n\nIn a statement, her family appealed for more information to \"help solve this terrible crime\".\n\n\"Sarah was bright and beautiful - a wonderful daughter and sister. She was kind and thoughtful, caring and dependable. She always put others first and had the most amazing sense of humour,\" they said.\n\n\"She was strong and principled and a shining example to us all. We are very proud of her and she brought so much joy to our lives.\"\n\nThe marketing executive's family also thanked friends and the public for supporting them.\n\n\"We are so grateful to the police and would like to thank them for all they are doing,\" they added.\n\n\"We are now pleading for additional help from the public.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid near to where human remains were found in Kent\n\nThe case has prompted an outpouring of shock and anger as women across the country share their own experiences of feeling unsafe.\n\nEarlier, Labour MP Jess Phillips read out the names of almost 120 women killed in the UK where a man has been convicted or charged as the primary perpetrator.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\", adding: \"We must work fast to find all the answers to this horrifying crime.\"\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\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 \"forcing techniques\" of magic can also be used by businesses and politicians\n\nUnderstanding how magic tricks work could help to protect people from manipulation by politicians and marketing, say researchers.\n\nA study from Goldsmiths, University of London, says the psychology used by magicians to deceive audiences can also be used to influence consumer choices.\n\nMagic tricks use \"powerful tools\" to control behaviour, say the researchers.\n\nThe psychologists looked at how tricks create an \"illusion of choice\", when the audience has no real control.\n\nThe research - Mind control trick: magicians' forcing and free will, by psychologists Alice Pailhes and Gustav Kuhn - examines how magicians control their audiences' decisions - and how this can be applied to other areas.\n\n\"A lot of these magic principles show that you can very easily manipulate and influence decisions that people make - and even though they feel free to have made that decision, the magician has pretty much full control,\" says Dr Kuhn.\n\nGustav Kuhn says magic tricks can rely on people thinking they have more choice than they really have\n\nHe says in the same way that someone might be directed to choose the \"right\" card in a magic trick, so, too, we can be \"nudged\" towards buying products in the supermarket.\n\nThe study, published in Trends in Cognitive Science, identifies different psychological tools used by magicians.\n\nAt its most simple it can be recognising that people tend to behave in similar ways - so the researchers say that if people are asked to pick one of four cards laid in front of them, 60% of right-handed people will pick the one that is third from the left.\n\nThis \"position force\" can be used to push customers towards certain products, depending on where they have been placed.\n\n\"Mental priming\" uses a repeated series of visual and verbal cues to steer an audience in a trick - and researchers found that many people could not explain why they had picked the same \"random\" number or card.\n\nThere is also the so-called \"equivoke\" used by magicians - where the audience believes they are making independent decisions during a trick, while in reality nothing they do has \"any impact on the outcome\".\n\n\"Regardless of the spectator's choice, the sequences result in the same outcome. The equivoke is highly effective in providing an illusory sense of control,\" says the study.\n\nAn example of this would be a card trick in which someone is invited to cut a pack of cards, with a series of stages of cutting and putting cards back on top - the \"vast majority\" fail to realise they have no impact on the target card.\n\nDr Kuhn says the magician's \"illusion of choice\", playing on the need to feel in control, can be applied elsewhere - to consumer decisions, online entertainment or political debates.\n\n\"It really deals with one of the most fundamental concepts in humanity - do we genuinely have free will?\n\n\"We feel we need it, but this experience of free will might actually be an illusion - and it's an illusion that magicians often manipulate,\" says the psychologist.\n\nDr Kuhn, part of the Magic Lab research team, says there is growing interest in understanding how magicians' \"forcing techniques\" can be used to influence behaviour.\n\nHe sees politicians increasingly drawing on the tactic of \"misdirection\", where a magician draws the audience's attention in one direction, with something noisy or spectacular, while the real moves are being made out of sight.\n\n\"Even if you know you're being misdirected, the problem is these principles are just incredibly effective and they still have an impact,\" says Dr Kuhn.\n\nUsing techniques from magic to \"modify behaviour\" can bring positive benefits, says co-author Alice Pailhes.\n\n\"They might provide new ways of encouraging better decisions in health and wellbeing,\" she says, such as steering people towards healthier food.\n\n\"But covert control and modification of people's thoughts raises serious ethical issues, too.\"\n\nAnd she warns of \"unwanted influences, such as political propaganda\".\n\n\"We believe that understanding magicians' forcing techniques is a valuable tool to raise awareness about the ease by which our choices can be manipulated,\" says the psychologist.", "Volunteer Brian Shepherd says he's pleased to \"do his bit\"\n\nScientists from UK Biobank have embarked on a major study to determine Covid-19's long-term health impacts.\n\nUK Biobank is a biomedical database with medical images, genetic data and health information on 500,000 people.\n\nAbout 1,500 people who have had Covid will be scanned again to check how organs are affected by infection.\n\nIts chief scientist, Prof Naomi Allen, said it was the only study able to compare patient data before and after they have had Covid.\n\nProf Allen added: \"We knew at the beginning of the pandemic that Covid-19 was largely a respiratory illness. And now what we also know is that it seems to affect other parts of the body as well - the heart, the liver, the kidneys, and even the brain.\n\n“So researchers will be able to investigate the direct effects of coronavirus infection on changes in both the structure and the function of these organs.”\n\nThe study will look at people with asymptomatic Covid, and others who had severe disease.\n\nBrain scans will also be carried out to try to aid understanding of long Covid.\n\n“It will enable researchers to investigate whether the effects of the virus on different organs of the body vary between how severe your infection was in the first place,” explains Prof Allen.\n\nDetailed scans of 1,500 Biobank members who have not been infected will also be recorded.\n\nBrian Shepherd, 71, from Gateshead, is one of those taking part.\n\nIn November he spent five days in hospital after catching Covid.\n\n“The worst thing was when I got in the ambulance, with my wife standing on the pavement, and you think 'will I ever see her again?'.\"\n\nBut after five days of treatment, Brian was allowed home. He has recovered well, but still has some symptoms.\n\nHe hopes his scans - and those of the other Biobank volunteers - will help us to learn more about the after-effects of the disease.\n\n“We're all very proud of taking part in it, and feel that our little bit can help somewhere along the line for the rest of the world.”\n\nScience is still in the early stages of understanding the long-term effects of Covid.\n\nResearch has already started to chart its impact. Scientists have discovered scarring on the lungs, inflammation and muscle damage of the heart, and kidney injuries.\n\nThe virus can also affect the brain, and some long Covid sufferers have said they are experiencing “brain fog” - problems with memory and concentration, dizziness and depression.\n\nThe hope is the study could pinpoint some of the neurological changes that may have taken place.\n\nProf Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist from Imperial College London, said: “The brain scans can tell us more general things about the brain structure. Whether there's evidence for inflammation in the brain that may be persisting, and whether there's been damage enough to to actually kill nerve cells in the brain that may cause some shrinkage.”\n\nThese scans will be repeated over the coming years - and made available to researchers all around the world.\n\nThe team says our understanding of the health legacy of Covid is just beginning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquiry has already found the cladding was the main cause of the fire spreading\n\nThe firm that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill \"60 to 70\" people a decade before the tragedy.\n\nThe chilling prediction of the Grenfell fire came at a presentation attended by a marketing manager from Arconic.\n\nGerard Sonntag sent an internal memo suggesting the company stop selling the flammable version of its product, the public inquiry heard.\n\nIt never happened and the fire, made worse by Arconic's cladding, killed 72.\n\nThe public inquiry is hearing evidence relating to three Arconic employees who have refused to give evidence, citing a law in France where they live.\n\nReading from internal company documents obtained by investigators, the senior inquiry counsel, Richard Millett QC said that the company's marketing manager had been \"very impressed\" by a presentation on fire safety which he attended in 2007.\n\nA consultant, Fred-Roderich Pohl set out the risks of the plastic used to make aluminium composite cladding (ACM), which he said had the same \"fuel power\" as a 19,000-litre truck of oil.\n\nThe plastic, polyethylene or PE, is highly flammable.\n\nMr Pohl showed pictures of a fire in Doha, Qatar, which developed quickly in the cladding system.\n\nIn his memo about the presentation, Mr Sonntag said Mr Pohl warned: \"What will happen if only one building made out of PE is on fire and kills 60 to 70 persons.\"\n\nIt was a chilling prediction of the exact circumstances of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIn his memo, Mr Sonntag also asked colleagues what the responsibility of the cladding supplier would be in that situation.\n\nThis is now a key question for the inquiry and the police, who are investigating Arconic's sales of flammable cladding.\n\nArconic now says that it made the raw materials for cladding systems and could not be held responsible for the ways in which they were used.\n\nMr Sonntag's response to the 2007 presentation was to recommend the company stop selling the PE version of the cladding in favour of a fire-retardant (FR) type.\n\nHe also said Arconic should cut production costs so that the FR version could be produced at the same price as the cheaper PE version.\n\nThe company did pursue this strategy but kept the PE version on the market until after the Grenfell fire, when the role of the product in allowing flames to spread had become clear.\n\nBecause three key French Arconic employees won't give evidence, Mr Millett said open questions remained, including whether Mr Sonntag's recommendations were fully discussed by the company.", "It’s 10 years since Japan was hit by a giant 9.0-magnitude earthquake, triggering a massive tsunami. Along the north-east coast dozens of towns and villages were engulfed by the wave. The disaster triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant 250km north of Tokyo.\n\nThe BBC spoke to Kiyokazu Sasaki who lost his entire family when the tsunami hit his town.\n\nRead more about what happened at Fukushima here.", "James Newman has released Embers as the song he's taking to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nHe describes the brassy, dance track as a \"banger\", and says he wanted to create something \"full of positivity\".\n\nAfter the cancellation of Eurovision in 2020, singer-songwriter James has been given a second chance to take part.\n\nIt's due to take place 18-22 May in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, with most countries expected to release their entries by this weekend (13 -14 March).\n\nJames says he wanted to write something \"fun and upbeat\" to mark his return to the competition.\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 Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Embers is about those sparks that don't die out,\" he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"When we were writing this, it felt like I wanted to show everyone that we were coming back together.\n\n\"It's about having that connection and something reigniting. It's about us emerging from this rubbish time we've been having. It fits with the idea that Eurovision is coming back.\"\n\nHe says he was proud of 2020's entry My Last Breath - a ballad - but it was written in a pre-pandemic climate, so he wanted to write something more positive.\n\n\"Eurovision is a celebration of music and Embers fits in that vibe. Hopefully people like it.\"\n\nThe video's out and James is already in rehearsal mode, working with dancers and choreographers to create the performance which he'll take to the Rotterdam stage.\n\n\"It's weird and cool,\" said my 10-year-old, walking into the room as I played to Embers for the first time. \"I like it\".\n\nHe's got a point. Like Newman's previous Eurovision entry, Embers is a likeable, catchy song that does a good job of dragging the UK away from the dreary nonsense we've been sending to Europe over the last decade.\n\nBut is it going to win? Probably not.\n\nThere are more adventurous and quirky songs already in the running. And Iceland's Daoi Freyr, who scored a genuine international hit with Think About Things last year, is already a favourite for the title - despite the fact his song won't be unveiled until 13 March.\n\nThat said, Newman's lyrics, about rising from the flames, will strike a chord as Europe emerges from lockdown; while the music is assiduously based on recent dance hits by Joel Corry and Jax Jones - all chunky house pianos and cheesy synth riffs.\n\nBut that's also it's downfall: Embers sounds like the sort of record made by someone who's studied prevailing trends, rather than making new discoveries of their own.\n\nAs pop-punk whirlwind Yungblud recently told Music Week Magazine: \"If you're looking at what's current now, you're late.\" Maybe we should send him next year, instead?\n\nThe song's already getting a lot of love on social.\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 aim is to have all 40 acts performing on stage in the Netherlands and organisers have various scenarios in place to ensure Eurovision happens, whatever's happening with the global pandemic.\n\nThey've published guidance on the measures they expect to be introduced, including social distancing, recommended quarantine times and limiting the audience in Rotterdam's Ahoy! arena.\n\nLast week, Eurovision's executive supervisor Martin Osterdahl told the BBC it was \"necessary\" for participants to travel to Rotterdam.\n\nBut contestants will also produce a \"live-on-tape\" performance ahead of the competition, with the videos to be used if artists are unable to travel due to the pandemic, or forced to quarantine at the venue.\n\nEurovision commentators, including Graham Norton, are expected to attend and use ventilated booths.\n\nYep, Flo Rida is actually a part of the Eurovision Song Contest this year\n\nItalian singer Senhit is back to represent the tiny country of San Marino and has enlisted - *checks notes* - Flo Rida for her song, Adrenalina.\n\nThe rapper is no stranger to a pop feature (Olly Murs, The Saturdays, Alexandra Burke) but we're not entirely sure he's even been to San Marino before.\n\nAt this stage it's unlikely he'll appear on the stage on Rotterdam and it's unclear how he'll be represented. Here's hoping for a hologram.\n\nKey lyrics: Flo Rida - \"Step in the party 'cause she nodding to my body like hot coals. Gasoline kerosene stop drop roll. I can't blame it on the stove. 911 when she coming down the pole.\"\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 Eurovision Song Contest 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\nDuring the year of a global pandemic, the spotlight's shone on Belarus in a very different way.\n\nThe country has seen mass protests against long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko, following an election which was widely thought to have been rigged.\n\nBelarus' entry is by a band who seem supportive of their leader but their inclusion in the contest is already proving controversial.\n\nEurovision bosses have told the Belarussian broadcaster BTRC that in its current form the song, Ya Nauchu Tebya (I'll Teach You), \"is currently not eligible to compete.\"\n\nEurovision adds: \"The song puts the non-political nature of the contest in question.\"\n\nTo this day, Ireland remains the most successful Eurovision country of all time, with seven wins.\n\nRecent results haven't hit the heights of the multiple wins in the 1990s. However, Jedward were responsible for Ireland's highest-placed finish of the last decade, coming 8th in 2011.\n\nAfter being selected for 2020, Lesley Roy is another singer coming back for the contest and she says her entry Maps was written \"specifically for Eurovision.\"\n\n\"It's heartfelt, it's uplifting and I hope people love it,\" she told independent.ie.\n\nKey lyric: \"My soul is a map, my heart is a compass, I am the road.\"\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 Eurovision Song Contest 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\nWith their eccentricity and wonky dancing, The Roop were one of last year's most eye-catching band - and they've stepped it up a notch for 2021.\n\nThe trio are back with the natural follow-up to On Fire, with Discoteque sounding like Hot Chip's Lithuanian cousins.\n\nThey didn't have an easy ride though and still had to go through a national selection show to be picked, choosing a yellow and purple colour scheme this year.\n\nThe Roop say there's \"not a single person who cannot dance.\"\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 4 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has announced that detectives investigating the missing Sarah Everard have found \"what appears to be human remains\" in woodland in Kent.\n\nMs Dick spoke of the shared shock and disgust of the police and public at the arrest of a Metropolitan police officer on suspicion of her murder.\n\nShe reassured the public that an increased police presence will be in force in the areas surrounding Sarah's disappearance along with continued large scale investigative activity.", "Traditionally the Palace protects the family by drawing a curtain between the public, formal stuff and the personal stuff; its refusal to comment on the personal is a strategic interpretation of the family's maxim - \"never explain, never complain\".\n\nThe public/personal divide has always been an artifice. Royals get married in front of tens of millions of people, have state funerals, release photos on birthdays and anniversaries, exchange insights into their lives in return for easy-going and generous coverage.\n\nBut the divide, however often disregarded, remains the guiding principle of the family's formal relationship with the outside world. Now the contradictions that spring from the mix of personal and public are playing out.\n\nSome key allegations are about the personal behaviour and comments of members of the Royal Family and how, through collective neglect and perhaps some malicious intent, they left Harry and Meghan no choice but to leave.\n\nOther statements painted a terrible portrait of unfeeling staff and courtiers. The entire institution was portrayed as if nothing had been learnt from the days of Diana - Prince Harry and Prince William's late mother.\n\nThe duchess is a formidable communicator and has proved herself a very bad woman to pick a fight with. A newly-liberated Harry spoke with almost-eloquence.\n\nMeghan dealt some of the heaviest blows. What is the Palace to say about the accusation that an unnamed member of the family made a comment - more than one by the sounds of things - about the skin colour of the couple's child-to-be? The mind boggles.\n\nBut alongside the personal pain and anger rippling through the duchess's testimony, there came from Harry condemnation of the institution - the suggestion that it was incapable of change, incapable of love, incapable of understanding.\n\nThe contradictions of the Palace, and of the monarchy, are exactly that which makes it so special, so strange, so interesting and so difficult to work within - the merging of personal and public roles, the accretion of tradition, the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest and the need to remain relevant.\n\nHarry's suggestion that his family too - his father Prince Charles, his brother Prince William - are \"trapped\" in their world, and that he felt \"compassion\" for them, was a velvet-covered knife into the heart of the modern monarchy.\n\nRoyal life is conducted from within a gilded cage; the players are not meant to rattle the bars from the outside.\n\nThere is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair\n\nThese are the contradictions Harry walked away (or, in his words, stepped back) from. He was uncomfortable with them before he was married. And when he saw his wife suffering as a result of his being \"trapped\" in royal life, he found a way out with her.\n\nThere are also the contradictions that lie behind many of the decisions that they both spoke out about and are clearly very unhappy about.\n\nIt is public money that pays for security. It is tradition that dictates who gets what title. There is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair. What you do in front of the cameras matters because it reflects on the institution as a whole.\n\nThis meshing of personal and public is unique. It is what being a modern royal is all about. And inside it is often a hugely uncomfortable place to be. Harry knew that. Presumably he warned Meghan. But that warning wasn't enough.\n\nHarry and Meghan's experience suggests that the contradictions are too great. Maybe their interview will act as a catalyst for change. But the Crown has been around for a very long time, and change does not come easily to a body in which the past plays such an outsize role.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss are accused of not understanding the LGBTQ issues by former government adviser Jayne Ozanne\n\nEqualities minister Kemi Badenoch should \"consider her position\", a former member of the government's LGBT+ advisory panel has said.\n\nJayne Ozanne quit the panel, along with two other advisers, claiming delays in banning conversion therapy.\n\nShe told the BBC Ms Badenoch did not understand the LGBT+ community and should stand aside for someone who \"had more heart for the work\".\n\nThe government vowed to produce a plan to \"end\" conversion therapy \"shortly\".\n\nCampaigners want legislation banning the controversial practice, which aims to change sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nDowning Street said it was considering \"both legislative and non-legislative options\" to \"bring an end to\" it.\n\nBut, asked if that meant it could end up with measures short of a ban, a spokesman refused to go further.\n\nIn July last year, the prime minister said the practice was \"absolutely abhorrent\" and said plans to ban it would be brought forward.\n\nIn a debate in Parliament on Monday, Ms Badenoch said conversion therapy had \"no place in a civilised society\", but added that \"robust\" laws were already in place to deal with the most troubling examples, involving violence and sexual assault.\n\nShe said the government did not \"intend to stop those who wish to seek spiritual counselling as they explore their sexual orientation.\"\n\nBut she added: \"There will also be cases where a line is crossed, where someone is actively seeking to change another's sexual orientation.\"\n\n\"The government will be exercising great care when considering what constitutes conversion therapy, what does not and therefore how the government should intervene,\" Ms Badenoch said.\n\nEqualities minister Kemi Badenoch has promised to take action\n\nMs Ozanne told the BBC she thought it had been an \"appalling speech\" and that she was \"increasingly concerned about what seems to be anti-LGBT rhetoric\" from the government.\n\nShe said she did not believe that Ms Badenoch and Liz Truss - who is also an equalities minister - \"had the best interests of the LGBTQ community\" in their minds, adding: \"I don't think they understand us.\"\n\n\"I do think there are others more suited to this role who have more time to engage, and more heart for the work\", she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Earlier this week the minister set out the government's desire to end conversion therapy, making it clear that the practice has no place in a civilised society. We are working to bring forward plans to do so shortly.\"\n\nThere have been rumblings for a while about a growing unease among some panel members which are now playing out in a very public way.\n\nThe advisory group was first set up under Theresa May but hasn't met for some time - I'm told at least six months.\n\nAnd now we've heard claims that, even when it did meet, panellists didn't necessarily feel listened to.\n\nIf the group does appear increasingly defunct (and we'll have to see what happens) it may be seen, by some, as symbolic of a fading commitment to LGBT+ equality under this administration.\n\nMinisters would reject that and, during a debate on Monday, Kemi Badenoch said the government had a \"proud record\" of championing equal opportunity.\n\nBut it was her response overall that seems to have sparked these resignations.\n\nAmong concerns was her refusal to commit to a legislative \"ban\" on so-called conversion therapy, promising instead only to \"end\" the practice.\n\nThe equalities minister described the legal landscape as \"complex\". But it's an awkward one for Boris Johnson who did, last summer, use the word \"ban\" during a TV interview.\n\nWhen she resigned from her advisory role on Monday, Jayne Ozanne accused ministers of creating a \"hostile environment\" for LGBT+ people.\n\nTwo others who then also quit the panel, James Morton, and Ellen Murray, said they also had concerns about the government's approach to conversion therapy and trans rights.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government \"has a blind\" spot in the issue.\n\n\"The PM needs to address what is obviously a problem in his government,\" he said at his party's local election campaign launch.\n\nAsked if he would ban conversion therapy if he were prime minister, Sir Keir replied: \"Yes, absolutely.\"\n\nThe LGBT Advisory Council was set up in 2019, with the term of current panel members set to end on 31 March.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA Met police officer arrested after the disappearance of Sarah Everard was taken to hospital with a head injury he suffered while in custody.\n\nThe officer is being questioned on suspicion of murder and kidnap after human remains were found in the search for Ms Everard.\n\nThe Met said he was treated in hospital but had \"returned to a police station\".\n\nHe was arrested in Kent and is also being questioned about a separate allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen on 3 March in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house.\n\nHuman remains were discovered in woodland near Ashford, Kent, on Wednesday but detectives have not yet been able to confirm their identity.\n\nFloral tributes have been left by members of the public at the site where police are continuing to carry out part of their investigation.\n\nHundreds of officers have been drafted in to help as searches continue in south London and Kent.\n\nMembers of the public gave police floral tributes to lay at the search site near Ashford\n\nA \"Reclaim These Streets\" event is to be held on Clapham Common on Saturday\n\nA Covid-secure \"Reclaim These Streets\" event is to be held on Clapham Common on Saturday evening.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened by the developments in the Sarah Everard investigation\".\n\n\"Like the whole country, my thoughts are with her family and friends. We must work fast to find all the answers to this horrifying crime,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"deeply saddened by the developments\", adding that \"every woman should feel safe to walk our streets without fear of harassment or violence\".\n\nPolice are continuing to search land near to Great Chart Golf and Leisure in Ashford\n\nMs Everard, a marketing executive, was last seen in doorbell video footage walking alone down a main road near Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear if she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nThe former Durham University student, who is originally from York, had been wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jon Donnison reports on Sarah Everard's last known movements\n\nIn a televised statement on Wednesday, Dame Cressida Dick confirmed officers searching an area near Ashford had \"found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\".\n\nThe Met Police commissioner said specialist officers had updated Ms Everard's family on the investigation.\n\nDame Cressida continued: \"Sarah's disappearance in these awful and wicked circumstances is every family's worst nightmare.\n\n\"I know Londoners will want to know that it is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.\n\n\"But I completely understand that despite this, women in London and the wider public - particularly those in the area where Sarah went missing - will be worried and may well be feeling scared.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cressida Dick: \"Detectives and search teams have found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\"\n\nDame Cressida said the arrest of a serving Met Police officer on suspicion of murder had \"sent waves of shock and anger through the public and through the whole of the Met\".\n\n\"I speak on behalf of all my colleagues in the Met when I say we are utterly appalled at this dreadful news,\" she added. \"Our job is to patrol the streets and to protect people.\"\n\nThe arrested officer was responsible for uniformed patrolling of diplomatic premises - including Downing Street and the Palace of Westminster, as well as foreign embassies in London.\n\nHe was off duty at the time of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nA woman in her 30s was also arrested in Kent on Tuesday evening on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) because it involves a police officer.\n\nA spokesman said it had been decided that the Met Police would investigate any potential conduct issues linked to the kidnap and murder allegations itself.\n\nThe IOPC is currently assessing whether any further measures should be taken in relation to the actions of police after Ms Everard was reported missing.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils in years one to three will not return to remote learning on 22 March\n\nPupils in pre-schools, nurseries and primary one to primary three in NI who were due to revert to remote learning from 22 March will be allowed to remain in class, the executive has agreed.\n\nMinisters backed a proposal from Education Minister Peter Weir to scrap the original plan.\n\nThat date will see post-primary pupils in years 12 to 14 return to classrooms.\n\nHowever no decision has been taken yet on when all other pupils should to return to school.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the full return of pupils to schools would be discussed at the executive's first formal review of the regulations on Tuesday 16 March.\n\n\"I would have liked to have moved further in relation to other cohorts but the Covid taskforce is looking at this in a strategic way and we'll make announcements next week,\" she told a news conference.\n\nNew proposals for schools from Peter Weir were discussed by Stormont ministers\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir had proposed that students in primaries four to seven should return on 22 March, with all other post-primary students returning after the Easter break on 12 April, subject to health advice.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said he had wanted to move further but recognised he would not have had consensus from all other executive parties.\n\n\"I ideally want to bring all ministers with me on this issue,\" he told the BBC's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"I will not rest until we reach a point that we have all pupils back in school... but how quickly we do that remains to be seen.\"\n\nHe also said officials were continuing work on how testing might be rolled out across schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nSome testing kits will arrive with the Education Authority on Friday and there will be a programme to roll that out for older pupils, primarily in years 12 to 14 in post-primaries, he added.\n\nMichelle O'Neill says the Kent coronavirus variant accounts for about 80% of cases in Northern Ireland\n\nDeputy First Minister Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised schools, students and parents needed \"notice\" about the return to school and that she hoped the executive could provide dates on Tuesday.\n\n\"We have made progress today and we did say this would be a staged and phased approach,\" she added.\n\nBoth ministers said their priority was ensuring the return of all pupils to schools as quickly as possible.\n\nIt is understood the executive was advised by health officials that the decision to \"prioritise and accelerate face-to-face learning must be supported by the retention of other existing restrictions at least until after the Easter holidays\".\n\nOn Thursday nine more Covid-19-related deaths and another 223 cases of the virus were recorded in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were 10 deaths recorded in the Republic of Ireland, with 592 confirmed new cases of the virus.\n\nMs O'Neill said the more transmissible Kent variant of coronavirus is now thought to account for about 80% of all cases in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Where people are having more contact the epidemic will grow faster than it has done previously, and this is something we all need to be cognisant of as we gradually ease out of restrictions,\" she added.\n\nThe transmission rate of the virus - or R-number - for the community in Northern Ireland is \"consistently below one\", said the first minister.\n\nShe said she hoped that the drop in figures meant that the executive would be able to make more announcements next week about easing other restrictions.\n\nMs O'Neill said there would be \"no major shifts\" before Easter but that the executive wanted to allow people time to plan for the coming weeks and months.\n\nMrs Foster also said she recognised that people were facing into a second year with many being unable to spend Mother's Day with their loved ones.\n\nArlene Foster says people should celebrate Mother's Day within their own household\n\n\"Many of us will be relying on cards and phone calls to carry out our love and appreciation,\" she said.\n\nShe also urged anyone wanting to celebrate Mother's Day or St Patrick's Day to do so with their own household.\n\nMs O'Neill said Northern Ireland was \"on the cusp of brighter days\" but warned that going to parties or gathering in groups posed a \"serious risk to a fragile situation\".\n\nMeanwhile, Stormont ministers have also agreed additional funding to support businesses and jobs during the pandemic.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy had proposed extending rates relief for another 12 months for almost 30,000 businesses, in a package worth £230m.\n\nHis plan means that for the second year running businesses in the following sectors will not pay any rates:\n\nThe executive also announced a Covid-19 support scheme for travel agents experiencing difficulties as a result of the pandemic, worth £1.175m.\n\nIt includes a flat payment of £10,000 to travel agency businesses operating from commercial premises or a £3,500 payment to self-employed travel agents working from home.\n\nThe scheme will open next Friday for a limited time until 26 March.", "A woman who kept a two-year-old child in a makeshift cage has been ordered to carry out community service.\n\nClaire Boyle, 34, from Ayrshire, claimed she kept the child in the modified cot for their own protection.\n\nThe situation was uncovered when another child, aged four, escaped from the flat they were staying in and was discovered roaming the streets alone.\n\nBoyle and her partner, 57-year-old Timothy Johnstone, were both convicted of neglect in February.\n\nThe offences took place in October 2018.\n\nAfter a trial, Sheriff Higgins convicted Boyle of neglecting the two-year-old and the four-year-old. Johnstone was convicted of neglecting the four-year-old.\n\nOn Thursday, Boyle was ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service and Johnstone was told to complete 180 hours.\n\nThe sheriff told the pair their offending was \"serious\" and warned them a jail sentence was still an option if they failed to engage in rehabilitation.\n\nIt was Boyle's third similar conviction.\n\nDuring the February trial, a jury heard that the four-year-old had squeezed through a six-inch gap in the window and dropped 4ft to the ground.\n\nWhen they were found by a member of the public, the child had so many bruises that medical staff thought they may have a blood disorder.\n\nAfter doctors alerted police, officers arrived at the property and found the younger child trapped in the makeshift cage in a bedroom.\n\nThe bottom of the cot had been removed and strapped to the top to stop the child getting out.\n\nA significant case review has been launched in partnership between South Ayrshire Council and East Ayrshire Council.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The review is being led by Professor Paul Martin, chair of the child protection committee.\n\n\"Since the review is under way, it would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police want people to take responsibility for themselves if coronavirus rules are eased\n\nPeople are urged to take personal responsibility if Covid rules are relaxed because stay-local policies are \"hard\" to police, a commissioner said.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police's commissioner, Dafydd Llywelyn, said stay-local rules were open to interpretation which made it difficult for officers.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford previously suggested there could be an easing of stay-at-home rules.\n\nHe is due to review Covid restrictions on Friday.\n\nMr Llywelyn said: \"It's going to be really challenging because there is going to be an interpretation of what 'stay local' means.\"\n\nDafydd Llywelyn said policing stay-local policies was \"really challenging\"\n\nOn Wednesday Vaughan Gething suggested people living in rural areas might be able to travel further to access facilities easily available to people in urban areas.\n\nLast year, a stay-local rule was in place as the strict lockdown was eased, with guidance - rather than law - that people should stay within five miles of home.\n\nMr Llywelyn said: \"Of course in Dyfed-Powys, five miles isn't enough in terms of distance for travel in my patch and so we have to remind people to take personal responsibility, and the important thing is to not do things which would put you in a situation where there is a risk of spreading the virus.\"\n\nHis force would try to ensure messaging was clear that people \"take personal care\".\n\nHe said he would \"love\" to travel 10 miles to the beach but added he \"wouldn't do that\".\n\nMr Llywelyn said he was expecting things to get busier as summer approached.\n\nStay-local rules were brought in after stay home legislation ended last summer\n\n\"We expect a busy summer and that's why we are in talks with the Welsh government to ensure that the planning is clear and what are the next steps - not only over the coming days and weeks, but over the coming months into the summer,\" he said.\n\nHe understood people were feeling more positive \"especially now with the vaccine\".\n\n\"It's important to remember that there is still pressure on the emergency services day-to-day and we think once the rules are relaxed, there will also be a strain on public services,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why it is important for people to be sensible - that's the key word here - to take personal responsibility over the coming weeks.\n\n\"Because by being sensible we will be able to relax the rules more over the coming months. It's all we want to see really.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Harkin dreamed the design of the Pyramid Stage, along with rolling hills and beams of light\n\nTributes have been paid to Bill Harkin, who designed and built the first Glastonbury Pyramid Stage, following his death at the age of 83.\n\nThe Pyramid Stage came to Mr Harkin in a dream and in 1971 it was built for the second Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe original stage was constructed out of scaffolding and plastic sheeting.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis, said Mr Harkin had lived an \"inspirational life\" and was \"simply loved by us all\".\n\nThe original Pyramid Stage was erected for the second Glastonbury Festival in June 1971\n\nThe first festival was held in 1970, when 1,500 people paid £1 for a ticket, which included free milk from Worthy Farm, the home of the Somerset event.\n\nMr Eavis said it was at the end of that year that Mr Harkin came to Glastonbury and met Andrew Kerr, one of the festival's co-founders, walking up the tor.\n\n\"They both became aware of very powerful feelings of spirituality,\" Mr Eavis said.\n\n\"This led to the idea of a large music festival with a pyramid as centre stage and that's when they came to me for a suitable site.\"\n\nHe said he had \"liked the idea\" and been \"captivated by their childlike excitement\".\n\n\"Bill was a top-flight architect working for British Leyland at the time but he soon became caught up with the festival, and came up with the very first Pyramid at Worthy Farm,\" he said.\n\n\"His enthusiasm and dedication led to what we have now - thank you so much, Bill.\"\n\nCrowds of 12,000 got their first sighting of the Pyramid Stage, at what was then known as Glastonbury Fayre\n\nThe current version - with Stormzy performing on it - was designed by local man Bill Burroughs\n\nMr Harkin's Pyramid Stage was the first of three versions of the famous festival platform which has been graced by iconic names from music history for 50 years.\n\nMade from sheeting bought at Taunton cattle market, it took about three months to build.\n\nIt was replaced in 1981 with a more permanent structure which doubled as a cow shed in winter, but burned down shortly before the festival in 1994.\n\nBetween 1994 and 1999 a replacement stage powered by wind turbines was used, with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello and Johnny Cash performing on it.\n\nDuring these years the main stage was not a pyramid, more a regular stage, but in the year 2000 the third version of the Pyramid Stage was built\n\nPilton resident Bill Burroughs' version of the stage, based on the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, is the one still seen at the site today and is four times larger than the 1981 version.\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.", "Four further cases of the Covid variant of concern first found in Brazil have been identified in England, bringing the total in the UK to 10.\n\nThree cases of the P.1 variant are in South Gloucestershire and are said to be close or household contacts of the two existing cases in the area.\n\nThe other new case was identified in Bradford.\n\nScientists previously said the variant appears more contagious and there were concerns over its response to vaccines.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said last week it was hoped that vaccines would have a strong impact on reducing hospitalisations and deaths in cases of the new variant.\n\nThe new Bradford case tested positive for Covid-19 in late February after travelling back from Brazil via Paris on 14 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nSubsequent genomic sequencing identified the case as the P.1 variant, Public Health England said in a statement.\n\nThousands of positive Covid cases, from all across the UK, are sent for this further sequencing every week as scientists aim to identify any variants of the virus.\n\nThe new South Gloucestershire cases were uncovered when people were offered testing in response to the initial cases found in the area last month - and those who tested positive had their results sent on for further analysis.\n\nSpecialist contact tracing teams are working to identify any further contacts and additional testing has been in place since the initial cases were identified.\n\nContact-tracers have advised close contacts of the individual in Bradford to isolate and get a test.\n\nThere are now seven cases of the P.1 variant in England and three in Scotland, all of which have links to travel or to a previously confirmed case that has travelled to Brazil.\n\nIt was always known more cases of the P.1 Brazil variant were coming.\n\nWhen it was confirmed 11 days ago the variant was here, it was known two household members of the original South Gloucestershire cases had tested positive for Covid.\n\nThe results of the genomic sequencing to check which variant they had was not yet complete, but the expectation was it would be P.1.\n\nWhere does this leave us? A quarter of all Covid cases are being checked for variants and all the indications are that they are not spreading.\n\nThe new P.1 cases brings the total to 10, while there have been just over 300 cases of the South African variant and another 113 cases where the UK virus has acquired the E484 mutation which allows it to escape some of the immune response.\n\nThere will be more variants out there that have not been detected, but given that overall week-on-week Covid infection levels are lower we can be confident the variant is not taking hold.\n\nMonitoring this though is crucial to help the UK decide if vaccines updates are needed ahead of next winter.\n\nSeparately, Public Health England said a new variant identified in the UK was designated a \"variant under investigation\" on 4 March. It is not known where this variant first emerged.*\n\nIt said the variant - known as VUI-202103/01 - contains the spike mutations E484K and N501Y, both usually associated with so-called \"variants of concern\".\n\nBut it added that \"it does not feature specific deletions that would lead to a designation as a [variant of concern]\".\n\nNo additional cases have yet been found.\n\nIn other developments, rough sleepers and other homeless people in England will be prioritised to receive a coronavirus vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nIt comes after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said people who are homeless or sleeping rough were likely to have underlying health conditions and should be offered jabs alongside those in priority group six - people aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality.\n\nThey should also be offered the vaccine without the need for an NHS number or GP registration, the JCVI added.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in the UK has risen compared with recent days, after a further 6,753 cases were reported, according to the latest data.\n\nAnother 181 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have also been recorded.\n\nAs of 10 March, some 23,053,716 people had received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 1,351,515 had received a second dose.\n\nNews that the Brazil variant had been found in the UK was released in February. Three cases were initially found in England, and separately three in Scotland.\n\nThe three cases in Scotland were all oil workers who were returning to their families from Brazil, via Paris and London.\n\nIn England, two of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire who tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February.\n\nThe third case in England - now confirmed to be in Croydon - prompted intensive tracing efforts in the region as the identity of the person was initially unknown as he or she failed to register their test properly.\n\nBut that person was found at the end of last week and it was confirmed that he or she had \"stayed at home\" and there was no sign of any onward transmission.\n\nUnder current Covid restrictions, holiday travel is not allowed in the UK or abroad. Anyone travelling abroad has to fill in a \"Declaration to Travel\" form, stating a valid reason for leaving the country, such as education or work, and journeys within England are only allowed for limited reasons.\n\nThere are also travel bans on 33 countries \"where the risk of a new variant is greatest\", including Brazil and other South American nations.\n\nHowever, the ban on travellers from South America came into effect on 15 February, after one case of the Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK. The latest Bradford case is also a person known to have travelled from Brazil via Paris just before that change came in.\n\n*This story has now been updated to reflect new information on UK variants on the Public Health England website. PHE previously reported two cases of the VUI-202103/01 variant had been found in the south-east of England in individuals who had recently been in Antigua. PHE now says: \"Despite the travel history of these cases there is no scientific evidence to determine where this variant first emerged.\"", "The biggest rise for 2021-22 is just under 7%, more than seven times the current rate of inflation\n\nCouncil tax bills are going up by at least twice the rate of inflation across Wales.\n\nThe rises range from 2.65% in Rhondda Cynon Taf to 6.95% in Wrexham, although the north-eastern county still charges less than most authorities in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Government has increased its funding for councils by more than inflation for the second year running.\n\nIt said a hardship fund ensured council costs of the pandemic would not be an \"added pressure\" on council tax payers.\n\nInflation was 0.9% in the year to January 2021, according to the latest figures available from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nCore funding from the Welsh Government covers between two-thirds and three-quarters of each council's spending.\n\nThe rest comes from council tax, and other income such as fees and direct charges for council-run services.\n\nThe figures do not include charges for police forces and town or community councils\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh Local Government Association said: \"All councils will use their local discretion to set their council tax levels, in line with local needs and circumstances.\n\n\"This year more than ever we have seen the importance of our essential local services, and council tax is a vital revenue stream to help fund them.\n\n\"However, local authorities also recognise that many families have been hard hit by the pandemic and councils have strived to keep any increases as low as possible whilst continuing to maintain local services in our communities.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"In 2021-22, local authorities in Wales will receive £4.65bn in general revenue allocations from core funding and non-domestic rates. This is an increase of 3.8% on a like-for-like basis and follows this year's 4.3% increase.\n\n\"Local authorities in Wales have the flexibility to set their budgets and council tax levels according to local needs and priorities. These decisions are an important part of local democracy, and ones for which individual authorities are accountable to their local electorates.\n\n\"We have also provided more than £206m in our budget to continue the Local Government Hardship Fund, which will ensure the financial impacts of the pandemic on local government will not be an added pressure on council taxpayers.\"\n\nPembrokeshire charges the lowest council tax of any county council in Wales\n\nPembrokeshire will still have the lowest charge for each type of property - £1,190 for Band D.\n\nWhile Rhondda Cynon Taf will once again see the smallest increase, it has the fifth-highest charge of the 22 Welsh councils for each property band.\n\nCharges for the police and - in areas that have them - town and community councils can add about £300 a year to a household's bill.\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 Titanic star said she learned to act in scout halls, church halls and school gyms across Reading\n\nKate Winslet said it was \"incredible\" Banksy had chosen Reading Prison for his latest piece as she joined calls to turn the old jail into an arts venue.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress is supporting a theatre group hoping to stop the site being knocked down for housing.\n\nBanksy confirmed he was behind the mural, with many believing it showed he backed moves for an art centre.\n\nWinslet, who grew up in Reading, promised to perform on opening night if the plans became a reality.\n\nBanksy's painting of an escaping prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - appeared last week.\n\nStreet artist Banksy confirmed he was behind the painting in a video on his website\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which owns the site and previously described the artwork as \"graffiti\", said it was considering what to do with the piece.\n\nWinslet told the BBC she believed the \"incredible Banksy piece of wall art\" should remain and become part of the \"legacy\" of a new diverse cultural and arts hub.\n\nShe said: \"I just felt incredibly excited for Reading to have a Banksy.\n\n\"If Reading had a legacy space like that, to hand on to generation after generation, it could really be as valuable as some of those central London theatres.\"\n\nReading Borough Council will submit a new bid next week to purchase the site and transform it into an arts complex.\n\nThe sale to a developer of the Grade II-listed prison, where Wilde was held between 1895 and 1897, fell through in November.\n\nIt was immortalised in Wilde's poem Ballad of Reading Gaol during his stay, which reflected on the brutality of the Victorian penal system.\n\nOscar Wilde was convicted after his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed\n\nTitanic star Winslet described her own experiences growing up in the town and how she learned how to act at drama clubs held in scout halls, church halls and school gyms \"because there was no real central space for creative communities to be built\".\n\nHowever, the star of Hollywood films, including The Reader and Revolutionary Road, believes it is harder for young people today because of \"unrealistic ideals\" that come about through social media.\n\nShe added: \"Yes, I come from a family of actors - but those actors were also dentists, Christmas tree sellers, tarmac layers, they were more often doing those jobs than they were acting because they found it hard making a living from acting.\"\n\nWinslet said she felt compelled to back the cause after being contacted by Toby Davies from the Reading-based Rabble Theatre, who has been leading the campaign.\n\n\"I really wanted to be able to lend my voice because it is very important to me. By joining forces in some way now hopefully... we might be able to do something wonderful,\" she added.\n\nSir Kenneth Branagh and Natalie Dormer have also lent their support to the campaign\n\nWinslet also believes professional theatre companies \"would hire Reading Gaol as a creative space to bring their productions\".\n\n\"Shows will often start at those out-of-town venues and then maybe transfer into London,\" she explained.\n\n\"How exciting for something like that to begin in Reading, something that increases local employment and encourages people to join... it's a really fantastic opportunity.\"\n\nThe actress also pledged: \"I'll be there performing on the first night, I sign up to that now.\"\n\nMr Davies, who said he was thrilled by Winslet's support, added: \"It's an opportunity to represent Wilde and correct everything that was done to him and the opportunity to totally transform a significant part of England culturally to really make a massive difference.\"\n\nOther well-known actors have also thrown their weight behind the campaign, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Natalie Dormer and Stephen Fry, who portrayed Irish playwright Wilde in the 1997 film Wilde.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nominees are (L-R): Rina Sawayama, Griff and Pa Salieu\n\nGriff, Pa Salieu and Rina Sawayama have been nominated for the Brits rising star award, which recognises pop's ones-to-watch for the coming year.\n\nThe prize, which was called critics choice until last year, has previously gone to Adele, Celeste and Jorja Smith.\n\nSawayama's nomination comes after the singer persuaded the Brits to change their eligibility rules last month.\n\nThe British-Japanese singer had been excluded because she didn't hold a British passport or dual citizenship.\n\nNew rules - announced on the day that voting for the rising star award opened - allow any artist who has been resident in the UK for more than five years to qualify for the main prizes.\n\n\"I literally fell to the floor when I found out that I'd been nominated,\" said the singer.\n\n\"I really can't put into words how much this means to me given that I wasn't eligible for this award a few weeks ago and now that door has been opened for future generations of artists like myself.\n\n\"Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me, it means the world.\"\n\nThe winner of the rising star award will be announced on 19 March, ahead of the Brits ceremony - which has been delayed from February to 11 May, due to the pandemic.\n\nGriff chose her stage name because her real name, Sarah Griffiths, \"sounds like I have a mortgage and three kids\"\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 Griff 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\nPa Salieu won the BBC's Sound of 2021, giving his chances at the Brits an extra boost\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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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\nRetail giant John Lewis has warned of further \"painful\" store closures after the pandemic saw it report its first ever annual loss.\n\nThe group swung to a loss of £517m for the year to January, against profits of £146m the previous year.\n\nThe retailer said it \"does not expect\" all of its department stores to reopen once lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nIt has previously been reported the chain was considering closing up to eight more stores to try to cut costs.\n\nAny further closures would be in addition to eight already announced in 2020.\n\nThe firm, which has 42 John Lewis shops, said talks with landlords are ongoing and it will make a final decision about the \"small number\" of shops to close at the end of March.\n\nThe rise in internet shopping, accelerated by various lockdown measures during the pandemic, has forced John Lewis to rethink how many stores it needs.\n\nIt said that before last March, every £6 in £10 spent on its websites was driven by its shops. That figure is now just £3 in £10.\n\nChairman Sharon White told the BBC that the decision to close stores was \"painful\" but necessary due to a \"decade of changes in shopping habits in one year\".\n\n\"There is no getting away from the fact that some areas can no longer profitably sustain a John Lewis store,\" she added.\n\n\"Regrettably, we do not expect to reopen all our John Lewis shops at the end of lockdown, which will also have implications for our supply chain.\"\n\nShe said John Lewis would do everything it could \"to lessen the impact\", but she added: \"We want to ensure our stores reflect how customers want to shop - 'right space, right place'.\"\n\nSharon White landed in the driving seat just weeks before the pandemic and swiftly had to make some tough decisions - closing stores, slashing jobs and cutting costs. She also had to tell partners that for the first time in more than 50 years they wouldn't receive their much cherished annual bonus.\n\nThese past 12 months have clearly focused minds on how many big department stores it needs.\n\nDespite lockdown restrictions, John Lewis sales were flat last year. In other words, it managed to transfer all those lost sales from the High Street to online. Its website business was already strong and it predicts 70% of sales will be online from 2025.\n\nBut another raft of store closures is a real blow for the towns they're based in. Some will think it's going too far - that there could be an opportunity for it to add sales, given that so many of its rivals have either beaten a retreat or disappeared altogether.\n\nJohn Lewis went on a big expansion spree back in 2007, almost doubling the number of stores in its portfolio. As sad as it is, it's now set to rein those numbers in.\n\nJohn Lewis' hefty annual loss was mainly due to the write-down in the value of its stores because of the shift to online shopping, as well as restructuring and redundancy costs.\n\nThe group announced last July it was closing John Lewis stores in Birmingham, Croydon, Watford, Newbury, Swindon and Tamworth, as well as the smaller hubs at St Pancras station and Heathrow, with the loss of 1,300 jobs.\n\nIn September, John Lewis also announced it was scrapping its staff bonus for the first time since 1953.\n\nThe partnership, which also runs Waitrose supermarkets, is now targeting savings of £300m a year by 2022.\n\nDavid Cartmell lost his job as a stock manager at the John Lewis store in Birmingham last year\n\nDavid Cartmell took great pride in working at the John Lewis store in Birmingham until it closed last year and he was made redundant.\n\nHe says the news of further store closures on Thursday came as \"little surprise\".\n\n\"I always knew the original eight store closures, including my branch were just the tip of the iceberg,\" the former stock manager says.\n\nOne of the groups' big problems, David says, is its past expansion strategy: \"We were trying to make the chain as common as Debenhams.\"\n\nAs overheads including bills, rents, salaries and bonuses mounted, he says the group became a \"victim\" of its own previous marker of success.\n\n\"We were trying to use an old business model to keep up our biggest competitors such as Amazon in a digital age.\"\n\nNow, he feels \"absolutely sorry\" for the workers waiting to hear the fate of their own stores.\n\nIn addition to closing some John Lewis stores, the group is trialling running dedicated John Lewis shopping areas in some Waitrose supermarkets.\n\nWaitrose benefitted from a jump in demand for online deliveries as people sought to minimise trips to the supermarket. John Lewis said the Waitrose website was taking about 240,000 orders a week, and now \"stands as a £1bn sales business\".\n\nThe increased demand for groceries, however, did not offset the problems at the group's department stores.\n\nAs a result, John Lewis confirmed that it would not return the business rates relief it has received from government during the Covid crisis.\n\nIt said it had claimed £190m in combined rates relief and support under the furlough scheme, and that it would claim business rates relief between April and June.\n\nIt said the holiday from the tax levied on non-domestic properties had helped it avoid \"a more severe restructuring of the partnership, which would have put more jobs at risk at a time when the High Street is already under pressure\".\n\n\"We are not out of the crisis yet and the economic environment remains extremely uncertain,\" it added.\n\nGrocers such as Morrisons, Tesco and Asda said in December that they would return more than £1.7bn in rates relief. This came after supermarkets, whose sales have boomed in the crisis, were criticised for taking government help while paying dividends to shareholders.", "A simple skin-swab test could be used to help diagnose the degenerative brain condition Parkinson's disease, UK scientists say.\n\nStudies with volunteers show it can quickly detect tell-tale compounds in sebum - the oily substance that protects the skin.\n\nPeople with Parkinson's can have higher than usual concentrations of these.\n\nResearchers discovered this after a woman amazed doctors with her ability to detect Parkinson's through smell.\n\nRetired nurse Joy Milne, 68, from Perth, noticed the \"musky\" smell on her husband, Les, years before his Parkinson's diagnosis.\n\nShe has been helping scientists at the University of Manchester explore the link.\n\nAnd a blinded test of her odour-detecting skills found she was 100% accurate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease before it is medically diagnosed\n\nThe research team moved on to using a mass-spectrometry machine to detect the compounds.\n\nAnd they now have data from 500 people, showing the skin test can correctly distinguish those with Parkinson's more than eight out of every 10 times.\n\nInvestigator Prof Perdita Barran said: \"We believe that our results are an extremely encouraging step towards tests that could be used to help diagnose and monitor Parkinson's.\n\n\"Not only is the test quick, simple and painless but it should also be extremely cost-effective because it uses existing technology that is already widely available.\n\n\"We are now looking to take our findings forwards to refine the test to improve accuracy even further and to take steps towards making this a test that can be used in the NHS and to develop more precise diagnostics and better treatment for this debilitating condition.\"\n\nCurrently, there is no cure and no definitive test for Parkinson's.\n\nAnd diagnosis can take years.\n\nThe researchers are seeking funding to further develop their test, which they believe could also help track disease progression and measure whether treatments are having an impact, at the molecular level.\n\nTheir latest work, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests progression of the disease comes with changes in the regulation of lipids in cells.\n\nDaxa Kalayci, 56, of Leicester, was misdiagnosed several times over four years before finally finding out she had Parkinson's in 2019.\n\n\"I was misdiagnosed with anxiety, stress-related tremors and told that my problems stemmed from going through the menopause,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite my diagnosis eventually being confirmed... a quick and simple diagnostic test for Parkinson's would have given me the chance to start my treatment earlier and enjoy life a lot more.\n\n\"But instead, I lost so many years not being able to pursue a career as a paramedic or go back to nursing.\n\n\"This test could be a game-changer for people living with Parkinson's and searching for answers, like I was.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the staccato pops as the laser fires on Mars\n\nSo, now we know what a laser sounds like on another world.\n\nThe US space agency's Perseverance rover has deployed its SuperCam instrument on Mars for the first time.\n\nThis high-intensity light probe can identify rocks at a distance. It's a technique that was also employed by Nasa's previous rover, Curiosity.\n\nBut Perseverance has some enhancements, including a microphone that allows us to actually hear the laser at work.\n\nThis isn't just some nice-to-have feature, a gimmick for PR purposes, but provides extra information that is useful to scientists.\n\nThe sound of the laser hitting rocks reveals knowledge such as the hardness of the targets being investigated.\n\n\"If we tap on a surface that is hard, we will not hear the same sound as when we fire on a surface that is soft,\" explained Naomi Murdoch, from the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space, in Toulouse.\n\n\"Take for example chalk and marble. These two materials have an identical chemical composition (calcium carbonate), but very different physical properties.\"\n\nThe SuperCam laser is mounted on the rover mast head (large round window)\n\nIn a media briefing on Wednesday, Dr Murdoch played three different sounds recorded by the SuperCam microphone. One was of the general sound of Mars, the second was of some wind gusts, and the third was the staccato pops from the laser in action.\n\nPerseverance landed in Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 February to search for evidence of past life. The deep bowl is regarded as an excellent location for such a quest because it almost certainly held a lake billions of years ago; and where there's been water, perhaps there's been life, too.\n\nThe SuperCam instrument was developed in a partnership between French and American research teams.\n\nIts first rock target selected for study was dubbed \"Máaz\", which means Mars in the Navajo language spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States.\n\nMáaz was found, to no-one's real surprise, to be basaltic in nature. Basalt is very common on Mars.\n\nSuperCam's micro-imager also took this picture of the rock dubbed “Máaz”\n\nIt's a rock that contains a lot of magnesium and iron, and is the sort of thing that forms from rapidly cooled lava.\n\n\"We don't know yet if this rock itself is igneous, ie volcanic, or perhaps if it is a sedimentary rock made up of igneous grains that were washed down river into Jezero lake and cemented together,\" said SuperCam principal investigator Roger Wiens, from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.\n\n\"We'll have to use more of our techniques and study the surrounding area to understand those details some more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The journey to the surface of Mars made by the Perseverance rover\n\nPerseverance has spent most of its first three weeks on Mars going through post-landing checks. It has, though, started driving in a north-easterly direction.\n\nAn immediate goal is a helicopter experiment. The rover brought a small chopper with it from Earth.\n\nThe vehicle is looking for a suitable stretch of terrain where the 2kg device, called Ingenuity, can be put safely on the ground. At present, the aircraft is slung beneath Perseverance's belly.\n\nMáaz is the long rock feature at top-right in this Perseverance image", "This was the second time John Swinney has survived a vote of no confidence in the past year\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney has survived a vote of no confidence at Holyrood after MSPs rejected the motion by 65 to 57.\n\nThe vote was tabled by the Tories after a row over the government providing its legal advice to an inquiry committee.\n\nThe motion was voted down after the Greens sided with the SNP to dismiss the move as a political stunt.\n\nMr Swinney had agreed to publish \"key\" papers from the government's legal battle with Alex Salmond.\n\nHowever, the committee said it was \"not reassured\" that it had been given access to all the material it had asked for.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the \"key legal advice the deputy first minister promised has not been provided\". Her party was backed by Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nMr Swinney described the motion as \"entirely baseless\".\n\nThe row stems from the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond, which it admitted had been unlawful after the former first minister launched a judicial review case at the Court of Session.\n\nA special parliamentary committee was set up to hold an inquiry into the affair. Members of the group asked for government legal advice relating to the case to be disclosed.\n\nMSPs - including the Greens - twice voted to underline this demand, but the government initially only provided access to a memo summarising some advice.\n\nAfter all opposition parties said they would back a vote of no confidence in Mr Swinney if the papers were not handed over, he relented and the government published a series of documents.\n\nHowever the committee said it was \"frustrated\" by how the process had played out and the Tories pushed ahead with the confidence vote.\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of charges of sexual assault after a separate High Court trial in March of last year\n\nMs Davidson told MSPs that the committee had been \"hampered at every turn from receiving even basic information\".\n\nShe said the papers published contained \"damning revelations\", but argued that \"there still remain key omissions\".\n\nShe added: \"We know we won't win - the votes are there for the deputy first minister - but we believe it is important and right to put on record that this is no way for the government to treat this parliament.\"\n\nLabour's Jackie Baillie - a member of the inquiry committee - said it had been provided with \"partial information, delayed information and in some cases no information at all\".\n\nShe added: \"There is a pattern of behaviour here of obstruction, secrecy and contempt for the institution of this parliament.\"\n\nLib Dem MSP Alex-Cole Hamilton added that it was \"entirely due to the obstruction and sleight of hand employed by this administration that we have arrived at this point\".\n\nMr Swinney contended that the government had published the advice to counter \"outlandish allegations\" of conspiracy, and had provided everything the committee had asked for.\n\nHe said: \"We have taken the extraordinary and unprecedented step of publishing formal legal advice of the kind that no previous government in Scotland has done.\n\n\"On any fair interpretation of what the government has done, the Tories' pursuit of this motion today is now entirely baseless.\n\n\"With an election only weeks away, the reality is, I suspect, that they were always intent on pushing this motion to a vote regardless of what action the government has taken.\"\n\nHe was backed by Patrick Harvie, who said the inquiry had \"descended into political farce\".\n\nThe Green co-leader said the process had become \"shabby political theatre\", with opposition members chiefly interested in \"winning a political scalp\".\n\nThe vote is the second time in the past year Mr Swinney has survived a confidence motion, with the Greens also backing him in his post as education secretary in a row over exam results.", "The Covid surge in January hit key services including cancer and routine surgery, NHS England figures show.\n\nLess than half the expected number of operations were done, pushing the waiting list to a record-high of 4.6m.\n\nMore than 300,000 of those have been waiting more than a year for treatment - compared to 1,600 before the pandemic began.\n\nSurgeons described it as a dire situation which would take a long time to turnaround.\n\nTim Mitchell, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said: \"Behind today's statistics are people waiting in limbo.\n\n\"Many will be in considerable pain, others will have restricted mobility and be at risk of isolation and loneliness.\n\n\"Dealing with this daunting backlog will take time, and also sustained investment in the NHS,\" he said.\n\nSimilar problems are also being seen in Scotland where 39,000 people have been waiting over a year for treatment.\n\nThe NHS Confederation has warned the true picture could be much worse with nearly 6 million fewer referrals made by GPs in England for routine treatments, which includes operations such as knee and hip replacements, last year, suggested there was an additional hidden backlog.\n\nThe organisation, which represents hospitals, said it was likely people have not sought help or found it difficult to access services during the pandemic.\n\nThe numbers starting treatment for cancer and being referred for urgent check-ups returned to pre-pandemic levels in the autumn.\n\nBut the data for January showed a dip in numbers for the first time since the first wave - just under 23,000 people started treatment, compared to nearly 27,500 in January 2020.\n\nMichelle Mitchell, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: \"While it's positive that urgent referrals did not plummet as they did in the first wave, these January figures show that the pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on cancer patients.\"\n\nNHS England said given the scale of Covid admissions seen in January, some disruption had been unavoidable.\n\nMedical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"Admitting more than 100,000 Covid patients to hospital in a single month inevitably had a knock-on effect on some non-urgent care.\n\n\"However, thanks to the hard work of NHS staff and the innovations in treatment and care developed over the course of the pandemic, hospitals treated more than one million people with other conditions in January, at the peak of the winter wave, nearly twice as many as they did last April.\n\n\"That is a testament to the skill, dedication and commitment nurses, doctors, therapists and countless other staff showed in the most challenging period in NHS history.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to give NHS staff a \"proper pay rise\", as he launched his party's campaign for May's local and mayoral elections in England.\n\nHe promised to \"support our nurses\", after a salary increase of 1% was suggested by ministers.\n\nThe Conservatives say this is a \"real-terms\" rise, but Labour argues that inflation will make it a pay cut.\n\nNHS pay for England is decided nationally, rather than by councils.\n\nBut Sir Keir focused on this and other broad issues, saying voters would be concerned about \"how Britain recovers\" from the pandemic.\n\n\"Every vote in this election is a chance to show the Conservatives that the British people value our NHS and our key workers so much more than this government does,\" he said at a virtual launch event.\n\nThe 6 May elections will include polls for district and county councils, police and crime commissioners and city mayors, including in London.\n\nVoting in Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections will take place on the same day.\n\nThe contests represent Sir Keir's first major test since becoming Labour leader last April, with last May's elections having been postponed because of coronavirus.\n\nOpinion polls suggest the party - which, in 2019, experienced its worst general election result since the 1930s - is lagging behind the Conservatives nationally.\n\nSir Keir attempted to stress the political distance between himself and predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, saying that \"this is a different Labour Party, under new leadership\".\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of being \"out of touch and out of ideas\", adding: \"After everything we've been through, we can't go back to business as usual\".\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\nBut he admitted that the local polls were \"going to be tough\", with activists \"constrained\" by Covid security rules on canvassing.\n\nConservative Party co-chairwoman Amanda Milling said Labour politicians were \"more interested in playing political games than delivering good services\" and only her party had \"a proven record of keeping bills down and providing better local services\".\n\nThe government argues that the 1% NHS pay increase - coming when much of the public sector is experiencing a pay freeze - would be a real-terms rise, with inflation currently at 0.9%.\n\nAppearing before the Commons Treasury Committee, Chancellor Rishi Sunak called the proposal \"proportionate, fair and reasonable\", and \"based on affordability\".\n\nBut Labour says a projected surge in inflation later this year will turn the 1% rise into a \"real-terms loss\" for NHS staff.", "Two UK internet providers have been helping the Home Office and National Crime Agency track the websites visited by customers.\n\nA trial of new powers granted by the controversial Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 has been going on for months.\n\nIt involves the internet providers creating internet connection records (ICRs), which can be used to show which websites a person visited and when.\n\n\"It's needles in haystacks, and this is collecting the entire haystack,\" said Heather Burns, policy manager with the Open Rights Group.\n\n\"We should have the right to not have every single click of what we do online hoovered up into a surveillance net on the assumption that there might be criminal activity taking place.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the trial was small in scale and in its early stages.\n\nIt is exploring what kind of data could be retrieved under the law and how useful - or not - it might be, it said.\n\nBut due to the nature of the trial, its exact workings are shrouded in secrecy, and it is not clear how many internet records are being collected for testing purposes, or to whom they belong.\n\nThe test's existence was first reported by Wired.\n\nThe power to spy on the websites people visit comes from the Investigatory Powers Act, which critics call a \"snoopers' charter\" due to widespread concerns about its scope.\n\nThe act gives the secretary of state the power, with a judge's approval, to order internet providers to keep their records for up to a year. The definition is so broad that critics believe all ISPs will simply be issued with such orders to cover all their customers.\n\nThose records can include which websites a customer visits, when, and how much data they download, as well as the relevant IP (internet protocol) addresses - but not what pages or exactly what content they read on those sites.\n\nBut that so-called \"metadata\" can still reveal a lot about a person's habits - from what political sites they visit to their use of pornography. There are, however, restrictions on who can access the ICRs and for what reasons.\n\nThe trial involves the two UK internet providers, which have not been named, the Home Office, and the National Crime Agency.\n\nThe internet providers themselves are prevented from saying if they are involved, as the law bans \"disclosing\" the existence of a data retention notice to anyone else.\n\nThe trial's existence was never formally announced or publicised, but was instead contained in two short paragraphs in a 168-page annual report from the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (Ipco), published in December.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ipco said the trial was continuing, and \"regular reviews\" were being carried out to make sure the data collection was \"necessary and proportionate\".\n\n\"Once a full assessment of the trial has been carried out, a decision will be made on whether there is a case for national rollout,\" she said.\n\nBut Ms Burns said the level of secrecy involved was a cause for concern.\n\n\"Yes, they're ticking the boxes about the oversight and the judicial approval every way they can,\" she said.\n\n\"But there's still an aspect of transparency which is crucially missing here.\"\n\nShe said questions remained around the scope of the law, which had been a key concern for critics as it was being debated in Parliament.\n\nThe Ipco report's brief reference to the trial revealed that it began in July 2019, when a judge approved a \"retention notice\" on a telecoms company. Another was granted in October that year, for a different telecoms company.\n\nBoth are, it said, for \"testing purposes only\" - so it is not clear whether they are linked to criminal suspects.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it uses what it calls \"data exploitation\" to tackle crime.\n\n\"We are supporting the Home-Office-sponsored trial of internet connection record capability to determine the technical, operational, legal and policy considerations associated with delivery of this capability,\" it said in a statement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe executive director of an industry body for the UK press has resigned after a row over its reaction to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's comments about racism in the media.\n\nIan Murray said he would step down from his role at the Society of Editors so it could \"rebuild its reputation\".\n\nPrince Harry said some British tabloids were \"racist\" and \"bigoted\".\n\nThe Society of Editors initially denied that and said such an \"attack\" was \"not acceptable\" without providing evidence.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation on Wednesday, Mr Murray said: \"Since the statement was issued the SoE has been heavily criticised.\n\n\"While I do not agree that the society's statement was in any way intended to defend racism, I accept it could have been much clearer in its condemnation of bigotry and has clearly caused upset.\n\n\"As executive director I lead the society and as such must take the blame and so I have decided it is best for the board and membership that I step aside so that the organisation can start to rebuild its reputation.\"\n\nHe added that the original statement was \"not intended to gloss over the fact the media industry in the UK does have work to do on inclusivity and diversity\".\n\nIt comes after ITV presenter Charlene White pulled out as host of an awards ceremony staged by the Society of Editors - the British Press Awards - saying the organisation should find \"someone whose views align with yours\" to replace her.\n\nIn the duke and duchess' recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry was asked if the couple left the UK because of racism.\n\nHe said that was a \"large part\" of why he and his wife had left the UK.\n\nThe duke recalled a conversation he had had at a charity fundraiser in which he was told that the UK is \"very bigoted\", and he said he replied: \"The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids.\"\n\nHe added: \"But unfortunately if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased then that filters out to the rest of society.\"\n\nThe Society of Editors, which represents almost 400 members of the media, put out a robust defence in response.\n\n\"The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account following the attack on the press by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,\" it said.\n\nAfter criticism, however, it put out a further statement on Wednesday to say its initial comments \"did not reflect what we all know: that there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion\".\n\nThe editors of the Guardian and HuffPost UK had both said they did not agree with the society's position.\n\nAlison Gow, president of the Society of Editors, said: \"I would like to thank Ian for his tireless work on behalf of the society; he has led campaigns for journalists' rights and freedoms and worked hard behind the scenes when it appeared legislation might threaten those.\n\n\"The society is committed to representing all journalists and upholding journalism; I am clear on what our mission must be, and we will strive as an organisation to listen and hear everyone's views, and be strong advocates and allies for all those we represent.\"", "Vigils highlighting women's safety on the streets are being organised following the disappearance of Sarah Everard in south London.\n\nReclaim These Streets events are planned across the UK on Saturday, and in Clapham, where she was last seen.\n\nOrganisers said it was \"wrong that the response to violence against women requires women to behave differently\".\n\nThousands of women are sharing online their anxieties and anger about staying safe when alone in public places.\n\nFollowing the arrest of a police officer on suspicion of Ms Everard's kidnap and murder, the head of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick said: \"I know Londoners will want to know that it is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.\n\n\"But I completely understand that despite this, women in London and the wider public - particularly those in the area where Sarah went missing - will be worried and may well be feeling scared.\"\n\nOrganisers of Saturday afternoon's vigil on Clapham Common said local police had \"told women not to go out at night this week\", but they say \"women are not the problem\".\n\n\"This is a vigil for Sarah, but also for all women who feel unsafe, who go missing from our streets and who face violence every day.\"\n\nVigils are planned for other cities and towns on Saturday, including Cardiff, Liverpool and St Andrews.\n\nThe disappearance has prompted discussion on social media about the precautions women feel they have to take when they go out on their own.\n\nHelena Wadia told BBC Radio 5 Live said she wrote about her experience on Twitter to highlight how common it is for women to feel unsafe.\n\nHelena Wadia said changing her behaviour in public spaces was \"exhausting\"\n\nShe said: \"The first time I was catcalled I think I was about 12 years old. I have been self-policing since then, we moderate everything.\n\n\"Our clothing, our drinking, we get taxis where maybe we can't afford it, we hold keys between our fingers, we don't wear headphones when we're jogging, we stick to well-lit areas. It's exhausting.\"\n\nAnother tweet asking women if they have ever faked phone calls, changed route, or even run in fear after feeling threatened by men in public spaces has been liked more than 120,000 times.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the concerns shared by women \"are so powerful because each and every woman can relate\".\n\n\"Every woman should feel safe to walk on our streets without fear of harassment or violence,\" she added.\n\nMaya Tutton, who created the Our Streets Now anti-harassment campaign, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she first experienced harassment in public at the age of 12.\n\n\"What these incidents make you do is… that they make you fear going outside and they make you feel that you are not an equal citizen to your male counterparts and that you don't have those fundamental human rights to go about your everyday life without living in fear,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\n\"We're so at the end of our tether with violence against women and girls never being a priority and never being an issue that we put money and resources into tackling.\"\n\nMs Tutton added: \"By not putting the emphasis on the perpetrator and on really tackling that culture, what we're doing is we're not getting to the root of the problem - we are being forced to change our behaviour.\"\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, the shadow domestic violence minister, said there should not be a message to women \"where we're told what to do or what we have to do\".\n\n\"The reality is that for most women they have had some sort of experience that they feel frightened of,\" she told the Today programme.\n\n\"Women aren't weak because of a fault in their personality, women are weak because of men's violence.\"\n\nSarah Everard walked down a busy main road in Clapham before she disappeared\n\nAs part of an International Women's Day debate in the House of Commons on Thursday, she read out the names of 118 women who have died since this date last year - where a man had been charged or convicted as the primary perpetrator.\n\nIt took more than four minutes for her to do so.\n\nShe told MPs there was currently no government study into the patterns every year of women who are killed. \"Dead women is a thing we've all just accepted as part of our daily lives - dead women is just one of those things.\"\n\nBut, she added: \"Killed women are not vanishingly rare. Killed women are common. Dead women do count.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips lists all women killed in the UK over the last year where a man has been convicted or charged.\n\nMs Phillips concluded saying that the name of Sarah Everard, not included on the list, \"rings out across all of our media\". \"Let's pray every day and work every day so that nobody's name ends up on this list again,\" she said.\n\nJulie Bindel, a campaigner on women's issues since the 1970s, said: \"The message from wider society and from all police officers during these many operations on violence against women should be a message for men.\n\nShe praised a tweet from one man, Stuart Edwards, who asked if there were steps men could take to reduce women's anxiety.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stuart Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMarian FitzGerald, a visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent, said while women's fear was real, statistics showed women were less likely to be murdered than men.\n\nShe said Ms Everard's disappearance \"shouldn't make women any more fearful than they already were\".\n\n\"Yes, the fear is real and it is always heightened when something like this is in the news. That doesn't mean to say that the risk has changed,\" she said.\n\n\"It hasn't changed much over many years. Women account for about a third of all murders. Men are far more likely to be murdered.\n\n\"Men are far more likely to be murdered by someone they don't know. Men are far more likely to be murdered in public places.\"\n\nAsked about young women who have said they should not have to be fearful, Ms FitzGerald said: \"In terms of the risk that we face, I know that the current situation is frightening... the reason why we remember these cases is because they are so rare and we should hold on to that.\"\n\nIn 2019-20, 71% of female murder victims were killed at home compared to 36% of male murder victims. Around one in 10 of female murder victims were killed on the streets.\n\nThe World Health Organization reported this week that one in three women across the world have been subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes.", "The race issues raised by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their interview with Oprah Winfrey are \"concerning\" and \"taken very seriously\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace said \"recollections may vary\" but the matters would be addressed privately.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that Harry had been asked by an unnamed family member \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe Palace said the Sussexes would \"always be much loved family members\".\n\nThe response from Buckingham Palace came after crisis meetings involving senior royals.\n\nThe Palace had been under growing pressure to respond to the interview in which Meghan - the first mixed-race member of the modern Royal Family - said that before their son Archie was born, questions had been asked about his skin colour.\n\nPrince Harry later clarified to Oprah that the comments were not made by either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nFigures from US TV network CBS suggest that nearly 50 million people around the world have watched Oprah's interview with the couple.\n\nIn other developments, Piers Morgan has stood by the comments that led to his departure from ITV's Good Morning Britain show - including that he did not \"believe a word\" of what Meghan said in the interview.\n\nIt is reported a formal complaint by the duchess has been lodged with ITV but neither representatives for the Sussexes nor ITV have confirmed this.\n\nChris Ship, the royal editor of ITV News, said in a tweet that it was believed Meghan had raised concerns about how Morgan's words \"affect the issue of mental health and what it might do to others contemplating suicide\".\n\nThe statement from the Palace, which came a day and a half after the interview was first broadcast in the US, said: \"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.\n\n\"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members.\"\n\nIt is understood the royals wanted to carefully consider their response and to give the British public an opportunity to watch the interview first, when it was broadcast on Monday evening.\n\nThey are said to consider this a family matter and to believe they should be given the opportunity to discuss the issues privately.\n\nDowning Street has confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has watched the interview, but his official spokesman declined to comment on the Palace's statement.\n\nAlthough likely, it was never absolutely certain that the Queen would issue a statement following the interview given by her grandson and his wife.\n\nThe risk was that any response would add to the \"royals in crisis\" narrative which is playing out across front pages and TV screens across the globe.\n\nBut having had time to discuss the claims made by Harry and Meghan, four short sentences convey the message from the Palace that this is a private family matter and the specific allegations will not be publicly addressed.\n\nThe tone is conciliatory, with reference to the Sussexes as much loved family members. There is a gentle challenge in the line \"whilst some recollections may vary\", but also an assurance that concerns will be taken seriously.\n\nAnd we can be sure that - at least as far as the UK-based royals are concerned - any bridge-building will be done in private.\n\nMeanwhile, the board of the Society of Editors has said it will \"work towards being part of the solution\" after coming under fire for its initial reaction to Meghan and Harry's interview.\n\nIt previously said it was \"not acceptable\" for the couple to make claims of racism in the press \"without providing any supporting evidence\".\n\nBut in a new statement the organisation said its earlier comments did not address that \"there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion\".\n\n\"We will reflect on the reaction our statement prompted and work towards being part of the solution,\" it added.\n\nIt comes as MPs could push for a House of Commons debate to discuss possible actions following the media's \"hounding\" of Meghan.\n\nLabour's Holly Lynch, who co-ordinated a letter from female MPs in support of Meghan in 2019, has questioned the way the press is regulated.\n\n\"How long do you continue to let that fail before you have to recognise it has failed and say 'what next?'\" she said.\n\nDuring a visit in London earlier, Prince Charles did not respond when he was asked if he had seen the interview, in which the Sussexes addressed deeply personal topics of racism, mental health, the media and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe UK broadcast on Monday night was watched by an average of 11.1 million people.\n\nIn it, the duchess said there had been times when she \"didn't want to be alive any more\" because she found royal life so difficult. She said she asked for help from the Palace but received none.\n\nOne of Meghan's close friends said she had been \"worried, terrified, sad\" to see the duchess's mental health problems.\n\nActress Janina Gavankar also told ITV's This Morning: \"The family and the staff were well aware of the extent of it, and though their 'recollections may vary', ours don't, because we lived through it with them.\"\n\nGavankar, who watched the TV show air with both Meghan and Harry, added the couple were \"feeling free\" since the broadcast.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that conversations about how dark Archie's skin might be when he was born took place \"in tandem\" with discussions about why he would not be given a royal title and police protection.\n\nUnder rules in place since 1917, the couple's children would not automatically become princes or princesses - unless the Queen was to intervene.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nHundreds of workers at the DVLA have voted for industrial action over Covid health and safety concerns.\n\nThe office in Swansea has seen more than 500 Covid cases since September in what a union described as \"the worst Covid workplace outbreak\" in the UK.\n\nMembers of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) backed strikes by 71.6% on a turnout of 50%.\n\nA DVLA spokesman said it had followed Welsh Government guidance at \"every single point throughout the pandemic\".\n\nA coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre in the Clase area of Swansea in December after 352 cases in the space of four months.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said in January that UK government officials had been \"working flat-out\" at the DVLA's 16 storey HQ.\n\nThe UK's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said it was \"shameful\" workers were having to strike because they felt \"unsafe\".\n\nMore than 6,000 people work at the site and the PCS union said more than 2,000 staff have been going into the workplace every day, despite the scale of the outbreak.\n\n\"This result is a damning indictment on DVLA management in their abject failure to keep staff safe,\" said PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Our members have sent a loud and clear message that they are not safe at their place of work.\n\n\"The strength of feeling amongst staff comes as no surprise, given the management's disregard for the safety of their workers.\n\n\"Our members have been forced into this position and industrial action will take place unless management immediately implements all necessary changes to ensure staff are safe at work.\"\n\nThe Swansea contact centre has seen more than 300 Covid cases since September\n\nThe union will seek to meet with management of the DVLA - the UK government-run Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - before deciding its next move.\n\nPCS said it wants to see the numbers on site reduced to hundreds - and vulnerable people sent home, to either work from home or have special paid leave.\n\nThe DVLA said it had \"consistently worked with\" Public Health Wales, Environmental Health and Swansea Bay University Health Board to introduce a wide range of safety measures.\n\n\"This has enabled DVLA staff to continue to deliver essential services to the public right across the UK in a Covid-19 secure way.\" added a spokesman.\n\n\"Any industrial action is likely to have a detrimental impact on motorists as we begin the first stages of the road map out of lockdown and the UK vaccination rollout programme is in full swing.\n\n\"We hope that PCS will consider this impact when deciding how it wishes to proceed.\n\n\"Cases of Covid-19 among DVLA staff remain low, and currently there are just five positive cases, including those working from home, out of a workforce of more than 6,000.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary in Westminster has urged the UK government to \"sort out this mess\".\n\n\"It is shameful that staff are having to strike because of Tory ministers' failure to keep them safe from Covid in a government building,\" said Jim McMahon.\n\n\"The transport secretary has failed to explain why he ignored warnings about this, and how a government agency appears to have become the site of the largest workplace outbreak of the virus.\n\n\"He must act immediately to sort out this mess of his own creation.\"", "Scotland had the weakest figures for new buyer inquiries of any nation or region in the UK\n\nThe market for homes has slowed further with lockdown, and more in Scotland than other parts of the UK.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is reporting that interest from potential buyers was down in February.\n\nThe number of properties being put on the market was also down, for the fourth consecutive month.\n\nRICS expects the easing of Covid restrictions in coming months to bring more activity back.\n\nUnlike last spring, the housing market has remained open in Scotland during lockdown in 2021, but with distancing restrictions.\n\nScotland had the weakest figures for new buyer inquiries of any nation or region in the UK.\n\nThe only region that was weaker for selling instructions was Yorkshire, and the only part of the UK with weaker price growth was London.\n\nIn the monthly RICS report, comments from agents noted some pockets of activity.\n\nIn rural Scotland - from Elgin, Fraserburgh, the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway - agents noted strong demand for properties. With slow supply, they said home sales can be quick.\n\nPhiddy Robertson of the Galbraith Group in Inverness, said: \"The market is starved of good quality property.\n\n\"Buyers are paying significant premiums to secure attractive coastal property and we are seeing more interest than ever from southern buyers looking for second homes.\"\n\nOne Edinburgh agent said fewer people are making inquiries about properties\n\nIn Edinburgh and Glasgow, surveyors found the market more patchy, noting that more flats are coming on the market as private landlords sell.\n\nIn the housing rental market, Scotland had the biggest drop in property availability of any part of the UK.\n\nJohn Brown, a rental agent in Edinburgh, commented: \"The market is fragmented, with fewer enquiries and longer void periods between tenancies.\n\n\"It's clear landlords are looking to reduce portfolios. More legislation, and Energy Performance Certificate standards being enforced, add to costs.\n\n\"Students are registering for next year but trying to be uncommitted - that's the Covid effect\".\n\nIn Dumfries at the Savills agency, Carolyn Davies said renters are looking for demand for rural properties \"but broadband speeds now need to be established prior to letting\".", "Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish were among the early winners\n\nBeyoncé has picked up her 25th and 26th Grammy Awards, as \"music's biggest night\" kicks off in Los Angeles.\n\nThe star won best music video for Brown Skin Girl and best rap performance for her duet with Megan Thee Stallion, Savage (Remix).\n\nBillie Eilish, who dominated last year's awards, also won a prize for her Bond theme, No Time To Die.\n\nLady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me became the first female duet to win best the best pop duo category.\n\nThe stars beat Korean pop group BTS in to the prize. The seven-piece boyband had hoped to be the first K-Pop act to win a Grammy with their hit single, Dynamite.\n\nThe awards were announced online ahead of the main Grammys ceremony on Sunday night, which is expected to be a hybrid of live and pre-taped performances.\n\nHost Trevor Noah said the show would be different to the usual event, where music's biggest stars congregate at Los Angeles' Staples Center, but promised a night of spectacular entertainment.\n\n\"They have figured out how to make an awards show for the time as opposed to trying to crowbar an awards show into it,\" he said last week.\n\n\"It's not Zoom, it's not pandemic-y... The bands are sort of going to be performing for each other.\"\n\nBeyoncé had the most nominations going into the ceremony - with nine in total. If she wins two more, she will overtake bluegrass singer Alison Krauss as the most-awarded woman in Grammy history.\n\nBeyonce's Grammy success added to an already record-breaking career\n\nTaylor Swift and Dua Lipa both have six nominations each, alongside rapper Roddy Ricch.\n\nBritish star Harry Styles will open the ceremony, with other performances due from BTS, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Chris Martin of Coldplay.\n\nThe early pre-ceremony raced through dozens of genre categories - from world music to rap and bluegrass - as well as some of the more esoteric awards, like best packaging (which went to rock supergroup The Desert Sessions for their album Vols 11 & 12).\n\nMegan Thee Stallion's win in the best rap category could make her a strong contender for song of the year\n\nKanye West took the Grammy for his gospel album Jesus is King, while John Prine won two posthumous awards for his song I Love Life.\n\nThe star, who died last April of Covid-19, was honoured with best American roots performance and American roots song.\n\nLondon-born musician Jacob Collier made Grammy history by becoming the first British artist ever to win a prize for each of his first four albums.\n\nThe 26-year-old, who is also up for album of the year at the main ceremony, won the best arrangement for his track He Won't Hold You.\n\nNigeria's Burna Boy won the best global music album for Twice As Tall album; while his fellow countryman Wizkid shared the award for best music video with Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy.\n\nIn the rock categories, The Strokes picked up best album for The New Abnormal; and Fiona Apple's Fetch The Bolt Cutters took home best alternative album.\n\nThe award show is taking place against the backdrop of controversy surrounding its voting procedures.\n\nCanadian superstar The Weeknd said he will boycott the awards in future due to what he described as the \"secret committees\" that vote for the winners.\n\nHe was a surprise snub at this year's ceremony despite having one of 2020's biggest-selling albums.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hundreds of people had gathered on Clapham Common in south London to remember Sarah Everard, whose body was found in woodland in Kent earlier this week.\n\nOfficers branded the gathering as \"unsafe\", and urged people to go home. A number of people were removed.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has appeared in court in Iran, a week after her ankle tag was removed having served five years in prison, her lawyer said.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker was ordered to appear on charges of propaganda against the regime.\n\nThe judge told her to expect a verdict within seven working days, according to the Free Nazanin campaign.\n\nHer husband Richard said the British embassy in Tehran had declined to accompany his wife to Sunday's trial.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed in 2016 for allegedly working against the Iranian government, which she has always denied.\n\nAccording to her lawyer, she was accused in Sunday's hearing of participating in a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in London 12 years ago and giving an interview to the BBC Persian service, said BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley.\n\nHer lawyer said the atmosphere in court had been calm and he hoped she would be acquitted because she has already served five years on a more serious charge.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab called it \"unacceptable and unjustifiable\" that Iran has chosen to continue with the second \"wholly arbitrary\" case, saying the Iranian government has \"deliberately put her through a cruel and inhumane ordeal\".\n\nHe added: \"Nazanin must be allowed to return to her family in the UK without further delay. We continue to do all we can to support her.\"\n\nThere is a good reason why Richard Ratcliffe describes his wife as a \"pawn\" in a game of chess, a bargaining chip. And she's not alone.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - together with several other dual nationals from a range of countries - is caught up in the middle of some complicated geopolitics.\n\nThe backdrop to her case is the West's difficult relationship with Iran, and a growing emphasis by Iran on \"hostage diplomacy\".\n\nThe charity worker was told explicitly that her imprisonment was linked to a £400m debt owed by Britain for an arms deal to Iran that was done before she was even born.\n\nIn the days of the Shah, Iran had bought tanks from Britain but, after the 1979 Revolution, they were not delivered.\n\nThe UK and Iran have been haggling in court over interest on the debt for years. And when UK PM Boris Johnson spoke by phone to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week to demand Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, the Iranian president apparently complained that no \"practical progress\" had been made by the UK to repay the debt.\n\nWhatever happens in the courts, the message from Iran seems to be, if not loud, at least pretty clear.\n\nMuch less clear is when her ordeal will be over.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, Labour's Tulip Siddiq, said she was \"deeply concerned about the possible outcome\" and said the anxiety of waiting for a verdict will \"just add to her ongoing mental torture\".\n\nShe also criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not being \"capable of ensuring that British officials attended her court hearing to ensure a fair trial\".\n\nMs Siddiq said: \"Now is the time to bring Nazanin home to the UK, and our government has a responsibility to pull every possible lever to make that happen.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family fear the court case could be used to block her return to the UK because the Iranian government wants to keep her for diplomatic leverage.\n\nMr Johnson has called for her \"immediate release\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Ratcliffe said his wife had been due to report to court at 09:00 Iranian time (05:30 GMT), but did not know when her trial would be heard, what it would entail or how long it would be.\n\nShe was expected to appear in the Revolutionary Court, in front of the same judge who conducted her earlier hearings.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Ratcliffe said that neither he nor his wife had any idea what to expect. \"It's like trying to read tea leaves,\" he said.\n\n\"The charges are irrelevant. This is not a real court process. This is not a fair trial - it's an act of abuse.\n\n\"Nazanin is now pretty stressed. She is extremely twitchy, restless and agitated.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe with his daughter Gabriella during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London\n\nMr Ratcliffe had hoped the British ambassador would accompany his wife to the trial, but said the British embassy in Tehran had declined.\n\n\"I am disappointed that the embassy has declined to accompany Nazanin to the Revolutionary Court,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"To my mind, it is a missed opportunity to protect her, a missed opportunity to stand up for her as British, and it is not the first. I hope that timidity is not a choice that we come to regret.\"\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it had formally requested access to the hearing.\n\nAmnesty International UK said it was disappointed UK officials did not attend Sunday's hearing \"to show Nazanin the kind of support she needs and is entitled to\".\n\nDirector Kate Allen added: \"One trumped-up case against Nazanin was bad enough - a second one is an act of cruelty.\"\n\nThe case comes after a charity warned in a medical report sent to the UK government that the 43-year-old was suffering from major depression and PTSD and was in need of urgent treatment.\n\nThe report, commissioned by the human rights charity Redress, said she was interrogated for hours, often blindfolded, while in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence.\n\nBefore her ankle tag was recently removed, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been under house arrest in Tehran since being released from jail last March due to the coronavirus crisis.", "UK experts say there will be a big increase in the number of people being offered Covid vaccinations in the coming days.\n\nThe number of shots given is expected to top 4 million this week, nearly double what has been achieved per week recently, NHS sources say.\n\nIt should mean all over 50s will have been given at least one dose by the end of the month.\n\nThat would put the NHS rollout two weeks ahead of schedule.\n\nThe increase has been made possible by a large shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute in India, which has arrived and passed safety checks.\n\nSo far more than 24 million people have already received a first dose of Covid vaccine in the UK.\n\nVaccination teams are now working their way through the priority list of people in their 50s and younger adults with disability.\n\nOnce this are completed it will mean all nine of the priority groups in the first phase of the programme will have received a dose.\n\nThere are just over 30 million people in these groups, which also include frontline health workers.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said the vaccination programme was proving to be \"tremendously successful\".\n\n\"Those first nine priority groups included 99% of all hospitalisations and deaths, certainly in wave one of the pandemic, so we're feeling very optimistic.\n\n\"We're seeing a very sharp reduction in the deaths and hospitalisations throughout the country.\"\n\nThe UK reported 5,089 new cases of Covid on Monday, with a further 64 new deaths within 28 days of positive coronavirus test.", "Ministers and senior officials have criticised Boris Johnson's decisions ahead of the \"inevtiable\" second wave\n\nCabinet ministers and senior officials have told the BBC the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the early autumn to tackle the \"inevitable\" second wave of coronavirus.\n\nIn the run up to the anniversary of the lockdown, BBC News has spoken off the record to more than 20 senior politicians, officials and former officials about the key moments of the last 12 months.\n\nThe investigation revealed significant frustration in government about Boris Johnson's unwillingness to tighten restrictions in September, as cases again began to rise.\n\nOne senior minister said the government \"should have locked down more severely in the autumn\", while another said it had been \"totally ridiculous\" to be arguing about whether people should return to the office when there was inevitably going to be a second wave.\n\nAnd one senior figure told us: \"The biggest mistake was the rush of blood of to the head in the summer… there was a sense of denial about the second wave.\"\n\nOne former official added: \"We kept repeating the same mistakes over and over again, despite the masses of evidence that kept coming up.\n\n\"We lost an awful lot of time, and that led to more cases and more deaths.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock defended the decisions taken, saying the government had \"listened to all the evidence all the way through\".\n\nBut, he added: \"You have to balance all the different considerations. It's only at the prime minister's desk that all these different considerations come together.\n\n\"I'm responsible for the health aspects and then the huge economic response the chancellor is responsible for.\"\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg puts the accusations to Health Secretary Matt Hancock\n\nWe can also reveal that Boris Johnson had been briefed by officials ahead of a press conference on 3 March 2020 - right at the start of the pandemic - to discourage people from shaking hands with each other.\n\nInstead, when he took to the lectern, the PM boasted he \"shook hands with everybody\" during a hospital visit.\n\nA spokesman for No 10 said: \"The prime minister was very clear at the time he was taking a number of precautionary steps, including frequently washing his hands.\n\n\"Once the social distancing advice changed, the prime minister's approach changed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson told reporters in March 2020 he 'shook hands with everybody'\n\nIt's also understood the moment Mr Johnson realised the gravity of the situation was at a small meeting of No 10 staff on 14 March 2020.\n\nData experts told the prime minister that the government's forecasts of how the disease was spreading were wrong, and without an acceleration of the plans to control the pandemic, the NHS would be overwhelmed.\n\nHe was also warned that restrictions could be needed for as long as 18 months.\n\nA special BBC News podcast, presented by Laura Kuenssberg, looking back at the past 12 months of the Covid crisis in the UK can be heard here.\n• None NHS waits at record high as second wave hits care", "The owner of a dog food firm brokered personal protective equipment deals worth £258m between the government and a Hong Kong firm, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nLondon-based Zoe Ley is likely to have been paid at last £1m by the firm for her work in securing the deals last spring when the UK was short of PPE.\n\nMs Ley says she was approached by the UK's Covid taskforce when it was \"seeking urgent assistance\" to get PPE.\n\nMs Ley has a background in finance and banking.\n\nWhen the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, rising global demand for PPE - including orders for gowns, gloves and face masks - led to shortages and a scramble for supplies for NHS workers.\n\nBecause of this, the UK government began awarding PPE contracts under emergency terms in which deals were handed to companies based on price and quality but without direct competition.\n\nThis has led to concerns over a lack of clarity about why particular suppliers were chosen and accusations that a so-called high-priority lane favoured firms with political connections.\n\nMs Ley's company, Life Partners, was set up in May 2020 to \"supply Covid-related products\" and helped broker two deals, worth £258m, between Hong Kong firm Worldlink Resources and the UK government.\n\nMs Ley, a former investment banker, also owns an organic dog food company called The Rockster. It is endorsed on its website by Prince Michael of Kent and actress Liz Hurley.\n\nIn an effort to establish Ms Ley's role in the PPE deals, an industry insider helping the BBC's Panorama, called Worldlink posing as someone trying to buy PPE.\n\nHe was told Ms Ley's involvement was crucial - her company was described as \"a bridge\" to the UK government.\n\nThe insider was also told she was paid 30% - likely a seven-figure sum - of Worldlink's profits on the deals. But Ms Ley's lawyers would not tell the BBC how much commission she earned.\n\nThe lawyers added that Worldlink paid Ms Ley less than 30%, saying Worldlink's own margins were at the lower end of the scale.\n\nZoe Ley runs a company making organic dog food that retails at about £5 a tin\n\nMiddlemen and women are a common feature of PPE deals. Manufacturers in China often use local brokers who then reach out to people in other countries to help them sell to customers. This can add to the overall cost of the products.\n\nThe contract for one of the Worldlink deals - a £178m agreement to buy protective goggles for health workers - was only made public last week, after Panorama contacted the government. It blamed an \"admin error\" for having not published the deal earlier.\n\nThe contract for one of the Worldlink deals was one of 100 Covid-related contracts that remained unpublished when Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs last month they were \"on the record for everyone to see\".\n\nAlso last month, a judge ruled that Health Secretary Matt Hancock had acted unlawfully by not publishing Covid contracts in the required timeframe.\n\nThe ruling came amid concern over how contracts were being awarded. Deals that have prompted questions include major PPE contracts awarded to a Tory councillor last year and a £30m deal given to a firm owned by a man who used to run a pub near Matt Hancock's old constituency home. That case is being investigated by the UK's medical regulator.\n\nIn November last year, a Spanish businessman who acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff in the coronavirus pandemic was paid $28m (£21m) in UK taxpayer cash.\n\nThe government has also been accused of favouring firms with political connections with a \"high-priority lane\" - in reality an email inbox available to ministers, civil servants or MPs and peers from any party.\n\nThe idea of the inbox was to help the government choose between the huge numbers of offers it was getting.\n\nA report from the National Audit Office found that up to the end of July 2020, about one in 10 suppliers who had been put in the high-priority lane were then awarded contracts. The figure was less than one in 100 for other suppliers, outside the lane.\n\nThe government says all leads were subject to the same eight-stage procurement process and the inbox helped identify credible offers more quickly.\n\nAlmost all the companies that won contracts via the preference lane remain unidentified.\n\nThe government has refused to say whether the deals Ms Ley brokered were placed in the so-called high priority lane.\n\nIt said it has no contracts with Life Partners Limited or Zoe Ley, adding the 90 million goggles and nine million gowns supplied by Worldlink were made available to NHS workers.\n\n\"We've been consistently clear that work was taking place at a time when global demand was greater than ever before and rapid action was required, so we had to work at an unprecedented pace to get supplies to the frontline,\" a government statement said.\n\n\"Stringent checks were in place on all contracts to guarantee quality, value for money and due diligence.\"\n\nWatch Panorama's Cashing in on Covid on BBC One at 19:35 GMT on Monday, 15 March, or later on the BBC iPlayer (UK only).", "More than half of France’s entire population – 35 million people, a record – watched President Macron on the evening of 16 March last year, telling them what most suspected was coming: that from noon the next day they were to be confined to their homes.\n\nThe previous days had seen a growing sense of foreboding, as first schools were shut, then cinemas – then bars and restaurants.\n\nOn the morning of Tuesday the 17th there was a rush on the trains, as Parisians and other city-dwellers sought refuge with relatives in the country.\n\nAnd then the uncanny stillness descended.\n\nIt was to last not two weeks – as President Macron initially announced – but two months.\n\nA year on France has been through a second lockdown, and is now under a night-time curfew.\n\nThe number of daily new cases is around 25,000, and in some areas like Paris the number of Covid patients in critical beds is reaching saturation point.\n\nThe vaccination programme is slowly moving into gear, with five million people so far having received at least one jab: but President Macron’s promise to inoculate all those who wish to be inoculated by the end of the summer will require a very rapid increase in the pace.", "Boris Johnson has promised to help make the UK \"match-fit\" when he unveils his plan for modernising the armed forces and foreign policy.\n\nThe prime minister said there would be \"more investment\" in infrastructure and skills around the country.\n\nHe also announced that 500 Foreign Office jobs would be moving from London to East Kilbride.\n\nThe government publishes its Integrated Review of the UK's defence and foreign relations capabilities on Tuesday.\n\nBut a group of MPs has warned that \"general ineptitude\" over the last 20 years has undermined attempts to re-equip the Army.\n\nThe Integrated Review, first announced in 2019, will set out the UK's defence and foreign affairs priorities for the next decade or so, during which cyber warfare in particular is expected to become a greater threat.\n\nSome details are being pre-released, including the plan to move 500 jobs to the Foreign Office's East Kilbride hub - which follows news that the Cabinet Office will transfer at least 500 civil servants to nearby Glasgow by 2024.\n\nThe government has promised \"further commitments\" to \"strengthening the UK's core industrial base\" in the Integrated Review, including building ships in Scotland and armoured vehicles in Wales.\n\nThere will also be a focus on lithium mining in Cornwall and manufacturing satellites in Northern Ireland, it added.\n\nThe Integrated Review is billed as the most radical reassessment of Britain's place in the world since the end of the Cold War.\n\nBut the prime minister wants the new strategy to make a difference at home as well as abroad. He is promising new investment in domestic industries such as defence, science and technology.\n\nAnd, crucially, he argues that this will provide jobs across the United Kingdom.\n\nMinisters argue it's only by combining the resources of the union that the UK is able to respond to global challenges and project its influence abroad.\n\nThe test will be whether that argument is accepted by those calling for a fresh independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The foundation of our foreign policy is who we are as a country: our values, our strengths and - most importantly - our people.\n\n\"So I am determined to ensure we have a foreign policy that delivers for those people.\"\n\nHe added that the UK's \"international ambitions must start at home\", with investment in regional industry \"ensuring the UK is on the cutting-edge of innovation and creating an entire country that is match-fit for a more competitive world\".\n\nThe government has said \"further jobs\" will be created outside London by the establishment of the National Cyber Force HQ in the North of England.\n\nIt has also promised an increase in spending on defence of 2.6% above the rate of inflation between 2019/20 and 2020/21, with the overall figure expected to rise to £41.5bn during this time.\n\nFrom 2010 to 2017, annual defence spending fell by £6.6bn in real terms, but, since then, it has increased by £3bn in real terms.\n\nA report by the Commons Defence Committee, published on Sunday, warned that the Army was at \"serious risk\" of being outmatched by the UK's adversaries.\n\nIt described efforts to modernise its fleet of armoured fighting vehicles as \"woeful\" and criticised what it called \"bureaucratic procrastination\" and \"general ineptitude\" over the past two decades.\n\nIn a speech last month, Labour's shadow defence secretary, John Healey, said the Integrated Review should \"refocus our defence efforts on where the threats are\".\n\nHe added that unless it confirmed a reduction in potential dangers to the UK, it would be \"very hard to accept the case for reducing the strength of our full-time forces\".", "This Benin Bronze sold to a private collector for a record fee of £10m\n\nCountless historic artefacts were looted from around the world during the colonial era and taken to Europe but there is now a growing campaign to return them. Among the most famous are the Benin Bronzes seized from modern-day Nigeria. Barnaby Phillips finds out about one family's dilemma.\n\nOne morning in April 2016, a woman walked into Barclays Bank on London's exclusive Park Lane, to retrieve a mysterious object that had been locked in the vaults for 63 years.\n\nAttendants ushered her downstairs. Three men waited upstairs, perched anxiously on an uncomfortable sofa, watching customers go about their business.\n\nTwenty minutes later the woman appeared, carrying something covered in an old dishcloth. She unwrapped it, and everyone gasped.\n\nA youthful face cast in bronze or brass stared out at them. He had a beaded collar around his neck and a gourd on his head.\n\nThe men, an art dealer called Lance Entwistle and two experts from the auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, recognised it as an early Benin Bronze head, perhaps depicting an oba, or king, from the 16th Century.\n\nIt was in near-immaculate condition, with the dark grey patina of old bronze, much like a contemporary piece from the Italian Renaissance. They suspected it was worth millions of pounds. The bank staff quickly led them into a panelled room, where they placed the head on a table.\n\nThe woman who went down into the vaults is a daughter of an art dealer called Ernest Ohly, who died in 2008.\n\nI have chosen to call her Frieda and not reveal her married name to protect her privacy.\n\nErnest's father, William Ohly, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and was prominent in London's mid-century art scene.\n\nWilliam Ohly's exhibitions in the late 1940s attracted aesthetes and celebrities\n\nWilliam Ohly lived \"at the nexus of culture, society and artists\", says Entwistle.\n\nHis \"Primitive Art\" exhibitions attracted collectors, socialites, and artists such as Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.\n\nHe died in 1955. Ernest Ohly inherited his love of art, but was a more reserved character.\n\n\"A very, very difficult man to know. He didn't let anything out. You did not know what he was thinking,\" said Entwistle.\n\nErnest Ohly's death provoked a ripple of excitement at the lucrative top end of the ethnographic art world. He was rumoured to have an extensive collection. His statues from Polynesia and masks from West Africa were auctioned in 2011 and 2013. And that, dealers assumed, was that.\n\nBut his children knew otherwise. In old age, he had told them he had one more sculpture. It was in a Barclays safe box and not to be sold, he specified, unless there was another Holocaust.\n\nIn 2016 matters were taken out of the children's hands. Barclays on Park Lane was closing its safe boxes; it told customers to collect their belongings.\n\nI met Lance Entwistle in 2019, in his library lined with books on African sculpture. His website said his company has been \"leading tribal art dealers for over 40 years\".\n\n\"Tribal art\" is a term that Western museums now avoid, but is still common in the world of auctions and private sales.\n\nI was bowled over. It was beautiful, moving and its emergence from obscurity was so exciting\" Lance Entwistle\n\nArt dealer on the \"Ohly head\" sold to a collector for £10m\n\nEntwistle has rarely been to Africa, and never to Nigeria, but he's well connected. The British Museum, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York have all bought pieces from him.\n\nI asked him how he had felt when Frieda pulled the cloth away from the Benin Bronze head in the bank.\n\n\"I was bowled over,\" he said. \"It was beautiful, moving, and its emergence from obscurity was so exciting. I'm very used to being told about a Benin head, a Benin plaque, a Benin horse and rider. Generally I'm not excited because 99 times out of 100 they're fake, and often the remaining 1% has been stolen.\"\n\nProvenance is everything in Entwistle's world. This time, thanks to the Ernest Ohly connection, he was confident he was dealing with a bona fide piece.\n\nHe told Frieda the Benin Bronze head was significant and unusual, and convinced her to take it home in a taxi, to her terraced house in Tooting, south London.\n\nThe Benin Bronzes were brought to Europe in the spring of 1897, the loot of British soldiers and sailors who conquered the West African kingdom of Benin, in modern day Nigeria's Edo state.\n\nAlthough they are called Benin Bronzes, they are actually thousands of brass and bronze castings and ivory carvings. When some were displayed in the British Museum that autumn, they caused a sensation.\n\nAfricans, the British believed at the time, did not possess skills to produce pieces of such sophistication or beauty. Nor were they supposed to have much history.\n\nBut the bronzes - some portrayed Portuguese visitors in medieval armour - were evidently hundreds of years old.\n\nThey were our documents, our archives, the 'photographs' of our kings. When they were taken our history was exhumed\"\n\nBenin had been denigrated in British newspapers as a place of savagery, a \"City of Blood\". Now those newspapers described the Bronzes as \"surprising\", \"remarkable\" and admitted they were \"baffled\".\n\nSome of these bronzes are still owned by descendants of those who pillaged Benin, while others have passed from owner to owner.\n\nVictor Ehikhamenor, an artist from Edo state, told me the bronzes were not made only for aesthetic enjoyment.\n\n\"They were our documents, our archives, the 'photographs' of our kings. When they were taken our history was exhumed.\"\n\nBut as their value in the West has increased, they've also become prestige investments, held by the wealthy and reclusive.\n\nLondon auction sales tell the story. In 1953, Sotheby's sold a Benin Bronze head for £5,500. The price raised eyebrows; the previous record for a Benin head was £780.\n\nIn 1968 Christie's sold a Benin head for £21,000. (It had been discovered months earlier by a policeman who was pottering around his neighbour's greenhouse and noticed something interesting amidst the plants).\n\nIn the 1970s, \"Tribal Art\" prices soared, and Benin Bronzes led the way. And so it went on, all the way to 2007 when Sotheby's in New York sold a Benin head for $4.7m (£2.35m).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Find out how the ancient trade of Benin bronzes lives on\n\nEntwistle kept an eye on that 2007 sale. The buyer, whose identity was not publicly revealed, was one of his trusted clients.\n\nNine years later, presented by Frieda with the challenge of selling Ernest Ohly's head, Lance knew where to turn.\n\n\"It was the first client I offered it to, which is what you want, there was no need to shop around,\" he said.\n\nThere was only a minor haggle over price. The client, Entwistle insisted, was motivated by his love of African art.\n\n\"He will never sell, in my view.\" Whoever he is, wherever he is, he paid another world record fee.\n\nThe \"Ohly head\", as Entwistle calls it, was sold for £10m - a figure not previously disclosed.\n\nIf you envisaged the woman who sold the world's most expensive Benin Bronze, you might not come up with Frieda.\n\nWe met in the Tate Modern gallery, overlooking the Thames. She had travelled from Tooting by underground. She is a grandmother, with grey close-cropped hair and glasses. She used to work in children's nurseries, but is retired.\n\n\"My family is riddled with secrets,\" she said. \"My father refused to speak about his Jewish ancestry.\"\n\nShe did her own research on relatives who were killed in Nazi concentration camps. Ernest Ohly was haunted, \"paranoid\", says Frieda, by the prospect of another catastrophe engulfing the Jews.\n\nSix million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust - and, according to the Jewish Claims Conference, the Nazis seized an estimated 650,000 artworks and religious items from Jews and other victims.\n\nThe artworks produced in Benin City still seek to chronicle events - like this one depicting the slave trade\n\nErnest Ohly distrusted strangers and lived in a world of cash and secret objects. He kept a suitcase of £50 notes under the bed.\n\n\"Ernie the Dealer\" was the family nickname. The children grew up surrounded by art. But by the end he was tired of life.\n\nHis house was chaotic, his Persian rugs infested with moths. The family found the suitcase of banknotes but discovered they were no longer legal tender.\n\nErnest Ohly may have let things slide, but he had been a formidable collector.\n\n\"He and my grandfather never went to Africa or the South Pacific, but got their knowledge from being around objects,\" said Freida.\n\n\"There was a whole group of European dealers in London, in the 1940s through to the 1970s.\"\n\nThe British Empire was ending, and the deaths of its last administrators and soldiers brought rich pickings.\n\n\"I never understood why my father was so interested in reading obituary pages. The Telegraph, the Times, really studying them. If they were Foreign Office, armed forces, anything to do with Empire, he wrote to the widows.\"\n\nErnest Ohly listed his buys in ledger books. That's how Entwistle found what he was looking for: \"Benin Bronze head... Dec 51, £230\" from Glendining's - a London auctioneers where he also bought coins and stamps.\n\nErnest Ohly's ledger showed how much he paid for the Benin Bronze in 1951\n\nIn today's money, that is just over £7,000. In other words, a substantial purchase. But Ernest Ohly knew what he was doing. He had a steal. He put the head in the safe box in 1953, and it stayed there until 2016.\n\n\"It was like a lump of gold,\" said Frieda. The windfall was not quite as large as it might have been.\n\nErnest Ohly's affairs were a mess, and the taxman took a substantial amount. Still, Frieda says, she can sleep easy now. The Benin head bought care for her family, and property for her children.\n\nFrieda is married to a man of Caribbean descent - and her son is a journalist.\n\nA few years ago he wrote an article about how the Edo - the people of the Benin Kingdom - tried to stop the sale at Sotheby's of a Benin ivory mask.\n\nIn fact, although he did not know this, it was a mask that his great-grandfather, William Ohly, displayed at his gallery in 1947.\n\nThe article described Edo outrage that the family who owned the mask - relatives of a British official who looted it in 1897 - should profit from what they regarded as theft and a war crime.\n\nFrieda is too intelligent and sensitive not to appreciate the layers of irony behind her story. She had followed the arguments about whether the Benin Bronzes should be returned to Nigeria.\n\nBritain has laws to enable the return of art looted by the Nazis, but there is no similar legislation to cover its own colonial period.\n\n\"Part of me will always feel guilty for not giving it to the Nigerians… It's a murky past, tied up with colonialism and exploitation.\"\n\n\"But that's in the past, lots of governments aren't stable and things have been destroyed. I'm afraid I took the decision to sell. I stand by it. I wanted my family to be secure.\"\n\nFrieda is not the only owner of Benin Bronzes who has wrestled with their conscience in recent years.\n\nMark Walker, a doctor from Wales, returned two Bronzes which had been taken by his grandfather, an officer on the 1897 expedition.\n\nMark Walker (R) was feted in 2014 when he returned an oro bird and a bell to call ancestors stolen by his grandfather\n\nHe received a hero's welcome in Benin City.\n\nOthers are hesitant. In an imposing west London mansion block I met an elderly woman whose grandfather also looted Bronzes in 1897.\n\nTen, or even five years ago, it would not have been difficult to get somebody in her position to talk. But today the owners of Benin Bronzes are cautious, and I agreed to hide this woman's identity.\n\nShe showed me two brass oro \"prophecy birds\". I asked if they made her feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"I've felt misgivings, considerations that crossed my mind… Maybe misgivings is too strong a word. I don't feel like giving them anything.\" There was a long silence.\n\n\"You know,\" she said, \"one bumbles along for 77 years, and suddenly this has become a sensitive subject. It never was before.\"\n\nFrieda and I left the Tate and were walking along the Thames.\n\nI was about to say goodbye. Unprompted, she returned to the Benin Bronzes.\n\nSometimes, she said, she wished her father had sold that head when he was still alive.\n\nA dilemma would have been taken out of her hands.\n\n\"It was difficult for me,\" she said again. \"Part of me felt we should have given it back.\" Then she was gone.\n\nBarnaby Phillips is a former BBC Nigeria correspondent. His book Loot; Britain and the Benin Bronzes will be published on 1 April.", "Blockbuster movie Avatar has retaken the highest-grossing film of all time spot thanks to its re-release in China.\n\nThe sci-fi epic debuted in 2009 and held the global box office title for a decade until it was overtaken by Marvel's Avengers: Endgame in 2019.\n\nFollowing its re-release in the world's biggest movie-watching market of China worldwide total sales pushed it above the $2.8bn (£2bn) mark on the weekend.\n\nChina has been the top-performing film market since pandemic lockdowns.\n\nDirector James Cameron's Avatar took in around $4m on Friday alone which pushed it ahead of Endgame, according to distributor Walt Disney.\n\nDisney owns both films after the company bought entertainment assets from Fox in 2019. It also owns the Titanic movie, which is third on the list of highest-grossing movies.\n\nWhen Endgame passed Avatar in 2019, Mr Cameron tweeted a picture of Avenger's Iron Man on the fictional Avatar universe of Pandora along with a congratulatory note.\n\nHe is currently working on four sequels to Avatar. The next film, which has been delayed several times, is currently scheduled for release in December 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the three friends hoping to 'kick Disney's ass'\n\n\"We are proud to reach this great milestone, but Jim (James Cameron) and I are most thrilled that the film is back in theatres during these unprecedented times, and we want to thank our Chinese fans for their support,\" said Avatar producer Jon Landau.\n\nChinese movie theatres have been open for several months now since pandemic-led shutdowns, and local movies have also been enjoying some of their strongest box-office sales ever.\n\nAhead of its re-release in China, Avatar grossed around $760m in the US and just over $2bn internationally.\n\nEarlier this month, Disney's premiered its first South East Asian heroine movie in cinemas\n\nRaya and the Last Dragon sees her travel around the region to reunite its people and attempt to save the world in the process.", "The governor of the Bank of England has come under new criticism for failing to declare a potential conflict of interest in a scandal that saw thousands of bank customers mistreated.\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was accused of benefitting as it left some of its customers in financial ruin.\n\nNow, it is reported that Andrew Bailey did not reveal his role in the scandal.\n\nThat is despite being asked about it when he was appointed to his previous job as head of the city watchdog.\n\nThe Bank of England said there was no interest to declare.\n\nRBS, now called Natwest, was accused of putting its own interests ahead of its clients when it moved 16,000 small business customers to its Global Restructuring Group (GRG).\n\nMore than 90% of those customers suffered some form of mistreatment and many were financially ruined between 2009 and 2013.\n\nInternal emails later emerged highlighting abusive attitudes to small business customers, including one in which a banker wrote: \"Rope: sometimes you need to let customers hang themselves.\"\n\nA government body, the Asset Protection Agency, was accused of driving the scandal after it pressured the bank to withdraw loans from business customers and obtain their assets.\n\nSome of those customers lost not only their livelihoods but also their marriages, which took a heavy toll on their physical and mental health.\n\nMr Bailey was asked about the GRG scandal in 2016 when he appeared before a Treasury Select committee to vet him for conflicts of interest before he was made chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nNow, The Times reports in that, and in other more recent hearings, Mr Bailey failed to mention his role helping the Treasury design the body that oversaw the troubled division of RBS.\n\nAccording to court testimony given by the former boss of the scandal-hit division, the Asset Protection Agency pressured the bank to withdraw loans from business customers and obtain their assets.\n\nThe agency, a division of the Treasury, had close oversight of GRG, signing off key decisions and pressuring staff to withdraw loans from customers rather than maintain support.\n\nThe former boss of the RBS division, Derek Sach, has previously testified that the Asset Protection Agency had no interest in customers and would have preferred the bank to \"flog\" businesses rather than support them.\n\nAnd in October 2016, BBC Newsnight and Buzzfeed revealed a cache of internal documents showing GRG was seeking to benefit financially by withdrawing support from business customers.\n\nKevin Hollinrake, co-chairman of the all party parliamentary group on fair business banking, told The Times Bailey \"must explain\" why there was no disclosure of the potential conflict of interest.\n\n\"On Andrew Bailey's watch, the FCA repeatedly avoided the opportunities to publish key evidence about the GRG scandal and failed to hold anyone to account,\" he said.\n\n\"That Bailey failed to declare his interest and involvement in the agency when it featured in the FCA report as a potential cause of the scandal or to [MPs] when questioned about it is extremely disturbing.\"\n\nIn 2013, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was ordered to investigate the scandal and it commissioned two firms of consultants, Promontory and Mazars, who reported back three years later ,although their findings were not disclosed.\n\nThe contents of the report only became public when the BBC obtained a copy of the document, which showed that over 90% of GRG customers had suffered mistreatment. Mr Bailey still refused to publish the report and instead launched a hunt for the leaker.\n\nIn 2018, after taking the second phase of the investigation in-house, the FCA decided not to take any enforcement action.\n\nThe Bank of England said Mr Bailey was not a decision maker in respect of that decision.\n\nMr Bailey's role in designing the agency that oversaw GRG will add to pressure on the governor after he was named in a report by an Appeal Court judge who criticised the FCA's handling of the £238m London Capital and Finance scandal, where thousands of retail investors lost large sums.", "Rescuer Stephen Gill said he had to get the girl out of the water because she was getting \"tired\"\n\nA man who ended up falling in the sea trying to pull a girl aged 10 to safety says he \"acted on instinct\".\n\nStephen Gill, 52, was walking with his wife on Redcar beach on Saturday when they spotted a girl in the water and realised she was screaming for help.\n\nHe and another man threw a rope to the child and fell into the water before managing to pull themselves and the girl to safety.\n\nCleveland Police said those who tried to help the girl were \"heroes\".\n\nMr Gill said the 10-year-old and her friend aged 11 had spotted big waves and went to look.\n\nThey both got washed into the water from a ramp, however the 11-year-old managed to pull herself out.\n\nMr Gill, an accountant, said: \"It was windy and a high tide and we saw water going over the barrier and thought 'that's cool we'll go have a look'.\n\n\"We saw a young girl swimming in the ocean and thought that was unusual, then we realised she was floundering and screaming for help. She was being washed against some steps by the power of the waves.\n\n\"I found a rope and jumped over the barrier and threw it to the girl.\"\n\nMr Gill said lots of people tried to help and some builders brought him a hot chocolate after the rescue\n\nHe said that the girl grabbed the rope, but he could not pull her out because she was a \"dead weight.\"\n\nBy this stage another man was trying to help and they both ended up getting pulled into the water.\n\nMr Gill said: \"I was holding on to the guy and he was holding on to the girl and we managed to pull ourselves out on to the steps.\n\n\"It was total instinct, there was no thinking about it, it was all adrenaline.\n\n\"I'm just so pleased she's okay.\n\n\"My wife is so proud and called me a hero - that feels weird.\"\n\nPolice said the girls suffered bruising and were cold from being in the water, but were otherwise unharmed by their ordeal.\n\nThey were checked over by paramedics but did not need hospital treatment and were left with their parents.\n\nPC Stewart Shepherd of the Cleveland force said: \"There's no doubt their quick-thinking meant a far less serious outcome and I would describe these men as heroes.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Men 'risked their lives' to rescue girls from sea\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An investigation into the Met Police's handling of a vigil held to remember Sarah Everard is under way.\n\nTwo of the women at the event spoke to BBC News about being handcuffed at the gathering, which had been cancelled by organisers due to pressure from police.\n\nPolice minister Kit Malthouse said the footage was \"very hard to watch\" but that the objective was to \"protect people's health\".\n\nBoris Johnson has said he was \"deeply concerned\" by footage showing police officers detaining women at Saturday's vigil.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters used umbrellas to shield themselves from water cannon\n\nPolice in the Netherlands have used water cannon to clear anti-government demonstrators from a park in The Hague.\n\nSome 2,000 demonstrators rallied in the centre of the city to protest against Covid-19 restrictions and other government policies.\n\nMounted officers as well as riot police with batons and dogs moved in after some of the protesters refused to leave at the end of the demonstration.\n\nThe protests come a day before voting begins in a general election.\n\nThe vote is taking place over three days to avoid congestion that would risk spreading coronavirus at polling stations.\n\nThe authorities had set a limit of 200 people for the protest at the Malieveld area near the city's central station and not far the Dutch parliament, but police said that number had been exceeded.\n\nTrain services to the city were halted for a while to prevent more people from joining the demonstration.\n\nPolice have arrested several people, according to local media.\n\nProtesters are opposed to the government's anti-Covid measures\n\nOne video, widely shared on social media, appeared to show officers hitting a man on the ground with their truncheons. Police said he had attacked them with a stick, says the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague.\n\nDutch police later said a warning shot had been fired as officers cleared away the demonstrators. A statement said the incident was being investigated.\n\n\"There might be a virus, but the shutdown of the total society is not proportional,\" protester Michel Koot, 68, told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I see that a lot of our rights are easily taken away and the majority of the people don't even notice, but there's a lot going on. So I'm concerned for my grandchildren.\"\n\nA night-time curfew - from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 - imposed in January led to rioting in several Dutch cities. The Netherlands had not seen a curfew since the Nazi occupation in World War Two. It is expected to remain in place till the end of March.\n\nBars and restaurants remain closed, along with non-essential shops. Gatherings of more than two people are banned.\n\nThe Netherlands has had more than 1.1 million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 16,000 deaths, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University in the US.", "There have been more than 500 new infections over the past week\n\nCoronavirus cases on the Isle of Man have risen by another 44 with 16 people in hospital, the most the island's health service has treated during the recent surge.\n\nAdmissions at Noble's Hospital reached a peak of 22 in late April last year during island's first wave of Covid-19.\n\nCurrent infections stand at 818, a rise of more than 500 over the past week.\n\nThe island recorded its first Covid-19 death in more than four months on Friday, taking the death toll to 26.\n\nThe Isle of Man began a third lockdown on 3 March after a surge in unexplained cases.\n\nSome 1,278 infections have now been recorded since the start of the pandemic.\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.", "Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has defended himself after a former appeal court judge criticised evidence he gave to MPs over a scandal in which thousands lost their life savings.\n\nMr Bailey is the former boss of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nHe has been criticised by Dame Elizabeth Gloster for his role at the FCA in regulating London Capital & Finance, which collapsed in 2019.\n\nMr Bailey said responsibility and culpability were not the same thing.\n\nBefore becoming governor, Andrew Bailey was chief executive of the FCA, which was criticised in a report by Dame Elizabeth for failing to supervise and regulate LCF.\n\nHer report named Mr Bailey as responsible for that failure and said he had made legal representations to prevent responsibility for the FCA's failings being attributed to him by name.\n\nBefore the Treasury committee of MPs last month, Mr Bailey said he was \"angry\" and \"disturbed\" by her criticisms, adding it was \"not correct\" to say he did not want his name mentioned in the context of personal responsibility and that his apology for the failure had been misrepresented.\n\nThat prompted Dame Elizabeth to write to the committee releasing extracts of representations from Mr Bailey's legal team, revealing that they had asked for him not to be named on a number of different grounds.\n\nMore than 11,000 savers lost money in investing £238m in LCF, which went bust in 2019.\n\nHe replied: \"I never said that I was not responsible for everything that went on at the FCA. That was my role as CEO.\n\n\"The particular issue… was that the first draft of the report introduced responsibility and culpability together in an inseparable way and they're not the same thing.\"\n\nSeparately, Mr Bailey has come under new criticism following a report that he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest in a scandal that saw thousands of bank customers mistreated.\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was accused of benefiting as it left some of its customers in financial ruin.\n\nNow it is reported that Mr Bailey did not reveal his role in the scandal.\n\nThe Bank of England said there was no interest to declare.\n\nDuring the same BBC Today interview, Mr Bailey said he was \"not out of firepower\" in defending the UK economy as it recovers from the pandemic.\n\nHe said he was looking at \"new tools\" to deal with the UK's biggest economic shock in 300 years.\n\nThese could include negative interest rates, but \"that's not a view on whether we will use them or not\".\n\n\"The economy will actually get back at the end of this year to where it was at the end of 2019,\" he said.\n\nHowever, that was \"not much more than getting back to where we were pre-Covid\".\n\nMr Bailey said the Bank expected inflation to start rising towards its 2% target in \"the next two or three months\".\n\nBut he added that the Bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee would need to see \"a lot more evidence\" that the inflationary trend was sustainable before acting, given the \"huge uncertainty\" over the economic effects of Covid.\n\n\"We are not out of tools, we are not out of firepower,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\nAlthough he did not commit one way or the other on the use of negative interest rates, he said it was \"appropriate to have that tool in the box\".\n\nThe Bank governor's comments follow months of public speculation about the possibility of negative rates, with several former and current Bank policymakers weighing in with their views.\n\nAt the same time, other commentators have been warning that the economy could overheat as the end of lockdown unleashes pent-up consumer demand, with a surge in inflation as a result.\n\nMr Bailey said he had seen \"no evidence\" to support fears that inflation could hit 4% or 5% as the recovery gathered pace.\n\nHe said the UK's vaccination campaign had been \"a great achievement\" and he was now \"more positive\" about the recovery, but he wanted to add \"a large dose of caution\".\n\nMr Bailey warned that new variants of the virus could still pose a risk to the recovery.\n\nHe also said the economic effects of the pandemic had been \"very unequal\".\n\n\"Covid has affected the low-paid more. There are more women in that section of the labour force,\" he said.\n\nEthnic minorities were also disproportionately affected, he added.\n\nBut he said it was \"very helpful\" that the furlough scheme was now projected to extend beyond the lifting of Covid restrictions, which should \"help to smooth that transition\".", "Sarah Everard went missing from Clapham on 3 March\n\nA probationary Met officer involved in the search for Sarah Everard has been removed from duties for allegedly sharing an \"inappropriate graphic\".\n\nThe force said a graphic was shared via social media on Friday and was reported by a number of officers \"who were concerned by its content\".\n\nThe PC has been placed in a non-public facing role and a referral has been made to the police watchdog.\n\nThe Met said it expected officers \"to behave professionally at all times\".\n\nThe constable had been deployed as a cordon officer supporting the search operation in Kent, but they have been \"placed in a non-public facing role while inquiries continue\".\n\n\"Given the context of the officer's duties at the time, a voluntary referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in relation to this matter,\" the force said.\n\nThe probationary officer had been deployed to Kent as part of the search operation for Sarah Everard\n\nThe Met added that the graphic did not \"contain photographic images, no images of Sarah, nor any other material obtained from or related to the investigation into Sarah's murder\", but her family had been made aware of what had happened.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said the force \"expects its officers to behave professionally at all times and this includes how they use social media.\n\n\"I take allegations that any officer or officers have failed to observe these standards very seriously and have referred this matter to the IOPC,\" he added.\n\nThe force has faced criticism for the way it handled a vigil for 33-year-old Ms Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nHer body was later found in woodland in Kent and Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nThe IOPC confirmed it would be \"investigating the conduct of a probationary police constable\" and said it had also started a separate investigation looking at how Mr Couzens had sustained two head injuries while in custody last week.\n\nIn a statement the police watchdog said it had so far \"completed assessments into four further matters linked to the tragic death of Sarah Everard\".\n\nHowever, the IOPC said it would not be investigating the actions of officers at the Clapham Common vigil, as called for by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, as \"this type of investigation is not within our remit\".\n\n\"We have discussed this further with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service (HMICFRS) to consider how concerns might be included in work being undertaken by HMICFRS,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alan Rusbridger was the editor of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015\n\nThe former editor of The Guardian newspaper has resigned from a commission set up to examine the future of the media in Ireland.\n\nAlan Rusbridger had faced calls to be removed after it emerged that his former media editor, Roy Greenslade, was supportive of the IRA.\n\nMáiría Cahill, who told the BBC in 2014 she was raped by an IRA member, had called for the taoiseach (Irish PM) to consider his position on the panel.\n\nThe government decided he should stay.\n\nThat decision was backed unanimously by fellow members of the Future of Media Commission earlier this week.\n\nHowever, on Sunday, Mr Rusbridger said that he stepped down to avoid his involvement being a \"distraction\" to the \"critical\" work of the commission.\n\nHe said he had been pleased to be invited and the \"unanimous support\" of his colleagues had been important to him.\n\nOn Sunday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Media Minister Catherine Martin acknowledged the decision and thanked him for his \"significant contribution to date\".\n\nThe Guardian apologised to Máiría Cahill over an article written about her by Mr Greenslade. earlier this month.\n\nMáiría Cahill described Mr Greenslade's article about her in The Guardian as \"vile\"\n\nAfter a BBC Spotlight programme on her allegations in 2014, Mr Greenslade wrote a column in The Guardian which said that Spotlight \"were too willing to accept Cahill's story and did not point to countervailing evidence\".\n\nMr Greenslade wrote: \"This lack of balance resulted in the Cahill story being accepted at face value across Ireland, where [Gerry] Adams and his party were forced on to the back foot as they tried to defend and explain the IRA's actions.\"\n\nMs Cahill received an apology from the PSNI in 2018 after a report found she had been failed by them over her claim.\n\nRoy Greenslade is a former editor of the Daily Mirror and was a media commentator for The Guardian\n\nMr Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror, wrote in the British Journalism Review at the end of February that he backed the IRA's armed campaign while he was working as a journalist during the Troubles.\n\nHe also said he had made contributions to the republican newspaper An Phoblacht during the Troubles under the pseudonym George King.\n\nMs Cahill then complained to The Guardian that its 2014 article by Mr Greenslade was a \"propaganda piece against a rape victim\".\n\nThe Guardian confirmed on Friday evening that its current editor-in-chief, who was not in the role at the time the article was published, had sent a private apology on its behalf to Ms Cahill.\n\nKatharine Viner, who took up her post in 2015, acknowledged that the column \"was not handled appropriately\".\n\nThe Guardian has begun a review into articles about NI written by the ex-Daily Mirror editor and The Guardian commentator, after the complaint by Ms Cahill.\n\nA note has been added to the 2014 piece which reads: \"The lack of disclosure was especially unfair to a vulnerable individual, and The Guardian has now apologised to Ms Cahill.\"\n\nWriting in The Guardian, Mr Rusbridger also apologised to Ms Cahill.\n\nHe wrote: \"Given what he has now shared, I believe he should have avoided those topics - or, at the very least, have been consistent in letting readers know more about where he was coming from - especially as The Guardian's own guidelines have long been explicit about declaring interests.\n\n\"In particular, Greenslade had criticised transparency in a 2014 piece about a BBC programme on Mairia Cahill's claim of rape by an alleged IRA member. Given his own lack of transparency, that was, at best, hypocritical.\n\n\"The piece spectacularly fails on transparency grounds. Had Greenslade been open with me back in 2014, I would have been able to come to a different judgement about it overall.\n\n\"So I am sincerely sorry to Máiría Cahill, both for the article and for the upset it must have caused her.\"", "Nurseries and childminders are being warned of the threat of cyber-attacks, in guidance from the government's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).\n\nIt is the first time that the agency - part of the GCHQ intelligence service - has given guidance to a sector caring for such young children.\n\nIt includes warnings to use password protection for information for parents.\n\n\"We know that incidents affecting the education sector are increasingly common,\" said Sarah Lyons at the NCSC.\n\nThe cyber-agency says pre-school providers and childminders are \"increasingly relying on technology to operate\" and have become an \"appealing target\" for cyber-attacks.\n\nCyber-criminals could be seeking personal information about children or families, and to target the payments process for parents, warns the NCSC.\n\nThe early years cyber-security advice warns about malicious software, so-called \"malware\", and the need to protect personal information and data.\n\n\"Cyber-criminals will go after anybody, provided there's money to be made,\" says the NCSC's advice.\n\nThe cyber-security agency calls for a more secure approach to sharing information, including newsletters for parents.\n\n\"You should password protect newsletters so only families who have been given the password can open them,\" says the guidance.\n\nThe NCSC says many scam emails are \"preying on fears of Covid-19\" and warns nurseries and child minders to watch out for fake messages trying to obtain information with false claims, including:\n\nThere are also warnings about protecting computer devices, including smartphones, and to guard against scam phone calls and text messages.\n\nEducation at all age groups has become a significant target for cyber-attacks.\n\nA big multi-site further education college, the South and City College Birmingham, has been forced to close by a \"major ransomware attack\" - with the college telling students to stay home this week.\n\nUniversities faced a wave of cyber-attacks last autumn, targeting research and data and causing disruption to computer systems.\n\nThe NCSC is now widening its advice to the early years sector.\n\nSarah Lyons, deputy director for economy and society engagement at the NCSC, said across educational settings it was \"vital that all providers know how to secure their devices and sensitive data\".\n\nBut she said many people in early years \"work on their own, without dedicated IT support\".\n\n\"This guidance sets out the practical first steps they can take to protect themselves from cyber-incidents.\"\n\n\"Like most professions, the early years sector is increasingly reliant on technology, and this new guidance will support them with protecting sensitive data,\" said Vicky Ford, children and families minister.\n\n\"It is paramount that early years settings have robust cyber-security in place to help them communicate with children, families and staff delivering early education and childcare provision safely,\" she said.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nOfficers investigating the death of Sarah Everard have cordoned off an area in the town of Sandwich in Kent.\n\nThe 33-year-old marketing executive disappeared as she walked home in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in Kent woodland.\n\nServing Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with her murder and kidnap.\n\nPolice cordoned off a section of The Rope Walk, near the centre of Sandwich, on Sunday evening.\n\nScotland Yard said police had routinely been searching areas of London and Kent as part of the investigation.\n\nOn Sunday, Sandwich Town Council said it was in contact with Kent Police on behalf of Scotland Yard.\n\nEarlier, the mayor of Sandwich estimated that about one square mile of the town had been taped off.\n\nOfficers from the Metropolitan Police have set up a tent and equipment inside the cordon\n\nThe search site is near the centre of Sandwich\n\nPolice officers are continuing to search along Delf stream and The Rope Walk with metre-long wooden sticks.\n\nOfficers are also searching a trolley shelter at a Co-op supermarket.\n\nThe cordoned-off area contains a secluded path near a stream and homes.\n\nAt the edge of the cordon, a few officers gathered for discussion as one showed colleagues a piece of gold jewellery that was then put in an evidence bag.\n\nDivers have been searching a stretch of water in Sandwich, Kent\n\nResidents have been asked not to gather at the scene.\n\nMs Everard was reported missing by her boyfriend on 4 March.\n\nShe had visited a friend in the Clapham Junction area on 3 March and left at about 21:00 GMT to make what was roughly a 2.5-mile (4km) journey home.\n\nShe called her boyfriend for about 15 minutes and was seen alone on CCTV at 21:15 and again on a camera at 21:28.\n\nPeople have continued to gather at Clapham Common to lay flowers in memory of Ms Everard\n\nHer body, which was found inside a builder's bag in woodland in Ashford on 10 March, was identified through the use of dental records.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place but no cause of death has been released.\n\nAn inquest into the death of Ms Everard is likely to be opened later this week, Kent County Council has said.", "Two of the biggest names in hospitality have threatened to take the government to court over its plans to release England from lockdown.\n\nPunch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond and Greater Manchester's night time economy adviser, Sacha Lord, said the industry is losing £200m a day.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, they said there is no \"evidence or justification\" to open shops five weeks before pubs and restaurants.\n\nThey said it is \"plainly irrational\".\n\nThe government has insisted the lockdown easing must be cautious if it is to be irreversible, adding that it will driven by data and not dates.\n\nUnder current plans, non-essential retail will be able to open from 12 April if new coronavirus infections are kept under control. Outdoor hospitality, such as beer gardens, will also be allowed to reopen then.\n\nBut pubs and restaurants will not be allowed to welcome customers through their doors to sit inside until at least 17 May.\n\nThe industry has long argued that pubs re-opening last July had a negligible effect on infections, which only began to rise after schools reopened. And the Chancellor recently defended his own Eat out to Help out scheme, arguing that it protected jobs.\n\nThe two men have asked the government to seek specific advice from scientists \"whether it is justifiable to prevent the hospitality industry opening whilst, at the same time, allowing non-essential shops to open\".\n\nThey argued that \"transmission is plainly higher in non-essential shops,\" and said they would pursue legal action if the government did not provide evidence to the contrary.\n\n\"This legal case will give a fighting chance to over three million people who work in hospitality, to the tens of thousands of businesses, suppliers, landlords and contractors - large and small - forced into bankruptcy, and to millions of our loyal customers who have been deprived of the human social interaction they experience in our premises,\" Mr Osmond said.\n\nHe added that the extended lockdown for hospitality venues could have a \"potentially indirectly discriminatory effect\" on young people and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds working in the sector.\n\n\"I believe we can show that discrimination and unsubstantiated beliefs, rather than facts, science and evidence, lie at the heart of much of the government's approach to hospitality, and these wrongs need to be righted.\"", "A powerful hallucinogenic drug known for its part in shamanic rituals is being trialled as a potential cure for depression for the first time.\n\nParticipants will be given the drug DMT, followed by talking therapy.\n\nIt is hoped this could offer an alternative for the significant number of people who don't respond to conventional pills for depression.\n\nPsychedelic-assisted therapy might offer longer-term relief from symptoms, some researchers believe.\n\nA growing body of evidence indicates other psychedelic drugs, particularly alongside talking therapy, are safe and can be effective for treating a range of mental illnesses.\n\nThis will be the first time DMT is given to people with moderate to severe depression in a clinical trial.\n\nDr Carol Routledge, the chief scientific officer of Small Pharma, the company running the trial said: \"We believe the impact will be almost immediate, and longer lasting than conventional antidepressants.\"\n\nThe drug is known as the \"spirit molecule\" because of the way it alters the human consciousness and produces hallucinations that have been likened to a near-death experience.\n\nIt is also the active ingredient in ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian plant medicine used to bring spiritual enlightenment.\n\nResearchers believe the drug might help loosen the brain's fixed pathways, which can then be \"reset\" with talking therapy afterwards.\n\nDr Routledge likened the drug to \"shaking a snow globe\" - throwing entrenched negative thought patterns up in the air which the therapy allows to be resettled into a more functional form.\n\nBut this hypothesis still needs to be proven.\n\nThe team is consulting Imperial College London, which runs the pioneering Centre for Psychedelic Research.\n\nAs part of the study, they hope to investigate whether the drug can be administered as a one-off or as part of a course.\n\nSubjects will be followed up for at least six months to see how long the effects of the treatment last.\n\nMeanwhile, a ketamine-assisted therapy clinic is set to open in Bristol next week.\n\nWhile the drug is already used for depression in clinics like the ketamine treatment service in Oxford, it is not accompanied by psychotherapy.\n\nRather, it is used to provide temporary relief from symptoms for people who have very serious, treatment-resistant depression.\n\nSo-far unpublished researched presented at a conference by professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Exeter, Celia Morgan, suggests ketamine accompanied by therapy has much longer-lasting effects.\n\nProf Morgan said there was mounting evidence that drugs, including psilocybin, LSD, ketamine and MDMA (Ecstasy), were safe and could play a role in the treatment of mental health disorders.\n\nAnd there was some early evidence they could have longer-term effects than the medicines conventionally prescribed as antidepressants, known as SSRIs, but more research was needed.\n\nThey also worked using a completely different mechanism, Prof Morgan explained.\n\nWhile conventional drugs may numb negative feelings, \"these drugs seem to allow you to approach difficult experiences in your life, sit with that distress and process them,\" she said.\n\n\"It might be getting at something more fundamental\" that was the root cause of the problem, Prof Morgan said.\n\n\"Through that we think you can get much more long-lasting change.\"\n\nProf Michael Bloomfield, a consultant psychiatrist at University College London, said although it was a \"really exciting\" area of research, caution was needed in overpromising the drugs' potential.\n\nIt was also a field of therapy that could be open to abuse and misuse, he said.\n\nProf Morgan also stressed the importance the drugs being used within the context of therapy as there were concerns that \"people might think they can give it a go with some recreational drugs\".\n\n\"But it's really not how it works\" she said.", "Chocolate maker Thorntons has said none of its stores will reopen after coronavirus lockdowns are lifted.\n\nThe decision to close its 61 shops will put more than 600 jobs at risk.\n\nThe company said it had been badly hit by the pandemic, which forced its stores to shut their doors during the crucial Christmas and Easter holidays.\n\n\"The obstacles we have faced and will continue to face on the High Street are too severe,\" said Thorntons retail director Adam Goddard.\n\n\"Despite our best efforts we have taken the difficult decision to permanently close our retail store estate.\"\n\nThorntons has been on the High Street for more than a century but these days history isn't enough to guarantee survival.\n\nIt was losing its way in the early 2000s with newer players, like Hotel Chocolat, entering the scene. It also embarked on a strategy of selling more chocolates through supermarkets and closing unprofitable shops.\n\nItalian food giant Ferrero bought the business in 2015 and has been trying to turn it around ever since. Over the last five years, it's shrunk from 252 to 61 stores.\n\nBut Ferrero has now thrown in the towel on Thorntons stores altogether, betting that the brand's future is now online and on the supermarket shelves.\n\nThis pandemic has created brutal trading conditions for so many traditional retailers. And the high street shakeout is still far from over.\n\nThorntons said it had spent £45m transforming the business with changes to the way stores operate and the introduction of new cafes but its plans had been thrown off course by the pandemic.\n\nThe company, which was founded in Sheffield in 1911, said it would continue to sell its chocolate online and try to sell more through supermarkets.\n\nSince the beginning of the crisis, sales through its website have increased by more than 70% compared to the previous year, it said.\n\nIt will also try to expand the range of products made at its factory in Alfreton, Derbyshire and increase international sales.\n\nIn 2011, Thorntons announced plans to massively reduce the number of stores it had on the High Street and in shopping centres.\n\nIt said it would close up to 180 of the 364 stores it had at the time, following a strategic review.\n\nSince then, the number of stores has dwindled to 61.\n\nIn 2015, Italian food giant Ferrero bought the chocolate chain for £112m.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We remain committed to this iconic British brand and will continue to invest further in the future potential of Thorntons to ensure we evolve with the times.\"\n\nThorntons is just the latest well-known name to suffer the impact that rolling lockdowns have had on the High Street as more people take to shopping online.\n\nMore than 17,500 chain stores and other venues closed in Great Britain last year, according to figures from the Local Data Company. That is an average rate of 48 closures a day.\n\nLast week, department store chain John Lewis announced plans to close more stores. Other casualties have included PSir Philip Green's retail empire, Arcadia, which included Topshop and Dorothy Perkins.\n\nAre you a Thorntons employee? 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. Footage shows how the gang chased the 17-year-old after ambushing him in the streets of Barry.\n\nThree men and a teenager have been found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old boy at a shipping container yard in a row over a drugs gang's territory.\n\nHarry Baker, from Cardiff, was stabbed nine times at Barry Docks in the Vale of Glamorgan in August 2019.\n\nLeon Clifford, 23, Leon Symons, 23, Peter McCarthy, 37, all from Barry, and a 17-year-old boy were found guilty of murder.\n\nThe other three defendants were found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nRaymond Thompson, 48, Ryan Palmer, 34 and Lewis Evans, 62, also all from Barry, were convicted of manslaughter by the jury.\n\nThe investigating officer called it a \"brutal, calculated and senseless attack\" after the men were found guilty.\n\nDuring the trial at Newport Crown Court, the jury was told how the gang had been determined \"that Harry Baker should die, or at the very least suffer really serious harm\" after straying into their drugs patch.\n\nHe was ambushed in a street, before being chased for a mile, by the gang armed with weapons.\n\nHarry Baker's body was found at a compound in Barry Docks in August 2019\n\nThe jury heard how he had taken refuge in the compound when the gang caught up with him, and stabbed him repeatedly before leaving him to die in the yard.\n\nFootage showed some of the defendants climbing the fence, which left \"three of the five, all armed\" in the compound, prosecutor Paul Lewis told the trial.\n\nJurors were then shown footage of four of the defendants leaving the yard on 28 August, while Mr Baker was \"lying dying\" inside.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Deryk James, who conducted a post-mortem examination, told the court Harry lost nearly two litres of blood after he was stabbed.\n\nHe told the court Harry had stabs and slashes to the face, head, neck, stomach and legs and the knifings were forceful enough to penetrate his brain.\n\nClifford had admitted manslaughter before the trial started.\n\nSenior investigating officer, Det Ch Insp Andy Miles of South Wales Police described the killing as \"a brutal, senseless and calculated attack, which tragically cost a young boy his life\".\n\nHe added: \"Despite being from a loving family and wanting for nothing, Harry became involved in a dangerous lifestyle - a lifestyle in which more value is placed upon drugs and money than on human life.\n\n\"Harry did not deserve the punishment meted out to him that night and his violent death has had a devastating impact on the family and friends he leaves behind.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with them as they now wait to find out the sentences Harry's killers will receive, and begin to contemplate rebuilding their lives without him.\"\n\nAll seven will be sentenced on 29 March.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Left-right: Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan and Riz Ahmed are all nominated\n\nSacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya and Sir Anthony Hopkins are among the British stars nominated for this year's Oscars.\n\nVanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman and Riz Ahmed are among the other UK nominees.\n\nIt's also the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nAnd two women were nominated for best director - the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards' 93-year history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Film critic Clarisse Loughrey shares her thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations\n\nChloe Zhao is nominated for directing Nomadland, and Britain's Emerald Fennell is recognised for Promising Young Woman.\n\nOther nominated stars include Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman.\n\nMank, the black-and-white drama starring Oldman as Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz, leads the overall field with 10 nominations.\n\nThis year's winners will be announced on 25 April at a delayed ceremony that will take place at both the Dolby Theatre, the ceremony's normal home, and Los Angeles' main railway hub, Union Station.\n\nOlivia Colman and Sir Anthony Hopkins are both nominated for The Father\n\nDaniel Kaluuya is nominated for playing Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah\n\nThe eight British acting nominees range from Ahmed, who receives his first Oscar nomination for playing a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal, to Sir Anthony, whose performance as a man who loses his grip on reality in The Father earns him his sixth nomination.\n\nAt 83, he is the oldest person ever to be nominated for best actor. Sir Anthony and Ahmed are joined on the award's five-strong shortlist by Oldman, who won the trophy three years ago for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.\n\nColman will hope to repeat her 2019 success with The Favourite after being nominated this year for her role in The Father.\n\nCarey Mulligan is nominated for Promising Young Woman despite being shut out by this year's Baftas. The revenge thriller also earns Fennell - best known for her acting in Call the Midwife and The Crown - nominations for best picture and best original screenplay as well as best director.\n\nKirby, who also made her name on The Crown, is nominated for playing a traumatised mother in Pieces of a Woman, while Kaluuya and Baron Cohen are up for best supporting actor for Judas and the Black Messiah and The Trial of the Chicago 7 respectively.\n\nOther British nominees include singer Celeste for best song, for her contribution to The Trial of the Chicago 7; and Aardman's A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, which is up for best animated film.\n\nSteven Yeun (left) and Yuh-Jung Youn (second left) are up for acting awards for Minari\n\nSix black actors and actresses are nominated, equalling the record set in 2017. This year, Kaluuya, Boseman and Davis are joined by US stars Andra Day, LaKeith Stanfield and Leslie Odom Jr - who is also up for best original song.\n\nDavis is shortlisted for playing a 1920s blues singer in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - the fourth nomination of her career, making her the most-nominated black actress ever.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Riz Ahmed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAhmed is the first actor of Pakistani descent to get an Oscar nomination and the first Muslim to be up for best actor; and Yuh-Jung Youn is the first South Korean actress to get an Oscar nod.\n\n\"Never in my dreams did I ever think a Korean actress would be nominated for an Oscar, and I can't believe it's me!\" she said. She will be joined at the ceremony by Steven Yeun, her Korean-American co-star in Minari, who is nominated for best actor.\n\nMinari is also up for the Academy Awards' top prize, best picture, which is given to a film's producers. Its rivals for that award include Judas and the Black Messiah, which is the first best picture nominee to have an all-black line-up of producers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Viola Davis, who stars in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, says Chadwick Boseman was an 'artist'\n\nBoseman is nominated alongside Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - his final role before he died of cancer at the age of 43 last year.\n\nThe much-loved star, who is also known for his role in Black Panther, is the favourite to be given the best actor award.\n\nIf he does, he will be only the second posthumous best actor winner after Peter Finch for Network in 1976.\n\nOnly five women had been nominated for best director before, and only one has won - Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.\n\nThis year, two of the five contenders are female, with Chinese-born, US-based Zhao the hot favourite for her story of a woman, played by Frances McDormand, who lives a nomadic life in a van.\n\nZhao is up for a total of four awards this year - best picture, best adapted screenplay and best editing, as well as best director. If she wins them all, she will equal a record set by Walt Disney, who is the only person to have won four Oscars in the same night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Emerald Fennell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFennell is the first British woman to be up for best director. Some predicted a third female best director nominee this year, with Regina King tipped for One Night in Miami. She won an Oscar for her acting for If Beale Street Could Talk in 2019, but will not get a directing award to go with it this year.\n\nOverall, a record 76 nominations went to women this year, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the awards.\n\nThe 73-year-old has her eighth Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed, prosthetic-nosed grandmother in Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy.\n\n\"I dedicate this honour to all the grandmothers in the world who fight to give their children a better life,\" she said.\n\nHer previous nominations have come for films like The World According to Garp, Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons. She has never won. So could this finally be her year?\n\nProbably not - the favourites for best supporting actress are Yuh-Jung Youn and Maria Bakalova, the Bulgarian newcomer who is rewarded for playing Borat's daughter in Baron-Cohen's comedy sequel.\n\nPlus, Hillbilly Elegy was panned by many critics, and Close now has the dubious honour of being only the third person to be up for an Oscar and a Razzie (for the worst films of the year) for the same performance.\n\nMank, about the making of Citizen Kane, may have the most Oscar nominations with 10, but it is highly unlikely to win best picture.\n\nCrucially, it failed to land a screenwriting nomination. In the past 55 years, the only films to have been named best picture without one are The Sound of Music and Titanic - a musical and a film that relied on spectacle rather than script.\n\nIt has also missed out in best editing, a category in which, since 1981, every best picture winner has been nominated - apart from Birdman, which gave the appearance of not having been edited.\n\nMank's omission in these categories suggests it is a film the Academy admires, rather than loves.\n\nIt would appear to be destined for the same fate as the film it is about, which nominated for best picture at the 1941 Oscars, but lost out to How Green Was My Valley.\n\nI have the favourite as Nomadland, which has already been a winner at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards. However, it has one thing going against it - the Academy almost never rewards female-fronted films. Last year, 68% of Oscar voters were men and of the last 15 best picture winners, only one (The Shape of Water) even managed a best actress nomination.", "Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were all aboard the Nicola Faith went it went missing\n\nA private search for a fishing boat that disappeared with three men aboard more than six weeks ago is to start this week.\n\nThe Nicola Faith failed to return to port at Conwy on 27 January.\n\nA search for Ross Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, was called off after two days.\n\nOcean recovery expert David Mearns, who found wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala, is helping their families with technical advice.\n\nThe Nicola Faith's empty life raft was found on 5 March off the coast of Scotland\n\nMr Mearns said: \"I'm still confident that the boat can be found, though the search is largely dependent on the weather.\n\n\"With the type of sonar we use, the quality of the results is related to how calm the weather is. The tides are strong in the next few days in combination with the wind.\"\n\nMore than £52,000 of a £75,000 target has been raised by the men's families - enough to fund a specialist boat, team and equipment to begin searching.\n\nA life raft from the boat was found off Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland by HM Coastguard and has been positively identified by the Marine Accident Investigation branch (MAIB).\n\nAn investigation, run by the MAIB, is taking place and has included sonar surveys. The families are hoping their private searches will bring additional expertise to the investigation .\n\nMr Minard's mother Nathania, said: \"We are so grateful for all the support and generosity of the community.\n\n\"There has been so much activity around the fundraiser which in itself brings comfort and strength to the families.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who has supported, donated, wished us hope and has helped us spread the word.\"\n\nDavid Mearns found the plane that was carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala\n\nMuch of the money to pay for the searches has been raised in one-off donations through a fundraising website.\n\nSupporters have also been running raffles, ultra marathons and doing sponsored head shaves.\n\nThe families have also received support from comedian and writer Michael Palin, who said: \"The families are trying to raise funds to continue the search.\n\n\"I completely understand them not wanting to give up if there is any chance at all of recovering the sunken ship and the men who went down in her, and I hope there will be others like myself who can make a contribution.\"", "A woman who was at the vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham Common on Saturday says she was shocked by the clashes with police.\n\nGeorgina, 27, who lives locally, says: \"It was disappointing, shocking, really, because it was something so solemn and so lovely.\n\n\"There were even pockets of people kind of praying or taking a moment's silence - and then all of a sudden it just seemed like mayhem broke out.\"\n\nThe turning point in police tactics appears to have been the start of speeches from the bandstand, at about 18:00 GMT.\n\nPeople pressed forwards to hear and soon afterwards, officers tried to break up that part of the gathering and remove people they believed were contributing to the crowding.\n• What went wrong at the Clapham vigil?\n\nGeorgina says she accepts police officers are \"just doing their job\" but that the problem therefore needs solving \"from the top\"\n\n\"It needs to be systematic change,\" she says.\n\nGeorgina adds that on the evening of the vigil, she was \"shocked\" to see a man indecently exposing himself in the Clapham area. She has since given a police statement about the incident but says the officers she flagged it to at the time \"did nothing on the night to investigate\".\n\nYou can read more about her experiences here.", "The government has defended its plan for noise limits on protests in England and Wales, saying it will affect only \"very disruptive\" gatherings.\n\nMPs will debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - which would apply existing rules for marches to \"static\" gatherings - on Monday.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins said she \"absolutely\" supported the \"right to peaceful protest\".\n\nBut Labour called the bill \"poorly thought out\" and \"a mess\".\n\nThe party will order its MPs to vote against the legislation, which also includes stronger police powers to break up \"unauthorised encampments\" and \"longer\" sentences for people convicted of serious crimes.\n\nThe bill's first detailed discussion in Parliament comes after four people were arrested during a vigil on London's Clapham Common on Saturday to mourn the killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police have been accused of being too aggressive in their handling of demonstrators, but the force said it had acted to protect people's safety and prevent possible coronavirus infections.\n\nThe controversy is likely to provoke extra interest when MPs begin their debate on the legislation, which the government says will allow police to \"impose conditions such as start and finish times and maximum noise levels on static protests\" of whatever size.\n\nThis is intended to prevent \"intimidation or harassment\" or \"serious unease, alarm or distress\" to bystanders, it adds.\n\nAsked on BBC's Andrew Marr Show whether the bill would inhibit personal freedom, Ms Atkins replied: \"I want to draw a very firm distinction between the peaceful vigil that [Saturday's] was and was intended to be and some of the very, very disruptive protests that we've seen in the last few years.\"\n\nThese had involved people blocking a hospital entrance and \"gluing themselves to buildings and gates, and stopping members of the public going about their business\", she added.\n\nThere was a \"real distinction\" between activities which \"inhibit the lives of people\" and peaceful protest, Ms Atkins said.\n\nThe bill would update legislation put in place in 1986, which the minister described as a \"very, very different\" time.\n\n\"We absolutely support the right to peaceful protest,\" she added.\n\n\"Of course make your protest, but can we try to do it in a way that's slightly more balanced than the law will currently allow?\" Ms Atkins said.\n\nFor Labour, shadow justice secretary David Lammy said this was \"no time to be rushing through poorly thought out measures to impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest\".\n\nHe added that the government had \"brought forward a bill that is seeking to divide the country\".\n\nMr Lammy urged ministers to work with his party \"to legislate to tackle violence against women which is forcing so many across the country to live in fear\".\n\nOn Saturday, Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with Ms Everard's kidnap and murder. He was remanded in custody to appear again at the Old Bailey on 16 March.\n\nMs Everard disappeared when walking home to Brixton from Clapham in south London on 3 March.\n\nHer body was found in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you in the morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has warned against protests while Covid lockdown restrictions are in place, amid public anger over Sarah Everard's death. Speaking to MPs in the House of Commons, she said the case \"had rightly ignited anger\" and that she was committed to listening to women and girls, but urged people not to \"participate in large gatherings or protests\". She has started a review into policing of Saturday's vigil for Ms Everard - when police removed a number of women from the gathering on Clapham Common in south London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The home secretary speaks of the fear women have every day while walking home alone.\n\nMore European countries have decided to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, after a series of incidents in Europe involving blood clots. France, Italy and Germany are the latest to halt their rollouts, joining several smaller European nations. The World Health Organization (WHO) says there is no evidence that the incidents are caused by the vaccine, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson insists the UK continues \"to be very confident\" about its vaccine programme. It comes as a big increase in the number of people being offered Covid jabs in the UK is expected in the coming days, made possible by a large shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute in India. Our health correspondent Nick Triggle examines whether governments are being too cautious.\n\nCabinet ministers and senior officials have told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that Boris Johnson should have brought in tougher coronavirus restrictions in the early autumn to prevent more deaths. An investigation reveals significant frustration in government about the PM's unwillingness to tighten restrictions in September, as cases again began to rise. One senior figure says there was a \"sense of denial about the second wave\". Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the decisions taken, saying the government had \"listened to all the evidence all the way through\".\n\nPopular pandemic items such as hand sanitiser, loungewear and hand weights - for gym-goers stuck at home - are now being used to calculate the cost of living in the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has also added smartwatches and electric cars to the annual review. But white chocolate and sandwiches bought at work are out. The ONS says it decided to add men's loungewear bottoms and women's sweatshirts to the basket of more than 700 goods, which is used to calculate inflation, to reflect a move towards more casual clothing.\n\nThe 63rd Grammy Awards were unlike any other, as socially-distanced music stars sat in a big, anonymous marquee outside the LA Convention Center. But when they were each allowed to briefly de-mask and hit the stage, they made it a night remember. BBC music reporter Mark Savage says the ceremony reflected a year of solitude and protest. You can read his full review here. Or take a look at these five weird and wonderful moments from the night, including Harry Styles' feather boa and Dua Lipa's musical workout.\n\nTaylor Swift at the 2021 Grammys: Stuck indoors like the rest of us\n\nYou can check out the latest data on vaccinations and find out who is eligible now.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Alice says school will be a lot quieter until everyone returns\n\nMore pupils in Wales have been returning to the classroom for the first time since December, prompting feelings of nervousness and excitement.\n\nAll remaining primary school children, pupils in years 11 and 13 and many college students are starting back.\n\nThose in year 10 and above are \"strongly encouraged\" to take rapid Covid tests twice a week.\n\nSecondary school pupils must wear face coverings in class if social distancing is not possible.\n\nThe youngest children, aged three to seven, have been back since February.\n\nSchools had the flexibility to bring back pupils in years 10 and 12, while offering wellbeing check-in sessions to those in years 7, 8 and 9.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans for all secondary-aged pupils to be back full-time from 12 April.\n\nAlice, a Year 13 student at Monmouth Comprehensive School, said it was \"really exciting to be back\".\n\n\"It's good to have some normality back and see our friends before we leave school in May or June,\" she added.\n\n\"It's definitely good to be back because it's nice to see teachers again and have discussions in class as opposed to just online learning.\n\n\"But I think the process of online learning has been good in terms of resilience and independence which will probably help us all in university or jobs or next steps.\"\n\nHer head teacher Hugo Hutchison said it had been a \"huge effort over quite a considerable period of time\".\n\n\"The main change is the masks - masks are to be worn everywhere inside the school building,\" he added.\n\n\"We're really well prepared for the lateral flow testing that's going to be going on for staff and for students and we're giving out the first packs for students today so that they can go home and test themselves tonight.\"\n\nFinley says he is looking forward to returning to school after the \"massive culture shock\" of home learning\n\nFinley, a Year 11 student from Rhyl, Denbighshire, earlier said he was looking forward to going back after the \"massive culture shock\" of learning from home.\n\n\"On reflection it's shown how much I value school and how much of an important part of my life school is,\" he said.\n\n\"It will be great to be back in the classroom with my mates and with the teachers.\n\n\"The difference between sitting in front of a screen for six hours a day compared to sitting in a classroom for six hours a day is immeasurable.\n\n\"It's the most excited I've ever been to visit the building to be honest, but also I'm nervous in hoping that everything goes all right.\"\n\nFinley said he hoped fellow students would take up the offer of lateral flow tests.\n\n\"There'll definitely be some resistance because some people have never experienced anything like this,\" he said.\n\n\"At the end of the day though, if it's going to keep us all safe then it's necessary.\n\n\"I'm definitely going to take it up, if it's going to protect people that I know and my mates.\"\n\nAbi is studying for her A-levels this summer\n\nAbi, a sixth-former at Cardinal Newman Catholic School, near Pontypridd, said she had been looking forward to returning.\n\nShe said: \"It's not been great sitting at the computer all day every day. It's nice to get out, have a bit of a routine again. It's not been easy doing it at home.\n\n\"It will be nice to get back in the classroom and be able to ask questions constantly to the teacher and get that interaction back.\"\n\nTom is happy with what has been put in place to keep pupils safe\n\nAnother sixth-former Tom said his younger brother has been nervous about returning.\n\nBut he added: \"I think a lot of younger students will be but, ultimately, when they come here and realise how safe it is and the measures that are in place, I think he and others will cope just fine.\"\n\nDr Llinos Jones, head of Welsh medium comprehensive Ysgol Bro Myrddin in Carmarthen, said it had been exciting preparing for the return of the pupils.\n\n\"There has been daily communication between us as a school and the children to ensure that nothing worries them on their return,\" she said.\n\nShe said everyone had received their timetable for the next fortnight to give sufficient advance notice and the Covid-safe measures put in place before Christmas remained key.\n\nDr Jones said they were treading \"very carefully\" for the two weeks before the Easter holiday and were returning specific groups of pupils only.\n\n\"For the first two weeks there are no more than two years in the same day and then rising to three years by the end of the last week,\" she said.\n\nLaura Doel is disappointed the Welsh Government did not choose to prioritise vaccinating school staff\n\nShe added pupils from years 7, 8 and 9 would have one whole day at the school during this period.\n\nShe said she hoped the home Covid tests would give families more confidence.\n\nCommenting on the wider return to schools Laura Doel, director of NAHT Cymru, said the union wanted nothing more than schools to reopen for all children but only \"as long as the science supports that it is safe to do so\".\n\n\"The return must be sustainable to avoid further disruption to children's education, which means everyone continuing to adhere to the rules,\" she added.\n\nMs Doel also said the union remained disappointed the Welsh Government did not choose to prioritise vaccinating school staff.\n\nProtective measures put in place in schools - including the use of face masks - will be kept \"under review\", the education minister said.\n\nSpeaking during Monday's press briefing, Kirsty Williams said she acknowledged the measures could \"curtail that normal educational experience\" but added that \"as soon as the advice says that we can move away from some of them, then we will do so\".\n\nShe said the small numbers of Covid cases in schools over the last month since the youngest pupils returned were \"not a surprise\" and health officials were advising schools on how to handle any cases.", "It is a \"damning indictment\" that women feel unsafe to exercise alone outdoors, Wales' education minister has said.\n\nKirsty Williams said the safety concerns raised after the death of Sarah Everard \"tells you how far we have got to go as a society\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there needed to be a focus on women being and feeling safe.\n\nMs Everard disappeared while walking home in London last week. Her death has prompted a debate over women's safety.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Llinos Dafydd says the scenes at the vigil in London were very traumatic and triggering for survivors.\n\nA vigil on Saturday to remember the 33-year-old marketing executive has attracted criticism after footage showed officers detaining women, prompting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to say he was \"deeply concerned\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has dismissed calls to resign and defended the force's actions.\n\nWhen asked about clarity on gyms reopening, in light of safety concerns raised after Ms Everard's death, Ms Williams said women feeling unsafe exercising alone outdoors \"tells you how far we have got to go as a society\".\n\nBut she did not confirm when gyms may reopen in Wales.\n\nVigils were also held in Wales on Saturday night to mark Ms Everard's death - some were held online, others were attended in person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kirsty Williams says the new curriculum in Wales will help spark \"societal change\"\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's Covid briefing on Monday, Ms Williams said anyone watching events unfold at the London vigil would have been \"shocked by what they saw\".\n\n\"But can I say how grateful I am to women and men in Wales who, over this weekend, also carried out vigils to mark the death of Sarah, and the wider issues that that death makes us confront as a society, and the police that oversaw those gatherings in a really respectful way.\"\n\nPam French has spoken to her two sons, aged three and six, about women's safety\n\nPam French, an organiser of a vigil for Ms Everard at Hailey Park in Llandaff North, said she had spoken about women's safety with her two sons, aged three and six.\n\n\"Sometimes it's easier to talk to children about it because the response isn't defensive, it's usually, 'why are you upset and what can I do about it?'.\n\n\"We've just been talking to them about being kind, treating people equally and all of those really basic messages, but if we start them from that early on then hopefully, we can make a difference,\" she said.\n\nThe 43-year-old said issues raised in the past week \"just rips sticky plasters off a lot of stuff that I think a lot of us have held for many years\".\n\n\"For many of us, that brought home years of having to change our behaviour and modify our behaviour and being afraid,\" she added.\n\nPeople attended a vigil in Llandaff North in Cardiff on Saturday\n\nMs Everard went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nHer remains were later found in woodland in Kent and Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with her kidnap and murder.\n\nFollowing Ms Everard's death, several hotels in Cardiff have responded by offering help to anyone feeling unsafe.\n\nAbout 50 people attended the vigil in Llandaff North\n\nThe Angel Hotel urged women walking home who felt afraid to come to its reception.\n\nIt tweeted: \"In light of the devastating news regarding Sarah Everard this week, here at the Angel Hotel we would like to offer women and girls who feel intimidated, scared or at risk in Cardiff city centre a 'safe place'.\n\n\"Please come into our reception and a member of our team will help you call a taxi, friend or family member to ensure you get home safe.\"\n\nLater, the city's Indigo Hotel said it had been inspired by the Angel Hotel's offer and tweeted that staff would \"help you and ensure that you get home safely\".\n\nSophie Howe said there was \"still an issue of men not willing to challenge\" sexual harassment\n\nThe future generations commissioner said that misogyny \"should be an offence\" and \"something that the police should be taking seriously\".\n\nSophie Howe said she thought the only reason why it was not an offence was because of the \"scale of the problem\".\n\n\"Millions of women probably across the UK are experiencing this sort of thing everyday.\n\n\"So I think there is a reluctance around how you can possibly start policing this.\"\n\nHowever she said you have \"got to start somewhere, and it is down to what your priorities are\".\n\nShe added that men should be educated about calling out sexual harassment.\n\nMs Howe also said she had spoken to her four sons, aged nine to 21, about misogyny and harassment scenarios.\n\nShe said she had experienced sexually explicit remarks and \"many times\" whilst walking on the street, had been followed by men driving slowly next to her.\n\n\"Speaking to them over the weekend, I think there is still this issue of men not willing to challenge,\" she said.\n\nShe said she gave them one scenario in which they said the men involved were \"probably just having a laugh with friends\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Organisers said they cancelled a vigil originally planned at Clapham Common because police did not \"constructively engage\" with logistics\n\n\"I would like to think that my boys have been brought up to be feminists to be committed and interested in women's rights - even then that was the response I was getting,\" Ms Howe said.\n\n\"It might start out as a comment to make you laugh but… the more that society makes these things acceptable, the more that those people who are rapists, who are the sort of people who want to stalk, the more acceptable that becomes in their minds.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said that earlier this year \"women were contacting us saying they didn't safe being on their own on a dark January evening\", which prompted a change to Covid rules on exercise outdoors.\n\n\"Women need to be safe and there are practical things that can be done by public authorities, to try and assist that, but then it is feeling safe as well.\n\n\"In this instance, perception and reality both need to be addressed,\" he said.\n\nDeputy Minister Jane Hutt said that a \"deep change in society\" in needed to tackle violence against women.", "Johnny Sexton knocked over a late penalty as Ireland survived a surge from Scotland to eke out a hectic Six Nations victory at Murrayfield.\n\nA converted try from Hamish Watson brought the hosts level with five minutes remaining but Sexton held his nerve to kick the winning points.\n\nSoon after a Tadhg Beirne score, Ireland led 24-10 before Huw Jones began a comeback that fell just short.\n\nA sixth successive win over Scotland lifts Ireland up to second in the table, although they go into their final match at home to England with no chance of winning the championship.\n\nScotland, who opened with a historic win at Twickenham, are stuck in fifth place, having lost three in a row in Edinburgh for the first time since March 2015.\n\nGregor Townsend's side had four weeks to stew over a careless one-point loss to Wales after the postponement of their visit to Paris and made a sluggish start.\n\nIreland were on the front foot straight away, with powerful carrying from their forwards, and Sexton was soon clipping over a simple penalty.\n\nThe Scottish line-out malfunctioned horribly and the first of a staggering six losses from eight throws resulted in the opening try as Sexton hoisted a cross-field kick into scoring zone.\n\nStuart Hogg and Chris Harris both went up against Keith Earls with no one able to gather and the ball popped loose for Henshaw to pounce on.\n\nSexton's conversion attempt from a tight angle clipped the post - that would be the veteran fly-half's only miss.\n\nScotland reduced the deficit with a Russell penalty but struggled to find any momentum because of the haphazard nature of their set-piece.\n\nIf there was a touch of fortune about the game's opening try, the second was downright freakish.\n\nHogg charged down a kick then managed to hack the ball on twice, with the first attempt coming off his own chin. Russell won the race to reach it but his touch with the boot seemed too heavy.\n\nHowever, James Lowe, in his attempt to intercept only succeeded in patting the ball up in the air and it fell perfectly for Russell to gather and score before he added the extras.\n\nSomehow the hosts were in front, although not for long.\n\nIreland snaffled yet another dreadful line-out and quickly hammered it forward to earn a penalty, which Sexton knocked over with ease and, on the cusp of half-time, Sexton was at it again thanks to an offside gift from Ali Price.\n\nThe second half was nine minutes old when Beirne crashed through for Ireland's second try. Sexton slotted the conversion and was soon adding another penalty, with Scotland second best at the breakdown.\n\nThe hosts were down by 14 points and looking rather lost before an exceptional score from Jones hauled them back into the mix.\n\nSam Johnson ate up ground with purpose and the ball was worked wide on the right for the replacement centre to motor onto, with his power and pace taking him away from the grasping hands of four opponents.\n\nA glut of injuries meant a major reshuffle for the Scots but suddenly they were energised and battering away under the posts.\n\nDuhan van der Merwe was almost in and kept a cool head to keep the ball alive, with Watson burrowing over from close range.\n\nHogg crashed over the extras and it was a level game with just a few minutes on the clock.\n\nIreland must have been sick after surrendering such a commanding lead but they summoned one more venture forward and when Ryan Baird charged down Price's kick, the home scrum-half was penalised for holding on, allowing Sexton the final word.\n\nMuch of the pre-match narrative was of Russell snapping at the heels of Sexton for a British and Irish Lions place but the Irish captain was streets ahead, pinging over a tricky fifth penalty of the afternoon to seal victory.\n\nThe 35-year-old also set up the game's first try, spotting a yawning gap in behind the home defence.\n\nYes, Russell touched down, but it came from some bizarre pinball. The Scotland number 10 sent a wild penalty attempt wide in the first half and blazed a kick to touch in the corner miles out on the full when Scotland were in need of a lift early in the second half.\n\nHe was removed on 62 minutes after a bang on the head, which will likely rule him out against Italy next week, and Scotland actually looked more dynamic with Hogg taking over at fly-half.\n\n'Not my best strike'- reaction\n\nScotland captain Stuart Hogg: \"Ireland were outstanding for 80 minutes and fully deserved the win.\n\n\"The frustrating thing for us is giving them 24 points in the first place. Credit to Ireland, they took their opportunities but for the second week in a row we've been ill-disciplined, allowed them easy field position and kind of killed ourselves at times.\"\n\nIreland captain Johnny Sexton: \"I probably got a little bit lucky [with the winning kick] it was not my best strike - and it got there thankfully.\n\n\"We're just letting in soft tries, which is not acceptable at international level, and it is a little frustrating as we dominated the game. But, if we can finish second after a poor start to the Six Nations, we'll be happy.\"", "People aged 50 or over in Northern Ireland can now book their Covid-19 vaccine appointment, Health Minister Robin Swann has announced.\n\nThose who are eligible and wish to receive the vaccine can booking it online or be contacted by their GPs.\n\nBooking slots are available at the seven regional vaccination centres.\n\nThere was some frustration about the length of time some people were having to wait in the queue to book their slot on Monday.\n\nHowever, Mr Swann told the assembly that in the first three hours of the slots opening 30,000 people had booked vaccines.\n\nThe centres will primarily be using the AstraZeneca vaccine for first doses, to maximise available vaccine supplies.\n\nAnyone who received the Pfizer vaccine as a first dose will still receive the Pfizer vaccine for their second dose.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister told the assembly that the \"benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks\".\n\nIt comes after health officials in Northern Ireland said they would continue to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after its suspension in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe temporary suspension of the vaccine is already having an impact on the republic's immunisation programme.\n\nAbout 30,000 vaccination appointments for health staff and those at high-risk might be delayed, according to RTÉ.\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly described its move as \"precautionary\", after reports of serious blood clotting events in adults in Norway.\n\nAstraZeneca has said there is no evidence of a link between the vaccine and increased risk of clotting, while Northern Ireland's Department of Health has said it would continue to use the vaccine after receiving guidance from the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nThe latest figures show that across Northern Ireland 629,461 people have now received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 54,636 have received two.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health recorded a further 121 cases of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nOne additional death was reported, bringing the department's total number of deaths with Covid-19 to 2,099.\n\nFor a second day in a row, no additional deaths were reported in the Republic of Ireland, where there have a total of 4,534 Covid-19-related deaths.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's health department said there were 575 more confirmed cases, which brings that total to 227,316.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister said vaccination was a \"bridge to better, safer and more normal times for everyone\".\n\nChief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the more people are vaccinated then \"the more we are all protected\".\n\nHe received his first jab on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marie-Louise Connolly - Look Forward. #FightBack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Marie-Louise Connolly - Look Forward. #FightBack\n\n\"Vaccination alone will not provide 100% protection but it will change the balance in our favour against this virus.\n\n\"When your turn comes, don't delay, get the jab. Protect yourself and others,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster also urged those eligible to take up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) have been very clear that it is safe to take the AstraZeneca vaccine,\" said the DUP leader.\n\n\"I am looking forward to taking it, either this week or next week, depending on when I am able to get my vaccine booked for, but it is very important that people continue to take the vaccine.\"\n\nOn Monday, Dr Alan Stout, the chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) NI GP committee, said it was the large supply of AstraZeneca jab that allowed the vaccination programme to continue at the speed it is.\n\nHe advised people that it was safe to receive, and there was also a risk of blood clotting with things like long-haul air travel, the contraception pill, and some forms of surgery.\n\n\"These are world experts that we have in these regulators bodies and they are all saying the same thing, and they are all saying it is safe,\" he said.\n\nDr Stout said he was \"hopeful\" jabs would be offered to the over-40s age group by Easter, mirroring the situation reportedly happening elsewhere in the UK.\n\nWhile health officials in the Republic of Ireland are choosing to pause the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, in Northern Ireland they're accelerating the programme. So who should we trust?\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the vaccine is safe. That message has been reinforced by the British Medical Association.\n\nIt's hard to ignore that the MHRA has said that it has received a small number of reports of blood clots relating to the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut it does seem that health officials in the Republic are being excessively cautious - Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and the country's deputy chief medical officer have said as much themselves.\n\nRelations between the EU and AstraZeneca are somewhat toxic at present with the Republic of Ireland, where the vaccine is reportedly in short supply, having been let down so many times on delivery of the vaccine.\n\nWhile people in the Republic will be rolling down their sleeves, in Northern Ireland an even greater number are preparing to roll them up.\n\nThe rollout will continue to be prioritised based on age, in line with Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) guidance aimed at protecting the most vulnerable, the Department of Health has said.\n\nVaccines are being dispensed in parallel by GP practices and vaccination centres.\n\nNorthern Ireland has seven regional vaccination centres: Royal Victoria Hospital, Ulster Hospital, South Lake Leisure Centre, Seven Towers Leisure Centre, Foyle Arena, Omagh Leisure Centre and Lakeside Leisure Centre.\n\nPlans are also being finalised for community pharmacies to join the programme in the coming weeks, the department added.\n\nAn additional regional mass vaccination centre will open at the end of March at the SSE Arena in Belfast.\n\nThe vaccination centres are now offering bookings to:\n\nCarers who have not already booked a vaccination appointment can email their health trust carer co-ordinators and they will make the necessary arrangements.\n\nThe latter clinically vulnerable (CV) group is expected to largely mirror those who receive the winter flu vaccine each year because of their medical conditions.\n\nCEV and CV individuals aged 16 and 17 years of age cannot receive the vaccine being used in GP practices.\n\nThese individuals will receive a letter from their GP and are able to book a vaccination slot at one of the vaccination centres.\n\nPeople who want to book a vaccination centre appointment are asked to do so online if it all possible.\n\nIf online booking is not possible, then the telephone booking number is 0300 200 7813.\n\nThe booking line is open 08:00 GMT until 20:00 Monday to Friday.", "Cellist Yo-Yo Ma put on an impromptu concert in a waiting room after he received his second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nHe played Ave Maria at the Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts, where vaccine recipients wait and are monitored after getting their jab.", "High demand amid the pandemic for items such as hand sanitiser and loungewear mean they are now being used to calculate the cost of living in the UK.\n\nHand weights used by gym-goers who are stuck at home have also been added to the basket of goods used to measure the movement of prices.\n\nThe annual review by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also added smartwatches and electric cars.\n\nBut white chocolate and sandwiches bought at work are out.\n\nThe ONS said it decided to add men's loungewear bottoms and women's sweatshirts to the basket of more than 700 goods, which is used to calculate inflation, to reflect a move towards more casual clothing.\n\n\"This is especially relevant as the coronavirus lockdowns appear to have accelerated this trend and retailers are increasingly labelling clothing items as loungewear,\" said Sam Beckett, head of economic statistics at the ONS.\n\nRetailers such as Boohoo and M&S have recently reported a boost in sales because of pandemic fashionistas buying comfy joggers and hoodies.\n\nBut the ONS's list also included less obvious picks such as smartwatches, which have been used to track exercising at home, and WiFi lightbulbs, as people stuck indoors during lockdown upgraded their living spaces.\n\nHybrid and electric cars were also added to the basket as the UK moves closer to 2030, when sales of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned.\n\nWhite chocolate bars are no longer in favour, and were removed from the basket, replaced by Maltesers and other malted chocolate sweets.\n\nGround coffee was swapped for coffee sachets, and Axminster and Wilton carpets were taken out because they are mainly being bought for commercial spaces.\n\nSome 180,000 prices are measured across thousands of UK outlets to calculate inflation, which is used as a benchmark for our finances.\n\nThis basket of goods reflects contemporary habits and technology to work out the inflation rate, which charts the changing cost of living.\n\nThe ONS also aims to ensure that each sector of goods and services, and where items are bought, are reflected adequately in the calculations.\n\nThat is why, for example, fresh fruit and vegetable smoothies were added, to allow the ONS to follow a growing healthy-eating trend, it said.\n\n\"These annual changes are only a small percentage of the items sampled,\" Ms Beckett pointed out.\n\nLast year, reusable drinking bottles and gluten-free cereals were added to reflect changing consumer behaviour linked to rising environmental concerns and food allergies.", "Portugal will be removed from the \"red list\" of countries from where travel to England is banned after 04:00 GMT on Friday, the Department for Transport has announced.\n\nIt means returning travellers will be able to quarantine at home, rather than in a hotel at a cost of £1,750.\n\nBut Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will be added to the travel ban list.\n\nUnder the current rules, foreign travel from the UK is banned apart from for exceptional reasons.\n\nThe earliest date people from England will be able to travel abroad for a holiday is 17 May, when the government hopes to move to step three of its lockdown exit plan.\n\nHowever, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last week warned it was still too early to book foreign summer holidays, saying there were \"lots of questions\" to answer about \"how safe it will be in June to travel\".\n\nThe \"red list\" is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the country.\n\nAfter the changes come into force, British and Irish citizens or residents arriving in England from Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days, and any other visitors will be refused entry.\n\nA ban on commercial and private planes travelling from Oman, Ethiopia and Qatar will also come into force on Friday to reduce the risk of importing \"variants of concern\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Transport added that Portugal had been removed from the red list, including Madeira and the Azores, following evidence that showed the risk of importing a variant \"had reduced\".\n\nMauritius will also be removed from the red list.\n\nMeanwhile, Portugal has extended until 31 March a ban on commercial or private flights between mainland Portugal and the UK, as part of continued restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nPortugal's government has said that only flights \"of a humanitarian nature\" are allowed to and from the UK.\n\nQatar's international airport is popular for people returning to the UK on connecting flights from countries in Asia and Australasia, so its addition to the red list will have a significant impact.\n\nA travel ban is already in force for the United Arab Emirates, which is another Gulf hub.\n\nUnder current lockdown rules, people arriving in the UK now have to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining, and some must pay to self-isolate at a hotel.\n\nThere are concerns existing vaccines may not work quite so well against some variants of coronavirus, including the South Africa and Brazil variants.\n\nAs such, there are currently travel bans on countries \"where the risk of a new variant is greatest\".\n\nUK residents and Irish nationals arriving in England from red list countries have to quarantine in hotels selected by the government.\n\nRule-breakers face stricter penalties, including a prison sentence of up to 10 years for those who lie about having been in a banned \"red list\" country.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus restrictions, meaning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own travel rules, which differ slightly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Chinese capital of Beijing was covered in thick dust on Monday as it experienced what its weather bureau has called the worst sandstorm in a decade.\n\nThe storm caused an unprecedented spike in air pollution measurements - with pollution levels in some districts at 160 times the recommended limit.\n\nHundreds of flights were cancelled or grounded as the sky was covered by an apocalyptic-looking orange haze.\n\nThe sand is being brought in by strong winds from Mongolia.\n\nIn Mongolia the severe sandstorms have reportedly caused six deaths and left dozens missing.\n\nChina's Global Times media outlet reported that at least 12 provinces in the country, including the capital, had been affected, and the weather was likely to continue through the day on Monday before improving at night.\n\n\"It looks like the end of the world,\" Beijing resident Flora Zou told the Reuters news agency. \"In this kind of weather I really, really don't want to be outside,\" she said.\n\nThe WHO currently sets safe levels of air quality based on the concentration of polluting particles called particulate matter (PM) found in the air.\n\nThe skies of Beijing have turned murky\n\nAccording to news wire AFP quoting the Global Times, the PM 10 pollution in six central districts reached \"over 8,100 micrograms per cubic metre\" on Monday. The WHO considers levels between 0-54 as \"good\" and 55-154\" as \"moderate\" levels of PM 10.\n\nAFP added that schools had been told to cancel outdoor events, and those with respiratory diseases advised to stay indoors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 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\nBeijing was historically hit by sandstorms on a much more regular basis, but pollution reduction projects - including prohibitions on new coal-fired power plants, restrictions on the number of cars on the road and reforestation - have significantly improved air quality. Sandstorms like the one seen this week, caused by wind, are harder to control.\n\nBut Beijing and surrounding regions have suffered from high levels of pollution in recent weeks, with one Greenpeace activist telling AFP that it was a result of \"intense\" industrial activities.\n\nThese, he said, exacerbated sandstorm conditions, which were the \"result of extreme weather conditions and desertification\".", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua and Tyson Fury's world heavyweight title showdown has moved a step closer with Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn saying a two-fight deal has been signed.\n\nThe winner of the all-British bout will become the undisputed heavyweight champion.\n\nThe locations and dates are yet to be confirmed.\n\nJoshua, 31, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts, while Fury, 32, has the WBC title.\n• None 5 Live Boxing with Costello and Bunce: How close is Joshua-Fury bout to a date and a venue?\n• None Fight Talk: Anthony Joshua v Tyson Fury is 'signed,' but can we get excited yet?\n\n\"All parties have now put pen to paper and we will be working hard over the next few weeks to confirm the site and date for the biggest fight in boxing,\" Hearn told Sky Sports on Monday.\n\nFury said on Friday that he had stopped training because a deal was \"nowhere near\" being finalised.\n\nHearn told ESPN on Monday they are aiming to get a venue \"confirmed in the next month\" and that they have already had offers from \"eight or nine sites\" across \"multiple countries in the Middle East, Asia, eastern Europe and America\".\n\nThe fight between Joshua and Fury will see all four belts contested in a heavyweight bout for the first time.\n\nThe last undisputed heavyweight champion was Britain's Lennox Lewis from 1999 to 2000, before a boxer had to also hold the WBO belt to be recognised as undisputed champion.\n\nJoshua has a record of 24 wins and one defeat from 25 professional bouts. He lost his three world titles in a shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in June 2019 before regaining them in a rematch in December that year.\n\nHe defended them by knocking out mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev at Wembley Arena in December.\n\nFury is unbeaten in his 31 professional fights, having survived two knockdowns to draw with American Deontay Wilder in 2018 before taking the WBC title by winning their rematch in February 2020, the last time Fury fought.\n\nHe won the WBA, IBF and WBO belts by beating Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 before nearly three years out of the sport during which he overcame depression and also accepted a backdated two-year UK Anti-Doping ban.\n\nAnalysis - 'As big as anything in British boxing history'\n\nThere are still hurdles to be overcome but all signs are positive and this fight promises to be as big as anything in British boxing history - certainly bigger than anything I've covered - and with global significance.\n\nNo heavyweight has ever held all four recognised versions of the world title and that could be put right when these two finally walk up the ring steps.\n\nThere seems to be a general move towards the rematch being in the UK but the first fight is highly unlikely to be in the UK and the Middle East is still the favourite.\n\nI'm told the money for the first fight would be split 50/50 and then 60/40 in favour of the winner of the first fight for the rematch.\n• None Ridley Scott's tale of an isolated and murderous expedition\n• None Understanding what it means in the UK today", "An evangelical church in North Lanarkshire has been reported to police over claims it has been hosting group prayer in breach of Covid rules.\n\nHope United Church in Motherwell has broadcast services with congregation members apparently gathering with little social distancing.\n\nParishioners were seen with no face coverings during the communal get-togethers.\n\nPolice Scotland said their officers were \"engaging\" with church leaders.\n\nPlaces of worship in mainland Scotland, plus the isles of Skye, Arran, Bute and Gigha, are currently closed for either communal services or private prayer due to concerns around coronavirus.\n\nUnder the lockdown rules, they are only allowed to open for broadcasting a service, or conducting a funeral, marriage or civil partnership ceremony.\n\nChurches on islands living under level restrictions can remain open, subject to two-metre distancing and a maximum of 20 worshippers. Wedding ceremonies and civil partnerships, with a maximum of 20 people, including the couple, are also allowed.\n\nLocal MSP Clare Adamson said she had reported the church to police\n\nMotherwell MSP Clare Adamson described the videos, which have now been taken down, as \"very concerning\" and told BBC Scotland she had reported them to the police.\n\nShe said: \"While the Hope Church are entitled to their own beliefs, they are not entitled to break the law.\n\n\"Any activity like this could be to the detriment of the whole community if Covid is reseeded. We are looking forward to a more normal time but this behaviour that could seed the virus in the community again is to be condemned.\"\n\nAsked what she thought of the videos from the church - which is led Pastor Mark Ralston - the SNP MSP said she felt \"a bit of disappointment, anger and dismay. We are all in this together and we have to do everything we can for one another\".\n\nShe added: \"It is very concerning. To think that the rules don't apply to one church is really not very fair on everyone else.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it was \"engaging\" with the church's leaders\n\nThe Scottish government's decision to close places of worship has been controversial. It has been the subject of a judicial review after 28 faith leaders took their case to court.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed she will allow places of worship to reopen from 26 March, with attendance capped at 50 where social distancing permits.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We were aware of reports relating to potential gatherings at a church in the Motherwell area. Inquiries into the reports are ongoing and officers are engaging with representatives of the church.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached both the pastor and Hope United Church for comment.", "Met officers were accused of oppressing women on Clapham Common on Saturday night\n\nMaintaining public order at protests is one of the hardest jobs in modern policing. If everything goes well, the public won't notice how commanders and demo organisers have worked out how to make an event safe.\n\nBut when it goes wrong, then the inevitable accusations of failure come piling in.\n\nSunday dawned badly for the Metropolitan Police's commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick. Her officers were accused of oppressing women and politicians waded in calling for her head.\n\nBut the seeds for Saturday's PR disaster for the force were sown in the legal dispute over whether a vigil could take place at all - and how events then seemed to run out of control.\n\nThe question is whether the police should have foreseen that happening. That, time and again, is the great challenge of public order policing.\n\nEarlier in the week it became increasingly clear that people up and down the UK wanted to hold vigils for Sarah Everard.\n\nWomen in London, organising under the Reclaim These Streets banner, approached Met commanders for their help in setting up a vigil on Clapham Common in south London, close to where Ms Everard was last seen alive.\n\nThe police said a demo would be illegal under the coronavirus lockdown regulations.\n\nAnd so the women and their lawyers asked the High Court to make a declaration that would force the police to think again.\n\nThe problem is that the law is not that clear cut.\n\nFor almost a year, the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and the public grasping for answers as to what is possible in public. It's so complex we've even seen people fined for walking while holding a cup of tea.\n\nPeople laid flowers and paid tribute to Ms Everard at the common throughout Saturday\n\nGatherings in public are generally banned in England but, at the same time, the rules recognise there are \"reasonable excuses\" to be outside.\n\nBut the law doesn't specify whether a demonstration on a major issue of public importance - such as this vigil - is one of those excuses.\n\nNo matter what the Covid regulations say, there is an overarching right to freedom of expression that is enshrined in the Human Rights Act. That means the police have a legal duty to help make safe protests possible.\n\nBut that right is not an absolute trump card - it can be interfered with if the police can show they have good reason to stop an event happening.\n\nAnd after hours of difficult legal argument on Friday, the judge refused to intervene and basically told the two sides to work it out for themselves with all those legal principles in mind.\n\nIn the absence of further legal clarity, the organisers claimed victory. They said the police had to now negotiate a sensible well-run vigil.\n\nThen, the police pushed back hard. They said they too had been vindicated. They could not authorise a potentially unlimited demonstration that would become an enormous Covid-spreading event. Stay at home, they said.\n\nBy Saturday morning, the organisers abandoned their plans amid a very serious risk they could each face a £10,000 fine for organising a lockdown-breaking gathering.\n\nBut by that point, it was inevitable that people would turn up at Clapham Common, whether or not there was going to be a public event. It was the talk of social media.\n\nSo given that racing certainty, and the lack of official marshals that Reclaim These Streets said they would have provided had the police agreed to a vigil, what was the police's plan to keep people safe?\n\nThere was a lot of anger on the common as police removed people\n\nThe turning point in Scotland Yard's tactics appears to have been the start of speeches from the bandstand, around 18:00 GMT. People pressed forwards to hear.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Helen Ball said: \"At this point, officers on the ground were faced with a very difficult decision.\n\n\"Hundreds of people were packed tightly together, posing a very real risk of easily transmitting Covid-19.\"\n\nAnd so, they tried to break up that part of the gathering and remove people whom they believed were contributing to the crowding.\n\nPatsy Stevenson, the red-haired woman caught on camera being handcuffed on the ground at the bandstand, received a £200 Covid fine as police tried to remove her from the area.\n\nShe has not been accused of, or charged with, violence - but was there any elsewhere?\n\nThere was definitely a lot of anger - with some of the crowd chanting obscenities at the police at one point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Federation, representing frontline officers, says 26 of them were assaulted yesterday at Clapham - punched, kicked and spat at.\n\nPictures obtained by the Press Association clearly show three instances of officers being forcibly pushed and a van's wing mirror being deliberately vandalised. Guess what? All three instances involved men, not women.\n\nDame Cressida joined officers on Clapham Common on Friday night - the night before the vigil\n\nAssistant Commissioner Helen Ball has said the Met did not want to be in the position where it had to turn to enforcement. But what's not clear is why this demonstration was considered to be so much more of a Covid risk than others that commanders couldn't find a way to make it possible.\n\nPolice forces elsewhere in the UK were waiting for a lead from the Met. But those that saw DIY vigils - albeit far smaller ones - appeared to take a stand-back approach.\n\nThe better comparison is Black Lives Matter last summer, when there were large crowds in London and elsewhere that were clearly not socially distancing.\n\nWhy the difference? That, and other questions about how the operation unfolded, may have been answered in the report that's been sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nShe's now asked Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to carry out its own external review of the event - and what Ms Patel ultimately concludes may dictate whether Dame Cressida survives calls for her to go.\n\nWhile the commissioner is accountable to the Mayor of London, who has raised his own serious concerns after a meeting with Dame Cressida, the Home Secretary is jointly responsible for deciding who gets the job - and when they should go.\n\nDame Cressida is highly respected both in policing and government - far more so than some of her predecessors - but she remains a controversial figure for many others.\n\nShe commanded the 2005 operation that led to the shooting dead of Jean Charles De Menezes, after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber - although a jury exonerated her of any personal wrongdoing.\n\nMore recently, she called for better powers to deal with Extinction Rebellion's repeated occupations of parts of London. The government agreed - and the home secretary's proposals to greatly expand the police's ability to curtail demonstrations goes before Parliament on Monday.\n\nAsk most police officers who have experience of covering public protests, and they will tell you they often feel - individual mistakes besides - it is a no-win situation when things go wrong. (Just last week I was talking about this very dilemma on BBC Newscast.)\n\nIt would be something of a terrible twist of fate for the commissioner - the first woman in the post - to lose her job in these circumstances.", "Sarah Everard was found dead after going missing while walking home in south London Image caption: Sarah Everard was found dead after going missing while walking home in south London\n\nPolice in Wales should be commended for the way they handled vigils paying respects to Sarah Everard last weekend, according to the education minister.\n\nMs Everard was found dead in a wooded area in Kent, after going missing while walking home in south London on 3 March.\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with her kidnap and murder.\n\nKirsty Williams said the scenes witnessed at Clapham Common in London on Saturday, where police arrested a number of people at a vigil on grounds of breaching Covid regulations, would have “shocked” those watching.\n\nHowever, she praised the way gatherings in Wales were held without incident.\n\n“I don’t think anybody that watched those scenes [at Clapham Common] can’t have been shocked by what they saw,” she said.\n\n“But can I say how grateful I am to women and men in Wales who over this weekend also carried out vigils to mark the death of Sarah, and the wider issues that that death makes us confront as a society, and the police that oversaw those gatherings in a really respectful way.\n\n“We have to remember we’re still in the middle of a pandemic and we need people to be cognisant of that, but I would commend both those that wanted to have their voices heard this weekend in Wales, and the police for the sensitive way that that was handled.\"", "Protesters in Cardiff held signs calling for changes following the death of Sarah Everard\n\nHundreds of people have attended a protest outside a Cardiff police station following the death of Sarah Everard.\n\nThe 33-year-old went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March in south London.\n\nHer remains were later found in a woodland in Kent and a Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with her murder and kidnap.\n\nDemonstrators in Cardiff on Monday were also campaigning on other issues.\n\nThese included Black Lives Matter, the death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, and the right to protest following the introduction of the UK government's Police and Crime Bill.\n\nBanners supporting different causes were on show in the crowd and chants of \"Whose Streets? Our Streets\" and \"Black Lives Matter\" could be heard.\n\nPeople were also protesting over the death of Mahmoud Hassan who died after being released from police custody\n\nEarlier, Wales's first minister said no-one could be \"anything but disturbed\" by scenes of policing at a vigil in London in memory of Sarah Everard.\n\nMark Drakeford said it was \"particularly\" the case because of the \"allegation that a member of the Metropolitan Police had carried out a murder of somebody\".\n\nThe Met has faced widespread criticism for its handling of the gathering.\n\nHundreds attended the demonstration outside Cardiff Bay police station on Monday evening\n\nHowever, the head of the force has defended how officers responded.\n\nHundreds of people gathered on London's Clapham Common on Saturday to lay flowers and pay their respects to Ms Everard, who was found dead a week after she disappeared on her way home in south London.\n\nPolice officers later handcuffed and removed a number of women from the gathering, arresting four people for public order and Covid offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford said the police's response to the vigil in London had given rise to \"real concerns\"\n\nIn response to the scenes in London, Mr Drakeford said there was a \"contrast\" to the way events were handled in Wales.\n\n\"Here in Wales I think our police have always managed to respond to such events in a way that is sensitive to them, proportionate to what is going on, and allows people even in the extraordinary times we are in to mark something very significant in their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"In London, nobody could be anything but disturbed to see the scenes we've seen emerging, particularly as the precipitating event is the allegation that a member of the Metropolitan Police had carried out a murder of somebody.\n\nImages of Patsy Stevenson being detained by police at the vigil in London were shared widely\n\n\"To see the same police force respond to people who wanted to mark that in a way, that I think can only give rise for very real concern.\"\n\nMs Everard went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March, with her body being found a week later in Kent.\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with kidnap and murder.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has said she will not resign over the protests.\n\n\"Quite rightly, as far as I can see, my team felt that this is now an unlawful gathering which poses a considerable risk to people's health,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think anybody who was not in the operation can actually pass a detailed comment on the rightness and wrongness... This is fiendishly difficult policing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Organisers said they cancelled a vigil originally planned at Clapham Common because police did not \"constructively engage\" with logistics\n\nMr Drakeford also raised concerns about the UK government's policing bill, and its provisions on protests.\n\n\"This is not the moment at all for the UK government to be seeking to cut back on people's ability to get together when conditions allow and express their concerns about the way that things happen in our society,\" he said.\n\nOpposition MPs, including Labour and Plaid Cymru, plan to vote against the bill. It has been defended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said it was a \"very sensible package of measures\".\n\nIn common with the other three UK nations, coronavirus laws set in Wales by the Welsh Government restrict large gatherings.\n\nNo more than four people from two households can gather outside.\n\nEarlier this year Bianca Ali faced a £500 fine for breaching Covid rules after allegedly organising a protest in Cardiff over the death of a man who died after he was released from police custody.\n\nHis death prompted several days of protest. Ms Ali is understood to be contesting the fine.\n\nMark Drakeford said he had \"cause for concern\" by the police response\n\nIn response to a question on the Welsh Government views' about protests under the regulations, and whether they can be lawfully held, a spokesperson told BBC Wales: \"We are in the middle of public health emergency.\n\n\"For everyone wishing to hold peaceful vigils, we would ask people to follow the rules which have protected us all from coronavirus and consider holding online events until larger gatherings can be held.\"", "Scotland's chief medical officer has said he is \"wholly confident\" in the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nA number of European countries have suspended use of the vaccine amid fears that it may cause blood clots.\n\nHowever, watchdogs including the World Health Organisation have found no link between the jab and an increased risk of developing a clot.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said he would \"categorically state that we remain confident\" in the vaccine programme.\n\nAnd First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people to continue to come forward for appointments when invited, saying they provide \"significant protection\" against the virus.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has joined countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Denmark and Norway in pausing their use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThere have been about 30 cases in Europe of \"thromboembolic events\" - people developing blood clots - after the vaccine was administered.\n\nHowever, with almost five million people having been given a first dose of the vaccine across Europe, AstraZeneca said this number of clots was \"significantly lower... than would be expected among the general population\".\n\nBoth the WHO and the European Medicines Agency have said there is no indication that the jab was causing the blood clots.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said studies had found \"no causal link\" between the vaccine and blood clots\n\nThe use of vaccines in the UK is governed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which has backed the continued use of the AstraZeneca jab.\n\nAt the Scottish government's daily Covid-19 briefing, Dr Smith said there had been \"no causal link between any of these incidents and the AstraZeneca vaccine\".\n\nHe said: \"What we can say at this point in time is that looking at the data about blood clots both in Europe and the UK, it is no more common to have an episode of a blood clot than you would see in the general population - in fact it is somewhat less.\n\n\"Between one and two people in a thousand would suffer a blood clot in any given year. Among the 17 million or so vaccinations given with the AstraZeneca vaccine so far, we have not seen any signal coming through whatsoever to suggest there are any more blood clots than expected in that population.\n\n\"People in that population are going to continue to become ill anyway - they will have events that they would have had whether they had had the vaccine or not.\n\n\"What we are looking for in this data, what the MHRA will be looking for, is any signs of those events being over or above what is expected - and they are not seeing that.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the pace of the vaccine programme should \"pick up significantly\" in the coming days\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would be happy to be given the AstraZeneca jab, and urged others to continue to come forward.\n\nThe first minister said she was in the age group that should be given a first dose of the vaccine by mid-April, saying she was \"hoping to see my blue envelope appear at some point in the next couple of weeks\".\n\nShe added: \"As soon as I get that, I will be there without hesitation, regardless of which of the vaccines I am being offered. And I would urge everybody getting an invitation to be vaccinated to be vaccinated, because it provides you and people you live with significant protection.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"virtually all\" Scots over the age of 65 had now had a first dose of vaccine, as had 53% of 60-64 year olds, 41% of 55-59 year olds and 33% of those aged 50 to 54.\n\nShe said the pace of vaccination should \"pick up significantly\" in the coming days, with supplies expected to be available for 400,000 doses to be administered over the course of the week.\n\nThis is projected to continue into next month, with the government \"on track\" to hit its target of completing all priority groups - including over-50s, unpaid carers and adults with underlying health conditions - by mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That will be a really significant milestone, if and when we meet that target. It provides all of us with firmer grounds for hope for the months and weeks ahead.\"\n\nThe first minister will set out plans for further easing of lockdown restrictions at Holyrood on Tuesday, with moves to re-open shops and hospitality venues and lift the \"stay at home\" order expected to be scheduled through April and into May.\n\nIn his speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, leader Douglas Ross challenged Ms Sturgeon to \"stop putting Scotland's future on hold\" and \"publish the full plan that we're all waiting for\".\n\nHe said: \"The Scottish people expect to be treated as adults, and honestly told - here's what to expect. They know that dates aren't chiselled in stone - but they deserve more clarity.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for a \"balanced\" approach, saying: \"We have to make sure this is the last lockdown.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's not just think the silver bullet is the vaccine - it is one part of trying to drive down the virus, but if we are going to truly have an elimination strategy we have got to suppress the virus to next to zero levels and isolate it at those small levels.\n\n\"In order to do that we've got to up the level of testing, and then alongside that we need to isolate the virus using our tracing system in a more effective way.\"", "The Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge against the Crown Prosecution Service over its policy on prosecuting serious sexual offences.\n\nEnd Violence Against Women had said the CPS's move away from a \"merits-based approach\" in 2016-18 was \"unlawful\".\n\nThe group had claimed the change led to a \"shocking and unprecedented\" fall in rape cases leading to criminal charges.\n\nBut the court agreed with the CPS that the change in guidance \"was not a change of legal substance\".\n\nEnd Violence Against Women (EVAW) had been aiming to show there was a change in policy in the way the CPS handled rape cases, and that the way the prosecutors went about that change was unlawful.\n\nDuring the hearing, the group had said the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence in that case alone.\n\nLegally binding guidance on the old approach was removed in 2017, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nEVAW's lawyers had argued both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell following this change in guidance.\n\nIn 2019/20 fewer than 2,000 rape cases were prosecuted - less than 3% of the more than 55,000 rapes reported to the police.\n\nAs part of their case against the CPS, End Violence against Women Coalition used Bonny Turner's experience of reporting rape and prosecutors deciding not to charge the suspect.\n\nMs Turner, who has waived her right to anonymity, said a man who raped her in 2016 later apologised and voluntarily confessed - but the CPS still chose not to prosecute the suspect.\n\nShe believes her case did not get to court partly because the CPS changes in 2017 led to prosecutors dropping cases to \"artificially inflate their conviction figures\".\n\nFollowing the Court of Appeal's dismissal, she told BBC News: \"Right now I'm feeling deeply shocked, angry, devastated really. Today's judgement, for me, really sends a clear signal to violent men and boys - that they can rape with impunity.\"\n\n\"Effectively, rape has been decriminalised and the courts have missed this opportunity to put right or to acknowledge the fact that victims of rape like me have been robbed of justice for the last few years,\" she said.\n\nMs Turner has previously spoken about how she was prevented from accessing therapy after being raped, because of restrictions from the judicial system.\n\nThe job of the CPS is to decide whether or not someone should be charged with an offence in England and Wales, based on various factors - such as whether there is enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect that the defendant could be convicted. The body is independent of police and the government.\n\nCPS director of public prosecutions Max Hill said the court's decision confirmed that the CPS \"was neither irrational nor unlawful in its approach to updating guidance for prosecutors, and that there was no change of approach in the way the CPS prosecutes rape cases\".\n\n\"Today's outcome means we can now give our full focus to the extensive programme of work under way to address the gap between reported rapes and cases going to court,\" he added.\n\nAndrea Simon, End Violence Against Women's director, said the group was \"deeply disappointed\" by the dismissal.\n\nShe said the court had \"given the CPS the benefit of the doubt\" and \"we still lack alternative answers\" to why rape prosecutions have fallen.\n\n\"Thousands of rape victims continue to be let down by a broken criminal justice system,\" Ms Simon added.\n\nCourt of Appeal judges Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, Lord Justice Holroyde and Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing found the EVAW's case failed on every ground.\n\nThey said the evidence provided by Mr Hill \"comprehensively undermines the grounds advanced by the claimant\" and that senior CPS managers were perfectly entitled to apply a \"nudge on the tiller\" to address concerns about falling conviction rates for rape cases.\n\nLord Burnett said the judges also rejected a submission that the CPS's decisions \"created any risk of systemic illegality\".\n\nEVAW said it would seek to appeal against the court's decision.\n\nThe group added it would have to pay about £75,000 to cover the CPS's legal fees, unless the costs were waived.", "A new approach to making jet fuel from food waste has the potential to massively reduce carbon emissions from flying, scientists say.\n\nCurrently, most of the food scraps that are used for energy around the world are converted into methane gas.\n\nBut researchers in the US have found a way of turning this waste into a type of paraffin that works in jet engines.\n\nThe authors of the new study say the fuel cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 165% compared to fossil energy.\n\nThis figure comes from the reduction in carbon emitted from airplanes plus the emissions that are avoided when food waste is diverted from landfill.\n\nThe aviation industry worldwide is facing some difficult decisions about how to combine increased demand for flying with the need to rapidly cut emissions from the sector.\n\nResearchers at the NREL lab in the US distilling the new fuel\n\nIn the US, airlines currently use around 21 billion gallons of jet fuel every year, with demand expected to double by the middle of the century. At the same time, they have committed to cutting CO2 by 50%.\n\nWith the development of battery-powered airplanes for long haul flights a distant prospect at this point, much attention has focussed on replacing existing jet fuel with a sustainable alternative.\n\nIn fact the UK government has just announced a £15m competition to encourage companies to develop jet fuel from household waste products.\n\nCurrent methods of making green jet fuel are based on a similar approach to making biodiesel for cars and heavy goods vehicles.\n\nIt normally requires the use of virgin vegetable oils as well as waste fats, oil and grease to make the synthetic fuel.\n\nAt present, it is more economical to convert these oils and wastes into diesel as opposed to jet fuel - which requires an extra step in the process, driving up costs.\n\nNow, researchers say that they have developed an alternative method able to turn food waste, animal manure and waste water into a competitive jet hydrocarbon.\n\nMuch of this material, termed wet-waste, is at present is turned into methane gas. However, the authors found a way of interrupting this process so it produced volatile fatty acids (VFA) instead of CH4.\n\nThe researchers were then able to use a form of catalytic conversion to upgrade the VFA to two different forms of sustainable paraffin.\n\nFood waste is a global problem and a major cause of global warming emissions\n\nWhen the two forms were combined they were able to blend 70% of the mixture with regular jet fuel, while still meeting the extremely strict quality criteria that Federal authorities impose on aircraft fuels.\n\n\"There's exciting jet fuels that rely on burning trash and dry waste but this actually works for those wastes that have high water content, which we normally dispose of in landfill,\" said Derek Vardon, a senior research engineer at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the lead author on the study.\n\n\"Being able to show that you can take these volatile fatty acids, and that there's a really elegant, simple way to turn it into jet fuel - that's where I see the broader applicability of this one, and folks can continue to develop and refine it.\"\n\nThe new fuel has a potentially significant impact on emissions as it not only limits the CO2 that comes from fossil sources used by the airlines, but it also gets rid of the methane that would bubble up from landfill if the waste food was just dumped.\n\nAnother major advantage is that this new fuel produces around 34% less soot than current standards. This is important because soot plays a key role in the formation of contrails from airplanes which adds a powerful warming effect to CO2 coming from the engines.\n\nEmissions from flying are set to rise rapidly over the next two decades\n\n\"That's where we see the most potential for this technology is that you're preventing methane emissions, and dramatically lowering the carbon footprint of jet fuel. And you just can't do that with fossil fuels without getting into things like offsets,\" said Derek Vardon.\n\nThe research team say they are planning to scale up the production of the new fuel and aim to have test flights with Southwest Airlines in 2023.\n\nMany environmental groups are sceptical about attempts to develop sustainable aviation fuels, believing that it amounts to green-washing. They argue that people should just fly less.\n\n\"Sustainable aviation fuel is not a silver bullet,\" Derek Vardon says.\n\n\"So we do want to definitely emphasise that reduction is the most important and most significant change you can make. But there's also pragmatism and need for aviation solutions now, so that's where we want to strike a balance as we need a basket of measures, to really start getting our carbon footprint down in a variety of sectors, including aviation.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).", "Alan Minard, Ross Ballantine and Carl McGrath were all aboard the Nicola Faith when it went missing in January\n\nThe bodies of three men have been discovered off the coast of north-west England.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was \"aware\" the individuals had been recovered off Wirral and Blackpool over the weekend.\n\nIt follows the search for the Conwy fishing boat Nicola Faith, which failed to return to port in January.\n\n\"The families of the missing crew members from the vessel 'Nicola Faith' have been kept informed,\" said a spokesman for North Wales Police.\n\nA private search for the vessel was due to get underway this week.\n\nThe Nicola Faith failed to return to port at Conwy on 27 January.\n\nThe Nicola Faith's empty life raft was found on 5 March off the coast of Scotland\n\nA search for Ross Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, 34, was called off after two days.\n\nPolice said their families were being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"We would request that they are given the necessary privacy at this difficult time,\" the spokesman added.\n\nThe force said it had been in contact with Merseyside and Lancashire police and was awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations.\n\nMore than £55,000 has been raised on a JustGiving page set up by the families of the missing men to pay for the private search, led by deep water recovery expert David Mearns.\n\nEarlier this month, the Marine Accident and Investigation Branch (MAIB) said the boat's life raft had been found off the coast of Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland by the Coastguard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Georgina had joined hundreds of other people at Clapham Common on Saturday evening\n\nA woman who attended a vigil for Sarah Everard in south London says she was ignored when she tried to report a case of indecent exposure to police.\n\nGeorgina was on her way home from Clapham Common on Saturday when she was confronted by a man exposing himself.\n\nShe told the BBC she tried to speak to a group of police but a male officer told her they had \"had enough with the rioters tonight\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was looking into the report.\n\nThe force has faced criticism for the way it handled the vigil after officers handcuffed and forcibly removed a number of women from the event.\n\nGeorgina, who only wants to be known by her first name, was among hundreds of people who had gathered to pay their respects to 33-year-old Ms Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nOn her way, she said she walked past a man who was standing on a pavement with \"his genitals out of his fly\".\n\nShe told the BBC she went up to a group of \"about five or six police officers\" to ask them if they could address the situation as she was feeling \"very uncomfortable\".\n\n\"The female officer said 'ok, fine, we'll go' and she was about to go when a male colleague said 'we're not dealing with this anymore, no, we've had enough with the rioters tonight, we're not dealing with it',\" she said.\n\nThe Met has faced criticism for the way the vigil was policed\n\nShe added she had been left \"shocked\" by the police's reaction.\n\n\"It's such a huge challenge that women don't feel they have a safe space to even speak on these things let alone that these things even happen and continue to happen,\" she said.\n\nTwo female officers from the Met have since visited Georgina and the force has said it was looking into her report.\n\n\"We are aware of a report that she tried to report this incident at the time to officers in the area - this will be looked at,\" the Met said.", "David Solomon promised to enforce a rule that ensured young bankers didn't work on Saturdays\n\nThe chief executive of Goldman Sachs says it's \"great\" a group of young analysts raised concerns about working conditions at the investment firm.\n\nA group of 13 US employees mocked up a presentation in which they told of 95-hour working weeks and \"inhumane\" conditions amounting to abuse.\n\nBoss David Solomon said in a message: \"It's great that this group of analysts went to their management.\"\n\nBut he added that going an \"extra mile\" can make a big difference for the bank.\n\nIn his address to the investment bank's 34,000 staff worldwide, Mr Solomon said he expected Goldman to continue to face high demand from clients and emphasised the need to meet the challenge, saying hard work brought rewards.\n\n\"Just remember: if we all go an extra mile for our client, even when we feel that we're reaching our limit, it can really make a difference in our performance,\" he said.\n\nThe analysts sent their complaints to bosses in February, but it only became public last week.\n\nMr Solomon said: \"We want a workplace where people can share concerns freely... If there are any issues, do not hesitate to reach out to ask for help.\" He promised to improve working conditions at the firm.\n\nMr Solomon said: \"I can imagine that many of you saw the presentation that a group of analysts shared with their management recently about their lack of work-life balance.\n\n\"This is something that our leadership team and I take very seriously.\" He pledged to enforce its \"Saturday rule\" to ring-fence junior bankers' time off from Friday evening into Sunday morning.\n\nThe world of investment banking is notorious for placing high demands on its employees, with remote working during the pandemic further blurring the lines between the office and home.\n\nAt Citi, the fourth largest bank in the US, new boss Jane Fraser recently sent a memo designating Zoom-free Fridays and reminding staff to try to schedule calls within traditional working hours.\n\nShe also added a company-wide holiday at the end of May, citing \"the need for a reset\".\n\n\"I know, from your feedback and my own experience, the blurring of lines between home and work and the relentlessness of the pandemic workday have taken a toll on our well-being,\" she wrote in the memo. \"It's simply not sustainable.\n\n\"Please try to limit scheduling calls outside of what had been traditional working hours pre-pandemic and on weekends (remember those?) We are of course a global company that operates across time zones, but when our work regularly spills over into nights, very early mornings and weekends, it can prevent us from recharging fully, and that isn't good for you nor, ultimately, for Citi.\"\n\nShe told staff to speak up \"if you need more time for a reset. It's not a sign of weakness; we are all feeling the weariness\".\n\nThe long hours and high pressures of investment banking were thrown into focus in 2015 when a 22-year-old Goldman analyst, Sarvshreshth Gupta, took his own life after complaining of working 100 hours a week and working all night.\n\nThe 13 Goldman Sachs employees gave striking testimony, which began circulating on social media on Wednesday, detailing five hours sleep a night, harsh treatment by senior bankers and the effects on their physical and mental health. One said: \"I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse.\"\n\n\"This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this is inhumane/abuse,\" said another.\n\nGoldman is far from the only firm where staff are reporting burnout, as the pandemic blurs work-life boundaries.\n\nNearly 90% of workers say their work-life balance is getting worse, according to a recent survey published by the Harvard Business Review of 1,500 people across 46 countries.\n\nGoldman said last week in the light of the findings going viral that it had since taken steps to address employee burnout among this small group, and among wider teams.\n\nMr Solomon's address to staff said: \"We're accelerating our efforts to hire new junior bankers across investment banking and we're internally transferring bankers to business lines where activity levels are highest.\"\n\nHe added the firm was trying to manage its workload and reorganise some so it would be done automatically:. \"We're also being more selective about business opportunities that we pursue, and we're working to automate certain tasks in our business.\"\n\nThe investment bank reported net revenues of $44.6bn (£32.1bn) for 2020.", "The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out of the body's cells, say researchers.\n\nSome viruses are known to compete in order to be the one that causes an infection.\n\nAnd University of Glasgow scientists say it appears cold-causing rhinovirus trumps coronavirus.\n\nThe benefits might be short-lived but rhinovirus is so widespread, they add, it could still help to suppress Covid.\n\nThink of the cells in your nose, throat and lungs as being like a row of houses. Once a virus gets inside, it can either hold the door open to let in other viruses, or it can nail the door shut and keep its new home to itself.\n\nInfluenza is one of the most selfish viruses around, and nearly always infects alone. Others, such as adenoviruses, seem to be more up for a houseshare.\n\nThere has been much speculation about how the virus that causes Covid, known as Sars-CoV-2, would fit into the mysterious world of \"virus-virus interactions\".\n\nThe challenge for scientists is that a year of social distancing has slowed the spread of all viruses and made it much harder to study.\n\nThe team at the Centre for Virus Research in Glasgow used a replica of the lining of our airways, made out of the same types of cells, and infected it with Sars-CoV-2 and rhinovirus, which is one of the most widespread infections in people, and a cause of the common cold.\n\nIf rhinovirus and Sars-CoV-2 were released at the same time, only rhinovirus is successful. If rhinovirus had a 24-hour head start then Sars-CoV-2 does not get a look in. And even when Sars-CoV-2 had 24-hours to get started, rhinovirus boots it out.\n\n\"Sars-CoV-2 never takes off, it is heavily inhibited by rhinovirus,\" Dr Pablo Murcia told BBC News.\n\nHe added: \"This is absolutely exciting because if you have a high prevalence of rhinovirus, it could stop new Sars-CoV-2 infections.\"\n\nSimilar effects have been seen before. A large rhinovirus outbreak may have delayed the 2009 swine flu pandemic in parts of Europe.\n\nFurther experiments showed rhinovirus was triggering an immune response inside the infected cells, which blocked the ability of Sars-CoV-2 to make copies of itself.\n\nWhen scientists blocked the immune response, then levels of the Covid virus were the same as if rhinovirus was not there.\n\nHowever, Covid would be able to cause an infection again once the cold had passed and the immune response calmed down.\n\nDr Murcia said: \"Vaccination, plus hygiene measures, plus the interactions between viruses could lower the incidence of Sars-CoV-2 heavily, but the maximum effect will come from vaccination.\"\n\nProf Lawrence Young, of Warwick Medical School, said human rhinoviruses, the most frequent cause of the common cold, were \"highly transmissible\".\n\nHe added that this study suggests \"that this common infection could impact the burden of Covid-19 and influence the spread of SarsCoV2, particularly over the autumn and winter months when seasonal colds are more frequent\".\n\nExactly how all this settles down in future winters is still unknown. Coronavirus is likely to still be around, and all the other infections that have been suppressed during the pandemic could bounce back as immunity to them wanes.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England, has already warned of a \"hard winter\" as a result.\n\n\"We could see surges in flu. We could see surges in other respiratory viruses and other respiratory pathogens,\" she said,\n\nThe results have been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wallwork won a Premier League title winner's medal in 2001 but left the next season for West Bromwich Albion\n\nA former Manchester United footballer fractured a man's eye socket in a row over his trainers, a court heard.\n\nRonnie Wallwork, 43, punched Alan Mulholland when he stepped on his trainers in a pub in Droylsden, Greater Manchester, on 22 December 2019.\n\nHe admitted grievous bodily harm and got an 18-month suspended sentence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.\n\nWallwork, who won the Premier League title in 2001, was further ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nHe also has to complete a rehabilitation programme and pay Mr Mulholland £500 compensation.\n\nCo-defendant David Gardner, 43, from Newton Heath, Manchester, admitted the same charge and was given the same sentence.\n\nThe court heard the assault, which lasted 25 seconds, happened after comments were made about Wallwork's white trainers.\n\nCCTV showed Gardner headbutt Mr Mulholland before Wallwork punched him several times at The Jam Works Bar.\n\nDefending, Alex Langhorn said Mr Mulholland had stepped on Wallwork's shoes just prior to the attack.\n\nJudge Tina Landale said the \"brutal attack\" was \"out of character\" for both men.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Mulholland said the attack has left him \"always looking over my shoulder worrying about being assaulted again\".\n\nThe midfielder joined United as a trainee in 1993 but struggled to command a first-team place and joined West Bromwich Albion in 2002.\n\nMr Langhorn said Wallwork, of Failsworth near Oldham, had been stabbed in 2006 and the trauma had a \"catastrophic affect on his life and still affects him to this day\".\n\nWallwork was jailed in December 2011 for 15 months for selling parts from stolen high-performance cars.\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 con artist rang Emmeline Hartley claiming to be from Barclays and told her to transfer money to a new bank account as her current one was at risk\n\nA woman who has been \"scammed out of every penny I had\" has shared her story on Twitter to try to stop others falling victim to bank fraudsters.\n\nDrama student Emmeline Hartley moved £1,000 out of her account after a man claiming to be from Barclays called.\n\nThe number appeared to be genuine, but it was a spoof. The 28-year-old's bank has now agreed to fully reimburse her.\n\nHer story has been retweeted thousands of times and others have shared their experiences in response to her post.\n\n\"I am usually very good at not falling for scams but this one caught me off-guard at a pretty vulnerable time in my life,\" the Birmingham student said.\n\n\"I thought I had done my due diligence but it was not enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emmeline Hartley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Hartley said she had been taken in by a text message scam which claimed she owed payment to Royal Mail for a package to be delivered.\n\nAs her birthday was coming up and she was in a hurry, she said she had thought nothing of it and entered her bank details.\n\nThe following day, a man called her and told her someone had tried to set up direct debits in her account to other firms.\n\nThe con-artist told her she needed a new bank account as entering her details to the text had put her online banking at risk.\n\nHe persuaded her to transfer the £1,000 - all her savings - to the new account and Ms Hartley said she had only fully realised she was being scammed when he had asked her to transfer her overdraft.\n\nWhen it did not work, she said she had broken down in tears and he had hung up.\n\n\"It was down to circumstances, I was panicked and angry at falling for the Royal Mail scam and I have always trusted Barclays,\" she said.\n\n\"This guy was plausible, professional and understanding and I just fell for it.\"\n\nMs Hartley said Barclays had started an investigation into what had happened but she felt the bank's online app could have more warnings to try to stop such a scam.\n\nShe said her bank had called her on Tuesday and told her they would be reimbursing her in full.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"No genuine bank would message you to transfer money to a 'safe account' - we advise any customers to ignore anyone who asks to do this, whether it's by phone, email or any other method.\"\n\nSince sharing her story on Twitter on Sunday, hundreds of people have commented, with many sharing their own stories of similar bank scams.\n\nPeople have offered her donations which Ms Hartley said she had refused, but she has seen scammers copying her account to try to get money out of users who have commented.\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. PM: European third wave \"will wash up on our shores\"\n\nBoris Johnson has warned the effects of a third wave of coronavirus will \"wash up on our shores\" from Europe.\n\nThe PM said the UK should be \"under no illusion\" we will \"feel effects\" of growing cases on the continent.\n\nOne of his ministers, Lord Bethell, also warned the UK might put \"all our European neighbours\" on the red list of countries, where arrivals are either banned or put in quarantine hotels.\n\nThe comments come amid a row over Covid-19 vaccine supplies in the EU.\n\nThe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has warned the EU could \"forbid\" doses made in the bloc from being exported to the UK.\n\nEU leaders will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss their plans.\n\nOfficials confirmed the PM spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday about the ongoing issue, which would affect exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made in Europe.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"talked to EU friends repeatedly\" during the pandemic and had been \"reassured... over the last few month they don't want to see blockades\".\n\nDowning Street also said President von der Leyen, had told Mr Johnson earlier this year that the EU was not intending to restrict exports of vaccines.\n\nEU legislation allows measures to be taken \"if severe difficulties arise in the supply of certain products\" - which, in theory, could include export bans and the waiving of patent and intellectual property rights on vaccines.\n\nBut earlier, Mrs von der Leyen's chief spokesman, Eric Mamer, insisted that Brussels was not seeking to ban vaccine exports, but wanted pharmaceutical firms to meet their contractual obligations to the bloc.\n\nMr Mamer said: \"In that context, the president has said that, of course, we see that, actually, companies that manufacture doses in the EU have been exporting very widely - which is in itself a good thing - but that we want to see reciprocity and proportionality in these exports.\"\n\nUrsula von der Leyen has said the EU could \"forbid\" exports of vaccines to the UK\n\nAsked if he was worried about the row, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I am reassured by talking to EU partners over the last few months that they don't want to see blockades.\"\n\nBut he went on to issue a warning about what the growing infections in Europe could mean for the UK.\n\nThe PM said: \"On the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way.\n\n\"And people in this country should be under no illusions that previous experience has taught us that when a wave hits our friends, I'm afraid it washes up on our shores as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"I expect we will feel those effects in due course. That's why we're getting on with our vaccination programme as fast as we can.\"\n\nLater, Health Minister Lord Bethell warned how the rising cases and issues with vaccines could affect travel to European countries going forward.\n\nHe told the House of Lords: \"I don't know how that will play out and it's certainly above my pay grade to speculate, but we are all aware that the possibility lies that will have to red list all of our European neighbours - but that would be done with huge regret.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK reported 17 deaths over the last 24 hours of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nA further 5,342 cases were also confirmed, while another 367,006 people received their first vaccination - along with 52,612 who got their second jab.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Bethell says the UK's nearest neighbours could join the \"red list\"\n\nMeanwhile, the long-awaited results of the US trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which involved more than 32,000 volunteers, show that the jab is safe and highly effective.\n\nSeveral European leaders paused rollout of the vaccine amid concerns of a possible link with blood clots. UK and EU regulators said there was no evidence the vaccine causes blood clots.\n\nEuropean leaders have faced criticism for the slow pace of the vaccine rollout on the continent.\n\nLess than 12% of the EU's population is reported to have received the vaccine, compared with nearly 40% in the UK - although the bloc has 446 million citizens, compared to almost 67 million in the UK.\n\nThe EU has encountered production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nBritish-Swedish manufacturer AstraZeneca said the fact that EU contracts were signed later than with the UK caused problems with supplying their vaccine.\n\nDowning Street has previously said that it does not believe that vaccine supply issues will affect the current road map for easing lockdown restrictions.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Michael Martin said it is vital that supply chains were kept open, telling RTE: \"Once you start putting up the barriers, other people start putting up barriers globally and it could lead to everybody losing. We'd all lose in that situation.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said the UK government was right to say that contractual obligations need to be honoured, telling LBC that the EU was not \"helping itself\".\n\nThe Guardian says a report by data analysts Airfinity suggests that if an export ban was applied to all vaccines - including those from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson that have yet to be deployed in the UK - it would see the offer of a first vaccine to every adult completed in late August rather than the target date of 31 July.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK had already vaccinated over half of the adults in the country, adding: \"We'll just bash on with the road map we've set out.\"\n\nThe prospect of a third coronavirus wave won't engulf anyone with joy. So why did Boris Johnson highlight this danger today?\n\nPrivately and publicly ministers are making it clear that they don't want to delay the dates in England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nThere will be a vote in Parliament on coronavirus restrictions later this week.\n\nSo by stressing the risk that the virus still poses, the PM may be hoping to convince restless backbenchers that he can't go any quicker.\n\nHe may also be trying to persuade vaccinated people with itchy feet that booking spring or summer holidays would still be premature.\n\nHe is preparing us, too, for the strong possibility that cases could rise in the coming weeks - not just because of \"incoming\" risks, but because rules here are being slowly relaxed.\n\nBut by stressing the shared threat from the coronavirus - i.e. the sooner the EU population is vaccinated, the less chance of importing a third wave - his comments could be also be clearing the way for more UK/EU vaccine co-operation, and the dousing down of an inflammatory row with Brussels.\n\nThe latest point of contention between the UK and the EU appears to be over vaccine doses being manufactured at a plant in the Netherlands.\n\nAn EU official told Reuters news agency that those doses should be distributed among member states, and not sent to Britain.", "Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet has been sold for the equivalent of $2.9m (£2.1m) to a Malaysia-based businessman.\n\nThe tweet, which said \"just setting up my twttr,\" was first published on March 21, 2006 and was auctioned off by Mr Dorsey for charity.\n\nThe Malaysia-based buyer Sina Estavi compared the purchase to buying a Mona Lisa painting.\n\nThe tweet was bought using the ether cryptocurrency, a rival to bitcoin.\n\nIt was sold as a nonfungible token (NFT) on Monday to Mr Estavi, the chief executive of technology firm Bridge Oracle.\n\nAn NFT is a unique digital certificate that states who owns a photo, video or other form of online media. Each NFT is unique and acts as a collector's item that can't be duplicated, making them rare by design.\n\nNFTs have become hugely popular this year, with expensive digital artwork also being sold this way.\n\nMr Dorsey said he would convert the proceeds to bitcoin and then donate them to the Give Directly's Africa Response fund.\n\n\"This is not just a tweet!\" Mr Estavi posted on Twitter. \"I think years later people will realize the true value of this tweet, like the Mona Lisa painting.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Estavi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Dorsey's brief tweet was sold via an auction on an online platform called Valuables, which is owned by the US-based company Cent.\n\nUnder the platform's rules, Mr Dorsey receives 95% of the proceeds of the primary sale, while Cent receives 5%.\n\nBut the post will remain publicly available on Twitter even after it has been auctioned off. Within minutes of the auction bids reached more than $88,000.\n\nAs the buyer, Mr Estavi will receive a certificate, digitally signed and verified by Mr Dorsey, as well as the metadata of the original tweet. The data will include information such as the time the tweet was posted and its text contents.\n\nSocial media experts predict the sale of tweets and other online posts will become more popular.\n\n\"We live in an age where celebrities, musicians and influencers have more than fans, they have stans, and they will want to own a piece of their favourite stars,\" said Cathy Hackl, founder of technology consultancy Futures Intelligence Group.\n\n\"Just like people buy physical memorabilia, they will buy their tweets, posts, and snaps because they want to feel close to that star\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier this month, the first digital-only art auction was held by Christie's auction house and netted $69m for the artist Beeple.\n\nBeeple - real name Mike Winkelmann - creates a new piece of digital art every day, and was selling the first 5,000 days (13 years) of his work.\n\n\"This is a watershed moment and proof of concept for digital art, which has been dogged by questions of commercial value, authenticity, ownership and scarcity,\" said Rob Anders, boss of Israel-based digital art platform Niio.\n\nMr Estavi and Bridge Oracle didn't immediately respond to requests for comment when contacted by the BBC.", "More than 200 fines were issued despite the local health board revealing a flare-up in Covid cases had been down to \"a bit of a loss of discipline\".\n\nMore than 200 Covid fines were issued at the weekend in south Wales - despite Merthyr County having the highest coronavirus infection rate in Wales.\n\nMany of the 240 fines handed out were to people at illegal house parties, South Wales Police confirmed.\n\nIt comes after a Covid flare-up through a \"loss of discipline\" being revealed in Merthyr County, last week.\n\nThe breaking up of one party, attended mainly by under 18s, led to disorder involving 30 people, police said.\n\nThere were also 14 people in Merthyr who ignored the first minister's words on Saturday by gathering together indoors to watch Wales' Six Nations match against France.\n\nLast Thursday, Merthyr's average case rate sat at 159.1 per 100,000 of the population, as compared to the Wales average of 43.3.\n\nCh Supt Andy Valentine has previously urged the public to \"approach changes in restrictions responsibly and with caution, and not risk undoing all that has been achieved to date\".\n\nA group of 14 people in Merthyr ignored government advice on Saturday and gathered to watch Wales' Six Nations match under the same roof\n\nThese incidents were among more than 400 calls for possible lockdown breaches made to police at the weekend.\n\nFines were also issued 109 times in the Mid Glamorgan division alone, which also covers Bridgend in Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nPolice also had reports of large gatherings around Cardiff and Swansea,\n\nFixed penalty notices were handed out to people at four parties in the Cathays area of Cardiff.\n\nA pub in Swansea has been referred to licensing teams following concerns about large numbers gathering there for drinks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon spoke of her relief after the inquiry cleared her of wrongdoing\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.\n\nAn independent inquiry by senior Irish lawyer James Hamilton had been examining whether the first minister misled the Scottish Parliament over what she knew and when.\n\nHis report said Ms Sturgeon had given an \"incomplete narrative of events\" to MSPs.\n\nBut he said this was a \"genuine failure of recollection\" and not deliberate.\n\nMr Hamilton said he was therefore of the opinion that Ms Sturgeon had not breached any of the provisions of the code.\n\nThe code sets out the standards expected of Scottish government ministers, and states that anyone who deliberately misleads Holyrood would be expected to resign.\n\nMr Hamilton concluded in his report, some parts of which were heavily redacted, that Ms Sturgeon did not breach the ministerial code in respect of any of the four issues he considered.\n\nThese included allegations that Ms Sturgeon had failed to record a series of meetings and telephone discussions with Mr Salmond and others in 2018.\n\nMr Hamilton concluded that the meetings were government business - contrary to Ms Sturgeon's claims that they were a party matter - but accepted her reasoning that \"it would have been impossible to record such meetings or discussions without a risk of prejudicing the proceedings or interfering with their confidentiality\".\n\nHe also looked at whether the first minister \"may have attempted to influence the conduct of the investigation\" into the harassment complaints made against Mr Salmond, her predecessor as first minister and SNP leader.\n\nThe lawyer said the key point was that Ms Sturgeon had not intervened, and said that had Mr Salmond really believed she had agreed to it during a meeting on 2 April 2018 then, \"one might have expected him to follow it up and to press home his advantage\" - but that no further contact was made for three weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon and Mr Salmond have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words over the affair\n\nThe third issue centred on whether Ms Sturgeon misled the Scottish Parliament in relation to the meetings in 2018.\n\nThe first minister insisted she had first learned of the complaints from Mr Salmond at her home on 2 April, but later said she had had \"forgotten\" about a meeting with his former chief of staff four days earlier, on 29 March.\n\nMr Hamilton said it was \"regrettable\" that Ms Sturgeon had not told MSPs about this meeting, but that he found it \"difficult to think of any convincing reason\" for her to deliberately conceal it.\n\nHe said she had given parliament \"an incomplete narrative of events\", but added: \"I accept that this omission was the result of a genuine failure of recollection and was not deliberate.\"\n\nThe fourth ground of investigation alleged that Ms Sturgeon was in breach of her duty to comply with the law in relation to Mr Salmond's successful legal challenge against the Scottish government.\n\nMr Salmond has pointed to external legal advice warning that the government may be at risk of losing the case as early as October 2018, but ministers decided to fight on until January 2019 - and ultimately had to pay Mr Salmond more than £500,000 in legal costs.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against nine women after a separate High Court trial in March of last year.\n\nMr Hamilton said Ms Sturgeon had relied on advice from the law officers, as she was \"fully entitled\" to do, and said Mr Salmond \"appears to be under the misapprehension that the government is under a duty to withdraw a case if advised that there is less than an evens chance of winning\".\n\nThe lawyer's 61-page report concluded: \"I am of the opinion that the first minister did not breach the provisions of the ministerial code in respect of any of these matters.\"\n\nMr Hamilton is a former head of Ireland's prosecution service and the Scottish government's independent advisor on the ministerial code\n\nMs Sturgeon welcomed the findings, and said she had \"sought at every stage in this issue to act with integrity and in the public interest\".\n\nShe added: \"As I have previously made clear, I did not consider that I had broken the code, but these findings are official, definitive and independent adjudication of that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon again apologised to the women who made the complaints, saying they had been let down by the government.\n\nBut she said: \"I was determined at the time these complaints emerged that they should not be swept under the carpet, and that I would not intervene in the process.\"\n\nThe first minister also called on opposition parties to respect the outcome of Mr Hamilton's inquiry, and said she would continue to devote \"all of my time and energy to leading Scotland and to helping the country through the pandemic\".\n\nJames Hamilton's conclusions are undoubtedly a significant boost for the first minister and her party.\n\nIn two days, the starting gun will be fired on the Scottish election campaign.\n\nMs Sturgeon will go into it saying her independent advisor cleared her. Her team see it as \"complete vindication\".\n\nRemember there is another report to be published tomorrow morning, by the Holyrood committee.\n\nWe know a majority of the committee believe Ms Sturgeon misled them in her evidence - so the issue of trust will no doubt continue to be part of the election campaign.\n\nBut Team Sturgeon is very happy tonight - going into an election campaign which could prove very important in determining whether there is another independence referendum.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives plan to hold a vote of no confidence in the first minister on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nBut it looks doomed to fail after the Scottish Greens said they would not support it on the basis that \"the Tories have shown that they have no interest in establishing the truth.\"\n\nConservative leader Douglas Ross said the first minister had been \"given a pass\" by Mr Hamilton because he had judged that her failure of recollection was not deliberate.\n\nMr Ross said: \"I respect Mr Hamilton and his judgement but we cannot agree with that assessment. Nicola Sturgeon did not suddenly turn forgetful.\n\n\"She is not free and clear. The first minister promised to respect the decisions of both inquiry reports, not to pick and choose which one suits her and try to discredit the other.\n\n\"This report does not change the overwhelming evidence that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament, her government badly let women down and wasted more than £500,000 of taxpayers' money.\"\n\nA separate report by a cross-party committee of MSPs that has been examining the government's botched handling of the complaints against Mr Salmond is expected to be published on Tuesday morning.\n\nDetails of the report that were leaked last week said that members voted by five to four that Ms Sturgeon had misled its inquiry during a marathon evidence session earlier this month.\n\nIt is also expected to be critical of the government's handling of the complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said his party had been clear that it would not prejudge the outcome of the inquiry, and would now await the findings of the parliamentary committee.\n\nMr Sarwar said it was clear that the saga had deeply damaged public trust in politics at a time of national crisis, and that there were \"absolutely no winners today\"\n\nHe added: \"At the heart of this are two women who have been badly let down by the government, and it remains the case that nobody has taken responsibility.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Ms Sturgeon's \"errors of judgement still make resignation a live consideration\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon could not have hoped for a better outcome from this inquiry.\n\nShe effectively placed her reputation and political future in the hands of James Hamilton and he has cleared her of acting improperly. She has no intention of resigning.\n\nThat will not stop the Conservatives trying to force her out in a vote of no confidence on Tuesday - but that's a vote the first minister is expected to win with help from the Greens.\n\nShe faces further criticism in the separate Holyrood inquiry report, also due on Tuesday - with the opposition majority on that committee deciding she misled them.\n\nMs Sturgeon rejects that conclusion as partisan - which is how some see the decision of SNP members of the committee not to endorse it.\n\nThe arguments will continue into the Holyrood election campaign. The ultimate verdict on the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints and its wider record will be made by Scottish voters.", "The Scottish government has said that individuals should not be blamed for the \"flaws\" in implementing the harrassment procedure.\n\nThe head of Scotland's civil service, Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans, had been singled out for criticism by the committee.\n\nBut a government spokesperson said she had operated in line with the Civil Service Code, and that all decisions were informed by legal advice.\n\n\"The government has accepted that there were flaws in the way the procedure was implemented.\n\n\"That was, however, a collective failure and, to place that at any individual’s door would miss the critical point of correcting wider failure.\"\n\nDave Penman, chairman of the FDA union, also said the mistakes were not the fault of any one individual.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland’s Drivetime programme: “Usually when things go wrong it is for multiple reasons, a series of events and decisions taken by numerous people, rather than a single individual. Accountability does not simply mean someone’s resignation.”", "Sacha Jafri (centre) worked solidly on the painting on his own for eight months\n\nThe world's largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children's charities.\n\nJafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel's ballroom in Dubai.\n\nHe planned to sell it in 70 parts, but French cryptocurrency businessman Andre Abdoune has bought the whole work.\n\nThe price makes it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at auction by a living artist.\n\nJafri said the full $62m (£45m) would go to Dubai Cares, Unicef, Unesco and the Global Gift Foundation to help disadvantaged children in countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa.\n\nJafri took inspiration from pictures sent by children from around the world\n\nThe 44-year-old artist from London originally hoped to raise $30m (£22m). He told BBC News he was \"blown away\" to have doubled that.\n\n\"I was really overwhelmed by what happened - to raise that amount of money from one painting in one night,\" he said.\n\nJafri started by putting out an appeal for children to send him their pictures representing how they felt during the pandemic. He got responses from 140 countries, which he used for inspiration, he said.\n\n\"I was in a deep meditative state. I looked through all the [children's] work - I paint from the subconscious, and then whatever's in there comes out. Nothing's planned. There's no sketches. There were no drawings.\n\n\"I was literally pouring paint, and then putting another layer on top and another layer, another layer, another layer, just feeling my way through it until something magical happened.\"\n\nIn September, Guinness World Records recognised it as the largest ever art canvas.\n\nJafri (left) said the buyer Andre Abdoune wants to build a museum to house the painting\n\nJafri worked on his own while the Atlantis hotel was closed to visitors, and needed an emergency operation on his spine during the process, as well as injuring his pelvis and feet.\n\n\"I was on my feet but bent right down so my brush can touch the floor,\" he explained. \"So that's a pretty bad position to be in for 20 hours a day. I was in a trance, so I didn't realise the damage I was doing to my body.\"\n\nThe painting, titled The Journey of Humanity, was sold in Dubai on Monday.\n\nJafri said the money would be spent on healthcare and sanitation for \"the poorest communities in the world\" and to connect them to the internet so children can have access to educational platforms. \"The biggest divide at the moment is those with the internet and those without,\" he said.\n\nThe buyer \"has a beautiful vision\" for the work, the artist said. \"His vision now is he wants to build a museum to house the painting.\"\n\nThe pair will \"set up a foundation together\" that will \"inspire the next generation to be inspired by art, to avoid the nonsense of the art world\", he added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "YouTube star David Dobrik has stepped down from an app he co-founded, following a rape allegation about his former associate.\n\nOne woman who appeared in a video on Mr Dobrik’s channel says she was raped by another person involved during filming.\n\nMr Dobrik, who has almost 19 million subscribers on the platform, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBut the claim has led brands and investors to \"sever ties\" with the influencer.\n\nMr Dobrik rose to fame through prank videos, sometimes in collaboration with a number of other YouTubers called the Vlog Squad.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, he stepped back from posting regularly on YouTube, in order to launch his own photo app Dispo.\n\nA recent investigation published by Kat Tenbarge at the business news website Insider, detailed the woman’s account of rape in 2018 by a - now former - Vlog Squad member.\n\nSince the claims, support for the app and Mr Dobrik has collapsed.\n\nVenture capital firm and a leading investor in the app, Spark Capital, announced it would “sever all ties” with the company.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Spark Capital This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Dobrik then announced he would step down from the board of Dispo “to not distract from the company’s growth,” the Information news site reported.\n\nAs a YouTube influencer, Mr Dobrik made millions of dollars through sponsorship deals.\n\nHello Fresh, EA Sports and HBO Max are among brands to have dropped him.\n\nIn the account, published in Insider, a woman alleged she was raped during the filming of a Vlog Squad video in 2018.\n\nShe reportedly says she was given alcohol despite being under the legal age of 21, and became drunk to the point of unconsciousness.\n\nLater, she said she was involved in group sex which included a Vlog Squad member, when she was too intoxicated to consent.\n\nThe video - which does not explicitly show the alleged incident - was published on Mr Dobrik’s channel, and later removed.\n\n\"While our client is appalled by any misconduct attributed to [the former member of the Vlog Squad], assuming it is true, my client denies any wrongdoing,\" Mr Dobrik’s lawyer told Insider.\n\n\"Consent is something that's super, super-important to me,\" Mr Dobrik added via a recent video posted to one of his YouTube channels,\n\n\"Whether I am shooting with a friend, or I am shooting with a stranger, I make sure whatever video I am putting out, I have the approval from that person.\"\n\nThe accused former Vlog Squad member has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nPolice were not informed and no charges were filed against the alleged perpetrator, Insider said.", "Former England striker Frank Worthington has died aged 72 following a long illness.\n\nWorthington, who won eight England caps and scored twice for the national team, began his career at Huddersfield Town.\n\nHe went on to make more than 200 appearances for Leicester City and played for clubs including Bolton, Birmingham City, Southampton, Leeds United and Sunderland.\n\nHe also had a spell as player-manager of Tranmere Rovers.\n\nFormer Leicester striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker paid tribute, tweeting: \"Profoundly saddened to hear that Frank Worthington has died. He was my boyhood hero when he was at LCFC.\n\n\"A beautiful footballer, a maverick and a wonderful character who was so kind to this young apprentice when he joined the club. RIP Frank [Elvis].\"\n\nWorthington was known as much for his flamboyant antics off the pitch as he was for his maverick talents on it.\n\nHe played in 22 consecutive Football League seasons from 1966 to 1987, scoring 266 goals in 882 appearances in all competitions.\n\nIn 14 of those campaigns he played in the top division, notching 150 goals in 466 matches, and won the Golden Boot award playing for Bolton in 1978-79 as the leading scorer ahead of Liverpool's Kenny Dalglish and Arsenal's Frank Stapleton.\n\nIt was during that season he scored one of the defining goals of his career against Ipswich at Burnden Park in April 1979, juggling the ball with his back to goal on the edge of the penalty area before turning, knocking the ball over the onrushing defenders and volleying low into the corner.\n\nHe was player-manager of Tranmere between 1985-87 before having a number of short spells at non-league clubs including Chorley and Weymouth. He was player-coach at hometown club Halifax in the 1991-92 season.\n\nHe made all eight of his England appearances in 1974, scoring in friendlies against Bulgaria and Argentina.\n\nIn a statement, the Professional Footballers Association said: \"We are very sad to hear the news about Frank Worthington. He was a great player and great character who lit up the game. He was also a marvellous after dinner entertainer with his football tales.\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies to Carol and all his family. Frank will be much missed but never forgotten.\"\n\nFormer Bolton striker Alan Gowling, who provided the assist for Worthington's famous goal against Ipswich, told BBC Radio Manchester: \"Frank was a really skilful player. We always used to have a little laugh about the fact I used to do all his running for him while he was doing all the show business bits.\n\n\"Frank was up there with the George Bests and people of that ilk in football. He had this image of being the playboy. In fairness to him he enjoyed a social life, but his football came first.\n\n\"I'll remember him as a good friend a great footballer with the best left foot I have ever seen on anybody.\"\n\nIn 2016, Worthington's daughter, Kim Malou, announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, something he publicly denied the following day.\n\nIn a statement, his wife Carol said: \"Frank brought joy to so many people throughout his career and in his private life.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed by everyone who loved him so much.\"\n\n'One of the game's great entertainers' - Phil McNulty's tribute\n\nFrank Worthington will be remembered as one of the game's great entertainers, a magnificently gifted striker with a colourful lifestyle that made him revered by team-mates and loved by supporters everywhere.\n\nIan Greaves, his manager at Huddersfield Town and Bolton Wanderers described him as \"the working man's George Best.\"\n\nThere were similarities on and off the field but nothing must ever disguise or downplay the wonderful natural ability that made the tall Worthington one of the game's most silky and effective attackers.\n\nHe graced a host of clubs throughout his career but even that may path may have taken a different turn when he moved from Huddersfield Town to Liverpool for £150,000 in summer 1972. The traditional signing pictures were taken with Liverpool manager Bill Shankly and his then right-hand man Bob Paisley only for Worthington to fail the medical on the grounds of \"high blood pressure.\"\n\nWho knows how he would have fared at Anfield but Leicester City, who he joined shortly afterwards, and all those clubs he subsequently played for were eternally grateful that they were able to benefit from the services of this one-off maverick - he even had a picture of his idol Elvis Presley on his desk when player-manager at Tranmere Rovers - who brought excitement and entertainment wherever he went.\n\nWorthington only won eight England caps but he played in an era when unpredictability was often greeted with suspicion.\n\nHe enjoyed a glorious career in which he stayed true to his footballing principles that the game was about entertainment and enjoyment and everyone who witnessed him in action will be glad that he did.", "Police officers were hurt during a protest in the centre of Bristol that turned violent\n\nPolice are scouring an \"enormous amount\" of footage and have vowed to make more arrests after violence at a Kill the Bill protest in Bristol.\n\nProtesters clashed with officers as thousands turned out for the march on Sunday.\n\nEight people have already been arrested after 21 officers were injured.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said the investigation could result in the largest number of images for wanted suspects in the force's history.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel accused some protesters of \"thuggery\" and Bristol's mayor said those involved in the violence were \"selfish\".\n\nOne of the injured officers suffered a punctured lung, with the chairman of the local Police Federation saying the actions of some were \"close to attempted murder\".\n\nOf the eight people arrested so far, six were detained for violent disorder and two for possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nDet Ch Supt Carolyn Belafonte said CCTV footage, body-worn camera videos and social media coverage were being studied along with photographs.\n\nAvon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner said the acts showed \"reckless disregard\" of people's lives and safety\n\nA dedicated page has also been set up on the Avon and Somerset Police website for people to send footage and pictures in.\n\n\"From what we've already obtained, we're confident more arrests are imminent,\" said Det Ch Supt Belafonte.\n\nShe said forensic evidence, including fingerprints, had been recovered from the scene.\n\n\"To those who took part in this spree of offending, you can expect a knock at your door in the days or weeks to come - it may come sooner than you think,\" she added\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said people had a right to protest but the violent scenes were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"They should protest peacefully and legally.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons earlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel condemned the protests as \"anarchic\" and \"violent\".\n\nShe said the minority of people who confronted police officers in the city centre on Sunday night had demonstrated \"criminal thuggery and disorder\" that put lives at risk.\n\n\"Our exceptional and brave police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect the public.\n\n\"For them to face the criminal violence against them while upholding the law is completely unacceptable,\" she added.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the injured officers and their family.\"\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees slammed offenders as \"selfish\" for \"living out their revolutionary fantasies\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the protest had been \"hijacked by extremists\", by \"people who were determined to commit criminal damage\".\n\nPolice vehicles were set on fire and fireworks were set off in the crowds\n\nMr Marsh said: \"There was a hardcore of serious criminals hidden within those 3,000 people - perhaps 400 or 500 people - and we certainly didn't trigger this.\"\n\nCrowds had gathered to peacefully protest in opposition to the new Police and Crime Bill but it went in a \"violent direction\" outside Bridewell Police Station at about 17:30 GMT, Mr Marsh said.\n\nAs angry scenes unfolded, demonstrators scaled the station, threw fireworks into the crowd and daubed graffiti on the walls.\n\nMr Marsh said that while it would not have been \"practical or possible\" to arrest more people on the night, those involved in the violence can expect \"very serious consequences\".\n\n\"We will be asking for the people of Bristol to identify these thuggish citizens so we can bring them to justice,\" he added.\n\nGraffiti has been removed from walls\n\nBy 17:30 there were approximately 300 police officers at the scene.\n\nTwo officers were injured and treated in hospital, with one suffering a punctured lung and broken ribs, and the other a fractured arm. Both have since been discharged.\n\nTwelve police vehicles were also damaged, with two set on fire. It is understood the police operation cost around £1m.\n\nAndy Roebuck, chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Federation said: \"We had them actually squirting liquid on our visors.\n\n\"They've turned up with weapons and then tried to set fire to a police vehicle with police officers actually inside it.\n\n\"That is close to attempted murder of those police officers as far as we are concerned in the Police Federation.\n\n\"That is the level of violence and determination that these animals have gone to. And this is something we can not tolerate.\"\n\nAt times there were as few as 50 police officers, facing 100 or more violent protesters.\n\nHorses and dogs were used to great effect, but their numbers have been cut in the last decade.\n\nThis means that arguably, the police were outnumbered. To arrest one protester during the pandemic, it currently takes an average of three officers and one vehicle, since suspects have to be kept socially distanced.\n\nHowever, public order commanders know that sending in snatch squads to make arrests also leads to a more violent response.\n\nSo, instead of clearing the streets, and making arrests, a decision was taken for police to hold their ground, and gather evidence for later investigations.\n\nThe result has given a dangerous impression. A feeling of a loss of control which was also a feature of the early stages of the 2011 riots in England.\n\nWorkers from Bristol Waste spent the morning removing broken glass, debris and offensive graffiti from the streets.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees said the violence had made people already dealing with inequality in the city less safe and questioned whether the perpetrators were from Bristol or were \"protest tourists\".\n\nHe said: \"Smashing buildings in our city centre, vandalising vehicles, attacking our police will do nothing to lessen the likelihood of the bill going through.\n\n\"On the contrary, the lawlessness on show will be used as evidence and promote the need for the bill.\n\n\"This is a shameful day in an incredible year for Bristol. These people should feel shame.\"\n\nPolice riot shields and vans were sprayed with graffiti\n\nSue Mountstevens, Avon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner, said the behaviour was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe said: \"It's disgraceful these men and women who started their days expecting a normal day of policing have all returned battered and bruised.\n\n\"These people have shown reckless disregard of the lives and safety of our communities in central Bristol and our officers.\n\n\"Whether you agree or disagree with the bill, these men and women did not deserve to face the level of violence directed at them. Nothing can justify such actions.\"\n\nUniversity student Rhianna Prewitt, who attended the demonstration, said: \"This is a symptom of not allowing organisers to actually properly organise protests and, by doing that, extremists and people who are looking for a riot are going to take advantage to cause chaos.\n\n\"Also, if the government doesn't want us to protest during the pandemic, why are they pushing through a significant law at this time without public scrutiny?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters clashed with police and threw fireworks into the crowd\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the disorder was \"inexcusable\" and those involved should be identified and \"prosecuted where appropriate.\"\n\nHe condemned the \"lawlessness\" by people who were \"intent on violence,\" adding parallels could not be drawn between the protests in London against harassment and violence against women and the scenes in Bristol.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Salmond won a judicial review case after the government admitted its handling of complaints against him had been unlawful\n\nThe Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond was \"seriously flawed\", a committee of MSPs has concluded.\n\nThe committee said women had been badly let down by the government.\n\nAnd they said they found it hard to believe that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was not aware of concerns about Mr Salmond's alleged behaviour before November 2017.\n\nThey also said Ms Sturgeon had misled their inquiry in her evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already been cleared of breaching the ministerial code by a separate independent inquiry headed by senior Irish lawyer James Hamilton.\n\nShe said last week that she stood by all of the evidence she gave to the committee during her marathon eight-hour evidence session earlier this month, and has repeatedly apologised to the women who made the complaints.\n\nMany of the committee's findings were unanimous, but others were divided along party lines - with the four SNP MSPs being outvoted by the two Conservatives, one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and independent MSP Andy Wightman.\n\nThe committee had been examining the government's botched handling of two sexual harassment complaints that were made against Mr Salmond by two female civil servants in 2018.\n\nThe government was forced to admit it had acted unlawfully in its investigation and paid the former first minister's legal fees of £512,000 after he launched a judicial review case.\n\nMr Salmond was later cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault against nine women after a separate High Court trial in March of last year.\n\nHe has accused government and SNP officials close to Ms Sturgeon - including her husband Peter Murrell, the party's chief executive - of running a \"deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort\" to damage him and even have him sent to prison.\n\nMs Sturgeon and her allies have dismissed these allegations as being false conspiracy theories.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already been cleared of breaching the ministerial code by a separate inquiry\n\nMembers of the inquiry committee voted by five to four that there had been a \"fundamental contradiction\" between Ms Sturgeon's account of meetings she had with Mr Salmond after the complaints were made, and the evidence given by his team.\n\nAnd they said they believed she had left her predecessor with the impression she might intervene in the complaints process.\n\nThey voted by the same margin that her written evidence was \"an inaccurate account of what happened\", and that \"she has misled the committee on this matter\".\n\nThe report also said members were \"concerned\" about how long it had taken Ms Sturgeon to inform the government's permanent secretary that she was aware of the complaints.\n\nAnd it said it was \"inappropriate for the first minister to continue to meet and have discussions\" with Mr Salmond.\n\nThe report also described the outcome of the judicial review case as being \"devastating\" for the government, as well as being \"wholly unsatisfactory for the two women who had made complaints\".\n\nIt added: \"This is not just about procedures or public money. It is about ensuring that, in the future, anyone complaining about sexual harassment is not let down in the way these women have been.\"\n\nThe committee has made a series of recommendations which it said would help ensure similar mistakes do not happen in the future, and ensure confidence in future complaints processes.\n\nToday's report from the committee will make more difficult reading for Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nMSPs have spent some time looking into the Scottish government's handling of allegations against Alex Salmond - and they have a number of concerns.\n\nThe most serious allegations are that Ms Sturgeon misled the committee and the doubt they cast on her account of when she first found out about concerns about Mr Salmond.\n\nThis will mean the political row continues.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon will point to the report for her independent adviser which concluded she did not break the ministerial code.\n\nThat was always going to be the key moment - and would have been extremely dangerous for Ms Sturgeon if he had concluded she broke the rules.\n\nWhat does it all mean? Nicola Sturgeon is going nowhere. She will fight May's election saying her independent adviser cleared her. Her opponents will argue differently.\n\nThe committee was unanimous in saying that the government should have taken more time over the drafting of the new complaints procedure and should have included an independent system for reporting and investigating complaints.\n\nThe report said that the \"multiple roles\" fulfilled by Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans in the process \"should have been seen as a significant organisational risk\", saying this \"places a question mark over the process\".\n\nAnd they were critical of the government's handling of the judicial review case brought by Mr Salmond, saying there was a \"major flaw\" and a \"significant failure\" in the failure to identify and hand over relevant documents to the court.\n\nMembers were split over Ms Sturgeon's role in the judicial review, but agreed by five votes to four that they were \"concerned that the first minister decided to proceed with the judicial review despite clear advice that it would likely fail.\"\n\nBut they agreed unanimously that \"the Scottish government was responsible from an early stage for a serious, substantial and entirely avoidable situation that resulted in a prolonged, expensive and unsuccessful defence\" of the judicial review.\"\n\nThey said \"this state of affairs is unacceptable by an organisation such as the Scottish government and that those responsible should be held accountable\".\n\nThe committee - some of whose findings were leaked last week - also said it was \"extremely serious\" that the allegations against Mr Salmond were leaked to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMr Salmond has suggested that the leak to the newspaper came from the government - but an independent investigation by the Information Commissioners Office found there was no firm evidence for this\n\nThe committee complained throughout its inquiry that its work was being frustrated by both the government and Mr Salmond\n\nThe committee said it had \"tried as far as possible to shine a light on what occurred\".\n\nBut it said its work had been \"hindered by the Scottish government's failure to produce key documents which were of interest to us until a very late stage in the inquiry\".\n\nThe report added: \"To leave it to a committee to have to drag information out of government and other bodies is a wholly unacceptable response to the accountability that is meant to exist by the executive to parliament.\"\n\nCommittee convener Linda Fabiani, an SNP MSP, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that it had to redact \"a lot of information\" from its report, and had been unable to publish some of the evidence it had received.\n\nThe redactions meant there were parts where \"the full picture is not given\", she said, but she insisted that these were \"very small elements\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives plan to hold a vote of no confidence in the first minister later on Tuesday - but it is doomed to fail after the Scottish Greens said they would back Ms Sturgeon.\n\nConservative leader Douglas Ross said the committee's verdict was that Ms Sturgeon had \"misled parliament and the public\".\n\nHe added: \"If she ploughs on regardless, as she did against the advice of lawyers in the doomed Alex Salmond judicial review case, the first minister will leave the country scarred by the most bitter divisions.\n\n\"It seems clear that Nicola Sturgeon will refuse to abide by the principle of democratic accountability for her government's monumental mistakes.\"\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie, who is a member of the committee, said the report highlighted the \"catastrophic failings of the Scottish government on a matter of the utmost seriousness and sensitivity\".\n\nShe added: \"Three years on, nobody has yet taken responsibility for this failure.\n\n\"The Hamilton report may have exonerated the first minister of breaching the ministerial code, but the catastrophic and myriad failings this committee inquiry has revealed have called into question her judgement.\"", "A massive increase in appeals for help over the past year from those suffering domestic abuse has exposed the scale of the problem, say campaigners.\n\nRefuge recorded an average of 13,162 calls and messages to its National Domestic Abuse helpline every month between April 2020 and February 2021.\n\nThat is up more than 60% on the average number of monthly contacts at the start of 2020, it says.\n\nOne campaigner described it as an epidemic beneath a pandemic.\n\nBetween January and March 2020, before the first lockdowns in the UK, the charity recorded an average of 8,176 calls and messages per month.\n\nBetween April 2020 and February 2021, it logged a total of more than 131,000 such contacts.\n\nRefuge said 72% of these were from women who said they were experiencing violence and abuse, and nearly a fifth said their abuser had threatened to kill them.\n\nIt said many calls were from women who were being terrorised in their own homes, and who were afraid to seek treatment for their injuries in case they overburdened hospital staff.\n\nSome were making plans to flee their homes, while others had no home to go to.\n\nLisa King, the charity's director of communications and external relations, said \"home is not a safe place\" for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.\n\n\"Lockdown measures, where women have been isolated and confined with their perpetrators, have compounded their exposure to violence and abuse,\" she added.\n\nRefuge said the largest number of calls and contacts had come from women in their 30s.\n\nMany 16- to 25-year-olds, as well as concerned family, friends and neighbours, reached out via the helpline's Live Chat facility - which enables people to communicate with helpline advisors online and, crucially, in silence.\n\nIn 2020, Refuge made nearly 4,500 referrals to refuges across the country, enabling women to flee abusive partners.\n\nIn January, when the prime minister announced the latest lockdown, he said that escaping domestic abuse was one of the reasons why people would be allowed to leave home.\n\nWhen the first lockdown was lifted last year, there was an increase in women seeking emergency accommodation. Refuge is preparing for a repeat when the current lockdown ends.\n\nBut it also warns that leaving an abuser can be an extremely dangerous time.\n\nRespect, a charity that runs an advice line for male victims of domestic abuse, says it saw a 70% increase in calls, emails and webchats in 2020 compared to 2019. And during the current lockdown, appeals for help have continued to rise.\n\nThe most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the period from March to June 2020 there was a 7% rise in domestic abuse offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.\n\nThe latest police figures show that in the four weeks to the middle of January, covering the first two weeks of the latest lockdown, there was a 4% fall in recorded incidents of domestic abuse.\n\nBut the National Police Chiefs' Council said not all such incidents would result in a crime being recorded and hidden abuse was not captured in this data.\n\nCharities have always stressed that many victims do not report to the police.\n\nThe Home Office said the government had given more than £27m to domestic abuse organisations to help them deal with the effects of the pandemic.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Our landmark Domestic Abuse Bill will bolster the response to domestic abuse on every level, strengthening protections for victims whilst also ensuring perpetrators feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "In a tweet earlier in the day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"One year on. Thinking today of all those who have lost a loved one to Covid, and to everyone who continues to make heartbreaking sacrifices as we continue to navigate our way through this terrible ordeal, together\"", "The actor Ricky Tomlinson (centre) was one of 24 trade unionists charged with offences including unlawful assembly, conspiracy to intimidate and affray for picketing\n\nThe Court of Appeal has overturned the convictions of 14 men sentenced for their involvement in pickets in 1972.\n\nTrade unionists who picketed during the national builders' strike were charged with offences including unlawful assembly and conspiracy to intimidate.\n\nLawyers for the so-called Shrewsbury 24 had argued the destruction of witness statements made their convictions unsafe.\n\nLord Justice Fulford said \"what occurred was unfair\".\n\nThe Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was among those convicted. He was jailed for two years.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, he said: \"It is only right that these convictions are overturned.\"\n\nSix of the 14 who brought the action have since died, including Dennis Warren, who was jailed for three years.\n\nMr Tomlinson added: \"My thoughts today are with my friend and comrade Des Warren.\n\n\"I'm just sorry he is not here today so we can celebrate, but I'm sure he's with us in spirit.\"\n\nAppellants Terry Renshaw (second left) and John McKinsie Jones (centre) outside the Court of Appeal at a previous hearing\n\nSpeaking at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Lord Justice Fulford said: \"These 14 appeals against conviction are allowed across the three trials and on every extant count which the 14 appellants faced.\"\n\nBut he added: \"It would not be in the public interest to order a retrial.\"\n\nIn its written ruling, the Court of Appeal allowed the 14 appellants' appeals on the grounds that original witness statements had been destroyed.\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\nTrade unionists travelled to demonstrate from one site to another 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 the picketers were charged and subsequently convicted.\n\nDennis Warren, deceased, and Ricky Tomlinson were among the 14 appellants in the case\n\nLord Justice Fulford wrote: \"If the destruction of the handwritten statements had been revealed to the appellants at the time of the trial, this issue could have been comprehensively investigated with the witnesses when they gave evidence, and the judge would have been able to give appropriate directions.\n\n\"We have no doubt that if that had happened, the trial process would have ensured fairness to the accused. Self-evidently, that is not what occurred.\n\n\"By the standards of today, what occurred was unfair to the extent that the verdicts cannot be upheld.\"\n\nLawyers had argued the broadcast of a documentary about communism during the trials was \"deeply prejudicial\", but the Court of Appeal dismissed the claim that the Red under the Bed documentary might have made the verdicts unsafe.\n\nArthur Murray, who was convicted of affray and unlawful assembly and sentenced to six months, said: \"We were innocent all along, yet it has taken us nearly 50 years to clear our names.\n\n\"Sadly my mother and four of my siblings have passed away without knowing that we were innocent.\n\n\"Serious questions need to be asked about the role of the building industry bosses in our convictions and the highest offices of government who all had a hand in our trial and conviction.\n\n\"Make no mistake, our convictions were a political witch-hunt.\"\n\nThe convictions triggered a massive campaign among left-wing groups during the 1970s\n\nMr Tomlinson, from Liverpool, echoed his remarks, saying: \"We were brought to trial at the apparent behest of the building industry bosses, the Conservative government and ably supported by the secret state.\n\n\"This was a political trial not just of me, and the Shrewsbury pickets - but was a trial of the trade union movement.\"\n\nTerry Renshaw, a former Flintshire mayor, who was convicted of unlawful assembly, paid tribute to the campaign's researcher, Eileen Turnbull, who worked \"tirelessly\" to obtain \"crucial evidence\".\n\nShe uncovered a document in the National Archives which were part of the prosecution papers and revealed for the first time police had destroyed some of the original witness statements.\n\nMr Renshaw added: \"It's been 47 years. I'm just so emotional. I didn't think it would hit me like this. I am no longer a criminal.\"\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.", "NHS Lothian says Edinburgh's new Sick Kids hospital is one of the \"best-designed healthcare facilities in the world\" but its full opening is the end point of a saga stretching back years.\n\nIt was more than 160 years ago when Edinburgh surgeon John Smith began a campaign to create Scotland's first dedicated children's hospital.\n\nHis public fundraiser, kickstarted by an emotional and eloquent letter to The Scotsman newspaper, resulted in a specialist medical centre being opened in 1860 - just a year on from that letter being penned.\n\nThe hospital initially struggled to keep up with demand in a city where the average death rate of children under the age of five was one in 13.\n\nSeveral moves followed before it settled in an imposing red sandstone building next to The Meadows park, in what was to be its home for the next 126 years.\n\nReceiving more than 50,000 patients through its doors every year, most people in Edinburgh have, or will know someone with, a Sick Kids story.\n\nIt is why the closure of the old site and the move to the new facility was a big deal.\n\nThe move has the feel of a football team locating to a new out-of-town stadium. The cherished but tired setting in the city centre swapped for a spacious and state-of-the-art facility on the outskirts.\n\nThe issues surrounding the opening of the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh will be examined by a public inquiry\n\nStepping alone into the airy and colourful atrium of the new hospital is a world away from the cramped and chaotic feel of the old building.\n\nBut to get to this stage has been a long time coming.\n\nEdinburgh is no stranger to construction sagas involving public money, so it is perhaps not surprising the backstory to the Sick Kids is complicated.\n\nThe original business case for a new children's hospital next to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI) in the Little France area of the city was approved in 2008.\n\nPossibly cognisant of the troublesome £1bn Public Finance Initiative (PFI) deal to build the neighbouring ERI, NHS Lothian wanted to pay for the new facility straight from public purse.\n\nStaff were ready to leave the old Sick Kids hospital but the move was postponed after last-minute safety checks\n\nMore than £1m was spent on developing this plan until 2010 when, amidst a wider squeeze on public spending, it was announced the new hospital would now be funded under the Non-Profit Distributing (NPD) system, the Scottish government's version of PFI.\n\nA deal signed in 2015 then saw private consortium IHSL appointed to design, build, finance and maintain the hospital.\n\nThe facility was to cost about £150m to build, but its full price tag over the following 25 years, including maintenance and facilities management fees, would come to £432m.\n\nThe old Sick Kids was sold for housing to a private developer and after a few bumps along the road - not least a fallout between NHS Lothian and IHSL that nearly went to court - the removal vans were booked for July, 2019.\n\nAs NHS staff were making the final arrangements for the move to Little France, 50 miles along the M8 in Glasgow a band of senior health board officials, civil servants and IHSL managers were locked in a day long crisis meeting.\n\nLast minute inspections had found safety concerns over the hospital's ventilation systems and the meeting saw Health Secretary Jeane Freeman presented with a number of options before she decided to postpone the opening to get the problems fixed.\n\nThe issue for the health secretary - and the public purse - was that under the terms of the NPD contract, repayments - which average about £1.4m a month - had already started because NHS Lothian had taken possession of the site from IHSL because it had been signed off as ready by independent assessors.\n\nThe cost of the Sick Kids saga\n• None £432mto build and then maintain the new facility over the next 24 years\n• None £80mspent on \"enabling and equipment works\" at the site outwith the main contract\n• None £28mis the estimated cost of fixing the ventilation and the delays in opening the hospital\n• None £11.6mgiven to contractor IHSL to end a 2017 dispute over construction standards\n\nA political row followed and a series of independent reviews pointed to a \"collective failure from the parties involved\" to not spot that parts of the hospital failed to comply with ventilation guidelines designed to control infections.\n\nAn NHS Lothian-commissioned review found a \"human error\" in a 2012 spreadsheet with the specifications for air flow in critical care rooms had set in motion a series of events that delayed the opening.\n\nThe hospital opened to outpatients in July 2019 and the repairs to the ventilation system were made.\n\nMs Freeman has previously said the cost of this remedial work and delays in opening the hospital campus is estimated to be £28m, but the final bill is likely to be bigger, including higher NPD repayments.\n\nThe new hospital includes a £5m art and therapeutic design programme\n\nThe issues surrounding the delayed opening of the Sick Kids are now being examined by a public inquiry.\n\nBy the time of the inquiry's first hearing on 22 June, the new hospital should have bedded in and the benefit of the leap in quality of facilities should have been apparent to the \"little creatures\" and families written about in Dr Smith's Scotsman newspaper letter.\n\nHighlighting the horror he had seen in 1850s Scotland, the surgeon said: \"The whisperings of distress lisped out by those unfortunate little creatures too feeble to attract attention.\"", "Waitrose said the change was inspired by a campaign by 10-year-old Skye from Gwynedd.\n\nWaitrose has said it will no longer sell children's magazines with plastic disposable toys to help tackle pollution.\n\nThe retailer said the free plastic toys have a short lifespan and cannot easily be recycled.\n\nThis comes amid calls from some of the children they are aimed at to stop giving away free plastic toys.\n\nOver the next eight weeks, it will be removing magazines containing the free toys from its shelves.\n\nWaitrose is urging publishers to replace \"pointless plastic\" with sustainable alternatives.\n\nIt said the move was inspired by Skye, a 10-year-old from Gwynedd, who launched a campaign to persuade publishers to stop giving away the disposable toys in magazines.\n\n\"I'm really pleased so many people have agreed with me and supported my petition - I want to thank everyone who has signed and shared my campaign to ban plastics from comics and magazines,\" Skye told the BBC.\n\n\"Thank you to Waitrose for agreeing with us and no longer selling the unwanted plastic tat.\n\n\"I hope all retailers can do the same and then the publishers will realise this is not acceptable anymore. We really like the magazines - we just don't want or need the plastic packaging or the cheap plastic toys.\"\n\nThe ban will not include educational or reusable craft items which are designed to be used multiple times, such as colouring pens and pencils, and collectable models.\n\nMarija Rompani, partner and director of sustainability and ethics at Waitrose, said: \"While we know these magazines are popular with children, some of the unnecessary plastic attached to them has become really excessive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2019, Ella (left) and Caitlin McEwan said they were \"amazed\" by Burger King's decision to stop including plastic toys in their children's meals\n\n\"Many in the younger generation really care about the planet and are the ones inheriting the problem of plastic pollution.\n\n\"We urge publishers to find alternatives, and other retailers to follow our lead in ending the pointless plastic that comes with children's magazines.\"\n\nThe retailer has written to magazine distributors giving them eight weeks' notice of the policy, asking for alternatives to plastic toys and warning that they will not sell copies which contain the disposable items.\n\nIt is the latest move by the supermarket to cut down on single-use plastic, which has also seen it end the sale of Christmas crackers with plastic toys or glitter, and has a push to make all its own-label packaging recycled, reusable or home compostable.\n\nChildren's plastics campaign's have been successful in the past. In 2019, Burger King stopped including plastic toys in their children's meals and McDonald's gave children options of books with Happy Meals, after a campaign by two sisters.", "A gunman has killed 10 people, including a police officer, following an hours-long stand-off at a grocery market in the US state of Colorado.\n\nThe attack in Boulder ended with police detaining an injured suspect at the King Soopers market.", "The protesters were camped on College Green in the centre of Bristol before being moved on\n\nFourteen people have been arrested at a second night of protests in Bristol, police have said.\n\nOn Tuesday about 130 people demonstrating against the government's new Police and Crime Bill gathered at College Green.\n\nIt comes two days after another protest in the city turned violent, injuring several police officers.\n\nOne witness said the police had been \"quite heavy-handed\", which was \"shocking to see\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said the gathering had \"the making of a rave or a party rather than a protest\" and that it had to act due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nOne of those arrested was in connection with the disorder on Sunday, while others were arrested for offences including breaches of Covid-19 legislation and obstruction of a highway.\n\nPolice said officers will take \"proportionate action\" to disperse crowds\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said there was \"no acceptability\" for \"criminality and thuggish behaviour\".\n\n\"Protests are unlawful right now and quite frankly we have just seen more criminality and violent behaviour, which is simply unacceptable,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"We live in a democracy and obviously we uphold the right to protest but we're in the pandemic and I would urge people to continue to follow the rules and guidance.\"\n\nThere were between 200 and 250 people at the peak of the protest on Tuesday afternoon, which had been peaceful, with some of those intending to sleep in tents overnight.\n\nProtesters said they were unhappy about an element of the Police and Crime Bill, which would ban residing on any private or public land in vehicles without permission where they are causing \"significant disruption, distress or harm to local communities\".\n\nThere were between 200 and 250 protesters at the height of the demo, police said\n\nJournalist Martin Booth, who attended the protest for the Bristol 24/7 website, said he believed police had been \"quite heavy-handed\" against protesters.\n\n\"Some of them were sitting down as the police waded in and it was quite shocking to see,\" he said.\n\n\"These protesters may have been there against the law but they were not spoiling for any fight, from my perspective.\"\n\nBut, the force said, like on Sunday, it only took action after dark when people ignored instructions to leave.\n\nAbout 130 people were protesting at College Green after a demonstration started earlier on Tuesday\n\nCh Supt Claire Armes said: \"We will always attract opposing and differing views in these situations but we have successfully cleared the area and minimised any disruption to the city of Bristol.\"\n\nEarlier, she said protesters had \"insulted\" Bristol's communities, who \"have made too many sacrifices and worked so hard\" to defeat coronavirus.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Andy Marsh said: \"It had the making of a rave or a party rather than a protest...we would be having a very different conversation if we had allowed 200 people to set-up a camp on college green with music, food stalls, and human excrement.\n\n\"We have a duty to uphold the law and stop the risk of a third wave.\"\n\nOfficers from British Transport Police, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset, Dyfed Powys, Gloucestershire, Gwent and Wiltshire forces were drafted in to help.\n\nIn a tweet, police said officers had attempted to engage with demonstrators earlier in the evening and asked them to move on.\n\n\"It's disappointing we needed to take this action on a day we remember those who've lost their lives,\" the force said earlier, referring to the anniversary of the first national lockdown.\n\nPolice dogs and riot officers were called in\n\nIt's the second time in three days that we've seen riot police on the streets of Bristol.\n\nSunday felt very hostile - this didn't. There were lots of things being thrown on Sunday - bottles flying over people's heads and riot police were really under attack.\n\nThis, the police had under control by going in quite hard, I think it's fair to say.\n\nThey said they've done that because these gatherings under Covid law are illegal so they felt they need to move people on.\n\nThey had asked people earlier in the day to leave and disperse and when those people didn't engage, this happened.\n\nBut it wasn't Sunday, it was very different.\n\nThe protesters moved to Deanery Road - a short distance from College Green - where they took part in a sit down protest\n\nThe national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales said his colleagues in the city felt \"under siege\".\n\nJohn Apter said: \"I really feel for my colleagues in Bristol. There is a sense that you really feel under siege. And for some, whatever they [police officers] do, is not enough and for others, it's too much.\n\n\"My colleagues are battered and bruised, in some cases physically. We've got a number of officers who were injured on Sunday evening, some very seriously.\n\nShortly before 23:00 GMT, police said protesters had been moved off College Green but that a \"significant number\" remained on Deanery Road \"and continue to refuse to leave the area\".\n\nThe force tweeted: \"Officers will take proportionate action to disperse crowds. They are not containing anyone and we continue to urge people to move on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police\n\nA YouTube livestream appearing to be from the demonstration showed large numbers of police with some officers on horseback and others with dogs lined up.\n\nShouts of \"our streets\" and \"shame on you\" could be heard.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Avon and Somerset Police released images of 10 people it wants to trace over Sunday's disorder.\n\nIt has since arrested a total of nine people in relation to that day's events and said it was investigating assaults on 40 police officers and one journalist.\n\nCh Supt Carolyn Belafonte said the investigation will be \"substantial\" and \"has the potential to be one of the largest\" in the force's history.\n\nFollowing medical assessments on two officers taken to hospital at the weekend, neither suffered broken bones.\n\nPolice officers from neighbouring forces were called in for support\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A huge fire has engulfed a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, destroying shelters and health centres.\n\nSeveral people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the fire.\n\nThe settlement is part of a network of camps in mainland Bangladesh, home to over a million refugees who have fled Myanmar since 2017.", "In one blog post, pupils were mocked for having fake tans and being overweight\n\nA teacher has been struck off for two years after mocking pupils for \"dressing like Eastern European prostitutes and Kardashian clones\".\n\nAlexander Price, 43, was found guilty of professional misconduct for his anonymous blog about the annual prom at Denbigh High School in north Wales.\n\nA misconduct hearing was told his comments offended parents, pupils and staff.\n\nThe former design and technology teacher said he wrote the gossip blogs as a \"cathartic\" exercise while working at the school and tried to make them \"colourful and entertaining\".\n\nBut the panel ruled the posts were \"inappropriate, offensive, or derogatory\".\n\nIn his blog \"The Provoked Pedagogue\", Mr Price wrote about life working at the high school in Denbigh, north Wales.\n\nIn one article titled \"The Problem With Prom\", he called the event \"a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on looking nice.\"\n\nHe wrote that the girls often ended up looking like a cross between \"Eastern European prostitutes\" and \"Kardashian clones\" and said boys at the bash \"snorted coke\".\n\nHe also mocked pupils and their parents for making so much effort for the school prom by spending sums they could not afford on gowns and make-up.\n\nReferring to poorly applied fake tans, he wrote \"the literacy was so poor they can't read the instructions\".\n\nMr Price referred to \"overweight girls being shoehorned into gowns and paraded through the town like cattle\".\n\nHe said the \"proms mean more to them than GCSEs\".\n\nHe also wrote derogatory comments about his boss Dr Paul Evans, who became head teacher in 2018.\n\nChairman Steve Powell said the comments \"were critical, they were disrespectful, they were likely to cause offence to any pupil or parent who came across the article\".\n\n\"It was particularly concerning that a focus on these comments and the article as a whole was on families from poor backgrounds in an unnecessary and unwarranted way,\" he added.\n\nMr Price admitted writing the blogs but denied they amount to unacceptable professional conduct.\n\nHe said the panel had not taken the blogs in the proper context and that many of the extracts they read aloud had the opposite point of the articles as a whole.\n\nMr Price's union representative, Colin Adkins of NASUWT, said the ruling was \"chilling in that it has inhibited freedom of speech\".\n\nIn a statement to the panel, Mr Price said: \"I find it ridiculous you say you have considered these comments in their entirety because you blatantly haven't.\"\n\nMr Price has now been handed a prohibition order banning him from teaching.\n\nThe hearing in Cardiff was told he can reapply to join the register after a two-year period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Heaton lost both his parents within weeks and wants to know if it could have been prevented\n\nA man whose parents both died in the pandemic has said there needs to be a Wales-specific Covid public inquiry.\n\nJames Heaton, 43, from Pontypridd said \"lessons need to be learnt\" to prevent others going through the \"sheer hell\" he has been through.\n\nWales' first minister said his government's decisions should be scrutinised in a UK-wide inquiry.\n\nThe Conservatives and Plaid Cymru said they would call a Wales inquiry if they were in power after May's election.\n\nThe older people's commissioner Helena Herklots said a Wales inquiry as well as a UK one would be \"useful\" as it could provide \"additional scrutiny\".\n\nBut the British Medical Association said \"Welsh actions\" had been dependent on UK policy and should be \"assessed in the round\" as part of a UK inquiry.\n\nMr Heaton's parents, Frank and Ann Heaton, died within weeks of each other last autumn.\n\nHe described them as a \"very happy, self-contained couple,\" adding that it was rare to see \"one without the other\".\n\nJames Heaton said his father died with Covid and \"brutally weakened\" his mother before her death\n\nMr Heaton said his father was \"persuaded\" by another doctor to go into the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant.\n\nFive days later he was \"rallying well\" and his discharge from hospital was being planned.\n\nBut his condition then declined and he died the following Wednesday, 11 days after going into hospital, and his primary cause of death was Covid-19.\n\nMr Heaton said he believed his father caught the virus in hospital and that hospital-acquired infections are one area a public inquiry should scrutinise.\n\n\"The overall rate was so low but it seemed to go very high very quickly in that particular hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"Why did some particular areas get such a high infection rate at a time when the overall infection rate was so low?\n\n\"Was it assumed with the low infection rates in late summer we were on top of it and it was dying out?\n\n\"What could have been done to prevent this?\"\n\nJust over a week after Frank's death, Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said 25 people had died with Covid after an outbreak at the Royal Glamorgan, a figure which later rose significantly.\n\nGreg Dix, director of nursing, midwifery and patient care at the health board, said it apologises to \"anyone who has felt let down\".\n\nHe said: \"With the close support of public health and infection control teams during the Covid-19 outbreak at Royal Glamorgan Hospital late last year, we were able to get a greater understanding of the virus and strengthen our infection control measures even further.\n\n\"Last week we confirmed there were no active adult cases of the virus in the hospital, but we continue to be extremely vigilant with robust risk assessments, regular reviews of infection prevention and control measures, and increased testing of our staff and patients.\"\n\nMr Heaton said a Wales-specific inquiry would allow us to \"learn from any successes that came from Wales doing differently and also learn from any failings\"\n\nMr Heaton's mother Ann, 75, died the following month of frailty of old age and a urinary tract infection.\n\nAlthough Covid was not her cause of death, she did catch the virus back in May when there was an outbreak at her care home, something which her son said left her \"brutally weakened\".\n\nHe said he suspects the cause may have been \"the notorious discharge of untested patients to care homes\", and added that while the care home managed the outbreak \"really well\", his mum \"never fully recovered\".\n\n\"While it doesn't say Covid on her death certificate I'm in absolutely no doubt it shortened her life.\"\n\nMore than 1,700 people were transferred from hospitals to care homes in Wales in March, April and May of last year, including 53 who had tested positive for Covid in the 15 days before their discharge.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said in November further analysis was needed before conclusions were drawn on the impact those transfers had.\n\nMr Heaton said Wales should have its own inquiry because health is a devolved matter\n\nMr Heaton said what happened to his parents illustrates the need for a Wales-specific public inquiry, \"ideally this year\".\n\n\"We need to learn the lessons of what went wrong this time to prevent others going through the sheer hell I have been going through for the last five months.\n\n\"I think there should be a Wales-specific inquiry.\n\n\"The two reasons for that being, I think the Welsh experience would be a very small part of the whole UK inquiry.\n\n\"And with health being a devolved matter and with the Welsh NHS being a separate body reporting to the Senedd, we need to look at what was done differently in Wales and what could have been done differently in Wales.\n\n\"Learn from any successes that came from Wales doing [things] differently and also learn from any failings that came from Wales doing [things] differently.\"\n\nThe older people's commissioner for Wales Helena Herklots said a Wales-specific inquiry would be \"useful\" as well as a UK-wide one.\n\n\"Given the role that the UK government has played in determining many aspects of Wales' response to the pandemic, a UK-wide inquiry would be helpful in examining the questions that people are raising.\n\n\"However, as many decisions have been made in a devolved context, a Wales-specific inquiry would also be useful in providing additional scrutiny and exploring particular issues in greater detail.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Group - which has threatened the UK government with legal action unless it launches a judge-led public inquiry - told BBC Wales it was \"right\" that a Wales inquiry is also held.\n\nA spokesman for the group said: \"We'd welcome inquiries from each part of the UK - they can each provide a specific lens through which to view the failures that got us here.\"\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Welsh council chair Dr David Bailey said an inquiry should be UK-wide.\n\n\"Whilst decisions on lockdown and testing have been made at devolved levels, issues that have occurred with the supply of PPE and vaccine testing have mainly occurred at UK level and SAGE and JCVI advice to governments have also spanned across all four nations,\" he said.\n\n\"Welsh actions have all been dependent on UK policy, it's reasonable to judge independent decisions by nations on their merits but most are inextricably linked and should be assessed in the round.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"We have always made clear that a public inquiry should be held.\n\n\"However, quite apart from the fact that we are still in the middle of a global pandemic, so much of what has happened in Wales has been linked to the wider UK picture.\n\n\"There would be little point in holding an inquiry that failed to consider many of these cross border issues.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story tonight on Wales Live at 22:35 on BBC One Wales.", "Clive Myrie is known for presenting the BBC's News at Six and Ten\n\nBBC journalist Clive Myrie has been named the new host of quiz show Mastermind, replacing John Humphrys, who has stepped down after 18 years.\n\nMyrie will be the fifth host of the BBC Two quiz, which marks its 50th anniversary next year.\n\n\"They are big shoes to fill but all I can do is bring a little bit of my own personality to what is a grounded format,\" he said.\n\nHe will continue to present programmes like the BBC's News at Six and Ten.\n\n\"That side of me is still very much there, but it's good to be able to be liberated every now and again when I do Mastermind,\" he added.\n\nMyrie recently won two Royal Television Society journalism awards - for network presenter of the year and television journalist of the year.\n\nAs well as being a newsreader, he is known for his work as a foreign correspondent and recently fronted a series of acclaimed reports from hospitals dealing with the Covid pandemic.\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\nOn Monday, he said he thought producers had offered him the Mastermind job after seeing his lighter side on the BBC News Channel's late-night newspaper round-up.\n\n\"I can't imagine they would have got me to present Mastermind if it was just seeing me in some refugee camp in Yemen,\" he said. \"It's that other side of my personality that I think they noticed.\"\n\nIn a statement, Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of entertainment, said: \"Clive will be a superb host, witty, wise and with a wicked sense of humour, he's a consummate interrogator who also understands the fear involved when facing a barrage of questions in the spotlight.\"\n\nMyrie said he might change \"little things\" on his new programme, but added: \"The fundamental format, the basic structure - the chair, the spotlight on the individual who's dealing with this - is going to stay the same.\n\n\"You can have a bit more fun in the celebrity series, for instance. That's maybe where there's a little bit more latitude.\"\n\nHe will begin filming in July, with the show set to return to screens later in the year. Humphrys' last episodes will be broadcast next month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "'We never got to say goodbye'\n\nThe event begins with a short film in which two women share their experiences of bereavement as a result of coronavirus. Andrea Williams, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, says she never got to say a final goodbye to her husband Mark, 58, who died at the start of the pandemic. \"We did so much together and we had so much more we wanted to do, we were living our best life,\" she says. \"He was absolutely everything to me. \"Not to have had that final conversation... even if it is just to say I love you.\" Ms Williams has since helped set up the Covid-19 Families Wales group - which supports about 1,300 people who have lost loved ones .", "The women were found dead at separate homes in Newtownabbey\n\nThe \"appalling\" murders of two women in County Antrim on Friday have \"left children facing a lifetime without their mums\", police have said.\n\nThey confirmed that the women who died were Karen McClean, 50, and Stacey Knell, who was 30.\n\nDetectives believe Ken Flanagan, 26, murdered his mother, Karen, and girlfriend, Stacey, in Newtownabbey before killing himself.\n\nOfficers said it was a \"really shocking and horrific double murder\".\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell said the women were killed in their homes, where they should have felt safe.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with their families as they come to terms with their tragic loss,\" he said.\n\nStormont politicians have condemned the murders and pledged to do more to tackle violence against women.\n\nMLAs raised the matter at the start of assembly business on Monday.\n\nRepresentatives from all parties said there is a significant problem that must be acknowledged by politicians and wider society.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a stabbing at Derrycoole Way, Rathcoole, at about 22:55 GMT on Friday. A woman was found dead at the scene.\n\nThey were then called to a house at Glenville Road, where a second woman was found dead and Ken Flanagan was found unconscious. He subsequently died.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene of one of the killings\n\nSam Lillie, the father of Ms Knell's child, told BBC News NI he had contacted social services and the PSNI earlier on Friday because of concerns about his child.\n\nHe said he had had a \"really bad feeling something bad was going to happen\".\n\n\"I never, ever predicted it would be this,\" he added.\n\n\"As you know the police can't do anything unless somebody does something.\n\n\"I knew that even before I went to the police station, so I knew I was wasting my time going there, but I did what they told me to do.\"\n\nMr Lillie said social services had taken what he said \"seriously\" and that they had said they would contact Ms Knell on Monday.\n\nPolice have confirmed they received a report of concern for the safety of a child on Friday, 19 March.\n\n\"Following review, there was no evidence of immediate concern for the child's safety and the caller was provided with advice in respect of the matter,\" said Ch Supt Davy Beck.\n\nWhen contacted, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust said it was unable to comment at this stage, due to confidentiality issues and an ongoing police investigation.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley suggested that, given what had happened, the system was not working.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster on Monday, she said: \"We have a system that requires hard evidence before police or social services will step in to try and divert.\n\n\"That whole early intervention service is something that we need in place to assist the police and social services.\n\n\"For that young man who went forward to police, he obviously is devastated that the actions he took were not heard or not acted upon.\"\n\nPolice believe Ken Flanagan murdered his mother and girlfriend in Newtownabbey on Friday before killing himself\n\nMs Bradley also called for a gender-based strategy to deal with violence against women and girls.\n\n\"We also need to see a shift in our judiciary when it comes to handing out the maximum tariffs for anyone who has been found guilty of any form of domestic abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"There needs to be a bigger shift in just how we deal with violence against women and girls.\"\n\nIn the assembly on Monday, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said legislation was needed that would make misogyny a hate crime.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she hoped to put a paper before the NI Executive this week on a strategy to protect women and girls from violence.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a specific strategy.\n\n\"We must as a society do all we can to erode sexism and protect women. We must do it for Stacey and Karen and their families, and for the many other victims that should have been protected in our society but weren't,\" said Ms Mallon.\n\nInfrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says legislation is needed that would make misogyny a hate crime\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said there was \"far too much violence\" in society against women.\n\n\"What do we say to our young daughters? What do we say to our wives, our mothers, our sisters, particularly as men in Northern Ireland?\n\n\"We have to acknowledge the fact that we have a significant problem, and we have to deal with it.\"\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister said there was a need for a \"great change of attitude where a resort to violence isn't readily taken\".\n\n\"This past weekend is yet another tragic example of that,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin Mid Ulster MLA Linda Dillon said it was a problem for \"entire communities\".\n\n\"It is a problem that we all need to deal with. But we're not only talking about domestic abuse.\n\n\"We're talking about violence against women and girls in every facet, whether that's within their home, on the streets, in the workplace, in their place of education, or wherever it may be, we have to deal with this issue.\"\n\nMrs Long said it was an \"absolute tragedy\" to see women losing their lives to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, she said early intervention was needed to tackle \"offending behaviours\" in the perpetrators of violence.", "The Scottish government has published draft legislation for the holding of a second independence referendum.\n\nIt wants to hold indyref2 after the pandemic but \"in the first half of the new parliamentary term\".\n\nThe SNP says it will attempt to pass the bill if May's election returns a majority of MSPs who back independence.\n\nThe legislation proposes using the same yes or no question as in 2014, with the date to be decided by MSPs.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all opposed the move, saying that Scotland's focus should be on recovery from the Covid-19 crisis rather than a row over the constitution.\n\nAnd the UK government has so far refused to give its consent to a new referendum, which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously said would be needed to ensure the legality of any vote.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon has not ruled out going to court to settle the question of whether Holyrood could legislate for a legal referendum without Westminster's backing.\n\nThe draft referendum bill was published shortly before Ms Sturgeon was due to learn the outcome of an independent investigation into whether her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga broke the ministerial code.\n\nThe legislation proposes using the same question as the 2014 referendum - \"should Scotland be an independent country?\" - with voters asked to answer either yes or no.\n\nThe paperwork accompanying the bill said that this question continues to be well understood by the Scottish public.\n\nHowever, the independent Electoral Commission will be asked to test the wording of the question after the bill is formally tabled.\n\nThe bill also proposes using the same franchise as is used for Scottish Parliament and local government elections, including allowing foreign nationals who live in Scotland to vote.\n\nBut there is no firm commitment to any date for the poll, with the bill stating that this is a decision \"for the next Scottish Parliament to take\".\n\nAnnouncing the publication of the draft bill, Constitution Secretary Mike Russell said the immediate priority would be \"dealing with the pandemic and keeping the country safe\".\n\nThe bill has been published ahead of an independent report into whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code over the Alex Salmond saga\n\nBut he said that \"better times lie ahead\", and that \"it should be the people living in Scotland who have the right to decide how we recover from the pandemic and what sort of country we wish to build after the crisis\".\n\nHe said the current government thinks the vote should be held inside the first half of the five-year Holyrood term.\n\nAnd he added that if May's election produces a pro-independence majority, \"there can be no democratic justification whatsoever for any Westminster government to seek to block a post-pandemic referendum\".\n\nHe said: \"Scotland's recovery should be made by the people who live here and who care most about Scotland. That is why Scotland's future should be Scotland's choice.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly ruled out giving his backing to a new referendum, saying the question was settled conclusively in 2014 when the country voted by 55% to 45% to reject independence.\n\nHe told the Scottish Conservative party conference earlier this month: \"I just find it incredible that the SNP would choose this moment to again push their campaign for separation.\n\n\"Just when everything is beginning to reopen again, when we will soon be reunited with our friends and family, the SNP think that this is the time to turn us all against one another.\"\n\nThe prime minister says the last referendum in 2014 settled the issue, and another vote is not needed\n\nThis was echoed by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said the bill was a \"reckless distraction\" and a bid to \"distract people from the Sturgeon-Salmond scandal\".\n\nHe added: \"A responsible government would be entirely focused on Scotland's post-pandemic recovery, but Sturgeon and her ministers have become detached from reality and the priorities of ordinary families.\"\n\nScottish Labour and the Lib Dems have also rejected the idea of having a new referendum in the immediacy, with Labour's constitution spokesman Colin Smyth saying that \"the focus for all of Scotland's politicians should be on bringing the country together, and an independence referendum is not a priority at this time\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said civil servants who could have been \"planning to get cancer services running full speed\" had instead been ordered to work on a referendum bill.\n\nHe added: \"We are still in a pandemic. Thousands have lost their lives, thousands more have lost their job. Reasonable people will think that this is the wrong moment to be pushing a referendum.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens back independence - with the party's co-leader, Lorna Slater, saying it \"could be crucial in securing a majority of MSPs in favour of Scotland having a say over our own future\".", "A man who visited a shop to top up the credit on his mobile phone has been jailed for breaking the Isle of Man's coronavirus laws.\n\nChristopher Christian admitted going to a Co-Op store in Douglas on Wednesday when he should have been in quarantine.\n\nUnder current Manx laws, travellers returning to the Isle of Man are required to self-isolate for up to 21 days.\n\nThe 45-year-old was jailed on Saturday for four weeks.\n\nChristian had returned to the island by ferry on 15 March and was given a direction notice requiring him to self-isolate, the hearing at Douglas Courthouse was told.\n\nBut two days later he walked to the Co-Op store on Duke Street to buy phone credit and other items, greeting someone he met along the way by shaking their hand.\n\nWhen inside the shop he appeared intoxicated and had to be asked by a member of staff to step back from the counter after ignoring social distancing rules.\n\nDuring the conversation he admitted he should have been in isolation.\n\nHe was reported to police.\n\nChristian had been visited that same day at his address on Lord Street in Douglas by the Travel Notification Service team.\n\nHe told them he understood the Covid rules and had organised for his mother to buy groceries for him.\n\nWhen police arrived later, Christian was not there.\n\nAfter handing himself in during the early hours of Friday morning, he admitted he had also visited the Tesco store on Lake Road but had been refused service.\n\nHis defence advocate said he lived a \"somewhat nomadic lifestyle\" and had believed he was allowed to leave his home to buy food as long as he was wearing a mask.\n\nDeputy High Bailiff Christopher Arrowsmith said the breach had been a deliberate act and the risk to the public from his conduct was \"obvious\".\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.", "Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas was one of six opposition candidates\n\nThe leading opposition presidential candidate in Congo-Brazzaville, who was seriously ill with Covid-19, has died hours after polls closed.\n\nGuy-Brice Parfait Kolélas died on a plane taking him to France for treatment, his campaign director said.\n\nHours earlier the 61-year-old had appeared in a video shared on social media, where he removed his oxygen mask and told his supporters that he was \"fighting death\".\n\nHe urged them to vote in Sunday's poll.\n\nThe electoral law doesn't annul the election if one of the candidates dies.\n\nFrench prosecutors announced a criminal investigation into the cause of Mr Kolélas's death. His body has not yet been repatriated.\n\nMr Kolélas, who was diabetic, was one of six candidates running against President Denis Sassou Nguesso, 77, who has been in power since 1979, except for a five-year period after losing elections in 1992.\n\nCongo-Brazzavile has officially recorded more than 9,000 cases of Covid-19 and 130 deaths.\n\nThe country has imposed a night-time curfew in the two main cities of Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire and closed its borders due to the pandemic.\n\nHowever, campaign rallies were allowed, with not much sign of people respecting social distancing or wearing masks.\n\nMr Kolélas had missed his final campaign event on Friday after saying a day earlier that he feared he had malaria, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nHe was admitted to a private hospital in the capital, Brazzaville, and it was later confirmed that he had Covid-19.\n\nSpeaking in French from his hospital bed, Mr Kolélas said: \"My dear compatriots, I am in trouble. I am fighting death. However, I ask you to stand up and vote for change. I would not have fought for nothing.\"\n\n\"Rise up as one person... I'm fighting on my deathbed, you too fight for your change,\" he urged his supporters, saying the election was \"about the future of your children.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ICIBRAZZA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 head of the government's Covid-19 response team, Elira Dokekias, said that Mr Kolélas' condition had been serious on Saturday, the Associated Press reports.\n\nAfter casting his ballot in the capital, Mr Sassou Nguesso had wished the former fisheries minister and son of former Prime Minister Benard Kolélas, a swift recovery.\n\nThe president's supporters were out on the streets as he cast his ballot\n\nA large crowd gathered on Sunday to catch a glimpse of the president, with many people not wearing masks and failing to adhere to social distancing rules.\n\nMr Sasou Nguessou beat Mr Kolélas in the last election in 2016, obtaining 60% of the vote compared with his rival's 15%.\n\nThe watchdog group NetBlocks reported that the internet had been shut down ahead of Sunday's voting.\n\nPresident Sassou Nguesso wore a mask when he went to vote\n\nThe largest opposition party, the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), is boycotting the election, saying it fears the poll could divide the nation.\n\nCongo-Brazzaville's Catholic Church episcopal conference has said it has \"serious reservations\" about the election's transparency.\n\nMr Kolélas could have had an easy life, he was a government minister enjoying the perks that comes with being a top official but he gave all that up to challenge President Sassou Nguesso.\n\nHis death has robbed Congo's opposition of a tireless campaigner for democracy and has blighted the opposition's chances of a serious challenge for the presidency.\n\nWhat is certain is that there will not be any speculation about what Mr Kolélas thought about the state of the country in his last moments - he chose to record a personal message to Congolese urging them to continue fighting for democracy.\n\nHe came second in the 2016 presidential election, but even in a poll which many see as a foregone conclusion, how Mr Kolélas performs, even in death, will still be closely watched.", "Landon Brown, Bobby Brown Jr, and Bobby Brown arrive at the Hollywood premiere of The Bobby Brown Story in 2018\n\nBobby Brown Jr died of an overdose of alcohol, cocaine and the powerful opioid fentanyl, according to a coroner's report.\n\nThe son of R&B singer Bobby Brown, Brown Jr died at his Los Angeles home on 18 November last year.\n\nThe 28-year-old was found unresponsive in his bedroom by his girlfriend. She called paramedics, who declared him dead. No foul play was suspected.\n\nAn autopsy report released on Monday referred to his death as an accident.\n\nThe musician had a history of drug and alcohol use, the report said.\n\nThe night before his death, he had consumed tequila and cocaine, and \"snorted\" the painkiller Percocet, a witness told police.\n\nThe family said Brown Jr was experiencing flu-like symptoms at the time, but had not tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nBrown Jr was one of two children from his father's 11-year relationship with Kim Ward, which ended in 1991.\n\nHis death came eight years after his stepmother Whitney Houston accidentally drowned in a bath, and five years after his 22-year-old half-sister Bobbi Kristina died in similar circumstances.\n\nLast November, Bobby Brown said his son's death had \"devastated my family,\" adding: \"There are no words to explain the pain.\"\n\nBrown Jr's brother, Landon, paid tribute by sharing a black-and-white photo of his late sibling on Instagram, alongside the caption: \"I love you forever King.\"\n\nThe musician's girlfriend, Anna Reed, tweeted: \"The heavens gained an angel but I lost my soulmate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has survived a vote of no confidence at Holyrood over her government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond.\n\nA Holyrood committee inquiry has concluded that there were \"serious flaws\" in the government's approach.\n\nThe confidence vote was tabled by Tory MSP Ruth Davidson, who said nobody had taken responsibility for the failures.\n\nBut MSPs voted by 65 to 31 to reject the motion, with the Greens backing the SNP and Labour and Lib Dems abstaining.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may not have got everything right\" in her handling of the matter, but insisted that she \"acted appropriately and made the right judgements overall\".\n\nAnd she told opposition parties that if they wanted to remove her they should do it in the forthcoming election on 6 May, adding: \"It is now time for the country to decide.\"\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry - which was set up in 2019 after the government conceded its handling of complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful - published its report earlier on Tuesday, stating that women had been badly let down by the failed process.\n\nA majority of members said Ms Sturgeon had misled the inquiry in her evidence, and said they found it hard to believe that she was not aware of concerns about Mr Salmond's alleged behaviour before November 2017.\n\nHowever an independent investigation by Irish lawyer James Hamilton concluded on Monday that Ms Sturgeon had not breached the ministerial code.\n\nHe said Ms Sturgeon had given an \"incomplete narrative of events\" to MSPs, but that he believed this was a \"genuine failure of recollection\" and not deliberate.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives had tabled a motion of no confidence in Ms Sturgeon before either report had been published - saying that \"overwhelming\" evidence of wrongdoing had already emerged.\n\nMs Davidson, the party's leader at Holyrood, told MSPs that \"nobody has taken responsibility for the multiple failings at every level which occurred\".\n\nShe said that Ms Sturgeon \"should not feel able to continue in post\", and that \"the honourable thing would be to resign\".\n\nMs Davidson said: \"The committee found that Nicola Sturgeon misled this parliament. Nothing can erase that fact, however inconvenient it is to the first minister and her supporters.\"\n\nThe best time for the opposition to call a no confidence vote is when they have enough support to win and can force a minister from office.\n\nThat has never been a realistic prospect for the Conservatives in their efforts to oust Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nWhen they first announced plans for a vote the day before the first minister gave evidence to the Holyrood committee, it was clear she could see off their challenge with support from the Greens.\n\nWhen she was cleared of breaking the ministerial code by the Hamilton inquiry, her position strengthened.\n\nBy pressing on regardless, the Tories managed to divide the opposition - with Labour and the Liberal Democrats refusing to vote with them and abstaining instead.\n\nThe Tories say that makes them the only party strong enough to take on the SNP.\n\nBut in enabling Nicola Sturgeon to comfortably win a confidence vote today they've given her a pre-election boost after some of her toughest weeks in office.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may not have got everything right in my handling of this situation\", but said she would \"reject entirely any suggestion of misleading this parliament\".\n\nAnd she said she would have resigned if Mr Hamilton had found she breached the code.\n\nHowever she said she had been \"cleared of any breach of the ministerial code\", and told Ms Davidson: \"If you think you can bully me out of office you are mistaken and have misjudged me.\n\n\"If you want to remove me from office as first minister, do it in an election\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had been accused of \"conspiracy against, collusion with and cover-up on behalf of Alex Salmond\", but that \"none of that is supported by evidence because none of that is true.\"\n\nThe first minister was backed by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who said the inquiry had become a \"farce\" and accused opposition members of the committee of \"destroying the credibility of their own work\".\n\nBoth Labour and the Lib Dems abstained in the final vote, meaning only the Conservatives backed the motion.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said there had been a \"litany of failures\" by the government, but said the Tories were \"only interested in getting a scalp\" and \"grubby party politics\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a day of shame for our parliament. Scotland deserves a better government and a better opposition.\"\n\nMeanwhile Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said \"nobody wins from this ugly debate\", and that the confidence debate and motion \"cannot be the end\" of the matter.", "One of the car industry's biggest computer chip suppliers has warned that a major fire at one of its factories in Japan could have a \"massive impact\" on its ability to fulfil orders.\n\nThe incident comes at a time when supplies of chips to the auto industry were already running short.\n\nShares in the semiconductors firm Renesas fell, along with its clients including Toyota, Nissan and Honda.\n\nElsewhere, Volkswagen has said chip scarcity might last until the autumn.\n\n\"I think things will get stable by the fall but certainly its going to be complicated, and its going to be challenging but I think we'll navigate it,\" Scott Keogh, VW's North America chief executive told the BBC.\n\nHe added that some of the company's plants were likely to run fewer shifts a day, but added that he hoped factory shutdowns could be averted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonathan Josephs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRenesas has said the blaze occurred last Friday, and was caused by a plating tank catching fire as a result of an electrical \"overcurrent\", whose cause is still being investigated. It took fire fighters more than five hours to put out.\n\nThe fire started with plating equipment based on the first floor of the building\n\nThe pure water supply and air conditioning suffered damage as well as the manufacturing equipment\n\nThe fabrication plant involved is based in the city of Naka, in the eastern province of Ibaraki. It specialises in 300mm wafers, making it one of the company's most advanced facilities.\n\nThe firm has said there were no human casualties, but 11 of its manufacturing equipment units were damaged.\n\nAnd because this occurred in one of its environmentally-controlled \"clean rooms\" - which are designed to avoid any dust or other particles from ruining the tiny transistors and circuits involved in a chip - efforts to restart production will involve more than just swapping out the ruined kit.\n\nWhile Renesas said the majority of the products manufactured using the affected machines could in theory be manufactured elsewhere, the wider supply shortfall will make that difficult to achieve in practice.\n\nThe company has said it hopes to restart production in a month, but the Nikkei Asia news site said it could take three months before output is back to normal.\n\nRenesas requires dust-free environments to make chips at its Naka fabrication plant\n\nRenesas has said that it has about a one-month stockpile of chips to continue fulfilling automakers' orders - so the impact to car production will not be immediate.\n\nBut it comes at a time of crisis.\n\nNew cars often include dozens of microprocessors.\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus pandemic, car-makers cut orders for the components because of a slump in sales of their vehicles.\n\nWhen the market rebounded towards the end of 2020, they found it hard to find supplies because other consumer electronics makers had stepped in with orders of their own to meet higher than normal demand for their gadgets because of lockdowns.\n\nIn addition, February's freezing weather in Texas closed chip-making plants there.\n\nUS trade restrictions placed on the telecoms firm Huawei and chip-maker SMIC, among others, have caused other Chinese companies to stockpile supplies of their own.\n\nAnd a drought in Taiwan is threatening production there. Wafer manufacturing requires a lot of water.\n\nMany car-makers have slowed or temporarily halted production at some of their plants. It had earlier been estimated that they faced losing more than $60bn (£43.3bn) of sales as a result.\n\n\"Given that automotive semiconductor capacity is very stretched right now, this fire is effectively a blow upon a bruise, so to speak,\" commented Richard Windsor, owner of research firm Radio Free Mobile.\n\n\"But because following 2011's Fukushima nuclear disaster, Toyota ordered all its suppliers to keep more inventory than it had done in the past, it's quite possible it won't be as badly impacted as Honda and Nissan.\"\n\nToyota's fell by 2.6%. Honda's by 3.6%. And Nissan's by 3.7%.\n\nElsewhere, there has been further evidence of constrained chip production having wider knock-on effects.\n\nThe Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday that the price of memory chips had risen 60% since the start of 2021. It noted that supplies of older chips were particularly constrained, which would impact printer-makers among other gadgets that rely on them.\n\nAnd last week, Samsung's co-chief executive Koh Dong-jin warned of a \"serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally\".\n\nAlthough the South Korean company is unusual in that it both designs and manufactures state-of-the-art chips for use in its own products and others, it still relies on third-party supplies. And it has faced a shortage of application processors from the US firm Qualcomm.\n\nQualcomm's chief executive commented indirectly on the issue at the China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday.\n\nSteve Mollenkopf predicted that supplies of some older-technology chips would recover before their newer counterparts, adding: \"So, depending on the product, you may be in a position to get some improvement.\"", "The vaccination programme is going well, but once again we are being reminded of the threat of a third wave.\n\nBoth the prime ministers and his senior advisers made reference to it.\n\nWith restrictions lifting, cases are likely to go up – although there is hope the change in seasons will help limit those rises.\n\nOver half of adults are vaccinated, but that still leaves many millions susceptible.\n\nSome will be in the vulnerable groups – either because they have chosen not to take up the vaccine or because it has not worked.\n\nThat means people will still die just as they do from flu each year.\n\nIn a bad winter, there can be more than 20,000 flu deaths.\n\nModelling suggests with the vaccine rollout and a careful lifting of restrictions there could be 30,000 Covid deaths by summer 2022.\n\nBut the government’s advisers made clear there really is no other option, saying there is “close to zero chance” of zero Covid for a virus that spreads so easily, often undetected because so many do not even develop symptoms.\n\nThe challenge now is managing that risk.", "Physicists have uncovered a potential flaw in a theory that explains how the building blocks of the Universe behave.\n\nThe Standard Model (SM) is the best theory we have to explain the fine-scale workings of the world around us.\n\nBut we've known for some time that the SM is a stepping stone to a more complete understanding of the cosmos.\n\nHints of unexpected behaviour by a sub-atomic particle called the beauty quark could expose cracks in the foundations of this decades-old theory.\n\nThe findings emerged from data collected by researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It's a giant machine built in a 27km-long circular tunnel underneath the French-Swiss border. It smashes together beams of proton particles to probe the limits of physics as we know it.\n\nThe mystery behaviour by the beauty quark may be the result of an as-yet undiscovered sub-atomic particle that is exerting a force.\n\nBut the physicists stress that more analysis and data is needed to confirm the results.\n\nDr Mitesh Patel, of Imperial College London, told BBC News: \"We were actually shaking when we first looked at the results, we were that excited. Our hearts did beat a bit faster.\n\n\"It's too early to say if this genuinely is a deviation from the Standard Model but the potential implications are such that these results are the most exciting thing I've done in 20 years in the field. It has been a long journey to get here.\"\n\nThe LHC is built in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border\n\nThere are building blocks of our world that are even smaller than the atom. Some of these sub-atomic particles are made up of even smaller constituents, while others can't be broken down into anything else. The latter are known as fundamental particles.\n\nThe Standard Model describes all the known fundamental particles that make up the Universe as well as the forces they interact with.\n\nBut it cannot explain some of the biggest mysteries in modern physics, such as dark matter or the nature of gravity. Physicists know that it must eventually be replaced by a more advanced framework.\n\nThe Large Hadron Collider was built to discover physics beyond the Standard Model. So if the results from LHCb are confirmed they would represent an important discovery.\n\nThe LHCb produces sub-atomic particles called \"beauty quarks\", which are not usually found in nature but are produced at the LHC. Sub-atomic particles undergo a process known as decay, where one particle transforms into several, less massive ones.\n\nAccording to the Standard Model, beauty quarks should decay into equal numbers of electron and muon particles. Instead, the process yields more electrons than muons.\n\nOne possible explanation is that an as-yet undiscovered particle known as a leptoquark was involved in the decay process and made it easier to produce electrons.\n\nDr Paula Alvarez Cartelle, of the University of Cambridge, was one of the scientific leaders behind the finding. She commented: \"This new result offers tantalising hints of the presence of a new fundamental particle or force that interacts differently with these... particles.\n\n\"The more data we have, the stronger this result has become. This measurement is the most significant in a series of LHCb results from the past decade that all seem to line up - and could all point towards a common explanation.\n\n\"The results have not changed, but their uncertainties have shrunk, increasing our ability to see possible differences with the Standard Model.\"\n\nIn particle physics, the gold standard for a discovery is a level called five-sigma, in which there is a one in 3.5 million chance of the result being a fluke.\n\nThe measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence. So people should not get carried away by these findings, according to team leader Prof Chris Parkes, from the University of Manchester.\n\n\"We may be on the road to a new era of physics, but if we are, then we are still relatively early on that road at this point. We have seen results of this significance come and go before, so we should be cautious as well as excited,\" he said.\n\nBut if confirmed by further analysis and data when the LHCb restarts next year, it could be one of the biggest recent discoveries in physics, according to Dr Konstantinos Petridis, from the University of Bristol.\n\n\"The discovery of a new force in nature is the holy grail of particle physics. Our current understanding of the constituents of the Universe fall remarkably short - we do not know what 95% of the Universe is made of or why there is such a large imbalance between matter and anti-matter.\"\n\nThe results have been presented for publication in Nature Physics.", "Garraway had to take several months off work when her husband first became ill\n\nGood Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has said she has a \"fear of the reality\" of becoming her husband's primary carer.\n\nDerek Draper remains in hospital after contracting Covid-19 in March 2020 and remains very poorly.\n\nGarraway's year-long struggle will be shown in an ITV documentary, Finding Derek, on Tuesday evening.\n\n\"If he needs 24-hour care I will be the primary carer. I have a fear of the reality of that life,\" she says.\n\n\"It is a completely different dynamic to our relationship.\"\n\nIn the documentary, she discusses her family's future and whether their \"dynamic\" may change when Draper leaves hospital.\n\nHe was placed in a medically-induced coma when he was admitted to hospital at the start of the pandemic and although slowly improving, Garraway says Draper's doctors told her he was the most seriously ill person they had seen who remained alive.\n\nIn the programme, which was filmed over the last year, she says that while \"I don't think I ever really saw it (the situation) as giving up work,\" that may be a possibility she has to face.\n\n\"If I have to give up work to care for him then it is best to do it now when I am earning money,\" she says.\n\nBut on Tuesday's GMB, Garraway clarified: \"The truth is, as much as I like to think I have all the answers sometimes, Derek doesn't need me, I'm not the person to care for him.\n\n\"I will obviously be there completely, 100% if that would make a difference but actually what Derek needs is specialist, professional, medical support ongoing because there is a good chance he can improve but we need to make sure that support is there now for that to happen.\"\n\nGarraway's spokesperson has said she has no plans currently to give up her role on GMB.\n\n\"In fact, her job has been something of a lifeline and really kept her spirits up over this past year and she has no plans to change that,\" a spokesperson told the BBC on Tuesday.\n\nIn the documentary, Garraway is seen renovating the ground floor of their family home so it is wheelchair accessible ahead of his possible return.\n\nKate Garraway and Derek Draper have two children, Darcey and William\n\nShe tells their 11-year-old son William: \"You know that we are hoping that dad will get better and better, but when he comes home he will probably need to be in a wheelchair, so we are trying to make it so he can do all this.\"\n\nThe couple also have a daughter Darcey, aged 15.\n\nGarraway says Draper's gradual recovery, which has seen him regain the ability to talk, \"feels like a positive\".\n\nShe told GMB that her husband's communication had \"regressed a little\" since filming the documentary, but \"he's even got his accent back\".\n\nIn the documentary, she discusses the ups and downs of dealing with Draper's condition.\n\n\"The only thing that panics me is that we are on such a rollercoaster with Derek that I am looking around during all this chaos and then the next minute there will be a phone call to say something has gone backwards.\n\n\"You think, 'Gosh, am I just fooling myself, I suppose?\"'\n\nGarraway also speaks to other families who have been severely affected by Covid, particularly those suffering from long-term symptoms, as well as NHS staff and other medical experts.\n\n\"I am very aware that I am very lucky, because Derek is still here. And we have got the chance to battle on.\"\n\nThe programme also sees Sir Elton John giving Garraway support over the phone, telling her: \"I pray for him every night, in my prayers, and you and your family.\n\n\"He is an amazing man, please give him my love when you talk to him next time.\"\n\nGarraway has been playing Draper music by Sir Elton in the hope he will respond.\n\nWhen Draper, a former political adviser, first became ill last year, Garraway was absent from GMB for several months.\n\nShe returned in July after doctors told her she had \"to get on with life\".\n\nKate Garraway: Finding Derek airs on ITV on Tuesday 23 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.", "The Mail on Sunday has been given time to seek permission to appeal a ruling that it publish a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex winning her copyright claim against the newspaper.\n\nMeghan sued for a copyright breach over the publication of a letter to her father and won most of her claim.\n\nA High Court judge then ruled the MoS must print on its front page and page three that it infringed her copyright.\n\nThe statement is on hold after its publisher sought permission to appeal.\n\nMeghan, 39, brought the legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - the publisher of both the MoS and MailOnline.\n\nIt was over a handwritten letter to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018, parts of which were later published in news articles.\n\nLast month, the duchess won her privacy claim and most of her copyright claim. The judge ruled the letter was \"personal and private\" and Meghan had a \"reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private\".\n\nLord Justice Warby subsequently said the MoS must print a single statement on the front page, referring readers to a further statement on page three.\n\nMailOnline must also publish the statement \"for a period of one week\".\n\nOn Monday, Lord Justice Warby said ANL had applied for permission to appeal.\n\nThe judge refused ANL permission, but granted a \"stay\" of the order \"only until the matter has been decided by the Court of Appeal\".\n\nHe said the stay would expire on 6 April, to give ANL time to apply directly to the Court of Appeal.\n\nAfter the Mail On Sunday was ordered to print the statements earlier this month, a spokesman for the newspaper said: \"We will be applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal, including in relation to aspects of the judgment today.\"", "Prince Harry and his wife have stepped away from royal duties\n\nThe Duke of Sussex is to become chief impact officer at the US coaching and mental health firm, BetterUp.\n\nPrince Harry said in a statement that he was \"really excited\" about taking on the new role. His exact duties, hours and any payment are not clear.\n\nIt is his latest job move after he and the Duchess of Sussex stepped back as senior royals in March last year.\n\nIt also comes after the duke and Meghan gave an explosive interview to Oprah Winfrey earlier this month.\n\nIn it, the couple alleged an unnamed royal family member had asked about how dark their son Archie's skin might be, before he was born.\n\nBuckingham Palace has said the claim is \"concerning\", but it will be addressed privately. Earlier this week, Buckingham Palace said a diversity review was under way across all royal households.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said his goal in his new function would be to \"lift up critical dialogues around mental health, build supportive and compassionate communities, and foster an environment for honest and vulnerable conversations\".\n\nPrince Harry will not manage employees or have people report directly to him, but he is likely to spend some time in the company's San Francisco headquarters once it is safe to do so, BetterUp CEO Alexi Robichaux told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).\n\nIn his role as the company's first chief impact officer, Prince Harry is expected to have input into initiatives including product strategy decisions and charitable contributions, and advocate publicly on topics related to mental health, the WSJ reports.\n\nPrince Harry said that when he met Mr Robichaux, they \"instantly recognised a shared passion for helping others realise their full potential\".\n\nThe chief impact officer position is relatively rare in the corporate world, notes the WSJ - it is seen more commonly in non-profit organisations such as Amnesty International.\n\nBetterUp, which was founded in 2013, provides mobile-based professional coaching, counselling and mentorship.\n\nThe firm says it has some 2,000 coaches offering services in 49 languages in 66 countries.\n\nPrince Harry has previously launched initiatives such as the Invictus Games, which aim for members of the armed forces to use sport for psychological and physical rehabilitation. He has also advocated publicly on mental health issues.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan now live in California after confirming in January that they would step back as \"senior\" royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThey announced last year that they had reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in, as well as striking a deal with music streaming service Spotify.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan Markle interview: Black women react to treatment of the American duchess", "Deaths in the UK have fallen below the five-year average for the first time since the summer.\n\nExperts say it means the winter wave of Covid deaths has ended and lockdown and the vaccine rollout have saved lives.\n\nIn the week up to 12 March, 14% of all deaths involved Covid, compared with 44% at the 22 January peak, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show.\n\nIn January, Covid deaths drove overall mortality in the UK 40% higher than the average seen between 2015 and 2019.\n\nThere have been more than 145,000 deaths involving Covid in the UK since the first lockdown, a year ago.\n\nDuring the first wave of the virus, tens of thousands of Covid deaths meant many more people were dying overall than during the same months in previous years.\n\nThe first lockdown brought cases down - but it took longer for this to translate to a fall in deaths.\n\nFollowing this lockdown, and in the warmer weather from late June until the beginning of August, deaths dipped back below the five-year average.\n\nBut after the first week of August, they again began to rise above levels expected for the time of year.\n\nAnd they remained above expected levels every week since - with the exception of the week ending 4 September, which was skewed by delays in reporting because of the August Bank Holiday - until the second week in March, which saw them fall 5% below the average.\n\nThis time we have a tool we did not have previously, though, in the form of vaccines.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, at Imperial College London, said: \"The new ONS data on deaths is encouraging in suggesting the second devastating wave of the pandemic is behind us.\n\n\"But calling epidemics 'waves' can be misleading in implying a phenomenon which has reached a natural end - that is not the case here.\n\n\"The rapid decline in deaths we have thankfully seen is entirely because of the lockdown and the rapid rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"So while I'm optimistic that this we will be able to return to something more like normal in the next few months, we need to remain vigilant and cautious in the pace with which social distancing is relaxed - particularly given the threat still posed by new variants of the virus.\"", "Covid-19 has shaken the world, with more than 2.5 million deaths and 115 million cases confirmed. BBC Panorama's Jane Corbin has scoured the globe to find the best examples of strategies for combating the virus.\n\nI have reported on Covid for the past year - now my mission was to find out from global leaders and senior health officials across four continents what their priorities were in tackling the virus.\n\nWhat has emerged strongly for me are four key areas which have been most effective in containing the spread of the virus and preventing deaths.\n\nNo-one can claim to have got everything right. But the steps listed below highlight some policies from around the world that have proved effective. Piece them together and you have the blueprint for a \"pandemic playbook\" - a manual for managing future infectious disease outbreaks.\n\nStanley Park lives in Seoul, South Korea. When he went to pick up his daughter, Joo Yeon, from the airport, he greeted her not with a hug but with a mask and a bottle of sanitising spray.\n\nFor Stanley, this isn't his first experience of a pandemic. He remembers the devastation and fear that the Mers outbreak brought to east Asia in 2015.\n\nIt's an experience his country has learned from, with the government making 48 reforms to bolster public-health emergency preparedness and response. These have paid off. When coronavirus hit, officials were able to flatten the epidemic curve quickly, without closing businesses or implementing stricter stay-at-home restrictions nationally.\n\nI didn't even go to the garden, just in case\n\nAfter her arrival from Atlanta, Joo Yeon completed a strict two-week quarantine at her parents' house, downloaded an app that tracks her movements and received six check-up calls from the authorities. She took her quarantine so seriously that she \"didn't even go to the garden, just in case\".\n\n\"From the very start we put in place thorough prevention measures to stop the same thing happening again - history repeating itself,\" Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said.\n\n\"It's very challenging at the moment, I have no idea if the patients I see have coronavirus or not,\" David Hodges, a GP from north-east England, told Panorama in March 2020. \"We might have hundreds of cases we're missing.\"\n\nAs cases soared ahead of the first lockdown in late March, and with resources stretched, the UK government, which had been conducting contact tracing until this point, stopped testing in the community. It had the capacity to test only in hospitals. The government's formal test-and-trace programme was launched in May.\n\nCoronavirus testing booths were set up outside Yangii hospital in Seoul, South Korea\n\nMost countries in east Asia started contact tracing in January. In South Korea, hospitals like Yangji, in the Gwan-Ak district of Seoul, were designated to handle Covid from testing to treatment. Here, people don't even need to enter the building - they're tested at arm's-length in a special fully-sealed booth. The hospital processes all its own tests on site and the results are usually available within four or five hours. In the UK it can take a day or more.\n\nDown the road from the hospital, a track-and-trace team follows up on every suspected case. The team can be forensic with the detail and has access to credit card and mobile phone data. It monitors CCTV throughout the district, sending teams out into the community to scour the streets when it sees something that concerns it.\n\nPrime Minister Chung Sye-kyun took personal charge of the situation before the country even had a confirmed case of Covid, giving priority to the three Ts - test, track and trace.\n\n\"By applying that strategy we've achieved a good, meaningful result,\" Mr Sye-kyun has said.\n\nThe death toll in South Korea, a country of 52 million people, stands at 1,693.\n\nThe UK government says the testing system has continued to evolve and it is doing everything it can to improve it.\n\n\"Making people stay at home is the main reason we've been able to contain Covid,\" says Usha Kumari, a community health worker in Kerala, India. Usha is one of 30,000 accredited social-health activists, known as Asha workers.\n\nUsha's role has been to ensure everyone who needs to self-isolate in her patch does so. She gets their shopping, collects their medicine and anything they might need, so that they don't leave their homes.\n\nThe support for those isolating doesn't end there. Community kitchens have been supplying up to 600 free meals to people self-isolating at home or in hospital each day and mental-health services have been offered since the start of the pandemic.\n\nMaking people stay at home is the main reason we've been able to contain Covid\n\nFinancial aid has been provided and, in some cases, bills were temporarily frozen. In the UK it wasn't until September that a payment of £500 was offered to those self-isolating. However, in the first four months of the UK scheme, two-thirds of applicants were rejected. According to a Scientific Advice Group for Emergencies report released in September, less than 20% of people in the UK who were required to self-isolate, fully quarantined.\n\nNow, the UK government's expanding eligibility for the support payment. It says four million people could qualify.\n\nKerala's health minister KK Shailaja learned important lessons three years ago dealing with the deadly Nipah virus and has applied those lessons to tackling Covid. She insists that by ensuring support for those self-isolating, officials were able to control the spread and keep its hospitals from being overwhelmed.\n\nWith a population of 35 million, Kerala went from having the highest number of cases in India in March 2020 to having among the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world.\n\nAt the start of April, GP Lisa Federle began testing in care homes in the ancient town of Tübingen, in the Baden Württemberg state of Germany, to keep the virus out and to allow visitors.\n\nGP Lisa Federle began testing in care homes in the ancient town of Tübingen in April\n\nThe town's mayor, Boris Palmer, thought \"we have to build up a special protection shield for the people who carry the highest risk\". He had seen the impact of the virus in Italy and Spain on the older demographic. \"These are the elderly people, so we need special protection for them.\"\n\nMr Palmer used his local budget to prioritise care and support for the town's elderly population, including a subsidised taxi service, free masks delivered to homes and special shopping hours.\n\nIt meant the town's University Hospital, received fewer Covid-19 patients and wasn't forced to cancel other medical procedures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The son of an elderly man in Sweden told BBC Panorama his father \"was left to die\" after he tested positive for Covid\n\nUnlike the UK, where London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast made all the major decisions, Germany, with its federal system, allowed each of its states to decide locally how to respond to the virus. The elderly have been among the largest casualties of the pandemic - and, particularly in Europe, those living in care homes.\n\nAlthough visitors were banned in UK care homes right at the start, there was criticism that testing was slow. It wasn't until 15 April that it was announced by the UK government that all people discharged from hospitals into care homes needed to have a test. By July, at least 20,000 care-home residents in England and Wales had died from Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"When it comes to nursing homes, they're a vulnerable group and that should not have been a surprise,\" says Prof Dale Fisher, an expert in infectious diseases who was sent to the epicentre of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in February 2020.\n\n\"I think it's been obvious where in the world nursing homes weren't given attention, the death tolls there were significant.\"\n\nMore than 26 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine - part of the biggest inoculation programme the country has ever launched. While well behind world leader Israel, which has so far fully inoculated more than half its population, the UK has had extraordinary success with its vaccine programme.\n\nMore than 24 million people in the UK have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine\n\nThe UK's success is largely down to a tremendous effort in planning. The Department of Health and Social Care began planning a mass vaccination programme before there was even confirmation of the first Covid-19 case in the UK. In the summer, the government signed a contract for 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 30 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to see the full interactive Enter a country or territory to find out the progress of the vaccine rollout No vaccine data available. In some cases there may be a delay between announcements of vaccine programmes getting underway and data on doses delivered becoming available.\n\nIt's a different story in Europe - planning started later and the rollout has been slow. Only 8% of people in Europe have received a vaccine so far compared with 36% in the UK. The UK's vaccine deals were struck three months before the EU's.\n\nThe situation is worse across the developing world. While nearly all of Europe and the Americas have begun vaccination campaigns, only a handful of African countries have.\n\nMany poorer countries are relying on deliveries from Covax\n\nIn South Africa's Cape Town, Michael Kuta is one of the many people in the townships who volunteered to take part in a trial run by Dr Linda Gail-Bekker for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Michael doesn't know whether he has received the vaccine or a placebo, but he says, for him, its worth it. \"It's the only chance that I have to get the injection for the pandemic. To live,\" he says. \"My family still need me.\"\n\nMany poorer countries are relying on deliveries from Covax, a scheme led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which aims to ensure access for all to Covid vaccines. The UK is one of the largest contributors, donating nearly £500m. South Africa has signed up to the initiative.\n\nHowever, a vaccination strategy must be an international effort. In countries where access to a vaccine is limited, the virus has an opportunity to mutate - as it has in South Africa and Brazil - creating new variants that are more transmissible, which can spread abroad. Scientists fear they could be more resistant to existing vaccines and therefore threaten countries that have had a successful rollout.\n\nThe UK government says there'll be opportunities to look back, analyse and reflect. There will be an independent inquiry - at the appropriate time. But for now it is focused entirely on the pandemic, which has challenged health systems across the world.\n\nAs work continues to distribute the vaccine globally, it appears we have finally turned a corner in our fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nProf Dale Fisher says we cannot risk not learning the lessons of the last 12 months.\n\n\"We've been hit hard and paid a hefty price. One of the worst things we can do is when this is over, we just go back to normal. If you don't learn from it, then history will repeat itself.\"\n\nWatch Panorama's Who Got It Right? on BBC One at 19:00 GMT on Monday, 22 March, or later on the BBC iPlayer (UK only).", "The nurse's arm is outstretched and pointing forward in the fashion of a superhero on a mission\n\nA Banksy painting depicting a young boy playing with a superhero nurse doll has raised more than £16m for an NHS charity after being sold at auction.\n\nGame Changer, by the anonymous graffiti artist, appeared in a foyer at Southampton General Hospital during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nChristie's said the hammer price of £14.4m for the 1m (3ft) x 1m work was a \"world auction record\" for a Banksy.\n\nChristie's said it would be donating \"a significant portion\" of its premium, meaning a total of \"more than £16m\" would go to Southampton Hospitals Charity.\n\nBanksy had previously said the £9.9m received for his piece Devolved Parliament, showing the House of Commons overrun with chimpanzees, was the highest ever paid for one of his paintings.\n\nThe artwork was delivered to the hospital in May with a note, which said: \"Thanks for all you're doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if its only black and white.\"\n\nIt was hung near the emergency department and staff told the BBC at the time that it had helped boost morale.\n\nA reproduction of the canvas will remain on display at the hospital.\n\nAuctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen said Banksy's pledge to donate the proceeds to the NHS was \"an incredible gesture\" and described the sale as a \"historic moment\".\n\nA pre-sale estimate of £2.5m to £3.5m had been placed on the work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The artwork, Game Changer, will eventually be auctioned off to raise funds for NHS charities\n\nThe image shows a young boy kneeling and playing with a nurse superhero doll, complete with cape, while Batman and Spider-Man lie discarded in a nearby bin.\n\nPrior to the auction, Christie's said the artwork offered \"an image of hope\" and represented a \"personal tribute to those who continue to turn the tide of the pandemic\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Working from home, walking and shopping locally are among the lockdown behaviours that look likely to remain popular after pandemic restrictions are lifted, according to a new survey.\n\nThe study for BBC News and King's College London, conducted by Ipsos MORI, suggests virus regulations may have a lasting impact after Covid.\n\nSome 40% of 2,200 people surveyed said they expected to walk more than before.\n\nAnd staying at home appears to have connected people to their neighbours.\n\nThe survey also suggests the country is divided on whether the country is divided - 38% think the pandemic has deepened divisions, while 35% think it's brought people closer together.\n\nAlmost a third of workers (32%) say they anticipate working from home more and doing more of their shopping locally (31%). A quarter of commuters (23%) say they will do less travelling to work than they used to, rising to almost a third (31%) in London.\n\nIt remains to be seen how significant the move from office working will be, but the implications are potentially huge.\n\nIn the English capital, for example, a reduction of a third in the numbers making the daily trek into central London would be a major hit to the hospitality and other service sectors that rely on commuters.\n\nA number of big employers have suggested they expect to see a permanent reduction in the number of people working from offices or the number of days spent commuting.\n\nA shift in spending towards local neighbourhoods could bring economic advantages to smaller towns and High Streets, many of which have been badly affected by the move to online shopping.\n\nThe last year has not been uniformly bad for people. The survey suggests a quarter of the population (24%) had a \"much worse\" year than average, and two-thirds of people overall (65%) said it was \"worse\" than usual.\n\nBut one in 10 say the last year has actually been better than average.\n\nSurprisingly, perhaps, 18% of young people (16-24) say the last 12 months have been better than average.\n\nThe pandemic also appears to have changed political priorities.\n\nSeven in 10 say health workers should get more financial support from government. Around six in ten think the low-paid (62%) and social care staff (58%) deserve more help, and around half want homeless people (53%) and small businesses (50%) to get more state assistance.\n\nHowever, 44% say people in other countries who receive financial aid from the UK should get less money after the pandemic.\n\nIt may be a year since the start of the first nationwide lockdown, but it remains far from clear how this pandemic will change us and what the \"new normal\" might look like. The crisis is not yet over and the safety nets put in place by the government largely remain.\n\nHow we respond to the profound economic, political and social challenges that lie ahead will be the real test of how Covid has changed Britain.", "The size of the Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"increased deployability and technological advantage\" meant greater effect could be delivered by fewer people.\n\nHe set out plans for new capabilities such as electronic warfare and drones in the Commons.\n\nLabour has warned that \"size matters\" when it comes to defence.\n\nAnnouncing a major overhaul of the armed forces, Mr Wallace said it marked a shift from \"mass mobilisation to information age speed\", insisting they must be able to \"seek out and understand\" new threats to the country's security.\n\nHe said the government was increasing the UK defence spending by £24bn over the next four years.\n\nMr Wallace said it was tempting to use the \"shield of sentimentality\" to protect \"outdated capabilities\" but doing so would put lives at risk.\n\nThe Army currently has 76,500 personnel and has not been at its \"established strength\" of 82,000 troops since the middle of the last decade, Mr Wallace said.\n\n\"These changes will not require redundancies and we wish to build on the work already done on utilising our reserves to make sure the whole force is better integrated and more productive,\" he said.\n\nShadow defence secretary John Healey warned that while \"threats to Britain are increasing\" the plan was for \"fewer troops, fewer ships, fewer planes, over the next few years\".\n\nA cut to the size of the Army had been anticipated - with a reduction of 10,000 widely trailed.\n\nWhat Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced was a cut to the target for the number of fully trained people in the Army, from 82,040 today to 72,500 in 2025.\n\n\"Full-time trained strength\" is the number of soldiers who have completed both their general, basic training and a second phase of specialised training for a specific role.\n\nBut the Army is not currently meeting its target - there are actually 76,350 such soldiers in the Army, which is almost 6,000 short.\n\nSo the Ministry of Defence is already well on the way to getting down to its new target.\n\nThe changes set out in the paper - titled Defence in a Competitive Age - include £3bn for new vehicles, long-range rocket systems, drones, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities.\n\nIt sets out how forces will spend more time overseas to support allies and deter hostile powers, such as Russia.\n\nMr Wallace said previous reviews had been \"overambitious and underfunded leaving forces that were overstretched and underequipped\".\n\nThe size of the Army will be at its smallest since 1714 - with just 72,500 regular soldiers.\n\nThe number of tanks will be cut from 227 to 148 upgraded ones. The RAF will lose 24 of its older Typhoon jets and its fleet of Hercules transport aircraft. And the Royal Navy will be retiring two of its older frigates early before new ones come into service.\n\nAll this while the government says the threats are rising.\n\nThere will certainly be some pain before the armed forces experience the gains of extra investment. But there will be more money to invest in new technologies like robots and drones - and to compete in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nThe defence secretary, Ben Wallace, told MPs that his plans would equip the armed forces to fight the wars of the future.\n\nThey may be very different to what we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. Small teams of troops will be sent all over the world to train and assist partner nations with the focus on conflict prevention.\n\nBritish forces should be better able to counter cyber attacks and disinformation - the new front line of the so called \"greyzone\" now being exploited by Russia and China.\n\nBut defence chiefs still insist that a smaller armed forces would be able to pack a punch in any serious conflict.\n\nThe armed forces are being asked to match the government's \"Global Britain\" ambitions. But opposition parties, and some allies, question whether Britain's military can really do more with less.\n\nAs part of the military restructure, the Royal Marines will be transformed into a new Future Commando Force, taking on many of the traditional tasks of the special forces - the SAS and SBS (Special Air Service and Special Boat Service).\n\nThe force will receive more than £200m of direct investment over the next decade to carry out maritime security operations and to \"pre-empt and deter sub-threshold activity, and counter state threats\".\n\nSpace is another area of investment with the Ministry of Defence to prioritise more than £6.6bn for research and development over the next four years.\n\nNumerous aging RAF planes will be retired, as will the oldest Chinook helicopters, while Navy frigates and destroyers drop from 19 to 17 in the coming years.\n\nA third of the 227 Challenger tanks will be scrapped, with the rest of the fleet being upgraded at a cost of £1.3bn.\n\nAmong other changes announced:\n\nConservative chairman of the Commons Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood congratulated Mr Wallace for investments in \"cyber and autonomous platforms\" but warned that they came at a \"huge price to our conventional defence posture with dramatic cuts to our troop numbers, tanks, armoured fighting vehicles\".\n\nFollowing the publication last week of the separate so-called integrated review of foreign and defence policy, ministers have said big changes are necessary to create a more agile military.\n\nAs part of that review, the government increased the cap on UK nuclear warheads from 180 to 260.\n\nBoris Johnson spoke to Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the announcement and gave reassurances that increased investment would take the UK's total defence spending to 2.2% of GDP - above the Nato target, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.", "The number of workers on company payrolls in the UK climbed by almost 200,000 in the three months to February, amid signs that the jobs market may be stabilising.\n\nHowever, the number on payrolls is still 693,000 lower than last February, before Covid lockdown measures began.\n\nIt comes amid growing optimism that the vaccine rollout will lead to a faster-than-expected economic recovery.\n\nThe official unemployment rate now stands at 5%, down from 5.1% before.\n\nSam Beckett, head of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics, told the BBC's Today programme there was still a lot of uncertainty in the jobs market.\n\nShe added that people aged under 25 continued to bear the brunt of the job losses.\n\n\"Furlough is still doing a lot of heavy lifting in the labour market. There are around five million people still on furlough, it's down from its peak of nine million but has been rising recently.\n\n\"But you have to remember the underlying picture is that close to 700,000 people have come off the payroll since the start of the pandemic so there has been a large fall in employment since the start\n\n\"Around two-thirds of the fall is under-25s. London has been particularly hard hit.\"\n\nThe latest figures cover a period when most parts of the UK entered strict lockdowns.\n\nHowever, the number of workers on payroll increased for the third month in a row in February, the ONS said.\n\nThe number of redundancies across the UK also fell slightly to 11 per 1,000 people in January - down from 14 per 1,000 two months previously.\n\nDespite this, the ONS said the jobs crisis remained acute, with 1.7 million people out of work - around a five-year high.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"People aged 50-plus are finding they are being overlooked\"\n\nIt said the hospitality and retail industries had been hit particularly hard, with a total of 491,000 payroll jobs lost across both sectors since the pandemic began.\n\nNonetheless, commentators said they believed the worst may soon be over as the vaccine programme gradually allows the UK economy to reopen.\n\n\"Overall, we think employment is getting close to its trough,\" said Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics. \"We still expect the unemployment rate to rise to 6% by early 2022, but the bulk of that will be driven by those who left the labour force returning, rather than people losing their jobs.\"\n\nIt echoes projections from the government's fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which has forecast that the unemployment rate will peak at 6.5% this year instead of the 11.9% predicted last July.\n\nUnemployment stayed generally stable in January despite further national lockdowns. On some weekly or monthly measures, joblessness actually fell a little to just below 5%, despite the compulsory closure of large swathes of the hospitality industry at the beginning of the year.\n\nThis is thanks to two factors - the fact that five million people are on the furlough scheme and the fact that employers have become better adapted to lockdowns.\n\nThe ONS also tried to assess just how many foreign workers left the UK last year. While some estimates had put the fall at over one million, the ONS suggested the fall was around 180,000, or the same as the population of the city of Portsmouth.\n\nThat is entirely the result of EU workers leaving the UK. The number of non-EU workers actually increased a little during the pandemic.\n\nBecky O'Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, said the latest data showed \"chinks of light\" but that the impact of the crisis would be felt for some time to come.\n\n\"Even as work opportunities return, people who have lost their jobs or part of their income will need continued support as the economy opens back up.\n\n\"If the doors to work reopen for those people, their decimated personal finances from a year of lost income will take far longer to get back off the ground.\"\n\nAccording to official figures, the UK economy shrank by 2.9% in January amid the third lockdown, but the drop was much smaller than expected, suggesting businesses have adapted to trading in lockdown.\n\nIt has added to growing expectations that the recovery will be stronger than previously expected, although last week the Bank of England cautioned that the outlook remained \"unusually uncertain\".", "There have been Saudi-led air strikes of the capital, Sanaa, which under Houthi control\n\nSaudi Arabia has proposed a new peace plan to end nearly six years of war in Yemen.\n\nIt suggests a UN-supervised ceasefire between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran.\n\nThe plan also includes the reopening of vital air and sea links, and the start of political negotiations.\n\nHouthi rebels have said the offer did not appear to go far enough to lift the air and sea blockade in place.\n\nThe proposal was announced in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who called on the Houthis, who control large swathes of Yemen, to accept it.\n\nHe said the ceasefire would come into force as soon as the Houthis accepted it.\n\nYemen's internationally recognised government has welcomed the offer, but the Houthis have said the initiative provided \"nothing new\", and fell short of their demand for a complete lifting of the blockade on the airport in the capital, Sanaa, and the western port of Hudaydah.\n\n\"We expected that Saudi Arabia would announce an end to the blockade of ports and airports and an initiative to allow in 14 ships that are held by the coalition,\" Houthi chief negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe group would continue to talk with the Saudis, the US and mediator Oman for a peace agreement, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSaudi officials say they are co-ordinating their steps with the United Nations and the United States, which have also stepped up their efforts to end a conflict which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.\n\nOnly days ago, the Houthis rejected a US plan for a nationwide ceasefire.\n\nA peace plan is already in the works; international diplomacy has been quietly accelerating for months. A push by UN envoy Martin Griffiths was recently bolstered by US President Joe Biden's new focus on ending this war, and the appointment of US special envoy Tim Lenderking to help make it happen.\n\nRiyadh's decision to make its own public statement underscores how it backs this effort to find a way out of this destructive conflict. And it wants to ensure it's being seen to do so. If these new moves don't work, the blame would lie with the Houthis. It could also help confirm the kingdom was in lockstep with its American ally, especially when that relationship is still strained over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nRiyadh's new concessions, including the opening of vital air and sea links, will help ease the enormous suffering of Yemenis. They are also longstanding Houthi demands.\n\nThis intensifying diplomacy also competes with the Houthis' drive for battlefield gains, including the capture of the strategic town of Marib. Western diplomats express hope that this now-stalled offensive could provide a window to accelerate efforts on the negotiating front. But it won't be easy.\n\nIran, which backs the Houthis, may also see an opportunity to burnish its own peace-making credentials. Whatever brings the warring sides to the table will be welcomed by an exhausted people on the brink of famine in this endless war.\n\nThe Saudi offer coincides with increasing drone and missile attacks by Houthi rebels on Saudi energy and security infrastructure.\n\nThere's also been renewed bombing by the Saudi-led coalition of Sanaa, which is under Houthi control.\n\nMany previous peace plans for Yemen have failed, including last year's Saudi ceasefire. But the kingdom is now offering some concessions the Houthis have long called for, including the opening of the international airport in Sanaa, currently under Houthi control, although the Saudi-led coalition controls the airspace.\n\nIf the warring sides agree to a ceasefire, it would be supervised by the UN and help pave the way for peace talks.\n\nThe two sides are still far apart, but this is the most concerted effort to try to bring them together, the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says.\n\nThe conflict began in late 2014, when rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states launched a military operation to restore President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's rule.\n\nRiyadh led a military coalition into the country in 2015 to prop up the internationally recognised government, but it has struggled to oust the rebels.\n\nAn estimated 20 million people - two-thirds of the Yemeni population - depend on humanitarian assistance. Some two million children are acutely malnourished.\n\nIn addition to conflict, Yemen has seen a collapse of its health system, leaving it incapable of coping with the coronavirus pandemic.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 80 officers took part in searches in the Carrickfergus area\n\nFive men have been arrested as part of a major anti-drug supply operation in Carrickfergus.\n\nThe operation, led by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, involved more than 80 officers and six warrants.\n\nThe men, aged 33, 38, 39, 40 and 43, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to supply Class A drugs.\n\nIt is part of a long-running operation into the alleged organised crime activities of the South East Antrim UDA.\n\nOfficers from the task force, which is made up of members of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and PSNI, are questioning the men at Musgrave Police Station.\n\nThe National Crime Task Force says the operation is \"hugely significant\"\n\nThe arrests relate to the seizure of more than one kilogram of cocaine found in two parked cars and nearby land in the Greenisland area in November 2020.\n\nNCA deputy director of investigations, Craig Naylor, said the operation was \"hugely significant\" and would have \"substantially disrupted\" the activities of the South East Antrim UDA.\n\n\"The South East Antrim UDA have long known to be involved in many forms of organised criminality, doing untold damage to the community and exerting fear in neighbourhoods,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt John McVea, the PSNI's head of criminal investigations branch, said drugs cause \"nothing but destruction and distress\".\n\nThe Paramilitary Crime Task Force had \"resilience and determination to target, disrupt and frustrate those who continue to do the greatest harm to the people living in our communities\", he added.", "Godzilla vs Kong will fight it out in US cinemas from next month\n\nCineworld has announced it will reopen US cinemas next month, followed by the UK in May, after signing a deal with Warner Bros to show films in theatres before they are streamed.\n\nThe company will open a handful of its Regal cinemas in the US in early April.\n\nGodzilla vs. Kong will be the first film to make its debut in the theatres.\n\nCineworld said the deal with Warner Bros means films will have a period of exclusivity in cinemas before being made more widely available.\n\nIt follows a row last year when Cineworld and rival AMC, which owns the Odeon Cinemas chain, criticised Universal Pictures for releasing Trolls: World Tour online while theatres were forced to close because of the coronavirus.\n\nBoth Cineworld and AMC threatened not to show some Universal Pictures films.\n\nHowever, AMC later reached an agreement with Universal where films would first show in theatres for a period before becoming available to rent online.\n\nUnder its deal with Warner Bros., from next year Cineworld can exclusively show its films for 45 days. In the UK, the period will be 31 days though that can be extended to 45 days for movies \"that open to an agreed upon box-office threshold\".\n\n\"This agreement shows the studio's commitment to the theatrical business and we see this agreement as an important milestone in our 100-year relationship with Warner Bros,\" said Cineworld chief executive Mooky Greidinger.\n\nMortal Kombat will be released in April\n\nGodzilla vs. Kong, starring English actress Millie Bobby Brown, will start showing on 2 April in the US in a phased reopening of Cineworld's Regal theatres. It will be followed by Mortal Kombat, the movie based on the hugely popular computer game, on 16 April.\n\nThe company said it also plans to reopen in the UK - which is its second biggest market - in May, \"in line with current government guidance\".\n\nThe cinema industry has been one of the worst hit sectors during the pandemic with many theatres closed for extended periods or operating at reduced capacity.\n\nGlobal box office takings in 2020 fell by more than 70% from the previous year to $12.4bn, according film technology firm Gower Street Analytics.\n\nDune, starring Zendaya, will now be released in October this year\n\nMajor releases such as the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, have been delayed a number of times because of Covid.\n\nThe much-anticipated sci-fi movie Dune, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, was originally slated to be released in December 2020, but is now set to premiere in October 2021.", "The penguins had to take a 17-hour trip through England and Scotland to get to their new home\n\nFourteen Humboldt penguins have had to make an international trek across four countries to a new home after Covid restrictions interfered with a move.\n\nThe birds' trip from the Isle of Man to Northern Ireland, which should have been a short trip across the Irish Sea, was hit by local travel restrictions.\n\nAs a result, the only route from Curraghs Wildlife Park to Exploris Aquarium was via England and Scotland.\n\nThe park's manager said it was a \"miracle\" the move had gone to plan.\n\nKathleen Graham added that arranging the logistics had felt \"like spinning 20 plates in the air\".\n\n\"It was a great team effort,\" she added.\n\nThe birds were transported to Northern Ireland by land and sea\n\nThe move was part of a European breeding programme for endangered animals.\n\nThe Ballaugh park has successfully reared 15 penguins in the last three years, recording 10 births in 2020 alone, and with plans to continue breeding, the decision was taken in June to relocate the site's youngest birds.\n\nHowever, the plan to move them to Northern Ireland was hit by Covid-19 regulations and Brexit-related paperwork.\n\nThere is currently no direct route from the Isle of Man to Northern Ireland, which meant the penguins had to be loaded into a temperature-controlled van and taken by ferry to England, before being driven to Scotland for another sailing across to Belfast.\n\nThey arrived at the aquarium in Portaferry on Friday, 17 hours after setting off.\n\nThe site's managing director Kieran Quinn said the birds were \"settling in and feeding well\" and had already created a \"buzz around the town\".\n\nHumboldt penguins, which are native to South America, are classed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.\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• None Park has 'best year ever' for penguins\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 giant ship is causing a traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways\n\nA giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade routes.\n\nDozens of vessels are stuck, waiting for rescue boats to free the 400m-long (1,312ft) ship, which was knocked off course by strong winds.\n\nEgypt has reopened the canal's older channel to divert some traffic until the grounded ship can move again.\n\nThe blockage sent oil prices climbing on international markets.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nThe Ever Given, registered in Panama and operated by the shipping company Evergreen, was bound for the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from China and was passing northwards through the canal on its way to the Mediterranean.\n\nThe 200,000 tonne ship, built in 2018 and operated by Taiwanese transport company Evergreen Marine, ran aground and became lodged sideways across the waterway at about 07:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nAt 400m long and 59m wide, the ship has blocked the path of other vessels which are now trapped in lines in both directions.\n\nThe company that manages the container ship, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), has denied earlier reports that the ship had already been partially refloated.\n\nIn a statement, it said its \"immediate priorities are to safely re-float the vessel and for marine traffic in the Suez Canal to safely resume\".\n\nExperts have warned the process could take several days.\n\nReuters, quoting local sources, says there are at least 30 ships blocked to the north of the Ever Given, and three to the south.\n\nEvergreen Marine said the ship was \"suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate... and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground\".\n\nBSM confirmed on Wednesday that all crew were \"safe and accounted for\", with no reports of injuries.\n\nEight tug boats are working to refloat the ship, and diggers on the ground have been removing sand from where it is wedged into the side of the canal bank.\n\nDr Sal Mercogliano, a maritime historian based in the US state of North Carolina, told the BBC that incidents such as this were rare, but could have \"huge ramifications for global trade\".\n\nFears that the blockage could tie up shipments of crude oil caused prices to rise by 4% on international markets on Wednesday, Reuters reported.\n\nThe Kpler energy intelligence service said that more than 20 oil tankers carrying crude and refined products were affected by the jam.\n\n\"This is the largest vessel ever to go aground in the Suez Canal,\" he said, adding that the ship got lodged in the embankment and would have lost power and its ability to steer.\n\n\"If they are unable to pull her free... in a high tide, they are going to have to start removing cargo.\"\n\nJulianna Cona, who says she is on board another ship located directly behind the Ever Given, wrote on Instagram: \"Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways looks like we might be here for a little bit...\"\n\nThe Suez Canal is an artery of world trade, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and providing an avenue for vessels to pass between Asia and the Middle East and Europe. The main alternative, a passage round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, takes considerably longer.\n\nOn average, nearly 50 vessels per day pass along the canal, although at times the number can be much higher - accounting for some 12% of world trade. It is particularly important as an avenue for oil and liquified natural gas, enabling shipments to get from the Middle East to Europe.\n\nThe nightmare scenario, then, is for this crucial route to be blocked - which is exactly what has now happened with the stranding of the Ever Given. The question now is how long the route remains impassable, as a long delay would create serious problems for shippers, delaying consignments of goods and fuel.\n\nOn this occasion, reports suggest traffic could be flowing again relatively quickly, in which case the impact will be limited, although there has been a rise in the oil price.\n\nBut the incident has shown what can go wrong when the new generation of ultra-large vessels like the Ever Given have to pass through the relatively tight confines of the canal. Although parts of it were expanded as part of a major modernisation programme in the middle of the last decade, it remains tricky to navigate - and accidents can happen.\n\nThe ship has the capacity to carry 20,000 20-ft shipping containers, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nNearly 19,000 ships passed through the canal in 2020, according to the Suez Canal Authority - an average of 51.5 ships per day.\n\nIn 2017, a Japanese container vessel blocked the canal after it ran aground following reported mechanical issues. The Egyptian authorities deployed tug boats and the ship was refloated within hours.\n\nThe Suez Canal crosses the Suez Isthmus in Egypt - a strip of land between the Mediterranean and Red Sea. The canal is 193km (120 miles) long and incorporates three natural lakes.\n\nIn 2015, Egypt's government opened a major expansion of the canal that deepened the main waterway and provided ships with a 35km (22 mile) channel parallel to it.", "Boris Johnson has told a private meeting of Tory MPs that the success of the UK's Covid vaccine programme was because of \"capitalism\" and \"greed\".\n\nBut sources said the prime minister had \"very insistently\" withdrawn his comments straight after making them during a Zoom call with backbenchers.\n\nThe remarks were not connected to the EU row over vaccine supply, they added.\n\nA government source said the PM was referring to the profit motive driving companies to develop new products.\n\nThe PM also reportedly praised work by large drug companies during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's full remarks, which first appeared in the Sun newspaper, were reported to be: \"The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends.\"\n\nWales Office Minister David TC Davies, who attended the meeting, said Mr Johnson \"made it absolutely clear it was a joke - a reference to the film Wall Street\".\n\nHe added: \"Whoever leaked that needs to take a long hard look at themselves because it was very irresponsible.\"\n\nThe remarks came as some 28.3 million people in the UK - more than half the adult population - have had at least a first dose of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines.\n\nBut the latest figures show jabs being administered across the EU at less than a third of the rate achieved so far in the UK.\n\nOver the last few days, Mr Johnson has been speaking to European leaders in an effort to dissuade them from imposing an export ban on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports to the UK when they meet on Thursday.\n\nOne MP told me the prime minister's \"greed\" comments had been intended to poke fun at the chief whip, who was gobbling his cheese and pickle while sitting next to him during the meeting.\n\nBelieve it or not, the Conservative Party's boss of discipline, Mark Spencer, has been christened with the nickname \"Big Farmer\", like \"Big Pharma\" - the pharmaceutical companies.\n\nAnd it's vehemently denied that the PM's comments were designed to stir up anything in the row with the EU.\n\nSources are adamant that Mr Johnson was not intending to be critical of the pharmaceutical companies in any way.\n\nDuring the MPs' committee meeting, Mr Johnson praised AstraZeneca for providing vaccines in the UK at cost.\n\nOne of those who attended said they had never seen anyone withdraw a comment \"so fast or so vehemently\" as the prime minister's one on procurement.\n\nMr Johnson \"realised he had messed up as soon as he had said it, and didn't mean it\", the MP added.\n\nSeveral sources said he had asked those present to \"remove that comment from your collective memory\".\n\nIt is understood the prime minister did not compare the UK's vaccination efforts with those of EU countries during his address.\n\nIn his Budget earlier this month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an extra £1.65bn to help reach the target of offering a first dose to every UK adult by 31 July.", "Alexander Monson died in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of smoking cannabis\n\nFour police officers in Kenya are to stand trial over the death of a British man in 2012 after a judge ruled the case should be heard.\n\nAlexander Monson, 28, died in police custody when he was arrested in Kenya for allegedly smoking cannabis.\n\nPolice have in the past said Monson died of an overdose, but his family say he was killed by officers.\n\nMonson's mother welcomed the ruling, saying \"we hope at the end of day justice for my son will be served\".\n\nFour officers - Naftali Chege, Charles Wangombe Munyiri, Baraka Bulima and John Pamba - are accused of killing Monson.\n\n\"The accused should tell the court what happened since the deceased was arrested in good health,\" High Court Judge Erick Ogolla ruled on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem found that he died after suffering a traumatic blow to the head.\n\nToxicology reports also showed he had no drugs in his system at the time of his death.\n\nIn 2018 an inquest ruled that he had been beaten to death.\n\nIt also found there had been attempts to cover up the incident in the city of Monbasa, as well as threats against witnesses.\n\nThe trial is due to begin on 10 May.\n\nMr Monson, who was the son of the 12th Baron Monson and heir to the family estate in Lincolnshire, moved to Kenya to live with his mother Hilary Monson in 2008.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fishermen on Lake Victoria in Kenya have begun using some of Africa’s first electric fishing boats\n• None How a Kenyan town morphed into 'Little Italy'", "An Abu Dhabi investment fund has agreed to pay £800m into UK life sciences, in what could be the first of billions of pounds of investment in the UK.\n\nMubadala, one of the UAE's most active funds, will invest the money over five years.\n\nAbu Dhabi is set to invest heavily in British health, tech, green energy and infrastructure, according to the Financial Times.\n\nIt is thought investments in the other sectors will be of a similar scale.\n\nThe exact size of the total investment is not yet clear, the FT said, but could be worth up to £5bn.\n\nThe UK government said Mubadala's investment in UK life sciences would be \"deployed alongside the UK's £200m Life Sciences Investment Programme\", which was announced last year.\n\n\"This partnership will enable the UK life sciences sector to develop cutting-edge technologies and research while retaining homegrown innovation and jobs,\" said the UK Minister for Investment, Gerry Grimstone.\n\n\"It will also leverage the UK and UAE's mutual priorities in building better and stronger economies through investment.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the minister had told the FT: \"We think the future opportunities are very, very sizeable.\"\n\nAbu Dhabi is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and gas.\n\nKhaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, group chief executive of Mubadala, said: \"Mubadala is already a long-term investor in UK innovation and growth, and our new partnership now provides a platform to allocate stable capital to priority sectors as part of a future-focused investment relationship.\"\n\nThe move follows recent news that the UK is creating four regional trade and investment hubs to boost economic growth across the UK, as well as dropping tariffs on some US goods, put in place over a related dispute about US subsidies to Boeing.\n\nSecretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss said on Monday that the hubs would be located in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and Darlington.\n\nThe government says the new hubs will provide support and advice to help regional businesses to access major trade markets and boost exports, as part its efforts to boost pandemic recovery. Some experts, however, said that the choice of location was misguided.\n\nAt the chancellor's recent Budget, emphasis was also placed on investment in the life sciences, clean energy and technology industries.\n\nMr Sunak announced the creation of a national infrastructure bank that would mainly invest in green projects ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in the UK later in November.", "Karen Dakin and her husband Jeff hope to buy a new family home\n\nA school dinner lady who scooped a £1m lottery win said she had no plans to give up the day job.\n\nKaren Dakin, 53, from Nacton near Ipswich, has worked throughout the pandemic helping to look after the children of key workers.\n\nShe said the money - for matching five main numbers and a bonus ball - would allow her family to buy a house.\n\n\"I have absolutely no plans to give up being a dinner lady - I love my job, the school and all the kids,\" she said.\n\nHer lucky numbers were the ones she had always used and were based on her son Callum's date and time of birth.\n\n\"When I called the National Lottery line, I remember the man on the other end of the phone saying 'you're rather calm!', after he'd just confirmed the life-changing news,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\n\"I guess I was just in a state of absolute shock!\"\n\nThe couple are also planning to spend their winnings on a holiday\n\nThe lucky winner said it had been a tough couple of years for her family after her husband, Jeff, 60, had a serious stroke in November 2018.\n\n\"All of my family were amazing, as was the school where I work during the toughest of years, and I am looking forward to celebrating with all of them as soon as it is safe to do so,\" she said.\n\nThe couple, who have been married for 35 years, have already started looking at properties to buy.\n\n\"We love the area so will stay local but it'll mean so much - more space for us all and the peace of mind of having no mortgage. It's amazing,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\nThey are also planning a holiday for when it is safe to travel again.\n\n\"We've never been able to afford a holiday before and Callum has never actually been on one,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\n\"After the time we've all been through we'd love to get away - maybe Center Parcs before a big trip to Disneyworld in Florida.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How one lottery winner spent his £108m jackpot", "Police say the burglary was carried out in the area of Sandy Lane and Station Road, Rhosneigr\n\nAn elderly woman was tied up in her own home by two men posing as police officers.\n\nPolice said the men made off with cash and a large metal safe after confronting the woman at her home in Rhosneigr, on Anglesey, on Monday.\n\nThe burglary was carried out at about 19:30 GMT in the area of Sandy Lane and Station Road, North Wales Police said.\n\n\"This was a terrifying ordeal for the victim,\" said Det Insp Andy Gibson, who appealed for information.\n\n\"We are particularly keen to hear from residents who may have had any cold callers to their property, or seen any suspicious vehicles in the area,\" he added.\n\n\"We are also appealing to anyone who may have driven through Rhosneigr at this time and may have dashcam footage.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives assigned to this investigation who will continue to follow up all lines of enquiry.\"", "Poorer students in England are up to three A-level grades behind more affluent students, research suggests.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute (EPI) said lower GCSE grades, then fewer and lower level qualifications aged 16-19, causes a \"disadvantage gap\".\n\nIt found in some areas, poorer students were up to five grades behind.\n\nThe Department for Education says it provided over £530m in 2020-21 to support college students.\n\nStudents from poorer families begin their A-level or vocational courses already behind more affluent students, and continue to fall further behind, according to analysis by the EPI.\n\nIn the first ever study to measure the education \"disadvantage gap\" among students aged 16-19, provisional findings show that across all qualifications, poorer students are the equivalent of three A-level grades behind similar students from richer families.\n\nBut there were variations across England, with poorer students the equivalent of around five A-level grades behind in areas including Knowsley on Merseyside, North Somerset and Stockton-on-Tees.\n\nIn sharp contrast in many London areas, poorer students are level with or even slightly ahead of their more affluent peers.\n\nThe EPI looked at students' free school meal status during their last six years of school and their attainment, based on qualifications and grades between the end of secondary school and by the age of 19.\n\nIt finds the gap is bigger in A-levels than vocational qualifications.\n\nThe researchers say there was no progress in closing the gap between 2017 to 2019, and suggest it is likely to get worse due the impact of the pandemic which has effected poorer communities more severely.\n\nSam Tuckett, senior researcher at the EPI, said: \"For the very first time, this exploratory research gives us a clear understanding of how disadvantaged sixth form and college students are progressing with their learning compared to their peers.\n\n\"Our findings demonstrate very plainly that deep-seated inequalities follow poorer teenagers from school through to sixth form and college, and continue to widen further compared to otherwise similar students, as they work towards their qualifications.\"\n\nThe big gaps in grades is largely explained by poorer students already having lower grades at the end of their GCSEs, the researchers say.\n\nDisadvantaged students are also more likely to take fewer and lower-level qualifications which adds to the gap in results.\n\nThere is a \"strong case\" for extra funding for 16-19 education to stop poor pupils falling further behind, the report suggests.\n\nAnd targeted support is urgently needed to address learning losses caused by the pandemic, which is likely to impact the poorest students the most.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, called for the pupil premium which gives extra money to schools to help poorer pupils, to be extended beyond the age of 16.\n\n\"Young people in England's school sixth forms and colleges have lower hours of teaching, less support and less enrichment than their peers in other countries, and less than those in private schools. That needs to change.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said the report provides a welcome perspective on the \"chronic underfunding\" of sixth form education.\n\n\"There is now a broad consensus that young people need additional support to recover from the disruption to their education caused by Covid, but as this report illustrates, sixth forms and colleges have been helping students to recover from a range of disadvantages for many years.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are determined to ensure disadvantaged students are properly supported while studying at college or sixth form so they can gain the skills they need to progress.\n\n\"This includes providing extra funding for disadvantaged 16 to 19-year-old students, specifically those with low prior attainment or who live in the most disadvantaged areas.\"", "Surgeon Scott Green, right, insisted he was able to continue with the hearing\n\nA doctor in Sacramento, California joined a traffic court hearing on Zoom while performing surgery on a patient.\n\nScott Green was dressed in surgical scrubs in an operating theatre when he appeared at his virtual trial on Thursday, the Sacramento Bee reported.\n\nWhen questioned by the judge, Mr Green said he was happy to go ahead, and that he had \"another surgeon right here who's doing the surgery with me\".\n\nThe judge said that would not be \"appropriate\" and postponed the trial.\n\nThe Medical Board of California has now said in a statement that it would look into the incident, adding that it \"expects physicians to follow the standard of care when treating their patients\".\n\nBefore the Sacramento Superior Court hearing, which was livestreamed on YouTube, a court clerk asked the plastic surgeon: \"Hello, Mr Green? Hi. Are you available for trial? It kind of looks like you're in an operating room.\"\n\nGreen responded: \"I am, sir. Yes, I'm in an operating room right now. Yes, I'm available for trial. Go right ahead.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ajit Pai This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 clerk told Mr Green that the hearing was being livestreamed online, because traffic hearings are required by law to be open to the public. At the same time, an officer summoned to appear in court raised her eyebrows.\n\nWhile waiting for the judge, Court Commissioner Gary Link, to enter the Zoom, Mr Green appeared to continue operating on the patient.\n\nOnce Mr Link had joined, he told the hearing: \"So unless I'm mistaken, I'm seeing a defendant that's in the middle of an operating room appearing to be actively engaged in providing services to a patient. Is that correct, Mr Green? Or should I say Dr Green?\"\n\nAfter the surgeon confirmed he was in the middle of performing surgery, and that he would be happy to continue, Mr Link said: \"I do not feel comfortable for the welfare of a patient if you're in the process of operating that I would put on a trial, notwithstanding the fact the officer is here today.\"\n\nMr Green then insisted he was able to go ahead, adding: \"I have another surgeon right here who's doing the surgery with me, so I can stand here and allow them to do the surgery also.\"\n\nMr Link replied: \"I don't think so, I don't think that's appropriate. I'm going to come up with a different date - when you're not actively involved or participating and attending to the needs of a patient.\"\n\nThe surgeon reportedly told NBC News: \"That's not accurate and I have nothing to say. Thank you.\"\n\nThis isn't the first Zoom court mishap to go viral.\n\nEarlier this month, a lawyer was unable to remove a cat filter from his screen, before telling the judge he was happy to go ahead anyway: \"I'm here live, I'm not a cat.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCatalan police say they have made four arrests after searching the offices of Spanish side Barcelona.\n\nThe identity of those involved have not yet been confirmed by police, who said their investigation is continuing.\n\nThe police operation was conducted on Monday after an investigation into financial issues at Barcelona.\n\nThose issues are thought to be related to the 'Barcagate' scandal in 2020 when the club denied hiring a firm to attack their own players on social media.\n\nThe club's presidential elections take place on Sunday after their previous president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, announced his resignation in October.\n\nAccording to Spanish media reports, Bartomeu is among those arrested - although police have not confirmed this.\n\nIn a statement, Barcelona said the police searches related to the \"contacting of monitoring services on social networks\".\n\n\"FC Barcelona have offered up their full collaboration to the legal and police authorities to help make clear facts which are subject to investigation,\" the club said.\n\n\"The information and documentation requested by the judicial police force relate strictly to the facts relative to this case.\n\n\"FC Barcelona expresses its utmost respect for the judicial process in place and for the principle of presumed innocence for the people affected within the remit of this investigation.\"\n\nPolice said they also searched four other properties as part of their investigation, \"which has been going on for almost a year\".\n\nThe idea that one of the world's most prestigious football clubs would hire a social media company to run an undercover smear campaign against its own players and their families seems far-fetched beyond belief.\n\nBut considering the battering that Barca's reputation took under former president Josep Maria Bartomeu, it's perhaps almost a logical development.\n\nThis story has been rumbling around for more than a year, and was one of the sources of a deep rift between the old board and the playing squad that led captain Lionel Messi to launch an aborted attempt to quit the Nou Camp last summer, and ultimately led to Bartomeu's overdue resignation.\n\nPerhaps the saddest thing is that nobody around Barcelona would be particularly surprised if the accusations proved to be accurate.\n\nThe timing of Monday's police action is ironic, coming just a few days before the disgraced Bartomeu's successor is anointed in the presidential elections.\n\nWhoever wins that vote of the club's members, Monday's news makes it painfully clear that, in addition to rebuilding a world-class team on the field of play, the task of restoring Barca's ruined reputation for being 'more than a club' is equally enormous.\n• None Weezer, Green Day and more on the ultimate pop-rock mixtape", "Images of contestants have been shared on social media\n\nThe makers of Love Island in South Africa have promised more diverse contestants will feature on the show.\n\nThe starting line-up for its new series was criticised by some viewers for being predominantly white.\n\nOnly three of the ten contestants were black, despite South Africa having a population that is more than 80% black according to recent data.\n\nA spokeswoman for DStv said \"we pride ourselves in reflecting diversity and inclusion for all our shows\".\n\nShe added: \"Viewers can be assured that this will become more apparent in future episodes of Love Island SA.\n\n\"We hope viewers will keep watching to enjoy the new stars of the show who will be arriving over the next few days.\"\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\nThe black male contestants are Asad Boomgaard, a 24-year-old from Johannesburg and 22-year-old Durang Atembe from Cameroon.\n\nThimna Shooto, 26 from Mossel Bay, is the only black female contestant to feature so far.\n\nCriticism came mostly from viewers on Twitter, with comments made about how the show does not represent the people who live in South Africa.\n\nHistorically, a much higher proportion of black South Africans have lived in poverty. In the first half of the last decade, the proportion of black and coloured (the term used in the country for people who are mixed-race) people in poverty increased, according to the government's own data.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe show is made by production company Rapid Blue for the DStv network.\n\nThe commercial arm of the BBC, called BBC Studios, is a majority shareholder in Rapid Blue, which makes a number of reality TV shows in South Africa including The Bachelor and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.\n\nLove Island has now been franchised to several countries across the world, including the USA, Germany, France and Norway after the popularity of the British version.\n\nAustralia's latest season of the show is being broadcast in the UK from this week.\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 bbcnewsbeat This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The meteor lit up the sky over Somerset\n\nThe hunt is on for meteorite fragments that are likely to have fallen to Earth over England on Sunday night.\n\nMany people across Northern Europe saw a fireball in the sky shortly before 22:00 GMT, and the streak of light was also caught on special cameras.\n\nScientists think some pieces will have survived the intense heat of atmospheric entry and hit the ground.\n\nA computer model that analysed the camera data suggests the probable site of impact is just north of Cheltenham.\n\n\"We can track the fireball really well, but the 'black magic' starts when it goes dark - when the light goes out and it still has another 10-20km to reach the ground,\" explained Dr Ashley King from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) and London's Natural History Museum (NHM).\n\n\"Strong winds can blow the object off course of where you think it's going to land, and that's what we're working on now. But, yes, somewhere north of Cheltenham, out towards Stow-on-the-Wold,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe fireball produced a sonic boom as it hurtled across the southern England sky. Eyewitness accounts describe the object breaking up into several defined streaks just before going dark.\n\nAny fragments that made it to the ground will be small, smaller than an orange, say, and are likely to be dark and shiny.\n\nAnyone who finds what they think might be a meteorite is asked to photograph it in situ, noting the GPS co-ordinates from a phone, if that's possible.\n\nThe object should then be bagged without direct handling. And the absolute no-no: do not put a magnet near the object. This could destroy important information needed to study the rock.\n\n\"We've learned over the years that most meteorites carry a kind of intrinsic magnetic record within them from when they were in space,\" said Dr King.\n\n\"We can actually study that and learn about where these things came from and how they formed. But if you put a magnet on the object, it's a little bit like wiping your credit card with a magnet. We lose all of that information.\"\n\nSome of the trajectory work from the camera data has already suggested the object originated in the outer asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter.\n\n\"Most of the asteroids further away from the Sun tend to be these carbonaceous type that have got water and volatile materials in them but until we actually get our hands on some fragments, we can't say for certain,\" Dr King told BBC News.\n\nScientists from the UKFAll and meteorite experts from the universities of Glasgow and Manchester and the NHM are interested to hear from anyone who thinks they may have found something of interest.\n\nEven if you just have a photo or video of the event, the researchers request you upload and share it.\n\nBetween 10 and 20 meteorites are estimated to fall to the ground in the UK each year, but it's rare that any fragments are actually picked up.\n\nThe last recovered fall was in 1991 - the so called Glatton Meteorite, because it fell in the village of Glatton near Peterborough.\n\nMr Arthur Pettifor was tending his onions in his garden when a 10cm rock fell into his hedge.\n\nMr Pettifor would show off the Glatton Meteorite at the village fete", "Passengers have complained of queues of up to seven hours long at Heathrow Airport's border control.\n\nOne passenger described a mother having to feed her baby on the floor, saying conditions were \"not humane\".\n\nA union for border control workers said Covid security measures designed to reduce infections was leading to inadequate staffing.\n\nHeathrow Airport said the government needed to make sure there were enough staff to cope with demand.\n\nAlicia, 26, who did not want her surname used, was flying back from Vienna after attending a medical appointment for her leg.\n\nShe told the BBC she began queuing to go through border control at 18:30 on Sunday evening, but did not get through until 01:30 on Monday.\n\n\"I felt really unsafe,\" she said. \"It was really disorganised. One mother had to feed her baby on the floor. It's not humane.\"\n\nAlicia added: \"The staff didn't offer any chairs, there was no social distancing. Only about three or four people were checking documents.\"\n\nSeveral passengers told the BBC that they had spent five, six or seven hours waiting at the border on Sunday evening with only a few border force officials processing their paperwork.\n\nCamilla Tetley said it felt like passengers had been left 'stranded'\n\nCamilla Tetley, 26, was flying back from Dusseldorf having spent Christmas with her parents who live there. She said she joined the queue at passport control at 7pm and didn't leave it until 1:30am.\n\n\"The queue never seemed to end. There was nowhere to sit, including for people with children or older people. I felt like we were just left stranded,' Ms Tetley said.\n\n\"There was some water at two hour intervals. We asked people what was going on and how long it would be, but no one seemed to know. There were lots of empty booths at the front of the queue so it looked like the space wasn't being used very well.\n\n\"We were quite crowded in as well. It seemed like it was quite mismanaged. The staff were not enforcing social distancing rules. Everyone had a mask on, but people were very close together.\"\n\nA worker in the immigration department at Heathrow, who asked not to be named, said the situation was chaotic. \"It's a mess. We cannot deploy without breaching health and safety measures. We are short staffed anyway. What are you meant to do?\"\n\nLucy Moreton, general secretary of ISU, the union for Borders and Immigration, said the queues were caused by Covid restrictions imposed by Border Force, which is part of the Home Office.\n\nShe said that staff have been put into bubbles of 10 people to reduce the risk of cross infection, but that this prevents more staff being deployed when the border becomes busy.\n\n\"Staff are very upset about the measure,\" said Ms Moreton. \"They have been receiving verbal abuse as the queues have got longer.\n\n\"The measure is not necessary, it contributes to the queues and it doesn't stop infection as staff have to interact outside those bubbles in other areas of the site,\" she said.\n\nThe Home Office called these comments \"disingenuous\" and said that the ISU had previously acknowledged that zonal working provides benefits to health and safety.\n\nThe ISU disputes this, saying it had never said that the measure has any benefits.\n\nIt said the measure adds nothing material to Covid security for staff, but impairs their ability to respond to demand.\n\nStaff at the border have also been told not to wear masks as they are processing passengers.\n\nWhile this is in line with public health guidance as there is a screen, she said staff are concerned as interactions can be between 15 and 20 minutes and include passing materials between passenger and Border Force.\n\nBorder Force have failed to meet their targets for processing passengers over the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman for the PCS Union, who have 13,000 members in the Home Office, said: \"The union has voted for strike action over the fixed roster, which by creating a bubble of 10 is inflexible and is leading to unacceptably long queues at Heathrow.\n\n\"We support any attempt to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19.\n\n\"However, the current approach is not the best mechanism for keeping staff safe,\" he added.\n\nHeathrow Airport said: \"When additional measures were implemented at the border, we were clear with the government that they must support the Border Force to ensure appropriate numbers of officials are on duty to minimise queuing in the Immigration Hall.\n\n\"It is deeply regrettable that Border Force has been unable to provide adequate resourcing, despite our many attempts to highlight the implications of not doing so.\n\n\"Leaving arriving passengers to queue for hours is completely unreasonable and no airport has the space to hold arriving passengers in socially distanced queues for over four hours, as has been the case in recent weeks.\n\nThe airport added that it was Border Force's and the government's responsibility \"to ensure that their processes are properly managed and efficiently carried out\" without hitting passenger welfare.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Unfortunately a large number of arrivals yesterday failed to purchase their mandatory testing packages for the second and eighth days of quarantine in the UK.\n\n\"This caused delays as they were made to purchase them after being checked by Border Force. We make absolutely no apologies for this. Every essential check stops the spread of coronavirus in the UK. These people should not have been allowed to travel without their testing packages and we are following up with regulators and carriers to ensure the law is enforced.\"\n\nDespite travel measures in place to try to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, new variants of the disease are being detected in the UK.\n\nOfficials are trying to find a person who tested positive for the Brazil variant of coronvavirus, which may be more contagious than \"regular\" Covid.\n\nThe person used a home-testing kit, but didn't complete a registration form, prompting an appeal for anyone without a result from a test on 12 or 13 February to come forward.", "A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England shows.\n\nThe Public Health England data showed the effect kicked in three to four weeks after vaccination.\n\nIt was based on people aged over 80 who were the first to receive the jab.\n\nGovernment scientists hailed the result, but stressed that two doses were needed for the best protection.\n\nIt comes after similar findings were published by Scottish health authorities last week, which they hailed as \"spectacular\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told a Downing Street briefing on Monday the latest vaccine results were \"very strong\".\n\nHe added: \"They may also help to explain why the number of Covid admissions to intensive care units among people over 80 in the UK have dropped to single figures in the last couple of weeks.\"\n\nAlso speaking at the news conference, England's deputy chief medical officer - Prof Jonathan Van-Tam - said the data offered a glimpse of how the vaccine programme \"is going to hopefully take us into a very different world in the next few months\".\n\nBut he said it was \"absolutely critical\" that second doses \"are still part of the course of immunisation against Covid-19 and no less important\".\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed there was a \"significant likelihood\" that a second dose of a vaccine would \"mature your immune response, possibly make it broader and almost certainly make it longer than it would otherwise be in relation to a first dose only.\"\n\nMore than 20 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine - over a third of the adult population.\n\nMeanwhile, another 104 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus have been reported in the UK, and a further 5,455 new cases, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe PHE data, which has not been peer reviewed, also suggested the Pfizer vaccine, which started being rolled out a month before the AstraZeneca vaccine, leads to an 83% reduction in deaths from Covid. This was based on people over the age of 80 who had died.\n\nThe data also showed vaccination cuts the risk of people over 70 developing any Covid symptoms by around 60%, three weeks after an initial dose.\n\nProf Van-Tam said the decision to give the AstraZeneca vaccine to older people was \"clearly vindicated\".\n\nSome European nations have refused to give it to the over 65s because data from the trials was mainly on its effect among younger adults.\n\nProf Van-Tam said the judgement made by the UK authorities was that it was simply \"not plausible\" the vaccine would only work on younger adults.\n\nHe said other countries would doubtless be \"very interested\" in the data coming out of the UK.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisation, said there was growing evidence that the vaccines were working to reduce infections and save lives.\n\n\"While there remains much more data to follow, this is encouraging and we are increasingly confident that vaccines are making a real difference,\" she said.\n\nHowever, more evidence is needed to know how well the vaccines protect against the Brazil variant that has recently been identified in the UK.\n\nThis variant has a mutation - E484 - that could reduce some of the effectiveness of the vaccines.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that six new variant cases - three in England and three in Scotland - had been found through testing.\n\nHealth officials have been able to contact all but one of these people. The whereabouts of the remaining individual is unknown as they did not complete their test registration card.\n\nIt has prompted an appeal for anyone without a result from a test on 12 or 13 February to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nThe health secretary has denied that delays in imposing quarantine hotel measures on travellers to the UK put lives at risk, as officials continue to seek the individual.\n\nMr Hancock said there was \"no evidence\" the infected person had not followed home quarantine rules.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK has \"one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the world for stopping people coming in to this country who may have variants of concern\".", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nWarning - this article contains an image that some people may find distressing\n\nLeading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has been temporarily banned from racing in Britain after being pictured sitting on a dead horse.\n\nElliott, 43, has apologised after the photograph circulated on social media.\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has started an investigation and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has banned him until it is completed.\n\n\"It is an interim decision which the BHA regards as proportionate in these circumstances,\" it said.\n\nElliott, who is licensed in Ireland, is one of the sport's most successful trainers after numerous triumphs at the Grand National and Cheltenham Festival.\n\nCheltenham, which is the pinnacle of jump racing and where Elliott finished as the leading trainer in 2017 and 2018, starts on 16 March.\n\nElliott has also won the Grand National three times, including twice with Tiger Roll. The Aintree festival takes place on 8-10 April.\n\nElliott said in a statement that he took a phone call and sat down on the horse \"without thinking\", adding the image was taken \"some time ago\".\n\nOn Monday, he told the Racing Post it was \"indefensible\" and that he was prepared for any punishment from the racing authorities.\n\n\"It was a moment of madness that I am going to have to spend the rest of my life paying for and that my staff are suffering for,\" he said.\n\n\"It absolutely breaks my heart to read and hear people say that I have no respect for my horses. That couldn't be further from the truth.\"\n• None From Grand National win at 29 to photo shame - Elliott's extraordinary rise and fall\n\nThe BHA said it was \"appalled\" by the photograph and that Elliott's behaviour \"deeply undermined\" the industry's welfare values.\n\n\"We can't say we're looking after horses and giving them dignity when we're clearly not,\" eight-time champion jump jockey Peter Scudamore told BBC Sport's Laura Scott.\n\n\"There are people out there who don't like the sport and I can't argue with them when I see a picture like that.\"\n\nAsked to recall his reaction to seeing the image, 62-year-old Scudamore added: \"It just hit the bottom of my stomach.\n\n\"I think everybody in racing I know hoped it was fake, and then there was a slow realisation that it's not a fake. It's desperate sadness on so many fronts.\n\n\"It is just such an appalling image and I'm very sad about it. It was an act of crass stupidity.\"\n\n'We need to give dignity back to the horses'\n\nScudamore said he did not want to speculate on what he thought would be suitable punishment for Elliott, although there have been calls from some for the authorities to ban the Irishman.\n\nThe BHA's interim move has put Elliott's participation at the upcoming Cheltenham and Grand National meetings in doubt.\n\nOwners of horses currently trained by Elliott are allowed to transfer them to a different trainer and run them at a British meeting \"providing they comply with the relevant rules\".\n\n\"I can't see a round of applause if his horse comes into a winners' enclosure,\" added Scudamore, who is now the assistant to leading trainer Lucinda Russell.\n\n\"Let's have an act of contrition, a massive donation to a horse charity. I don't know. I hardly know Gordon Elliott, but I don't think revenge is the answer.\n\n\"I just want some good to come out of it, give the dignity back to these creatures.\"\n\nElliott, who is based in County Meath, has apologised \"profoundly\" for the photograph.\n\n\"I can categorically state that the welfare of each and every horse under my care is paramount and has been central to the success that we have enjoyed,\" he said.\n\n\"The photo in question was taken some time ago and occurred after a horse had died of an apparent heart attack on the gallops.\n\n\"At what was a sad time, which it is when any horse under my care passes away, my initial reaction was to get the body removed from where it was positioned.\n\n\"I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it. Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured to wait until I was finished.\n\n\"Such background information may seem trivial at this time and will not allay the concerns of many people both within and outside the world of horse racing.\"\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nMichael O'Leary has said Gigginstown, who own Tiger Roll and a number of other horses trained by Elliott, will \"continue to support him and his team, as they work to recover from this deeply regrettable incident\".\n\nHe says the photo is \"unacceptable\" and \"grievous\" but calls it a \"momentary lapse of judgement\", adding \"we all make mistakes\" and that Gigginstown accepts Elliott's apology.\n\nCheveley Park Stud, who own several horses trained by Elliott including the unbeaten Envoi Allen, say they are \"truly horrified\" by the photo but will not comment further until the investigation by the IHRB is over.\n\nThe Jockey Club, which owns Cheltenham and Aintree racecourses, said: \"Clearly this is totally unacceptable and not reflective of the respect and care that racehorses receive from participants in our sport.\n\n\"The anger and upset across racing says it all. We understand the authorities are reviewing this as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nBetfair said on Monday it had chosen to end its relationship with Elliott, who had been an ambassador for the betting company.\n\n\"While we recognise that Gordon deeply regrets and apologised unreservedly for his poor judgement, his actions are completely at odds with the values of the Betfair brand and that of our employees,\" a Betfair spokesperson told the BBC. \"With that in mind, we have decided to discontinue our association with Gordon with immediate effect.\"\n\nThe charity World Horse Welfare said: \"This photo looks abhorrent. We understand the trainer has apologised and there is an investigation ongoing.\"\n\nGreat British Racing, the promotional body of British racing, said: \"Respect for our horses is at the heart of everything that we stand for in British racing and the shocking image is counter to that and betrays the work of thousands of people loving and caring for our horses on a daily basis - we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nAn IHRB spokesman said on Sunday: \"The investigation is ongoing and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHorse Racing Ireland also condemned the picture and supported the IHRB investigation, adding: \"From a disciplinary perspective, the matter is in process, so any further comment on the matter or the detail of the case at this time would not be appropriate.\"\n• None Weezer, Green Day and more on the ultimate pop-rock mixtape", "Warning - this article contains an image that some people may find distressing\n\nLeading Irish racehorse trainer Gordon Elliott has apologised for a photo circulating on social media of him sitting on a dead horse.\n\nElliott said in a statement that he took a phone call and sat down on the horse \"without thinking\" and the image was taken \"some time ago\".\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has begun an investigation.\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority (BHA) said it was \"appalled\" and \"considering its own regulatory options\".\n\n\"People who work in our industry believe their values - of caring for and respecting our horses - have been deeply undermined by this behaviour\" the BHA said. \" On their behalf, and on behalf of all horse-lovers, we say loudly that British horseracing finds this totally unacceptable.\"\n\nElliott, 43, who is based in County Meath, is a highly successful trainer who has won the Grand National three times, including twice with Tiger Roll.\n\n\"I apologise profoundly for any offence that this photo has caused,\" he said.\n\n\"I can categorically state that the welfare of each and every horse under my care is paramount and has been central to the success that we have enjoyed.\n\n\"The photo in question was taken some time ago and occurred after a horse had died of an apparent heart attack on the gallops.\n\n\"At what was a sad time, which it is when any horse under my care passes away, my initial reaction was to get the body removed from where it was positioned.\n• None From Grand National win at 29 to photo shame - Elliot's extraordinary rise and fall\n\n\"I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it. Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured to wait until I was finished.\n\n\"Such background information may seem trivial at this time and will not allay the concerns of many people both within and outside the world of horse racing.\"\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nEight-time champion jump jockey Peter Scudamore said the photo \"was an act of crass stupidity\".\n\n\"It just hit the bottom of my stomach,\" said the 62-year-old, as he recalled his reaction to seeing the image.\n\n\"I think everybody in racing I know hoped it was fake, and then there was a slow realisation that it's not a fake. It's desperate sadness on so many fronts.\n\n\"It is just such an appalling image and I'm very sad about it.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary has said Gigginstown, who own Tiger Roll and a number of other horses trained by Elliott, will \"continue to support him and his team, as they work to recover from this deeply regrettable incident\".\n\nHe says the photo is \"unacceptable\" and \"grievous\" but calls it a \"momentary lapse of judgement\", adding \"we all make mistakes\" and that Gigginstown accepts Elliott's apology.\n\nCheveley Park Stud, who own several horses trained by Elliott including the unbeaten Envoi Allen, say they are \"truly horrified\" by the photo but will not comment further until the investigation by the IHRB is over.\n\nThe Jockey Club, which owns Cheltenham and Aintree racecourses, said: \"Clearly this is totally unacceptable and not reflective of the respect and care that racehorses receive from participants in our sport.\n\n\"The anger and upset across racing says it all. We understand the authorities are reviewing this as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nBetfair said on Monday it had chosen to end its relationship with Elliott, who had been an ambassador for the betting company.\n\n\"While we recognise that Gordon deeply regrets and apologised unreservedly for his poor judgement, his actions are completely at odds with the values of the Betfair brand and that of our employees,\" a Betfair spokesperson told the BBC. \"With that in mind, we have decided to discontinue our association with Gordon with immediate effect.\"\n\nThe charity World Horse Welfare said: \"This photo looks abhorrent. We understand the trainer has apologised and there is an investigation ongoing.\"\n\nGreat British Racing, the promotional body of British racing, said: \"Respect for our horses is at the heart of everything that we stand for in British racing and the shocking image is counter to that and betrays the work of thousands of people loving and caring for our horses on a daily basis - we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nAn IHRB spokesman said on Sunday: \"The investigation is ongoing and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHorse Racing Ireland also condemned the picture and supported the IHRB investigation, adding: \"From a disciplinary perspective, the matter is in process, so any further comment on the matter or the detail of the case at this time would not be appropriate.\"\n• None Weezer, Green Day and more on the ultimate pop-rock mixtape", "Jim Ashworth-Beaumont lost his right arm after he was run over by a 40-tonne truck whilst out cycling last year.\n\nPrior to the accident, he spent 20 years working as a prosthetist and orthotist for the NHS.\n\nHe is trying to raise £300,000 for a new bionic arm, which he hopes will allow him to go back to work.\n\nJim spoke to BBC Breakfast's Tim Muffett about the surgery, which would be one of the first to take place in the UK.", "Cumbria County Council is still considering approval for the mine near Whitehaven\n\nBoris Johnson has been warned by some of his foreign ambassadors that a planned coal mine in Cumbria is damaging his reputation.\n\nThe PM wants to lead the world on climate change, but the ambassadors say his tacit support for the mine is bringing accusations of hypocrisy.\n\nThe issue has flared as the UK co-hosts a coalition of nations pledging to phase out coal in power generation.\n\nThe Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) was initiated by the UK.\n\nSupporters of the Cumbria mine argue it should be encouraged because it will produce special coking coal for steel making, not thermal coal for power.\n\nBut that's too fine a distinction for some developing nations.\n\nThey have accused the UK of hypocrisy for shunning one type of coal while backing another.\n\nI understand some of the UK's ambassadors have told the government the Cumbria controversy is making it harder for them to persuade other nations to contribute fully to the UN climate summit Mr Johnson will host in November.\n\nOpponents of the mine say the government must support clean technologies to make steel without using coking coal.\n\nIt's a prickly dilemma for the PM. Around 85% of the coal from Cumbria will be exported but the project will create well-paid employment in so-called Red Wall constituencies whose Conservative MPs have promised to increase job prospects.\n\nThe mine area has slightly below average unemployment, but it's forecast that manufacturing jobs in the north of England will be especially vulnerable as the UK economy moves away from fossil fuels. The government has a challenge to replace these with new jobs in clean industries.\n\nThe UK's stance on coal will fall under the spotlight on Tuesday when the UK and Canada co-host the first virtual summit of the PPCA, which will be addressed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.\n\nThe Cabinet Office hopes the Cumbria problem can be resolved by then.\n\nIf the mine goes ahead, it fears climate talks will be soured through the year as the UK invites other nations to abandon coal.\n\nIn any event, the fate of the mine is in limbo. Cumbria County Council first approved it, then withdrew the decision to consider the latest advice from the UK's independent Climate Change Committee.\n\nThis says the UK should abandon the use of coking coal by 2035, unless its emissions are captured and buried underground.\n\nEurope's major steel producers are already striving to make low-carbon steel, but Mark Jenkinson, a Conservative MP in the constituency next to the Whitehaven mine, thinks that will not be economical by 2035.\n\nHe and other Conservative MPs have criticised the Labour party for trying to block the mine on climate change grounds.\n\nThe council will make a new decision on the mine in coming months. If it grants permission again, the issue will bounce back to the Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to decide on it. First time round he said it was purely a local issue.\n\nOne solution might be for the government to introduce new rules obliging local councils to take climate change implications into account when they consider planning applications for high-carbon projects.\n\nOther nations are still investing in new coal mines and power plants\n\nThe UK is not alone in wrestling with policy tensions in the transition to a low-carbon economy, especially as fossil projects approved years ago come to fruition in a new era when permission is likely to have been denied.\n\nGermany is also a member of the PPCA, yet it opened a new coal-fired power plant last year.\n\nCanada has committed to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030, but there are plans for new and expanded coal mining production in the west of the country.\n\nIt all comes as major emitters are again accused by the UN of not doing enough to combat climate change.\n\nA global stock take of plans for emissions reductions showed that nations would only stabilise emissions overall by 2030 - instead of halving them, which is deemed necessary to avoid global temperatures rising above the threshold of 1.5C.", "The NHS's \"insufficient\" critical care capacity has been laid bare by the pandemic, with the UK having one of the lowest number of beds per head in Europe, NHS Providers has said.\n\nThe group, which represents trusts in England, is calling for a review of the health service's capacity.\n\nThe UK has 7.3 critical care beds per 100,000 people, compared to Germany's 33.8 and the US's 34.3, analysis found.\n\nThe government said it was investing £72bn in the next two years in the NHS.\n\nThe east of England, South West and South East are areas of key concern.\n\n\"The UK is towards the bottom of the European League table for critical care beds per head of population,\" NHS Providers said.\n\nThe group added that the UK had comparatively fewer critical care beds than France, Italy, Australia and Spain.\n\n\"It's neither safe nor sensible to rely on NHS hospital trusts being able to double or triple their capacity at the drop of a hat as they've had to over the last two months, with all the disruption to other care and impossible burdens on staff that involves.\"\n\nSeeking a review into critical care capacity in England, the organisation said it wanted the government to commit to providing additional finances in areas where it was needed.\n\n\"There have been too many reviews of NHS capacity in the past where huge amounts of time have been wasted because the government has not been willing to fund the results of what's been found,\" the group said.\n\nWhen reviews and a public inquiry at some stage look at lessons to be learned from the handling of the pandemic in the UK, the question of the readiness of the NHS is sure to be considered.\n\nNHS Providers has highlighted one key part of this - the relative lack of critical care beds in hospitals, reflecting in part insufficient investment going back many years.\n\nThe UK has fewer hospital beds for seriously ill patients relative to the population than leading European economies such as France, Germany, Italy and Spain.\n\nSo going into the pandemic the health service was in some ways not as well resourced as it might have been.\n\nThe NHS coped astonishingly well last April and in the most recent surge, and hospitals were not overwhelmed.\n\nBut sufficient critical care beds were created for Covid patients only by using wards which could not therefore be used by others - much routine and non urgent care had to be postponed.\n\nThe argument now being made is that there needs to be a review of what is needed as a safety net for future crises - and funding to go with it.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The government is determined to back the NHS in every possible way in its fight against this virus, investing £52bn this year and £20bn next.\n\n\"This is on top of £9.4bn capital funding to build and upgrade 40 new hospitals and £3bn earmarked for supporting recovery and reducing the NHS waiting list.\"\n\nThey added that the government was on track to deliver 50,000 more nurses by the end of this parliament.", "Some travellers now have to quarantine in hotels, but not all\n\nThe UK should \"build walls higher\" to stop new variants entering the country, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nAs part of England's roadmap out of lockdown, the UK Government has said international travel could resume no earlier than 17 May.\n\nBut Welsh and UK Labour leaders say it is too soon. Sir Keir Starmer said not enough had been done to secure borders.\n\nBoris Johnson says the current system is among the toughest in the world.\n\nThe two Labour politicians made the comments in a joint virtual event on Monday.\n\nIt comes as health officials in England attempt to trace one person who has been infected with a concerning coronavirus variant first found in Brazil.\n\nIt is one of six cases of the P1 variant found in the UK in February.\n\nTravellers to England from 33 countries have been required to quarantine in hotels for 10 days, since earlier last month.\n\nWales has adopted the same rules as England, while in Scotland the rule applies to international travellers from all countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This animated map shows how the case rate has changed across Wales since December\n\nSir Keir said the search for the individual in England infected with a variant first found in Brazil \"demonstrates the slowness of the government to close off even the major routes, but also the unwillingness to confront the fact that the virus doesn't travel by direct flights\".\n\n\"I still think we have not secured our borders in the way that we should have done and the sooner that's done the better.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said the mid-May travel date \"worries me hugely\".\n\nWales saw a \"big importation\" of virus last September when people returned from foreign holidays, he said.\n\n\"I would build the walls higher for now against the risk that we would bring in to this country the variants that could brewing in any part of the world and could then put at risk all the careful work that we have done to try to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nLater, at a press conference Mr Drakeford said Cardiff Airport, which is owned by the Welsh Government, would not take any flights from countries on the so-called \"red list\".\n\nHe said he would have the policy \"the opposite way to the UK Government\".\n\n\"I would say we shouldn't be having international travel, but here is a list of countries where we are confident that things are under control\".\n\nNo \"red list\" flights will be allowed at Cardiff Airport, says Mark Drakeford\n\n\"We have got one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the world for stopping people coming in to this country who may have variants of concern,\" he said.\n\nHe said the government had moved \"as fast as we could\" with introducing hotel quarantine measures, describing it as a \"very tough regime\".\n\nAndrew RT Davies told BBC Wales the first minister was \"full of hot air\".\n\n\"Let's not forget back last June when Ryanair were flying flights in [to Cardiff] from Faro and Malaga,\" he said, adding \"all\" the Welsh Government had done in response was \"write a letter\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones agreed with the first minister that \"this was not the time for international travel\" and said restrictions should remain tight for the time being.\n\nA UK Government spokesman said: \"We continue to take every necessary step to protect the public and prevent the spread of the virus, including the stringent border measures currently in place.\n\n\"The reformed Global Travel Taskforce will assess how we can safely facilitate international travel when the time is right and while managing the risk of imported cases and variants.\"", "Police at a Merseyside beauty spot had to turn cars back from as far as away as Leeds and Manchester at the weekend.\n\nOfficers at Formby beach turned away more than 100 cars and issued 20 people with fines for breaching Covid-19 rules on Saturday, Merseyside Police said.\n\nSupt Graeme Robson said travelling from West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester was \"totally unacceptable\" and showed a \"complete disregard\" for the guidance.\n\nSupt Robson said the good weather at the weekend had seen a \"large increase in people travelling to the Formby beach area, some of whom had travelled a significant distance to get there\".\n\n\"Individuals from as far as Leeds, Manchester and Stockport were found which is quite frankly astounding,\" he said.\n\n\"Now more than ever people should be taking heed of the advice, so that infection rates can continue to drop, and we can meet the criteria necessary for easing lockdown in the upcoming weeks and months.\"\n\nPeople from Leeds, Manchester and Stockport were found to have travelled to Formby, police said\n\nOne local woman said she was trapped in her home because \"there were cars double parked right the way down the street\".\n\n\"As I have a baby it meant we couldn't go out whatsoever on Saturday or Sunday,\" she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\n\"I get that other people want to, and should be able to, visit the beach, I just wish people wouldn't be so selfish when it comes to parking.\"\n\nMr Esterson said those travelling from outside the region were \"deeply irresponsible\".\n\n\"While it may be tempting to leave your area for travel and leisure, people should be acting responsibly so that infection rates continue to drop,\" he added.\n\n\"We are so close to the finish line, as Sefton's cases edge closer to dropping below 100 cases per 100,000. Let's not ruin it now.\"\n\nNew data has revealed nearly 70,000 fines have been given to people in England and Wales for breaching coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nNational Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) figures show 68,952 fines were issued between 27 March 2020 and 14 February 2021.\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 UK Government must ensure the supply of coronavirus vaccinations to Wales increases in the coming weeks, Wales' first minister says.\n\nMark Drakeford said the Welsh Government remained on track to offer vaccinations to everyone in the top nine priority groups by the middle of April, but only if supply levels recover from a recent drop-off.\n\n“We’ve had the two weeks where we knew that the volume of vaccine coming to Wales was going to be lower than it had been previously, but the profile for the month of March is of significantly accelerating volumes of the vaccine coming to Wales”, he said.\n\n“It’s very important that that is now delivered - providing it is delivered then we remain on track, both to offer the second vaccine to people who’ve had the first, and to complete an offer of the first dose of the vaccine to everybody on the nine top priority groups by the middle of April”.\n\nHe said Wales continued to receive its \"Barnett\" share of the vaccines delivered to the UK so far, reflecting not only the size of its population but also its profile.\n\nWales received a greater proportion during the early phase of the vaccine rollout, because of its higher share of elderly people and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\n“We have not been held back by problems of supply in being able to get our vaccination programme underway,” Mr Drakeford said.\n\n“We did make the case … that because we have a higher proportion of our population in those early groups, that we would get a slightly bigger part of our Barnett share in the beginning and that would mean we would get slightly less of it towards the end.\n\n“In the event that hasn’t happened - we continue to get our Barnett share.”", "People will be breaking the law if they smoke on hospital grounds from Monday\n\nSmokers caught sparking up at hospitals, playgrounds or on school sites in Wales now face a £100 fine.\n\nIt is also now illegal to smoke in outdoor areas of day-care and child-minding settings in Wales.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said it was a \"proud day\" after the Welsh Government became the first UK administration to implement such a ban.\n\nHowever smokers' rights campaigners have accused the government of trying to \"micro-manage people's lives\".\n\nIt is the first major set of curbs on smoking to be introduced since smoking in cars with children was banned in England and Wales in 2015.\n\nSmoking in enclosed public spaces was banned in Wales in 2007.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped the ban would help protect people's health by discouraging adults and children from starting smoking and supporting those who are trying to quit.\n\nIn addition to fines, a speaker system which allows people to press a button and remind smokers they are breaking the law has been installed at the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran and the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.\n\nA similar system has previously been used at hospitals in the Hywel Dda and Cardiff and Vale health board areas.\n\nEnforcement officers employed by Aneurin Bevan health board will also patrol hospital grounds.\n\nEluned Morgan hopes the ban will have a similar impact to the 2007 law which banned smoking in enclosed public spaces\n\nMinister for Mental Health and Well-being Baroness Morgan said the Welsh Government was \"immensely proud\".\n\n\"We've seen the impact of the indoor smoking ban and we hope this will be similarly successful,\" she said.\n\n\"This legislation will benefit the health of future generations in Wales, as fewer children will be exposed to smoking and, we hope, fewer will take it up themselves.\n\n\"We need to do everything we can to combat the harmful effects of smoking.\"\n\nSuzanne Cass, of anti-smoking group Ash Wales, said: \"We are very proud that Wales is leading the way with this forward-thinking legislation.\n\n\"For too long smoking has been perceived as a normal lifestyle choice with smokers being able to light up in places where our children play, socialise and learn.\n\n\"There is nothing normal about smoking, however. It is an extremely harmful addiction that all too often begins in childhood.\n\n\"We hope that this legislation will make great strides in changing perceptions about this addiction and prevent children from becoming the next generation of adult smokers.\"\n\nBut the industry-funded Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (Forest) has labelled the law \"unnecessary and wrong\" and like \"taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut\".\n\nBanning smoking hospitals is \"particularly unjust\", smokers' rights campaigners say\n\nDirector Simon Clark said there was no evidence to suggest the law would achieve what the Welsh Government wants it to.\n\nBanning smoking at hospitals was \"particularly unjust\", Mr Clark said, because it targets smokers who may be \"stressed and in need of a comforting cigarette\".\n\nHe added: \"Most smokers use their common sense and don't smoke around small children. They don't need politicians telling them how to behave.\"\n\nAbout 33,000 people in Wales have stopped smoking since the coronavirus pandemic began, a survey by charity Action on Smoking and Health suggests.", "Three gardaí were injured during the protest in Dublin city centre\n\nThere is no evidence far-left factions were involved in an anti-lockdown protest in Dublin on Saturday, the head of An Garda Síochána (Irish police force) has said.\n\nPolice were attacked with fireworks and bollards as hundreds of people tried to gather at St Stephen's Green.\n\nOn Sunday Commissioner Drew Harris said initial indications that the \"extreme left\" was involved had been disproved.\n\n\"The vast majority of those who took part [on Saturday] belong to a number of factions including anti-vaccine, anti-mask and anti-lockdown protesters, far-right groups and those intent on trouble and disorder.\n\nDrew Harris has been criticised for initially linking the protest to the far-left\n\n\"Following further investigations, there is no corroborated evidence of extreme-left factions being involved.\"\n\nAn Garda Síochána said extreme-left factions were defined as using violence for political means.\n\nMr Harris was criticised for his comment associating protesters with the far left by members of the Dáil (Irish parliament).\n\nThirteen people - 12 men and one woman - appeared at a special sitting of Dublin District Court on Saturday night, charged with breaches of the Public Order Act.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Johnny Briggs, who played Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street for 30 years, has died aged 85.\n\nHis family said he died peacefully after \"a long illness, with family by his side\" and asked for privacy to \"remember the wonderful times we had\".\n\nBriggs was made an MBE in the New Year's Honours in 2007, the year after his character left the ITV soap.\n\nBaldwin's affair with Deidre Barlow and his feud with her husband, Ken, were a long-running ratings hit for the show.\n\nCoronation Street colleagues have paid tribute to Briggs calling him a \"wonderful actor\" and describing Mike Baldwin as \"one of the most iconic characters the Street has ever known\".\n\nWilliam Roache, who played Baldwin's long-term rival Ken Barlow, said Briggs was a \"strong character who will be greatly missed\".\n\n\"Mike Baldwin and Ken Barlow were arch enemies for many years, but as an actor, Johnny was impeccable, always good, and I was so fortunate to have worked with him for so many years,\" he said.\n\nSue Nicholls, who plays Audrey Roberts, said he was \"a great friend\" and was \"always fun to be around\".\n\n\"He played the part of Mike Baldwin so well that, despite all Mike's ducking and diving, you were always on his side,\" she said.\n\nHelen Worth, who plays Gail Platt on the cobbles, said he was \"one of the Street's most memorable characters\".\n\nSally Dynevor, who plays Sally Webster, said \"what a wonderful actor he was\", while Samia Longchambon, who plays Maria Connor, tweeted she had \"fond memories\" of working with him, describing him as a \"lovely man\".\n\nAntony Cotton, who plays Sean Tully, said \"we all adored him\", while former soap writer Phil Ford tweeted it was \"very very sad\" to hear of his death.\n\nAnd John Whiston, managing director of continuing drama at ITV, said Briggs had been \"right at the centre of the show\" for years adding: \"When Mike Baldwin was in a scene it was very hard to look at anyone else.\"\n\nJohnny Briggs, with children (left to right) Mark, Stephanie, and Michael after collecting an MBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace\n\nBorn on 5 September 1935 in Battersea, in south-west London, Briggs was evacuated to the countryside during World War II before embarking on a career in show business back in London at the age of 12.\n\nAfter a break for two years of service in Germany with the Royal Tank Regiment, starting in 1953, he resumed his acting career landing roles in several Carry On films and ITV police drama No Hiding Place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito looks back at Johnny Briggs' acting career\n\nIt was not until 1976 that he landed his defining role as Mike Baldwin.\n\nAs the uncompromising businessman in the soap he feuded with Barlow and was caught up in a love triangle with with his wife Deirdre, played by Anne Kirkbride who died in 2015.\n\nLater, Baldwin would die in his rival's arms after suffering a heart attack, finally killing off the character after three decades.\n\nThe demise of Baldwin drew 12 million viewers and followed the character's battle with Alzheimer's - leading the actor to back a fundraising appeal to help those affected by the disease.\n\nBriggs won the British Soap Award for lifetime achievement in 2006.\n\nIn 1995 Briggs had a UK chart hit, alongside Coronation Street co-star Amanda Barrie, with a version of Frank and Nancy Sinatra's Something Stupid.\n\nHe also appeared on stage and in films alongside the likes of Norman Wisdom, Dirk Bogarde and Tommy Steele.\n\nHe married Caroline Sinclair in 1961 and had two children before the couple divorced in 1975.\n\nThe same year he married schoolteacher Christine Allsop, a marriage which produced four children.", "The prime minister says he has \"no doubt\" there will be a strong jobs-led recovery from coronavirus.\n\nMr Johnson said it had \"been expensive\" to look after everyone during the pandemic and the chancellor would be \"frank\" about state of the economy in Wednesday's Budget.\n\n45 Conservative MPs have urged Mr Sunak to cut business rates in England to help \"save the High Streets\".\n\nWriting to the chancellor ahead of the Budget, the MPs from constituencies in the North of England, said the tax should be cut from 50% of market rent to 35%.\n\nRishi Sunak has promised to offer businesses support while Covid-19 restrictions remain in place.\n\nBut in a pre-Budget speech, Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the chancellor had no plan and had spent the crisis \"looking for the escape hatch\" rather than setting out a strategy to take the country forward.\n\nShe said coronavirus had exposed \"the weaknesses of 10 years of Conservative mismanagement of our economy\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Sunak will use the Budget to set out the government's tax and spending plans following a year of financial disturbance and high government borrowing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe is facing pressure - including from the former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke - to raise taxes in order to repair public finances.\n\nHowever, others have argued that taxes could hinder the country's recovery from Covid-19.\n\nAnd now a group of MPs from the chancellor's own party - known as the Northern Research Group - have urged him to cut the tax paid by shops.\n\nThe tax is calculated based on the value of a business's property. As part of emergency pandemic measures introduced last year, the government brought in a business rates holiday, but this is currently due to end in April.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Sunak, the MPs - many of whom represent traditional Labour seats won by the Conservatives at the last election - argue that the burden of business rates is falling on areas most in need of support.\n\nThey say cutting the tax, when it is reintroduced, would \"ensure retailers have the confidence to invest in their bricks and mortar stores and save High Streets across the country\".\n\nAlthough they acknowledge that the business rates holiday \"undoubtedly saved hundreds of retail businesses\", they also call for \"longer-term fundamental reform\" to help High Street shops compete against online retailers.\n\nOn Sunday, the government announced a £5bn grant scheme to help High Street shops and hospitality reopen as the lockdown is eased.\n\nAsked about introducing a sales tax to target online retailers such as Amazon, Mr Sunak said he was trying to reach an international agreement with other countries \"on how to tax these large multinational digital companies properly\".\n\nA report from the treasury committee says now \"is not the time for tax rises\". The cross-party group of MPs says increasing taxes could undermine the UK's economic recovery from Covid-19, but they may be needed at a later date.\n\nThe main focus of the Budget will be support for people and businesses in, what the government hope will be, the last, difficult part of the Covid-19 crisis. That's why the Treasury has already announced another £5bn of grants for businesses that are still closed.\n\nDespite the publication of the roadmap for lifting the lockdown in England, there's still uncertainty about the future.\n\nAnd so the Chancellor will \"level with\" people about \"the challenges\" ahead for the public finances rather than setting out specific plans for raising more money and reducing borrowing.\n\nThey will come later in the year, and will almost certainly include a gradual increase in corporation tax. Although the Treasury isn't commenting on that now.\n\nThe economy performed better than expected at the end of last year, then worse at the start of this year because of the new lockdown.\n\nBut the Bank of England is predicting bumper economic growth, thanks to a combination of the vaccine and households raring to spend money they've saved. That could make the chancellor's job a bit easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shadow chancellor says Wednesday's Budget's is a \"test of character for Rishi Sunak\".\n\nIn a speech to Bloomberg, Anneliese Dodds accused the chancellor of looking for \"a quick fix\" and presiding over \"12 months of irresponsible decision making\".\n\nShe said businesses and families had been \"left in the lurch\" because Mr Sunak had \"failed to make the link between health and the economy\".\n\nShe called on the government to extend Covid-19 support measures including the furlough scheme, the business rates holiday, the reduced rate of VAT and the £500 payment for those self-isolating.\n\nMs Dodds also accused Mr Sunak of implementing \"a triple hammer blow of council tax rises, social security cuts and pay freezes\".\n\nAnd she attacked the government for wasting money citing \"£22bn spent on the Test and Trace system, £150m spent on unsafe PPE and £2bn on contracts to businesses with clear links to the Conservative party, with no tender at all\".\n\nShe said a Labour government would bring forward £30bn of planned investment \"to support the creation of 400,000 new green jobs\" and would support 100,000 new businesses by expanding start-up loans.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, Mr Sunak said he had responded to the pandemic \"generously and comprehensively\".\n\n\"We went big, we went early and there's more to come,\" he said.\n\n\"My priority is to keep supporting British families, businesses and people through this crisis - I said at the beginning I would do whatever it took to do exactly that and I remain committed to that and you'll see more of that in the Budget.\"", "Police have broken up a crowd of about 250 people who had gathered for an \"organised fight\" in County Tyrone.\n\nIt happened at a disused yard on Battleford Road near Benburb on Sunday morning.\n\nCh Insp Barney O'Connor said the gathering was \"clearly a breach\" of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations.\n\nIt caused concern for residents in the area, he said, and there was disruption \"due to the large number of vehicles... belonging to those in attendance\".\n\n\"Significant engagement took place between our officers and those in attendance and the crowd subsequently left the area,\" he said.\n\n\"An investigation is underway and evidence gathered will now be reviewed, and breaches of the regulations will be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\"", "Crowds headed for locations such as Cardiff Bay as the sun shone on Sunday\n\nPolice officers are facing \"greater hostility\" from the public when enforcing Covid rules, the head of the South Wales Police Federation has said.\n\nSteve Treharne said officers were dealing with \"significant problems\" of people congregating in public spaces.\n\nIt follows \"numerous reports\" of crowds at beauty spots over the weekend, which led to the closure of car parks and fines being issued.\n\nCovid rules mean you should only leave home for essential reasons or exercise.\n\nMr Treharne told BBC Radio Wales: \"It's incredibly frustrating for our officers and, I dare say, the community at large.\n\n\"We understand people are incredibly frustrated these restrictions have been in place for a long while now, however, the rules are quite clear on this, that people shouldn't be travelling to take exercise.\n\n\"I don't think the situation is being helped with the circumstances around off-licences being allowed to open, so we've got people congregating,\" he added.\n\n\"The off-licences are open, people are purchasing alcohol and of course that brings us significant problems, and our officers are now facing greater hostility from members of the public and it's not really fair.\n\n\"Our officers don't draft the legislation, they've got a job to do and they can only enforce the legislation that's there.\"\n\nAt Monday's Welsh Government coronavirus briefing, First Minister Mark Drakeford called for \"responsible\" behaviour as more people head outside.\n\nHe said: \"I understand that over the weekend, when the weather was beautiful and people have spent the long winter months confined at home, people wanted to enjoy the fresh air, but it's still a matter of doing that in a way that's responsible and within the rules.\n\n\"When I was walking in Cardiff yesterday, there were lots of people out but they were still behaving in a way that was respectful to one another, and that's what we need to see continuing.\"\n\nWales' Chief Medical Officer Frank Atherton warned that \"coronavirus has not gone away\".\n\n\"People have been cooped up over the winter. When the sun comes out, we want to be out and about,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"Community rates have come right down, but we've been here before.\n\n\"We had very low rates last summer, and we've seen how quickly it has taken off. There is still a risk that the virus could come back.\"\n\nSome car parks at Swansea beaches were closed to deter visitors over the weekend\n\nAs weather improved over the weekend, car parks were closed across several beaches in Swansea at the request of police.\n\nCarrie Townsend Jones, a community councillor from Mumbles warned people not to travel from far away to visit the area.\n\nShe said: \"I do understand it's very difficult for people, particularly if they don't have outdoor space, you know they're looking out and the weather's lovely and of course they're desperate to get out, but there are lots of other places where people can walk that are local to where they live.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Earlier former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the discovery of six cases of the Brazilian P1 variant of the coronavirus in the UK showed the need for tighter controls.\n\n\"Absolutely we have got to look at what has gone wrong,\" he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme.\n\n\"It shows that it needs to be tightened up still further because if we are going to protect the road map out of lockdown then the name of the game is going to be stop new variants coming in, some of which may end up being immune to the new vaccines,\" he says.\n\n\"Where we need to get to is a much, much more thorough combination of test and trace and genetic sequencing so we are not just testing the people who have been near someone who tested positive, but we also are working out where the original infection happened and which variant it is. You can only do that if you bring the cases right down.\"\n\nHowever, Hunt - who now chairs the Commons Health and Social Care Committee - says the country was in a much better situation than it was last year.\n\n\"The fact that we are going to this trouble over one person who has gone missing says to me that we are in much better shape than we were three months ago, six months ago, where we wouldn't have been anywhere near that,\" he says.", "The report was written by a commission headed by ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt for use by President Biden and other lawmakers\n\nThe US and its allies should reject calls for a global ban on AI-powered autonomous weapons systems, according to an official report commissioned for the American President and Congress.\n\nIt says that artificial intelligence will \"compress decision time frames\" and require military responses humans cannot make quickly enough alone.\n\nAnd it warns Russia and China would be unlikely to keep to any such treaty.\n\nBut critics claim the proposals risk driving an \"irresponsible\" arms race.\n\n\"This is a shocking and frightening report that could lead to the proliferation of AI weapons making decisions about who to kill,\" said Prof Noel Sharkey, spokesman for the Campaign To Stop Killer Robots.\n\n\"The most senior AI scientists on the planet have warned them about the consequences, and yet they continue.\n\n\"This will lead to grave violations of international law.\"\n\nThe report counters that if autonomous weapons systems have been properly tested and are authorised for use by a human commander, then they should be consistent with International Humanitarian Law.\n\nThe National Security Commission on AI's members voted unanimously to pass the report\n\nThe recommendations were made by the National Security Commission on AI - a body headed by ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt and ex-Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, who served under Presidents Obama and Trump.\n\nOther members include Andy Jassy, Amazon's next chief executive, Google and Microsoft AI chiefs Dr Andrew Moore and Dr Eric Horvitz, and Oracle chief executive Safra Catz.\n\nMuch of the 750-page report focuses on how to counter China's ambition to be a world leader in AI by 2030.\n\nIt says that senior military leaders have warned the US could \"lose its military-technical superiority in the coming years\" if China leapfrogs it by adopting AI-enabled systems more quickly - for example by using swarming drones to attack the US Navy.\n\nThe report suggests AI systems be used as part of future major war games exercises\n\n\"The DoD [Department of Defense] has long been hardware-oriented toward ships, planes, and tanks [and] is now trying to make the leap to a software-intensive enterprise,\" the report says.\n\n\"If our forces are not equipped with AI-enabled systems guided by new concepts that exceed those of their adversaries, they will be outmatched and paralysed by the complexity of battle.\"\n\nThe report predicts AI will transform \"all aspects of military affairs\", and talks of rival algorithms battling it out in the future.\n\nAnd while it warns that badly-designed AI systems could increase the risk of war, it adds that \"defending against AI-capable adversaries without employing AI is an invitation to disaster\".\n\nIt does, however, draw the line at nuclear weapons, saying these should still require the explicit authorisation of the president.\n\nAnd it says the White House should press Moscow and Beijing to issue public commitments of their own over this matter.\n\nThe US Army is already testing various robotic systems, but much of the AI proposed would be involved in planning and co-ordinating operations\n\nThe commission began its review in March 2019 and this marks its final report.\n\nIt says previous warnings about national security threats posed to the US by AI were ignored, but there is still \"a window\" to carry out proposed changes if President Biden and other politicians act with speed.\n\nBut not all its proposals focus on the military, suggesting that the US's non-defence spending on AI-related research and development be doubled to reach $32bn (£23bn) a year by 2026.\n\nWhile the members of the commission serve in a personal capacity, many of the companies they work for have bid for Pentagon and other government AI contracts.\n\nThese include a $10bn deal awarded to Microsoft, which Amazon is challenging in court.\n\nThe report also focuses on the US's need to restrict China's ability to manufacture state-of-the-art computer chips.\n\n\"If a potential adversary bests the United States in semiconductors over the long term or suddenly cuts off US access to cutting-edge chips entirely, it could gain the upper hand in every domain of warfare,\" the report states.\n\nIt advises that the US must keep at least two generations ahead of China's micro-electronics manufacturing capabilities.\n\nChina has a growing chip industry, but it still relies on imports from abroad for the most advanced products\n\nTo do this, it says the government needs to offer large tax credits to companies which build new chip fabrication plants on US soil.\n\nAnd it says export restrictions need to be put in place to prevent China being able to import the photolithography machines required to make the most advanced types of chips with the smallest transistors.\n\nThis, it says, will require the co-operation of the governments of the Netherlands and Japan, whose companies specialise in these tools.\n\nIn addition, the report says US firms that export chips to China should be compelled to certify they are not used to \"facilitate human rights abuses\", and should submit quarterly reports to the Department of Commerce listing all chip sales to China.\n\nThis follows allegations that chips from American firms Intel and Nvidia were used to conduct mass surveillance against China's Uighur ethnic minority in its Xinjiang region.\n\nPresident Biden has already ordered a review of the US semiconductor industry, and last week pledged support for a $37bn plan by Congress to boost local output.\n\nA car industry chip shortage prompted President Biden to discuss the industry last week\n\nMinds are being focused by a current shortage of chips affecting the automobile industry.\n\nBut China also views the matter as critical to its own ambitions, and earlier on Monday its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology promised to \"vigorously support\" its own chip-makers.\n\nBeijing has previously said it wants to produce 70% of locally-used chips by 2025.\n\nChina's semiconductor-makers have been seeking out second-hand photolithography equipment to do this, buying up as much as 90% of available stock, according to a report in Nikkei Asia.\n\nHowever, these older machines are not capable of producing the most advanced chips, which are prized for use in both the latest smartphones and other consumer gadgets, as well as military applications.", "Tomahawk has restaurants in Yorkshire, the north east of England and London\n\nA restaurant chain has asked furloughed employees to loan the firm part of their wages or possibly face the sack, a union claims.\n\nTomahawk Steakhouse wants staff to sign an agreement to lend 10% of their pay to cover pension and national insurance contributions, the GMB Union says.\n\nStaff who refuse have been told their \"suitability for the role will have to be reviewed\", it is claimed.\n\nTomahawk has denied the claim staff were told they might lose their job.\n\nIn a letter to staff seen by the BBC, Tomahawk, which has restaurants in Yorkshire and the north east of England and recently opened a branch in London, says it has a \"short-term cash flow issue and it requires your help and support\".\n\nIt says that as it must make the National Insurance and pension payments itself the \"only viable alternative is to ask for your agreement to a loan arrangement\".\n\nIt adds that the interest-free loan will be repaid \"once the lockdown is eased sufficiently for the company to trade\".\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said it was an \"abuse of the furlough scheme\"\n\nGMB regional secretary Neil Derrick said: \"It's never been easier or cheaper for businesses to borrow money than it is at the moment during the pandemic, but this business, Tomahawk, want it for free and they have solved their cash flow problem by giving a cash flow problem to their staff.\n\n\"It stinks and we think it is an abuse of the furlough scheme, we think it is an abuse of the job retention scheme and we've asked HMRC to investigate.\n\n\"Staff have been told that if they do not agree to the loan agreement their suitability for the role will have to be reviewed, and we all know what that means, that's a threat of dismissal.\"\n\nTomahawk has branches in places including York, Middlesbrough, Beverley, Newcastle, Durham and Hoxton, in east London.\n\nOne member of staff, who did not want to be identified, said employees had been told about the proposal via video call.\n\n\"I logged on to the meeting and they explained that we would have to sign a new contract,\" they said.\n\n\"They said if you don't sign it we will have to see if this job's right for you.\n\n\"It made me very angry. Everybody is already worried about money, but then to be taking more off us for the company when the company has just opened a new restaurant in London, surely they must have money behind them rather than just relying on staff to give them a loan.\"\n\nRachael Maskell MP wrote to the Treasury to raise the matter\n\nLabour MP for York Central Rachael Maskell has described the company's behaviour as \"disgraceful\".\n\nShe said: \"If it isn't illegal it certainly is immoral and it is certainly punitive to the staff that they employ.\"\n\nIn a response to a written question tabled by Ms Maskell, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman said employers are required to pay staff \"all the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) grant they receive from HMRC to cover 80% of wages\" and \"cannot enter into any transaction with the worker which reduces the wages below the amount claimed\".\n\nA spokesperson for Tomahawk said: \"At no point has Tomahawk Steakhouse suggested that members of staff would be sacked if they did not sign a loan agreement.\"\n\nAs with the rest of this hospitality industry, they said they had faced a \"challenging year\" but that the company's priority was to \"protect our people and our business\".\n\nThey said since putting the proposal forward \"every single employee chose to sign up to this agreement.\"\n\nA spokesman for HMRC said it would \"support any taxpayer in financial distress as a result of Covid-19 and we would urge any employer that may struggle to pay its outstanding tax liabilities to contact us as soon as possible.\"\n\nHe encouraged anyone concerned their employer \"might be abusing the scheme\" to contact HMRC.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's Covid vaccination rollout will receive an extra £1.65bn in the Budget to help it reach its target of offering a first dose to every adult by 31 July.\n\nThe chancellor will also announce £22m of the programme's existing funding will be used in a trial to see if mixing different vaccine doses works.\n\nOver 20 million people in the UK have had a first dose and NHS England is now asking 60 to 63-year-olds to book jabs.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was \"essential we maintain this momentum\".\n\nHe added: \"Protecting ourselves against the virus means we will be able to lift restrictions, reopen our economy and focus our attention on creating jobs and stimulating growth.\"\n\nThe trial on vaccines will also investigate whether a third dose can be effective. The government is aiming to offer all adults a first jab by the end of July.\n\nMeanwhile, nine out of 10 people aged 65 and over have had their first Covid vaccine dose, according to the NHS in England.\n\nThe Treasury said the chancellor is also expected to outline improvements to the UK's ability to respond to new Covid variants in his Budget announcement.\n\nMr Sunak will pledge to put £28m from the Vaccine Taskforce's existing funding into expanding the UK's vaccine testing capability and ability to quickly acquire samples of new coronavirus variants.\n\nAnd £5m will be used by the Centre for Process Innovation in Darlington to acquire a \"library\" of Covid vaccines to use in its work against different variants.\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\nIt come as a coronavirus \"variant of concern\" first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, with three cases detected in England and three in Scotland.\n\nIn England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant. The first two cases were from the same household in South Gloucestershire, with a history of travel to Brazil, but the third is not linked, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nThere are also concerns vaccines may not be as effective against the Brazilian variant - but NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be \"rapidly adapted\".\n\nThe latest government figures show 20,089,551 people in the UK have now had a first dose, while 796,132 have had a second.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it a \"huge national achievement\" and said \"every jab makes a difference in our battle against Covid\".\n\nThe government met its pledge to offer a jab to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK, including the over-70s and frontline health and care staff, by mid-February.\n\nFrom Monday, nearly two million people aged 60 to 63 in England will start receiving letters inviting them to book their vaccine.\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, people will be prioritised by age group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the shock to the economy cannot be fixed overnight\n\nRestrictions in England are set to be fully lifted by 21 June at the earliest, with all pupils set to return to schools from 8 March.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, the chancellor said he \"is preparing a Budget that provides support for people\" as Covid lockdown rules are eased.\n\nMr Sunak confirmed he would provide help up to then but added that he wanted to \"level with people\" about the \"shock to the economy\" caused by Covid.", "Video footage captured on security cameras shows a meteor lighting up the sky above Midsomer Norton and Bath.\n\nTwitter users reported spotting a \"flash\" with a \"tail of orange light\" in the night sky.", "A coronavirus \"variant of concern\" first detected in Brazil has now been found in the UK.\n\nThree cases have been detected in England and separately three in Scotland.\n\nIn England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant.\n\nThe three Scottish residents had flown to north-east Scotland from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.\n\nExperts believe this variant (P1) - first detected in travellers to Japan from Manaus in northern Brazil in January - could be more contagious.\n\nThere are also concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it - but NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be \"rapidly adapted\".\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England (PHE), said the UK was more advanced than many other countries in identifying the variants and mutations and therefore able to act quickly.\n\nIn England, the first two cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February - five days before the government's hotel quarantine rule came into force.\n\nTwo other people in the same household have also since tested positive for Covid - but tests are still ongoing to check if it is the same variant, so they are not included in the overall UK total of six.\n\nPHE said officials are now tracking down passengers who were on the same flight from Sao Paulo to Heathrow, via Zurich.\n\nThe third case identified in England is not linked to the other two cases and the whereabouts of that person are still not known.\n\nPHE said the person did not complete their test registration card so follow-up details are unavailable.\n\nOfficials are asking anyone who took a test on 12 or 13 February and who has not received a result or has an uncompleted test registration card to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nMeanwhile, testing is being ramped up in South Gloucestershire - on the outskirts of Bristol - with people living in five postcode areas invited to get tested even if they do not have symptoms. The postcodes fall within Bradley Stoke, Patchway and Little Stoke.\n\nRegarding the cases in Scotland, the government said the three people had tested positive while self-isolating.\n\nOther passengers who were on the same flight from London to Aberdeen are now being contacted.\n\nThe Brazil variant is something officials are worried about because it shares similar mutations to the South Africa variant of concern.\n\nBoth have undergone genetic changes that could make them more contagious and perhaps less easy to stop with our current vaccines.\n\nThe coronavirus jabs being given to people now were designed around earlier versions of the pandemic virus, not these new variants.\n\nScientists believe they should still protect, although perhaps not quite as well.\n\nWork is already under way to redesign or tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of these new \"variants of concern\".\n\nThese updated vaccines could be ready within months, meaning the UK would have millions of doses ready to give people a booster shot before next winter to make sure the population is protected.\n\nThere will be more cases out there of new variants that have not yet been identified.\n\nWhile it may not be possible to eliminate them, the determination is there to slow the spread of coronavirus, including new variants. Sticking to the social distancing rules will help.\n\nBoth PHE and the Scottish government said the variant had been designated \"of concern\" as it shares some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa (known as B.1.351).\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies. It is also possible that this variant may respond less well to current vaccines, but more work is needed to understand this.\n\nIn January, a coronavirus variant from Brazil was found in the UK - but it was not this variant of concern.\n\nPHE said the \"risk to the wider community is considered low\" but as a precaution extra community testing is be rolled out in some postcodes north of Bristol.\n\nIt urged people to keep following the coronavirus measures.\n\nExtra testing in the community has already been carried out for other variants elsewhere in the country\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said the news of the variant was \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"It is now vital that we do everything we can to contain it,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is further proof that the delay in introducing a hotel quarantine was reckless and the continuing refusal to put in place a comprehensive system leaves us exposed to mutations coming from overseas.\"\n\nThe hotel quarantine rule came into force on 15 February. It means that travellers coming to England from 33 countries - including Brazil - must pay to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days, while in Scotland the rule applies to travellers from all countries.\n\nBefore that date, travellers arriving in the UK still needed to self-isolate in their homes for 10 days.\n\nAll travellers to the UK also need to present a negative Covid test taken a maximum of 72 hours before their departure.\n\nHome Affairs Committee chairwoman Yvette Cooper said on Twitter it was \"notable\" that the pre-flight tests first brought in by the government in January did not catch six cases.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced another 6,035 cases of coronavirus and reported that a further 144 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nBut a milestone in the vaccination programme was reached, with more than 20 million people having received their first dose of the vaccine.", "Viewers say the mostly white cast doesn't reflect South Africa as a majority-black nation\n\nAs the Love Island reality TV franchise launches in South Africa, the show has come under fire from viewers who say it fails to reflect the racial make-up of the majority-black nation.\n\nSouth African media say just two contestants are black, and two are coloured - the official term for mixed-race people in the country.\n\nThe other six housemates are white.\n\nIn all, 10 contestants are vying to win the series and take home 1 million rand ($66,200; £47,500).\n\nA spokesman said more contestants would be arriving in the next few days who would reflect South Africa's diversity.\n\nThe reality TV series, which began in the UK before spin-offs launched elsewhere in the world, sees a group of men and women living in a villa isolated from the outside world. They couple up and take part in challenges to win the support of the voting public and ultimately compete for the cash prize.\n\nParticipants are catapulted into the limelight, and there has been criticism in recent years that Love Island has failed to adequately support contestants' mental health, while black contestants have spoken out about experiencing racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Love Island UK star: 'I had so much anxiety'\n\nLove Island says it has taken steps to address these issues. And in a first, a black couple won the US edition last year.\n\nYet many viewers in South Africa are disappointed with the programme's debut in their country.\n\n\"Wow so much diversity. This is a true representation of what I thought SA looks like,\" was one sarcastic reaction.\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\nAccording to a 2011 census at least 79% of South Africa's population is black, 9% is white, 9% is coloured and 3% is Indian.\n\n\"There aren't any Indian people on [Love Island SA], the one time we're thankful for not being represented,\" said Twitter user @joekhan360.\n\nYet another person complained that the ethnic breakdown of the group could mean there will be no mixed couples, in a country known for its fraught racial politics that persist 27 years after the end of white-minority rule:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRespected news site IOL however says some of the criticism may be \"over the top\", and points out that the Love Island format brings in new cast members as the series goes on. \"Indeed, as the show progresses, it's likely that the show will become more diverse,\" IOL reports.\n\nLove Island SA's distributor DStv told the BBC this was indeed the case, adding: \"We pride ourselves in reflecting diversity and inclusion for all our shows, including Love Island.\n\n\"Viewers can be assured that this will become more apparent in future episodes of Love Island SA. We hope viewers will keep watching to enjoy the new stars of the show who will be arriving over the next few days.\"\n\nDStv's spokesman also apologised for \"technical issues\" that saw poor image and sound quality and which they are \"working really hard to resolve\".", "Bank of Ireland operates across the Republic of Ireland and the UK\n\nBank of Ireland has announced it will close 15 branches in Northern Ireland, which is more than half of its 28 branches currently operating in NI.\n\nIt is part of a wider cost-cutting exercise that includes the closure of 88 banks in the Republic of Ireland, where 169 banks will remain open.\n\nThe Dublin-based bank operates across the Republic and the UK. It is one of NI's \"big four\" banks.\n\nThe bank's UK head office will also relocate from London to Belfast.\n\nThe bank has been reviewing its Northern Ireland operations and there had been speculation that it could withdraw from the market.\n\nThat has not happened, but Chief Executive Francesca McDonagh said the Northern Ireland business will undergo \"a material restructure\".\n\nThe branch closures will affect the roles of about 120 staff in Northern Ireland but will not result in compulsory redundancies, according to Ian McLaughlin, Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland UK.\n\nA geographical breakdown of Bank Of Ireland branches earmarked for closure in Northern Ireland\n\nThe branches earmarked for closure are:\n\nThe bank would work to identify staff who could be redeployed to other roles within the company, as an alternative to redundancy, said Mr McLaughlin.\n\nBranch closures will not start for 12 weeks and customers will be contacted individually about the changes, he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nAside from closing 15 branches, the restructuring of its Northern Ireland business will include simplifying its range of products with a greater focus on car finance and mortgages.\n\nThe bank will also continue with its strategy of withdrawing from less profitable lending across the UK.\n\nIt said this would mean its UK loan book shrinking by about 10% during 2021.\n\nBank of Ireland said its customers' usage of cash and branch services is falling substantially\n\nThe bank's UK division made a loss of £15m in 2020, compared to a profit of £152m in 2019.\n\nThe loss was due to impairment charges - money which must be set aside to cover loans which may not be repaid in full.\n\nAll banks have seen increased impairment charges due to the economic impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe bank as a whole showed an annual loss of €760m (£657m), again due to impairment charges.\n\n\"We've announced some rather eye-watering numbers this morning, like most banks,\" Mr McLaughlin told Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"It's been a really tough time and anyone who tells you differently isn't really paying attention, but we've got a really solid business here,\" he insisted.\n\nMr McLaughlin added that the relocation of the bank's UK office to Belfast was \"really good news and a sign of our commitment to Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the branch closures were in response to changes in customer behaviour over the last four years.\n\nHe argued that as the popularity of digital services like online shopping had increased, banks could not be \"insulated\" from the switch to digital.\n\n\"Our customers are using our branches less and less and we've reached a bit of a tipping point,\" Mr McLaughlin said.\n\n\"Our cash usage and customer visits in the closing branches is down 70% since 2017 and commensurately our digital banking up 50% over the same period so we need to adapt and we need to change.\"\n\nRetail NI Chief Executive Glyn Roberts said the number of closures \"seems a step too far\".\n\nAcknowledging \"the significant increase in online banking\", Mr Roberts said Monday's news will have a \"negative impact\" on high streets across Northern Ireland when the lockdown ends.\n\n\"I have also particular concerns of the impact on rural communities, with further reduced ATM provision and the ability to access cash,\" he added.\n\nThe Consumer Council has said the closures risk isolating consumers by removing access to essential services.\n\nFinancial Services Director Scott Kennerley said many consumers and small businesses still rely on face-to-face banking.\n\n\"We know that some consumers in Northern Ireland still prefer to use cash so the decision by Bank of Ireland to close half of its branch network will have a negative impact on consumers and their access to cash services,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to engage with Bank of Ireland to understand how it is supporting consumers affected by this decision.\"\n\nBank of Ireland had already closed several branches over the last decade.\n\nIn 2011, it had 44 branches in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn August last year, the bank said it was aiming to cut 1,400 jobs from its UK and Ireland operations.\n\nLast week, Ulster Bank confirmed it would close its Republic of Ireland business over the next few years.", "In the city of Taiz, Yemen, hundreds of children arrive for lessons each day in the ruins of a school near to front-line fighting between the government and Houthi rebels.\n\nAhmed, a nine-year-old boy who has been blind since birth, steps in to take classes when the teachers can't make it.\n\nOne in every five Yemeni schools is out of use, according to Unicef. But at this one, teachers decided to open it despite the damage, so that education could continue.", "Lady Gaga's dog walker has spoken out for the first time from hospital about his \"very close call with death\".\n\nRyan Fischer was shot in the chest last week by a dognapper with a semi-automatic handgun in Hollywood, Los Angeles.\n\nThe man and an accomplice took two of Lady Gaga's bulldogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nA third bulldog, Miss Asia, was unharmed. Mr Fischer said she was his \"guardian angel\".\n\nHe credited seeing her next to him with giving him the determination to survive.\n\n\"My panicked screams calmed as I looked at her, even though it registered that the blood pooling around her tiny body was my own,\" he wrote in an Instagram post on Monday.\n\n\"I cradled Asia as best I could, thanked her for all the incredible adventures we'd been on together, apologised that I couldn't defend her brothers, and then resolved that I would still try to save them… and myself,\" Mr Fischer wrote.\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\nHe is expected to make a full recovery.\n\nLady Gaga's pooches were recovered Friday night, after a woman brought the dogs - unharmed - to a Los Angeles police station. Authorities said the woman found the dogs and was uninvolved in the incident. Police have yet to identify any suspects.\n\nIt is not known if Lady Gaga - who is currently shooting a film in Rome, Italy - will hand the woman the $500,000 (£359,300) reward she initially offered for the safe return of the two dogs.\n\nMr Fischer tagged the pop star in his Instagram post, writing: \"your support as a friend, despite your own traumatic loss from your kids, was unwavering\".\n\n\"Your babies are back and the family is whole… we did it!\"\n\nHe wrote that, although his life had \"taken a very sudden and unexpected turn\", he was glad the dogs were safe and hoped the criminals would be brought to justice.", "The family were given safety advice by coastguard rescue officers\n\nA couple and child who had set up camp on a dangerous cliff edge prompted a call out by police and the coastguard.\n\nThey were found in a tent in an area known for landslips along the Cleveland Way in North Yorkshire on Saturday.\n\nCoastguard rescue officers from Staithes and Whitby were sent and gave \"safety advice due to the dangerous location of their tent\".\n\nPolice were also called because the family had breached Covid rules by travelling there, the coastguard said.\n\nIt is not clear whether the family were given a fine by police\n\nThe coastguard urged people to stick to designated footpaths\n\nA spokesperson from Staithes Coastguard said: \"Safety advice was given from Coastguard Rescue Officers due to the dangerous location of their tent, especially with recent landslips.\n\n\"If walking the Cleveland Way please stay on designated footpaths.\"\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.", "Prince Philip, pictured last summer, was admitted to hospital on 16 February\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been transferred to St Bartholomew's Hospital for continued treatment, after 13 nights at another London hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, is being treated for an infection and doctors will also carry out testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe duke is responding to treatment and \"remains comfortable\", it added.\n\nHe is expected to remain in hospital until at least the end of the week.\n\nPrince Philip, who turns 100 in June, was taken to King Edward VII's hospital in London on 16 February as a precaution, after feeling unwell. A palace source at the time said the duke had walked into the hospital unaided.\n\nOn Monday morning, someone was screened from journalists' cameras by umbrellas as they got into an ambulance outside the hospital in Marylebone.\n\nPrince Philip was transferred about three miles (5km) to St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as Barts, Uniformed officers from the City of London police were positioned at the hospital entrance.\n\nBarts is a centre of excellence for cardiac care, its NHS site says.\n\nStaff held up umbrellas to screen someone as they left the hospital on Monday\n\nThe exact reason for Prince Philip's initial admission has not been disclosed, but his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nBoth the duke and the Queen, 94, received Covid-19 vaccinations last month.\n\nAside from the fact that the duke is 99 years old there are two, further, causes for concern.\n\nThe first is that he is still not home; this is his longest recorded stay in hospital. A reasonable expectation was that he would be heading back to Windsor by now.\n\nInstead he has gone into St Bartholomew's Hospital for further treatment. The infection that sent him to King Edward VII's hospital is still being treated.\n\nThe second is the worry over his heart. The duke had a stent fitted following a blocked coronary artery in 2011. As far as we understand it has not played up since then. Now there are concerns - so there will be tests and observation in a hospital renowned for cardiovascular treatment.\n\nBecause he has retired from public life we hear little about the duke other than his rather infrequent visits to hospital. When he was last seen in public, in July last year, he looked in good shape. But this extended stay in hospital will be a cause for heightened concern.\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father for about 30 minutes, the weekend after he was admitted.\n\nTwo days later the Duke of Cambridge said his grandfather was \"OK\" and that doctors were \"keeping an eye\" on him.\n\nThe following day, on 23 February, Buckingham Palace said Prince Philip was being treated for an infection and was not expected to leave hospital for several days. The Earl of Wessex added his father was feeling \"a lot better\" and appreciated the \"lovely messages\" from the public.\n\nBBC health correspondent Hugh Pym said the nature of the duke's pre-existing heart condition had not been made public, and speculated that it might be related to the stent operation in 2011 or that the infection had somehow exacerbated an existing heart condition, such as heart rhythm issues.\n\n\"Certainly he will be monitored extensively, with some of the best specialists in the country at Barts Heart Centre.\n\n\"But I think, probably, it's more than just monitoring. I think he has gone to this specialist centre because of the possibility - no more than that - that the doctors feel there may be a need for an intervention or procedure to be carried out.\"\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Queen, have continued with their official duties during the duke's hospital stay.\n\nThe Queen has unveiled, virtually, a statue of herself for the first time, speaking to officials in Australia from Windsor Castle.\n\nIn a video of the call, made on Wednesday but released on Monday evening, the monarch joked that visitors to Government House in Adelaide might be alarmed to think she had paid them a surprise visit.\n\nHer other engagements over the past two weeks have included hosting a video call with health officials leading the UK's Covid vaccine rollout, and knighting a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\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 has attended over 22,000 solo engagements and given 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.", "Nomadland's Chloé Zhao was named best director while Sacha Baron Cohen took best comedy actor\n\nNomadland and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm were the big winners at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.\n\nThe night's top prize - best drama film - went to Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a homeless woman travelling through the American West.\n\nChloé Zhao was named best director - becoming only the second female winner of the category in Globes history, after Barbra Streisand in 1983.\n\n\"Thank you everyone who made it possible to do what I love,\" Zhao said.\n\n\"I fell in love with making movies and telling stories because it gave us a chance to laugh and cry together, to learn from each other, and to have more compassion for each other.\"\n\nBorat Subsequent Moviefilm, the sequel to 2006's hugely successful Borat, was named best musical or comedy film.\n\n\"Thank you to the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press,\" said Sacha Baron Cohen as he accepted the prize, referring to the recent revelation that the organisation behind the Globes currently has no black members.\n\nCohen poked further fun at the awards body as he was named best actor in a comedy or musical for the same film.\n\n\"Wait, Donald Trump is contesting the result. He's claiming that a lot of dead people voted, which is a very rude thing to say about the HFPA,\" he joked.\n\nBorat and Nomadland were among several films to pick up two awards each. Of the night's 14 acting winners, half were British, including Cohen; Rosamund Pike, who was named best actress in a musical or comedy film for I Care A Lot; and Daniel Kaluuya, who won best supporting actor for Judas and the Black Messiah.\n\nFormer Globe winner Laura Dern presented Daniel Kaluuya with his award for best supporting actor\n\nKaluuya plays US activist Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 at the age of 21.\n\n\"I hope generations after this can see how brilliantly he fought, he spoke, and he loved,\" Kaluuya said as he accepted his prize.\n\n\"He taught me about myself, made me grow as a man, and I appreciate that with all my heart.\"\n\n*Taylor-Joy holds triple British, American and Argentine citizenship and has lived in the UK since the age of six.\n\nJohn Boyega was named best supporting actor in a limited series for his portrayal of pioneering black British police officer Leroy Logan in an instalment of Small Axe, Steve McQueen's landmark series of BBC films.\n\n\"I'm so shocked. I've got trackie bottoms on and I'm comfortable but this is exciting,\" Boyega joked as he accepted the award from home.\n\nLogan shared a video on Instagram of himself reacting to the announcement and raising a celebratory glass. \"You're portrayal of me has been life changing,\" he told Boyega in the accompanying post. \"I'm also very proud of you & your name check on accepting the Golden Globes is so humbling.\"\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 leroylogan99 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 Crown was the big winner in the television categories, winning four prizes in total, including best drama series.\n\nJosh O'Connor and Emma Corrin both won acting honours for their performances as Prince Charles and Princess Diana respectively.\n\nEmma Corrin won for her portrayal of Princess Diana in The Crown\n\nAs she accepted her prize, Corrin said: \"Most of all, thank you so much to Diana, you have taught me compassion and empathy beyond any measure I could ever imagine.\"\n\nO'Connor said: \"I'm very lucky to be able to work in this period, and there are so many people who are unable to work, who are alone and isolated, and I hope we can all collectively put mental health at the forefront our minds.\"\n\nGillian Anderson was named best supporting actress for her portrayal of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the series.\n\nThe Queen's Gambit won best limited series, while its star Anya Taylor-Joy, who has lived in the UK since she was six, was named best actress in a limited series.\n\nSchitt's Creek was named best comedy series, and one of its stars, Catherine O'Hara, was named best TV comedy actress.\n\nCatherine O'Hara was named best comedy actress for Schitt's Creek\n\nElsewhere, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously named best actor in a drama film for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.\n\nHis wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award on his behalf, after the Black Panther star's death last summer from colon cancer at the age of 43.\n\nIn one of the ceremony's surprises, The United States vs Billie Holiday star Andra Day was named best actress in a drama film for her portrayal of the jazz singer.\n\nAaron Sorkin paid tribute to the three women who were nominated for best director as he accepted best screenplay for The Trial of the Chicago 7.\n\n\"You are the reason my college-age daughter wants to be a film-maker, and I'm never going to forgive you for that,\" he joked.\n\nSpeaking before the ceremony, Regina King, who was nominated for her directorial debut One Night in Miami, said: \"This was another year of powerful work from women with strong voices, so it feels good, and I hope this is the beginning of a true shift.\"\n\nOther winners included Mark Ruffalo for best actor in a limited series, and Pixar's Soul, which won best animated film.\n\nThe ceremony, which recognises excellence in film and television, was held virtually this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWhile nominees dialled in from home, the live audience was made up of frontline workers and first responders of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nFrontline workers and first responders made up the live audience, in place of nominees\n\nThe Golden Globes are the first major event of awards season, and often a good indicator of which films will go on to Oscar glory.\n\nFormer Saturday Night Live stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned to hosting duties this year, but they were in New York and Los Angeles respectively, marking the first time the Golden Globes have been bicoastal.\n\nThe nominees and winners were voted for by the 87 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a group of international journalists based in California.\n\nAfter a recent investigation by the LA Times found the HFPA had no black members, representatives from the organisation said during the ceremony they planned to address the issue.\n\n\"Tonight, while we celebrate the work of artists from around the globe, we recognise we have our own work to do,\" said Helen Hoehne, vice president of the HFPA.\n\n\"Just like in film and television, black representation is vital. We must have black journalists in our organisation.\"\n\nBut in separate letters to the HFPA and the Globes' network sponsor NBC issued after the ceremony's conclusion, Time's Up president and CEO Tina Chen criticised the response as \"cosmetic\".\n\n\"Change only occurs from an awareness of larger cultural problems, as well as a long-term commitment to systemic change\", she wrote.\n\nChen also called on NBC to take action and meet their public commitment to reform.\n\n\"As leaders of NBCUniversal television\", her letter read, \"your power as stakeholders makes you an effective force of change.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Jane Fonda This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Download Festival was also cancelled as a result of coronavirus in 2020\n\nThis year's Download Festival has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe rock and metal event had been due to take place from 4 to 6 June, headlined by Kiss, Biffy Clyro and System of a Down.\n\nFestival bosses said they had concluded it was \"not possible\" to make the event happen.\n\nTicket holders have been told they can retain their spots for next year or receive a refund.\n\nThe event had been due to start a few weeks before the government's 21 June target date to remove all legal limits on social contact.\n\nLast year the festival was also called off due to the pandemic, in what would have been the 40th anniversary of its original incarnation, Monsters of Rock.\n\nInstead, fans were encouraged to pitch tents in their gardens and share pictures while watching archive interviews and performances.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, organisers said the decision to cancel this year's event came \"following the announcement of the government's roadmap and despite the extraordinary efforts the NHS have put in to roll out the vaccine\".\n\nThey said the festival \"will return stronger than ever\" in 2022, with Biffy Clyro, Iron Maiden and Kiss already confirmed as headliners.\n\nIron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson said the band were delighted to be invited back for next year's event.\n\n\"Like everyone, we were all hugely disappointed when the global pandemic forced the cancellation of Download 2020 which would have been Maiden's seventh time headlining here,\" he said.\n\n\"As most people know, this festival is hallowed ground for us and our fans' vocal support and enthusiasm is always phenomenal and much appreciated.\n\n\"We can't wait to see everyone again, and are determined to make the show one hell of a party and the greatest homecoming ever.\"\n\nHeavy metal legends Iron Maiden were due to headline the three-day festival last year, and are down to appear in 2022\n\nCalifornian trio Cemetery Sun also tweeted their disappointment at the cancellation.\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 effects of the coronavirus pandemic are continuing to be felt across the live music industry.\n\nThe Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) warned independent festivals could be forced to cancel if they do not receive government-backed insurance and VAT intervention by the end of March.\n\nIts chief executive, Paul Reed, said: \"The Prime Minister has set out a road map and a 'no earlier than' date for festivals, and audiences have responded, demonstrating a huge appetite to be back in the fields this summer.\n\n\"But we need government interventions on insurance and VAT before the end of this month when festivals will need to decide whether they can commit to serious amounts of upfront capital.\n\n\"Now that we have a 'no earlier than' date, insurance is the last remaining barrier to planning.\"\n\nIn January, Glastonbury confirmed it would not return until 2022, though a number of other festivals say they are hopeful of being able to host events later in the year.\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.", "Kashmir, 64, and her eldest daughter Paramjeet, 43, both died in hospital from the virus\n\nA mother and her daughter died when 11 members of the same family caught Covid-19 after meeting on Christmas Day.\n\nKashmir Bains, 64, and Paramjeet, 43, of Wolverhampton, fell seriously ill after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe daughter died on 5 January, the day after she was taken to hospital, and her mother died four weeks later.\n\n\"It's been devastating for us as a family,\" said Indy Bains, their son and brother.\n\nMr Bains said the family considered not meeting at Christmas but decided to because his sister, who has learning disabilities, had been suffering in isolation with her mental health.\n\nThey gathered on Christmas Day, adhered to the government's three household rule and \"played safe\", only meeting for a few hours. Mr Bains and his family, and his younger sister and her family, met up with his mother, father and older sister.\n\nDays after Christmas, all 11 tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMr Bains said: \"We didn't meet anyone else beforehand, no-one had any symptoms, we still don't know who brought the virus into the family, into the house, but it's happened and it's something we'll have to live with for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nIndy Bains has started a fundraiser in memory of his mother and sister\n\nWhile most had mild symptoms, Mrs Bains and her daughter fell seriously ill.\n\n\"When the ambulances took them away, we just thought, 'Well they're in the right place, they'll get treatment,' we never thought once that they wouldn't return home,\" Mr Bains said.\n\nBoth mother and daughter spent time in intensive care at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\n\"Because of her [Paramjeet's] learning disability she didn't really understand what was happening to her, and I guess she thought that the mask was just obstructing the air flow rather than helping her and she kept pulling it off.\n\n\"We spent the last few hours pleading, begging her to keep it on, so that she could get the oxygen that she required... but she just couldn't do it, and kept pulling it off, it was heartbreaking for us to see.\"\n\nMr Bains has set up a JustGiving page in memory of his sister and mother to raise funds for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Charity. It has already raised more than £10,000.\n\nHe said the treatment his family received by hospital staff was \"humbling\".\n\n\"I think they [hospital staff] deserve all the respect and gratitude we can give them.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "John Swinney said the advice would be released to counter \"false claims\"\n\nThe Scottish government has agreed to release key legal advice from its court battle with Alex Salmond after MSPs threatened a vote of no confidence.\n\nHolyrood has twice voted to urge ministers to publish advice they were given after the former first minister took the government to court.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney previously argued that such legal advice should remain confidential.\n\nBut on Monday he confirmed that the advice would be released to MSPs.\n\nThe move came after all opposition parties indicated they would back a motion of no confidence in Mr Swinney if he did not comply, with the SNP government facing defeat.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives had lodged a one-line motion and were pushing for debate on Tuesday - but said they would withdraw it if the advice was released.\n\nMr Swinney said he would be handing \"key\" papers over to an inquiry committee \"to counter the false claims being made by some\" about what advice the government had been given and when.\n\nThe row centres on legal advice that was given to the Scottish government after Mr Salmond launched judicial review proceedings in 2018 over the way harassment complaints against him had been handled.\n\nThe government ended up admitting it had acted unlawfully because its investigating officer had had prior contact with the two complainers, and had to pay the former first minister more than £500,000 in legal expenses as a result.\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry investigating the botched probe has been keen to examine exactly what advice the government was given during the row, with Mr Salmond claiming that officials were told by lawyers that it was unlikely to win the case months before actually conceding defeat.\n\nThe former SNP leader said he had \"absolute reason to believe\" that counsel had informed the government on 31 October 2018 that they were facing defeat - only for the case to continue into January 2019.\n\nMr Swinney appeared to push back on this while confirming the advice would be published, saying: \"Serious allegations have been made - this material allows people to confirm that these allegations are false.\"\n\nThe SNP does not have a majority at Holyrood, and what became clear today was they would lose a vote of no confidence.\n\nWith that threat hanging over the deputy first minister, the government blinked and decided to take the highly unusual step of releasing the legal advice.\n\nIn fact, the Scottish government has never before handed legal advice over to a parliamentary committee with the expectation it will be published.\n\nThey're doing that because of political pressure - although they also say they are concerned that Alex Salmond's claims have threatened the integrity of the justice system.\n\nThis is happening the day before the Lord Advocate is due to give evidence, and two days before Nicola Sturgeon is due to appear in person. This is a massive week for this inquiry.\n\nMr Salmond successfully challenged the internal investigation of two harassment complaints in Scotland's civil courts\n\nMSPs twice voted to demand the inquiry was given access to all legal advice from the civil case.\n\nThe committee was given sight of a memo summarising key advice from the row, but continued to call for more detail - particularly after Mr Salmond's evidence session on Friday.\n\nOn Sunday, the Conservatives said they were giving Mr Swinney 24 hours to hand over the advice or face a motion of no confidence.\n\nAnd on Monday they published a motion stating that \"the parliament has no confidence in the deputy first minister, in light of the government's continued failure to publish legal advice called for in two resolutions of the parliament\".\n\nAll opposition parties backed the move, meaning the minority SNP government could have been heading for defeat - with Tory leader Douglas Ross saying the deputy first minister was \"out of options - release the legal advice or lose his job\".\n\nMr Swinney confirmed on Monday evening that \"the key legal advice that underpinned the Scottish government's defence of the judicial review\" would be released on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"In normal circumstances, government legal advice is not released. Indeed, such is the importance of being able to get frank, private advice, it is almost unheard of for the legal advice to be released.\n\n\"But we have to acknowledge that the issues at stake now are not normal. The very integrity of the legal system is being questioned.\n\n\"Serious allegations have been made. This material allows people to confirm that these allegations are false.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Conservatives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIndependent MSP Andy Wightman - a member of the inquiry committee - said it was \"not for the government to determine what is key legal advice\", saying the motion of no confidence should be kept on the table.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives then tweeted that \"we will not remove the no confidence motion until we know John Swinney will fully publish the legal advice\".\n\nThe inquiry committee is to take evidence from Lord Advocate James Wolffe - the government's top legal advisor - on Tuesday.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will then follow on Wednesday, with the first minister saying she is looking forward to putting her side across.", "The couple and child were found in a tent 85m (280ft) above the coast along the Cleveland Way in North Yorkshire\n\nA couple found camping \"in a perilous position\" on top of a cliff have been fined for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nThe pair were found with a child in a tent 85m (280ft) above the North Yorkshire coast in a spot prone to landslips.\n\nPolice said the 27-year-old woman and 30-year-old man had travelled from Doncaster and Middlesbrough.\n\nChoosing to camp at the site at Port Mulgrave, near Staithes, had put all three lives at risk, officers said.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it was \"completely irresponsible\" to pitch the tent so close to the cliffside along the Cleveland Way, a popular coastal walking route.\n\n\"To travel from Middlesbrough and Doncaster with the intention to camp overnight is obviously a clear breach of the regulations,\" officers said.\n\n\"Not only were the individuals involved risking their own safety and the safety of the child who was with them, if a landslide had occurred, they would also be risking the lives of the emergency services who would attend the resulting incident.\"\n\nThe campers, a woman from Doncaster and a man from Middlesbrough, were both fined for breaking Covid-19 restrictions\n\nAdam Turner, senior coastal operations officer for HM Coastguard, said the couple had \"no idea of the extreme danger they were in\".\n\n\"Cliff edges are really unstable and can easily collapse, as recent landslips in the area have shown,\" he said.\n\n\"If you live near the coast and are in a position to take exercise there in line with current Covid-19 restrictions, please take care near cliffs.\n\n\"Keep to paths and stay well back from the cliff edge.\n\n\"Check the weather and tides before you head out, wear appropriate sturdy footwear and take a fully charged mobile phone, so if the worst should happen you can call 999 and ask for the coastguard.\"\n\nThe tent was pitched on the cliff top at Port Mulgrave, near Staithes\n\nA spokesperson from Staithes Coastguard previously said officers from Staithes and Whitby gave safety advice to the couple.\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.", "People are keen to return to the office because working from home has left many \"fatigued\", says a boss at Britain's biggest office and retail complex.\n\nHoward Dawber, head of strategy at Canary Wharf Group, said people will still want to divide time between the workplace and home.\n\nBut they are missing office and city-centre life, he told the BBC.\n\nThe Canary Wharf financial complex, in London, has only about 6,000 people on site, against 100,000 pre-Covid.\n\nCanary Wharf Group is the developer behind roughly 7.5 million square feet of office space and would stand to benefit financially if there is a surge in demand once lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nBut Mr Dawber argued on the BBC's Today programme that people will be eager to get back in the office after so long away from the workplace.\n\n\"We've got to the point where there is a lot of fatigue out there,\" he said.\n\n\"Working from home for the first couple of months of last year when the sun was shining and people were enjoying perhaps a more flexible environment, there was a sense that this was going to be a short-term process.\n\n\"I think now people are really missing that opportunity to collaborate with and just see their friends in the office, to get your hair cut, to go and get a good coffee at lunchtime, and to do all the life admin things you can do in a city centre.\"\n\nIn the government's roadmap for ending coronavirus restrictions, it recommends that people in England continue to work from home where possible\n\nIt is hoped, however, that all legal limits on social contact can be removed from 21 June.\n\nAround 6,000 people are currently working at Canary Wharf compared to a pre-Covid 100,000\n\nWhile Mr Dawber said Canary Wharf expects occupancy levels to return to where they were before the pandemic, the increase will be gradual and people will still want to work from home on some days.\n\n\"I think it is going to be more socially acceptable for people to take the occasional day working from home,\" he said.\n\n\"So it may well be that people have a desk at Canary Wharf but some people will choose to work at home one day a week or a couple of days a month and that's a good thing.\"\n\nSome companies expect home working to continue once coronavirus restrictions have been lifted.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is set to reduce its office space by 20% over two years after a staff survey found that nearly 80% wanted to work at home for at least three days a week.\n\nHowever, others such as investment bank Goldman Sachs have rejected remote working as the \"new normal\", with chairman and chief executive, David Solomon, calling it an \"aberration\".\n\nLast month, Barclays' chief executive Jes Staley said that working from home was \"not sustainable\". At a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he said: \"It will increasingly be a challenge to maintain the culture and collaboration that these large financial institutions seek to have and should have.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the shock to the economy cannot be fixed overnight\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said he \"is preparing a Budget that provides support for people\" as Covid lockdown rules are eased.\n\nAt the earliest restrictions in England are set to be fully lifted by 21 June.\n\nMr Sunak said he would provide help during that period but added that he wanted to \"level with people\" about the \"shock to the economy\" caused by Covid.\n\nHe dismissed claims he told Tory MPs he wanted to raise taxes now so he could cut them ahead of the next election.\n\nThis comes as the government announced £5bn to help high street businesses.\n\nMeanwhile Labour's shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, accused the chancellor of being \"focused on politics\" over protecting the economy.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the government had gone \"big and early\" when providing support to those hit by Covid at the beginning of the pandemic - and added \"there's more to come\".\n\nThe furlough scheme - which supports around 4.7 million people - is due to finish at the end of April along with the £20 weekly increase in Universal Credit.\n\nMr Sunak said he was focused on \"preparing a budget that provides support for people and businesses and families through the remaining stages of this crisis\" and in line with the easing of restrictions as set out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nHowever he also said he wanted to \"be honest\" with the public about the pandemic's impact on the economy and \"clear about what our plan to address that is\".\n\nHe warned high levels of borrowing had meant Britain was \"more sensitive to interest rate changes\" and that debt could \"rise indefinitely\" if borrowing continued after the recovery.\n\nHe said making public finances sustainable \"isn't going to happen overnight\" but would not confirm newspaper reports he was planning to freeze income tax thresholds or raise corporation tax in a bid to lower debt.\n\nFreezing thresholds would mean more people paying more tax as wages rose.\n\nBusinesses are watching the Budget closely for information about the future of key support schemes, especially furlough - the job retention scheme - which is due to end in April.\n\nSince it started in March 2020, it has been key to preventing spiking unemployment, but no-one expected the government to still be paying workers' wages a year on. Let alone 4.7 million of them.\n\nWith so many dependent on it, and having pledged \"support for people\" it's difficult to see how the chancellor can end furlough while some businesses are still closed.\n\nBut the scheme is not cheap. And with the country's debt topping £2tn, the same value as the UK economy, the chancellor could start to spell out plans on how he plans to pay at least some of the bill.\n\nThe UK's low corporation tax looks a likely contender for rises - although businesses that have struggled through the pandemic argue this is hitting them while they're down.\n\nAsked whether he had privately told Conservative MPs he wanted to raise taxes now so he could cut them ahead of the next general election Mr Sunak replied: \"I don't recognise that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky News he said he \"would like to be able to keep taxes low for people in general\" but added that he wanted to \"be responsible\" with people's money.\n\nMs Dodds said the chancellor should \"follow what is in the interest of our country\" not \"party politics\".\n\nSpeaking to Sophy Ridge, she said Labour would \"look carefully\" at proposals on corporation tax but added: \"What we don't want to see right now is what the chancellor is doing, particularly in relation to council tax, the imposition of additional costs at a point when our country is experiencing the worst economic crisis of any major economy.\"\n\nShe also called on the chancellor to confirm that the furlough scheme and £20 increase to Universal Credit would be kept for as long as Covid-based restrictions were in place.\n\nDuring his interview, Mr Sunak also defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme, arguing that it protected jobs, but wouldn't say if he would revive the scheme when hospitality venues were allowed to re-open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds: \"I would be concerned about additional taxes on business right now\"\n\nMr Sunak will lay out the government's tax and spending plans in his Budget on Wednesday, at a time when public borrowing has led to the highest national debt level since 1963.\n\nConservative former chancellor Lord Clarke has argued Mr Sunak should consider raising VAT, national insurance and income taxes in order to repair the public finances.\n\nHowever some Conservative MPs - including ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis - have warned against such rises and potential Tory rebels have been told they risk being kicked out of the parliamentary party if they vote against the Budget.\n\nMartin Beck, senior economic adviser to economic forecasting group EY ITEM Club, said repairing the public finances could wait and warned that \"premature fiscal tightening could undermine recovery\".\n\nAre you a small or medium business owner? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 20 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it a \"huge national achievement\" and said \"every jab makes a difference in our battle against Covid\".\n\nThe latest government figures show 20,089,551 people in the UK have now had a first dose, while 796,132 have had a second.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer all adults a first jab by the end of July.\n\nBut the head of NHS Providers - which represents hospital trusts in England - warned there was \"a long way to go\".\n\n\"We're not even close to half way through this programme,\" said Chris Hopson. \"And there's a further challenge: to design a workforce model to enable us to do this year in year out.\"\n\nWhile he welcomed the milestone, he added: \"As we set out in our recent briefing, we need to see more progress on vaccines, lower Covid-19 case numbers, much less pressure on the NHS and plans in place to contain future outbreaks before easing restrictions.\n\n\"Now is not the time to let down our guard.\"\n\nThe government's 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, people will be prioritised by age group.\n\nThere are no plans yet to vaccinate children, although trials have been announced to test the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab on children.\n\nFrom Monday, nearly two million people aged 60 to 63 in England will start receiving letters inviting them to book their vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that the 20 million milestone was \"a testament to the tireless work of NHS staff, volunteers, the armed forces and many more\".\n\n\"I urge everyone to get the jab when called,\" he added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock also said it was \"a magnificent achievement for the country\" and the vaccine was \"our route out\".\n\nAccording to the figures published on Sunday, the 20 million milestone was reached after a further 407,503 jabs were administered in one day.\n\nThe figures include: 17.1 million first doses given in England, 1.6 million first doses in Scotland, 923,615 first doses in Wales and 520,996 first doses in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said people in the 60-63 age bracket would start receiving letters on Monday explaining how to book a jab through the national booking service, with those aged 50 to 60 set to be invited \"shortly\".\n\nIt said the vaccine rollout was gaining \"fresh momentum\", with medical director Prof Stephen Powis urging anyone who had been invited to take up the offer.\n\n\"It doesn't matter when you were invited you can still come forward and protect yourself and others,\" he said.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said vaccine supplies are expected to increase in March, adding: \"We're planning for further acceleration as we head towards Easter.\"", "School staff do not have a markedly higher risk of infection than other working-age adults, a study suggests.\n\nThe number of staff testing positive for Covid antibodies increased by a similar percentage to their peers while schools were fully open.\n\nExperts described the findings as \"very reassuring\", and suggested efforts by schools to control infections were working.\n\nThey said this did not mean teachers were at zero risk, however.\n\nTesting positive for Covid antibodies indicates someone has had the virus in the past.\n\nIn December, 15% of teaching and support staff tested positive for antibodies compared to about 18% of people of working age in the same local authorities - giving them about an average risk for their age.\n\nBut the working-age population includes people not in work and working from home, as well as those going into work.\n\nIt would be \"naive\" to think teachers going into schools wouldn't have higher risks than those working from home, according to Dr Shamez Ladhani who is leading research for Public Health England.\n\nHis team, from Public Health England, the Office for National Statistics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tested staff and students at a sample of schools for current and past infections.\n\nAnyone working outside their home is likely to have some elevated risk, the researchers explained.\n\nHowever, teachers' risk was not substantially higher compared with people working in other settings.\n\nBetween 25% and 50% of hospital staff had antibodies, according to various studies, while in care homes that at least one Covid outbreak, two-thirds (66%) of staff had antibodies by the end of the first wave.\n\nIn contrast, the proportion of school staff testing positive for antibodies rose to 15% from about 12% between November and December 2020.\n\nGiven schools were completely open during this period, \"you would expect much higher antibody conversion if it was a high risk environment,\" Dr Ladhani said.\n\nHe said the long-term harm of keeping children out of school was \"enormous\".\n\n\"The benefits outweigh the risks, but the risks are not zero,\" he said.\n\nIt was not possible to tell from the study whether any infections detected had been caught in school or in the wider community, or whether teachers were catching the virus from pupils or other teachers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The very fact we've not seen a high antibody rise when at school suggests staff were not being infected [at high rates] during that period\".\n\nHe said schools had never been in a better position to think about re-opening.\n\nAnd it was a testament to the infection control efforts of schools and their staff, one of the study's lead authors Prof Sinéad Langan added.\n\n\"Schools and their staff have made a huge effort to protect themselves and their students by implementing Covid-19 control measures to try and stop infection entering the school site, and reduce on-site transmission,\" she said.\n\nIt was announced last week that no occupation would be prioritised for vaccination - instead people doing different jobs would be offered the jab according to their age or health status.\n\nThat's because those are the biggest factors driving whether someone will get very ill or even die after being infected.\n\nA relatively small proportion of Covid deaths have been in the working-age population.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths in under-65s were in men and the most common occupations of those who died were in caring, service jobs and \"elementary occupations\" like cleaners, shelf-fillers and hospital porters.", "A website that collates recipes from the internet has been taken down hours after it launched, following a backlash from food bloggers.\n\nRecipeasly said it wanted to \"fix online recipes\" by removing \"ads and life stories\" when users imported external links.\n\nBut content creators criticised the platform for breaching copyright and accused it of \"stealing\" revenue.\n\nThe website was removed after a deluge of complaints 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 Tom Redman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 have nothing but respect and admiration for the time, money and effort that go into creating great recipes & websites. We don't want to minimise the results for all that hard work.\n\n\"We realise we're not demonstrating the huge respect we have for recipe creators. We missed the mark big time today and we're sorry.\"\n\nThe website says its aim is to remove “ads, clutter and long pages of content (designed for the search engine rather than humans)”.\n\nA lot of food blogs contain text before the recipe, often writing about a personal connection to the meal or the history behind it.\n\nMany people responding to Recipeasly's launch on social media said it was a useful tool.\n\n“Please don’t bow to the criticism, this site is an answer to my prayers,” one tweet said.\n\n“We all hate shifting through lifestyle guru stuff to see if we need one egg or two,” another wrote.\n\nHowever, food bloggers have complained that the stories accompanying recipes are relevant.\n\nBinny Shah-Patel says she shares recipes that have a personal connection to her late grandmother\n\nBinny Shah-Patel, food writer and creator of Binny's Food and Travel blog, said it took the “heart and soul” out of recipes.\n\n“If I shared a recipe that was inspired by something my grandmother fondly made for me growing up in Kenya, it is now one of the ways I remember my grandmother now that she has passed away, and I can't even go home because of Covid.\n\n“I would want others to know about the inspiration behind the recipe and what it means to me every time I make it and eat it, so that they too can appreciate it that much more and perhaps learn a little about my background and grandmother in the process.”\n\nCritics said the website was taking advertising revenue away from predominately female creators.\n\nKacie Morgan says websites like Recipeasly could mean she loses money from her food blog\n\n“As recipe development is one of the major services I offer, these platforms present a real threat to my income as they could be seen to undermine my work,” Kacie Morgan, food blogger at The Rare Welsh Bit, said.\n\nMoney made from advertising on her blog was largely dependent on the number of people visiting the site each month, she added.\n\n“Ads help me have a job that I can work around my condition and being a mum,” Jenna Farmer, who blogs about her experience with Crohn's disease, said.\n\n“They're a way of supporting a blogger whose recipes you love, without having to spend a penny on a recipe book in the traditional way.\"\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 jennafarmeruk 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\nTom Redman, one of the creators of the platform, emphasised that Recipeasly had no revenue or profit, and that it drove blog traffic through links on the platform.\n\nRecipes on the website were only visible to the user who imported them, “similar to if a user had printed the recipe or copied it into a [document]”, he wrote in a series of posts on Twitter.\n\n“Given the feedback, we are taking recipeasly.com down as we re-examine our impact on the community,” he added.\n\nRecipes scraped off a website and republished without consent could be a breach of copyright, Mark Blunden, head of technology at law firm Boyes Turner, said.\n\n“If someone has created a recipe and put it into writing, then like any other literary work it will automatically attract copyright protection.\n\n“Images are also the copyright of the creator, and reproducing them online without consent is a copyright infringement.\n\n“However, if someone were to adapt an existing recipe and change it sufficiently, it will be a fresh copyright work and non-infringing.\"\n\nHe suggested creators could use watermarks or back up their text in a repository, to help protect their work.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Recipeasly for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Watford, West Ham, Newcastle and Norwich boss Glenn Roeder has died aged 65 after a long illness, the League Managers Association has announced.\n\nRoeder, who was a defender during his playing days, began his managerial career with a spell in charge at Gillingham.\n\nHe was also a coach in the England set-up when Glenn Hoddle was manager.\n\nThe LMA said it was \"very deeply saddened\" at Roeder's death \"after a long battle with a brain tumour\".\n\nRoeder began his playing career at Leyton Orient before going on to represent Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle, Watford and Gillingham.\n\nHe captained QPR in the 1982 FA Cup final, which his side lost to Tottenham in a replay, and to the old Second Division title in 1983.\n\nRoeder was also part of the Newcastle team that achieved promotion from the Second Division in 1984.\n\n\"A cultured defender as a player, he managed with a studious style and was always generous with his time and ideas,\" said LMA chairman Howard Wilkinson.\n\n\"Glenn was such an unassuming, kind gentleman who demonstrated lifelong dedication to the game. Not one to court headlines, his commitment and application to his work at all levels warrants special mention.\n\n\"Football has lost a great servant today and our sincere condolences go to Glenn's family and friends.\"\n\nRoeder led West Ham to a seventh-place finish in the Premier League in 2002 before he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in April 2003.\n\nHe had to have surgery and a period of recovery before returning to the dugout in July the same year.\n\nWest Ham joint-chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold said: \"We are both deeply saddened by the passing of Glenn, who was hugely respected and liked by everyone in the game.\n\n\"As a player, Glenn enjoyed success with QPR and Newcastle, among others, before establishing himself as one of the country's top coaches, with a well-earned reputation for developing young players, including the likes of Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Glen Johnson and Jermain Defoe during his time with West Ham United.\n\n\"Off the pitch, he was a loving family man and our sincere condolences go to Glenn's loved ones at this sad time.\"\n\nRoeder's last role in the game was as a managerial advisor at Stevenage in 2016.\n\n\"Glenn achieved so much throughout his lifelong career in the game,\" said LMA chief executive Richard Bevan.\n\n\"After retiring as a player, he became one of the country's most respected coaches, working across all levels of the professional game, in senior and academy football, and acting as a trusted advisor to many coaches and players.\n\n\"At every club, he chose to develop new talent and to give opportunities to the younger players in his charge.\"\n\nFormer England international Chris Waddle played with Roeder at Newcastle and said his death was \"very sad\".\n\n\"Glenn was a top lad who loved football and was very much a family man,\" Waddle told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"You can see by the reaction, what everybody thought about him.\n\n\"He was very professional but he had a good sense of humour. All the jobs he's been involved in, football was his life, as was his family.\n\n\"He was one of the first footballing centre-halves. Now we talk about Rio Ferdinand, players who are comfortable on the ball.\n\n\"But he didn't just stand in defence heading it away and kicking it away, he wanted to play.\n\n\"He had this stepover. Everyone knew he was going to do the stepover, but you still couldn't stop him. If he was around today he would definitely be playing at a top club.\"\n\nFormer Scotland midfielder Don Hutchison played under Roeder at West Ham and paid tribute to him on social media.\n\n\"I'll never ever forget when my dad was passing away,\" said Hutchison. \"The gaffa told me to get in my car to Newcastle and go see him quick.\n\n\"Glenn was on the phone with me for all five hours of my journey! Sleep well gaffa. My thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nNorwich said they were \"deeply saddened\" by Roeder's death and \"the thoughts of everyone at the club are with Glenn's family and friends at this very sad time\".\n\nCanaries goalkeeper Tim Krul played under Roeder at Newcastle and said: \"Really sad to hear the passing of Glenn Roeder, was a great man to play alongside and work under when he became manager, thoughts with all of his family.\"\n\nFormer England strikers Gary Lineker and Michael Owen also paid tribute to Roeder.\n\nLineker said he was \"a real football man who had a great career both on the field and in the dugout\".\n\nOwen added: \"So so sad to hear Glenn Roeder has passed away. Why do the best people leave us so early? I'm devastated. A true gentleman. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nRoeder asked Bristol City manager Nigel Pearson to be his assistant when he was in charge at Newcastle.\n\nHe added: \"A sensitive caring man who didn't always have as high a regard for himself as others had for him.\n\n\"He was loved and admired by those who worked with him. I'll miss you, my friend.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will speak to Oprah Winfrey in an upcoming TV special\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has drawn parallels between the treatment of his mother and wife, in teaser clips of a much-anticipated Oprah Winfrey TV special.\n\nIn two 30-second clips released by CBS, Harry says he feared history was \"repeating itself\" before he and Meghan decided to step back as senior royals.\n\nWinfrey is seen asking Meghan if there had been a \"breaking point\" and if she was \"silent or silenced\", but the duchess does not speak in either clip.\n\nThe US interview airs on 7 March.\n\nIt is unclear when the programme, Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, will be shown in the UK.\n\nIn the full programme Meghan will talk about marriage, motherhood, life as a royal and how she is handling \"intense public pressure\", CBS said.\n\nPrince Harry has previously said he stepped back from royal duties in order to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" environment created in the UK by the press.\n\nHarry's late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, relinquished the Her Royal Highness title at the time of her divorce from the Prince of Wales in August 1996.\n\nShe died the following year after a car crash in Paris. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes when the accident happened.\n\nIn the clips from the upcoming TV special, an image of a young Prince Harry with Diana is shown as the duke says: \"I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago, because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us - but at least we had each other.\"\n\nHarry also tells Winfrey: \"My biggest concern was history repeating itself.\n\n\"For me, I'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you with my wife by my side.\"\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 CBS This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWinfrey is a personal friend of Meghan and attended the couple's wedding in 2018.\n\nIn the full interview, Meghan and Harry talk about their move to the United States last year and their future plans, according to CBS.\n\nSpeaking to chat show host James Corden last week, the duke insisted the couple were \"stepping back rather than stepping down\" as senior royals.\n\nHe said the situation was \"destroying my mental health\" and he \"did what any husband [or] father would do\".\n\nThese first insights into the much-anticipated Oprah interview are designed to draw us in with their tight editing and dramatic music.\n\nThey are a flavour of what's to come.\n\nIn the minute of footage, Meghan doesn't say a word. We'll have to wait for her answers.\n\nBut the questions that Oprah puts to her hint strongly at upset and frustration. The language is of being silenced and of surviving something.\n\nThe talk from Harry is of protecting his wife and being able to escape from the pressure and strain they felt.\n\nIn Oprah, the couple chose a friend to interview them whose style isn't aggressive.\n\nShe is an expert at getting interviewees to open up and she will have encouraged them to reveal what went wrong behind the palace walls.\n\nIt is that which will worry the Royal Family and palace officials.\n\nHow critical have Harry and Meghan been? We will find out when the full interview is broadcast next weekend.\n\nLast month, it was announced that the duke and duchess would not be returning as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe couple said at the time that \"service is universal\" and offered to continue supporting the organisations they represented.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's honorary military appointments and royal patronages will be redistributed to working members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe announcement came just days after the couple revealed that they are expecting their second child.\n\nIt is not known whether Prince Harry and Meghan informed the royal household about their plans to be interviewed.", "Now is \"not the time for tax rises\" as they could undermine the UK's economic recovery from Covid - but they may be needed at a later date, MPs have said.\n\nAhead of the Budget announcement on Wednesday, a Treasury Committee report says public finances are on an \"unsustainable long-term trajectory\".\n\nIt says some tax rises may not harm recovery, but advises against others.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Mel Stride, told the BBC it was \"almost inevitable\" that some tax rises would occur.\n\nThere has been much speculation that the rate of corporation tax might rise, and Mr Stride told the BBC's Today programme: \"Putting up taxes is in general not a great thing to do but we are where we are and I think the committee view is that looking at income tax and looking at corporation tax is... the right way to go.\"\n\nMr Stride added: \"Each 1% increase in corporation tax raises about £3bn so I think... [it] is almost inevitable that some level of rise in going to occur.\"\n\nHe added that the UK had cut corporation tax rates from 28% to 19% and was extremely competitive with the rest of the world so \"there seems to be scope for some modest increase\".\n\nThe Conservatives' election promise was not to raise rates of national insurance, income tax or VAT, but Mr Stride said that did not include the level at which people started paying tax, and those levels could be frozen.\n\nFreezing thresholds would mean more people paying more tax as wages rose.\n\nThe Treasury Committee's report said: \"With our public finances on an unsustainable long-term trajectory, our clear message is that Budget 2021 is not the time for tax rises or fiscal consolidation, which could undermine the economic recovery.\n\n\"But we will probably need to see significant fiscal measures, including revenue raising, in the future.\"\n\nThe report, published as part of the Tax After Coronavirus inquiry, comes after Rishi Sunak said he must \"level with people\" about the economy.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Sunak will use the Budget to set out the government's tax and spending plans following a year of financial disturbance and high government borrowing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe huge amounts of money spent on pandemic support schemes have meant that government borrowing for this financial year has now reached £270.6bn, which is £222bn more than a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMore than £46bn has been spent covering salaries as part of the furlough scheme, for example, and tens of billions of pounds on guaranteeing loans to businesses.\n\nThe committee recommends a number of actions it says could raise additional money for the government without hampering economic recovery.\n\nAs well as mentioning corporation tax rises and income tax thresholds, it suggested that stamp duty, a tax paid by people buying properties, is \"economically inefficient\" and causes damage to the economy by \"affecting when and how often people buy homes\".\n\nThe government should also look at introducing a \"loss carry-back\" for trading losses, it said. This would allow losses made during the pandemic to be set against up to three previous profitable years, generating a tax refund for both incorporated and unincorporated firms.\n\nIt also called a review of the tax treatment of the self-employed \"long overdue\" and said the current system is \"confused, unfair and unsustainable\".\n\nThe chancellor has said he \"is preparing a Budget that provides support for people\" as Covid lockdown rules are eased.\n\nAt the earliest, restrictions in England are set to be fully lifted by 21 June.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak also said he wanted to \"be honest\" with the public about the pandemic's impact on the economy and \"clear about what our plan to address that is\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the shock to the economy cannot be fixed overnight\n\nHe warned high levels of borrowing had meant the UK was \"more sensitive to interest rate changes\" and that debt could \"rise indefinitely\" if borrowing continued after the recovery.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said that, since the start of the pandemic, more than £280bn had been invested to protect jobs and businesses.\n\n\"We've been able to respond comprehensively and generously through this crisis because of our strong public finances,\" he said.\n\n\"The chancellor has made clear that once our economy recovers, we should look to return the public finances to a more sustainable footing.\n\n\"We will level with people about how we'll do that - and at the Budget this week we'll set out support for the economic recovery while being up front about the need to repair the public finances once the recovery takes hold.\"", "The three people who tested positive flew into Aberdeen airport from Brazil via Paris and London Heathrow\n\nAn enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after the Brazilian variant of Covid-19 was detected in Scotland.\n\nThree Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.\n\nNational clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said they were oil workers who were returning to their families.\n\nOther passengers who were on the same British Airways flight from London on 29 January are now being contacted.\n\nExperts believe this variant (P1) - first detected in northern Brazil in January - could be more contagious.\n\nHowever Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said there was \"currently no reason to believe\" the variant was circulating in the community in Scotland.\n\nA total of 20 passengers who were on flight BA1312 have already been contacted, and Ms Freeman said work was under way to get in touch with others.\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Scotland's The Nine that situation in Aberdeen had been \"well-handled\" by the individuals, their families and employer.\n\nAsked if he was concerned the north-east was a gateway to new variants via the oil industry, he said: \"It's certainly a part of the country we need to be concerned about\".\n\nThree other cases have also been detected in England, but they are not linked to the Scottish cases.\n\nOfficials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant in England.\n\nThe three travellers to Scotland had all tested negative for Covid-19 before leaving Brazil\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the three Scottish travellers had arrived in Aberdeen in early February, before new rules on hotel quarantine came into force.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme they had isolated together for 10 days after arrival in accommodation provided by their employer.\n\nThey tested positive while in isolation, having developed symptoms after arriving there.\n\nMs Evans said that health protection specialists were now following up \"contacts of their contacts\" in an effort to ensure that any further cases were found quickly.\n\nAnyone traced will be offered a Covid-19 test.\n\n\"That's not standard procedure, that's going one stage further,\" she said.\n\n\"But of course they have been quarantined for 10 days in managed isolation for that period of time, so you would think that they wouldn't have many contacts to follow up.\n\n\"Nonetheless, that's an added precaution that's been taken by health protection specialists.\"\n\nProf Leitch, said it was the first time the Brazilian variant had been detected in Scotland, but told BBC Scotland there was \"no evidence\" of community spread.\n\nHe said the three travellers had tested negative before leaving Brazil.\n\n\"The measures that were in place at the time of this were really quite rigorous,\" he said.\n\n\"These individuals self-isolated. They were from a high risk country, so they followed the instructions and there is no suggestion of any blame or concern about their behaviour. I think that's very important.\"\n\nProf Leitch added that \"enhanced\" contact tracing was necessary in this case because of concerns about the Brazil strain's resistance to immunity.\n\n\"The reason why we're worried scientifically is we're not absolutely certain that this version is amenable to the natural immunity some people already have and the artificial immunity we are creating with vaccination,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything we know says it's still very effective, but we just can't be sure yet because it hasn't been around long enough and the trials haven't completed.\"\n\nBoth the Scottish government and Public Health England said the variant had been designated \"of concern\" as it shared some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa - known as B.1.351.\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said it was important to be \"vigilant\" for changes to the virus, with the vaccine programme placing greater pressure on it.\n\nHe said: \"We must continue to suppress transmission to the lowest possible level - the more virus there is around, the more likely these mutations are to appear.\"", "Churchill often teamed the slippers with a one-piece \"siren suit\", which he had made during wartime\n\nA pair of velvet slippers that belonged to Sir Winston Churchill have sold for nearly £40,000 at auction.\n\nThe shoes, which are monogrammed with his initials WSC, date back to the 1950s.\n\nChurchill was regularly photographed wearing them during his second spell as prime minister from 1951-55.\n\nA brandy glass that belonged to him was also sold and fetched more than £18,000 at the same auction.\n\nThe slippers were sold by Sussex auctioneers Bellmans, and were made by N. Tuczek of Mayfair, a well-known shoemaker of the time.\n\nThe slippers and monogrammed brandy balloon glass both exceeded their expected price tags\n\nInitially expected to go for up to £15,000, they sold on Tuesday for £39,040, including buyer's premium. The brandy glass also surpassed its guide price of £10,000.\n\nAuctioneer Julian Dineen said: \"Sir Winston Churchill is still highly regarded around the world and we had interest from both the media and from buyers from all over the world.\n\n\"It was only the second opportunity to acquire these wonderful items and especially the slippers saw significant interest.\"\n\nThe items' unnamed current owner had bought them in 1998. He said: \"I often imagined the great man sitting in his chair with these slippers on and this very glass filled with brandy in his hand.\"\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.", "Grace Victory has amassed more than 221,000 subscribers on YouTube with videos about body image and her recent pregnancy\n\nA popular YouTuber with Covid-19 who was placed in an induced coma has said she is \"awake\".\n\nGrace Victory, 30, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was taken into intensive care on Christmas Day.\n\nThe move came a day after she gave birth to her first child, a boy, who was not due to be born until February.\n\nIn successive posts on Twitter on Monday, she said \"I'm awake\", followed by another tweet which read: \"Baby boy is thriving at home x.\"\n\nMiss Victory, also known as \"The Internet's Big Sister\", joined YouTube in March 2011 and has amassed more than 221,000 subscribers with her videos about body image and pregnancy.\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 gracefvictory 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\nAfter it was announced she was in an induced coma, messages of support flooded in, including those from Miss Victory's celebrity followers such as Little Mix's Leigh-Anne Pinnock and model and campaigner Katie Piper.\n\nIn December her family said they were \"truly overwhelmed\" by the \"amount of love\" sent to Miss Victory.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The interview took place in the garden of a house near where the couple live in Montecito, west of Los Angeles\n\nCrisis meetings involving senior royals have taken place following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said Buckingham Palace \"will not want to feel rushed into saying something\" about Prince Harry and Meghan's claims.\n\nThe couple spoke to Oprah about racism, mental health, the media and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Charles did not speak about the interview during a visit in London.\n\nAn average of 11.1m people in the UK watched the interview on Monday night.\n\nIn it, the duchess - who is the first mixed-race member of the modern Royal Family - said a low point came when Harry was asked by an unnamed royal family member \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nPrince Harry later clarified to Oprah that the comments were not made by either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nMeanwhile, US President Joe Biden's spokeswoman said he would praise anyone for having the courage to speak out about mental health.\n\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki described Prince Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, as \"private citizens\" who were \"sharing their own story in their own struggles\".\n\nFormer US secretary of state Hillary Clinton also backed Meghan, saying: \"This young woman was not about to keep her head down, you know, this is 2021.\"\n\nPrince Charles did not respond to questions about the interview during a visit to a vaccine centre in north London\n\nThe two-hour interview was screened on ITV on Monday night attracting 12.4m viewers at its peak - the broadcaster's biggest audience since the 2019 Rugby World Cup final - while it was viewed by an average of 17.1m in the US the previous day.\n\nIn the interview, the duchess said that she found royal life so difficult that at times she \"didn't want to be alive any more\", and when she approached the institution for help, she did not get it.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that Meghan's allegations about racism and a lack of mental health support should be taken \"very seriously\".\n\nNo 10 said Prime Minister Boris Johnson watched the interview on Monday night, but declined to comment further.\n\nIt followed Mr Johnson's comments earlier on Monday, when he said he had \"always had the highest admiration for the Queen and the unifying role she plays\".\n\nHe said \"when it comes to matters to do with the Royal Family, the right thing for prime ministers to say is nothing\", after being asked specifically if he believed the Royal Family was racist.\n\nMeanwhile, a YouGov opinion poll of 4,656 people conducted after the interview aired in the UK suggested:\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have released a new image of them with their son Archie, who was born in 2019\n\nDuring the interview, the duchess was asked why she thought the Royal Family did not make Archie a prince - which Meghan said she wanted so that he would get police protection.\n\nThe couple's children do not automatically become princes or princesses due to a rule that has been in place since 1917 - unless the Queen steps in.\n\n\"In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time so we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born,\" Meghan said.\n\nShe said the remarks about skin colour were made to Harry and he relayed them to her.\n\nAsked by Oprah whether there were concerns that her child would be \"too brown\" and that would be a problem, Meghan said: \"If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one.\"\n\nWhen pressed, she refused to reveal who the individual was, saying: \"I think that would be very damaging to them.\"\n\nPrince Harry also refused to give further details, saying: \"That conversation, I am never going to share.\"\n\n\"At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked,\" he added.\n\nPrince Harry said that none of his relatives spoke out in support of Meghan about the \"colonial undertones\" of news headlines and articles.\n\n\"No-one from my family ever said anything over those three years. That hurts,\" he said.\n\nThe couple moved to California after formally stepping down from royal duties in March 2020, and it was announced last month that they would not be returning as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nIn footage not included in the original interview, Prince Harry said racism from the tabloid press that filtered into the rest of society was a \"large part\" of why he and his wife left the UK.\n\nThe Society of Editors said it was \"not acceptable\" to claim sections of the press were bigoted \"without providing any supporting evidence\".\n\nLabour MP Diane Abbott said she could cite \"story after story when Meghan was treated quite differently from white members of the Royal Family\".\n\nMs Abbott described the impact of coverage she has received as \"hurtful\", adding: \"It's corrosive and in the end, it makes you doubt yourself.\"\n\nIn other key revelations from the Oprah interview:\n\nIn further comments, Meghan told Oprah she felt betrayed by her father Thomas Markle's conduct in the run up to her 2018 wedding with Prince Harry.\n\nMr Markle told ITV's Good Morning Britain on Tuesday that the interview was the first time he had heard his daughter speak for several years.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed about it. I've apologised about this thing, what happened, at least 100 times or so,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe described the interview as \"over the top\" and ill-timed, but said he did not believe the Royal Family was racist and that the comments about Archie's skin colour may have simply been a \"dumb question\".\n\nAsked about Meghan's claim she had \"lost\" her father, Mr Markle said: \"I'm available any time we can get together. I'd love to get together. I'd certainly like to see my grandson.\"\n\nHe also criticised the support from the Palace when he and his family were under intense scrutiny from the media, saying: \"Nobody was there to care for us, nobody looked after us.\"", "A pathologist said Amy-Leanne Stringfellow died following a 'sustained and forceful' attack\n\nA former soldier was fatally beaten and stabbed by her fiancé who was on bail for assaulting her, an inquest has heard.\n\nTerence Papworth, 45, used a vodka bottle and ornamental sword in the \"sustained\" attack against Amy-Leanne Stringfellow, 26.\n\nMr Papworth had been charged and released on bail over an assault on his partner a month earlier.\n\nDoncaster Coroner's Court heard a post-mortem examination found 58 different injuries, including a stab wound to Ms Stringfellow's neck and fractures to her cheek, jaw and eye sockets.\n\nThe former Army reservist, who had served in Afghanistan, met Mr Papworth in October 2019 and got engaged two months later on New Year's Eve, the court heard.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Stringfellow's mother, Jacqueline Fareham, said Mr Papworth had \"initially appeared to be perfect\" and she had treated him \"like one of the family\".\n\nHowever, the inquest heard, Mr Papworth was charged in May with assault after he allegedly threatened Ms Stringfellow with a gun.\n\nHe was bailed on the condition he would not have any contact with Ms Stringfellow, and was released to appear at court again in July.\n\nBut on 5 June Ms Stringfellow, who had told her mother she was going to stay with a friend in Bridlington, went to Mr Papworth's home in Dryden Road, Balby, Doncaster.\n\nWhen officers were called to the house shortly before midnight they found her \"motionless and covered in blood\" in an upstairs bedroom. She was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.\n\nTwo small silver ornamental swords were found next to the bed and there was broken glass on the floor.\n\nPathologist Dr Charles Wilson, who performed the post-mortem examination on Ms Stringfellow, said she died from a \"sustained and forceful multi-modal assault.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Papworth had left the house before officers arrived and gone to his mother's home before handing himself in to police.\n\nHe also called several people to confess, telling one friend \"I've killed her, I've done it, I've had enough\".\n\nRecording her conclusion, coroner Mrs Slater said: \"Amy-Leanne was obviously very much loved and cherished by her family and friends and clearly will not be forgotten.\"\n\nMr Papworth died in Leeds Prison in November 2020. The Prison Service would not confirm how he died and said it would be a \"matter for the coroner\" to investigate.\n\nFollowing Mr Papworth's death, South Yorkshire Police said it was not looking for anyone else in relation to Ms Stringfellow's death.\n\nAn Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation looking at officers' involvement in the case is ongoing, the inquest heard.\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 supermarkets have warned of a shortage of some dog and cat food products following an \"unprecedented\" rise in pet ownership during lockdown.\n\nSainsbury's has apologised after running out of dog and cat food pouches due to a \"national shortage\", although tinned and dry food are unaffected.\n\nMorrisons said it might not have \"full availability for several months\", but said it had enough stock for customers.\n\nWaitrose is also running low, while Tesco has seen strong demand.\n\nSainsbury's said it was trying to resolve the issue but warned it would be \"ongoing\" in 2021.\n\nIt is blaming higher than usual demand for pouches after more pets were bought during lockdown.\n\nMorrisons also said that there had been \"an unprecedented rise in pet ownership across the UK\" and it was seeing an \"increase in demand\".\n\nA spokesperson for Morrisons said: \"We're working closely with our suppliers who are investing in increasing their capacity and we may not have full availability for several months.\"\n\nBut the supermarket added that there was no need for people to start panic-buying pet food.\n\n\"We do have enough stock to support all our customers and their new pets and so there is no need for people to buy more than they need.\"\n\nTesco is believed to be working closely with suppliers to meet the needs of customers' pets, while Waitrose hopes to have its full range of pouches back on the shelves \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHelen Warren-Piper, general manager of Mars Petcare UK, which makes Pedigree and Whiskas, said: \"We recognise retailers are experiencing unusual demand for pet food during lockdown.\n\n\"We have made significant investment into our manufacturing network - including investment in our UK Melton pet food plant.\"\n\nPet food maker Purina said the UK market had \"changed significantly\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"We are experiencing unprecedented demand for our products, including cat food pouches where we have seen sales growth for our Felix and Gourmet brands at almost three times that of the market,\" it said.\n\n\"We have been working hard to meet this additional demand and are producing more pet food - including pouches - than ever before.\"\n\nHowever, it added that consumers might find that some of its products \"are not consistently available in their normal place of purchase\".\n\nMillions more of us have got used to cats, dogs and other pets yelping for food. Even before another surge during November's second lockdown more than two million Britons had taken on new pets. That should have been good news for the profits of pet food manufacturers but it's an industry that was already manufacturing at close to capacity.\n\nIt's not just the UK where demand for pet food is simply outstripping supply, but across Europe too; shortages are the inevitable results. Some owners have taken to feeding their animals other products, and that may have to be a growing trend.\n\nThere are also bigger global issues at play, with concerns that increased demand for wheat and grain in China could cause shortages of some ingredients in the supply chain.\n\nOne industry source said there has also been \"more of a crunch because of Brexit\" and the disruption that's caused with hauliers paperwork at UK borders.\n\nDespite the financial constraints many people are facing the pet-care industry is regarded as recession-proof. It can take a lot of time and money to increase factory capacity but pet-food makers might have to do just that because after all; a dog is for life, not just for lockdown.\n\nPet owners reacted with humour and dismay on Twitter.\n\nSome said Sainsbury's should have provided more information about the shortage when it emailed its customers about the issue.\n\nThe journalist Owen Jones said his cat was less than impressed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Owen Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere has been a well documented rise in pet ownership during the pandemic, with retail chain Pets at Home reporting strong sales and profits last year.\n\nIn November, it said that animals had been a \"lifesaver\" during lockdown, helping people through a period of \"social loneliness\".\n\nThe firm not only saw stronger demand for pets, but also related services such as its Vets at Home business.\n\nShoppers panic bought pet food during the first national lockdown in 2020 but there have been no reports of similar trends since then.", "The Vicar Of Dibley actor Trevor Peacock has died aged 89, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe actor played the lovable but bumbling Jim Trott in the comedy series alongside its main star Dawn French.\n\nHis family said in statement: \"Trevor Peacock, actor, writer and song-writer, died aged 89 on the morning of March 8th from a dementia-related illness.\"\n\nParish council member Jim won viewers' hearts with his catchphrase of \"no no no no...\" and his cheeky innuendo.\n\nPeacock appeared in every episode of the BBC sitcom from 1994 to 2015, although he missed the recent Christmas special.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dawn French 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough most famous for the long-running Vicar of Dibley, Peacock was also an accomplished Shakespearean actor, starring in a number of BBC productions including Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night and Henry V.\n\nThe actor also appeared in the 1990 movie version of Hamlet and a 2000 production of Don Quixote.\n\nAnd he was a successful musician and songwriter. He appeared with the Beatles in a 1964 television special Around the Beatles, and wrote a number of pop hits.\n\nDawn French's character Geraldine Grainger along with Trevor Peacock as Jim Trott in one of the sitcom's tricky situations\n\nPaying tribute, his agents Scott Marshall Partners said on Twitter: \"Remembering our wonderful client Trevor Peacock who died peacefully yesterday. A comic genius and one of the very best humans. We will miss him hugely.\"\n\nThe BBC said: \"We're saddened to hear of the death of actor Trevor Peacock.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Press Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTV channel Gold said the actor had \"played Jim Trott so brilliantly in The Vicar of Dibley\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 GOLD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Edmonton, north London, he started his TV career in the 1960s in the ITV Television Playhouse, Comedy Playhouse and The Wednesday Play.\n\nHe later played Rouault in Madame Bovary and Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop.\n\nTrevor Peacock starred in the BBC's 1985 adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus\n\nPeacock was the brains behind songs including Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits, Made You by Adam Faith and Billy Fury's Stick Around.\n\nHis lyrics were also used by The Vernons Girls, with Peacock writing their hits You Know What I Mean and Funny All Over.\n\nHe also wrote the lyrics for a musical based on The Mirror's Andy Capp cartoon strip.\n\nPeacock also made appearances in EastEnders, Jonathan Creek and sitcom My Family, and in 2007 appeared in the film Fred Claus, opposite Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti, playing the father of Father Christmas.\n\nHe had a long relationship with the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester and performed in several productions there.\n\nHe also wrote a number of musicals, including Leaping Ginger (1977), Cinderella (1979), Class K (1985) and Jack And The Giant (1986).\n\nPeacock is the fifth major cast member from the series to die in recent years. Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played Owen Newitt, died in 2014, while Liz Smith, who played Letitia Cropley, died in 2016. Emma Chambers, who played Geraldine's close chum Alice Tinker, and John Bluthal, who was Frank Pickle, both died in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government should hold annual planning exercises to prepare for future pandemics, Labour's shadow health secretary has said.\n\nJonathan Ashworth said \"germ games\", modelled on yearly military drills, could help prepare the UK for an \"era of pandemics\".\n\nHe said an independent body should audit the plans, as is done with annual spending.\n\nThe government said its proposals would \"supercharge\" planning for the future.\n\nIn a speech to the IPPR think tank, Mr Ashworth said ministers had been \"unprepared, complacent and inept\" when dealing with the Covid crisis.\n\nHe added that academic discussions about the threat posed by new diseases had \"rarely surfaced in Westminster\" and \"that has to change\".\n\nMr Ashworth also criticised the Conservatives' record on public health spending since 2010, arguing it had led to a worse death toll in the UK.\n\n\"Years of cuts to public services and austerity left our health and care services lacking the capacity needed when disaster struck,\" he said.\n\n\"Covid hit a population with millions of people in poor health, in poor housing and with job and income insecurity,\" he added.\n\n\"A healthier, more equal society would have weathered the storms better.\"\n\nWarning that climate change and globalisation had increased the pandemic threat, he said the UK needed to dramatically improve its disease planning.\n\nHe said preparation done by the new National Institute for Health Protection, which is replacing Public Health England, should face independent scrutiny.\n\nAnd he called for a new agency to conduct this - similar to the Office for Budget Responsibility, which vets the government's annual spending plans.\n\n\"Governments rightly invest in defence planning and 'war games'. Practising for pandemics should be no different,\" he said.\n\n\"Ministers should 'germ game' on an annual basis, to prepare themselves and the country for the next pandemic or infectious outbreak.\n\n\"Never again should we have ministers ignoring the science and learning on the job.\"\n\nThe government has been criticised for failing to adequately stockpile protective equipment\n\nThe government says it regularly plans for new infectious diseases and seeks to learn the lessons of previous outbreaks.\n\nSince it was first published in 2008, its National Risk Register has identified a pandemic as the most serious threat facing the country.\n\nBut its planning has faced criticism from Phillip Lee, who was a Conservative minister during a 2016 simulation of an influenza pandemic in England.\n\nMr Lee, who went on to become a Lib Dem MP, said last April that the three-day operation, known as \"Exercise Cygnus\", had revealed weaknesses in areas such as testing capacity and buying protective equipment.\n\nHe said a failure to learn lessons from that exercise had led to \"panic decisions\" - and it had been a \"mistake\" not to publish the findings.\n\nResponding to Mr Ashworth's speech, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said Covid had \"challenged health systems around the world\".\n\n\"Our response has always been informed by the latest advice from our scientists and, we have taken swift action when new evidence has emerged,\" they said.\n\nThe added that the government had now established the \"largest diagnostics network in UK history\" and the NHS's \"biggest-ever mass vaccination campaign\".\n\nMeanwhile \"almost half\" the data sent to the World Health Organization to map the evolution of the coronavirus had come from the UK, they added.\n\n\"We are already looking to our future preparedness, and through the new National Institute for Health Protection we will supercharge our response to health threats, both now and in the future.\"", "Sports coaches and faith leaders who have sexual relationships with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care will be breaking the law under new legislation planned for England and Wales.\n\nThe move would put them on par with roles like teachers and social workers.\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC said it was a \"landmark step\" for the protection of young people.\n\nIt is among a raft of measures included in a bill which is due to be introduced in Parliament later.\n\nOther provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill include:\n\nThe government's plans follow prolonged calls from campaigners for the so-called Position of Trust laws to be extended to cover other roles that have responsibility over young people.\n\nWhile the age of consent is 16, it is illegal for those in some professions - such as teachers, social workers and doctors - to have a sexual relationship with 16 or 17-year-olds in their care.\n\nPeter Wanless, chief executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which campaigned for the law change, said it was \"delighted\" the government had agreed to \"close this legal loophole\".\n\n\"This landmark step sends a clear message that children and young people can return to the extracurricular activities they love without being at risk of grooming by the very adults they should look to for support and guidance,\" he added.\n\nThe new bill, with its long list of proposals, is being described as a justice overhaul aimed at giving better protection to the public and more backing to the police.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the bill was delivering on the government's promise to \"crack down on crime and build safer communities\".\n\nHe said the bill would give the \"police and courts the powers they need to keep our streets safe, while providing greater opportunities for offenders to turn their lives around and better contribute to society\".\n\nThe government is also investing \"hundreds of millions to deliver speedier justice and boost support for victims\", he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the bill would help \"stop violent criminals in their tracks, putting the thugs who assault officers behind bars for longer and strengthening the support officers and their families receive\".\n\nHowever, some campaigners have criticised the proposals.\n\nResponding to the plans for longer sentences, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: \"There is not a shred of evidence to show that this runaway inflation in punishment reduces crime.\"", "Jurgen Klopp has been Liverpool boss since October 2015\n\nA domestic abuse survivor whose photo was used alongside the Liverpool FC manager in a \"sickening\" social media post has said it made her relive her ordeal.\n\nPhotos of several abuse victims were posted on Facebook next to a picture of Jurgen Klopp with the caption \"beaten at home throughout lockdown\".\n\nKatie Walker, whose image was used, said it was \"extremely traumatic\".\n\nThe image was widely shared on social media following Liverpool's Premier League defeat to Fulham at the weekend.\n\n\"It is just a picture to these people sharing it but to us it is our lives. It is extremely traumatic,\" said Ms Walker, who lives in Liverpool.\n\n\"To see that it is being made a joke of in the name of football has brought back all those feelings of shame and anxiety.\"\n\nMs Walker, who has set up the charity Katie Cares to help support survivors, also called on football clubs to condemn the post, which she called \"sickening\".\n\nAmna Abdullatif, from Women's Aid, said the post \"empowers abusers while simultaneously disempowering victims\".\n\n\"Jokes or [so-called] banter about domestic abuse and other forms of violence highlight a toxic culture where abuse of women is tolerated,\" she said.\n\n\"It also sadly conflates domestic violence with football fans.\"\n\nShe said women who spoke out about domestic abuse \"do so against a difficult backdrop and using images of abused women creates more hurdles for those abused not to report abusers\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Ian Critchley said no criminal offence had been committed but called the post \"hugely disrespectful and upsetting to anyone who has suffered domestic abuse\".\n\nHe said domestic violence was \"abhorrent abuse and to make fun of this in such a way is demeaning and unhelpful and I urge people to think twice before sharing such images\".\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 NHS Covid symptom checker has been criticised by a study which found it may not pick up some people who are seriously ill.\n\nBy being told to stay at home rather than consult a doctor, they may not receive treatment quickly enough.\n\nNHS Digital says the 111 online service, used more than 3.9 million times in the past year, is not a diagnostic tool.\n\nThe symptom checker has been constantly revised and updated, it adds.\n\nThe NHS 111 online Covid symptom checker asks a series of set questions about symptoms in order to offer people advice on their condition and what to do next.\n\nThe study, in BMJ Health and Care Informatics, used 50 simulated cases to compare online checkers used during the pandemic from four countries - UK, US, Japan and Singapore.\n\nIt found the symptom checkers used by the UK and US were half as likely to advise people to consult a doctor as the systems used in Japan and Singapore.\n\nJapan and Singapore also had the lowest case fatality rates of the four nations.\n\nDespite improvements in the safety of the NHS 111 symptom checker since the research was carried out in April, the researchers said they still have \"ongoing concerns\".\n\nDr Daniel Goyal, from the University of Gibraltar who was lead author of the study, said these related to \"trying to qualify the severity of illness using a patient-led system\".\n\n\"There have been improvements with NHS 111 online over the course of the year,\" he said.\n\n\"But I do not think it would consistently pick up silent hypoxia and could not replace clinical contact.\"\n\nSilent hypoxia occurs when oxygen levels in the blood drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing, a feature of Covid-19.\n\nAs a result, patients can arrive at hospital dangerously ill, and sometimes too late to be treated effectively.\n\nThe scenarios tested on the online symptom checker included someone with:\n\nTheir age, how severe the symptoms were and how long they lasted were then varied.\n\nNHS Digital says people with Covid symptoms and underlying conditions are referred for further clinical assessment, and are not advised to self-care.\n\nAnyone with breathlessness as a main symptom, with or without symptoms of coronavirus, will be referred for a further clinical assessment by a GP or other primary care clinician, it adds.\n\nAnd it always advises people to call 111 for further help if they experience worsening symptoms or anything changes.\n\nDr Goyal said, ideally, everyone aged over 60 with Covid should be seen by a doctor because online symptom checkers cannot predict who will become seriously ill and Covid infections can mimic other common conditions.\n\nOnline symptom checkers have been used in many countries during the pandemic to help identify people with coronavirus infections and those needing medical care.\n\nNHS Digital, which runs the service, said NHS 111 online allows people to assess their symptoms and signposts to other NHS services as required.\n\n\"Over the past year it has been continually revised and updated in response to new scientific information, government guidance and public health strategies.\"\n\nSince March 2020, there have been more 3.9 million online assessments for coronavirus (COVID-19) and around 1.5 million via the phone services NHS 111 or 999.\n\nThe researchers say their findings support the idea that symptom checkers should go through the same level of quality assurance as diagnostic tests before being rolled out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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.", "A mother who fought to change the law around murder says her daughter would be \"very proud\".\n\nAnnounced on Tuesday, Ellie's Law, named after Wiltshire teenager Ellie Gould, means teenage killers could face sentences of up to 27 years.\n\nEllie was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths in May 2019.\n\nHe was 17 at the time, so received a more lenient sentence than an adult defendant would have.\n\nThe change in the law, announced by Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, is the culmination of a two-year campaign by Ellie's parents.\n\nAlong with the mother of Poppy Devey-Waterhouse from Frome, Somerset, who was murdered in similar circumstances, Mrs Gould says she also wants sentences increased for killers who use a weapon they find at the scene.\n\nBoth Ellie, 17, and Poppy, 24, were killed with knives their ex-boyfriends found in their homes.\n\nPoppy Devey-Waterhouse and Ellie Gould were murdered by their ex-boyfriends\n\nUnable to accept she wanted to break up with him, Griffiths attacked Ellie at her family home in Calne, Wiltshire, killing her with a kitchen knife.\n\nAlthough he was 18 by the time he was sentenced to a minimum of 12-and-a-half years in prison, his age at the time of the crime was a factor in the minimum jail term he could face.\n\nDespite the Gould family taking their case to the Court of Appeal, it was not ruled unduly lenient.\n\n\"Griffiths was treated like a 10 year-old but he was only five months off being 18,\" said Ellie's mother Carole.\n\nEllie's Law will see someone like Griffiths treated more like an adult.\n\n\"Under the new law he would have a starting point of a minimum of 14 years,\" said Mrs Gould.\n\n\"I think she [Ellie] would be very proud. She'd say 'well done mum, you've achieved something amazing'.\"\n\nCarole Gould said her daughter Ellie would have wanted her to \"keep fighting\"\n\nMr Buckland, the MP for Swindon South, said he wanted to pay tribute to the \"dignified\" way the Gould family had campaigned since the \"appalling murder\" of their daughter.\n\nHe said the law change reflected the \"gravity\" of crimes like murder.\n\nAlthough the change in the law will not mean Griffiths' sentence can be extended retrospectively, it does mean he has lost the right to have it reviewed.\n\n\"That's a huge cloud that's been lifted from above our heads,\" said Mrs Gould.\n\n\"We know that he will remain behind bars for at least the next 10-and-a-half years.\"\n\nJoe Atkinson, left, and Thomas Griffiths admitted murdering their former girlfriends\n\nAlong with Poppy's mother Julie Devey, Mrs Gould says she will continue to campaign for tougher sentences for people who kill using a weapon they have not taken to the scene.\n\n\"If a murderer kills his victim and he hasn't taken a weapon to the scene of the crime, usually a domestic setting, the minimum tariff is 15 years,\" said Mrs Devey, whose daughter was murdered in Leeds in December 2018.\n\n\"If the murderer takes a weapon to the scene of the crime the starting tariff is 25 years.\n\n\"That 10-year gap is huge, and it's still the case, nothing has been changed with that yet.\"", "Some care home residents in England are now being allowed one nominated visitor, as lockdown restrictions begin to ease.\n\nAnne Thompson was happy to be able to hold hands with her mum Kathleen, who is in a care home in Scarborough.\n\nHowever, different care homes are operating different systems.\n\nRead more: Can I hug my relative in a care home?", "A total of 811 people have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic\n\nEight people are in hospital suffering from Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, including one in intensive care.\n\nThe number of new infections rose by 56 overnight, a fall from the record high of 81 that were recorded on Sunday.\n\nThere are now 369 active coronavirus cases on the island, with public health director Henrietta Ewart warning the total was still set to rise.\n\nShe said many people would have \"caught the virus in the community before the circuit breaker began\" last week.\n\nShe said the Isle of Man had still not reached the peak of the current outbreak, but the numbers should \"drop down\" this week.\n\nHealth Minister David Ashford said the healthcare service would be able to “adapt” if there were further ICU admissions and up to 18 beds could be made available “if necessary”.\n\nEight people with Covid-19 are now being treated in Noble's Hospital\n\nInfection rates among young people and children remain high compared to previous outbreaks, with 135 of the active cases being recorded for those aged under 19.\n\nBecause of this, the government announced it would not reopen a hub school for the children of critical workers on Tuesday as previously planned.\n\nSchools were closed to all pupils, including vulnerable children and those of key workers, on Friday and remained shut on Monday.\n\nEducation Minister Alex Allinson said any provision would need to be done “safely” and concerns about “gathering children from multiple households” remained.\n\nThe government was “working around the clock” to establish a solution and a further update would be made later this week, he added.\n\nA total of 811 people have tested positive for Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, 25 of whom have died.\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.", "How is US jury selection different from the UK?\n\nJury trials in the UK are less common, and jurors - picked at random - don't know which trial they will serve on until they've been sworn in. Jurors can only be dismissed by a judge in very specific circumstances. In the US a pool of eligible citizens is called to appear and be questioned by both sides. The prosecution and defence can both ask a judge dismiss a potential juror \"for cause\" if they perceive bias. Once they're selected, the chosen jurors will be partially sequestered, or isolated, during the trial and fully sequestered once deliberation starts. They will also remain anonymous until the judge allows their identities to be made public. It's not uncommon for US jurors to speak out about their deliberations afterwards, and in some infamous examples, like the OJ Simpson trial, some have even gone on to write books about their experiences. Read more about the jury selection process here.", "Traditionally the Palace protects the family by drawing a curtain between the public, formal stuff and the personal stuff; its refusal to comment on the personal is a strategic interpretation of the family's maxim - \"never explain, never complain\".\n\nThe public/personal divide has always been an artifice. Royals get married in front of tens of millions of people, have state funerals, release photos on birthdays and anniversaries, exchange insights into their lives in return for easy-going and generous coverage.\n\nBut the divide, however often disregarded, remains the guiding principle of the family's formal relationship with the outside world. Now the contradictions that spring from the mix of personal and public are playing out.\n\nSome key allegations are about the personal behaviour and comments of members of the Royal Family and how, through collective neglect and perhaps some malicious intent, they left Harry and Meghan no choice but to leave.\n\nOther statements painted a terrible portrait of unfeeling staff and courtiers. The entire institution was portrayed as if nothing had been learnt from the days of Diana - Prince Harry and Prince William's late mother.\n\nThe duchess is a formidable communicator and has proved herself a very bad woman to pick a fight with. A newly-liberated Harry spoke with almost-eloquence.\n\nMeghan dealt some of the heaviest blows. What is the Palace to say about the accusation that an unnamed member of the family made a comment - more than one by the sounds of things - about the skin colour of the couple's child-to-be? The mind boggles.\n\nBut alongside the personal pain and anger rippling through the duchess's testimony, there came from Harry condemnation of the institution - the suggestion that it was incapable of change, incapable of love, incapable of understanding.\n\nThe contradictions of the Palace, and of the monarchy, are exactly that which makes it so special, so strange, so interesting and so difficult to work within - the merging of personal and public roles, the accretion of tradition, the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest and the need to remain relevant.\n\nHarry's suggestion that his family too - his father Prince Charles, his brother Prince William - are \"trapped\" in their world, and that he felt \"compassion\" for them, was a velvet-covered knife into the heart of the modern monarchy.\n\nRoyal life is conducted from within a gilded cage; the players are not meant to rattle the bars from the outside.\n\nThere is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair\n\nThese are the contradictions Harry walked away (or, in his words, stepped back) from. He was uncomfortable with them before he was married. And when he saw his wife suffering as a result of his being \"trapped\" in royal life, he found a way out with her.\n\nThere are also the contradictions that lie behind many of the decisions that they both spoke out about and are clearly very unhappy about.\n\nIt is public money that pays for security. It is tradition that dictates who gets what title. There is no HR department for working royals because it is a family affair. What you do in front of the cameras matters because it reflects on the institution as a whole.\n\nThis meshing of personal and public is unique. It is what being a modern royal is all about. And inside it is often a hugely uncomfortable place to be. Harry knew that. Presumably he warned Meghan. But that warning wasn't enough.\n\nHarry and Meghan's experience suggests that the contradictions are too great. Maybe their interview will act as a catalyst for change. But the Crown has been around for a very long time, and change does not come easily to a body in which the past plays such an outsize role.", "More people are set to be allowed to meet outdoors in Scotland - although a return to the \"rule of six\" is not expected\n\nCovid-19 restrictions in Scotland are expected to be eased slightly to allow more people to meet up outdoors.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs about the state of the pandemic and lockdown at Holyrood.\n\nOn Monday, her deputy John Swinney said \"the data is going in the right direction\" and that ministers were \"hopeful\" that measures could be eased.\n\nHowever the overall \"stay at home\" order is expected to remain in place for some weeks to come.\n\nMr Swinney said changes would have to be made in a \"sustainable\" manner so that transmission of the virus does not run out of control again.\n\nAt present, only two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors in Scotland.\n\nThis was due to increase to four people from two households from 15 March, but this is expected to be brought forward as a result of progress in suppressing new cases.\n\nThe move - dubbed \"relatively minor but important\" by Ms Sturgeon on Friday - may also see more young people allowed to participate in non-contact sports.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will discuss plans with ministers on Tuesday morning, then announce them to MSPs in the afternoon\n\nMore pupils are expected to return to classrooms from next Monday, including remaining primary school years and some secondary students.\n\nBy late April, the government hopes to move back to a local \"levels\" system of regional restrictions across Scotland, albeit with tougher rules than before.\n\nMs Sturgeon will review the latest advice and data with her cabinet ministers on Tuesday morning, before announcing their decisions in the Holyrood chamber in the afternoon.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Swinney said there were \"a lot of grounds for optimism\" - but warned that changes would have to be made carefully.\n\nHe said: \"The number of cases is falling, the test positivity rate is low, the vaccination programme is going well and the pressure on our hospitals, while still significant, is not as grave as it was earlier on.\n\n\"The first minister has been clear that we will try to relax lockdown as quickly as we possibly can do, but we have to do it in a sustainable manner.\n\n\"That means taking the appropriate steps in the appropriate sequence to make sure we don't risk the virus running away from us again.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative have welcomed the easing of restrictions on outdoor meetings but want to see ministers \"move faster\".\n\nTheir public health spokesman Miles Briggs told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland he wanted to see gyms reopened before the scheduled date of 26 April.\n\nScottish Labour education spokesman Michael Marra told the programme the public need a \"proper plan\" that delivers hope.\n\nHe also highlighted the mental health impact of the pandemic and added: \"Everybody is incredibly frustrated.\"\n\nMinisters have stressed that their approach will be dictated by the latest data and scientific evidence about the pandemic.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Sturgeon said that the progress of the vaccination programme and declining number of people falling seriously ill \"should give us all real encouragement that greater normality is firmly on the horizon\".\n\nHowever she warned on Sunday that mass gatherings like those seen in Glasgow after Rangers were confirmed as the Scottish Premiership football champions \"could delay exit from lockdown for everyone else\".\n\nMr Swinney reiterated this on Monday. He said: \"We will be driven by the data. If the data suddenly - because of all of that commotion at the weekend - goes in the wrong direction, we will have difficult decisions to make. There are consequences that flow from these events.\"", "A diplomatic row has broken out after the EU's top official claimed the UK had imposed an \"outright ban\" on the export of Covid vaccines.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel said it applied to all vaccines and components produced in the UK.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described the suggestion as \"completely false\", the BBC understands.\n\nThe EU's deputy ambassador to the UK, Nicole Mannion, was summoned to the Foreign Office for \"discussions\".\n\nAn EU spokesperson said there would be \"no further comment\" on the meeting \"at this stage\".\n\nThe argument over vaccines comes with European leaders under pressure over the slow distribution of jabs.\n\nIn the UK, meanwhile, 22.5 million people - a third of the population - have received their first dose.\n\nIn his weekly briefing note, Mr Michel said he was \"shocked\" to hear the 27-member bloc being accused of \"vaccine nationalism\" following changes it made to export rules earlier this year.\n\n\"Here again, the facts do not lie,\" he wrote. \"The United Kingdom and the United States have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory.\n\n\"But the European Union, the region with the largest vaccine production capacity in the world, has simply put in place a system for controlling the export of doses produced in the EU.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Raab has written to Mr Michel to \"set the record straight\", saying the \"false claim has been repeated at various levels within the EU and the Commission\".\n\nHis letter is understood to say: \"The UK government has not blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components.\"\n\nAfter news of the row broke, Mr Michel tweeted that there were \"different ways of imposing bans or restrictions on vaccines/medicines\".\n\nBut he did not elaborate on this comment.\n\nThe EU has faced production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nIn January, it introduced a system of controls on exports, requiring manufacturers to seek permission from national governments for planned sales.\n\nThe EU also drafted regulations which would have overridden the Northern Ireland Protocol - agreed with the UK last year - potentially allowing it to stop vaccines bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nBut it backed down following widespread criticism.\n\nEarlier this month, Italy blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia.\n\nThe UK, which is expected to have a large surplus of vaccines after ordering 400 million doses, has said it will donate most of those left over to poorer countries.\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron has urged richer countries to put aside up to 5% of their current supplies for this purpose.", "Hannah, Rob and Cathryn are celebrating an extraordinary find\n\n\"We're still pinching ourselves - to believe that this actually happened on our drive!\"\n\nRob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.\n\nIt was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.\n\nThe meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.\n\nIt's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.\n\nThe first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.\n\n\"When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there,\" recalled Hannah. \"But because it was dark I couldn't see anything.\n\n\"It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Either that or someone had upturned a barbecue tray,\" chimed in Cathryn.\n\nScientists knew fragments of a meteorite must be in the Gloucestershire area. Their cameras had recorded the rock coming through the atmosphere that Sunday night, creating a huge fireball in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It blows your mind\": The people of Winchcombe react to the meteorite discovery\n\nImagery from multiple angles allowed researchers to narrow the drop zone, and when they went on the media to make an appeal on the Monday, they hoped one or two people might come forward with an interesting find.\n\nIn fact, they were inundated with pictures. Most had nothing to do with meteorites, but when Open University planetary scientist Richard Greenwood looked at the Wilcocks' picture, he was blown away.\n\n\"It was one of those moments when your legs start going wobbly. I saw this thing; it was like a splat across [the Wilcocks'] drive; and it had all these rays coming off it; and I just thought - that is a meteorite. It was instantaneous,\" he said.\n\nWith all the hullabaloo that was bound to follow the discovery, Rob's initial reaction was to try to stay out of the limelight - to be anonymous.\n\nBut when he thought it through a little more, Rob said the three of them recognised they should talk about what had happened to them.\n\n\"We've been wrestling with the question of whether we should talk about it, and in the end we decided we should. There seems to be such a lot of genuine public interest in the find,\" Rob told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people reported seeing the fireball\n\n\"We're absolutely thrilled that something that's going to be so valuable to science, to the human understanding of the world and of the Solar System has happened, and that we can be a small part in it.\"\n\nThe family have donated the meteorite remains to the national collection held by the Natural History Museum in London. They were determined the rock should not go to a dealer, but to science.\n\nThe last meteorite fall to be picked up in the UK was 30 years ago. That was an \"ordinary chondrite\" - a common type of space rock.\n\nThe Winchcombe meteorite is far more valuable. Studying its chemistry - and what it can tell us about the conditions that went into building the planets - will keep scientists busy for years.\n\nAs for the small Gloucestershire market town - it's now firmly on the map.\n\n\"We always felt that the Cotswolds is a wonderful place to live. But now the whole world seems to know about us,\" reflected one local resident on Tuesday afternoon.", "German shepherds Major (top) and Champ were the first pets to live in the White House in four years\n\nJoe and Jill Biden's German shepherds have been removed from the White House after the younger dog, Major, reportedly bit a security agent.\n\nAccording to US media, the pets have been sent back to the Biden family home in Wilmington, Delaware.\n\nIt follows Major's aggressive behaviour towards White House staff.\n\nThe Bidens adopted three-year-old Major in 2018. He became the first dog from an animal shelter to live in the White House.\n\nTheir other dog, Champ, is 13.\n\nAnonymous sources told CNN that Major had been jumping, barking and charging at White House staff and security.\n\nBoth dogs moved into the White House four days into Joe Biden's presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fur-st Family: Pets that have called the White House home\n\nHis wife, Jill, told The Kelly Clarkson Show last month she was focused on getting the dogs settled.\n\n\"They have to take the elevator, they're not used to that, and they have to go out on the South Lawn with lots of people watching them. So that's what I've been obsessed with, getting everybody settled and calm,\" she said.\n\nSharing the limelight with their owners, the dogs appeared alongside the first lady in a public service announcement encouraging Americans to wear face coverings, and also gave their own Christmas message in December.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 White House has a long history with pets, although Donald Trump was the first president in more than 100 years not to have a dog. At a rally in Texas in 2019, he said he would \"feel a little phony\" about walking one on the White House lawn, plus he didn't have the time.\n\nMajor is the first dog from a shelter to live in the White House, however President Lyndon B Johnson also had a rescue dog - a terrier mix named Yuki.\n\nYuki was found at a Texas petrol station by the president's daughter, Luci, on Thanksgiving Day in 1966, according to the Presidential Pet Museum website, which compiles information on the White House pets.", "Campaigners have accused the government of not moving quickly enough towards banning LGBT+ \"conversion therapy\" in England and Wales.\n\nMPs from across the political spectrum called during a Westminster debate for the practice to be made illegal.\n\nEqualities minister Kemi Badenoch said the government was \"committed\" to \"ending\" it, and took the issue \"very seriously\".\n\nBut equality campaigners and some MPs said targeted action was needed.\n\n\"Conversion therapy\" refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe practice is already outlawed in Switzerland and parts of Australia, Canada and the US.\n\nMPs from several parties backed a similar ban for England and Wales during a debate in Parliament's Westminster Hall, prompted by a petition signed by more than 250,000 people.\n\nThey called on the government to produce a timeline for legislation.\n\nFormer Scotland Secretary David Mundell - the Conservative Party's first openly gay cabinet minister - said conversion therapy \"could not be tolerated\".\n\nHe added the government had \"given the impression of being tardy\" and now was \"the time to end that impression\".\n\nSeveral MPs spoke of LGBT+ people who had been \"left with scars\" from the experience - with some taking their own lives.\n\nSome had been told to starve themselves, been strapped to wooden chairs and been given electric shocks, while being gay had been referred to as the \"the deceit of Satan\".\n\nThe SNP's Hannah Bardell said a friend of hers had revealed their experience of the practice, which led them to attempting suicide at the age of 12.\n\nAnd Tory MP Elliot Colburn said: \"With every day that passes, there is another person at risk at being subject to this degrading treatment and we risk losing even more lives of people who feel there is no other way out.\"\n\nThe petition which prompted the debate said running conversion therapy treatments should be made a criminal offence, as well as forcing people to attend or sending them abroad for them.\n\nBoris Johnson said in July that the practice was \"absolutely abhorrent\" and that plans for a \"ban\" would be brought forward.\n\nThe government commissioned research into the ban - which was first proposed by Theresa May in 2018 - but ministers have yet to publish details.\n\nResponding to the Westminster Hall debate, Ms Badenoch said: \"I want to assure you that we are committed to ending conversion therapy in the UK and we take this issue very seriously.\n\n\"This practice has no place in civilised society\".\n\nA \"robust criminal law framework\" was in place to deal with the worst examples, the minister said, adding that people could face charges such as rape or grievous bodily harm in some cases.\n\nBut Ms Badenoch said the government did not want to stop those who \"seek spiritual counselling as they explore their sexual orientation\".\n\nAfterwards, the Ozanne Foundation, which campaigns against discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity, said: \"The UK government has constantly dragged its feet on taking any meaningful action, allowing perpetrators to flourish during their continued silence.\n\n\"The response from the minister told us nothing new.\"\n\nIt added that there could be \"no hope of ending conversion therapy without a ban\".\n\nAnd Nancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, said it was \"very disappointing to have so little movement from government, with no clear pathway to a ban or timescale for implementation\".", "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.", "The first jurors have been picked in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man.\n\nOn Tuesday, two men and one woman were selected for the 12-member jury.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, is accused of second-degree unintentional murder and manslaughter in the death of Mr Floyd on 25 May last year.\n\nThe less severe charge of third-degree murder was dismissed last year, but prosecutors have asked to reinstate it.\n\nThe maximum sentence he faces is 40 years.\n\nDespite the dispute over the additional charge, Judge Peter Cahill moved forward with jury selection on Tuesday, after a one-day delay.\n\nThe first juror selected, a chemist, who was white and in his 20s or 30s, described himself as \"logical\" and passionate about his work. He had not seen the video of Floyd's death, he said.\n\nThe second juror, who appeared to be of mixed race and in her 20s, said she had seen the video only once and was eager to hear all the evidence as a juror.\n\nThe third juror, an auditor, who was white, said that he would also examine guilt or innocence only from what is presented in the trial. All three swore to keep an open mind and weigh all the proof presented in determining the outcome of the high-profile case.\n\nThe trial is scheduled to begin on 29 March. Jury selection continues on Wednesday. A total of 14 jurors are needed to make up the panel and alternates. George Floyd death: How will jurors be selected?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NAACP CEO on the challenges of selecting a jury", "The auctioneers say Oasis fans could whip up a \"bidding frenzy\"\n\nAn Oasis gig contract requesting \"sober-speaking\" helpers and \"quality lager\" for the band and crew during a 1994 performance is to be auctioned.\n\nThe paperwork is expected to sell for up to £1,500 at Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire later this month.\n\nThe contract was drawn up ahead of an early Gallagher brothers show at The Old Trout venue in Windsor, Berkshire.\n\nA music memorabilia specialist at Hansons said items like this were \"extremely rare\".\n\nThe performance in 1994 took place three months before Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe\n\nA two-course meal, water, fruit juice and soft drinks are also among the catering requests that feature in the Primary Talent International contract.\n\nHansons said the seller is a woman who worked in the music industry who bought it directly from a man who organised gigs at The Old Trout at the time.\n\nShe is looking to sell the contract, along with a flyer advertising the gig, ahead of retirement.\n\nThe Oasis contract is listed for sale in the music memorabilia auction\n\nClaire Howell, music memorabilia specialist at Hansons, said: \"Items like this are extremely rare and this lot comes with great provenance.\n\n\"It's valued at £1,000-£1,500 but I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell for more.\n\n\"It could easily whip up a bidding frenzy among fans at auction, such is the enduring popularity and nostalgia for Oasis.\"\n\nA music memorabilia specialist at Hansons said items like this were \"extremely rare\"\n\nThe performance, in May 1994, took place three months before Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe.\n\nThey went on to become one of the UK's most iconic bands before splitting in 2009.\n\nThe contract is listed for sale in the music memorabilia auction on 23 March.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The Winchcombe fragments total in excess of 300g\n\nSeveral rocky fragments have been recovered from the fireball that lit up the sky above southern England just over a week ago.\n\nThey came down in the Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire.\n\nA householder first alerted experts after noticing a pile of charred stone on his driveway. Other members of the public have since come forward with their own finds.\n\nIt's 30 years since meteorite material was last retrieved in the UK.\n\nResearchers are particularly thrilled because of the rarity of the rock type.\n\nThe anonymous driveway owner has donated his find to science\n\nIt's carbonaceous chondrite - a stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.\n\nDr Ashley King from London's Natural History Museum (NHM) said nothing like it had ever been recorded in the UK before.\n\n\"Carbonaceous chondrites are particularly special because they are essentially the left-over building blocks of our Solar System.\n\n\"Many contain simple organics and amino acids; some of them contain minerals formed by water - so, all the ingredients are there for understanding how you make a habitable planet such as the Earth,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe thrill of it: It's difficult to overstate the importance of this find\n\nThousands of people reported seeing a blazing light rush across the sky at 21:54 GMT on Sunday 28 February. But, crucially, the event was also captured on the array of special cameras operated by the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll).\n\nTheir information was able to pinpoint the likely area of debris fall.\n\n\"Somewhere north of Cheltenham, over towards Stow-On-The-Wold\", was the prediction. This would still have been \"a needle in a haystack\" quest, but researchers were in luck.\n\nSome of the meteorite had smashed down on to a Winchcombe resident's front drive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"When I looked in the plastic bag my legs went wobbly\"\n\nDr Richard Greenwood was despatched to see the Winchcombe resident, who wishes to be anonymous.\n\n\"I looked in this plastic bag he'd been told to put it in, and my legs went wobbly. It was unbelievable. This is a very special meteorite,\" the Open University researcher recalled.\n\nA search team was immediately sent out to comb the local area for more fragments. And, in the meantime, other property owners started notifying scientists of their discoveries, too.\n\nAll told, there must be 300-400g of material, most of it now lodged with the NHM.\n\nThe pieces are small - marble-sized. Prof Monica Grady, also from the OU, describes them as looking like \"a broken barbecue briquette. It is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen\", she told BBC News.\n\nThe speed of response will have limited contamination of the samples\n\nIt's hard to overstate just how significant this is for British meteoritic science.\n\nOf the approximately 65,000 meteorites in collections worldwide, only 1,206 had eyewitnesses to their fall, and of these only 51 are of the carbonaceous chondrite type.\n\nBecause this fireball was tracked via camera on entry to Earth's atmosphere, its orbit has been worked out. The object came from the outer asteroid belt, out towards Jupiter.\n\nA huge research effort will now be focused on the Winchcombe haul\n\nThis means its composition almost certainly will be very primitive.\n\n\"Basically, that's part of the Solar System we regard as like a deep freeze of material that's 4.5 billion years old,\" explained the NHM's Prof Sara Russell.\n\n\"It hasn't had a chance to change at all from pre-planetary time. It will give us an insight into what our Solar System was like before the planets were there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people reported seeing the fireball\n\nThe American and Japanese space agencies have despatched probes to bring back similar material from the asteroids themselves. But the Winchcombe meteorite would make almost as good a subject for study, said Dr Greenwood.\n\n\"Yes, it will have been affected by passage through the atmosphere, but it must be very close to pristine. The chap in Winchcombe who collected it did so within 12 hours of falling. It's as good as you will ever get collected here on Earth.\"\n\nThe last space rock fall recovered in the UK was in 1991 - the so called Glatton Meteorite, because it fell in the village of Glatton near Peterborough.\n\nMr Arthur Pettifor was tending his onions in his garden when a 10cm rock dropped into his hedge.\n\nIt's quite possible more fragments of the Winchcombe meteorite still await discovery.\n\nRichard Greenwood with another fragment picked up in nearby Woodmancote\n\nScientists urge people in the local area to remain vigilant. They should be looking for small blackish stones, or even a mound of dark dust.\n\nAnyone who finds what they think might be a meteorite is asked to photograph it in situ, noting the GPS co-ordinates from a phone, if that's possible.\n\nThe object should then be placed in foil without direct handling. And the absolute no-no: do not put a magnet near the material. This could destroy important information needed to study the rock.\n\nThe Winchcombe investigation has also included scientists from the universities of Glasgow, Manchester, Plymouth, and Imperial College London.\n\nScience bounty: Nothing like it has ever been recorded in the UK before", "Kenneth Walker said he thought an intruder was breaking into his home in Kentucky.\n\nThe boyfriend of Breonna Taylor has had an attempted murder charge against him dropped after he shot and wounded a police officer at his home.\n\nIt happened during the incident when Breonna Taylor, a young black medic with no criminal record, was shot dead.\n\nKenneth Walker had claimed he thought intruders were breaking-in when police raided his home in Kentucky last year.\n\nNo criminal charges have ever been brought over the shooting. Two officers were eventually fired.\n\nBreonna's death was one of several in recent years which contributed to global protests against racism and police brutality in 2020.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was killed when police raided her home over a drugs case.\n\nDuring the raid, Kenneth Walker fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into the couple's home.\n\nPolice claim they made it clear who they were before knocking the front door down.\n\nThey reportedly knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking it down with a battering ram.\n\nBreonna's boyfriend said he then fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots - six of which hit and killed her.\n\nHer name became part of a global Black Lives Matter protest as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes were recently fired from Louisville Police over their involvement, with authorities finding Cosgrove didn't follow procedures with use of force, and failed to use a body camera in the search.\n\nCampaigners are still demanding tougher action from the police.\n\nKenneth Walker was cleared of attempted murder two months after Breonna's death, but prosecutors were able to bring the charges back if new evidence came up.\n\nHowever now a judge has permanently closed the case against him, meaning he can't ever be charged again over it.\n\nThe officer who was shot, Sgt Jonathan Mattingly, recovered from the leg wound and still works at the Louisville police department.\n\n\"After the worst year of [Walker's] life, prosecutors have finally acknowledged that he did nothing wrong and acted in self-defence,\" Kenneth's lawyer Steve Romines told CBS News.\n\n\"He looks forward to continuing the fight to hold the real wrongdoers accountable for the harm that they've caused.\n\n\"Both he, individually, and our community, as a whole, cannot begin the process of healing until that happens.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Zoom founder Eric Yuan has transferred about 18 million of his shares worth more than $6bn (£4.4bn), according to a regulatory filing.\n\nMr Yuan, who is also chief executive of the video-conferencing platform, moved roughly 40% of his stake in the company last week.\n\nThe shares were shown as gifts to unspecified beneficiaries last week.\n\nMr Yuan has seen his personal wealth rocket as Zoom became a household name during pandemic lockdowns.\n\nAn increasing number of students and professionals connected online boosting the fortunes of Zoom and its founder.\n\nMr Yuan started Zoom in 2011 and listed it on the US stock market in 2019, making him a billionaire. He is currently worth $13.7bn, according to Forbes.\n\nA Zoom spokesperson said the transfers were related to Mr Yuan's estate planning practices. \"The distributions were made in accordance with the terms of Eric Yuan and his wife's trusts.\"\n\nZoom's shares have nearly tripled in the past 12 months and the company has a market valuation of around $100bn.\n\n\"Zoom founder Eric Yuan's decision to transfer more than a third of his stake will raise some eyebrows,\" Edward Moya, at trading firm Oanda, told the BBC.\n\n\"While a Zoom spokesperson noted that the transfer is consistent with the Yuans' typical estate planning practices, investors will be nervous until we find out who is the recipient of the stock,\" he added.\n\n\"Yuan is only 51, married and has three children, so the distribution of his wealth could be viewed as rushed.\"\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\n\nMr Yuan said working from home is here to stay even as lockdowns eased and vaccines are rolled out across the globe.\n\nDuring Zoom's annual results last week, Zoom executives said they expected strong growth to continue this year.\n\n\"The future is here with the rise of remote and work from anywhere change. We recognise this new reality, \" Mr Yuan said.\n\nThe video conferencing company expects sales to rise more than 40% this year, reaching more than $3.7bn.\n\nHowever, Zoom said it did not expect growth to continue at the pace it enjoyed last year.\n\nChinese-American Mr Yuan was named the 2020 Time Businessperson of the Year and was included in its annual list of the 100 most influential people.", "Actors Riz Ahmed and Daniel Kaluuya and director Chloé Zhao are among the nominees\n\nThe Bafta Film Awards have unveiled a highly diverse nominations list, with 16 of the 24 acting nominees this year coming from ethnic minority groups.\n\nNomadland and Rocks lead the nominations for the 2021 ceremony, with seven nominations apiece.\n\nThe Father, Mank, Minari and Promising Young Woman all score six nods each.\n\nFour women are nominated in the best director category, including Chloe Zhao for Nomadland. She won the same award at the Golden Globes last week.\n\nBut the biggest surprise is in the acting categories. Not one actor of colour was nominated last year, so the British Academy had faced pressure to diversify this year's nominees.\n\nThat has resulted in a significant swing, with Daniel Kaluuya, Riz Ahmed, Dominique Fishback, Tahar Rahim and Bukky Bakray among the 16 nominees from ethnic minority backgrounds in the acting categories.\n\nBut many of the predicted nominees missed out, including Viola Davis, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Olivia Colman, Glenn Close and Gary Oldman.\n\nThe winners will be announced at a ceremony without a live audience on 11 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n4 - Another Round, Calm With Horses, Judas and the Black Messiah, News of the World, Sound of Metal\n\n3 - The Trial of the Chicago 7, His House, Soul, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom\n\nLast year's nominations sparked criticism over the all-white acting nominees and lack of female directors.\n\nThis year, four of the six nominees in each of the acting categories are from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nMeanwhile, four of the nominated directors are women, while three are also nominated for best film not in the English language.\n\nThe Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin said: \"Umm, wow - this is the wildest slate of Bafta directing nominees I think I've ever seen. When I and others were moaning last year about voters unthinkingly defaulting to the obvious choices, this was basically the dream alternative scenario.\"\n\nFellow critic Rhianna Dhillon tweeted: \"I am so pumped to go on the news tonight and NOT have the same old chat about diversity! Look at that director shortlist! Look at those acting categories!\" The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye added: \"About time - Talk about diversity!\"\n\nBafta's nominations list is out of step with those of other ceremonies this awards season, but that was welcomed by some.\n\n\"The Brits went their own path this year,\" tweeted film critic Doug Jamieson. \"They clearly couldn't care less about the Oscar race. That's fabulous. Every awards show should have this mentality. You do you, Bafta.\"\n\nMatt Neglia, host of the Next Best Picture podcast, agreed: \"Happy to see Bafta recognise some of their own films for a change instead of predicting the Oscars.\"\n\nBig changes were made this year including the introduction of a longlist system in a bid to increase viewership of all the submitted films.\n\nMinari has six nominations, including best director and best film not in the English language\n\nA statement from Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao and the team behind Nomadland, said: \"We are thrilled Nomadland has been recognised by Bafta and its members.\n\n\"In a year when we have all been separated and movies felt like one of the few things that held us all together, we are proud to be recognised for a film about resilience, community and what connects us.\"\n\nFollowing a seven-month review into the lack of diversity last year, Bafta introduced more than 120 changes to its voting, membership and campaigning processes.\n\nThey include the introduction of a new longlist round of voting, the expansion of the outstanding British film field to 10 nominations, and increasing all four acting categories and best director to six nominees in an attempt to ensure greater diversity.\n\nBafta chair Krishnendu Majumdar said: \"After last year's nominations, we started the Bafta Review process with the intention of levelling the playing field and introduced a range of measures to ensure that all entered films were seen by our members and judged on merit.\n\n\"We hope today you can see some of those changes reflected in the breadth and depth of those nominated and we congratulate all our nominees.\"\n\nFilm committee chair Marc Samuelson added: \"One of the key issues raised time and time again... was that too much deserving work was not being seen. The changes we are implementing are designed to ensure these films are seen and judged on merit alone.\"\n\nThe new first-round longlist voting system was introduced to encourage the 6,500 Bafta members to watch a wider range of films. Members vote to decide the nominations from hundreds of films up for consideration.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Inspectors said a \"decrepit\" isolation block was unfit for habitation\n\nAsylum seekers were housed in cramped and filthy conditions at a military barracks, inspectors have said.\n\nSome of the most vulnerable people were living in a \"decrepit\" block unfit for habitation at Kent's Napier Barracks.\n\nThe Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons also visited Penally Camp in Pembrokeshire. They said both sites were \"run-down\".\n\nThe Home Office said it had instructed service providers to make improvements.\n\nLabour has said the findings are \"utterly unbelievable\", and Plaid Cymru called for Home Secretary Priti Patel to \"consider her position\".\n\nInspectors raised concerns over cleanliness at both camps, and said some areas were filthy\n\nInspectors said both sites - which witnessed protests over living conditions in January - were \"run-down and unsuitable\", but particularly criticised Napier.\n\nThey said given the cramped, communal conditions, \"once one person was infected [with Covid] a large-scale outbreak was virtually inevitable\" at the site.\n\nIn January, 178 people tested positive for the virus at Napier.\n\nMany men said they were depressed, and a survey found a third of respondents at both sites had mental health problems, while a third at Napier had felt suicidal.\n\nInspectors said contractors were given less than two weeks to make both sites operational, and local stakeholders, including healthcare, were not consulted and were given insufficient time to prepare.\n\nThey listed concerns about the asylum process, including that many residents were told they would be there for weeks, but had been there several months - a major cause of distress that left them not trusting anything they were told.\n\nMs Patel, who has repeatedly defended the use of Napier, last month said: \"This site has previously accommodated our brave soldiers and army personnel. It is an insult to say that it is not good enough for these individuals.\"\n\nShadow immigration minister, Holly Lynch, said: \"The Home Secretary has recklessly put the lives of all those staying at the sites, those working there, and the surrounding communities, at risk during a pandemic.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said Ms Patel \"must consider her position\" in the wake of the report, which highlighted \"fundamental failures of leadership and planning by the Home Office\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said: \"During these unprecedented times we have met our statutory duty to provide asylum seekers, who would otherwise be destitute, with suitable accommodation and three meals a day all paid for by the British taxpayer.\n\n\"We expect the highest possible standards from our service providers and have instructed them to make improvements at the site.\"\n\nFollowing inspections in February and a follow-up visit to Napier on Thursday, inspectors will now produce a detailed report that will be submitted to Ms Patel.\n\nResidents had spent months at the sites after being told they would be there for weeks\n\nThe findings were released on the same day that 115 people crossed the English Channel in seven boats in continued attempts to reach the UK, which the government has said are facilitated by criminals.\n\nLast year, nearly 8,500 people attempted the journey.\n\nThe Home Office has said people should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach rather than making the crossings, and has said illegal migrants are being returned to safe countries.\n\nInspectors visited both sites in February and returned to Napier last week\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Sallylouise Jones would like to see a five-miles from home travel rule imposed\n\nNon-essential retailers say they feel excited and apprehensive about the chance of reopening in Wales next week.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said there could be \"opportunities\" for likes of hairdressers to reopen on Monday.\n\nOnly the likes of supermarkets and pharmacies can currently open but a review of lockdown measures in Wales is due on Friday.\n\nAll non-essential shops went into lockdown on 20 December.\n\nHairdressers and other non-essential retailers in England are not due to reopen until 12 April.\n\nPretty Vintage Things in Llantwit Major has been closed since December's lockdown began\n\nSallylouise Jones, who owns antique shop Pretty Vintage Things in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, said she was feeling \"a mixture of excitement and apprehension\".\n\nShe said: \"It is paramount we get up and running and get people in the door.\n\n\"I have been getting the shop ready but it is really hard not having a definite date.\n\nShe said her main concern was working with short notice.\n\n\"Though I understand the reasons why, [the Welsh Government] have had to watch the figures,\" Ms Jones added.\n\nShe said with the virus still not under control she was \"slightly nervous\" about having customers in her shop again.\n\n\"I've been reading about whether they're going to do the five-mile rule,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd probably be happier with that to start off with, because otherwise you worry about people coming from further away.\"\n\nSalon owner Sarah Bruton is hoping to bring about half of her 16 staff back off furlough and into work next week\n\nSarah Bruton, who owns Captiva Spa and Lounge in Caerphilly, says it is split equally between a hair and beauty business.\n\nShe is hoping to bring about half of her 16 staff back off furlough, on the hairdressing side.\n\nShe said: \"We're really excited about being able to open next Monday.\n\n\"We're cautious about what this means in reality because we have had a lot of false dawns with the Welsh Government.\n\n\"We really don't know if any of the business can open or half of it.\n\n\"Probably we're not going to know until Friday if we can open on Monday and that's zero business days to prepare.\"\n\nDespite the uncertainty, the salon has been making preparations to reopen.\n\n\"We've purchased stock, we've done a bit of training with our teams,\" Ms Bruton said.\n\n\"We currently have a waiting list of 350 clients who are expecting us to contact them on Friday.\"\n\nNow she has to play a waiting game and see if the preparations will be worth it.\n\n\"There's a bit of risk in purchasing stock which we have now had to commit to. We lost thousands of pounds at Christmas when we had to close at short notice,\" she explained.\n\n\"Things like hair colour and beauty products have a very short shelf life.\"\n\nAnd if the door stays closed on Monday?\n\n\"I don't know where we'd be at that point - would [reopening] be sometime within the next three-week period or would we have to wait for the next review?,\" she asked.\n\nCBI (Confederation of British Industry) Wales said the Welsh Government's approach of staggered reopening of sectors had the backing of the business community.\n\nDirector Ian Price, said: \"With transmission rates heading in the right direction and incredible progress being made on vaccination, non-essential retailers and close contact service providers will be looking to the potential prospect of a mid-March reopening with huge sense of relief.\n\n\"As jobs and livelihoods still hang in the balance, the prospect of bringing some economic activity back to struggling high streets and city centres represents a real step in the right direction for communities and businesses across Wales.\"\n\nBut he urged caution, in order to avoid a \"sharp rise\" in Covid transmission rates.\n\n\"Wales can't afford for... the country to return to a cycle of damaging restrictions,\" said\n\n\"Firms will be looking to work with government to ensure the process happens as safely and effectively as possible.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"In the last few months, we have made huge strides in rolling out vaccines, but faced with new variants of coronavirus, we cannot provide as much certainty and predictability as we would like.\n\n\"We cannot move directly and fully into alert level three in one step. We will need to get there in gradual steps, assessing the impact as we go along.\"", "The network of emergency Nightingale hospitals set up to cope with a surge of Covid-19 cases is to close from April, the NHS has said.\n\nEstablished last spring amid fears that the NHS might be overwhelmed, the temporary hospitals in England were largely not needed.\n\nSome were used as rehab centres and the sites in London and Sunderland will stay open for vaccinations.\n\nThe NHS said they had been the \"ultimate insurance policy\".\n\nSeven Nightingale hospitals were built in England, starting in April 2020 with the 4,000-bed facility at London's ExCel centre. Another was set up in Belfast, while Scotland and Wales had their own temporary hospitals.\n\nBut they were never used on a large scale, because the NHS did not have enough trained staff to fill the Nightingales as well as the permanent hospitals.\n\nDuring the winter surge in coronavirus cases, Chris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, said they had been built to avoid a situation like that seen in northern Italy in spring last year. But he said it would be a \"success\" if they were not used.\n\nYorkshire's 500-bed hospital, opened by Capt Sir Tom Moore, will close next month without treating a single patient. It will operate as a testing centre until then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse captures the transformation of London's ExCeL centre into the Nightingale Hospital\n\nThe London site treated 20 patients during the first wave of the pandemic. It reopened in January and was used to treat non-coronavirus patients to free up beds for a surge in Covid-19 cases and other very seriously ill people.\n\nIt was built in nine days, with its first 500 beds fully equipped with oxygen and ventilators. If it had reached full capacity, it would have been one of the world's largest hospitals.\n\nExeter's Nightingale hospital began admitting patients in November, when cases in the South West of England exceeded the first wave of the pandemic, with the NHS describing it as an \"invaluable resource\".\n\nAn NHS spokesman said that as the health service learned more about Covid-19 and how to successfully treat it, existing hospitals were able to adapt to increase critical care capacity.\n\n\"Even in the winter wave - which saw more than 100,000 patients with the virus admitted in a single month - there were beds available across the country,\" the spokesman said.\n\nBut the NHS said the Nightingale hospitals had been \"on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed\".", "Prof Young, now NI's chief scientific adviser, was asked to provide an assessment in 2004\n\nNI's chief scientific adviser has lost a High Court bid to block a General Medical Council (GMC) investigation of allegations he failed to tell the family of a nine-year-old girl who died about \"failings\" in her treatment.\n\nClaire Roberts died from hyponatraemia, which is linked to a shortage of sodium in the blood, in 1996.\n\nProfessor Ian Young challenged the investigation into his actions.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court in London dismissed Prof Young's challenge.\n\nIn a statement following the ruling Prof Young's legal representative said he was \"disappointed\" with the decision.\n\nClaire died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast shortly after she was admitted to hospital following several episodes of vomiting.\n\nIn 2004, the then Medical Director of the Royal Group of Hospitals, Dr Michael McBride, now chief medical officer, asked Prof Young to provide an independent assessment on whether hyponatraemia contributed to Claire's death.\n\nThe purpose of Prof Young's assessment was to inform Dr McBride's decision over whether to refer the matter to the coroner.\n\nA public inquiry investigating the deaths of Claire and four other children from the condition found Prof Young did not inform Claire's parents - Alan and Jennifer Roberts - about failings in her care and gave \"misleading\" evidence to the original inquest into her death.\n\nThe inquiry found that four of the deaths were avoidable.\n\nProf Young was not involved in the treatment of any of the patients.\n\nNine-year-old Claire Roberts died in the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996\n\nIn a January 2018 report, inquiry chairman Mr Justice O'Hara also said that Prof Young \"shifted from his initial independent role advising Dr McBride to one of protecting the hospital and its doctors\".\n\nA new inquest, which was ordered following the inquiry, concluded in June 2019 that Claire's death \"was caused by the treatment that she received in hospital\".\n\nProf Young referred himself to the GMC shortly after the inquiry's report was published.\n\nIn January 2020, the GMC waived an earlier decision not to waive its usual five-year time limit for fitness to practise proceedings.\n\nIt said it was \"in the public interest\" for the allegations against Prof Young to proceed to an investigation.\n\nProf Young's barrister argued the original decision was \"lawful and rational\" and the reversal of that decision was \"inconsistent and unreasonable\".\n\nRobert Kellar QC also said the second decision by the GMC \"took into account irrelevant considerations and unfairly mischaracterised Prof Young's conduct\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Justice Holgate dismissed Prof Young's challenge saying it had \"no legal basis.\"\n\nThe judge said that the GMC's original decision was \"wholly unsustainable\" and had failed \"to appreciate key elements of the inquiry's findings going both to the seriousness of the allegations and the public interest issues involved\".\n\nMr Justice Holgate said the GMC was right to conclude that there were \"material flaws\" in the original decision.\n\nIn a statement after the ruling, Prof Young's legal team said he \"continues to acknowledge the ongoing suffering of Mr and Mrs Roberts and their family in relation to Claire's death in 1996 and subsequent events.\n\n\"He has apologised previously if any of his actions have inadvertently contributed to their distress, and would like to do so again\".\n\nThe statement said Prof Young believes \"that he has acted with integrity, to the best of his ability, to give clear and honest opinions which reflected his knowledge and understanding of the evidence at the time\".\n\nIt added: \"In particular, he denies completely any suggestion that he sought to mislead the coroner or Claire's parents in any way\".\n\nThe General Medical Council has confirmed to BBC News NI that it is continuing to investigate a number of doctors linked with the Hyponatraemia Inquiry.\n\nA GMC spokeswoman said in a statement: \"We are pleased the court has decided that our decision to investigate in this case was lawful and will now continue.\n\n\"This is a difficult time for all concerned and our thoughts remain with those families who lost children to hyponatraemia in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"As in any case, we will look at all the evidence before making a decision.\"\n\nIn January, the Department of Health confirmed to BBC News NI that Professor Young was on leave on health grounds.\n\nProf Young, who had been prominent in the Department of Health's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, had been absent from some media briefings prior to the announcement.\n\nA spokesperson said other arrangements were in place until further notice.\n\nThe department said that Dr Declan Bradley, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences QUB, will represent Northern Ireland on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) as deputy chief scientific adviser(interim) and will also chair NI's COVID-19 Modelling Group.\n\nProfessor Stuart Elborn, Faculty Pro-Vice Chancellor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences QUB, will represent Northern Ireland on the UK's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) and will also chair NI's Strategic Intelligence Group (SIG).\n• None Five deaths led to 14-year quest for truth", "The race issues raised by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their interview with Oprah Winfrey are \"concerning\" and \"taken very seriously\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace said \"recollections may vary\" but the matters would be addressed privately.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that Harry had been asked by an unnamed family member \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nThe Palace said the Sussexes would \"always be much loved family members\".\n\nThe response from Buckingham Palace came after crisis meetings involving senior royals.\n\nThe Palace had been under growing pressure to respond to the interview in which Meghan - the first mixed-race member of the modern Royal Family - said that before their son Archie was born, questions had been asked about his skin colour.\n\nPrince Harry later clarified to Oprah that the comments were not made by either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nFigures from US TV network CBS suggest that nearly 50 million people around the world have watched Oprah's interview with the couple.\n\nIn other developments, Piers Morgan has stood by the comments that led to his departure from ITV's Good Morning Britain show - including that he did not \"believe a word\" of what Meghan said in the interview.\n\nIt is reported a formal complaint by the duchess has been lodged with ITV but neither representatives for the Sussexes nor ITV have confirmed this.\n\nChris Ship, the royal editor of ITV News, said in a tweet that it was believed Meghan had raised concerns about how Morgan's words \"affect the issue of mental health and what it might do to others contemplating suicide\".\n\nThe statement from the Palace, which came a day and a half after the interview was first broadcast in the US, said: \"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.\n\n\"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members.\"\n\nIt is understood the royals wanted to carefully consider their response and to give the British public an opportunity to watch the interview first, when it was broadcast on Monday evening.\n\nThey are said to consider this a family matter and to believe they should be given the opportunity to discuss the issues privately.\n\nDowning Street has confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has watched the interview, but his official spokesman declined to comment on the Palace's statement.\n\nAlthough likely, it was never absolutely certain that the Queen would issue a statement following the interview given by her grandson and his wife.\n\nThe risk was that any response would add to the \"royals in crisis\" narrative which is playing out across front pages and TV screens across the globe.\n\nBut having had time to discuss the claims made by Harry and Meghan, four short sentences convey the message from the Palace that this is a private family matter and the specific allegations will not be publicly addressed.\n\nThe tone is conciliatory, with reference to the Sussexes as much loved family members. There is a gentle challenge in the line \"whilst some recollections may vary\", but also an assurance that concerns will be taken seriously.\n\nAnd we can be sure that - at least as far as the UK-based royals are concerned - any bridge-building will be done in private.\n\nMeanwhile, the board of the Society of Editors has said it will \"work towards being part of the solution\" after coming under fire for its initial reaction to Meghan and Harry's interview.\n\nIt previously said it was \"not acceptable\" for the couple to make claims of racism in the press \"without providing any supporting evidence\".\n\nBut in a new statement the organisation said its earlier comments did not address that \"there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion\".\n\n\"We will reflect on the reaction our statement prompted and work towards being part of the solution,\" it added.\n\nIt comes as MPs could push for a House of Commons debate to discuss possible actions following the media's \"hounding\" of Meghan.\n\nLabour's Holly Lynch, who co-ordinated a letter from female MPs in support of Meghan in 2019, has questioned the way the press is regulated.\n\n\"How long do you continue to let that fail before you have to recognise it has failed and say 'what next?'\" she said.\n\nDuring a visit in London earlier, Prince Charles did not respond when he was asked if he had seen the interview, in which the Sussexes addressed deeply personal topics of racism, mental health, the media and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe UK broadcast on Monday night was watched by an average of 11.1 million people.\n\nIn it, the duchess said there had been times when she \"didn't want to be alive any more\" because she found royal life so difficult. She said she asked for help from the Palace but received none.\n\nOne of Meghan's close friends said she had been \"worried, terrified, sad\" to see the duchess's mental health problems.\n\nActress Janina Gavankar also told ITV's This Morning: \"The family and the staff were well aware of the extent of it, and though their 'recollections may vary', ours don't, because we lived through it with them.\"\n\nGavankar, who watched the TV show air with both Meghan and Harry, added the couple were \"feeling free\" since the broadcast.\n\nMeghan told Oprah that conversations about how dark Archie's skin might be when he was born took place \"in tandem\" with discussions about why he would not be given a royal title and police protection.\n\nUnder rules in place since 1917, the couple's children would not automatically become princes or princesses - unless the Queen was to intervene.", "Activist Malala Yousafzai has signed a multi-year deal with Apple TV+, to produce programming including documentaries, dramas, comedies and films.\n\nThe Nobel Prize laureate said she wanted to inspire women and girls to \"make the change that they want to see happen\".", "Wenjing Xu died at the Blue Sky Chinese restaurant in Ynyswen on Friday\n\nPolice investigating the murder of a 16-year-old girl in Rhondda Cynon Taf have appealed for dashcam footage.\n\nA murder investigation began after Wenjing Xu died at the Blue Sky Chinese, in Ynyswen, on Friday.\n\nTwo men, who were seriously hurt, were later arrested and remain in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nSouth Wales Police asked motorists who were driving in Baglan Street between 11:50 GMT and 12:15 to check their dashcam footage for any evidence.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of officers who have been carrying extensive inquiries in the area and I would like to thank all those who have got in touch so far,\" said Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis, of the force's Major Crimes Investigation Unit.\n\n\"We know that the incident occurred at a very busy time of the day when lots of cars will have driven past the Blue Sky premises which is at the centre of our enquiries, and it is likely that a number of those people will have dash cam footage which may help us.\"\n\nWenjing Xu's family are being supported by officers\n\nHe said officers were continuing to support Wenjing's family, and urged people to avoid fuelling \"speculation and rumour\" online.\n\n\"We are monitoring open source platforms and anybody who commits offences will be robustly dealt with,\" added Det Ch Insp Lewis.\n\nEvidence can submitted through the force's online public portal, it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Northern Ireland executive will try to ensure all children in the region can return to school as \"quickly as possible\", Finance Minister Conor Murphy says.\n\nThe youngest pupils returned to school on Monday for the first time since before the Christmas break.\n\nChildren in primary one to primary three (aged four to seven) and those in nursery and pre-school went back to face-to-face learning. But under current plans, they will return to remote learning on 22 March.\n\nThe staggered approach is to allow the return to school of post-primary pupils in years 12 to 14 until the start of the Easter holidays.\n\nHowever, Education Minister Peter Weir has argued for a \"continuity of learning\" and says he will bring a specific proposal to the executive for those year groups to continue to be in the classroom.\n\nHe said health officials would need to consider this proposal and his suggestion that other primary school year groups - P4-P7 - also return to classes this month.\n\nIt will need to be approved when ministers meet on Thursday.\n\nMr Murphy said he would be guided by health advice.\n\nAbout 90% of Northern Ireland's 350,000 children have been learning remotely for more than two months.\n\nPupils in primaries four to seven and years eight to 11 in post-primaries do not yet know when they will return to school.\n\nVideo caption: Covid-19 and schools: Pupils 'looking forward to playing with friends' Covid-19 and schools: Pupils 'looking forward to playing with friends'", "A French schoolgirl has admitted to spreading false claims about a teacher before he was murdered last year.\n\nSamuel Paty was beheaded in October after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nThe girl, whose complaints sparked an online campaign against Paty, has now admitted that she was not in the class.\n\nMr Paty's killing stunned France and led to an outpouring of support at memorial ceremonies and marches around the country.\n\nThe 13-year-old girl, who has not been officially named, originally told her father that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the classroom while he showed the cartoon during a class on free speech and blasphemy.\n\nAccording to evidence given by the girl seen by French media she said: \"I didn't see the cartoons, it was a girl in my class who showed me them.\"\n\n\"She lied because she felt trapped in a spiral because her classmates had asked her to be a spokesperson,\" her lawyer, Mbeko Tabula, told AFP news agency.\n\nThe girl's father filed a legal complaint against the teacher and began a social media campaign over the incident based on his daughter's account. He identified Paty and the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris.\n\nProsecutors said shortly after the killing that there was a \"direct causal link\" between the online incitement against Paty and his murder.\n\nThe perpetrator, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police shortly after the attack.\n\nIt then emerged that the campaign against the history and geography teacher had been based on a distorted account of what had happened in class days earlier.\n\nAs he had done in similar lessons on free speech in previous years, Paty warned students that he was about to show a depiction of Muhammad. He said anyone who thought they might be offended could close their eyes.\n\nThe girl had originally claimed the teacher had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room. When she objected she was suspended from school, she said. It now appears that the girl was suspended the day before the class was given, according to Le Parisien newspaper, because of repeated absence from school.\n\nThe girl explains in her leaked testimony that she made up the story so as not to disappoint her father. He posted two videos on social media in response to the allegations.\n\nSpeaking on French radio on Tuesday, the Paty family's lawyer said the girl's family knew that she had not been in class on the day in question and why she had been suspended. \"So to come and say now, sorry, I believed my daughter's lies, that's really weak,\" Virginie Le Roy told RTL radio.\n\nIn a separate development, two university professors have been given police protection after they were accused of Islamophobia by student protesters.\n\nAn investigation has begun after posters were put up last week at Sciences Po university in Grenoble that read \"Fascists in our lecture halls, Islamophobia kills\", naming the two professors.\n\nJunior Interior Minister Marlène Schiappa said their lives were in danger and the campaign was reminiscent of the harassment of Samuel Paty. \"We can't tolerate this kind of thing,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Macron paid tribute to Samuel Paty during a memorial ceremony in October\n\nAfter Paty's murder, President Emmanuel Macron presented the teacher's family with the nation's highest honour, the Légion d'honneur.\n\nDepictions of the Prophet Muhammad are widely regarded as taboo in Islam, and are considered highly offensive by Muslims.\n\nThe issue is particularly sensitive in France because of the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons of the Prophet.\n\nTwelve people were killed by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 after the images were published.\n\nBoth the Charlie Hebdo murders and Samuel Paty's beheading struck a deep chord in a country where secularism - or laïcité - is central to national identity.\n\nUnder that principle, the state cannot intervene in matters of religion, and thus should not curb expression to protect the feelings of a particular community.", "The interview took place in the garden of a house near where the couple live in Montecito, west of Los Angeles\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said racism from the tabloid press that filtered into the rest of society was a \"large part\" of why he and his wife left the UK.\n\nPrince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that the UK tabloid media is \"bigoted\" and creates a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\".\n\nHe said he thought the Prince of Wales had to \"make peace with it\".\n\nThe Society of Editors said the media is not bigoted and is holding the \"rich and powerful to account\".\n\nMeghan said social media had made the relationship with the press like \"the wild, wild West\" and said the Royal Family's press operation failed to defend her and Harry from untrue stories.\n\nIn the much-anticipated interview with Oprah, Harry and Meghan covered a range of deeply personal topics, including racism, mental health, their relationship with the media and Royal Family dynamics.\n\nThe two-hour interview was broadcast last night in the US and was screened in the UK on ITV on Monday night and on ITV Hub, courtesy of Harpo Productions/CBS.\n\nUS President Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, said it had taken \"courage\" for Harry and Meghan to tell their own personal story and speak about struggles with mental health.\n\nAsked about the claims that the Royal Family had failed to look after the Sussexes' mental health and that one family member had speculated on their unborn child's skin colour, Prime Minister Boris Johnson declined to comment, except to say he \"always had the highest admiration for the Queen and the unifying role she plays\".\n\nHe said \"when it comes to matters to do with the Royal Family, the right thing for prime ministers to say is nothing\", after being asked specifically if he believed the Royal Family was racist.\n\nIn previously unseen footage from the three hour 20 minutes interview, Oprah asked the prince if the couple left the UK because of racism. Prince Harry replied: \"It was a large part of it.\"\n\nHe said that shortly after the couple announced they would step back from royal duties, someone who was \"friends with a lot of the editors\" had warned him about their confrontational stance with the press: \"Please don't do this with the media, they will destroy your life.\"\n\nThe conversation happened at a fundraising dinner in January 2020, a few months after Meghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a private letter and Prince Harry said he feared his wife would fall \"victim to the same powerful forces\" that he lost his mother to.\n\nThe friend of the editors told him: \"You need to understand that the UK is very bigoted.\" But the duke responded: \"The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids.\"\n\nSpeaking to Oprah, the prince added: \"But, unfortunately, if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased then that filters out to the rest of society.\"\n\nHe said that \"sadly\" no-one in the family had said they were sorry that the couple felt they had to move away from royal life because they did not feel supported.\n\n\"The feeling is that this was our decision, therefore the consequences are on us.\"\n\nHe said it was \"really hard because I am part of the system with them, I always have been\".\n\nPrince Harry said he was warned about the media shortly after announcing the couple would step back as senior royals\n\nPrince Harry said he is \"very aware\" that his brother Prince William \"can't leave that system but I have\".\n\nAsked if William wanted to leave the system, he replied: \"I don't know, I can't speak for him.\"\n\nHarry said the \"relationship and that control and the fear by the UK tabloids, it's a really, it's a toxic environment\".\n\nThe duke said he will \"always be there\" for his brother and the rest of his family and he has \"tried to help them to see what has happened\".\n\nHis father, the Prince of Wales, \"had to make peace\" with the relationship with the media.\n\nBut Meghan said she and the duke could not make peace with it themselves, saying it was \"different\" because of social media, describing it as \"like the wild, wild West\".\n\nThe Society of Editors criticised the couple for accusing the media of racism without \"any supporting evidence\".\n\n\"The UK media has never shied away from holding a spotlight up to those in positions of power, celebrity or influence. If sometimes the questions asked are awkward and embarrassing, then so be it, but the press is most certainly not racist,\" said executive director Ian Murray.\n\nIn another unaired clip shared by broadcaster CBS on social media, Prince Harry said that in January last year the couple had an invitation to visit the Queen at Sandringham suddenly withdrawn by her private secretary, who said she was \"busy all week\".\n\n\"When you're head of the firm there are people around you that give you advice. And what has also made me really sad is some of that advice has been really bad,\" said Harry.\n\nAlso in the unaired footage, the Duchess of Sussex said her treatment in the press had been worse than other royals, saying that although the Duchess of Cambridge being branded \"Waity Katie\" before her marriage to Prince William must have been \"really hard\", it was \"not the same\".\n\n\"If a member of his family would comfortably say 'we've all had to deal with things that are rude', rude and racist are not the same,\" she said.\n\n\"And equally you've also had a press team that goes on the record to defend you, especially when they know something's not true, and that didn't happen for us.\"\n\nMeghan said there had been an \"obsession about anything in my world\", including the media offering money to track down her parents.\n\n\"I did everything I could to protect both of them in that media frenzy for over a year,\" she told Oprah.", "Jess Glynne has apologised for using an \"unacceptable\" transphobic slur in an interview.\n\nThe singer appeared on comedian Mo Gilligan's podcast last week, and told a story about visiting a transgender strip club.\n\nThe punchline of the story was about someone feeling uncomfortable around people in the venue.\n\nJess wrote on Instagram she is \"wholeheartedly sorry\" after a clip was posted online and heavily criticised.\n\n\"The way it's such an outdated term being used by someone within the LGBT community is a massive shame,\" said one user.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I want to address my appearance on the @mothecomedian podcast, when a story I told caused massive and righteous offence,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Firstly, I want to say that I am wholeheartedly sorry\".\n\nShe continued: \"I know that in this case, sorry is not nearly enough, throughout my life I have made a lot of mistakes and what I have come to know is that the only benefit to making one is to learn from it.\n\nThe word Jess used in her interview is among the most commonly used slurs against trans people online - according to a recent study.\n\nThe following post contains a term some people might find offensive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucia Blayke This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"To be in the knowledge that I have negatively impacted the community through my own ignorance has ripped out a piece of my heart.\" she explained.\n\n\"I know I needed to address my mistake head on and educate myself about an issue I was frankly ignorant of.\n\n\"The language that I used on the podcast was unacceptable, as someone that has always been immersed in the LGBTQ+ community, I have witnessed first hand the progress that has been made when it comes to language, I am ashamed that I was unaware of the potency of the T-slur until now.\"\n\nThe singer then shared a list of organisations we she said her followers could \"learn from\".\n\nOrganisers of London Trans Pride say the singer \"still has a lot of work to do\", but called her apology \"a step in the right direction\".\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\nNewsbeat asked Mo Gilligan for comment, but he hasn't responded.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Teachers will be responsible for deciding grades this year\n\nParents should not pressurise teachers, but trust their judgement as they award GCSE and A-level grades this summer, says England's exams regulator.\n\nFor the second year running, teachers' grades will be used following the cancellation of exams due to Covid-19.\n\nSimon Lebus, acting head of Ofqual, said teachers' judgement was considered to be \"pretty reliable\".\n\nBut he urged parents not to put teachers under pressure or make them \"uncomfortable\" over grade decisions.\n\nThe acting chief regulator was giving evidence to the Commons Education Select Committee on Tuesday.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We've created a system in which I think there are good incentives to allow teacher judgment to flourish and we've all got to play our part to support that.\"\n\nHe added: \"I also think it's very important that parents give teachers the space to do it, because it's always a worry that parents get terribly involved and teachers feel uncomfortable and there's an intrusive interest so I think that's a really important point.\"\n\nEngland's Schools Minister Nick Gibb, who also appeared before the committee, said there were no plans to get rid of exams on a permanent basis, following two years of cancelled assessments due to the pandemic.\n\nMr Gibb denied suggestions that exams could be phased out and said \"I absolutely can confirm\" that they would be kept in future years.\n\n\"What we have learnt is that exams are the fairest way of judging the attainment and ability and work of students and we want to get back to exams as soon as possible.\"\n\nMr Gibb told MPs that, up until 4 January exams were going ahead - with various systems in place to account for the disruption to learning.\n\n\"It was only after the decision to close schools to most pupils from January, that we decided that the unfairness was too great.\"\n\nAsked about the extra pressure on teachers this year, especially in terms of awarding grades for GCSEs and A-levels, Mr Gibb acknowledged that they had \"shouldered a huge burden\" and that the Department for Education was \"conscious of workload\".\n\nIan Bauckham, acting chair of Ofqual, said teachers were being asked to \"step up and do more than they usually have to do by playing a significant part in the determination of grades\".\n\n\"We need to make sure the exam boards give them the structures and incentives to do the job, they can see needs doing, well.\n\n\"And I think that being clear that everyone will be subject to the same quality assurance, the same checks - that gives confidence to do the right thing in each individual circumstance.\"\n\nHe said these structures would help teachers not to \"bow to the various pressures that they will undoubtedly come under\" from pupils and parents.\n\nMr Baukham said it was up to senior leadership teams in school to make sure teachers got the \"support and structure they needed\".\n\nMr Gibb also told MPs that it was \"good to see children back in school\" this week in England.\n\nAsked about Covid testing, the minister said that a negative PCR test would not over-rule a positive lateral flow test taken by a pupil in school under supervision, but would over-rule a lateral flow test done at home.", "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.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe suspect in the death of Harry Dunn would be willing to do community service and make a \"contribution\" in his memory, her lawyer said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.\n\nAmy Jeffress, the lawyer for suspect Anne Sacoolas, who returned to the United States claiming diplomatic immunity, said such a crash would not be prosecuted criminally in the US.\n\nHarry's mother, Charlotte Charles, said she must face \"the UK justice system\".\n\nMs Jeffress added that her client \"never denied that this was her fault\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas with causing the teenager's death by dangerous driving, but an extradition request was rejected by the US government in January 2020.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nSpeaking to Joshua Rozenberg, for BBC Radio 4's Law in Action, Ms Jeffress said they had been trying to resolve the case in a way that would not involve Mrs Sacoolas's return to the UK.\n\nMs Jeffress said: \"We understand that community service is a typical sentence for offences like this.\n\n\"We have offered ever since over a year ago that she would be willing to serve that kind of a sentence and to make a contribution in Harry's memory, to take other steps to try to bring some peace to the family.\"\n\nMs Jeffress said Mrs Sacoolas had driven \"instinctively\" on the right-hand side of the road after leaving the US military base where her husband had a job covered by diplomatic immunity.\n\nAt the time of the crash on 27 August 2019, Mrs Sacoolas had only been in the UK \"for a few weeks\" and had made \"a tragic mistake\", said Ms Jeffress.\n\n\"She's never denied that this was her fault - that she caused this collision by driving on the wrong side of the road,\" she said.\n\nShe claimed reports Mrs Sacoolas had not called for help were untrue, stating she flagged down a motorist who called the ambulance service while she notified police at the military base.\n\nFlowers left in remembrance of Harry Dunn on the B4031 near RAF Croughton\n\nThe lawyer said her client had co-operated fully with police, took a breathalyser test, which produced a zero reading, and surrendered her phone to show she had not been using it.\n\nShe remained at the scene until told by the police to leave and was subsequently interviewed by them for several hours, Ms Jeffress said.\n\nThe lawyer added: \"One aspect of this that has not been reported is that this kind of an accident, had it occurred in the United States, would not be prosecuted criminally.\n\n\"In the United States, these cases are only prosecuted where there is evidence of recklessness that rises to the level of close to intent - drunk driving, distracted driving, a hit-and-run situation or excessive speeding.\n\n\"But there was none of that here.\"\n\nShe said she understood this was one of the reasons the US was not prepared to waive her client's immunity.\n\nHarry's mother Charlotte Charles, who was interviewed on BBC Breakfast with the family's spokesman Radd Seiger, said \"nobody is above the law\"\n\nMrs Charles said: \"In this country we do not get to advise our CPS as to what they hand down, we don't get to influence the judge and jury in any way.\n\n\"She may want to do community service and there is nothing we can do to influence that, she has to go through the UK justice system - which is one of the fairest in the world - they will decide.\n\n\"She just needs to come back and get it over and done with.\"\n\nRadd Seiger, the Dunn family's spokesman, said it was \"wrong\" for Ms Jeffress to suggest that community service was an option.\n\n\"We know she [Mrs Sacoolas] did not intend to kill Harry, but in our country, as in their country, if you drive dangerously - 20 seconds down the wrong side of the road and end up killing a child - that is not something we tolerate.\n\n\"We expect justice to be done.\"\n\nCharlotte Charles has previously said a ruling allowing a civil claim against his alleged killer to go ahead in the US will give her an \"opportunity to hear some truths\"\n\nMs Jeffress said Mrs Sacoolas \"would very much like to move forward and resolve the case\".\n\n\"She's willing to meet with the family to provide whatever information they are seeking and we truly hope that we can do that and give the family some measure of peace.\n\n\"Anne is truly sorry for Harry's family and the pain that this has caused.\"\n\nThe UK's Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said: \"Rather than talking about the sentence that would be appropriate, let's actually deal with the question of liability first.\n\n\"At the moment there is an outstanding and very serious matter relating to the alleged driving of this person and the death of a young man.\n\n\"What we are trying to do is to actually go through due process and deal with the issue of criminal liability first.\"\n\nMr Dunn's parents have launched a civil claim against Mrs Sacoolas and her husband Jonathan in the US state of Virginia, where they live.\n\nThe next stage would normally be for Mrs Sacoolas to give a formal deposition - answering questions put by the claimants' lawyer.\n\nMs Jeffress said she thought \"it would much better for Anne to provide whatever information the family seeks in a less formal setting than a deposition where lawyers are involved and there are objections and so forth\".\n\nShe added: \"If the case does not settle, then depositions would be taken, and she would comply.\"\n\nMs Jeffress also denied suggestions that Interpol was seeking her client's arrest in the US under a so-called Red Notice.\n\n\"There is no Red Notice, and there never was a Red Notice and so Interpol will not be assisting in this matter.\"\n\nA spokesman for Boris Johnson reiterated that the Prime Minister \"continues to fight for justice\" for Mr Dunn's family.\n\n\"We have always asked for extradition. The denial of that we have always seen as a denial of justice,\" he said.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesman said the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had raised the case with the US Secretary of State Anton Blinken.\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\nA former Wales rugby player who had a seizure, sickness and memory loss says female athletes should be heard in the discussions around sport head injuries.\n\nRetired flanker Nic Evans said she had no memories of her first appearance at Twickenham as a result of concussion.\n\nThe UK digital, culture, media and sport committee is to begin an inquiry into sport and long-term brain injury.\n\nGoverning body, World Rugby, said the welfare of all participants was its ongoing priority.\n\nEvans, 43, who played for Wasps Ladies, will undergo tests this month to assess whether she is facing \"the worst-case scenario\" after suffering what she believes could be hundreds of concussions in her career.\n\nHer first appearance at Twickenham should be a cherished memory but instead it is a blank.\n\n\"I don't remember any of the game,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't remember playing, I remember before the game and then I remember being home in Wales and I think that happened throughout my playing career.\"\n\nNic Evans said the stories of women in sport need to be considered when talking about head injuries\n\nEvans, originally from Caerphilly and now a lecturer, can recall one incident in which she was tip-tackled on to a dry, hard pitch resulting in a seizure lasting several minutes.\n\n\"I lost my [driving] licence for a year because they weren't sure whether it was epilepsy or concussive seizure,\" she said.\n\n\"That happened in the June, I was back in pre-season training in the July.\n\n\"I probably spent the whole of that year training and playing with really bad headaches, feeling really nauseous, feeling really sick.\"\n\nEvans recalls \"headaches, feeling really nauseous, feeling really sick\" after one incident\n\nThe player-turned-coach said, at the time, she just wanted to play rugby but she had not ever considered she could have been doing \"long-term damage\".\n\n\"I wouldn't have put myself at risk of not being able to live fully later in life,\" the mother-of-three added.\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs will question consultant neuropathologist Prof Willie Stewart and neurodegenerative disease specialist Prof Craig Ritchie.\n\nThe DCMS committee will look at the role of national governing bodies, their responsibilities to understand risks involved for players, and what actions might be taken to mitigate them.\n\nEvans said while playing she had not considered she could have been doing \"long-term damage\"\n\nDebates about the links between sport - and specifically rugby - with serious head injury were sparked again when former Wales international Alix Popham and former England World cup winner Steve Thompson launched a legal action after being diagnosed with early onset dementia last year.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association is also setting up a taskforce to further examine the issue of brain injury disease in football, following high profile campaigns by families of some former players.\n\nEvans said: \"I got really frustrated really because I read all these stories about the men in the game and I just thought we play too.\n\n\"I work within PE and sport and a lot of sports science research is about men, and only now are we starting to see sport science about women because we are different, our bodies are different, our physiology is different.\n\n\"Do the protocols need to be different because women suffer worse concussions? Maybe.\n\n\"I don't have the answers but what I do think is really important is that women are at the table too. Our stories also need to be considered.\"\n\nSwansea University research from 2020 suggested female rugby players were at a greater risk of suffering concussion than men - and the effects were more severe.\n\nElizabeth Williams, a senior lecturer in biomedics, said men and women were more likely to suffer different kinds of head impacts and women's brains may have a higher risk of injury when subjected to the same external force.\n\nFormer Wales prop Tonia Antoniazzi MP wants a \"call to arms to all our sisters that have played rugby since the '80s\"\n\nTonia Antoniazzi, Labour's Gower MP and a former Wales international prop, said putting the focus on the men's game was a \"flawed\" approach.\n\n\"What concerns me is there are very few women's voices about their injuries and how they've had an impact on their lives throughout concussion,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to be talking about it.\n\n\"It also needs to be a kind of call to arms to all our sisters that have played rugby since the '80s to just take notice if they have got any issues around memory, any issues really.\n\n\"It's not being looked into.\"\n\nIn a statement, World Rugby said it continued \"to invest in and collaborate with women-specific research to inform our injury-prevention programmes\".\n\nThe organisation added it was equally important that preventative technique is promoted, such as its \"Active programme, which, if used regularly, has the potential to reduce concussion risk by up to 60%\".\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the inquiry was \"evidence led\".\n\nIt said it was \"accepting written evidence to the end of this month\".", "Unilever will drop the word \"normal\" from its beauty products and ban excessive editing of models' photos in a push for inclusivity.\n\nDove's owner said the editing ban would apply to \"body shape, size, proportion and skin colour\" and \"normal\" would be removed from 200 products.\n\nIts boss said it wanted to create a \"more inclusive definition of beauty\".\n\nThe firm has previously faced allegations that it promoted stereotypes around dark skin tones.\n\nThe London-based firm, which also owns the Simple and Sure beauty brands, is set to make the changes over the next year. The ban on editing will include photos taken of models as well as social media influencers.\n\nOn the change to its marketing strategy, the firm's president of beauty and personal care products, Sunny Jain, said: \"We know that removing 'normal' from our products and packaging will not fix the problem alone, but it is an important step forward.\"\n\nThe word \"normal\" is typically used on shampoos, conditioners and face products, such as for \"normal or oily skin\".\n\nBut Roshida Khanom of market research firm Mintel said: \"'Normal' is such a loaded term because it indicates that there is an 'abnormal' and it doesn't actually describe anything, so it's about time that the term is dropped.\"\n\n\"Young people in particular are shifting the conversation - the traditional notions of beauty no longer hold up for Generation Z, who see beauty as accepting and owning your imperfections,\" she said.\n\nInstead of the word \"normal\", Unilever will use different descriptors for customers looking for particular qualities in their beauty products. Shampoo for \"normal to dry\" hair, for example, will soon be labelled for \"dry and damaged\" hair.\n\nUnilever said on Tuesday it would also take a number of other steps in an attempt to promote \"a new era of beauty that's inclusive, equitable and sustainable\".\n\nIt committed to increase the number of adverts portraying people from under-represented groups and use more natural and biodegradable ingredients across its range of products.\n\nMr Jain added that consumers were increasingly \"rewarding brands\" that take action on environmental and social issues. He said the personal beauty campaign would make Unilever a \"more successful business\".\n\nThe FTSE 100 firm has, however, faced criticism in the past over its advertisements and allegations that some products promote negative stereotypes around dark skin tones.\n\nUnilever renamed the \"Fair and Lovely\" brand after the Black Lives Matter movement spurred firms to reassess their marketing.\n\nLast year, it rebranded a skin-lightening cream sold across Asia from \"Fair and Lovely\" to \"Glow and Lovely\", but it still continues to be sold despite petitions calling on the firm to halt production.\n\n\"The product has never been and is not a skin bleaching cream,\" Unilever says on its website.\n\nThe firm also apologised after it ran a Facebook advertising campaign in 2017 for Dove body lotion, which showed a series of three images, showing a black woman peeling off her T-shirt to reveal a white woman underneath her skin. The third image shows the white woman undressing to reveal an Asian woman.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The world's consumer base is becoming increasingly aware of social issues, and the threat of boycotts and backlashes means giants like Unilever are right to try and avoid PR headaches.\"\n\nSuch fallouts can have negative consequences such as hitting sales or damaging the brand, she said.\n\nBut she pointed out that given Unilever's enormous scale, with some 400 brands, \"a tweak like this is unlikely to move the dial at the operating level\".\n\n\"What it does show, is a heightened awareness of the issues that matter to consumers, and a proactive approach suggests management has its eye on the ball,\" she added.\n\nThe firm has since taken a number of other measures to address social issues. In January, Unilever said it would launch the Crown Fund UK, an initiative aimed at stopping discrimination around black hairstyles, while ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's has voiced support for the Black Lives Matter protests.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nOfficers searching for a missing woman in south London have put up a cordon outside a block of flats near to where she was last seen.\n\nSarah Everard was last spotted by a doorbell camera on the A205 Poynders Road in Clapham at about 21:30 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe cordon extends along Poynders Road from Rodenhurst Road to Cavendish Road.\n\nDetectives have released fresh images of the 33-year-old as the search continues \"at pace\".\n\nAs part of the ongoing investigation police are searching a variety of areas, the Met said.\n\nPolice have cordoned off part of Poynders Road - the area where Sarah Everard was last seen\n\nThe force added that 750 homes in the area had been visited and over 120 calls had been taken from the public.\n\nExtensive search operations for Ms Everard has seen officers delving into drains on the street where she was last seen.\n\nThe Met Police said the search for Sarah Everard \"continues at pace\"\n\nForensic officers placed markers on the pavement of Poynders Road on Tuesday evening.\n\nOfficers were seen lifting drainage grilles and using sniffer dogs outside the nearby Oaklands Estate and gardens.\n\nDetectives continue to say they are \"keeping an open mind\" about her disappearance.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said a number of CCTV recordings had been \"seized\".\n\nMs Everard has not been seen since Wednesday evening\n\n\"We have committed significant resources to this investigation, with assistance coming from across the Met,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to remain clear that at this time we have no information to suggest that Sarah has come to any harm and we retain an open mind as to the circumstances.\n\n\"We share the wish of her family and friends to have her back safely with her loved ones.\"\n\nFriends and relatives have issued appeals on social media to help find the marketing manager who vanished on her walk home to Brixton after visiting a friend's flat in Leathwaite Road, Battersea.\n\nHer family have said it is out of character for her to disappear.\n\nWomen living in the area near to where she vanished told reporters they had been warned by police to be extra vigilant.\n\nScotland Yard said no official advice was being given to local residents, but it would remind them of \"normal personal safety advice\".\n\nMs Everard was wearing clothes and earphones like these when she was last seen\n\nInvestigators are not currently linking the disappearance to reports of women being followed in surrounding areas.\n\nMs Everard, who is originally from York and attended Durham University, was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She is thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nDetectives have urged people to check any dashcam or doorbell cameras for sightings of her, particularly along these roads:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Hardy was elected as the Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle in 2017\n\nA Labour MP has resigned her shadow ministerial post citing an increase in constituency work during lockdown.\n\nEmma Hardy said due to the coronavirus pandemic the number of people seeking her help had \"risen dramatically\".\n\nThe Hull West and Hessle MP was appointed as the shadow further education and universities minister last year after Sir Keir Starmer was elected party leader.\n\nIn her resignation letter she said she was leaving with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nMs Hardy blamed the government's handling of the pandemic for \"taking a heavy toll on the place I love\".\n\n\"In the past year, the number of residents contacting me needing help and support has risen dramatically; I was elected as their representative and their needs will always come first,\" she said.\n\nMs Hardy added: \"I will no longer be able to give the role of shadow minister the time it deserves.\"\n\nThe former primary school teacher was elected to parliament in 2017, when she replaced the long-serving Labour MP Alan Johnson.\n\nIn the 2019 election Ms Hardy held on to the seat with a majority of 2,856, a drop of 10.4% in her vote compared with the 2017 result.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The change to the rules will allow four people from two households to meet anywhere outdoors, including in gardens\n\nUp to four adults from two different households will be able to meet outdoors in Scotland from Friday of this week, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe current rules only allow outdoor meetings between two adults from two households.\n\nRestrictions on young people will also be eased, with four people aged between 12-17 able to meet even if they are all from different households.\n\nOutdoor non-contact group sports for adults will also restart on Friday.\n\nAnd people will be able to gather for communal worship from 26 March, so long as no more than 50 people are in attendance and physical distancing is maintained throughout.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the \"modest\" easing was the result of the progress the country was making in suppressing the virus.\n\nHowever, the overall requirement to stay at home will remain in place except for specific purposes - which from Friday will include limited, outdoor socialising and recreation.\n\nAnd the first minister said the strong grounds for hope must be balanced by caution.\n\nShe said: \"Because we have been in lockdown, it is easy to overlook the fact that the virus we are dealing with now is much more infectious than the one we were dealing with in the autumn.\n\n\"But we will be reminded of that very quickly if we try to do too much too soon.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she will set out a firmer indicative timetable for re-opening the economy - including shops, hospitality, hairdressers, gyms and parts of the tourism industry - next week.\n\nShe also said she hoped to be in a position to relax the current travel restrictions in the weeks ahead - but insisted that it was not yet safe to do so.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that new cases, the number of people being admitted to hospital and deaths were all \"still higher than we would want\".\n\nHowever she said there was a clear \"positive trend\" in figures, alongside \"excellent progress with the vaccination programme\".\n\nAlthough the number of vaccines being administered each day has fallen in recent weeks, the first minister said supplies would increase to \"allow for a very significant acceleration\" of the programme from mid-March.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that while the current prospects were \"very encouraging indeed\", it was \"essential\" to get the timing of easing lockdown right.\n\nMost secondary pupils will only be returning to their classrooms part-time from next week\n\nShe said: \"Even though we are heading firmly in the right direction right now, we cannot afford to take our foot off the brake too soon.\n\n\"We still need to keep the virus under control if our hopes for a much more normal summer are not to suffer a setback.\"\n\nThe government had planned to move Scotland out of full lockdown and back into a regional levels system from late April.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that \"if the data allows us to relax more restrictions more quickly than we have previously indicated, we will not hesitate to do so\".\n\nShe also warned that everyone must continue to stick to the rules, with indoor meetings between different households still not possible and people being urged to stay as close to home as possible.\n\nMeetings will be possible in any outdoor space - including in private gardens - but people should only go into someone's else's home if it is essential to reach a back garden, or to use the toilet.\n\nAll of Scotland's school pupils are to return to the classroom from next week, with primary children to go back full-time and secondary students to have some in-class time before the Easter break.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson asked the first minister whether the government would increase the actual amount of teaching time secondary pupils will get when back in school.\n\nShe said: \"Pupils and parents were promised a return to the classroom, but - from the information they are now being sent - for many this will amount to only a few hours at best.\"\n\nThe first minister replied that children returning to schools even part-time was a \"significant change\", saying: \"I will always look parents in the eye and explain the difficult challenges we are trying to balance.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the easing of rules around socialising outdoors was important for people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nBut he said the government must strive to \"ensure this is our last lockdown\" by getting its testing and vaccination programmes right.\n\nThousands of Rangers fans gathered in Glasgow at the weekend to celebrate their team winning the league\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asked if there could be an increase in virus cases in Glasgow after Rangers fans gathered to celebrate the football team winning the Scottish Premiership title.\n\nScottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie claimed the club \"did nothing\" to prevent the gathering.\n\nMs Sturgeon said any spike in infections would not become clear for several weeks.\n\nShe added: \"Make no mistake, having crowds of people risks spreading this virus - people who gather are putting their own health at risk, but also that of their loved ones and the wider community.\n\n\"That behaviour wasn't just irresponsible, it was deeply selfish\".\n\nRangers has insisted it urged its fans to follow the lockdown guidelines.", "As well as their legal sex, the census will also ask people their gender identity for the first time\n\nPart of the census guidance for England and Wales accompanying the question on a person's sex should be withdrawn, a High Court judge has ordered.\n\nCampaign group Fair Play for Women argued it unlawfully allowed \"self-identification\" as male or female.\n\nThe guidance said people can use the sex listed on their passport - which can be changed without a legal process.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it was asking the same question on sex it had done since 1801.\n\nAfter a court hearing on Tuesday, Mr Justice Swift ruled that the guidance should be changed to say individuals should only respond with the answer on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate - a document which allows trans people to change their legal gender.\n\nA full judicial review will take place next week before the census day, but the judge made the interim order saying he was satisfied the campaign group was \"more likely than not to succeed\" on its case regarding the legal definition of \"sex\".\n\nTaking place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on 21 March, the census aims to provide a snapshot of the population of the country which can then be used to make decisions about services - and which this year will be used to understand the impact of the pandemic.\n\nScotland's census has been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nFor the first time, it will include a question about gender identity as well as the one about a person's legally registered sex. The decision had been welcomed by some trans people as a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nThe legal action comes after ministers abandoned plans last year to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria - a process known as \"self-identification\".\n\nFair Play for Women, which seeks to defend \"the sex-based rights of women and girls\", launched a crowdfunded legal action arguing that the census guidance on the question, \"What is your sex?\" was unlawful. The group called it \"sex self-identification through the back door\".\n\nThe guidance, published in the online census only, said: \"If you are considering how to answer, use the sex recorded on one of your legal documents such as a birth certificate, gender recognition certificate, or passport.\n\n\"If you are aged 16 years or over, there is a later voluntary question on gender identity. This asks if the gender you identify with is different from your sex registered at birth.\n\n\"If it is different, you can then record your gender identity.\"\n\nThe guidance opposed by Fair Play for Women only appears online - not on the paper form\n\nFair Play for Women had argued that, unlike a birth certificate, a person's sex on a passport or other legal document such as a driving licence can be altered without a formal legal process.\n\nThey argued this could potentially have the effect of \"distorting\" the data gathered in the census.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics argued that the question on sex could refer to a person's sex as recorded in any document provided by the state.\n\nSpeaking before the hearing, Dr Nicola Williams, director of Fair Play For Women, said: \"If we don't have good data on sex we can't monitor inequalities due to sex, and if we can't measure it, we can't make good policies to remedy it.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said most people did not need help to answer the question on sex but it would update the guidance to advise people to use the sex recorded on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate.\n\nA spokesperson for the ONS said: \"We are continuing to ask a binary choice, female or male, sex question on the census. This approach is unchanged since 1801.\"", "An infection \"probably\" linked to Glasgow's children's hospital was the \"primary cause of death\" of a young cancer patient, the BBC has learned.\n\nInfections from contaminated water at the hospital were also found to have been an \"important contributory factor\" in another child's death.\n\nA review looked into the cases of 84 children who developed infections while undergoing treatment at the hospital.\n\nIt found that a third of infections \"probably\" originated in the hospital.\n\nAnd it said the rest were \"possibly\" acquired there.\n\nThe authors of the \"case note review\", which should be published next week, said they recognised that some families would be disappointed that they could not have \"greater certainty\" about the links between their child's infection and the hospital environment.\n\nThey said this was down to the limits of a retrospective review but also criticised the shortcomings in the data provided by the health board.\n\nThe review was commissioned by the health secretary as part of wider investigations into problems with the drainage and ventilation system at the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus, which includes the Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nAn official probe found \"widespread contamination\" in the water supply, with at least 23 children contracting bloodstream infections in the cancer wards in 2018.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde was placed in \"special measures\" in November 2019 and in January last year two experts were appointed to oversee a review of infections.\n\nAmong them was 10-year-old Milly Main who died in August 2017.\n\nMilly, who had leukaemia, underwent a successful stem cell transplant in July 2017 and was making a good recovery when the following month her Hickman line, a catheter used to administer drugs, became infected. Milly went into toxic shock and died some days later.\n\nHer death certificate lists a Stenotrophomonas infection of the Hickman line among the possible causes of death but her mother Kimberley Darroch says the family were kept in the dark about a potential link to contaminated water problems at the hospital.\n\nThe health board previously insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time.\n\nThe case note review looked at how many children were affected by a particular type of serious infection caused by Gram-negative environmental (GNE) bacteria between 2015 and 2019.\n\nIt then looked to see whether it was possible to link these to the hospital environment.\n\nThe review does not name the children it investigated.\n\nBut it does say that one child was in the very early phase of a stem cell transplant and that a bacterial infection was the \"primary cause of death\".\n\nThe review says that although disease progress was a major factor it judged that GNE bacterium was a \"significant factor\" in the cause of death. It says the infection was \"probably\" related to the hospital environment.\n\nA further child death was noted to have occurred within six weeks of an infection episode. The bacterium was said to be \"implicated\" in the death. It was recorded as possible contributory factor in the death certificate.\n\nThe review looked at 84 children and 118 episodes of infection.\n\nThe report was critical of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for not having a system in place that would have helped establish whether there was a link between bacteria in a patient and the place where they were treated.\n\nMolly Cuddihy contracted a rare bacterial infection when she was undergoing cancer treatment three years ago\n\nIn statement, Milly Main's mother, Kimberley Darroch said: \"There is nothing that can bring Milly back and a tiny part of me still hoped that the link to the water supply wasn't true.\n\n\"Finally we are starting to get answers after all these years.\"\n\nProf John Cuddihy, whose daughter Molly survived a rare infection in 2018, told the BBC there had been significant failings on the part of management and leadership within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nHe said they had failed to adequately protect vulnerable children who were exposed to additional risk while undergoing treatment for cancers.\n\nProf Cuddihy said the report had been made possible \"due to the tenacity of families and those clinical staff who bravely exposed failings, at significant personal and professional cost\".\n\nHe said the report laid bare the impact of bacterial infection and the relationship with the environment at the hospital.\n\n\"This report identifies 84 cases and 118 episodes of bacterial infection- that's 84 critically ill, vulnerable children that have been exposed to significant additional risk, which has affected them physically, psychologically and emotionally,\" Prof Cuddihy said.\n\n\"Sadly, the report also highlights that two of those children who died did so, at least in part, as a result of their infection.\"", "Reece was verbally and physically bullied throughout his teenage years, leaving him with depression and anxiety.\n\nUnable to confide in his friends and not wanting to worry his Mum, the 18-year-old from Birmingham felt there was nobody he could trust.\n\nFortunately, Reece was able to start attending Virtually Minded, a programme run by the YMCA in Sutton Coldfield which is partly funded by money raised during BBC Comic Relief's Red Nose Day.\n\nHe is now a mentor for the programme, which encourages young men to open up about their mental health.\n\nIf you've been affected by bullying, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nProduced by Louise Brierley. Filmed and edited by Pete Jones.", "Nathan Evans with his official number one trophy\n\nScottish postman-turned-social media sensation Nathan Evans has reached number one in the UK charts with his version of a 19th Century sea shanty.\n\nEvans first found fame on TikTok by singing traditional seafaring songs, before being offered a record deal and giving up his day job.\n\nA pop remix of one song, Wellerman, has spent seven weeks in the top three but has now finally reached the top spot.\n\n\"We've done it! Unbelievable, I'm speechless,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody's support has been absolutely fantastic, thank you each and every one of you. We made it!\"\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 NathanEvanss 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\nHis rise to number one comes after an appearance on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway last weekend.\n\nWellerman was thought to have been written by New Zealand whalers about an employee of the Weller Brothers shipping company in the 1830s.\n\nEvans, from Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, posted his version in December after enjoying viral success with other shanties. That version of Wellerman was remixed after producers 220 Kid and Billen Ted came on board.\n\nEvans has now replaced Olivia Rodrigo at number one, with the US pop star dropping to number 18 after nine weeks at the chart summit with Drivers License.\n\nA1 & J1 are at number two with their own viral hit Latest Trends, while YouTuber and rapper KSI has the highest new entry at number three with Patience, his collaboration with Yungblud and Polo G.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A US private investigator has told BBC News he was paid by the Sun newspaper to obtain personal information about the Duchess of Sussex in the early days of her relationship with Prince Harry.\n\nBut Daniel Hanks says he unlawfully accessed detailed information including Meghan's social security number.\n\nThe Sun's publisher said it requested legitimate research and instructed Mr Hanks he must act lawfully.\n\nMeghan and Harry said it was a \"moment of reflection\" for the media industry.\n\nBBC News has seen the so-called \"comprehensive report on Meghan and her family\" which the investigator, also known as Danno Hanks, passed to the Sun.\n\nIt included her phone number, addresses and social security number as well as information on her family members. His report also included information on her ex-husband and a former boyfriend.\n\nIn the US, licensed private investigators are allowed full access to databases of personal information for some permitted reasons such as court reports. But accessing this additional level of detail for journalistic purposes is unlawful.\n\nMr Hanks said: \"Pretty much everything I found out they could find out themselves using legal means - with the exception of the social security numbers.\n\n\"When you have that information… it's the key to the kingdom.\"\n\nWhile there is no evidence it happened in this instance, social security numbers in particular could potentially be used to further other intrusive investigations.\n\nA spokesman for Harry and Meghan said: \"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex feel that today is an important moment of reflection for the media industry and society at large, as this investigative report shows that the predatory practices of days past are still ongoing, reaping irreversible damage for families and relationships.\n\n\"They are grateful to those working in media who stand for upholding the values of journalism, which are needed now more than ever before.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan recently took part in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey\n\nThe duke and duchess have had a fraught relationship with the UK's tabloid press. During the couple's recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, they said this had created a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\" and was largely to blame for them leaving the UK.\n\nPrince Harry is currently suing the publisher of the Sun, and the former publisher of the Daily Mirror, over allegations of phone hacking before 2011.\n\nSeveral stories appeared in the Sun, and other newspapers, at the beginning of the couple's relationship. They included an article claiming Prince Harry had \"bombarded\" his future wife with text messages and another detailing a weekend they spent together at Meghan's home in Toronto.\n\nDanno Hanks worked as a private investigator in the US for over 40 years gathering information on celebrities and high-profile people including Michael Jackson and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHe achieved some notoriety in the 1990s via appearances on daytime television and has been jailed four times, most recently in 2017 for extortion.\n\nMr Hanks said he had provided reports for most of the British tabloid newspapers.\n\nHe said the Sun wrote to him after the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and asked him to sign documents, seen by the BBC, committing to act within the law and he repeated this assurance when he billed the Sun for his work.\n\nBut he claims no-one ever asked where he got his information. \"They didn't care. They just wanted the information,\" he said.\n\nMr Hanks came forward after being approached by Graham Johnson, a freelance journalist and editor of Byline Investigates, which publishes stories on the British media.\n\nMr Johnson, a former investigations editor at the Sunday Mirror, pleaded guilty to two counts of phone hacking in 2013.\n\nMeghan and Harry at the Invictus Games in Toronto in 2017, their first public appearance together\n\nHis website has received money from prominent supporters of press reform, including actors Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan, who were both victims of phone hacking, and his partner Emma Jones is on the board of Hacked Off, the press reform campaign group.\n\nMr Johnson, who paid Mr Hanks for access to his documents, said: \"This story definitely sticks out in the post-Leveson world because it has taken place five years after we thought these practices had stopped.\"\n\nMost victims of phone-hacking have settled their claims. Prince Harry hasn't. That's the vital context of this story.\n\nIn the course of nearly a year reporting on the complex, often fraught relationship between the monarchy and the media, it's become clear that he is, in an important sense, the last man standing among those victims.\n\nA News UK source told me that it was a \"huge priority\" and \"preoccupation\" for the company to repair relations with the royals after the severe damage done by the hacking revelations.\n\nBut the revelation that the Sun paid a private investigator to supply information on Meghan and her family, and that too in the period leading up to Prince Harry's bombshell public statement of 8 November 2016 in which he said a line had been crossed, will not improve relations.\n\nPrince Harry has been advised by many people both to make peace with Britain's tabloids, and to settle his claims against them. He hasn't. He may strike some journalists as an unlikely champion of press reform. But it is a role he seems keen on.\n\nMr Hanks, who has now retired, said watching Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah had also prompted him to speak out.\n\n\"I'm just doing it to clear my conscience,\" he said.\n\nAsked what he would say to Meghan and Harry directly, he said: \"I'm deeply sorry for what I did... and I'm available if your lawyers need to talk to me. I'm ready to give you what I know. Supply you with any information. I just wish this had never happened.\"\n\nIn a statement, News Group Newspapers - publishers of the Sun - said: \"In 2016, the Sun made a legitimate request of Mr Hanks to research contact details and addresses for Meghan Markle and possible relatives using legal databases which he had a license to use. He was paid $250.\n\n\"Mr Hanks was not tasked to do anything illegal or breach any privacy laws - indeed he was instructed clearly in writing to act lawfully and he signed a legal undertaking that he would do so.\n\n\"The information he provided could not and did not raise any concerns that he had used illegal practices to obtain the information.\n\n\"At no time did the Sun request the social security number of Meghan Markle, nor use the information he provided for any unlawful practice.\n\n\"The Sun abides by all laws and regulations and maintains strict protocols in relation to the obtaining of information from third parties. Strict compliance is in place to cover all our reporting.\"", "China has forcibly separated Uighur families by taking young children into state orphanages, according to human rights group Amnesty International.\n\nIn a new report, Amnesty has called on China to release all Uighur children being held in orphanages without the consent of their families.\n\nThe charity spoke to parents who left children with relatives in China when they were forced to flee the country.\n\nRights groups say China has detained more than a million Uighurs.\n\nThe Chinese government has also faced allegations of a wide range of human rights abuses against the Uighur people and other Muslim minorities, including forced labour, forced sterilisation, sexual abuse and rape.\n\nThe government denies it is holding Uighurs in detention camps in the Xinjiang region in north-western China. It says the camps are \"re-education\" facilities being used to combat terrorism.\n\nBecause access to Xinjiang is heavily restricted by the Chinese, Amnesty spoke to Uighurs who were able to flee Xinjiang before the repression of the Uighur people intensified in 2017.\n\nMihriban Kader and Ablikim Memtinin fled from Xinjiang to Italy in 2016 after being harassed by police and pressured to give up their passports, Amnesty said. They left four children in the temporary care of grandparents, but the grandmother was taken to a detention camp while the grandfather was interrogated by police, the charity said.\n\n\"Our other relatives didn't dare to look after my children after what had happened to my parents,\" Mihriban told Amnesty. \"They were afraid that they would be sent to camps, too.\"\n\nIn November 2019, Mihriban and Ablikim received a permit from the Italian government to bring their children to join them, but the children were seized by Chinese police on the way and sent to a state-run orphanage, Amnesty said.\n\n\"Now my children are in the hands of the Chinese government and I am not sure I will be able to meet them again in my lifetime,\" Mihriban said.\n\nOmer and Meryem Faruh, who fled to Turkey in late 2016, left their two youngest children, aged five and six, with grandparents because they did not yet have their own travel documents, Amnesty said. They found out later that the grandparents had been arrested and sent to a camp and have not heard from their children since.\n\nAmnesty's report calls on China to provide full and unrestricted access to Xinjiang for UN human rights experts, independent researchers and journalists, and for all children held without their parents consent to be released to family.\n\n\"China's ruthless mass detention campaign in Xinjiang has put separated families in an impossible situation: children are not allowed to leave, but their parents face persecution and arbitrary detention if they attempt to return home to care for them,\" said Alkan Akad, Amnesty International's China researcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth meets Uighur parents in Turkey who say their children are missing in China\n\nThe Chinese state has created a vast and secretive network of camps in Xinjiang and is estimated to have detained more than a million Uighurs and people from other Muslim minority groups.\n\nReports have emerged in recent years of appalling human rights abuses, from forced sterilisation of Uighur women to torture and systematic rape inside camps.\n\nChina denies there are any human rights abuses taking place, and has called former camp detainees in exile liars and actors. China is also accused of intimidating and smearing witnesses who have spoken up, and of using witnesses's relatives in Xinjiang as leverage against them.\n\nThe US, Canada, and the Netherlands have declared that China is committing a genocide against the Uighur people. A similar bill was rejected by the UK parliament.", "The driver was stopped by police near Junction 23 of the M5\n\nA motorist who was stopped by police for driving at 122mph, told officers that he was travelling back from Wales after getting a haircut.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said they arrested the man after stopping his car near Junction 23 of the M5 in Somerset on 18 March.\n\nThe 29-year-old was arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs after a roadside test.\n\nHairdressers opened in Wales on Monday but remain closed in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Avon and Somerset Police\n\nTravelling to Wales for a haircut is not allowed under current lockdown rules in England which require people to stay at home unless it is for a number of permitted reasons such as exercise, outdoor recreation or work.\n\nHairdressers and barbers are scheduled to open in England on 12 April under the government's roadmap setting out dates of lockdown easing.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This year saw the highest ever uptake of the flu vaccine in over-65s\n\nA \"remarkable\" suppression of seasonal flu has seen only 18 cases recorded in Wales this winter, with no confirmed cases in the most recent week of data.\n\nThis compares with 1,657 recorded cases last winter, the largest year-on-year drop ever recorded.\n\nCatherine Moore of Public Health Wales said measures to slow the spread of Covid had led to levels of flu in winter she had never seen before.\n\nBut she said it could mean \"slightly more severe\" flu cases next winter.\n\nPublic Health Wales has said the flu virus is not currently circulating in Wales.\n\nCovid restrictions have been in place for most of the typical flu season, with strict limits on social contact in place.\n\nAcross a five-year average, flu has been the third-highest cause of death in Wales during winter months.\n\nHowever four out of the 11 leading causes of death are significantly lower than the five-year average.\n\nIn February 2021 flu and pneumonia were the ninth-highest causes of death, 73.2% lower than the five-year average.\n\nThe consultation rate for flu-like illnesses per 100,000 of the population hit a peak of 1.5 in early December.\n\nIn 2019-2020, that rate hit a high of just under 40 consultations per 100,000 over the Christmas period.\n\nLast winter, the level of flu circulating in Wales was seen as \"medium intensity\" - this winter has not even come close to meeting the threshold for \"low intensity\".\n\nConsultant virologist Dr Moore said: \"Any mitigation factor that we know reduces the transmission of a virus with a high transmissibility rate is likely to have a huge impact on a virus with a lower transmissibility rate.\n\n\"So people not moving around, people hand washing, all of the distancing, face cover wearing, all of that has a huge impact on viruses that perhaps don't transmit as well as the Sars-Cov-2 virus.\n\n\"The only time we see [figures this low] is in the summer months, when the virus is known not to be circulating.\n\n\"To see this level of suppression is remarkable, I've never seen something like this in my entire career working with influenza.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n\nDr Moore, who was appointed MBE for her work early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, said there were concerns the next flu season could be worse as a result of the lack of transmission this year.\n\nThis is because a large proportion of the population does not receive a flu jab, and the circulation of the most current strains of flu acts as a boost going into the next season.\n\n\"Immunisation is adding a boost for vulnerable groups, but a vast majority of workers don't have the immunisation, so we rely a little bit on that boosting effect to support them going into the next winter,\" she said.\n\n\"You will be boosted by the most current circulating virus, so if it's changed a little bit you'll have that boost to recognise the tiny changes which have happened in the virus during that year.\n\n\"We've completely missed a season, so the virus might have moved on a little further more than our immune system will remember.\n\n\"There is a potential there that we could being seeing slightly more severe flu than we would normally expect to see.\"\n\nThe flu vaccine uptake in Wales was the highest on record this year, with 76.5% of over-65s receiving the jab.\n\nLast year saw 69.4% of over-65s vaccinated, the highest number on record at the time.\n\nAn issue for medical professionals now is knowing what to include in the flu jab for next winter as, due to the lack of cases this winter, there is very little information on which strains have been circulating.\n\nNathan Sznerch, a GP in Wrexham, said Covid measures had made people more aware of hygiene measures and keeping a distance.\n\n\"We've certainly seen a reduction in the amount of people contacting us [for flu]. I think people are far more aware of the importance of hand hygiene, and wearing masks.\n\n\"All the measures we've utilised to reduce the transmission of Covid-19 have resulted in less flu transmission.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The engines were ignited at around 16:37 local time\n\nNasa has carried out a successful test on part of the most powerful rocket in existence - the Space Launch System (SLS).\n\nEngines on the rocket's \"core stage\" were kept running for more than eight minutes - simulating the time it takes the SLS to go from the ground to space.\n\nIt's the second such test for the biggest segment of the SLS, after an attempt in January shut down early.\n\nThe SLS is to send humans to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.\n\nThe mission is part of Nasa's Artemis project, launched by the Trump administration in 2017.\n\nThe launcher consists of the orange core, with its four powerful RS-25 engines, and two boosters attached to the sides.\n\nThe test at Stennis Space Center, near Bay St Louis, Mississippi, began at 16:37 ET (20:37 GMT). The core was attached to a giant structure called the B-2 test stand.\n\nA massive plume of exhaust expanded from the stand as the engines shook the ground. The cloud was so enormous, it was spotted from space by the Goes-16 satellite.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA SPoRT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough the target was to fire the engines for eight minutes, teams from Nasa and prime contractor Boeing only had to keep them on for 250 seconds (four minutes) in order to gather all the engineering data they needed.\n\n\"It was a great day and a great test,\" said acting Nasa administrator Steve Jurczyk.\n\nThe chair of the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology congratulated Nasa on the successful test. Texas democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson said: \"Achieving this significant milestone is a story of tenacity and dedication.\"\n\nShe added: \"Today's successful test brings us one step closer to returning American astronauts to the Moon in preparation for the human exploration of Mars.\"\n\nThe core that was part of Thursday's test will be used for the maiden flight of the SLS - currently scheduled for late 2021.\n\nIn the 1960s, the stand tested engines used in the massive Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo astronauts to the Moon.\n\nThe four engines sent a plume of exhaust spiralling high into the air\n\nJohn Shannon, Boeing's vice president and program manager for the SLS, told me before the first hotfire attempt: \"When the engines start and then throttle up, we will do what's called a gimbal profile at 60 seconds. The engine nozzles move in a pre-programmed set of movements.\"\n\nThis gimbal movement of the nozzles allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\n\"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics,\" said Mr Shannon.\n\nBefore Thursday's hotfire, engineers filled the core stage with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of propellant.\n\nThat propellant consisted of liquid hydrogen, which is the rocket's fuel, and liquid oxygen, which helps the fuel burn. They react explosively inside the engines, generating super-heated water vapour from the exhaust.\n\nWhen they're fed to the engines, the propellants are at more than two hundred degrees below zero (F), but the exhaust that emerges is 6,000F (3,316C) - hot enough to boil iron.\n\nHundreds of thousands of gallons of water were directed into the flame bucket to cool the exhaust. In addition, tens of thousands of gallons were used to create a water \"curtain\" around the engines to suppress the noise generated when they fire for eight minutes.\n\nThis was done to protect the core stage from vibrations while it is anchored to the stand.\n\nThe RS-25s, built by California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne, are the same ones that powered the space shuttle.\n\nThe engines tested on Thursday contributed to 21 successful shuttle flights over the vehicle's 30-year operational history.\n\nTwo were used on the last space shuttle mission, STS-135 in 2011. One flew on the 1998 mission that launched the oldest person ever to go to space - US senator and Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time. The other was used on one of the flights to service the Hubble Space Telescope.\n\nThe engines were refurbished following shuttle missions, but they will be discarded after the maiden flight of the SLS later this year.\n\nThat mission, called Artemis-1, will send Nasa's next-generation crew vehicle, Orion, around the Moon to thoroughly test its systems.\n\nTom Whitmeyer, from Exploration Systems Development at Nasa, said it would take about a month to refurbish the core stage, after which it would be put on a ship to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare it for launch.\n\nHere, it will be installed on a structure called the mobile launcher between the two booster rockets, completing the SLS vehicle.", "A White House spokeswoman told reporters President Joe Biden is \"doing 100% fine\" after he stumbled while boarding Air Force One.", "Health Minister Robin Swann says every adult in Northern Ireland will still get their first vaccine dose by the end of July.\n\nIt follows an expected reduction in the UK's Covid-19 vaccine supply.\n\nThat is partly due to a delay in a delivery from India of five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses.\n\nMr Swann said officials were doing all they could to ensure any delays to the department's timeline were shortened as much as possible.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Newsline, Mr Swann said he did not expect any changes to the lifting of Northern Ireland's coronavirus restrictions in light of the vaccine supply.\n\n\"We don't put dates to anything and I think it's exactly these sorts of unforeseen circumstances that allow us to take that approach,\" he said.\n\n\"The announcements made on Tuesday in regards to the next phase of lifting restrictions won't be affected by the delay of this supply of vaccine.\n\n\"I don't think this delay should have an effect on what the executive wants to do in easing further restrictions.\"\n\nA paper from the Department of Health shows that the R number in Northern Ireland is currently at between 0.9-1.10.\n\nThe minister said it showed the rate of infection was still decreasing, which meant the executive had been allowed to progress with making some changes to the lockdown regulations.\n\n\"One of the things we've always been aware of is keeping R below one... considering where we were back in mid-December, early January we are still moving in the right direction,\" he added.\n\n\"That comes about by the observance of restrictions and regulations but also by greater uptake of the vaccine as well and when we look to the hope that the vaccine brings that will allow us to come out of an incredibly dark time.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme told the Stormont Assembly more Pfizer doses would be used until extra AstraZeneca jabs arrive.\n\nShe said anyone expecting a second dose or who had already booked their first would have their appointments honoured.\n\nFirst jabs would continue in April, if at a slightly reduced rate, she added.\n\nOn Thursday, another Covid-19-related death and 169 new cases of the virus were recorded in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were no coronavirus-related deaths reported in the Irish Republic on Thursday.\n\nHowever, there were 582 confirmed new cases of the virus in the country.\n\nVaccine delivery issues could put the rollout plan back by four weeks in a \"worst-case scenario\", Ms Donnelly told Stormont's Health Committee, but the delay was more likely to be about two weeks.\n\n\"The mitigation measures that we put in place we hope will only delay us by two weeks, so it won't have a huge impact,\" she said.\n\nIt had been hoped vaccinations would be on offer to all people over the age of 40 when a mass vaccination centre at Belfast's SSE Arena opened on 29 March, but this would likely be delayed by two weeks, said Ms Donnelly.\n\n\"It will very much depend on the remaining deliveries that we get from AstraZeneca,\" she said.\n\n\"We have tried to find some mitigation through further use of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nMs Donnelly said three of Northern Ireland's five health trusts would now rely mainly on Pfizer doses until more AstraZeneca supplies arrived.\n\nOn Wednesday, NHS England warned there could be a \"significant reduction\" in the number of doses available in April.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Robin Swann said Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout was ahead of schedule and would be able to adapt.\n\nNews of the UK vaccine shortage was frustrating, if not surprising, said the chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The pace of vaccination has depended on the supply from the outset,\" tweeted Dr Alan Stout.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alan Stout This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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've done so well, so far, that the vast majority of those people who are at risk have now had their first dose,\" He told The Nolan Show.\n\n\"If it does mean that the consequences of delaying a first dose to someone we know who is at less risk, then that's going to have to be a decision that's made to protect those second doses.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland was still on course to meet its target of having most adults vaccinated by June or July, said Justice Minister Naomi Long.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 300 pharmacies have signed up to be part of the vaccination scheme.\n\nOfficial launch of the rollout will begin on 30 March, although some pharmacies may start before then.\n\n\"Their contribution to getting as many people vaccinated as possible will be invaluable,\" said Mr Swann.\n\nThe chief executive of Community Pharmacy NI, Gerard Greene, said. \"The accessibility and reach of the community pharmacy network, with pharmacists as skilled vaccinators, means they are well equipped to take part in the vaccine programme.\"\n\nMr Greene called their inclusion in the programme \"a fantastic and welcome step forward\" and said that this will not affect other pharmacy services.\n\nCommunity pharmacies were used to having to deal with supply issues, he said, adding that the anticipated drop in vaccine supply was unlikely to undermine Northern Ireland's programme.", "NHS executive Helen Bevan had her two Twitter accounts, with nearly 140,000 followers, stolen by hackers and used to promote fake PlayStation 5 sales.\n\nShe now has the accounts back but has received dozens of messages from people who fell for the scam.\n\nMs Bevan also paid money to someone who said they could help - but they turned out to be a scammer too.\n\nShe said she wanted to highlight the importance of extra security measures.\n\nNHS Horizons chief transformation officer Ms Bevan mistakenly thought she had activated two-factor authentication (2FA), which requires account-holders to use two methods to log in, the second often involving a code sent by text or email.\n\nHowever providing those contact details does not automatically activate 2FA, so the hackers were able to simply change the email address and phone number she had linked to the accounts once they had cracked her password.\n\nOne was a professional account with 97,000 followers discussing Ms Bevan's work, and the other one was about her cat, a local \"celebrity\", which was followed by 36,000 people. The hackers deleted all of her original tweets, unfollowed the people she was following, and renamed the accounts.\n\nThe rebranded account, which has now been returned to normal\n\nIt happened the day before Ms Bevan was due to lead an online event for thousands of people, and she had encouraged her audience to use Twitter as their discussion tool.\n\nFacing this pressure, she felt panicked that her own account was not under her control.\n\n\"I was the social media heartbeat of this event, I didn't know what to do,\" she said.\n\n\"Someone said, 'You have a basic choice, you can wait for Twitter to give your account back or you can find someone to help you.'\"\n\nAs her friends and network were tweeting about the hack, offers of help flooded in and she chose someone who promised to have the accounts back within 25 minutes in return for a fee of £110.\n\n\"I don't think he did anything, he kept sending me films of computer files whirring, saying this is me doing your work,\" she said.\n\n\"Then he said he had got it back, but Twitter had changed the verification and he needed an extra $100, then he wanted a service charge… they prey on desperate people.\"\n\nShe did not pay anything further and accepts that the money she handed over is lost.\n\nAfter two days, Twitter itself restored the accounts for her.\n\nWhen she accessed them, she found dozens of direct messages from people asking about PlayStation 5 orders.\n\nThe PS5 is in high demand\n\nShe says she has no idea how many fake sales were generated by the scammers but the PS5s were being advertised at upwards of $450 (£320).\n\n\"They were following Walmart, Dixons, PC World, Target,\" she said.\n\n\"They would wait for them to tweet about PS5s and then reply, saying we've got PS5s in stock now, DM [direct message] me.\"\n\nThere were also Fleets - temporary Twitter posts - featuring photos of PlayStation boxes.\n\nMs Bevan later had to explain to all who messaged her, having paid for games consoles, that she was also a victim of the scam.\n\nShe said she wanted to share her story as a warning to others.\n\n\"There are things I now know that I wish I'd known - everybody should have two-factor authentication, it's absolutely critical that you put that on,\" she said.\n\n\"Also, under no circumstances, even if you're desperate, do not go to one of these services that claim they'll get your account back in 30 minutes and stuff - I think they're likely to be a scammer.\n\n\"The only thing you can do is go through Twitter. Do it one step at a time.\"\n\nLisa Forte, from Red Goat Cyber Security, said having all the security settings enabled on all social media accounts is \"absolutely essential\".\n\n\"This means using a complex and long password, turning on two-factor authentication and, in the case of Twitter, enabling the password-reset protection setting,\" she said. \"Attackers are looking for easy targets. They have amazing eco-systems of businesses that allow them to take over your account, lock you out and then charge you to gain access back again.\"", "The UK government is to make an unprecedented move to give the Northern Ireland secretary new powers to compel Stormont to implement abortion laws.\n\nNorthern Ireland's abortion laws changed last March after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution.\n\nBut the commissioning of full services has been stalled due to differences within the five-party executive.\n\nStormont and Westminster are facing legal action from the Human Rights Commission over the delay.\n\nThis latest development, first reported by the Guardian, will see Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis lay new regulations in Parliament early next week.\n\nThe move will let him direct Northern Ireland's Department of Health to commission the services.\n\nA Whitehall source said there was frustration and disappointment at the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive to act.\n\n\"It has not commissioned abortion services consistent with the regulations originally set out by the UK government nearly a year ago,\" the source said.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis will lay new regulations in Parliament early next week\n\nThey added Mr Lewis was clear that the devolution settlement should not be a barrier.\n\nHowever, the move is likely to draw criticism from some of the Stormont parties.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and First Minister Arlene Foster and one of the party's MPs Sir Jeffrey Donaldson met the Northern Ireland secretary on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Sir Jeffrey said the government's move would \"raise serious questions about when and in what areas [it] can make interventions in a devolved administration\".\n\nHe said the DUP would \"vigorously oppose such steps\" and warned that the government \"should leave it with the devolved structures to make such decisions\".\n\nLate on Thursday night, Northern Ireland's Department of Health said Mr Swann's position was that the issue of abortion services was controversial and required the support of the whole executive.\n\n\"He does not believe that a ministerial decision to commission and fund abortion services would be defensible in court in the absence of executive approval,\" it added.\n\nThe timing of this move by Brandon Lewis is far from coincidental.\n\nIt's almost a year exactly since the UK government introduced the abortion laws that were supported by Westminster MPs but opposed by a number of Northern Ireland parties who accused No 10 of trampling over devolution.\n\nThe government remains bound by law to ensure the services are implemented and it's understood frustration was mounting behind the scenes at the slow pace within Stormont.\n\nThere is also an incoming legal challenge which may have focused minds in London.\n\nThis development will certainly turn up the political heat but it won't lead to imminent change as Mr Lewis will likely take the powers and wait to see how the executive reacts before deciding to go further.\n\nSinn Féin's Emma Sheerin called on the health minister to \"fulfil his legal obligations and responsibilities\" by commissioning abortion services.\n\nAlliance Party MLA Paula Bradshaw said it was \"bewildering\" that legislation approved last year had not been put into effect.\n\n\"The requirement in law and in treaty is for women in Northern Ireland to have the same access to health services as in the rest of the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no excuse for any minister, either though action or inaction, to stand in the way of that.\"\n\nThe law changes meant abortion laws in Northern Ireland altered significantly last year, with terminations available in all circumstances of the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is legal in other circumstances up to 24 weeks and beyond that for cases of non-fatal fetal disabilities and fatal fetal abnormalities.\n\nA change to the law last year allows abortions in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy\n\nHowever, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is challenging the UK government, the Stormont executive and the Department of Health for delaying the commissioning of services.\n\nAt present health trusts are carrying out interim services for early medical abortions up to 10 weeks, meaning women seeking a termination beyond that are required to travel to England.\n\nThe DUP, which opposed the changes to the abortion laws by Westminster, has proposed a piece of legislation at Stormont seeking to restrict abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities.\n\nIt passed its second reading on Monday with the support of a number of parties.\n\nSinn Féin abstained on that vote but has separately called for the Department of Health to commission full abortion services as required under the regulations.\n\nThe Alliance Party, the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists view the issue as a matter of conscience for individual assembly members.", "Brehmer was dismissed by the Dorset force in September and placed on the national police barred list\n\nA married police officer who strangled his lover after she exposed their affair has had his prison sentence increased on appeal.\n\nTimothy Brehmer was jailed for 10-and-a-half years after admitting the manslaughter of 41-year-old Claire Parry in Dorset on 9 May.\n\nHe had claimed she died accidentally during a \"kerfuffle\" in his car.\n\nThe Court of Appeal ruled that Brehmer's sentence should be increased to 13-and-a-half years.\n\nBrehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter ahead of his trial at Salisbury Crown Court, where a jury cleared him of murder.\n\nClaire Parry was described as a \"loving family member and a doting mother\" by her husband\n\nThe Attorney General's Office referred the case to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said that sentencing judge Mr Justice Jacobs \"gave too little weight to the aggravating factors he had identified\".\n\nHe added that Mr Justice Jacobs had given too large a discount for Brehmer's guilty plea as it did not \"reduce the impact of the crime upon victims\" or save witnesses from having to testify.\n\n\"The offender's conduct and lies after the attack were reprehensible and calculated to deflect attention from what he had done,\" Lord Burnett said.\n\nAttorney General Michael Ellis QC, who welcomed the increase in sentence, said: \"Because of his actions, Claire Parry's family have lost a wife and mother, and her community have lost a dedicated nurse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe trial heard Mrs Parry, a nurse who was married to another police officer, met the defendant outside the Horns Inn in West Parley to confront him about another of his extra-marital affairs.\n\nMrs Parry, who been been in a secret relationship with Brehmer for more than 10 years, took his phone before sending a text to his wife which said: \"I am cheating on you.\"\n\nBrehmer said he strangled Mrs Parry by accident during a \"kerfuffle\" in his car and that his arm \"must have slipped in all the melee\".\n\nHe later attempted to cover up his crime by using a knife to wound himself and claiming he had been stabbed by Mrs Parry, a statement he later retracted.\n\nFootage from a police body-worn camera showed him covered in blood and crying in the minutes after he killed his victim.\n\nThe trial also heard from another woman he had an affair with, Det Con Kate Rhodes, who said Brehmer used \"grooming\" techniques to exert \"coercive and controlling behaviour\" over women.\n\nMs Rhodes said he had been a \"womaniser\" and described him by the nickname \"Mr Smooth\".\n\nMrs Parry's husband, Andrew, previously said he was \"incredibly disappointed\" after Brehmer was cleared of murder and branded the former police officer a \"well-practised liar\".\n\n\"He has shown himself - as the trial exposed - to be consistently dishonest, deceitful and devious,\" he added.\n\nThe Court of Appeal rejected an attempt by Brehmer's lawyers to have his jail term reduced.\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.", "Justin Bieber's performance aired on the same day that he released his album, Justice\n\nJustin Bieber and the Duke of Cambridge were among famous faces who took part in this year's Red Nose Day on BBC One.\n\nThe Canadian singer gave this year's Comic Relief charity fundraiser an exclusive performance of his latest song Hold On.\n\nPrince William thanked the public for its \"compassion and generosity\".\n\nComic Relief had raised £52m by Saturday morning to help tackle hunger, homelessness, domestic abuse and mental health stigma.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Comic Relief This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking about mental health in a recorded video message, the duke said: \"This is a subject that is very close to my heart and it's wonderful to know that your support tonight will make sure that there is help at hand when things become too much for people.\"\n\nBieber - who released his album, Justice, earlier on Friday - asked viewers who could to donate to \"help those who need it most\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge took part in a spoof Zoom call with Stephen Fry for the BBC's Big Night In last year\n\nOther stars to take part included Daniel Craig and Catherine Tate.\n\nCraig's James Bond came face-to-face with Tate's Nan character in a sketch that saw Nan cleaning an office in MI6 before accidentally video-calling 007.\n\nHis character then introduces himself as \"Bond. James Bond\", to which Nan quips: \"Well make up your mind, son. Why are you introducing yourself backwards?\"\n\nBy the end of the sketch, Nan is revealed as a villain, telling Bond: \"It's me, 0075. I have got a bus pass and a licence to watch the BBC and I have finally caught up with you.\"\n\nMichael Sheen, Keira Knightley and KSI starred in 2020: The Movie, a parody based on recent world events.\n\nAnd Dawn French made a return as the Vicar of Dibley, opening the show with a rendition of Lizzo's song, Juice.\n\nCatherine Tate and Daniel Craig in character as Nan and James Bond\n\nFormer Doctor Who star Tennant also appeared with Sheen in a special episode of their Zoom-based comedy series Staged.\n\nJack Whitehall, meanwhile, had his own battles with Zoom in another star-studded sketch that featured Olivia Colman, Anya Taylor-Joy and others.\n\nMcGuinness and his fellow Top Gear presenters faced awkward questions from children in a comedy segment hosted by BBC Radio 1's Jordan North.\n\nThere was also a \"mash-up\" of BBC Three hits Fleabag and Normal People, featuring stars Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Andrew Scott.\n\nIn the scene, Scott's Fleabag character Hot Priest heard confession with Normal People's Connell and Marianne simultaneously as they talked about their relationship issues.\n\nMeanwhile, comedians including Caroline Quentin, Jennifer Saunders and Alex Brooker performed Nessun Dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot after being coached by the English National Opera and soprano Charlotte Church.\n\nThroughout the night of entertainment, viewers were shown films outlining how their donations could change lives in the UK and around the world.\n\nThey included a number of films that had been co-produced with local film-makers in India, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.\n\nLast year Comic Relief said it would stop sending celebrities to Africa after criticism that such films promoted a \"white saviour\" narrative.\n\nYouTuber and rap star KSI features in 2020: The Movie, billed as \"part biopic, part disaster film\"\n\nThis year's fundraising had already seen charity challenges featuring Alex Scott, Jermaine Jenas and double leg amputee Billy Monger.\n\nOne Show stars Scott and Jenas competed in an epic Red Nose and Spoon Race, while Monger took on a triathlon-inspired challenge that saw him walk, cycle and kayak 140 miles across England.\n\nMonger said he was \"speechless\" when presenters told him he had raised £2,376,183, adding: \"That's completely out of what I thought was possible, so thank you everyone.\"\n\nThe theme of this year's Red Nose Day has been Funny Is Power, with the aim of empowering people to do good through humour.\n\nSir Lenny rounded off the programme by saying: \"After a year of lockdowns, we hope we have given you laughter and joy.\"\n\nThe last Comic Relief fundraiser in March 2019 raised £63m by the end of the evening.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A swan has been spotted rattling letterboxes on a residential street in Northampton.\n\nWendy Howard said she had seen a swan on multiple occasions while out walking and captured the bizarre sight on camera.\n\nThe RSPB said the swan could have been doing it for territorial reasons or to get food.\n\nIt has advised people to only feed them in their natural habitat by a river or lake.", "An amateur boxer has been jailed for three years and three months for assaulting two directors of the former Quinn group of companies.\n\nBernard McGovern, 24, from Springtown Road in Kinawley, County Fermanagh, admitted attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly at a service station in County Cavan on 1 February 2019.\n\nHe was sentenced on Friday.\n\nMr Lunney and Mr O'Reilly were having lunch in Ballyconnell when they were attacked.\n\nCavan Circuit Court was told that McGovern punched Kevin Lunney up to eight times in the face, leaving the chief operating officer with a broken nose and swollen eye.\n\nHe also threw a cup of hot tea in the face of Mr O'Reilly, the chief financial officer.\n\nThe previous day McGovern's father had been fired from his job as a driver with the company.\n\nThe court was told McGovern had no involvement in subsequent events in September 2019, when Mr Lunney was abducted and tortured by a gang.\n\nThe judge described the attack as the two men were having lunch as \"callous and premeditated\".\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, the judge said McGovern had been motivated by a desire to avenge a grievance.\n\nHe said the prize-winning boxer had caused very serious injuries through \"the vicious use of his fists\" and had thrown a cup of recently-boiled water in the face of Mr O'Reilly.\n\nThe judge said the offences were at the upper end of the scale when it came to assault causing harm, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.\n\nHe added that although the accused had pleaded guilty, that was in the context of the overwhelming case against him.\n\nThe Quinn group of companies - of which Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly were directors - was rebranded last year\n\nThe judge said he would give McGovern some credit for his young age and no previous convictions.\n\nHe said \"his first experience of prison will no doubt be hard on him\".\n\nMcGovern was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for assault causing harm for the attack on Mr Lunney, and five months for assaulting Mr O'Reilly, to be served concurrently.\n\nMcGovern will receive credit for six-and-a-half months already spent in custody.\n\nThe judge said the offer of €1,000 (£854) compensation to Mr Lunney as a token of his remorse was not appropriate in this case, given the severe nature of the injuries.\n\nHe said he had also considered suspending a portion of the sentence but had decided it was not appropriate to do so.", "Karl Maroni, 33, has spent all his adult life in jail.\n\nAged 18 he committed three violent offences and was convicted.\n\nHe was told the minimum time he'd be in prison would be three and a half years.\n\nBut 16 years and 17 jails later he's still there, \"left to rot\", he says.\n\nHe's never had a bank account, never owned a smartphone and never used social media.\n\nSpeaking from the low-secure mental unit where he's currently detained, he says he's come close to \"giving up\".\n\n\"I was self-harming, getting into trouble, feeling really low and depressed, not knowing when I was going to get out,\" he said.\n\nKarl Maroni, 33, has spent all his adult life in jail\n\nMaroni is serving a sentence known as an IPP - Imprisonment for Public Protection - which were abolished by the coalition government eight years ago because they were seen to be unfair.\n\nYet there are still 1,900 people in custody in England and Wales with no end date and no idea when they are getting out.\n\nFormer Conservative Justice Secretary Lord Kenneth Clarke, who got rid of them in 2012, has told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme it's a \"tragedy\" there are still so many people serving IPPs.\n\nAnother former Tory Justice Secretary, Sir David Lidington, told the programme that all remaining IPP cases should be reviewed \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAs a teenager, Maroni took part in a robbery of a bookmakers in London.\n\nHe and an accomplice threatened the pregnant cashier with an imitation gun and demanded cash, leaving with £200.\n\nHe also refused to pay a taxi fare and showed the driver a knife, as well as carrying out a street robbery.\n\nHe says he now feels remorse for his victims.\n\n\"I was an offender,\" he says.\n\n\"Growing up I was a street kid. People shouldn't feel sorry for me but I have changed. I've been punished enough.\"\n\nIPPs were designed for the most violent and sexual offenders.\n\nBack in 2005, the Labour government thought they'd be used for around 900 offenders - but 6,000 people received the sentence.\n\nMany were kept in jail for years after their tariff expired.\n\nThe prison and parole system couldn't cope with the need to give inmates access to rehabilitation programmes in order to demonstrate they were safe to be let out.\n\nAccording to official probation documents, Maroni had a difficult childhood.\n\nHis mum was an alcoholic and drug user and her partner used to beat her and Maroni.\n\nHe missed three years of school and attempted to take his own life using his mother's drugs.\n\nSince he's been in custody, his mental health has deteriorated significantly - exacerbated, he says, by having a sentence which gave him no hope.\n\nHe's self-harmed, had panic attacks and says he's been diagnosed with a personality disorder and schizophrenia.\n\nHis application for parole has been rejected several times because the parole board thought he still posed a risk to the public.\n\nHe's due to have another hearing this summer and is feeling optimistic.\n\nSir David Lidington and Lord Clarke say setting a firm release date for IPP inmates would bring their treatment in line with prisoners on determinate sentences of a fixed length, but warn it could also mean \"letting out people who were still considered dangerous\".\n\nLord Blunkett, who as Labour home secretary introduced IPPs back in 2005, has expressed regret before about the way they were used for many more people than he intended or expected.\n\nHe has now told the World at One the fact there are still 1,900 people in jail on an IPPs \"weighs heavily on him\".\n\nFamilies want all those on IPPs with a minimum tariff of under five years - like Maroni - to have their cases reviewed and given a sentence with an end date.\n\nOnly then, they say, will the legacy of these \"disgraceful\" sentences end.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said in a statement: \"The number of IPP prisoners has fallen by two-thirds since 2012 - and is down 13% in the last year.\n\n\"We are helping those still in custody progress towards release, but as a judge deemed them to be a high risk to the public, the independent Parole Board must decide if they are safe to leave prison.\"\n• None Man 'trapped' in jail term to be released", "Last updated on .From the section Rangers\n\nRangers' Glen Kamara insists he was racially abused by Ondrej Kudela and said the Slavia Prague player's denial is \"a complete utter lie\".\n\nThe Finland international was visibly distressed at a comment made late in the 2-0 Europa League loss at Ibrox.\n\nKamara said: \"I was shocked and horrified to hear such racist abuse from a professional football player.\"\n\nIn a statement via his lawyer, Kamara claims Kudela covered his mouth, swore and used a racially offensive term.\n\nBecause of their offensive nature, the BBC are not reproducing the words.\n\nKudela admitted swearing while covering his mouth but not the \"disgusting accusation\" of racism.\n\nKamara added: \"As a player I do not expect myself, nor any other to have to tolerate racial hatred on or off the pitch in 2021.\n\n\"The vile racist abuse by Ondrej Kudela took place on the international stage and any failure to act by Uefa will be viewed as a green light for racism.\n\n\"There is no place for racism or any form of bigotry in football. Since the summer many of us have taken the knee in solidarity with those who have lost their lives to racial violence.\n\n\"If Uefa genuinely wants to 'show racism the red card', then it's time to stop the tokenism and take a zero-tolerance approach.\"\n\nSlavia Prague complained that Kudela was the victim of a \"brutal attack\" after the game and have said they are progressing with a criminal complaint.\n\nAs for Kudela's version of events on the pitch, Kamara described that as \"a complete utter lie, which does not stand up to any form of scrutiny\", adding that it was loud enough for team-mate Bongani Zungu to overhear.\n\n\"I am grateful for the unconditional support of my team, our club and especially our manager Steven Gerrard,\" Kamara added.\n\n\"I want to thank not just our Rangers fans, but the many fans from across the football community and beyond, for calling out racism not just against myself, but also fellow player Kemar Roofe, who was subjected to a tirade of racist bile on Instagram.\n\n\"We as black players are sick of the freedom that such bigots are given to parade their hatred on social media and wonder when the likes of Instagram will start to take action.\"\n\nSlavia say their criminal complaint details a list of witnesses, including Rangers manager Gerrard.\n\nA statement explained that the Czech Embassy in London will officially file the club's grievance but a Police Scotland spokesperson said on Friday: \"No reports of criminality have been made by either club in connection with last night's match.\n\n\"Police Scotland has contacted club officials and assured them that should any allegation be received it will be investigated thoroughly.\"\n\nSlavia assert that the alleged post-match assault on Kudela was \"thought out, including deliberately covering the cameras at the scene of the incident\", adding that the \"brutal attack was carried out with full intensity in order to injure and cause physical damage\".\n\nThey say delegates of European governing body Uefa and members of their own staff witnessed the incident, along with Gerrard.\n\nFurthermore, Slavia have said they will also make a criminal complaint and start and investigation after a image appeared of fans of the club holding a racist banner referencing Kamara.\n\nRangers managing director Stewart Robertson said his club expect a \"robust and unequivocal response\" on the matter from Uefa.\n\nUefa has already confirmed it will conduct an investigation into the events at Ibrox.", "Gym owners have been given a potential opening date\n\nMinisters will consider when gyms and outdoor hospitality in Wales can reopen on 22 April, it has been announced.\n\nAn updated Covid control plan also confirms all shops and close-contact services could open by 12 April.\n\nThe Welsh Government updated planning because of the \"fast-moving vaccination programme\" and the emergence of the highly infectious Kent variant.\n\nMinisters will decide next week if stay local rules can be relaxed, allowing more freedom to travel from 27 March.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"The pandemic is not over - spring and summer give us hope of more freedom, as rates of infection fall and more people are vaccinated but we must be need to careful - we can't rush the process of relaxing restrictions and risk a resurgence of the virus.\"\n\nOpposition parties criticised the plan for a lack of clarity.\n\nWales has been under a stay at home national lockdown since December, but the control plan gives a route out of it for many sectors.\n\nThe plan confirms that from Monday 22 March, garden centres will reopen with a phased opening of non-essential retail.\n\nIf cases remain low, stay local rules could be relaxed on 27 March, which will signal the first phase of the reopening of the tourism sector, with self-contained accommodation allowed to welcome guests.\n\nOrganised outdoor children's activities will also be allowed to resume, as well as the limited opening of outdoor areas of some historic places and gardens, and the reopening of libraries.\n\nFrom 12 April, schools and colleges will reopen fully if cases remain low.\n\nHair salons were allowed to reopen their doors this week\n\nHairdressers were allowed to reopen this week, and sectors such as pubs, restaurants and gyms have long called for clarity on when they may be able to reopen.\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"We are now entering a critical phase in the pandemic.\n\n\"We can see light at the end of the tunnel as we approach the end of a long and hard second wave, thanks to the amazing efforts of scientists and researchers across the world to develop effective vaccines.\"\n\nHowever, the government said if there were strong signs of a growth in infections, relaxations may need to be slowed, paused or in the worst case, reversed.\n\nAndrew RT Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, criticised the timing of the publication.\n\n\"The Welsh government have quietly published this document late on a Friday night clearly to avoid scrutiny.\n\n\"And I can understand why. This isn't a roadmap out of lockdown to recovery that gives confidence to businesses and people across Wales.\n\n\"What the people of Wales need right now is a plan. That's why we would have published a roadmap, with windows of opportunity, showing a clear path to the light at the end the Covid tunnel.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"We have a situation in Wales where businesses often don't know until the last minute if they're going to be able to open.\n\n\"Even with this revised guidance, it is not clear what criteria need to be met for lifting of some restrictions.\n\n\"The balance between providing hope and raising false expectations is a fine line, but this uncertainty and lack of ability to forward plan even by a few weeks is making this more challenging for the public and for businesses.\"", "As I write, nine members of the Scottish Parliament are still in a virtual meeting, discussing, voting, likely indeed arguing, over their conclusions on the future of the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nTheir inquiry is part of the machinations of a long running dispute between one of the most successful political duos this country has seen for decades, as the first minister and her predecessor, and very much former friend, have come to blows. Remind yourself what the very sorry saga is all about here.\n\nWhat we know from inside that committee room is that the MSPs have voted by a margin of one vote, 5-4, that Nicola Sturgeon misled them.\n\nBefore we see the final report, which may not come for a while, it's hard to know what caveats they have applied, precisely what the circumstances are that they describe. The details will matter.\n\nMs Sturgeon's team is already trying to dismiss the findings as a partisan attack, a predictable political play from a committee of MSPs, designed to damage the first minister, whose popularity they envy, who has been almost untouchable for so long.\n\nThe findings they really fear are from the separate Hamilton Inquiry, being carried out by an independent lawyer in to whether she broke the rules that govern ministers' behaviour.\n\nIf she's found to have done that, convention suggests she would have to resign.\n\nIt is clear that Nicola Sturgeon has no intention of giving into opposition demands out there to get her to quit on the basis of the MSPs' conclusions.\n\nOf course this is intensely political, it's not just about who said what, when and where.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave evidence to the committee earlier this month\n\nBut a public finding from a parliamentary committee that she misled them can't just be brushed away.\n\nIt's a serious accusation from a group of senior politicians after an investigation that looked at thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nIt's a huge distraction just before the official start of vital Scottish elections. It underlines the bitter lines drawn inside the SNP during this saga.\n\nAnd it's damaging to the reputation of one of the country's most important politicians, whose personal standing is key not just to what happens in Scotland, but what happens to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe SNP has been all powerful under Ms Sturgeon's leadership. And her personal profile has been a vital part of creating a powerful political sense, although importantly never a certainty, that another referendum on Scottish independence was somehow inevitable.\n\nThe SNP hope to hold another referendum on independence\n\nIf the SNP clinches a majority in May, it's her intention to use that to claim a mandate for another ballot. (Remember, it is also the UK government's firm intention to say no, which is, as things stand, its legal right.)\n\nBut in turn, anything that tarnishes her, could damage the SNP's standing in those May elections.\n\nAnd anything that harms her credibility, chips away at the sometimes lazy political sentiment, that the events of the last few years have set Scotland firmly on a path out of the UK.\n\nThe arguments of a group of politicians won't settle all of this.\n\nBut what they decide is one part of the overall wrangle over the future of the union itself.", "No relaxing of rules in Switzerland for at least four weeks\n\nThe Swiss government says there will be no relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for at least another four weeks. There had been tentative plans to allow bars and restaurants to open their outdoor terraces next week, and to allow small cultural events - but today the government has said the situation remains too risky. Cases have been rising again over the past two weeks, and at least 80% of all new cases are the more infectious B117 (UK) variant. The government says the limit on private gatherings will be raised from five to 10, but is warning families to follow strict distancing and hygiene rules, and to enjoy Easter outside if possible. It also advises people to take advantage of the new mass testing system, which is free to all, before meeting friends and relatives. The government believes the criteria for relaxation of restrictions must include not just falling cases, hospitalisations, and R value, but that all risk groups are vaccinated. Switzerland has so far vaccinated about 12% of its population of 8.6 million.", "The UK death rate during the second wave of the pandemic was not the worst in Europe - but it remained one of the 10 worst-affected countries.\n\nBy the end of June 2020, the UK had the highest excess mortality in Europe, according to figures from the ONS.\n\nBut by December it had been overtaken by Poland, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.\n\nNevertheless, the UK had one of the highest excess death rates among people under the age of 65 in 2020 at 7.7%.\n\nExcess mortality is the number of deaths by any cause that happen over and above the average for that time of year.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's separate daily UK coronavirus figures show the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test are continuing to fall.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported a further 101 deaths and 4,802 cases, according to the data. Last Friday, 175 deaths and 6,609 cases were recorded.\n\nThe UK saw 7% more deaths than normally expected during 2020. Within the UK, England's death rate was 8% above expected levels across the whole year, Scotland's was 6%, Northern Ireland 5% and Wales 4%.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics figures cover up to 18 December so do not include deaths from this year. About a third of the UK's Covid deaths have happened since then.\n\nOnly Bulgaria recorded a higher rate for under-65s - 12.3% - among the countries analysed by the ONS.\n\nDr Annie Campbell, from the ONS, said the figures showed the pandemic had not \"exclusively\" affected the oldest age groups in the UK.\n\nFor deaths among all age groups Poland ended 2020 with the highest rate (11.6% above the five-year average), followed by Spain (10.6%) and Belgium (9.7%).\n\nEngland ranked seventh on this list (7.8%) with the UK eighth (7.2%).\n\nAll-cause mortality allows countries to be compared more easily, even if they record Covid-19 deaths in different ways. It also reflects the indirect impact of the pandemic, such as deaths from other causes that might be related to delayed access to treatment.\n\nThe figures also take account of the average age of a country's population and the average level of deaths in recent years.\n\nMeanwhile, separate ONS figures suggest infection levels have continued to decrease across England and Wales but have \"levelled off\" in Northern Ireland and increased in Scotland.\n\nAn estimated one in 335 people in the UK had Covid-19 in the week to 13 March, according to the figures, down from one in 280 last week.\n\nIn England, the figure is at its lowest since the week to 24 September, when the estimate stood at one in 470.\n\nThe ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, also show:\n\nThe falls in England were driven by falls in the West Midlands, the East, South West and London, the ONS said. The rest of England has seen little change in infection rates and there are hints of an increase in the East Midlands.\n\nThe ONS said infections among secondary aged children had decreased and \"appear to be levelling\" for primary aged children.\n\nHowever, it said the figures were from the first week since schools returned in England and therefore it was too early to say whether this had influenced infection rates.\n\nThe latest R number - which represents the average number people each infected person passes the virus on to - is between 0.6 and 0.9, according to the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nLast week the figure was estimated at between 0.6 and 0.8.\n\nWhen the figure is above one, an outbreak can grow exponentially, but when it is below one, it means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to receive his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reassuring the public it was safe.\n\nSeveral European countries are to resume using the AstraZeneca jab after the European Medicines Agency confirmed it was \"safe and effective\".\n\nThe regulator reviewed the vaccine amid fears about blood clots, but said it was \"not associated\" with an increased risk of clots and the benefits outweighed any risks.", "Some 1,200 people are said to be in intensive care in hospitals across Paris\n\nThe French capital is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave.\n\nSome 21 million people in 16 areas of France will be placed under the measures from midnight on Friday.\n\nThese measures will not be as strict as the previous lockdown, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, with people allowed to exercise outdoors.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 35,000 new infections within the past 24 hours.\n\nMr Castex said a \"third wave\" of infections in the country was looking increasingly likely.\n\nThe situation in Paris is particularly worrying with 1,200 people in intensive care there, more than at the peak of the second wave in November, Health Minister Olivier Véran said.\n\nUnder the new measures, non-essential businesses will be forced to close, but schools will remain open, along with hairdressers if they follow a \"particular sanitary protocol\".\n\nGovernment spokesman Gabriel Attal stressed there would be differences with the two earlier lockdowns and said further details would be given of which business could stay open or would have to shut.\n\nPeople will be allowed to exercise outdoors within 10km (6 miles) of their home and are not allowed to travel to other parts of the country unless they have a valid reason. Those in the affected areas will have to fill out a form to explain why they have left their homes.\n\nThere is a weary resignation about Paris, as people prepare for another four weeks of tedium. Yes, we know this third lockdown won't be quite as bad as the second - which was itself a lighter version of the first. But still.\n\nAnother month of bits of paper for the police; another month of having to justify a trip to the supermarket; another month without meaningful social contact. It's enough to drive you to distraction.\n\nFrance's SNCF train company reported a surge in bookings ahead of the new lockdown\n\nExcept it hasn't. In general, most Parisians simply knuckle under. Those who can are leaving by train or car, but because schools are staying open, most families will stick it out in the city.\n\nEveryone's made the calculation. The long Easter weekend in two weeks is a bust. But the Paris school holidays start on 17 April - exactly when the lockdown is supposed to end.\n\nThat's the light that will keep people going. Spring break.\n\nAs well as the greater Paris region, the northern Hauts-de-France, Seine-Maritime and Eure areas will go under lockdown as well as the Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera.\n\nFrance's nationwide curfew will remain in place. However, it will begin an hour later at 19:00 (18:00 GMT), taking into account the longer hours of daylight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFears of a third wave come as the French government faces criticism for its slow vaccine rollout.\n\nFrom Friday, France will resume vaccinating using the AstraZeneca jab following the EMA's announcement that it was fit for use. Mr Castex said he would be getting the vaccine straight away to prove that it was OK.\n\nFrance had suspended the jab after a number of people in Europe reported blood clots developing after the vaccine was administered.\n\nA survey conducted just as the suspension was announced found that only 20% of the French have confidence in AstraZeneca.", "Annabelle Smith was offered her \"dream role\" after appearing on national radio\n\nA woman made redundant three times during the pandemic has found her \"dream role\" after calling into a radio phone-in.\n\nAnnabelle Smith, 29, lost her job as a marketing manager in March, a property company role in May and finally as an assistant gym manager in December.\n\nAfter calling a careers advice panel on BBC Radio 5 Live she was offered a marketing job by one of the experts.\n\nHer new employer said she liked Ms Smith's \"energy and tenacity\".\n\n\"When you're unemployed you're looking for a job as a survival route, not as a stepping stone,\" Ms Smith said.\n\nShe was \"despondent\" after successfully researching, applying and interviewing for jobs only to lose them when a new round of lockdown restrictions kicked in.\n\n\"It got to the point where I was being rejected from jobs I'm overqualified for or being invited to trial days being told I've 'exceeded expectations' but not been given the job.\"\n\nWith bills to pay on her flat in Leeds, and instant job rejections leaving her demoralised, Ms Smith, who had previously spoken to BBC News, shared her story with the radio show.\n\nOne of the the panellists, Catherine Shuttleworth, runs marketing agency Get Savvy, which is also based in Leeds.\n\nShe said she was impressed with Ms Smith's \"energy and tenacity\" on the radio.\n\n\"I wanted to help her out and give her some advice but as we were talking I found out about her experience and what we were looking for,\" she said.\n\n\"A vacant position turned up and it matched. It seemed like an opportunity.\"\n\nAfter an interview and formal job offer, Ms Smith has started her \"dream role\" as an account manager at the agency.\n\n\"It was surreal,\" she said. \"Neither of us knew we were going to be on the show. It was almost fate.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has announced the first stages of its plans to get ultra-fast broadband to the remotest of homes in the UK.\n\nOriginally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85% coverage in November.\n\nThe budget remains at £5bn - but only £1.2bn of that will be made available up to 2024.\n\nThe infrastructure build should start in 2022, the government said.\n\nThe first to benefit will be homes and businesses in Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley.\n\nThe next areas are expected to be Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nA former voucher scheme is also being relaunched to provide more immediate help to those struggling with poor broadband coverage, with up to £210m being made available.\n\nIt is expected that commercial deployments of gigabit-capable fibre networks will reach more than 70% of premises by the end of 2025, without government intervention.\n\nThe government has said that reaching the final 1% of homes in very remote areas could be prohibitively expensive.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described Project Gigabit as \"the rocket boost that we need to get lightning-fast broadband to all areas of the country\".\n\nThe trade organisation techUK has also welcomed the news.\n\nAnd speaking on the BBC's Today programme, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Oliver Dowden said: \"We've already made tremendous progress with Project Gigabit - our national mission to get everyone in the country the fastest broadband on the planet.\n\n\"We've gone from around 9% coverage in 2019 to 40% now - I'm confident we'll get to 60% by the end of the year.\n\n\"The challenge is the last 20%, which can't be delivered commercially - and that's what our plans being outlined today are all about.\"\n\nHe reiterated the watered-down plans to reach \"at least 85% of the country by 2025\".\n\n\"I think we will be able to go faster than that still - and the prime minister and I are meeting with telecoms companies again.\n\n\"Basically, we have the money to provide that subsidy, it's about the capacity in the telecoms market to deliver it, because remember these are very remote areas.\n\nYesterday BT said it would \"build like fury\" to roll out full-fibre internet connections, following new rules announced by the UK's telecoms regulator Ofcom.\n\nThe major broadband networks have been pressing the government to make clear how it planned to allocate the public money it's set aside for Project Gigabit, so they'll be relieved to get some detail.\n\nBut it's still clear that the plan to put rural Britain in the broadband fast lane is behind schedule.\n\nAt the 2019 election, the manifesto promise was to give every home and business a Gigabit connection by the end of 2025. Last November that target was cut to 85% of premises, with just £1.2bn available in the short term.\n\nNow that money is beginning to flow, but with Openreach's chief executive emphasising the need for speedy decisions, it seems there's not complete confidence that even the more limited target will be hit.\n\nThe issue was a key manifesto commitment for the Conservatives at the last general election, when they promised to \"bring full fibre and gigabit capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025\".\n\nThe subject is the topic of frequent questions by Conservative MPs at PMQs - highlighting how much of an important issue it is for them and their constituents.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake says that having promised to 'level up' and increase opportunity for parts of the UK previously left behind and under-funded, this policy is seen as a key part of that agenda for the government.", "Bennylyn Burke was last seen at her South Gloucestershire home on 17 February\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter Jellica have discovered two bodies in Dundee.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the bodies were found concealed within a house in the city's Troon Avenue.\n\nIt followed \"extensive inquiries\" by detectives and forensic experts.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place. However relatives of Ms Burke, 25, from South Gloucestershire, have been informed of the development.\n\nPost-mortem examinations will be carried out to establish the causes of death.\n\nThe house on Troon Avenue was cordoned off\n\nPolice at the property in Troon Avenue, Dundee\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, of Police Scotland's major investigation team, said: \"This is a significant development in what has been a particularly challenging inquiry for everyone involved.\n\n\"Bennylyn's family have been informed of this development and we will continue to support them at this difficult time as our investigation continues.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in this investigation are with them at this time.\"\n\nDet Supt Mackie thanked the local community for its co-operation in what he said was a \"large and complex\" police operation involving many specialist resources.\n\nOfficers first attended the property at about 15:20 on Friday, 5 March - four days after Ms Burke and two children had been reported missing from South Gloucestershire.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said Ms Burke had last been seen at her home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, on 17 February.\n\nTributes to the mother and daughter have been left in the street\n\nThe second child reported missing has been traced and is being supported.\n\nLast week Andrew Innes, 50, appeared in court on 8 March charged with the murder of Ms Burke and Jellica.\n\nHe is accused of killing the mother and daughter at his home in Dundee.\n\nMr Innes made no plea and was remanded in custody following an appearance in private at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nHe made a second appearance in court on Tuesday, with the case being fully committed for trial.", "The Queen and Duchess of Cornwall have thanked volunteers for supporting people during the pandemic, saying they have been a \"great help\".\n\nThey took part in a video call to thank members of the Royal Voluntary Service to mark one year since it launched the NHS Volunteer Responders Scheme.\n\nThe Queen, patron of the RVS, said they had done \"wonderful work\", including delivering books to people.\n\nNearly one million volunteers have been recruited to the scheme.\n\nThey have helped with tasks such as picking up prescriptions and doing food shopping for those shielding and unable to leave their homes, as well as taking part in check-up calls.\n\n\"I think it's wonderful work,\" said the Queen. \"Thank you to everybody - and all the others too who have been volunteering. It has been a great help.\"\n\nOne of those on the call was retired police officer Tracy Clarke, who spoke about her work with the RVS Gateshead Home Library Service. She told them that the delivery of books had become a lifeline during the pandemic for those who loved reading.\n\nThe Queen said this must have been a great comfort and \"very helpful\", as \"books are very important to people\".\n\nCamilla, who is president of the RVS, told the volunteers: \"Thank you all very much for all you've done throughout the year, throughout the pandemic. We couldn't have done without you.\"\n\nThe call was hosted by RVS chief executive Catherine Johnstone (top row, middle) and included volunteers Anderson (middle row, left) and Tracy (middle row, right)\n\nRVS chief executive Catherine Johnstone, who hosted the call, told the Queen and duchess of her pride at how the UK had stepped forward to volunteer during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOne of the volunteers the royal pair spoke to was Anderson Akponeware, from Middlesbrough, who has also been studying for his PhD and home-schooling during the past year.\n\nHe told them: \"People have been living in their own small bubbles, and I wouldn't have known how isolated those small bubbles could be until I took on this role.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has been taking part in check-in calls with members of the public during the pandemic\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including Camilla, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Countess of Wessex, have taken part in RVS \"check in and chat\" calls with those living alone or shielding during the pandemic.\n\nAhead of this week's call, Camilla said she had had \"lots of happy conversations\" with Doris Winfield, 86, who she met through the scheme and who died earlier this year. The pair were able to meet in person last year at the Royal Voluntary Service Lunch Club in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is in regular contact with 85-year-old Len Gardner from Batley, Yorkshire, who she first spoke to last May through the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme, while the Countess of Wessex has been speaking to 89-year-old Edna Farley from Liverpool every fortnight.\n\nThe Queen has been patron of the RVS since 1952, when it was known as the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS).\n\nMeanwhile, Clarence House has said Camilla and the Prince of Wales will travel to Greece next week for an official two-day visit.\n\nDuring their visit to Athens, arranged at the request of the government, they will attend Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations, a reception at the National Gallery of Greece, a wreath-laying ceremony and a traditional military parade.", "Tyrone and Alina appear to share a kiss but they are played here by a real-life couple\n\nWhen Tyrone and Alina stole a kiss in Friday's episode of Coronation Street, many viewers will have been rightly left wondering how they filmed it following social distancing guidelines.\n\nActors Alan Halsall and Ruxandra Porojnicu were filmed talking before their kiss, but did not get within two metres of one another, ITV bosses said.\n\nInstead, regular Corrie extra Alex Mulvaney and his wife Hannah then stepped in for the romantic moment.\n\n\"My agent said that Coronation Street needed extras who were in a support bubble, and because I used to be an extra three times a week and they knew half of my family had done extra work on the show, it worked out perfectly,\" explained Mulvaney.\n\n\"My partner Hannah hadn't done any extra work before, but my agent knew she had dark hair like Alina's so I asked her if she wanted to do it,\" he added.\n\nAlex Mulvaney and his wife Hannah are body doubles with a difference\n\n\"Hannah was nervous at first, but she is a big Coronation Street fan. I had been on set many times before, and I was able to talk her through what to expect - she was a bit star-struck when she saw the actors.\"\n\nLike most other shows, Coronation Street stopped filming during the first national lockdown in March 2020 and resumed filming in a restricted manner several months later.\n\nPorojnicu, who plays Alina, said the (non) kissing scene was a \"challenge\" but one she \"really enjoyed\".\n\nAlan Halsall and Ruxandra Porojnicu keep their distance during filming\n\nAlthough their characters look like they are sitting together, the actors were filmed having the conversation separately. The footage was composited together during post-production, giving the illusion they were next to each other.\n\nThe design department taped a pair of sunglasses onto a telescopic radio aerial to ensure the actors had the correct eye line, so they would appear to be looking into each other's eyes.\n\n\"It was difficult not being able to look into each other's eyes for the emotion of the scene but Coronation Street came up with a clever way to cheat that with sunglasses on an aerial,\" the actress said.\n\n\"Everything that's been said in the scene leads to the kiss which is very important for Alina because it is the first time that she has said out loud to Tyrone that she is falling for him.\"\n\nProducer Iain MacLeod praised the popular programme's writers, cast and crew for having \"cleverly worked around\" restrictions, for the best part of a difficult year.\n\nWhen the characters Debbie and Kevin were trapped in a fridge, the actors were tested for Covid beforehand and were placed in a bubble for the three days of filming, as were Alya, Yasmeen and Geoff for the dramatic rooftop scenes for the 60th anniversary show in December.\n\n\"We have therefore told the same stories throughout the pandemic that we would have told in 'normal' times,\" said MacLeod.\n\n\"But it just felt wrong to tell a story of an illicit liaison, where someone betrays their partner based on lust and sexual attraction, only for us not to see any of the chemistry and closeness.\n\n\"Hence the smoke and mirrors here.\"\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. Boris Johnson said England's roadmap out of lockdown will not be disrupted by vaccine supply issues\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, Boris Johnson has said, adding he will be receiving it himself on Friday.\n\nThe benefits of the vaccine preventing Covid far outweighed any risks, the prime minister said, as he urged people to take up the jab when offered.\n\nIt comes after UK and EU regulators said there was no evidence the Covid vaccine caused blood clots.\n\nMr Johnson also said delays to vaccine supply next month would not affect England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\n\"The progress along the road to freedom remains unchecked,\" he told a Downing Street briefing, after NHS England warned vaccine supplies would be reduced in April.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, told the briefing the Covid vaccines were \"very effective\" against what remained a \"very dangerous disease for many people\".\n\nHe added that there were \"real issues that we always have to think about with all drugs\", but they were \"so much smaller than the benefits of getting the vaccine\".\n\n\"The risk-benefit is really strongly in favour of getting vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nRegulators have received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot occurring in the brain, prompting some European countries to pause rollout.\n\nBut earlier, the MHRA and the EMA said people can have confidence in the vaccine's benefits and should get immunised.\n\nFrance and Italy have since announced that they will resume using the jab.\n\nA phrase used repeatedly today is the risk-benefit ratio. But what does that mean?\n\nThe EU and UK regulators were unable to completely rule out the vaccine as a cause of rare blood clots that have been seen.\n\nBecause the clots are so rare, it is hard to tell if they are above the levels you would normally expect without vaccination.\n\nBut even if a link is proven - and there is no suggestion it will be - the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks.\n\nThere have been 18 cases of this rare blood clot out of 20 million vaccinations in Europe. That's about one in a million.\n\nSomeone who is over the age of 75 and becomes infected with Covid has a one in nine chance of dying.\n\nEven in younger age groups the benefits are clear. Someone in their 40s has a one in 1,000 risk of dying.\n\nThe vaccines have been proved to be highly effective. They will save lives, rather than cost them.\n\nAlso during the briefing, Mr Johnson confirmed that supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been affected by a delayed shipment from the Serum Institute of India.\n\nAfter opening up appointments to all over-50s on Wednesday, the NHS in England was then told not to offer jabs to younger age groups throughout April.\n\n\"There is a delay as I have described, as there are very frequently in vaccine rollout programmes,\" he said.\n\nHe put it down to \"various technical reasons\" and said the Indian government \"hasn't stopped any export\".\n\nThe Serum Institute of India is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines and is making one billion doses of the AstraZeneca jab this year for low and middle-income countries.\n\nEarlier this month, it agreed to supply 10 million doses for the UK, but only half of these will arrive this month with the rest held up by four weeks.\n\nThe Serum Institute said: \"Five million doses had been delivered a few weeks ago to the UK and we will try to supply more later, based on the current situation and the requirement for the government immunisation programme in India.\"\n\nIts chief executive, Adar Poonawalla, has previously called for patience over global vaccine deliveries, saying the company has been \"directed to prioritise the huge needs of India\".\n\nHe has also raised concerns about raw material shortages, attributing this to US export bans on specific items needed to make vaccines, such as specialised bags and filters.", "Emma Homer said the attack had left her with \"anxiety, insomnia and stress\"\n\nA probationary police officer who assaulted a woman in a \"terrifying\" attack has been given a curfew, prompting criticism he was not jailed.\n\nWest Midlands Police PC Oliver Banfield grabbed and manhandled Emma Homer last July while drunk. He has been suspended and faces disciplinary action.\n\nThe investigating force has apologised for delays in the prosecution.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman wrote on Twitter: \"Must have been terrifying for her... but no prison sentence.\"\n\nMs Homer said the attack had left her with \"anxiety, insomnia and stress\" and her family said they were \"disappointed\" with 25-year-old Banfield's sentence, a night-time curfew.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court, CCTV was shown in which Banfield could be seen shouting at Ms Homer.\n\nHe is seen grabbing her and forcing her to the floor during the assault in the early hours of 26 July in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.\n\nIn her victim personal statement which was read out in court, she said she thought he was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\".\n\nDescribing the assault, Ms Homer, 37, said: \"I often ask myself if the impact of the attack would have been so severe if my assailant was not a police officer.\n\n\"During the assault as I struggled to get to safety, I was sure this drunk man was fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy.\n\n\"To be verbally abused with misogynistic slang, grabbed by the neck, and forced to the floor on a dark road by a drunk man a foot taller than me is terrifying, but to then find that he was a police officer shook my belief system to its core.\"\n\nShe said: \"I considered myself a confident, relaxed, and independent wife and mother, but since the attack I live with constant anxiety.\n\n\"I have changed simple things like my route home, and I have had to ask my family not to discuss the case as it sends me into a panic attack - indeed whenever the subject is brought up I feel a rush of anxiety and a tightening at my throat.\"\n\nWarwickshire Police said it had personally apologised to Ms Homer for delays in the investigation.\n\nInitially the CPS said there was not enough evidence to bring a prosecution. But after Ms Homer appealed, further inquiries were made and Banfield was charged.\n\nWarwickshire's Chief Superintendent Ben Smith said the force recognised \"the strength of feeling that has come about as a result of Sarah Everard's tragic death and understand the concerns relating to violence against women and girls nationally\".\n\nAnd he added: \"We acknowledge that, due to internal process errors, the initial response to the report of the assault was not as swift as it should have been and an apology has been issued with regards to this.\"\n\nBanfield pleaded guilty to assault by beating at a hearing in January and at Friday's hearing received a 14-week curfew order banning him from leaving his house between 19:00 and 07:00. He was also ordered to pay his victim £500 compensation as well as a victim surcharge and court costs.\n\nMs Homer's family said a night-time curfew during lockdown was \"not really a punishment at all\".\n\nCriticising the non-custodial sentence in a tweet, Ms Harman wrote: \"He continues in post. WMPolice (West Midlands Police) must review.\n\n\"This is proof, if any needed, that system fails women and protects men.\"\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Police said Banfield, of Bidford-on-Avon, had been suspended from duty and would now face charges of gross misconduct.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine said: \"Our role is to protect the public, who should be able to trust us. We therefore hold all our officers to the highest standards and we will take appropriate action against anyone whose actions fall below what is expected.\"\n\nThe West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson said he had asked Chief Constable Sir David Thompson to brief him on steps taken by the force.\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 sprawling Waterside complex opened in the 1990s.\n\nBritish Airways will let staff split their working lives between the head office and home in another example of big firms offering flexible employment.\n\nThe airline is also exploring the sale of its huge Waterside HQ near Heathrow Airport, where 2,000 people worked before the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"It's not clear if such a large office will play a part in our future,\" BA said in a message to staff.\n\nThe firm is in a race to cut costs after the virus led travel to collapse.\n\nBA, part of the IAG airline group that also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus, has shed more than 10,000 jobs and is raising billions of pounds of extra cash from shareholders to shore up its finances.\n\nStuart Kennedy, the airline's director of people, said in his message to staff that one of the very few positives to come out of the pandemic was how well staff had coped with working from home.\n\n\"We'll want to consider what the ideal office layout for the future will be. Perhaps it's less fixed desks and more casual meeting areas, and we need to consider colleague wellbeing, too,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he emphasised that plans to sell Waterside were still at a very early stage. It is thought the airline has only recently hired property consultants to evaluate options.\n\nIn a separate statement to the BBC, BA said on Thursday: \"The global pandemic has shown us that many of our colleagues enjoy working remotely and want to continue, and this has accelerated our approach to offering more agile and flexible ways of working.\n\n\"Our aim is to find a hybrid working model that suits our business, blending the best of office and remote working for our people. We've also re-structured our business to emerge from the crisis and are considering whether we still have the need for such a large headquarters building.\"\n\nThe move to hybrid working after the pandemic is growing.\n\nThe Nationwide building society has indicated that it does not intend to force people to return to the office if they have been successfully able to work from home during the pandemic.\n\nOil giant BP has told office-based staff they can spend two days a week working from home after lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nAnd banks HSBC and Lloyds are among many other companies looking into split working arrangements.\n\nEarlier this month the boss of IWG, which provides office space across the world, told the BBC he expected hybrid working \"to become the norm\" for many companies.\n\nMark Dixon said: \"It works for companies, because it's a lot cheaper. It's also much, much better for the environment.\"", "Former Crewe manager Dario Gradi has apologised for \"not recognising signs of abuse\" carried out at the club by paedophile Barry Bennell.\n\nBennell - who worked at Crewe in the 1980s and '90s - is serving a 34-year sentence after being convicted of child sexual abuse five times.\n\nOn Wednesday an independent review found Gradi, Crewe's manager from 1983 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2011, \"should have done more\" to investigate concerns about Bennell, but said he was not involved in a cover-up.\n\nIt is the first time Gradi has issued an apology on the matter and came after the Offside Trust, a support organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in football, called for him to be stripped of his MBE.\n\n\"I wish to express my deepest sympathy for the survivors and their families,\" Gradi, 79, said.\n\n\"I sincerely and personally regret that the harm being caused to these young people was not discovered at the time.\n\n\"I apologise for not recognising any signs of abuse at the time.\"\n\nThe review, led by Clive Sheldon QC and commissioned by the Football Association in 2016, focused on the abuse of children within football between 1970 and 2005.\n\nOn Thursday, League One Crewe Alexandra apologised to all the survivors of Bennell's abuse and acknowledged \"more could have been done to monitor\" him.\n\nGradi's statement on Friday added: \"I am of course satisfied with the findings of the review in which it is acknowledged by Clive Sheldon QC that I did not act improperly towards children at any time and that I was unaware of the unlawful activities of Barry Bennell.\"\n\nSheldon said that when working with the club's former youth coach Bennell, Gradi \"was not aware of any allegations of abuse by Bennell and did not see anything done by Bennell\".\n\nThe report added: \"But what he did know was rumours about Bennell and he did know that boys were regularly staying over with Bennell, and I've concluded that Dario Gradi ought to have monitored what was going on, and he ought to have spoken to the boys who were staying with Bennell to see if they were OK. Had he done that it may well be that they would have told him of the abuse that they were suffering.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Offside Trust released a response to Gradi's statement, saying that \"more than three decades late, his three sentences of apology are welcome\" but criticising \"six paragraphs of self-exoneration and excuses\".\n\n\"After decades of being lied to and having the truth covered-up, survivors deserve better,\" the statement said.\n\nIt added that there is a \"world of difference\" between Crewe and Gradi's \"self-serving\" response to the review compared to that of the FA and most clubs who were found to have employed staff that abused young players.\n\nGradi denies he is banned from football\n\nGradi - who has always denied wrongdoing - said it was \"disappointing\" sections of the review \"have been taken out of context by the media in a series of soundbites\".\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham said on Wednesday that Gradi was \"effectively banned for life\" from football, but could not go into the reasons.\n\nThe FA's director of legal and governance, Polly Handford, said it was \"for safeguarding reasons\" but that was \"as far as we can go\".\n\nHowever, Gradi has denied he is banned from all football-related activity.\n\n\"I would like to make it clear that this is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"I am suspended indefinitely from certain specified activities with players under the age of 18 years and whilst I do not agree with it, I understand how the decision was arrived at.\"\n\nGradi was suspended in 2016 pending an FA investigation and retired from his position as director of football at Crewe three years later.\n\nThe report stated Gradi \"did not consider a person putting their hands down another's trousers to be an assault\", but that he changed his mind after Sheldon insisted it was.\n\nGradi said he was \"uncertain of the definition of what can amount to an assault and when Mr Sheldon clarified this I corrected myself\".\n\n\"Under no circumstances do I condone or excuse the behaviour of placing hands beneath the clothing of another or believe that it is anything other than wrong and unlawful,\" he said.\n\nGradi also said it is \"of note\" Sheldon's review did not find he failed to report allegations against Chelsea coach Eddie Heath in 1975, although it said he should have done more.\n\nA previous report accused Gradi - then a coach at Chelsea - of failing to tell more senior club staff about an allegation regarding the sexual conduct of Heath, brought to him by the parent of a young player.\n\n\"Although this was almost 50 years ago, I have always maintained that I took the matter further in reporting it,\" Gradi said.\n\n\"We now live in very different times and education and information regarding risk to young persons has significantly advanced, but I welcome the recommendations of the review.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon has said she stands by \"every word\" of her evidence to the Alex Salmond committee amid renewed pressure from political opponents.\n\nA spokesperson for the first minister accused the committee of politically-motivated smears and rejected some of the findings which have emerged from the unpublished report.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for Ms Sturgeon to resign.\n\nThe committee's convener has expressed \"dismay\" at the leaks to the media.\n\nThe full report is due to be published on Tuesday.\n\nThose parts which are critical of Ms Sturgeon were agreed by five votes to four, with the SNP members on the cross-party committee voting against.\n\nThe committee said it was \"hard to believe\" that Ms Sturgeon did not know of concerns of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Salmond before November 2017 - which is when she says she was first alerted to any issues.\n\nThe BBC understands that the report will say that if Ms Sturgeon did have such knowledge, then she should have acted upon it.\n\nThe report also concluded that Ms Sturgeon gave an \"inaccurate account\" of what happened when she met Mr Salmond at her home on 2 April 2018, and had misled the committee.\n\nThe report says permanent secretary Leslie Evans should have been informed earlier\n\nAnd the committee said it was concerned that Ms Sturgeon did not notify the government's permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, about that meeting until 6 June 2018.\n\nThe report says: \"She should have made the permanent secretary aware as soon as possible after the 2 April 2018 meeting, at which point she should have confirmed she would cease contact with Alex Salmond.\"\n\nThe report is also expected to be highly critical of Ms Evans.\n\nA spokesperson for the first minister said on Friday that she had told the truth to the committee, and stood by \"every word of her evidence\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the suggestion that the committee had found it \"hard to believe\" that she did not previously know about allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Salmond was \"not supported by a single shred of evidence\".\n\n\"On this, the committee appears to have resorted to baseless assertion, supposition and smear - that is not how serious parliamentary committees are supposed to work, and in behaving this way they are simply exposing their base political motives,\" said the statement.\n\nThe spokesperson also accused the committee of ignoring and suppressing evidence which supported Ms Sturgeon's evidence that she told Mr Salmond in April 2018 that she would not intervene on his behalf.\n\nHowever, the Scottish Conservatives say that if the first minister does not resign by Tuesday, they will seek to hold a vote of no confidence in her on Wednesday.\n\nThe party's Holyrood leader Ruth Davidson said: \"If Nicola Sturgeon has a shred of integrity, she should be considering her position. She has every opportunity to do the right thing and resign.\n\n\"No first minister is above the fundamental principles of honesty and trust. There is no question that Nicola Sturgeon has misled parliament and broken the promises she made to tell the truth.\n\n\"The SNP's erratic outburst today against the committee shows the panicked spiral they are now in.\"\n\nAlex Salmond gave evidence to the committee last month\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not \"prejudge\" the outcome of the report\n\nBut he said that if the report found the first minister had misled parliament, and potentially broken the ministerial code, then it would be \"incredibly serious\".\n\n\"The code itself is clear, if the code has been breached the individual should resign,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the process had \"turned into a complete farce\", with \"party politics over-riding the public interest\".\n\nWithin a week, Holyrood will be on a break for the election and a six-week campaign for votes will be under way.\n\nWe know there will be arguments over coronavirus recovery and indyref2, but there will also be another major theme: truth and trust.\n\nThat debate will feed off the two reports due in the next few days on the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond.\n\nWhen the Holyrood committee publishes its findings on Tuesday, we know the opposition majority will conclude that Nicola Sturgeon gave them a misleading account, which the first minister denies.\n\nA separate independent investigation by Ireland's former prosecution chief, James Hamilton, will decide whether or not the first minister broke conduct rules and recommend sanctions, if required.\n\nThe Conservatives have already decided Ms Sturgeon lied to parliament and should resign, and they intend to hold a vote of no confidence in her on Wednesday if she does not quit.\n\nWith the continued support of the Scottish Greens, the first minister can survive what she regards as a nakedly political attempt to oust her and let the public decide whether she should remain in office.\n\nThere has never been a Holyrood election campaign curtain-raiser anything like this.\n\nThe committee's convener, SNP MSP Linda Fabiani, expressed her anger that \"accounts of the conclusions of the draft report\" had been leaked to the media.\n\n\"I am dismayed by the damage this may do to the value of the committee's work, which I have long hoped would improve the treatment of the complainers of sexual harassment,\" she said.\n\n\"The selective leaking of particular committee recommendations has shifted the focus away from these goals, and the recommendations which seek to achieve it, and onto party political terrain which will likely frustrate, not assist, the women at the heart of this.\"\n\nThe inquiry is examining the Scottish government's botched handling of sexual harassment complaints made against Mr Salmond by two female civil servants.\n\nThe former first minister was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following a judicial review, and was subsequently acquitted of sexual assault charges in a High Court trial.\n\nA separate inquiry into whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code is being carried out by James Hamilton, a senior Irish lawyer. He is also expected to publish his report in the coming days.", "There have been calls from tourism businesses for a firm reopening date\n\nA decision on whether Welsh tourism can reopen in time for Easter will not be made until \"the last moment\", the first minister has confirmed.\n\nSelf-contained holiday accommodation could reopen on 27 March if coronavirus case rates remain stable under Welsh government plans.\n\nTourism businesses have called for roadmap to allow them to prepare and for people to book trips.\n\nMr Drakeford said any confirmation would not be given until next week.\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh government's coronavirus briefing on Friday, Mr Drakeford said it was important \"to wait until the last moment you can\" before making and announcing decisions about easing lockdown, to see if case rates had changed.\n\n\"There are some parts of Wales where the position is not as good as we would like it to be,\" he said.\n\n\"People who follow the news will have seen overnight Paris has gone back into a lockdown again, so we've known all along how fast circumstances can change in coronavirus.\n\n\"That's why it's important to wait until the last moment you can in order to make these decisions because that way you have the best and latest data.\"\n\nSue Steadman started her business, Cadair View Lodge, in 2003 with her then husband.\n\nSue Steadman, who runs Cadair View Lodge in Snowdonia, said: \"Obviously it makes it more difficult. But we've had so much last-minute changes it's almost what we've come to expect.\"\n\n\"We've lost income, I haven't been paid since 2019 because everything I have has gone into running the business,\" she said.\n\n\"People need certainty. At the moment customers are debating whether or not to come thinking the pub won't be open, or the takeaway won't be available.\"\n\n\"We have a lot of regular guests who have all been very supportive. And they're looking forward to coming back,\" she said.\n\n\"The business has been running for 17 years, some of them have become like family. There have been first dates, proposals, and families brought to stay.\"\n\nHywel James Davies, who runs the South Wales Touring Park in Llanelli, said: \"I'm not sure that two days is enough time to prepare everything to open up but we'll cross our fingers and hope that everything will go to plan.\"\n\nSiblings Hywel and Cathrin run the site together on their farm\n\nMr Davies and his sister Cathrin have made the most of the lockdown by making improvements to the site for when customers come back.\n\n\"It's been very hard. But it's looking good this year, we're booked up,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to reopening to tell the truth. It's what we want, for people to come on their holidays and enjoy their stay with us.\"\n\nMr Drakeford also refused to rule out local lockdown restrictions in two hot spot areas in Wales, after a spike in cases.\n\nRates on Anglesey stand at 127.1 for every 100,000 people, and 147.5 in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThose higher levels of infection compare with an average falling rate for Wales of 43.7 per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Drakeford said the rise in cases in the communities was linked to \"household and social mixing\", and there were concerns people were not engaging with contact tracers.\n\nA Oxford-AstraZeneca shipment for Wales has been delayed by four weeks\n\nA delayed shipment from India to the UK could also impact the easing of lockdown, the first minister warned.\n\nAn estimated 250,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca doses due to arrive in Wales by mid-April are set to be delivered a month late.\n\nMr Drakeford said he could not pretend the delayed doses would \"have no affect at all\".\n\nFrom Monday garden centres will be allowed to reopen, and supermarkets to sell \"non-essential goods\", under slight easing of lockdown rules.\n\nMr Drakeford said he hoped more could be allowed - including outdoor children's activities and the reopening of castle grounds - in coming weeks if cases continued to fall.\n\n\"Of course our ability to lift restrictions is linked to the successful vaccination programme,\" he said.\n\n\"But our hope must be that we continue to see the position in Wales [as] stable and reducing, and that we will continue to have the headroom to lift restrictions in the way that we hope.\"\n\nHe said he was confident that no vaccine appointments would be cancelled due to the delay, but that the loss of such a large amount of doses would have an effect.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to mitigate the effect on appointments for people to get vaccinated, there are a number of different ways in which we are looking to do that,\" he said.\n\nReacting to the briefing, the Conservative group leader in the Senedd Andrew RT Davies said it was \"unfair\" for supermarkets to be allowed to sell non-essential goods, and called for the high street to reopen.\n\n\"If he feels it's safe for supermarkets why persecute the high street and say the high street can't do that?\" he said.\n\nMember of the Senedd for Ynys Mon Rhun ap Iorwerth said while he did not want to see his area placed under local lockdown again, the option was needed to stop case rates rising further.\n\nThe Plaid Cymru MS called for more support for people who were told to self-isolate in the area.", "Ms Sturgeon gave evidence to the inquiry in a marathon eight-hour session earlier this month\n\nA majority of MSPs on the Alex Salmond committee have said Nicola Sturgeon misled their inquiry, sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt is understood MSPs on the committee voted by five to four that the SNP leader had given them an inaccurate account.\n\nThe committee's final report is expected to be published next Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted she stands by all of the evidence she gave to the committee earlier this month.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has called for the first minister to resign.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon told Sky News: \"What has been clear is that opposition members of this committee made their minds up before I uttered a single word of evidence. Their public comments have made that clear.\n\n\"So this very partisan leak tonight before they've actually finalised the report is not that surprising.\n\n\"Let's wait and see the final report, but more importantly the question of whether or not I breached the ministerial code is being considered independently by James Hamilton and I hope and expect he will publish that report soon.\"\n\nMr Hamilton, a senior Irish lawyer, has been specifically examining whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code, which says that any minister who knowingly misleads parliament would be \"expected to offer their resignation\".\n\nHis inquiry is separate from the committee and is also expected to publish its report in the coming days.\n\nThe cross-party committee includes four SNP MSPs, two Conservatives, one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and independent Andy Wightman.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Parliament said the committee was still finalising its report, and it would not make any comment until it was published.\n\nMs Sturgeon and Mr Salmond - her predecessor as first minister and SNP leader - have both taken part in lengthy evidence sessions in front of the committee in recent weeks.\n\nMr Salmond claimed to have been the victim of a \"malicious scheme\" drawn up by figures within the SNP who are close to Ms Sturgeon.\n\nMr Salmond was Ms Sturgeon's political mentor, but the pair have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon told the inquiry that any suggestion there had been conspiracy were \"absurd\", and insisted she had not been out to \"get\" Mr Salmond.\n\nShe told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that Mr Salmond and his \"cronies\" In the \"old boys' club\" had been spinning \"conspiracy theories\" which opposition politicians had bought into.\n\nIt came after Conservative MP David Davis - a longstanding friend of Mr Salmond - used parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons to read out messages that he suggested showed a \"concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints\" against the former first minister.\n\nNicola Sturgeon did not intervene in the investigation into harassment complaints against Alex Salmond. The dispute is about whether or not she was ever prepared to.\n\nAlex Salmond claims she was and is backed up in that by his lawyer, Duncan Hamilton who went with him to see Nicola Sturgeon on 2 April 2018.\n\nNicola Sturgeon claims she made clear an intervention would not be possible, although she has also acknowledged that in trying to let Mr Salmond down gently she may not have been blunt enough.\n\nHer testimony is understood to be supported by written evidence from one of her colleagues, shared with the committee in private.\n\nThe opposition majority appears to have found Team Salmond's evidence more persuasive. SNP members refuse to accept Team Sturgeon has given a misleading account.\n\nWith the committee divided along party lines over the first minister's conduct, the conclusions of James Hamilton - the Irish lawyer who's independently examining the evidence - gain ever greater importance.\n\nSome MSPs on the committee - including the SNP MSP who chairs it - have accused the government of attempting to frustrate its work\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"All the evidence points to the fact that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament, misled the people of Scotland and has to resign.\n\n\"I have said for weeks that evidence against Nicola Sturgeon has been mounting, it has been growing and it is clear she has breached the ministerial code.\n\n\"You cannot continue as first minister of Scotland if you have misled Parliament and breached the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it would be \"incredibly serious\" if the committee concluded that the first minister had misled parliament and potentially breached the ministerial code.\n\nHe added: \"This is about the integrity of our Scottish Parliament and upholding standards in public life.\"", "Sgt Kam Hare was in charge of a team of officers in the Tactical Aid Unit on the night of the bombing\n\nA sergeant who tended to the injured in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing has told of his desperation and frustration at the lack of paramedics.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Sgt Kam Hare was in charge of a team of officers who entered the City Room 25 minutes after the attack, which killed 22 people.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how only three paramedics treated casualties in the foyer where the bomb exploded.\n\nSgt Hare said there were injured people \"who didn't have anyone with them\".\n\n\"I wouldn't say there were lots of people there, but the people who were there, everyone was doing something,\" he told the public inquiry into the attack.\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\nAn officer was captured on CCTV holding a first aid kit as he ran towards the bomb scene\n\nAfter entering the City Room, Sgt Hare said he and his fellow officers were becoming increasingly concerned that paramedics were not coming in to help.\n\n\"Minutes were going by, there were people there with lots of injuries. We needed paramedics with expertise and better equipment there as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry was told \"cleaning cloths or sponges\" were used as improvised bandages.\n\nSgt Hare spoke to the casualties to reassure them and was recorded on his body-worn camera saying to one person: \"We're getting ambulances and medics to you… just hang in there.\"\n\nMinutes later he was heard using an expletive and saying to a police officer that they \"need the... medics\".\n\nAt one stage an officer told him: \"They've [paramedics] just turned up but they're dealing with the ones outside.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nThe inquiry heard Sgt Hare and his team only had a small first aid box containing \"a few bandages and plasters\" when they ran into Victoria Station.\n\nHe said he had only received basic first-aid training, which did not include putting on tourniquets or triaging patients.\n\nWhen asked whether the emergency services worked well together in the City Room in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, Sgt Hare said: \"Those who were in the room were trying their best to communicate and doing whatever we could there.\"\n\nHe said he knew there were risks to him and his team from a secondary device but he said this risk was outweighed by the need to help those who were injured.\n\nSgt Hare also told the hearing that \"no training could have prepared us for what happened\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows lava flowing from the volcano south-west of Reykjavik in Iceland\n\nA volcano has erupted south-west of Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the country's meteorological office says.\n\nIt says the fissure is about 500-700 metres long (1,640-2,300ft) at Fagradalsfjall on Reykjanes peninsula. The last eruption there was some 800 years ago.\n\nIceland has recorded more than 40,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks.\n\nIn 2010 the eruption of another volcano at Eyjafjallajokull brought air traffic to a halt across Europe.\n\nHowever, the eruption of Fagradalsfjall is not expected to spew out much ash, so aviation should not suffer disruption.\n\nThe Icelandic Meteorological Office says the eruption of Fagradalsfjall began at about 20:45 GMT on Friday, and was later confirmed via webcams and satellite images.\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to survey the area, about 30km (19 miles) from Reykjavik.\n\nIt then sent first images of the lava snaking its way down after the eruption.\n\n\"I can see the glowing red sky from my window,\" said Rannveig Gudmundsdottir, who lives in Grindavik, 8 km (5 miles) from the eruption.\n\n\"Everyone here is getting into their cars to drive up there,\" she said, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 1.2 km from Fagradalsfjall just several hours earlier.\n\nIceland frequently experiences tremors as it straddles two tectonic plates, which are drifting in opposite directions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nEx-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been struck off the medical register permanently.\n\nThe sanction came a day after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled Freeman's fitness to practise was \"impaired by reason of his misconduct\".\n\nThe tribunal recently found Freeman guilty of ordering banned testosterone in 2011.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) said he ordered it \"knowing or believing\" it was to help dope an unnamed rider.\n\nFreeman had previously admitted 18 of 22 charges against him but denied the central charge about the purpose of the Testogel order.\n\nIn a statement following the ruling on Friday Dr Freeman said: \"I disagree vehemently with the determination of the tribunal.\n\n\"I have the right of appeal and will now consider that option with the benefit of further legal advice. No further statements will be issued before that process is completed.\"\n\nFreeman's QC Mary O'Rourke had said an appeal to the High Court was \"highly likely\".\n\nWhile the GMC investigates doctors and brings a case against them, MPTS tribunals make independent decisions about a doctor's fitness to practise.\n\nNeil Dalton, chair of the MPTS, said: \"The tribunal considered that Dr Freeman's behaviour is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.\n\n\"The tribunal has therefore determined that erasure is the only sufficient sanction which would protect patients, maintain public confidence in the profession and send a clear message to Dr Freeman, the profession and the public that his misconduct constituted behaviour unbefitting and incompatible with that of a registered doctor.\"\n• None The Fight of the Century - Ali v Frazier: 'From a friendly rivalry to an almost pathological hatred'", "Mexican police regularly travel in convoys, like this one in Michoacán state\n\nAt least 13 people have been killed in an ambush on a police convoy by a suspected criminal gang in central Mexico.\n\nThe victims were all police officers and agents from the state prosecutor's office, officials said.\n\nThe ambush happened at Coatepec Harinas, a municipality in the State of Mexico.\n\nImages posted on social media showed bullet-riddled police vehicles and bodies lying by the side of the road.\n\nNo group has so far said it carried out the attack.\n\nThe State of Mexico, which borders the capital Mexico City, is home to various criminal gangs and one of the most violent regions in the country.\n\nLast year, more than 500 police officers were murdered in Mexico.\n\nIn the latest incident, the convoy had been patrolling the area to combat armed gangs operating in the area, police said.\n\nThe region is one of the most violent in Mexico\n\nEight of the victims were state police and five were officers assigned to the state prosecutor's office.\n\nRodrigo Martínez-Celis, state security minister, called the attack an \"an affront to the Mexican state\".\n\n\"We will respond with all force and support of the law,\" he told reporters.\n\nMexico's National Guard and units of the armed forces have been deployed to search for the attackers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Mexican cartels are taking advantage of Covid-19", "DJ Jo Whiley says she \"couldn't be happier\" that her sister is due to have her first Covid-19 vaccination this weekend.\n\nHer sister Frances, 53, who has a learning disability and diabetes, was left \"fighting for her life\" after contracting the virus.\n\nShe ended up in hospital in February following a coronavirus outbreak at her Northamptonshire care home.\n\n\"It has been a long time coming,\" the BBC Radio 2 presenter said.\n\nThis 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\nLast month, the 55-year-old DJ revealed her frustration that she had been offered the vaccination before her sister, who has the rare genetic syndrome Cri du Chat.\n\nShe said at the time: \"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.\n\n\"She's fighting for her life in hospital. It couldn't be crueller.\"\n\nIt prompted Whiley to campaign for people with learning disabilities to be prioritised in the vaccine rollout.\n\nShe said her family was asked to discuss palliative care for Frances at one point, as she battled the virus at Northampton General Hospital.\n\nAfter Frances recovered and left hospital, Whiley posted a video of her sister giving a thumbs-up and a round of applause for the doctors and nurses who treated her.\n\nSpeaking on her radio show on Thursday evening, she said: \"My sister gets her vaccination this coming weekend.\n\n\"It has been a long time coming. You have to wait a month after you have had Covid but it finally comes this weekend so we could not be happier.\"\n\nJo Whiley presents her weekday radio show from 19:30 GMT on Radio 2\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "The prime minister has received his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and has urged the public to do the same, saying he \"did not feel a thing\".\n\nBoris Johnson was given the vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital in central London, where he was treated for Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAfter being vaccinated, the PM said: \"I cannot recommend it too highly\".\n\nIt comes as several European countries said they would resume using the jab.\n\nLeaving hospital, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I literally did not feel a thing. It was very good, very quick - I cannot recommend it too highly.\n\n\"Everybody, when you do get your notification to go for a jab, please go and get it, it is the best thing for you, best thing for your family and for everyone else.\"\n\nThe PM was given the vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital in central London\n\nMore than 26 million people have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, according to the latest government figures. About two million people have had a second dose.\n\nIn England, 22,337,590 people had been given a first jab as of 18 March, according to NHS England, the equivalent of 50.5% of the population aged 18 and over.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi also received his vaccination at a pharmacy in Lewisham, south-east London, earlier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said England's road map out of lockdown will not be disrupted by vaccine supply issues\n\nMeanwhile countries including France, Germany and Italy began restarting their vaccine programmes with the AstraZeneca jab - reversing earlier decisions to suspend them over blood clot concerns.\n\nThe resumption of the use of the vaccine comes after the European Medicines Agency confirmed it was \"safe and effective\".\n\nThe regulator reviewed the jab over fears about blood clots, but said it was \"not associated\" with a higher risk of such events, and that the benefits outweighed any risks.\n\nThe World Health Organization and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have said the jab is safe and have encouraged people to take up their vaccine appointments.\n\nThe WHO's advisory committee on vaccine safety issued a statement on Friday saying the vaccine \"continues to have a positive benefit-risk profile, with tremendous potential to prevent infections and reduce deaths across the world\".\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister reiterated that the jab was safe and urged people to take the vaccine if they were offered it.\n\nHe said: \"The thing that isn't safe is catching Covid, which is why it's so important that we all get our jabs as soon as our turn comes.\"\n\nHe also insisted that delays to the UK's Covid vaccine supply in April would not affect people getting their second doses, or England's road map out of lockdown.\n\n\"The way to ensure this [lockdown easing] happens is to get that jab when your turn comes, so let's get the jab done,\" he said.\n\nIn other developments, ONS figures suggest infection levels have continued to fall across England and Wales but have \"levelled off\" in Northern Ireland and increased in Scotland.\n\nAn estimated one in 335 people in the UK had Covid-19 in the week to 13 March, according to the figures, down from one in 280 last week.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported a further 101 deaths and 4,802 cases, according to the government's separate daily coronavirus figures.", "Anthony Williams \"flipped\" and strangled his wife during the first coronavirus lockdown, a court heard\n\nA five-year jail term for a man who killed his wife during the first Covid lockdown has been referred to the Court of Appeal as being \"unduly lenient\".\n\nAnthony Williams, 70, was found not guilty of murdering his wife Ruth, 67, at their home in Cwmbran, Torfaen, after a trial at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nBut Williams, who had anxiety and depression, admitted to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.\n\nThe attorney general Michael Ellis wants the sentence length reviewed.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Ellis said he was \"shocked by this case\".\n\n\"After careful consideration he has decided to refer the sentence of Anthony Williams to the Court of Appeal as he believes the sentence is unduly lenient,\" added the official.\n\n\"It is now for the court to decide whether to increase the sentence.\"\n\nRuth Williams died due to pressure to the neck and had three fractured bones\n\nDuring the trial earlier this year, the court heard Williams, of Brynglas, Hollybush, had not slept for several days due to worries over money, coronavirus and his health.\n\nA psychiatrist told the jury his mental health had dramatically deteriorated after retiring in 2019, and the coronavirus pandemic had made things worse.\n\nHe told police he had \"choked the living daylights\" out of Mrs Williams after an argument on 28 March 2020.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas called it \"a tragic case on several levels\".\n\nRuth Williams was found slumped in the porch of her home in the Hollybush area of Cwmbran\n\nHe added: \"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.\n\n\"It is also a tragedy that an act of a couple of minutes and one you immediately repented will define you for the rest of your life. And tragic that you have now left your daughter without her beloved mother.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel had already ordered an inquiry is carried out into the death, adding she was \"not satisfied\" with Torfaen council's decision not to carry out a domestic homicide review.\n\nAfter writing to the council, Ms Patel said: \"This was an appalling case and my thoughts are with the family and friends of Ruth Williams.\"\n\nThe local authority's public service board said it would now carry out the inquiry.\n\nLabour's Harriet Harman, Jess Phillips and Alex Davies-Jones all wrote to attorney general Suella Braverman in February, calling on her to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMs Braverman has since gone on maternity leave, and new attorney general Mr Ellis has now taken the action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Families seeking support for children with special educational needs face a \"postcode lottery\", a report suggests.\n\nChildren from the poorest areas are less likely to get help than those in more affluent areas, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) think tank says.\n\nPupils have missed out on support due to remote learning and those in academy schools were less likely to be identified as needing support, it adds.\n\nThe Department for Education said the system needed to be more consistent.\n\nIt added that the government had increased funding to £8bn in 2021-22.\n\nThe EPI study tracked the experiences of hundreds of thousands of pupils from a single year group through primary school.\n\nThe report it found \"deeply concerning\" inconsistencies in how children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in England have been identified and supported. More than a million children currently have special educational needs in England.\n\nChildren living in the most disadvantaged areas of the country were less likely to be formally recognised as having special needs than similar pupils in more affluent areas, researchers say. They said it highlighted how there was a \"rationing of support\" in many areas of need.\n\nMany of the most vulnerable children - such those who have suffered abuse or neglect or those frequently out of school - were less able to get support for more complex needs.\n\nThe report says the pandemic was likely to have exacerbated pre-existing problems with the system. With many children not in school and with growing delays, increasing numbers of vulnerable pupils were likely to have missed out on support.\n\n\"It is especially concerning that many of the most disadvantaged children with unstable home lives are less likely to access support for more complex learning needs\", said David Laws, executive chairman of the EPI.\n\n\"The government must drastically improve its efforts to ensure that it is reaching the most vulnerable children in society.\"\n\nPupils at academy schools - state-funded schools, which are independent from local authorities - are half as likely to be identified and given help than similar pupils in other schools, it said.\n\nFor children with more severe needs, those living in areas with very few academy schools are 10 times more likely to be identified with SEND by their local authority than similar children living in areas that have many academy schools.\n\nAcademy schools \"may be overlooking pupils who require SEND support\", the study said. But with limited data available, further research on SEND identification in academies was needed, it added.\n\nThe report contains a number of recommendations including more specialist training and support for teachers and a funding system that is far more responsive to pupils' needs.\n\nThe ASCL head teachers' union leader, Geoff Barton, urged caution before jumping to conclusions.\n\nHe said it was \"an extremely complex educational landscape\", adding: \"Everybody in the school system - in whatever type of school or area - is utterly committed to correctly identifying SEND and providing the support that children require.\n\n\"Schools have not been helped by the fact that government funding for this support has not matched the level of need, and that the SEND funding system is byzantine in its complexity.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Education said it had boosted high needs funding by nearly a quarter, to £8bn in 2021-22.\n\n\"We know that despite the important reforms introduced to improve support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the system is not working for every pupil - that's why our SEND Review is looking at how to make sure it is consistent all over the country, high quality, and integrated across education, health and care.\"", "First-year bankers at investment bank Goldman Sachs have warned that they might quit unless their gruelling working conditions improve.\n\nAn internal survey among 13 employees showed they averaged 95 hours of work a week and slept five hours a night.\n\nTheir personal relationships also suffered as did their physical and mental health.\n\nThe analysts warned that they would be likely to leave within six months unless things changed.\n\nThe survey offers a rare glimpse into the fiercely competitive work culture of Wall Street's top firms, where junior analysts scramble for well-paid career paths.\n\nThe survey, which began circulating on social media on Wednesday, is presented on Goldman Sachs-branded slides that note they were produced within the investment banking division.\n\nBut the BBC understands that the survey was conducted by a \"self-selected\" group of US-based first-year investment banking analysts among themselves.\n\n\"The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers, the mental and physical stress… I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse,\" one respondent said in the survey, which has been seen by the BBC.\n\n\"This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this is inhumane/abuse,\" said another.\n\nAll of the respondents said the job had negatively affected their relationships with friends and family, while 77% said they had been victims of workplace abuse.\n\nIt's not just those in the world of finance who endure long days and little sleep.\n\nDavid works in software development. Before the pandemic he would travel from his home in Torquay in Devon to London on a Sunday night and only return on Friday evening - sometimes not getting through the door before midnight.\n\nOn top of his full-time job, he always has a side project that can keep him up until 02:00 and intrudes on weekends.\n\nHe says his wife would describe him as a workaholic but he doesn't use the term himself.\n\n\"I'm definitely the kind of person who would sleep less if I could,\" David says. \"It's wasted time.\"\n\nBefore working for the firm, the analysts assessed their own mental health at 8.8 out of 10 and their physical health at 9 out of 10.\n\nAfter starting the job, they rated their mental health at 2.8 and their physical health at 2.3.\n\n83% said they had experienced \"excessive monitoring or micromanagement\", while 17% said they frequently experienced shouting or swearing.\n\nThe survey recommended maximum 80-hour work weeks with no work on Saturday or after 9pm on Friday.\n\nIt also urged more realistic deadlines and better work flows aimed at reducing stress.\n\nThe analysts presented their findings to Goldman Sachs' management in February, and the bank said it has since taken steps to address employee burnout among this small group, and wider teams.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. White boys' club? New tales from the City\n\n\"We recognise that our people are very busy, because business is strong and volumes are at historic levels,\" a spokeswoman for the bank told the BBC.\n\n\"A year into Covid, people are understandably quite stretched, and that's why we are listening to their concerns and taking multiple steps to address them.\"\n\nThe bank says it has been reinforcing its \"Saturday Exception\" policy and moving to automate certain tasks for junior staff.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYoung learner drivers are \"frustrated\" that lessons remain stuck in neutral under lockdown rules in Wales.\n\nWith hairdressers set to reopen in Wales, driving instructors and learners have questioned why they cannot start lessons once again.\n\nProtests by instructors are taking place across the country.\n\nThe Welsh government has now confirmed car lessons should be able to resume on 12 April, if coronavirus cases continue to fall.\n\nCar driving tests should also be able to restart from 22 April.\n\nDriving instructors are protesting in various places in Wales\n\nLearners like Georgia Davies, from Aberystwyth, have been stalled and relying on sometimes \"erratic\" public transport.\n\nShe has spent roughly £2,000 on lessons, tests and a car but her driving test has been cancelled four times.\n\nIt has also left her unable to apply for some jobs, that require a driving licence, before she heads to university in the autumn.\n\n\"There was a long waiting list for a test because of the pandemic last year,\" she said.\n\n\"It has since been cancelled four times and now my theory test has expired.\n\n\"So I have to re-sit that in June, meaning I won't be able to do my practical test for a long time after that. It's really unfair.\"\n\nThe delay has meant relying on public transport, often to see friends who live an hour away.\n\n\"I have a car because I thought I'd be driving by now, but it's costing a lot for insurance and tax - and I can't even drive it.\"\n\n\"I can't wait for the freedom. It's really frustrating because I've got plans and my own car but I can't do anything with it.\"\n\nHarry Nicholls is desperate to take his new car on the road\n\nHarry Nicholls was hoping to take his test on Friday, having been postponed from last summer, but Covid rules mean he is not allowed. The next available date is not until September.\n\n\"I started learning after my birthday in March, which was when lockdown started,\" said the 17-year-old from Monmouth.\n\n\"I passed my theory test and my parents booked me 10 lessons, but I couldn't start them because of lockdown.\n\n\"After [the first] lockdown I went out for 15 lessons with an instructor and by the end I was in a good position to pass my test.\"\n\nThen lockdown happened again and having spent £450 on lessons, Harry has also spent £4,500 on a Kia Rio that has sat outside the house.\n\n\"It's a nightmare. It [the car] cost a lot and it's getting to the point where I am wondering whether it was worth it,\" he said.\n\n\"Not being able to go out with friends is an issue and being in Monmouth it's harder to get to other places, especially with buses, they can be erratic.\"\n\nDaisy Corne has to be careful using public transport because of a medical condition\n\nDaisy Corne, 18, has a condition that makes her clinically vulnerable\n\n\"I've to be quite careful on trains and buses, which is why cars and taxis are a better option, which is why it would be good to be able to drive.\"\n\nDaisy, who is preparing to start a health and social care course at Cardiff Metropolitan University, has had to cancel two tests. She is hopeful it will be third time lucky later in the year.\n\n\"It would be a lot less stress knowing I could get in the car and go wherever,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had been a difficult time, especially for business owners.\n\nA spokesman added: \"If the public health situation continues to improve, we will be able to carry on relaxing restrictions in a phased way, being careful not to undermine all the progress made by everyone in Wales to bring coronavirus cases under control.\"\n\n\"We hope driving lessons will be able to resume from April 12 and tests from April 22, in line with the DVSA's [Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency] roadmap.\"\n\nOrganiser of the Newport protest Luke Thompson said \"we want clarity\"\n\nProtests have been staged in multiple cities on Friday hoping to see driving lessons resume soon.\n\nLuke Thompson, is the director of M4 motoring driving school and the Newport protest organiser.\n\nHe said they wanted \"clarity\" from the Welsh government about restarting their businesses.\n\n\"We believe we've done enough to ensure our cars are safe.\"\n\nThomas Netherway is at the Newport protest\n\nThomas Netherway is also at the Newport protest and the halt on driving lessons have caused a financial struggle.\n\n\"I haven't been able to work since December - I've had no money coming in and I don't know how I'll provide for my family\".", "Police have warned students in the UK against using a website that they say lets users \"illegally access\" millions of scientific research papers.\n\nThe City of London police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit says using the Sci-Hub website could \"pose a threat\" to students' personal data.\n\nThe police are concerned that users of the \"Russia-based website\" could have information taken and misused online.\n\nThe Sci-Hub website says it \"removes all barriers\" to science.\n\nIt offers open access to more than 85 million scientific papers and claims that copyright laws should be abolished and that such material should be \"knowledge to all\".\n\nIt describes itself as \"the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers\".\n\nBut Max Bruce, the City of London police's cyber protection officer, has urged universities to block the website on their networks because of the \"threat posed by Sci-Hub to both the university and its students\".\n\n\"If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know that Sci-Hub will then use those details to compromise your university's computer network in order to steal research papers,\" he said.\n\nThe City of London Police, which is the national lead for fraud, has warned that students studying online at home might be vulnerable.\n\n\"Students should be aware that accessing such websites is illegal, as it hosts stolen intellectual property,\" said Det Insp Kevin Ives.\n\nHe warned that visitors to the website, whose Twitter account has been suspended, are \"very vulnerable to having their credentials stolen\".\n\nThe police warning says scientific papers could have been obtained by a \"variety of malicious means, such as the use of phishing emails to trick university staff and students into divulging their login credentials\".\n\nBut the Sci-Hub website has previously told the BBC that it provides students with access to research papers for which the subscriptions are \"very expensive\".\n\nAndrew Pitts, chief executive of the PSI Registry, which highlights \"academic piracy\", has warned that users \"may inadvertently download potentially dangerous content from this illegal site and put the security of their organisations at risk\".\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ intelligence service, has warned of the threat of cyber-attacks against universities.\n\nLast autumn the cyber-agency warned of online attacks attempting to \"derail\" the start of the academic year in universities.", "Wales' first minister says he hopes to make a decision on whether parts of the tourism sector can reopen next weekend “by the end of next week”.\n\nAt last Friday’s review of lockdown rules Mark Drakeford said he hoped to lift the stay-local rule and allow people to stay in self-contained accommodation from 27 March.\n\nSpeaking at today’s press conference Mr Drakeford said: “Provided things continue as they are - stable and improving - then I’m hopeful that I'll be able to confirm that by the end of next week.”\n\nThe first minister warned that “there are some parts of Wales where the position is not as good as we would like it to be\".\n\nHe added: “Paris has gone back into a lockdown again, so we've known all along how fast circumstances can change in coronavirus.\n\n\"That's why it's important to wait until the last moment you can in order to make these decisions, because that way you have the best and latest data.”\n\nMinisters plan to wait until \"the last moment\" to decide whether it is safe to reopen the tourism sector in Wales for Easter Image caption: Ministers plan to wait until \"the last moment\" to decide whether it is safe to reopen the tourism sector in Wales for Easter", "Peloton has warned parents to keep children away from its treadmills after the death of a child.\n\nBoss John Foley called it \"tragic accident\" - one of a \"small handful\" of incidents in which children have been hurt on the firm's exercise equipment.\n\nHe did not disclose further details about what happened.\n\nIn a separate incident, a 3-year-old suffered head injuries after getting trapped under a Peloton treadmill, but will make a full recovery.\n\nThe latest incident report into that accident, disclosed on Wednesday, said the child \"was found to have tread marks on his back matching the slats of the treadmill\".\n\nMr Foley, Peloton's founder, said children should stay away from the firm's machines, which have surged in popularity during the pandemic.\n\n\"We design and build all of our products with safety in mind. But in order to help ensure that you and your family members stay safe with Peloton products in your home, we need your help,\" he wrote in the letter to customers.\n\n\"Keep children and pets away from Peloton exercise equipment at all times. Before you begin a workout, double check to make sure that the space around your Peloton exercise equipment is clear.\"\n\nThe US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it was investigating the incident.\n\nPeloton sells cycling machines and treadmills that can be connected online to virtual fitness classes. Its business has boomed as people look for alternative ways to exercise during lockdowns and gym closures.\n\nThe firm has said the skyrocketing demand has created supply chain pressures, leading to backlogs in orders for the machines.\n\nIts treadmills, which sell for more than $2,400 (£1,722), were designed for use by those aged 16 and older, who weigh at least 105 pounds, it said.\n\nMr Foley said the company did not intend to release more information about the accidents, in order to respect privacy of those involved.\n\n\"While we are aware of only a small handful of incidents involving the Tread+ where children have been hurt, each one is devastating to all of us at Peloton, and our hearts go out to the families involved,\" he wrote.\n\nThe company is \"currently assessing ways to reinforce our warnings about these critical safety precautions to hopefully prevent future accidents,\" he added.\n\nLast year, Peloton recalled pedals on about 27,000 bikes in the US, citing problems after clip-on pedals broke unexpectedly during use.\n\nThere were an estimated 22,500 treadmill-related injuries treated at US emergency departments among all ages, including around 2,000 involving children under the age of eight, according to the consumer product safety commission.\n\nBetween 2018 and 2020, it received reports of 17 deaths related to the use of a treadmill, including one involving a 5-year-old.", "The BBC has asked the authorities to help locate Aung Thura\n\nA reporter with the BBC Burmese service has been detained in Myanmar as clashes continue between security forces and protesters.\n\nAung Thura was taken away by men in plain clothes while reporting outside a court in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement that it was extremely concerned and called on the authorities to help locate him.\n\nAt least eight people are reported to have died in the most recent protests, which took place in several cities.\n\nAung Thura was taken away with another reporter, Than Htike Aung, who works for the local news organisation Mizzima. Mizzima's operating licence was revoked by the military government earlier this month.\n\nThe men who detained the journalists arrived in an unmarked van at around midday local time (05:30 GMT) on Friday and demanded to see them. The BBC has been unable to contact Aung Thura since.\n\n\"The BBC takes the safety of all its staff in Myanmar very seriously and we are doing everything we can to find Aung Thura,\" the corporation said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Mary Hockaday calls on authorities to help locate journalist Aung Thura, who has been detained\n\n\"We call on the authorities to help locate him and confirm that he is safe. Aung Thura is an accredited BBC journalist with many years of reporting experience covering events in Nay Pyi Taw.\"\n\nForty journalists have been arrested since a military coup on 1 February, which saw the detention of elected civilian leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi. Sixteen are still in custody, and the military has revoked the licences of five media companies.\n\nThe eight people killed on Friday were shot dead by security forces in the central town of Aungban, according to a funeral director and local media.\n\n\"Security forces came to remove barriers but the people resisted and they fired shots,\" a witness told Reuters news agency.\n\nReports from Yangon say the streets have been congested as many people try to flee violence in the country's main city. Police there are also said to be forcing people to remove barricades put up by protesters.\n\nPost-coup violence has claimed the lives of at least 232 Burmese, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group says. One of the bloodiest days was 14 March when 38 were killed.\n\nProtesters at barricades in Yangon's Thaketa township on Friday\n\nA joint statement by European Union embassies and those of the US and the UK condemned \"the brutal violence against unarmed civilians by security forces\".\n\nThe statement called on the military to lift martial law, release detainees, end the state of emergency and restore democracy.\n\nMalaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has meanwhile criticised the use of lethal force by the military and called for \"a path towards peaceful solutions\".\n\nHe echoed a call by the Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to hold a summit on the situation in Myanmar.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natera Morris says some of the comments on social media have made her question how her friends feel about her\n\nAll children will be taught about racism and the contributions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, the education minister said.\n\nAlmost 35,000 people have called for Britain's colonial past to be taught in school lessons.\n\nUnder changes to the new curriculum the teaching of BAME histories will be mandatory, Kirsty Williams said.\n\nMs Williams said it would help pupils become \"informed citizens of the world\".\n\nHowever, Plaid Cymru argued the changes were not included in the school curriculum law, passed in the Senedd last week, but instead in a code which could be changed or got rid of by ministers.\n\nThe Welsh government said this was \"incorrect\" and the teaching of BAME stories would be required in every school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Butetown in Cardiff attracted people from across the world\n\nWales' new curriculum, set to be introduced in 2022, is based on six \"areas of learning and experience\" and does not set out exactly what schools should be teaching.\n\nHowever, the changes will now mean all learning areas will need to reflect the diverse experiences and contributions of BAME communities and individuals to both past and present Wales.\n\nFollowing worldwide protests after the death of George Floyd in US police custody, there were calls for greater recognition of Wales' role in colonialism and slavery to be taught in schools.\n\nProf Charlotte Williams, who led a working group set up by the Welsh government to look at how BAME contributions through history was taught in schools, said there was considerable evidence of \"racial inequality\" in Wales' education system.\n\nShe said the new curriculum was an opportunity for \"significant change\", and it was the right of \"every child to learn about histories and contributions that have shaped the Welsh nation\".\n\nProf Charlotte Williams said children needed to learn about diverse role models and histories regardless of where they lived\n\nIn a report published on Friday, Prof Williams said with schools able to set their own curriculum under the national framework BAME histories could \"continue to be marginalised or ignored\", unless made mandatory.\n\nWhile learning about diversity, identity and equality is mandatory under the new curriculum, there is no requirement for schools to teach pupils about slavery, the British Empire, or the Holocaust, Ms Williams writes.\n\nProf Williams said this was concerning as these areas were \"topics of central understanding to the histories of racism and diversity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have faced racial prejudice in Wales'\n\nIn 2019, 12% of all pupils aged five and over came from minority ethnic backgrounds, but this differs widely across Wales, from 34.4% in Cardiff to 4.1% in Anglesey, according to Pupil Level Annual School Census data.\n\nFewer than 1% of teachers in Wales say they are black, Asian, or from other or mixed minority ethnic backgrounds, according to the 2019-20 school workforce census.\n\nForty of the 1,065 students who began training to become teachers in Wales in 2018-19 said they were from a minority ethnic group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When Neville Howard arrived in the UK in 1947 society was very different\n\nProf Williams, who has previously spoken about growing up in Llandudno where her family were the only black family, said children were being \"failed\" by a lack of positive role models in schools and a curriculum that did not represent their histories.\n\nShe said all children should be able to learn about diverse history and talent regardless of their background or where they lived.\n\nThe report states that current resources to support the teaching of ethnic minority themes is disproportionately focused on slavery, colonialism and Empire, and that positive contributions and role models needed to be celebrated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three trailblazers talk about their experiences in Wales\n\nThe report makes 51 recommendations for changes in the new curriculum and teacher training including:\n\nThe Welsh government has said all of the recommendations in the report had been accepted, and it had allocated £500,000 to help with their implementation.\n\nMs Williams said: \"Our new curriculum can only be enriched by revealing the diversity of perspectives and contributions made by the ethnic minority communities to the development of Wales across its history and in the present.\"\n\nAngel, a member of the Welsh Youth Parliament, had campaigned for black history to be included in the curriculum\n\nAngel Ezeadum, member of UK Youth Parliament for Cardiff, said it was a relief that \"finally we are doing something\" to tackle racism and inequality.\n\nThe 16-year-old student said she hoped the changes would lead to the next generation of pupils having more opportunity to have a \"different mindset to perhaps their parents or grandparents\".\n\n\"If we want a society which is better for all, where there's equality, and there's fair representation then we need this,\" she said.\n\n\"It's massive in terms of shaping who young people are going to be in the future whether that's a police officer, a teacher, a politician.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian said that there was a danger children could miss out as Welsh history was only guidance under the new curriculum law\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said that schools were not required to deliver Welsh history under the newly-passed curriculum law, which was a \"major flaw\".\n\nWhile teaching humanities is one of the learning areas under law, Welsh history and the teaching of BAME stories is included in statutory guidance, called the What Matters Code.\n\n\"It has the potential of being transformational in the way our society is developing...and it has been left out [of the law],\" Ms Gwenllian said.\n\n\"It has to be mandatory in our schools, otherwise we are not going to be equipping our young people with the information that they want, with the knowledge about where we have come from as a people and as a nation.\"\n\nHowever, the Welsh government said the What Matters Code was mandatory and must be taught to all pupils.\n\n\"It is incorrect to claim otherwise,\" a spokesman said.", "The prime minister is to receive his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after reassuring the public it was \"safe\".\n\nBoris Johnson, 56, has urged people to get inoculated and said England's roadmap out of lockdown was \"on track\".\n\nHe said there was \"no change\" to the plan despite a drop in vaccine supply.\n\nSeveral European countries are to resume using the AstraZeneca jab after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) confirmed it was \"safe and effective\".\n\nThe regulator reviewed the vaccine amid fears about blood clots, but said it was \"not associated\" with a higher risk and the benefits outweighed any risks.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street conference on Thursday that the AstraZeneca jab was safe but \"the thing that isn't safe is catching Covid, which is why it is so important that we all get our jabs as soon as our turn comes\".\n\nThe prime minister was himself treated in hospital for Covid-19 in April 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"The way to ensure this [lockdown easing] happens is to get that jab when your turn comes, so let's get the jab done,\" he said.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, said there were \"anecdotal reports\" of small numbers of people not turning up for vaccine appointments following the controversy over the AstraZeneca jab in Europe.\n\nBut he said he expected many of those would decide to get the jab after \"a pause for thought\", adding that Covid was still a \"very dangerous disease\".\n\n\"People dying, people getting significant blood clotting problems, that's one of the risks of Covid, people having long-term physical and mental effects from Covid,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said England's roadmap out of lockdown will not be disrupted by vaccine supply issues\n\nMr Johnson said England's progress towards leaving restrictions on daily life was \"unchecked\" by vaccine supply issues, where fewer doses have arrived from India than initially expected.\n\nThere were often delays with vaccine rollout programmes, he said, and he stressed the Indian government had not stopped any exports.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said while the delay was \"disappointing\" he did not think it would have \"an enormous effect\" on the rollout.\n\nHowever, he warned the UK needed to keep variants of concern \"at bay\" until it could update vaccines and roll them out to the whole population.\n\nProf Ferguson, who is a member of the government's SPI-M modelling group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there should be particular concern about cases being imported from France, where infection levels are increasing.\n\nHe added that 5-10% of cases in France were the South African variant, which is of concern because it could be more resistant to current vaccines.\n\nBut Prof Ferguson suggested that adding France to the \"red list\" of countries, from which arrivals are required to quarantine in a hotel, would not be \"practical\" given the amount of essential trade between the UK and France.\n\nInstead he said \"a more bespoke arrangement\" to mitigate the risks, perhaps including testing of arrivals, would be needed.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said rising infection rates in Europe should act as a \"wake-up call\" and the travel red list was kept under \"regular review\".\n\nThe European medical regulator had reviewed the AstraZeneca jab after 13 countries in Europe suspended its use over fears about blood clots in a very small number of patients.\n\nFrance, Germany and Italy, along with Cyprus, Latvia and Lithuania, are to resume use of the jab on Friday while Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands will do so next week.\n\nBut Norway, Sweden and Denmark have said they will continue to pause the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine while they conduct their own independent reviews.\n\nLike his UK counterpart, French Prime Minister Jean Castex will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in an effort to sway a doubtful French public.\n\nSir Kent Woods, former chairman of the EMA, told BBC Breakfast the pause of the rollout of the AstraZeneca jab in some European countries was \"unfortunate\" because it could damage public confidence.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford vaccine group, said the EMA findings would help \"rebuild confidence\" and it was \"reassuring\" that safety monitoring was taking place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) also concluded that any link between the jab and clots was unproven.\n\nThe MHRA and the EMA say people can have confidence in the vaccine's benefits and should get immunised but anyone with a headache lasting more than four days after vaccination should seek medical advice, as a precaution.\n\nThe same advice applies if someone develops unusual bruising.\n\nThat is because the regulators have received a very small number of reports of an extremely rare form of blood clot occurring in the brain.\n\nIt is this type of clot that triggered some European countries to pause rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nIn the UK, five cases of cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT), among 11 million people who have received the vaccine, occurred in men aged between 19 and 59. One of these was fatal.\n\nThe EMA has received an additional 13 reports of CSVT.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to continue using the vaccine, and is due to release the results of its own review into the vaccine's safety later on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK saw 7% more deaths than would be expected in 2020 based on the previous five years, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics covering up to mid-December.\n\nIt experienced one of the worst death rates in Europe in the first half of 2020 but has since been overtaken by Poland, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.", "Clare Tomlinson-Blake spoke to the BBC after the ruling\n\nCare workers across the UK who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed are not entitled to the minimum wage for their whole shift, the Supreme Court has ruled.\n\nThe case was brought by Clare Tomlinson-Blake against the learning disability charity, Mencap.\n\nIf she had won, care providers feared an estimated £400m bill for backpay, which they said they could not afford.\n\nThe case sought to overturn a 2018 Court of Appeal ruling.\n\nHer union, Unison, argued on her behalf that care staff should get the minimum wage for nightshifts even if they are asleep.\n\nMs Tomlinson-Blake told the BBC she was \"stunned\" by the ruling.\n\n\"I was deeply disappointed. I thought this was an opportunity for things to change, and for health and social care workers to start to be valued more, and the work that they do, which is the most important work that you can ever do,\" she said.\n\n\"Caring for another person that should be valued and just isn't being.\"\n\nShe added: \"Sleep-in shifts aren't about just being on call. It's work.\n\n\"Staff are constantly on guard to protect the most vulnerable in society. The sound of a cough in the night could mean someone's in danger.\"\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"No-one is a winner from today's judgement.\n\n\"Everyone loses until the government intervenes to mend a broken system that relies on paying skilled staff a pittance.\"\n\nMrs Tomlinson-Blake, from East Yorkshire, was paid less than £30 by Mencap for a sleep-in shift between 22:00 and 07:00.\n\nAlthough she could sleep, she was expected to keep a \"listening ear\" out for the home's residents and provide them with support if needed during the night.\n\nOver 16 months, she was called on six times, receiving no extra money for the first hour she was disturbed, although after that she was paid at the full day-time rate.\n\nA second case was brought by John Shannon, a Surrey care worker whose case was heard at the same time as Mrs Tomlinson-Blake's.\n\nHis case against his former employers was also dismissed.\n\nSome care workers are expected to sleep on site in between shifts\n\nThe Supreme Court concluded there was an exemption in national minimum wage legislation which applied to sleep-ins.\n\nIn the court's written ruling, Lady Arden said that \"sleep-in workers... are not doing time work for the purposes of the national minimum wage if they are not awake\".\n\nEdel Harris, chief executive of Mencap, said: \"Support workers within Mencap and across the sector do an exceptional job.\n\n\"They are dedicated in their care for people with a learning disability and should be paid more.\"\n\nBut she added: \"It is no exaggeration to say that if the ruling had been different, it would have severely impacted on a sector which is already underfunded and stretched to breaking point.\n\n\"Some providers would have gone bust and, ultimately, the people who rely on care would have suffered.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman praised the \"tireless\" work of care workers but would not say whether social care reforms, promised this year, would address the issue of overnight pay.\n\n\"We are aware of the judgement from the Supreme Court,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"Care workers perform a vital role and they have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to support our most vulnerable, and we are committed to supporting them.\"\n\nLiz Kendall, Labour's shadow minister for social care, said the ruling showed the law on sleep-in shifts was \"unfair and in urgent need of updating\".\n\n\"This must form a part of the social care reforms we expect from ministers later this year,\" said Ms Kendall.", "Government borrowing levels continued to set new records last month, reflecting the cost of supporting the UK's economy during the pandemic.\n\nThe government borrowed £19.1bn in February, the highest figure for that month since records began in 1993.\n\nMeasures such as furlough payments have hit government finances hard.\n\nHowever, February's borrowing figure - the difference between spending and tax income - was not as high as some economists had forecast.\n\nBorrowing for the financial year to date - between April and February - has now reached £278.8bn, the Office for National Statistics said, a record for that period.\n\nThe Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said: \"Coronavirus has caused one of the largest economic shocks this country has ever faced, which is why we responded with our £352bn package of support to protect lives and livelihoods.\n\n\"This was the fiscally responsible thing to do and the best way to support the public finances in the medium term.\"\n\nChristine Jardine, Treasury spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, said that while the latest figures showed scale of the challenge posed by the pandemic, \"they can not be used as an excuse by the government to end support prematurely, and leave behind people and businesses struggling across the UK\".\n\n\"Thousands of small businesses are due to stay closed for months to come, and millions of people are still worried about their jobs. Yet the chancellor failed to provide them with long-term certainty and direct support in the Budget.\"\n\nThe latest ONS figures showed the government spent £3.9bn last month on job support measures alone.\n\nThey also revealed a fall in tax income, notably from lower VAT, business rates and fuel duty, although they also showed money coming in from self-employed tax payments rose by £900m from last year.\n\nTotal public sector debt has risen to £2.13 trillion, according to the ONS. The figure almost exceeds the size of the UK's economy, with debt having reached 97.5% of annual economic output.\n\nDebt levels as high as this have not been seen since the early 1960s.\n\nUltimately, if it's consistently spending much more than it has in the past, the state has to raise more money in taxes. But the key word there is \"ultimately\". There is no urgency to repaying the government's debt. More urgent are the debts of small businesses and poorer households.\n\nOrdinary households rightly fear getting into too much debt because if interest rates rise, lenders can close in and deploy lawyers and bailiffs with all the attendant unpleasantness.\n\nBut it is profoundly wrong and misleading to infer that it's like that for governments who issue their own sovereign currency.\n\nUnlike households, governments controlling their own currency can borrow without limit money that they have freshly created.\n\nThey therefore can't go bankrupt. Because almost all of the money borrowed by the government in this financial year (by issuing gilts) will be owed to another public sector body, the Bank of England, it's nothing like a household borrowing from a bank.\n\nAnd in fact, as the government tacitly acknowledged in its recent Budget, it makes sense in the midst of an economic contraction for the government to spend more, not less - not least because other parts of the economy (households and businesses) aren't spending anything like what they normally would.\n\nWithout the additional government spending the economic contraction would, without a shadow of a doubt, be worse.\n\nRuth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said that despite the high level of borrowing, the government's increased spending was the only sensible course at this time.\n\n\"Today's figures are pretty terrible but it is important to take in to account the economy as well. The chancellor is doing the right thing in continuing to support the economy,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"His action in the Budget to extend many of the existing schemes means the rug will not pulled out from under the feet of households and businesses.\n\n\"If we can limit the damage to the economy now, when the crisis ends it means the country will be stronger amore able to cope with that debt.\"\n\nSeparately, the government said it would receive £1.1bn from selling part of its stake in NatWest Group.\n\nThe sale will cut the size of the government's stake in the bank - which was previously called Royal Bank of Scotland - from almost 62% to 59.8%.\n\nThe government bought shares in the bank to help keep it afloat during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThe value of those shares has since fallen, meaning the government has made an overall loss of £1.84bn excluding dividend payments.\n\nThe Treasury said \"its ambition is to return the bank to private ownership once the original goal of preserving financial stability has been achieved\".", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 March.\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\nTom and Jerry: Peter Jones said this plucky field mouse was giving as good as he got from Oscar the cat in his Kinloss garden\n\nIt's a frog's life: Frogs spawning in ponds all across the country signals that spring is here. This frog picture was taken in Edinburgh by Philip Gifford\n\nBird watching: This beautiful goldfinch turned the tables on Danielle Morris to watch her in her garden in Edinburgh\n\nBlooming beautiful: Springtime has arrived in Deborah Thom's garden in Inverness with all these golden crocuses\n\nAs light as a feather: Rick Harvey identified this as a female kingfisher when he came across it in Aberdeen\n\nRocket to the moon: Brian Thompson took this lovely picture one early morning of the moon over Victoria Tower at Greenock town hall\n\nHeron time: This magnificent bird timed it precisely to find its breakfast in Alford in Aberdeenshire. Pic: Kathleen Stuart\n\nIn otter news: Iain MacCormick came upon this chap having his breakfast on Benbecula while out for his morning stroll\n\nFree as a bird: A dipper in Murieston soaking moss prior to using it to build its nest. Picture by Geoff Donnelly\n\nSun city: Clarissa Linnitt managed to catch the last of the rays illuminating Edinburgh city centre after work\n\nA bird in the hand: Hayley Grant had this robin eating mealworms from her hand in her back garden in Wick, Caithness\n\nStrike a pose: John Dyer caught this mallard duck in a yoga pose at Strathclyde Loch in Motherwell\n\nBird's eye view: This picture of a hungry but awkward pigeon in Joan Grady's back garden in Glasgow really made her smile\n\nSunset beach: Gaynor Duthie had the perfect view during her Mother's Day stroll at Crovie pier in Aberdeenshire\n\nA wilderness re-tree-t: Julie Sneddon captured Loch Etive at its best in all its remote beauty\n\nBranching out: A fascinating image captured by Raymond Sutherland of a tree growing out of rocks on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh\n\nOnce in a blue dune: Martin Neill took this picture of Aberdeenshire's Balmedie Beach from the sand dunes on a sunny morning\n\nKnot for sail: The Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, arriving in impressive style in the Firth of Clyde for the first time. Michael Leek said his picture shows the ship approaching Dunoon, on the Cowal Peninsula\n\nStand off: Sophie Bolton was met by a huge flock of sheep during her walk at Kilninian on Mull\n\nIt doesn't cost any Monet: Everyone can look at this painting on the side of a building in Gourdon for free. Picture by Patricia Hall\n\nFor all who have served, thank you: The sun casts a poignant glow over the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge. Picture: Neil Lea\n\nFancy meeting you hare: Ken O'Keefe had a captivating encounter with this brown hare in a field near Glenrothes in Fife\n\nFall fowl: Hopefully Katie Percival didn't have any \"deliveries\" from above as she watched these crows flying to their nests near the cemetery in Keir Mill, Dumfriesshire\n\nEmotional solar coaster: Danny Garry had an uplifting moment watching the sunset on Cairnpapple Hill\n\nVillage life: Lauren Foster captured this sunrise in Craigtoun country park, St Andrews, overlooking what is known as the Dutch Village\n\nThat wheel good factor: Barry Macintyre captures so much life in this photograph of rusting old farm equipment at the former Drumbeg Quarry near Drymen\n\nWave goodbye to the winter: Dorothy Aitken braced a windy Seamill beach to take this shot, but hopefully summer is just around the corner\n\nEveryone disa-pier-ed: A deserted Oban Ferry Terminal just before Richard Gawthrope caught the last boat home to Mull\n\nAn all-time glow: Maud Chalmers took this picture of the beautiful reflection on the water of the sunset over Cocksburn Reservoir at Bridge of Allan\n\nDon't look: Adam Kautsky said: \"I really liked the magic of the moment in Maritime Lane in the old port of Leith, Edinburgh\"\n\nI'm at a moss for words: A snap of a sunny spring day on the High Bridge Path with a snow-clad Aonach Mor in the distance, by Mark Reynolds\n\nSea no evil: Ian Barnes took this photo of Cove Harbour near Dunbar in East Lothian\n\nDressed in all its finery: Little Jessica Shaw loved seeing this peacock walking along her street in Dunfermline\n\nFur real? Adam Henderson couldn't believe it when this vole popped out of a wall in woods near Dundee\n\nWalnut Whip: Marina Moreno took this wonderful picture of the new W Hotel in Edinburgh as the sun was setting\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.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the move will be a \"very serious breach of the devolution settlement\"\n\nA move by the UK government to compel Stormont to implement abortion laws will have \"serious consequences for devolution\", a DUP MP has said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said it would be a \"very serious breach of the devolution settlement\".\n\nWestminster is planning to give Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis new powers to take such action.\n\nNorthern Ireland's abortion laws changed last March after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution.\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme, the DUP leader in the House of Commons, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the action should be a concern even for those who support the provision of abortion services.\n\nHe said people \"should recognise the danger of what the secretary of state is doing here\" and \"if he can do it on this, then it could happen on many other areas\".\n\nBBC News NI understands that Northern Ireland's attorney general advised the Stormont executive that commissioning abortion services could be regarded as a controversial matter under the terms of the ministerial code.\n\nThe code states issues which are \"significant or controversial\" must be brought to the executive.\n\nSome Stormont parties had been calling on Health Minister Robin Swann to commission the services.\n\nBut he has maintained that it requires the support of the whole executive.\n\nIt is believed Attorney General Brenda King gave the advice to Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey, who asked her whether Mr Swann was required to get approval of the executive before setting up abortion services through the Department of Health.\n\nIt is understood Ms King's view was that if Mr Swann acted without consensus of the full executive, there was a risk of a legal challenge.\n\nA statement issued earlier by the Department of Health reflected this, and stated that Mr Swann's position was that the issue of abortion services was controversial and required the support of the whole executive.\n\n\"He does not believe that a ministerial decision to commission and fund abortion services would be defensible in court in the absence of executive approval,\" it added.\n\nWhile the law was passed last March, commissioning of full services has been stalled due to differences within the five-party executive.\n\nThis latest development, first reported by the Guardian, will see the NI secretary lay new regulations in Parliament early next week.\n\nThe move will let him direct Northern Ireland's Department of Health to commission the services.\n\nStormont and Westminster are also facing legal action from the Human Rights Commission over the delay.\n\nThe law changes meant abortion laws in Northern Ireland altered significantly last year, with terminations available in all circumstances of the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is legal in other circumstances up to 24 weeks and beyond that for cases of non-fatal fetal disabilities and fatal fetal abnormalities.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis will lay new regulations in Parliament early next week\n\nAlliance Party assembly member (MLA) Paula Bradshaw said the responsibility for providing abortion services lay with the health minister.\n\nShe said he had the power, responsibility and legal duty to provide a \"comprehensive framework for our healthcare professionals to operate within\".\n\nMs Bradshaw said while she believed in devolution, she welcomed the intervention of the NI secretary.\n\nAgriculture Minister Edwin Poots, of the DUP, wrote on social media the UK government \"would do well to listen to first minister on this issue\" and that there was anger among assembly members at \"this act of destruction on the devolution settlement\".\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 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader, Steve Aiken, said the \"controversial\" issue of abortion should be dealt with by the whole executive.\n\n\"Any unilateral decision by the health minister to commission and fund new abortion services without executive approval would be a breach of the Northern Ireland Act and the Ministerial Code,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was \"deeply regrettable that some political parties are seeking to score points on such a sensitive issue\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a \"matter of regret\" the executive had not been able to \"commission services in line with its legal obligations\".\n\n\"The SDLP has been warning for weeks that this British government has shown no restraint when it comes to interfering with the devolution settlement,\" he said.\n\nMs Hargey said it was \"unfortunate and unnecessary\" that the action was not able to be taken locally.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MLA said the \"executive as a whole, and certainly those parties who are blocking the commissioning of these services, need to be implementing them as soon as possible\".\n\nShe said she had unsuccessfully tried to have the issue placed on the agenda for the executive last week, and would try again for next week.\n\nThe Church of Ireland said the move was \"unjustified\" now Stormont was sitting again.\n\nArchbishop of Armagh John McDowell said it was \"clearly a devolved matter\".\n\nThe Presbyterian Church said it would \"seriously undermine\" devolution and called on Mr Lewis to withdraw the proposal.\n\nAt present health trusts are carrying out interim services for early medical abortions up to 10 weeks, meaning women seeking a termination beyond that are required to travel to England.\n\nThe DUP, which opposed the changes to the abortion laws by Westminster, has proposed a piece of legislation at Stormont seeking to restrict abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities.\n\nIt passed its second reading on Monday with the support of a number of parties.\n\nSinn Féin abstained on that vote but has separately called for the Department of Health to commission full abortion services as required under the regulations.\n\nThe Alliance Party, the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists view the issue as a matter of conscience for individual assembly members.", "An artist's impression of how the new Velindre Cancer Centre will look\n\nPlans for a new cancer centre in Cardiff have been given the go-ahead.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said the new Velindre Cancer Centre would ensure patients continued to get \"the best possible care for the decades ahead\".\n\nThe plans for the northern meadows site in Whitchurch had prompted protests.\n\nIn September, 57 cancer experts expressed \"deep concern\" over the plans, arguing the new centre should be located alongside an existing hospital.\n\nThey also said modern cancer treatments needed a range of services on site, including surgery and intensive care.\n\nProtesters have said they are not against the new hospital but do not want it built on green open land\n\nThe new centre will provide specialist treatment and facilities for learning, research and development.\n\nAnnouncing the move alongside Finance Minister Rebecca Evans, Mr Gething said the proposals had been subject to a long and detailed scrutiny process by the Welsh Government.\n\n\"Our current Velindre Cancer Centre has delivered exceptional service to people for many decades,\" he said.\n\nA campaign group said it was \"angry\" about the go-ahead\n\n\"It is known as a special place by those people who have needed its crucial support at one of the most difficult times in their lives.\n\n\"But like all buildings, there comes a time when we have to look to the future and ensure that people can continue to get the best possible care for the decades ahead.\"\n\nHe said the new centre was expected to open its doors in 2025.\n\nCardiff council approved outline planning permission for the building in 2017.\n\nThe existing Velindre Cancer Centre is based in Whitchurch - and the new facility would be close to this site\n\nVelindre University NHS Trust chief executive Steve Ham said the approval of its outline business case was \"an important moment for cancer services for the people of south-east Wales\".\n\n\"We want the new Velindre Cancer Centre to become a flagship for sustainable development by placing the Well-Being of Future Generations Act at the centre of the design, procurement, construction and operation of the new Velindre Cancer Centre where others come to see the art of the possible in developing sustainable infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nReacting to the news, Save the Northern Meadows for Future Generations, which has been campaigning against the plans, said it was \"angry\".\n\nIt said concerns of clinicians had been ignored and the community had been \"sentenced to four years of heavy construction\".\n\nIt added: \"With numerous protected species living on and around the meadows, we despair at the impact this will have on biodiversity in Cardiff.\n\n\"It makes a mockery of the declaration of a climate emergency, the Environment Act, and the Well-Being of Future Generations Act.\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: Rangers players go to gates to celebrate with fans outside\n\nA large group of Rangers fans gathered outside Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow on Saturday despite lockdown rules.\n\nImages posted on social media showed flares being set off and fans singing ahead of Rangers' game against St Mirren.\n\nUnder current guidance public gatherings are banned and a maximum of two people from two households are allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nRangers are currently one point short of winning the Scottish Premiership.\n\nThe team beat St Mirren 3-0 on Saturday and will claim the title on Sunday if Celtic do not win against Dundee United.\n\nFootball games are taking place behind closed doors with no fans in the stadium.\n\nFollowing their win against St Mirren, some players made their way to the fence to celebrate in sight of fans who had made their way to the stadium.\n\nHundreds of supporters arrived at Ibrox on Saturday morning, with some seen crowding around a car entering the ground as police tried to hold them back.\n\nIn a statement, Ch Supt Mark Sutherland from Police Scotland said: \"About 10am a large number of supporters gathered outside Ibrox Stadium and a number of pyrotechnic devices were set off.\n\n\"I would remind supporters that in line with current Scottish government coronavirus guidelines, all gatherings are currently prohibited and we would urge members of the public to comply with these restrictions.\n\n\"Our priority is public safety and an appropriate policing plan was in place and officers engaged with those present to explain and encourage compliance with restrictions.\"\n\nNo one has been arrested.\n\nFlares were set off outside the stadium ahead of the game with St Mirren on Saturday\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"extremely disappointed\" that some supporters had gathered at the stadium.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"At this crucial stage of suppressing the virus, the actions of this minority of individuals jeopardises the safety of other supporters, the police on duty and the wider community. We will continue to engage with Police Scotland and the club.\"\n\nSteven Gerrard's side are within one point of their first Premiership title in 10 years, having ended their city rivals' Celtic's hopes of a 10th championship win in a row.\n\nFormer Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson said he could \"understand\" the emotions that led some Rangers fans \"to do daft things\" and break lockdown guidelines to celebrate with their team.\n\nHe said: \"It is a little disappointing when we consider what's going round the country, but these fans have been starved of success for so long and they just want some way to thank the team and Steven Gerrard.\n\n\"Obviously it's not right to do it in the numbers they did and it can't be excused, but we all do silly things when we get caught up in celebrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously criticised fans for gathering in large numbers.\n\nAfter Celtic fans took part in a protest outside the club's stadium in November, she said: \"We have advice against gatherings and every day I stand up here and say avoid crowded places.\n\n\"We have a limit on people coming together outside... so it stands to reason any group of people that are gathering together in a crowd are putting themselves and others at risk.\n\n\"Whether it's football fans, rugby fans, any other kind of sport fans or just people in general, please don't do it because right now, in the middle of this pandemic, it is a risky thing to do that puts you and other people at risk.\"", "Women and girls in England are being asked to share their experiences of the health system as part of a government strategy to address inequalities.\n\nMinisters say there is \"strong evidence\" services for female patients need improving.\n\nFertility, maternity and menopause care are among the areas to be discussed.\n\nCampaigners say they are \"delighted\" steps are \"finally\" being taken to close the so-called \"gender health gap\".\n\nWhile women in the UK have a longer life expectancy than men, the Department for Health and Social Care says they are spending less of their life in good health.\n\nNadine Dorries, minister for women's health, said: \"Women's experiences of healthcare can vary and we want to ensure women are able to access the treatment and services they need.\n\n\"It's crucial women's voices are at the front and centre of this strategy so we understand their experiences and how to improve their outcomes.\"\n\nLess is also said to be known about many female-specific conditions and how to treat them.\n\nPatients have repeatedly reported to the BBC that they have felt overlooked when talking to doctors about conditions like endometriosis or complications following a pelvic mesh repair.\n\nFrom Monday 8 March, the Women's Health Strategy will spend 12 weeks speaking to female patients about a wide range of issues including maternity care and mental health.\n\nThe plan was due to launch last year, but had to be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is understood ministers hope to publish it when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.\n\nCampaigners have welcomed the idea but say it's vital women are properly listened to and appropriate action taken.\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said: \"We know that placing women at the centre of their own care not only improves outcomes in pregnancy, but also improves a woman's experience of birth and maternity care.\"\n\nMika Simmons, co-chair of the Ginsburg Women's Health Board, filmmaker, and host of The Happy Vagina podcast, said: \"Every single woman I speak to, myself included, has experienced either misunderstanding or loss as a direct result of slow or inaccurate diagnosis of their health concerns.\n\n\"I am delighted that this - the gender health gap - which grew out of a severe lack of historical research into women's health issues, is not only finally being acknowledged but that steps are being taken to right size it.\"", "Meghan pictured during her and Prince Harry's royal tour of South Africa in 2019\n\nThe Mail on Sunday has been ordered to publish a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex winning her copyright claim against the newspaper.\n\nMeghan sued the paper for a copyright breach over the publication of a letter to her father and won most of her claim.\n\nA High Court judge ruled the MoS must print on its front page and page three that it infringed her copyright.\n\nThe MailOnline must also publish the statement \"for a period of one week\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mail On Sunday said: \"We will be applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal, including in relation to aspects of the judgment today.\"\n\nMeghan, 39, brought the legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - the publisher of both the MoS and MailOnline.\n\nIt was over a handwritten letter to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018, parts of which were later published in news articles.\n\nLast month, she won her privacy claim and most of her copyright claim. The judge ruled the letter was \"personal and private\" and Meghan had a \"reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private\".\n\nThe publisher's lawyers applied for permission to appeal earlier this week but Lord Justice Warby refused.\n\nIn Friday's ruling the judge Lord Justice Warby said the MoS must print a single statement on the front page, referring readers to a further statement on page three.\n\n\"The defendant devoted a very considerable amount of space to the infringing articles, which it continued to publish for over two years,\" he said.\n\n\"It has devoted a very considerable number of further column inches, and many hundreds if not thousands of words, to coverage of earlier stages of this litigation and commentary upon them.\n\n\"The wording sought is modest by comparison and factual in nature.\"\n\nThe MailOnline must publish the statement for a week with a link to his full judgment.\n\nThe judge also granted Meghan a declaration that ANL \"misused her private information and infringed her copyright\".\n\nAlthough the judge found the publication of the letter infringed the duchess's copyright, there will still be a trial to decide whether Meghan is the exclusive owner of copyright in all parts of the letter, or whether any other person owns a share.\n\nThere will also be further hearings to determine whether the duchess is entitled to any profits or financial remedies relating to her claim.", "Nazanin, pictured here with husband Richard, was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016\n\nIt's more than 1,800 days since Richard Ratcliffe waved goodbye to his wife Nazanin at the departure gate at London's Gatwick Airport, worrying only about how their young daughter would cope with the long flight to Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken Gabriella to spend time with her Iranian grandparents three times before.\n\nAnd Richard had no reason in the world to think he wouldn't be back at the airport a fortnight later to pick them up.\n\n\"It was a slightly rushed goodbye,\" he recalls. \"Gabriella, at the time, was one and three quarters and a bit of handful. So I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight.\"\n\nThat was the last time he saw his wife in person.\n\nNazanin was arrested by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at Tehran Airport as she prepared to fly home.\n\nSince then, she's endured eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations, hunger strikes to press for medical treatment, false promises of release, and almost five years of separation from her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\n\"At the beginning, I just thought that this was so profoundly unfair that if we just shouted it from the rooftops, the right people would intervene and it would get sorted,\" Mr Ratcliffe told me. \"Never in my imagination did I think this would take five years or more.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Now the end of her actual sentence - which was once the worst-case scenario - looks like a good outcome, at this point.\"\n\nAt a secret trial in 2016, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail for \"membership of organisations working against the Iranian state\" - a reference, her husband says, to her work for the charities BBC Media Action and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And no, she wasn't training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nSunday 7 March is the official date of her release - her lawyer has seen it marked in the computer of the Iranian judiciary. She's been counting down the weeks on a calendar at her parents' home, where she is now under house arrest with an ankle tag.\n\nBut her husband - who has fought an extraordinary, high-profile campaign for her release - doubts that she will be allowed to fly home.\n\nHe describes his wife as a hostage - used as a bargaining chip over a long-standing debt that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nNazanin misses her daughter Gabriella, six, \"all the time\", her husband has previously said\n\n\"The Revolutionary Guard have been completely consistent over the past five years - that they arrested Nazanin as leverage for the tank debt,\" says Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"They've held her all the time that it's not being paid. And I think that if the tank debt is not paid, not only will Nazanin and other dual nationals continue to be held but more collateral will be taken.\"\n\nHer case may also be caught up in negotiations over Iran's nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which the UK is working with European allies to revive.\n\n\"There's the potential for this to drag on and on,\" says Mr Ratcliffe. \"It's perfectly possible that Nazanin gets a new court case thrown at her.\n\n\"The family have never seen a copy of the charges on which she was sentenced. There is no written documentation on anything. So they preserve the space to make it up as they go along at every stage.\"\n\nHe worries about the impact that any prolongation of the family's separation will have on both his wife and Gabriella, now six, who has also been counting down the days until her mother's release - on a calendar she made herself.\n\nShe returned to the UK to live with her father and start school in October 2019, hoping that her mother would soon follow behind.\n\n\"Gabriella has been promised so many times that 'Mummy is coming home soon,'\" says her father.\n\nNazanin was temporarily reunited with her daughter while on a three-day release from prison in 2018\n\nThe darkest period for Nazanin herself came in 2016, when she was held alone in a dark room, incommunicado. Her interrogators told her, wrongly, that Richard was having affairs and that they had photographic evidence.\n\n\"I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through,\" Mr Ratcliffe says.\n\n\"It's a very practised technique of really breaking someone. That fear and abuse led her to feel suicidal. She said to me: 'It would be better if I just died and you could get on with your lives.'\"\n\nIn her first letter from jail to her husband, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote in despair: \"Every day and every second I would submerge more and more in an ocean of doubt, fear, threat, loneliness... my wails would go unheard in that tiny, dingy, cold, grey cell.\"\n\nBeing parted from her daughter for so long has been a source of agony and guilt.\n\nShe apologised to her daughter from jail, saying: \"Forgive me for all the nights I was not by your side to hold your warm, little hand till you fall asleep.\n\n\"Forgive me for all those moments you missed the bosom of your mother, for all those teething fever nights that I was not there for you; forgive me.\"\n\nGabriella returned to the UK to start school in 2019\n\nSeparated by thousands of miles, the family now speaks twice a day over Skype.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is now 42, watches Gabriella draw and they play games together.\n\nGabriella looks forward to swimming with her mother, and going to a toy shop - one day.\n\nThe couple hope to have another child, but fear that time may now be against them.\n\nLate last month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, phoned Ms Zahari-Ratcliffe in Tehran, reassuring her that the government is doing all it can to bring her home, but managing expectations of an imminent release.\n\nThe Foreign Office says that she and other dual British-Iranian nationals are \"arbitrarily detained\" by the Iranian government. It adds: \"We do not accept Iran detaining dual nationals as diplomatic leverage.\"\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe has been critical of the UK government's approach.\n\n\"Not to do anything that's going to rock the boat means there's no cost whatsoever to the hostage takers to continue the practice and to continue to wait,\" he says.\n\n\"And so both sides can wait each other out because they're not the ones bearing the cost of the waiting - whereas the victim and the family certainly are.\"\n\nAs for what might happen on Sunday and over the next few months, Richard says, stoically: \"Fate will deal us the hand it deals us. But one day the sun will come.\"", "People aged 56 to 59 in England are being invited to book their coronavirus vaccine from this week.\n\nLetters for people in the age group, offering them the vaccine, started being delivered to homes on Saturday.\n\nIt comes after eight in 10 people aged 65 to 69 have taken up the offer of a jab, NHS England said.\n\nBut the Office for National Statistics (ONS ) has warned the UK is \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nMore than 18 million people in England have already had one dose of the vaccine - over a third of the entire adult population.\n\nThe latest figures show that across the UK, nearly 21.4 million people have now had one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, with more than a million now having had both doses required.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, NHS England national medical director for primary care, said: \"The NHS vaccine programme is committed to protecting the country against coronavirus, and it is testament to our incredible staff that we can now move on to the next age group.\"\n\nShe praised the \"careful planning and the hard work\" of their staff in carrying out so many vaccinations so far.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to come forward \"as soon as possible\" when offered a vaccine.\n\nThe aim is to vaccinate everyone aged 18 or over in the UK with one dose by the end of July, and the government says it is on track to make this deadline.\n\nSome 27% of people in Wales aged 55 to 59, and 22% of those aged 50 to 54, have already had their first dose of a Covid vaccine, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nIt comes as the head of the ONS says the current lockdown has been a success, but the UK is \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nNational statistician Prof Sir Ian Diamond told the BBC there had been \"very strong reductions\" in case numbers overall, but that in the north-east and east of England the decline has \"flattened off, potentially\".\n\nOther areas, like the South West and South East, have continued to see cases decline, Prof Diamond said.\n\nThe ONS conducts a survey of thousands of households to gauge the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThere has been a decline in the number of cases in the UK, with the most recent figures, reported on Saturday, showing a further 6,040 positive tests.\n\nThe number of deaths in the UK has also been falling, with a further 158 within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported in the latest government figures.\n\nThis has coincided with the success of the UK's vaccination programme, which has seen two-fifths of adults receive a first dose so far.\n\nLockdowns have been in place across the UK since early January. On Monday, restrictions in England will begin to be eased as many pupils return to school.\n\nDeaths from coronavirus have fallen by 41% in a week, while hospital admissions have seen their fastest-ever fall, the health secretary said on Friday.\n\nMr Hancock said the average number of cases was 6,685 per day, the lowest since late September.\n\nMeanwhile, an infectious disease expert said the \"next few weeks are going to be crucial\" for keeping infection rates down with the full reopening of schools.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's SPI-M modelling advisory panel, told Times Radio the R number - which shows the rate at which coronavirus is spreading - would rise when children go back to their classrooms, but the continuing progress of vaccinations would cause it to reduce.\n\nThere are concerns about getting parental consent for Covid tests ahead of pupils' return to schools. A survey found more than half of secondary head teachers had faced difficulties getting parental approval so far.\n\nQuestions have been raised too about the accuracy of the rapid lateral flow tests being used, while critics of masks for older pupils say they will harm learning.", "Gorman was the youngest poet to ever perform at a presidential inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman, the young poet who found global fame after performing at President Joe Biden's inauguration, has shared her experience of alleged racial profiling by a security guard.\n\nThe 22-year-old said on Twitter that she was accosted on a walk home on Friday and told \"you look suspicious\".\n\n\"This is the reality of black girls: One day you're called an icon, the next day, a threat,\" she wrote.\n\nGorman received widespread acclaim for her reading of The Hill We Climb.\n\nHer poem was seen as a rousing and timely call for national unity - delivered at the US Capitol just weeks after it was the scene of deadly riots.\n\nTweeting about her experience, Gorman described being \"tailed\" by the security guard who she said offered no apology after she was able to prove she lived in her own apartment building.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 revealing her experience, she re-shared a post she made in February which said: \"We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old\" - in reference to a recent incident in Rochester, New York.\n\n\"Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who've been made invisible. I can not, will not, rise alone.\"\n\nIn a second tweet about the incident, Gorman added: \"In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater, she returned to Twitter to thank people for their support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Amanda Gorman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC has contacted her for further comment.\n\nGorman's social media posts have been widely shared - highlighted as an example of the everyday prejudice faced by black people in the US.\n\n\"Let this story sink in,\" Mark Keam, a state legislator in Virginia, tweeted. \"And realise how - while I'm glad it ended safe for @TheAmandaGorman - this type of confrontation is an every day occurrence for millions of our fellow Americans.\"\n\nIn her inauguration poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman became the city's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she was named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe was the youngest poet to ever perform at a presidential inauguration and her performance was praised by influential national figures, including former First Ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority has expressed its \"concern\" over claims by Sheikh Mohammed's daughter, Princess Latifa, that she has been imprisoned by her father and fears for her life.\n\nDubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, is racing's biggest benefactor, the owner of global racehorse operation Godolphin and the Newmarket-based stallion breeding operation, Darley.\n\nNearly three weeks after Panorama revealed secret videos filmed by Princess Latifa, the governing body has addressed the issue for the first time.\n\nJulie Harrington, the BHA's new CEO, said the organisation \"shares the concerns\" raised by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and described the footage as \"clearly distressing\".\n\nShe confirmed that the BHA has been in contact with the UK Government on the matter.\n\nThe United Nations said on Friday it has not yet seen evidence that Princess Latifa is still alive.\n• None What does Princess Latifa case mean for British sport?\n• None Princess Latifa 'being cared for at home' - Dubai royal family\n• None Princess Latifa: UN 'yet to see proof of life' from UAE\n\nA year has passed - without comment from the BHA - since the family division of the High Court found Sheikh Mohammed to have been responsible for a campaign of intimidation against his former wife Princess Haya and for the abduction and forced return of two of his daughters from a different marriage - including Princess Latifa.\n\nThe Sheikh insisted he was unable to participate in the court's fact-finding process, resulting in a judgement he said \"inevitably only tells one side of the story\".\n\nA Dubai Royal Family statement released after the Panorama programme said Latifa was being cared for at home and the media coverage was \"not reflective of the actual position\".\n\nThe Jockey Club - which owns Newmarket Racecourse, of which Godolphin is a sponsor - has also not commented on either matter.\n\nIn response to questions from the BBC, Harrington said: \"We have heard the public comments made by the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, in which he expressed concern about the distressing pictures shown on television.\n\n\"I share his concern - the footage clearly is distressing and we support Mr Raab's position that the UN human rights body should lead this investigation.\n\n\"We have taken time to consider the issues since Mr Raab spoke. These are complex matters, involving an overseas state with strategic ties to the United Kingdom. The matters go well beyond the world of racing, and the UN is involved.\n\n\"We can confirm that as part of this, we have been in contact with the British government to explain our responsibilities as regulator, as well as to highlight a significant investment and contribution to the British racing industry.\n\n\"We cannot discuss contact with government further and we are also not going to confirm whether we are or are not taking any action.\"\n\nWithin the BHA's rules on the suitability of owners, it says: \"The criteria to which the authority will have regard in assessing honesty and integrity, include… whether the applicant has been the subject of any adverse finding by a judge in any civil proceedings.\"\n\nHowever, the BHA's policy means it will not disclose whether investigations are ongoing.\n\nHarrington - who took the helm of the BHA in January after leaving British Cycling - warned separately that racing is facing an \"existential crisis\".\n\nShe made the comments in an interview with the Racing Post, primarily focused on the fallout from the photograph of trainer Gordon Elliott sitting astride the body of a dead racehorse - for which he has been banned for 12 months, with the second 6 months suspended.\n\nHowever, she has also encountered several other issues in her first two months in the role, including the Panorama allegations about Sheikh Mohammed, the ongoing impact of coronavirus and gambling reforms which could cost the industry more than £60m.\n\n\"People use the phrase 'existential crisis' and I don't think that is underestimating it,\" Harrington told the newspaper.\n\n\"To see our sport on the front pages for the wrong reasons, and for the general public to have been given the perception our horses are not cared for, is a crisis for the industry.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A member of staff delivered the snack to the helicopter pilot\n\nA helicopter pilot's 80-mile round trip to pick up a beef sandwich from a farm shop was a \"flagrant abuse\" of lockdown rules, a councillor has said.\n\nA video posted online on Tuesday showed the man landing for his \"roast beef in gravy barm with caramelised onion\" at Chipping Farm Shop near Preston.\n\nA flight radar website tracked the helicopter to the shop from City Airport in Salford.\n\nThe pilot and farm shop have been contacted for comment.\n\nA video posted by the shop on Instagram showed the helicopter landing nearby and a member of staff delivering the sandwich to the pilot.\n\nThe post included a comment from the shop about what happens \"when your customers are literally flying in for your roast beef in caramelised onion gravy barms\".\n\nThe shop has since deleted its account on Facebook, which had also posted videos of the helicopter's arrival.\n\nA local resident, who has asked not to be named, said he tracked the helicopter online and had seen it travel from Salford to the shop, which was not connected to a farm, and back again.\n\nHe told the BBC the shop served \"takeaway drinks and snacks to the many cyclists who come here [and] earlier this week there were 20 plus of them and a helicopter for the second day running\".\n\nSimon Hore, who represents the Chipping ward on Ribble Valley Borough Council, said the helicopter trip \"does seem to be a flagrant abuse of the restrictions on travel under the current lockdown rules\".\n\n\"All premises need to ensure that they are observing rules,\" the Conservative councillor said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was looking into what had happened, while Lancashire Police said any complaint it received about the trip would be passed to the neighbouring force.\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.", "Bennylyn Burke was last seen at her South Gloucestershire home on 17 February\n\nThe disappearance of a woman and her two-year-old daughter is now being treated as murder, say Police Scotland.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police issued an appeal last week to trace 25-year-old Bennylyn Burke and two children from South Gloucestershire.\n\nA man, 50, was arrested on Friday at a property in Troon Avenue, Dundee.\n\nHe has been charged in connection with the deaths of Ms Burke and her daughter Jellica and is due to appear at court in Dundee on Monday.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing to establish their whereabouts.\n\nThe second child reported missing has been traced and is being supported, the force added.\n\nThe house on Troon Avenue in Dundee was cordoned off and a tent erected at the property\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, from the force's major investigation team, said: \"We are now treating the disappearances as a murder investigation and I would urge anyone with any information to please come forward and speak to us.\n\n\"This is a complex enquiry involving both local officers in Dundee and specialist resources from across Police Scotland.\n\n\"Bennylyn's next of kin have been updated on the arrest and are being supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset Police.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\n\n\"There will be an increased police presence in the area for a considerable period of time and I would like to thank the local community for their cooperation.\"\n\nDet Supt Mackie asked anyone with information to speak to local officers or to call Police Scotland via 101.\n\nOfficers went to the house in Dundee on Friday afternoon as part of their inquiries into the disappearance\n\nMs Burke and two children were reported missing on 1 March. Avon and Somerset Police put out an appeal for information two days later.\n\nThe force said the 25-year-old was last seen at her home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, on 17 February.\n\nOfficers in Dundee attended the property in Troon Avenue at around 15:20 GMT on Friday.\n\nThere was a large police presence around the property, which is near Downfield in the north of Dundee, with dozens of police and forensic officers at the scene.\n\nPolice Scotland closed off the street with a cordon around the house.\n\nA blue tent has also been erected in the front garden to cover a waste skip and yellow polythene has been used to cover windows at the back of the property.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency crews were called at about midday to reports of a stabbing\n\nA 16-year-old girl has died and two men have been arrested after suffering serious injuries in the Rhondda.\n\nThe teenager's death in Treorchy was \"sudden and unexplained\" and a post-mortem examination is due, South Wales Police said.\n\nEmergency crews were called at about midday to reports of a stabbing in Baglan Street, which is sealed off.\n\nPolice said those involved were known to each other and no one else was being sought over the matter.\n\nThe girl's family is being supported by specially-trained officers and efforts are being made to contact other relatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 16-year-old died in the incident and two men, who are in hospital, were arrested\n\nSupt Rich Jones, said: \"This is clearly a very serious incident which has caused significant shock and concern for both the local and wider community.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives working hard to establish the exact circumstances that have led to the tragic death of this young girl.\"\n\nThe investigation was \"still in its early stages\".\n\nPolice have urged the public to \"refrain from speculation\" about what has happened\n\n\"There will be significant police presence in Baglan Street over the weekend but we will reopen the road at the earliest opportunity,\" Supt Jones said.\n\n\"In the meantime, the support and understanding of the local community is very much appreciated.\"\n\nThe police cordon was erected around a takeaway restaurant called Blue Sky, with a small white tent placed outside the premises.\n\nThe public has been urged by police to \"refrain from speculation\" about the incident.\n\nPolice are not looking for anyone else in connection with the inquiry\n\nA spokesman said: \"We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, our hazardous area response team and the Wales Air Ambulance.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant tweeted he was aware of \"disturbing events on Baglan Street\" and later said he understood police were not looking for anyone else in connection to 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\nHe said: \"Because there have been so many emergency services turning up, people thought there must be some massive manhunt going on.\n\n\"I can reassure everyone the police are in control of the situation.\"\n\nMr Bryant described what had happened as \"a very worrying and upsetting episode\".\n\n\"You just don't think that something like this is going to happen in the Rhondda,\" he said.\n\n\"But I can reassure everyone, having spoken to the police, they are completely on top of the situation.\n\n\"They are not looking for anybody else as I understand it.\"\n\nMr Bryant also said that primary school Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Ynyswen had been aware and had taken \"all necessary precautions\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said his thoughts were with \"everyone in the community\".\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\nSarah Belgrove, 54, who lives a few doors from the scene, said the air ambulance was forced to land some way from Baglan Street.\n\n\"The helicopter was in the sky and had to land in the school, in the playground - it's like a football field,\" she said.\n\n\"The paramedics who got out of the helicopter flagged down some cars to give them a lift to the to the scene.\"\n\nNeighbour Mavis Wakeford, 79, added: \"I've lived here all my life and nothing like this has ever happened before.\"\n\nAndrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, tweeted his thanks to emergency services for \"the significant attendance which is ongoing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Cllr Andrew Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Wales Air Ambulance landed in Ynyswen at 13:00 GMT from Mid Wales Airport in Powys.\n\nPolice urged anyone who may have witnessed the events in Baglan Street to contact the force.\n\nDid you witness the incident? Tell us your story 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.", "What are the benefits and risks of mass testing in schools?\n\nTo reduce the risk of spread of the virus, the government has introduced mass testing, with all secondary school pupils offered three tests on their return before being asked to carry them out twice a week at home. These will be rapid lateral flow tests that provide a quick result on the spot, unlike the ones that are carried out in official testing centres - known as PCR tests - that are sent off to labs. The rapid tests are less accurate - they may pick up only between half to three-quarters of positive cases, but given they are being used to spot cases before people develop symptoms or for those who do not develop symptoms, the government is adamant they have an important role. The problem is they can result in a false positive, telling people they are infected when they are not. Research suggests this happens one to three times for every 1,000 tests carried out. One safeguard would be to get anyone who tests positive to then take a PCR test to confirm it. This is being done for tests that are done in people's homes, but not for those carried out in school. Assuming most pupils take up the option of the tests, that could result in thousands of pupils and their close contacts being asked to isolate unnecessarily. That may be a price worth paying if it was spotting many more positives, but the testing done in schools in recent weeks, of pupils and staff who have been attending, shows the number testing positive is now at the lower estimate for the false positivity rate.", "Detectives have asked people in the area to check footage on any cameras that might have captured her\n\nThe family of a woman who has been missing since Wednesday say they long to see her again and have urged anyone with information to contact police.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, was last seen at a friend's house in Leathwaite Road in Battersea, London, at about 21:00 GMT when she left through the back gate.\n\nShe is thought to have walked across Clapham Common, and was due to arrive home in Brixton 50 minutes later.\n\nHer family said not being in contact was \"totally out of character\" for her.\n\n\"With every day that goes by we are getting more worried about Sarah,\" they said.\n\n\"She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this.\n\n\"We long to see her and want nothing more than for her to be found safe and well.\n\n\"We are desperate for news and if anyone knows anything about what has happened to her, we would urge you to please come forward and speak to the police.\n\n\"No piece of information is too insignificant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Ch Insp Ian Kenward said police were \"working around the clock to try and locate Sarah\"\n\nDetectives said after Ms Everard left her friend's house, she went onto the A205 South Circular and is thought to have crossed Clapham Common.\n\nIt is unclear whether she returned to her home.\n\nOfficers have released a CCTV image of her taken earlier in the evening when she went to Sainsbury's to buy a bottle of wine before heading to her friend's house.\n\nShe was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers.\n\nShe was also thought to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.\n\nSarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nPolice have asked people to check dashcam and doorbell footage from these areas:\n\nSpecialist officers and volunteers from London Search and Rescue are carrying out searches in the area of Clapham Common and the walking route between Clapham and Brixton.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ian Kenward said: \"We are also growing increasingly concerned for her welfare and have officers working round the clock to try and find her.\n\n\"I would ask anybody who was in the Clapham Common area on Wednesday night to think about whether you saw Sarah or any suspicious activity around the time of her disappearance.\"\n\nHe added officers were investigating lots of enquiries but said he did not want to go into specifics.\n\n\"We will continue searching as long as we need to,\" he said.\n• None Fears grow for woman who vanished on walk home\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Firefighters were called to the scene at about 05:44 GMT\n\nA child has died following a fire in a block of flats in south London.\n\nA 34-year-old woman and two children were rescued from the top floor of a split-level maisonette on Russett Way, Greenwich, just before 06:00 GMT.\n\nAll three were taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service, where one of the children died. The woman and second child remain in a serious condition.\n\nA spokesperson for London Fire Brigade said the blaze was brought under control at about 07:00.\n\nSix engines and about 40 firefighters from crews based in Greenwich, Lewisham, Deptford, New Cross, Lee Green and East Greenwich were at the scene.\n\nThe cause of the fire is being investigated by London Fire Brigade and the Met Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The SUV being driven by the champion golfer was badly damaged in the crash\n\nTiger Woods was found unconscious after his car crash in California last month, it has emerged.\n\nA man who lives nearby said he heard the crash and walked to the scene where he found the golfer with his face and chin covered in blood, court documents based on a police affidavit show.\n\nHe said he tried to speak to the champion but did not get a response.\n\nWoods required lengthy surgery to a fractured leg and shattered ankle after the accident in Los Angeles County.\n\nPolice have said there was no evidence that he was impaired by drugs or alcohol.\n\nThe first emergency crews who arrived at the scene reported that Woods was \"calm and lucid\" as he was cut from the wreck of the SUV.\n\nIt had not been previously disclosed that Woods had lost consciousness.\n\nIn the affidavit, filed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, police said that Woods could not remember driving. Officers had to tell him he had been in a crash, according to the documents.\n\nThe local resident who first found him has not been named.\n\nPolice filed the affidavit in order to try to obtain the SUV's data recorder for the investigation into what caused the crash. \"I believe the data will explain how/why the collision occurred,\" Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Johann Schloegl wrote.\n\nPolice have said Tiger Woods was lucky to survive such a serious crash\n\nPolice have previously said that Woods was driving alone along a downhill stretch of road that has a high frequency of accidents.\n\nHis car struck the central reservation, crossed into the opposite lane, rolled over several times and then plunged off the road and down an embankment.\n\nCounty Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said that it was \"purely an accident\".\n\nWoods suffered \"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\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", "The current lockdown has been a success but the UK is \"not out of the woods\" yet, the head of the Office for National Statistics has warned.\n\nNational statistician Prof Sir Ian Diamond said there had been \"very strong reductions\" in case numbers.\n\nBut in the north-east and east of England the decline has \"flattened off, potentially\", he told the BBC.\n\nOther areas, like the South West and South East, have continued to see cases decline, Prof Diamond said.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics conducts a survey of thousands of households to gauge the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThere has been a decline in the number of cases in the UK, with the most recent figures, reported on Saturday, showing a further 6,040 positive tests.\n\nThe number of deaths in the UK has also been falling, with a further 158 within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported in the latest government figures.\n\nThis has coincided with the success of the UK's vaccination programme, which has seen two-fifths of adults receive a first dose so far.\n\nLockdowns have been in place across the UK since early January. On Monday, restrictions in England will begin to be eased as many pupils return to school.\n\nProf Diamond said: \"I think this lockdown has been a success but at the same time, while we have seen major reductions, we are still relatively high.\n\n\"I'm in very much the view that we should do everything we can not to blow it nationally.\n\n\"We have done fantastically well in the last couple of months but we are not completely out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"very difficult\" to work out the difference between the impact of the lockdown and the vaccination scheme, but it was clear both were working in reducing the number of cases.\n\nDeaths from coronavirus have fallen by 41% in a week, while hospital admissions have seen their fastest ever fall, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Friday.\n\nHe said the average number of cases was 6,685 per day, the lowest since late September.\n\nMeanwhile, an infectious disease expert said the \"next few weeks are going to be crucial\" for keeping infection rates down with the full reopening of schools.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's SPI-M modelling advisory panel, told Times Radio the R number - which shows the rate at which coronavirus is spreading - would rise when children go back to their classrooms, but the continuing progress of vaccinations would cause it to reduce.\n\nHe said: \"We do need to get this balancing act correct and we need to open up at the rate of vaccinations and keep the R number in check, as it were.\n\n\"Definitely things are moving in the right direction but the next few weeks are going to be crucial for us to monitor what happens when schools open.\"\n\nThere are concerns about getting parental consent for Covid tests ahead of pupils' return to schools. A survey found more than half of secondary head teachers had faced difficulties getting parental approval so far.\n\nQuestions have been raised too about the accuracy of the rapid lateral flow tests being used, while critics of masks for older pupils say they will harm learning.", "Two men are in police custody following the incident\n\nA murder investigation has now been launched, with police naming a 16-year-old who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSouth Wales Police closed off Baglan Street, Treorchy, at about midday on Friday, with the girl reported to have died and two men injured.\n\nOfficers have now named the victim as Wenjing Xu, with her death being treated as murder, and men aged 38 and 31 in custody.\n\nIn a tribute, her family said she had \"a very gentle soul\".\n\nDescribing her as \"a very quiet person\", it continued: \"Wenjing helped the whole family, working in the family takeaway.\n\n\"She enjoyed school and worked very hard. She was loved by her family.\"\n\nA police cordon was erected around a takeaway restaurant called Blue Sky on Friday, with a small white tent placed outside the premises.\n\nSenior investigating Officer, Det Ch Insp Mark Lewis, said: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident - our thoughts are with Wenjing's family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\n\n\"I can reassure the community that at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\"\n\nA 31-year-old man, known to the victim, was arrested on suspicion of murder, and a 38-year-old man is also in police custody in connection with the incident.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called to Baglan Street at about 12:00 GMT\n\nBoth are being treated in hospital as a result of injuries sustained during the incident.\n\nThe public had been urged by police to \"refrain from speculation\" about the incident. Local MP Chris Bryant tweeted he was aware of \"disturbing events\".\n\nThe girl's family is being supported by specially trained officers and efforts are being made to contact other relatives.\n\nResident Sarah Belgrove, 54, who lives a few doors from the scene, said the air ambulance was forced to land some way from Baglan Street.\n\n\"The paramedics who got out of the helicopter flagged down some cars to give them a lift to the scene,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to an \"incident at an address in the Ynyswen area of of Treorchy\" at 12:00 GMT.\n\n\"We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, three emergency ambulances, our hazardous area response team and the Wales Air Ambulance,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nSupt Rich Jones, from South Wales Police, said there would be a \"significant police presence in Baglan Street over the weekend\" as investigations continued.\n\nRhondda MP Mr Bryant said lots of people knew the girl and her family and would be \"absolutely devastated\".\n\n\"You don't think of these kind of events happening in the Rhondda,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n• None Girl, 16, dead and two hurt in 'serious incident'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workplace Covid testing is now available to all businesses in England, the government has announced, including those with fewer than 50 employees.\n\nBusinesses of all sizes can register from Saturday to order lateral flow tests for their workers, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.\n\nRapid Covid-19 testing provides results in less than 30 minutes, helping people to \"isolate immediately\", DHSC said.\n\nThe tests are free until 30 June, and companies can register until 31 March.\n\nThe hope is that asymptomatic cases can be detected quickly, thereby preventing workplace outbreaks.\n\nSo far, more than 3,500 businesses have signed up to offer workplace testing programmes, the DHSC said, and more than 14,000 have registered their interest in offering rapid testing.\n\nInitially, only businesses with 250 or more employees were eligible to access lateral flow tests. This was reduced to 50 last month.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said that regular workplace testing was \"a vital part of our route back to normal life\".\n\nHe said: \"These rapid tests will allow positive cases of Covid-19 to be caught quickly, which is crucial in helping businesses protect their workplaces and employees as we cautiously lift restrictions.\"\n\nBut people are still being advised to work from home where they can.\n\nBusinesses have welcomed the wider rollout of workplace testing.\n\nMike Cherry, national chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said helping businesses to introduce testing was \"fundamental to bringing the coronavirus under control and ensuring that this current lockdown is the last\".\n\nMatthew Fell, Confederation of British Industry chief UK policy director, said: \"Businesses appreciate that regular mass testing can play a vital role in a safe re-opening, helping to build staff confidence and adding a layer of resilience to help firms stay open.\"", "A further four deaths related to Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThat brings its total during the pandemic to 2,072.\n\nThere have been 113,517 positive cases of the virus recorded in NI after an additional 172 cases were confirmed.\n\nHospital occupancy rates, according to the latest figures, stands at 91%, while there are 18 active outbreaks in NI care homes.\n\nThat is 10 fewer care home outbreaks than seven days ago.\n\nThe department updated its daily dashboard on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIt shows there are 226 Covid-19 inpatients across Northern Ireland's hospitals, 117 less than a week ago.\n\nThirty patients remain in intensive care, while there are 25 coronavirus patients requiring ventilation.\n\nThe Department of Health's figures related to a 24-hour period and are based on a positive confirmed test result.\n\nThe latest figures come a day after the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) recorded a fall in its record of Covid-related deaths for the fifth week in a row.\n\nNisra's figures, which are based on counting when the virus is mentioned on death certificates, indicated that 55 people died with the virus in the week up to Friday, 26 February, giving it a total death toll of 2,806.\n\nAbout 30% of Northern Ireland's population have now had a first vaccine against Covid-19.\n\nOn Saturday, it was announced that the Republic of Ireland had hit a milestone of 500,000 vaccines administered.\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\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin hailed the achievement as \"good news\" on social media, adding that vaccines were having \"a significant impact on mortality and serious illness\".\n\nHe said the government and the Health Service Executive (HSE) were doing everything they can to secure supplies and to give vaccines to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe country's Department of Health said on Saturday that there had been 14 more additional Covid-related deaths, taking the Republic's death toll to 4,419.\n\nThere were also 539 more positive cases of the virus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDaniel Amartey scored a late winner as Leicester City came from behind to beat Brighton and boost their bid for Champions League qualification.\n\nThe defender stooped low to head into an empty net after Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez failed to claim Marc Albrighton's corner.\n\nKelechi Iheanacho began the fightback with his second goal in as many games.\n\nHe cancelled out Adam Lallana's first Brighton goal, which ended a 503-day drought without scoring.\n\nVictory lifted Leicester above Manchester United and into second place in the Premier League, while extending their unbeaten away run to 10 league games.\n\nBrighton remain three points above the relegation zone in 16th.\n\nLeicester were on course for a top-four finish last season before falling away after the postponement because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTalisman Jamie Vardy has scored only once in his past 11 league games, but Iheanacho is producing the goals to fill the void.\n\nHaving rescued a point at Burnley on Wednesday, Iheanacho latched on to Youri Tielemans' exquisite no-look through ball to lift the ball over Sanchez for the equaliser.\n\nAmartey was the beneficiary when Albrighton whipped in an excellent late corner and Sanchez was unable to free his arms and punch the ball clear in the melee of bodies.\n\nLeicester have the best away record in the division, and with key playmaker James Maddison likely to return before the end of the season, their credentials are looking strong.\n\nEngland midfielder Lallana arrived at Brighton last summer with the intention of securing regular football after playing a fringe roll in Liverpool's title win.\n\nInjuries have cost the 32-year-old a consistent run in the side, but this was his best performance for Brighton.\n\nHe latched on to Neal Maupay's through ball to smash past Kasper Schmeichel from inside the area with aplomb.\n\nMoments later, Lallana's cushioned left-footed pass set up Maupay, who was marginally offside.\n\nLallana was playing with confidence and was denied a second goal by a smart save from Schmeichel with the scores level.\n\nThe Seagulls are in danger of being sucked into the bottom three but keeping Lallana fit may be their best route to another season in the top flight.\n\n'It feels sore' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter told BBC Sport: \"It feels sore. Overall our performance - certainly the first half - was good. We were close to getting a second.\n\n\"In the second half, Leicester responded and we didn't play as well. Still, we had some opportunities but it felt like a draw might have been the right result.\n\n\"There was no problem with the approach and intention of the team. We made a few too many errors against a team going for the Champions League. The goal at the end is a bit of a blow.\n\n\"Adam Lallana did some really nice touches, nice combinations. He helped the team, kept us going. He was a positive for us.\"\n\nLeicester City boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"Brighton were better than us in the first half - we were too slow and not aggressive enough. They deservedly went in front.\n\n\"They were excellent; they are a good side. You can see why they beat top teams.\n\n\"We had to look at things at half-time. We were outstanding in the second half. The players were brilliant.\n\n\"It was a change of mindset; we needed to be more aggressive. Once we did that we had more energy on the ball.\"\n• None Leicester have faced Brighton more often in the Premier League without losing than they have against any other side (eight games - W6 D2).\n• None Brighton have dropped 17 points from winning positions this season, their most in a single Premier League campaign. Only Southampton (18) have dropped more in 2020-21.\n• None No side has won fewer home points in the Premier League than Brighton this season (10), while Leicester have won four more on the road than any other side this term (34).\n• None Brighton scored with their only shot on target in the first half, while Leicester scored with both their shots on target in the second.\n\nBrighton make the trip along the south coast to face Southampton on 14 March at 12:00 GMT, while Leicester host Sheffield United at 14:00.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Wilfred Ndidi tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Leicester City 2. Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt missed. Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What happens when being a troll becomes the new normal?\n• None Another chance to hear their legendary Essential Mix", "Campaigners say centres of excellence could help lupus patients in Wales\n\nCalls have been made for specialist help in Wales to treat an incurable, life-limiting condition which takes an average of six years to diagnose.\n\nAn estimated 2,000 people in Wales are affected by lupus.\n\nCampaigner Wendy Diment said centres of excellence would \"extend the lives\" of lupus patients in Wales.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said health boards could refer people for further treatment if it was not available locally.\n\nThere is currently no cure for lupus and it occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy parts of the body.\n\n\"Many GPs and even consultant rheumatologists have limited experience in diagnosing, treating and monitoring patients with lupus, which means that specialist care is often required,\" said Paul Howard, chief executive of charity Lupus UK.\n\nHe has called for investment in services - but until then, wants rules over cross-border referrals relaxed, so care in England's nine centres of excellence can be accessed by people in Wales.\n\nResearch suggests people with lupus in Wales were twice as likely to be refused specialist help than in the rest of the UK.\n\nLupus is estimated to affect one in 1,000 people in the UK\n\nFor Mrs Diment, 46, the crippling fatigue and headaches would often leave her confined to her bed in tears.\n\n\"Some days I couldn't get out of my pyjamas. If I had a shower, I'd need a lie down. It takes a long time to get used to it, it's overwhelming and frustrating,\" she said.\n\nMrs Diment, from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, believes the 'trigger' for her condition was the birth of her third child in 2008.\n\nAt first she put the symptoms down to tiredness, though she had to quit her job as a legal executive, aged 35.\n\nIt was not until four years later that a chance occurrence led to her diagnosis for the rare autoimmune disease.\n\n\"I became quite unwell in 2013, and had horrific rashes [another symptom of lupus] on my chest, feet and face. It seemed quite bizarre,\" she said.\n\n\"Steroids cleared it up and I forgot about it. But in October of that year, I was in bed at 7pm suffering from severe fatigue, when my husband watched a television programme on a new drug for a rare condition.\n\n\"He woke me up and said 'lupus'. It was the first time I'd heard of it.\"\n\nShe was diagnosed with a type of lupus that year, but the rashes that had appeared made her believe it was a different variant of the complex condition she was suffering from.\n\nIt would take another four years - and paying to see a specialist in London - until her suspicions were proved right.\n\nWhile she acknowledges things have improved since the 1960s when it was treated as \"a terminal illness with survival not great past five years\", Mrs Diment still sees \"a bundle of prejudices\" around it.\n\nSome 90% of patients are women and it is sometimes treated in relation to mental health or dismissed as \"women saying they're tired\", she added.\n\nBy taking 15 tablets a day, Mrs Diment is able to now focus on essentials, such as preparing meals for her children, as well as campaigning and running a support group for 50 other sufferers.\n\nLupus can be hard to diagnose because of the wide variety of symptoms between patients\n\nShe wants to see centres of excellence established in north and south Wales to employ specialists, researchers and nurses to help with health and lifestyle.\n\n\"I get frustrated how many ask for referrals to England or second opinions on their diagnosis,\" she said.\n\n\"They are so poorly and unwell, they don't question the system, just accept it as their fate.\n\n\"In England it is a specialism, so they have improved outcomes.\n\n\"People in Wales would just like reassurances they are getting the best care which can extend their lives.\"\n\nHer local Senedd Member, Paul Davies, said: \"I hope the Welsh Government will at least commit to looking at establishing centres of excellence in Wales, so people here have access to the same level of support and services that patients do in England.\"\n\nLes James was forced to retire early from a job he loved for the Ministry of Justice\n\nAmong those waiting for more specialised care is Les James, from Carmarthen.\n\nThe condition is far less common in men and Mr James has not been diagnosed by a doctor after nine years.\n\nHowever, he has shown many of the symptoms which can leave him in extreme pain for months at a time and is being helped by a lupus support group in west Wales.\n\nHe was forced to retire ten years ago, aged 53, and was given medication for a variety of conditions, including antiphospholipid syndrome - which also affects the immune system.\n\n\"For six months in 2019, I couldn't walk. My feet were so painful, it was like putting them on a cobbly beach,\" said Mr James, who takes 165 grams of morphine twice a day.\n\n\"Eventually, it went away. But I regularly get pains in my toes and heels.\"\n\nResearcher Mel Sloan found patients in Wales felt less satisfied with support than those in the rest of the UK\n\nCambridge University research associate Melanie Sloan - who has lupus - is leading a team surveying attitudes of patients.\n\nOf 236 respondents, 43% of those in Wales said they had been refused a referral to see a specialist, compared to 21% in the rest of the UK.\n\nCampaign group Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales said there is a lack of awareness of the \"huge impact\" and lack of investment in specialist services.\n\n\"Within our patient community, we hear far too often of women's symptoms being downplayed or not adequately managed and this has significant consequences for patients' long-term health,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nThe Welsh Government spokeswoman said it recognised the impact lupus can have on people's health and lives.\n\n\"We will be consulting about musculoskeletal conditions, including lupus, and their treatment,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\n\"We will continue to work with relevant organisations, including Lupus UK and Cymru Versus Arthritis, to improve treatment for people affected.\"\n\nAndrew Carruthers, director of operations at the Hywel Dda health board in west Wales, said it holds lupus clinics conducted by consultant rheumatologists.\n\nPatients who cannot be managed within the health board area are referred to tertiary centres of excellence as clinically required, he added.\n\nMr Carruthers said: \"We have participated in the British Society for Rheumatology lupus audit which showed the health board was above average for both the Welsh and UK average for most of the standards set out and we are committed to improving on these standards to further enhance the care for patients with lupus.\"\n• None Lupus UK - The National Charity for People Affected by Lupus The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Businessman John McAfee, creator of the McAfee anti-virus software, has been charged in the US with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.\n\nMr McAfee and his bodyguard Jimmy Gale Watson Jr are accused of promoting cryptocurrencies to Mr McAfee's large Twitter following to inflate prices.\n\nThe currencies were then allegedly sold, making the pair $2m (£1.45m), prosecutors said.\n\nThe men have not commented on the charges.\n\nMr McAfee, 75, is currently being detained in Spain in relation to separate criminal charges relating to tax, which he denies. He faces possible extradition to the US.\n\nMr Watson was arrested in Texas on Thursday.\n\n\"Jimmy Watson is a decorated veteran and former Navy Seal. He fought for other people's rights and liberties, and he is entitled to and looks forward to his day in court to exercise some of those very rights,\" said his lawyer Arnold Spencer.\n\nThe latest charges were filed in the Manhattan federal court in New York. The pair are accused of buying the cryptocurrency assets before promoting them on Twitter, where Mr McAfee has more than one million followers.\n\nThey would then sell the assets as soon as Mr McAfee's endorsements saw prices rise, according to the US justice department and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.\n\nThey allegedly made a further $11m (£8m) in payments from cryptocurrency start-ups for promoting their assets on Twitter, payments which were not disclosed to investors who bought them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat amounted to having \"exploited a widely used social media platform and enthusiasm among investors in the emerging cryptocurrency market to make millions through lies and deception,\" federal prosecutor Audrey Strauss said.\n\nIn the separate tax evasion case - which was announced last October - Mr McAfee is accused of failing to file any tax returns from 2014 to 2018. Prosecutors also say he used other people's names to conceal his assets, including a yacht and property.\n\nA controversial figure, he came to prominence in the 1980s when his company released the first commercial anti-virus software - McAfee VirusScan - and helped spark a multi-billion dollar industry.\n\nAlthough that business has since been sold to Intel, he still develops cyber-security products of his own.\n\nThe entrepreneur, who was born in the UK, also launched unsuccessful bids to become the Libertarian Party's candidate for the US presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.\n\nMr McAfee has previously expressed his disdain for taxes, tweeting in 2019 that he had not filed tax returns for years because \"taxation is illegal\".\n\nIn 2012, he made headlines after police in the Central American country of Belize investigated the death of one Mr McAfee's neighbours and named him as a \"person of interest\".\n\nMr McAfee left the country saying he feared for his own safety. Officials ultimately said he was not a suspect.", "Former journalist Allegra Stratton will front the Downing Street briefings\n\nDowning Street has spent more than £2.6m on fitting out a new media briefing room, it has emerged.\n\nNo 10 plans to start televised daily press conferences, like those held at the White House - to be fronted by spokeswoman Allegra Stratton.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the spending \"is in the public interest\" as it will \"increase public accountability and transparency.\"\n\nIt comes as further details emerged about plans to renovate Mr Johnson's Number 10 flat, including possibly asking the public to donate to it.\n\nThe Cabinet Office issued a breakdown of spending on the briefing room, which totalled £2,607,767.67.\n\nThe release was a response to a Freedom of Information request made by the Press Association news agency.\n\nThe money had been spent to allow various news organisations to broadcast from No 9 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.\n\n\"This will necessarily require one-off capital works, including audio-visual equipment, internet infrastructure, electrical works and lighting,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that \"spending on maintenance and technical facilities reflects that 9 Downing Street is a Grade I listed building.\"\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner contrasted the spending to the government's proposed 1% pay rise for NHS nurses.\n\nThe party's deputy leader said: \"It would take around 100 years for a newly qualified nurse to get paid this kind of money.\n\n\"It sums up Boris Johnson's warped priorities that he can find millions for vanity projects, while picking the pockets of NHS workers.\n\n\"Our NHS heroes deserve a fair pay rise after all they have done for us.\"\n\nAllegra Stratton's briefings have been delayed to allow for Covid briefings by ministers and officials\n\nThe FOI release detailed spending of over £1.8m for the \"main works\", nearly £200,000 for \"long lead items\", and more than £33,000 for broadband equipment.\n\nThe new briefings were expected to begin in the autumn, but have been delayed because of the pandemic.\n\nThey will be held by the prime minister's press secretary, Allegra Stratton.\n\nAn advert for her taxpayer-funded role said the salary would be based on experience, but reports suggested pay would be around £100,000 a year.\n\nAt the moment, political reporters based in Parliament, known as lobby correspondents, have daily briefings with the prime minister's official spokesperson, but they are not televised.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nWarning - this article contains an image that some people may find distressing\n\nLeading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has been banned for 12 months with the last six months suspended after being found guilty of bringing the sport into disrepute.\n\nIt followed the emergence of a photograph showing him sitting on a dead horse while on his phone.\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) issued the punishment on Friday.\n\nIt said the photo showed \"appalling bad taste\" by the Aintree Grand National-winning trainer and a \"complete absence of respect\" for the horse.\n\nIt added that the incident had caused serious damage to the reputation and integrity of horse racing.\n• None What now for racing and trainer after dead horse photo?\n• None The extraordinary rise and fall of Grand National-winning racehorse trainer\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has reciprocated the IHRB sanction and Elliott will now miss the Cheltenham Festival which starts on 16 March and the Grand National Festival next month\n\nHowever, the BHA added that if horses are transferred directly to other licensed trainers before Elliott's suspension starts on 9 March then they will be able to run at both meetings.\n\nIn a statement, 43-year-old Elliott, who has also been ordered to pay costs of 15,000 euros (£12,900), said he accepted the punishment and would not appeal.\n\n\"I am in this situation by my own action and I am not going to dodge away from this,\" he said.\n\n\"I was disrespectful to a dead horse, an animal that had been a loyal servant to me and was loved by my staff.\n\n\"I am paying a very heavy price for my error but I have no complaints. It breaks my heart to see the hurt I have caused to my colleagues, family, friends and supporters. I have a long road ahead of me but I will serve my time and then build back better.\"\n\nElliott said that the photo was taken in 2019 on the gallops following the death of the horse Morgan and that he took a phone call and sat down on the horse \"without thinking\".\n\nThe IHRB referrals committee accused the trainer of \"an extraordinary lack of judgement\" in allowing the photo to be taken when he knew or ought to have known that the result might well end up in public.\n\nIt also said that that Elliott offered no credible explanation.\n\nHowever, it added that the case was not one of cruelty to animals nor related to animal welfare, and the IHRB chief executive Denis Egan revealed after the verdict that an unannounced stable inspection of Elliott's yard this week led to no concerns about the horses in his care.\n\nThe committee further stated its belief that the publication of the photo was part of a \"concerted attack upon Mr Elliott, the full circumstances of which are unknown\".\n• None Can eating certain foods help?\n• None Daniel Radcliffe on his tense new prison-break thriller", "Sgt Gavin Hillier's father posted on Facebook paying tribute to his son\n\nA soldier who was killed during a live-fire training exercise at an army range has been named as Sgt Gavin Hillier of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.\n\nSgt Hillier died on Thursday evening after being fatally injured at Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Sgt Hillier's father said he was \"heartbroken\" by the death of his son.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: \"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this tragic time.\"\n\nIt added: \"An investigation is under way and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nSgt Hillier was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 2019 by Prince Charles, who is the colonel of the Welsh Guards\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had opened an investigation into the death of the soldier.\n\nPolice said officers were liaising with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Ministry of Defence.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries into the soldier's death.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Sgt Hillier's father said he was\"absolutely devastated\".\n\nThe Castlemartin range is one of a dozen army training estates in the UK\n\nSgt Hillier is the fourth member of the military to die at the range since 2012.\n\nIn 2017, two soldiers died in a tank explosion, which a coroner ruled was due to a design flaw.\n\nAn army captain was jailed in July 2018 after a 21-year-old soldier was killed by a stray bullet during an exercise at the range in 2012.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the Welsh Guards have a \"dual role\" as \"light role infantry\" and \"world class ceremonial soldiers, guarding the Royal Family and royal palaces such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London and conducting state ceremonial duties\".", "The Castlemartin Range is one of a dozen Army training estates in the UK\n\nA soldier has died during a live-fire training exercise at a British Army firing range.\n\nThe victim, who has not yet been named, was a sergeant in the Welsh Guards, the BBC understands.\n\nHe was fatally wounded at the Castlemartin base in Pembrokeshire, on Thursday night.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said next of kin has been informed. Dyfed Powys Police are being assisted by the Royal Military Police in the investigation.\n\nThe Defence Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in inquiries into the soldier's death.\n\n\"It is with great sadness we can confirm the death of a soldier on 4th March. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this tragic time,\" an Army spokesman said.\n\n\"The circumstances surrounding this death are being investigated and it would be inappropriate to comment any further.\"\n\nIt the latest in a number of accidents at Castlemartin.\n\nIn 2017, two soldiers died in a tank explosion, which a coroner ruled was due to a design flaw.\n\nAn Army captain was jailed in July 2018 after a 21-year-old soldier was killed by a stray bullet during an exercise at the range in 2012.\n\nAccording to the MoD, the Welsh Guards have a \"dual role\" as \"light role infantry\" and \"world class ceremonial soldiers, guarding the Royal Family and Royal palaces such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London and conducting state ceremonial duties\".", "Displaced Yemenis in the western province of Hodeida receive food aid donated by a British organisation\n\nMore than 100 UK charities have condemned the government's decision to cut aid to Yemen, following cross-party criticism.\n\nAt least £87 million has been pledged in aid to the Middle Eastern country, down from £164m in 2019-2020.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the government remained \"steadfast\" in its support to the Yemeni people.\n\nYemen is among several Middle Eastern and African countries whose UK aid is at risk, a leaked email suggests.\n\nFirst reported by openDemocracy, a leaked document dated last month suggests officials are considering cutting aid to Syria by 67% and Lebanon by 88%.\n\nAid to Nigeria could drop 58%, Somalia 60%, South Sudan 59% and the Democratic Republic of Congo by 60%, it says.\n\nIn a letter to Boris Johnson, charities say the government has made a \"misjudgement\" by thinking the public is happy to turn away from countries affected by poverty, war and disease.\n\n\"History will not judge this nation kindly if the government chooses to step away from the people in Yemen and thus destroy the UK's global reputation as a country that steps up to help those most in need,\" the letter says.\n\nOxfam, Christian Aid, Save the Children and Care International are among the 101 signatories.\n\nDanny Sriskandarajah, Oxfam GB chief executive, said: \"Aid cuts are a false economy that will remove a vital lifeline from millions of people in Yemen and beyond who can't feed their families, have lost their homes and whose lives are threatened by conflict and Covid.\"\n\nHe also urged the government to stop the \"immoral\" practice of selling arms to the war-torn state.\n\nThe government wants to reduce its overall international aid budget by about £4bn in 2021-2022, which will mean missing the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut it has yet to say where the axe will fall.\n\nThe leaked Foreign Office email gives the first indication of which countries might lose out.\n\nKevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children, said the UK's decision to cut aid would have \"devastating real-life consequences\".\n\nMPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the reduction in aid.\n\nConservative former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said the \"unimaginable\" move would \"condemn hundreds of thousands of children to starvation\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the change represented the UK \"abandoning our moral obligations\".\n\nThe decade-long conflict in Yemen has left an estimated 20 million people - two-thirds of the population - dependent on humanitarian assistance while two million children are acutely malnourished.\n\nIn Syria, the country has been left devastated by a conflict that erupted after President Bashar al-Assad's government responded with deadly force to peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011.\n\nThe fighting has left at least 380,000 people dead and caused half the population to flee their homes, including almost six million refugees abroad.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"We are still working through what this means for individual programmes and decisions have not yet been made.\n\n\"We remain a world-leading aid donor and we will spend more than £10 billion this year to fight poverty, tackle climate change and improve global health.\"", "England's pubs have been deluged by people eager to book space from when beer gardens reopen on 12 April, industry group UK Hospitality has said.\n\nFrom that date, pubs are expected to be able to serve customers sitting outdoors.\n\nOne Leeds pub reported that it had taken in 700 bookings in just five hours this week.\n\nDemand has been so high that scammers have even taken to advertising fake pub bookings.\n\nPubs in most of the UK have been closed to sit-in customers during the latest lockdown, creating pent-up demand.\n\n\"Our members that can open outdoor areas have reported strong interest from customers, which is not surprising after such a long period of closure,\" said Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality.\n\nDuring the most recent lockdown, pubs in England have been allowed to serve takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks until 23:00 GMT, but not takeaway alcohol. Pubs have been closed to customers wishing to sit in throughout the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, alcohol cannot currently be sold for outdoor consumption, while venues are closed on the mainland except for takeaways picked up outside the premises, although they are open on some of the islands. Hospitality venues on the mainland are set to reopen from about 26 April.\n\nIn Wales, pubs can sell takeaway drinks if licensed, and in Northern Ireland, takeaway off-sales must stop at 20:00 GMT.\n\nWhen the Water Lane Boathouse pub in Leeds announced on Wednesday that bookings were open, it had more than 700 in just five hours.\n\n\"Please bear with us as we work our way through them,\" it told customers 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 Water Lane Boathouse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 rush to secure pub places when lockdown lifts prompted one fraudster to advertise fake bookings for a south London pub at £15 a time.\n\nThe scammer posted an ad on Craigslist claiming: \"I have taken the liberty of procuring all the bookings at the Half Moon Pub in Herne Hill, from 12-close in the date range 12-18 April.\n\n\"Love it or hate it, now you must pay for it. £15 per booking.\"\n\nThe ad has since been removed.\n\nBookings have been flooding in at the Wiremill near Lingfield in Surrey\n\nAt the Wiremill, near Lingfield in Surrey, bookings have been flooding in, even though the pub has not advertised its reopening plans.\n\n\"We're almost fully booked for the first week of opening and have already got about 2,500 people booked in for the first two weeks, even though we haven't gone out to tell customers,\" says pub owner Tim Foster, who runs the four-strong Yummy Pubs chain.\n\n\"They've all come from inquiries, people asking when we'll be open and if they can book.\"\n\nThe pub used the time after the first lockdown to boost its outdoor area and double the capacity.\n\n\"We're now capable of seating 230 outside, or 160 with social distancing, but we'll limit bookings to around 50% capacity for the first couple of weeks to help us and our customers get used to it,\" Mr Foster said.\n\nPubs will be helped by not having to keep to a 22:00 curfew, as they were last time they were allowed to open, but bookings are coming in at a high level for every day, he said.\n\n\"We'll be full every day, not just the weekends. There's a huge pent-up demand - people are desperate to get out of their houses.\"\n\nOther pub chains have reported an uplift in bookings.\n\n\"We experienced a 300% spike in bookings when the roadmap was announced,\" said Zoe Cooper, senior marketing executive at the Inn Collection Group, which has 15 pubs in north-eastern and north-western England.\n\n\"We're looking forward to welcoming guests back.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Fuller Smith & Turner, which runs about 400 pubs around the country, said: \"People are clearly keen to get back to the pub and where we are opening our gardens and patios on 12 April, we've seen a high number of people pre-booking their tables.\n\n\"We just can't wait to welcome our customers back into our pubs. It's been a long time coming.\"\n\nMitchells & Butlers owns a number of national pub chains, including All Bar One, Browns, Castle and Harvester.\n\nIt said it would open 250-300 pubs in England on 12 April, and about 100 more from the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of the month.\n\n\"In pubs which do reopen, we'll be encouraging customers to use apps to both pre-book and then to order from their table,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nLast month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he hoped that hospitality venues could reopen from 12 April for outdoor service only.\n\nThe reopenings depend on how the pandemic progresses in the next few weeks.\n\nBut if all goes as planned, people will be able to meet friends or family in beer gardens or to eat dinner outside as a group of six or a mixture of two households.\n\n\"Bookings will not be mandatory, although lots of venues will probably implement a booking system,\" said UK Hospitality's Ms Nicholls.\n\n\"Businesses will have their own systems in place for managing high demand, processing bookings and ensuring high levels of safety are met.\"\n\nOne chain where you won't need to book is Wetherspoons. It said this week it would reopen 394 of its 750 England pubs with outdoor spaces, including beer gardens, rooftops gardens and patios.\n\nBut the pub reopenings on 12 April are only a small part of the industry, pointed out Ms Nicholls.\n\n\"April isn't going to represent a reopening of any significance, or a reopening at all, for much of the sector. We need to remember that nearly 60% of hospitality businesses don't have outdoor areas and many that do only have small spaces.\"\n\nPubs and restaurants will be given the green light to offer indoor seating from 17 May, providing specific Covid conditions are met.\n\nFrom that date, indoor parties can be made up of a maximum of six people or two households of any size, while groups seated outside must be smaller than 30 people.\n\nFrom 21 June, all restrictions could be lifted.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nThe disappearance of a woman who has not been heard from since Wednesday night is causing \"increasing concern\", police have said.\n\nSarah Everard, 33, vanished as she walked home to Brixton, south London, from the Clapham Junction area.\n\nMs Everard spoke to her partner en route but has not been heard from since that point, friend Rose Woollard said.\n\nShe said her phone signal was picked up last near Clarence Avenue, between her home and where she left another friend.\n\nFriends, who last heard from the 33-year-old at about 21:30 GMT on the day she went missing, were unable to contact Ms Everard on Thursday and notified the police.\n\nShe is 5ft 4in (162cm), has a slim build and blonde hair, and was wearing a green coat, dark trousers and trainers, her best friend Ms Woollard said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lambeth Police | Central South BCU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 teacher described the 33-year-old as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\".\n\nShe said: \"Sarah and I met many years ago whilst studying together at Durham University. She has always been an exceptional friend, dropping everything to be there to support her friends, whenever they need her.\n\n\"It was only recently that she was telling me the good news about her new role as a senior marketing account manager, which she was excited to start.\n\n\"It is extremely uncharacteristic of her to have gone missing, which is why we are all deeply concerned something has happened to her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tracks in the dust: The rover should cover some 15km in its first Martian year\n\nThe US space agency's Perseverance rover has wiggled its wheels and undertaken its first Martian drive.\n\nIt didn't move far - just 6.5m (21ft) in total.\n\nBut Nasa's deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan said it was a significant moment.\n\n\"While the rover is still doing a lot of engineering checkouts, the minute the rover begins to move we can consider ourselves explorers on the surface of Mars,\" she told BBC News.\n\nIt's two weeks now since the one-tonne robot made its dramatic descent to the Red Planet.\n\nEngineers have spent the time commissioning the vehicle and its many complex systems, including its instruments and robotic arm.\n\nPerseverance has gone to Mars with tougher wheels than its predecessors\n\nEveryone, however, has been waiting for Perseverance to start rolling. It happened on Thursday. The robot went forward a short way, spun on the spot 150 degrees, and then backed up a bit.\n\n\"You can see the wheel tracks that we left on Mars; I don't think I've ever been happier to see wheel tracks,\" said Perseverance mobility engineer Anais Zarifian.\n\n\"This is just a huge milestone for the mission and the mobility team. We've driven on Earth but driving on Mars - that's the ultimate goal, and just so many people have worked towards this very moment for years.\"\n\nThe robot's landing site has been named in honour of scifi author Octavia E. Butler\n\nPerseverance was put down in a near-equatorial crater called Jezero, to search for evidence of past life.\n\nThis will involve roving some 15km over the coming Martian year (roughly two Earth years).\n\nScientists want to reach a number of enticing rock formations in the crater that might retain a record of ancient biological activity.\n\nAmong these is what looks in satellite imagery to be a delta - a structure built up from the silt and sand dumped by a river as it enters a wider body of water. In Jezero's case, this wider body was very likely a crater-wide lake that existed billions of years ago.\n\nAn early target for study could be the layered rocks in this mound\n\nThe mission team is considering two possible routes to the delta, one of which would give scientists a preview by taking the robot past an isolated remnant.\n\n\"This (mound) is about a mile-and-a-half away from the rover. You can actually resolve layering within the rocks,\" said Dr Stack Morgan.\n\n\"In this outcrop, these resistant layered rocks were likely deposited by rivers flowing into the ancient Lake Jezero, and scientists on the team are hard at work trying to understand the significance and origin of rocks like this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spin me round: A video simulation of Perseverance's first drive\n\nAn immediate goal for Perseverance is its helicopter experiment. The rover brought a small chopper with it from Earth.\n\nThe vehicle will spend the next few weeks driving from its present location to a suitable stretch of terrain where the 2kg device called Ingenuity can be put safely on the ground. At present, the aircraft is slung beneath Perseverance's belly.\n\n\"We're still figuring out the possible flight zones,\" said Robert Hogg, Perseverance's deputy mission manager. \"We're taking navigation camera images, stereo images, to be able to analyse the terrain. And also the team's been looking at orbital images looking at possible flight zones. Long story short, we're still aiming for getting that done in the spring,\" he told reporters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four images in a sequence that show the end part of the drive\n\nPerseverance is the fastest rover Nasa has ever put on Mars. This is not so much because of the rate at which the wheels can turn (about 5cm/s), but rather because of advances in autonomous navigation.\n\nThe robot takes pictures to assess the road ahead. Previous vehicles had to stop while these images were processed onboard. Perseverance can do this on the fly.\n\n\"Perseverance can walk and chew gum at the same time,\" said Anais Zarifian.\n\nNasa announced on Friday that it had named Perseverance's landing site in Jezero Crater after the celebrated American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. The same honour was given to scifi author Ray Bradbury in 2012. His name will forever be associated with the touchdown location of the US space agency's previous rover, Curiosity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The journey to the surface of Mars made by the Perseverance rover", "NHS worker Holly Ciesielczuk bought 75% of her first-floor flat in Redbridge in March 2019, under shared ownership.\n\nBut when she tried to borrow more money to increase her share of ownership a year later, she hit a stumbling block.\n\nFollowing their initial survey, her mortgage lender requested an EWS1 form, which can be obtained following an assessment of a building's external walls.\n\nThese were first developed to assess the potential financial impact of cladding on high-rise flats, after 72 people died at Grenfell Tower.\n\nTo begin with, only those who owned flats in tall buildings with dangerous flammable cladding were affected.\n\nBut after the government extended its advice to smaller properties in January 2020, mortgage lenders began demanding fire surveys from a much wider range of sellers.\n\nThe reason Holly was given by her lender for requesting one was that a balcony on the building had a wooden floor.\n\nHowever, she says her housing association would not agree to an EWS1 because, it said, the building was not high enough to meet the criteria.\n\nThe lender refused a mortgage without it, as did the next bank she tried. The combination of this and her partner's cancer diagnosis took its toll.\n\n\"I properly broke down. If I knew how much stress this was going to cause, I would never have bought my flat,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIn November, the government said an agreement had been reached with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), banking trade body UK Finance and the Building Societies Association.\n\nIt said this meant owners of flats in buildings without cladding would no longer need the form to sell or remortgage.\n\nBut mortgage lenders said they \"did not consent\" to the announcement.\n\nProblems are still being encountered - including by Holly.\n\nWhen she contacted her lender after the November announcement, their position had not altered. \"I was so hopeful, so excited - but then so dismayed when I was told, 'You still need an EWS1 form.'\"\n\nFollowing a consultation on the requirement for EWS1 checks, RICS plans to release updated guidance. It's understood this could be published as soon as next week.\n\nIt will be aimed at narrowing down the number of EWS1 requests, but there's no obligation for lenders to follow it.\n\n\"Naively or optimistically, I hope the guidance will provide clarity about whether I will be able to get a mortgage,\" Holly says.\n\nAlex hasn't been able to buy his first home\n\nEven when building management agree to having checks done, it can be a lengthy process.\n\nAlex Cross from Berkshire was excited to find what he thought was his \"perfect\" first flat, yet he too has been held up.\n\nWhen he was asked to obtain an EWS1 form to secure a mortgage, the property management company refused to help.\n\nThey said they owned 4,000 blocks, but only 48 inspections had been booked that financial year.\n\n\"At that rate, it would take decades to obtain the required information,\" Alex points out.\n\nHe eventually found one bank that did not require the full survey, but asked a set of questions about the building's safety, which the property developer would not answer.\n\nRebecca Frisina and her family were hoping to move to a larger property, but have been unable to sell their flat. Although they have found a buyer, the mortgage provider has requested a EWS1 form for their property.\n\nThe management company which owns the freehold eventually agreed to pursue the safety checks. However, it isn't clear when they might take place.\n\nRebecca's family are now living with her parents and their buyer has moved into rented accommodation.\n\n\"We have asked for a rough estimated timeline and they have refused to answer us,\" she says. \"It's been a nightmare.\"\n\nRebecca's family had to move in with her parents\n\nAndrew Montlake is managing director of mortgage broker Coreco and chairman of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries. He says one of the first things his team now ask about a property is whether there is cladding and whether an EWS1 has been produced.\n\n\"There are cases I'm sure where the buildings are probably OK. However, where you're dealing with such a serious subject, surely it's better to be safe than sorry. If the valuers aren't sure, they're going to cover themselves\n\n\"If there's a risk of a leaseholder having to pay repair bills in future, that could have an impact on affordability.\"\n\nUK Finance also pointed out that some buildings might have cladding that is not obvious.\n\nThe fee for an EWS1 survey can be up to £50,000, depending on the size and style of the property.\n\nIt's estimated that there are only 300 chartered fire engineers in the UK who can carry out the survey, which is believed to be a cause of delays.\n\nA social media campaign, #EndOurCladdingScandal, has attracted support from a wide range of homeowners, including those subject to EWS1 requirements.\n\n\"RICS and the government can offer as much guidance as they want, but the truth is the genie is out of the bottle - and mortgage lenders are spooked,\" a spokesperson for the campaign said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said in a statement: \"The EWS1 is not a government form, nor a legal requirement, and we're disappointed this is being asked for in some cases where it's not needed.\n\n\"If a form is genuinely needed, we are providing £700,000 of funding to train up to 2,000 more surveyors to speed up the process and get through the backlog.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has shared details of how the missing P.1 variant case was tracked down\n\nA mystery person in the UK infected with the Covid variant of concern first found in Brazil has now been traced.\n\nLast week, it was announced that six cases of the P.1 variant had been found in the UK - but the identity of one of the cases was unknown.\n\nThe person, who lives in Croydon, has been traced, as have their contacts.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the person \"stayed at home\" and there was no sign of any onward transmission - but local testing is being rolled out.\n\nScientists say the variant appears to be more contagious and there are concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said it hoped vaccines would have a strong impact on reducing hospitalisations and deaths in cases of the new variant.\n\nNews that the Brazil variant had been found in the UK was released last Sunday. Three cases were found in England, and separately three in Scotland.\n\nThe three cases in Scotland were all oil workers who were returning to their families from Brazil, via Paris and London. Health officials have been trying to trace all the passengers who were on their flight from Heathrow to Aberdeen.\n\nIn England, two of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire who tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February.\n\nThe third case in England - now confirmed to be in Croydon - was unknown for several days after he or she failed to register their test properly.\n\nDr Hopkins said the person was finally identified when they called the NHS 111 number, after officials had spent days contacting potential households.\n\nThe person lived in a household that had recently returned from Brazil and all of them had quarantined at home, she added.\n\nMr Hancock said contact-tracers had worked \"flat out\" to narrow the search.\n\n\"The best evidence is this person in question stayed at home and there's no sign that there's been any onward transmission but as a precaution we're putting more testing in in Croydon, where they live, to minimise risk of spread,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Hancock said work was under way to tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of the new strains.\n\nDr Hopkins said there was not yet data to show whether the vaccine was effective against this variant - but there was some data for the variant from South Africa \"and we expect that it should at least perform in a similar way\".\n\n\"And therefore we think that it's likely there may be some reduction in risk of transmission, or reducing the risk of transmission, but we at least hope at the moment that it will have a strong impact in reducing hospitalisations and deaths.\n\n\"We do need to wait for studies to come out from South America and in particular Brazil, and those will come but it will take weeks rather than days I'm afraid.\"\n\nThe variant has been designated \"of concern\" because it shares some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade some of the immunity people may have already built against Covid.\n\nPreliminary data from Manaus - the Brazilian city hit hard by this P.1 variant - suggested the variant could be up to twice as transmissible as earlier Covid.\n\nBut experts said this should not be used to predict what might happen in the UK.\n\nOne of the lead researchers said it was unlikely P.1 would quickly take off in Britain when only six cases had been identified and these were being closely monitored.\n\nMeanwhile, two-fifths of all adults in the UK have now had their first dose of the vaccine, Mr Hancock also said at Friday's press conference.\n\nHe said the fall in the number of deaths was accelerating - down 41% compared with last week - which suggested the vaccination programme was working.\n\n\"What this all shows is that the link from cases to hospitalisations and then to deaths that had been unbreakable before the vaccine - that link is now breaking,\" he said.\n\nLatest government figures show the total number of people who have had their first dose of vaccine has now reached 21,358,815, while the number who have had their second dose has topped one million.\n\nThere have been another 5,947 cases announced and a further 236 people recorded as having died within 28 days of testing positive.", "A Virginia man protests the death penalty outside the US Supreme Court in 2012\n\nVirginia has become the first Southern US state to abolish the death penalty after its governor signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment.\n\nGovernor Ralph Northam said the repeal would stop a \"machinery of death\" with a history of racial disparities.\n\nIt comes at a time of renewed national debate on the topic of executions.\n\nVirginia has executed more people than any other state except Texas since capital punishment was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1976.\n\nSince then, the vast majority of executions have taken place in the Southern US states that made up the former slave-owning Confederacy.\n\nExecutions are still authorised in 27 states across the country, though several have enacted a moratorium on carrying the punishment out.\n\nA federal moratorium was ended by former President Donald Trump, who resumed them on a federal level last year after a 17-year hiatus. Some 13 people were put to death in a matter of months - including six executions carried out after his election defeat.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign, Joe Biden vowed to end the federal death penalty and encourage states to follow suit, but has not addressed the issue as president.\n\nVirginia has used the death penalty nearly 1,400 times since its days as a colony, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nDemocrats, who control the state legislature, pushed for its repeal, arguing it had disproportionately hurt people of colour, the mentally ill and the poor.\n\nAt the bill signing, Mr Northam noted 296 of the 377 people executed by the state in the 20th century were black.\n\nThe last two men on death row in the state, both black, will now see their sentences converted to life in prison without parole.\n\nThe United Nations says 170 of its 194 member states have abolished executions in law or practice and the US has faced repeated international criticism over its failure to do so.", "Criminals and paedophiles are trying to groom and exploit young siblings as part of an emerging trend of online sexual abuse, experts have warned.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation said victims ranged from 3-16 years, with some groomed to copy adult pornography.\n\nIt found 511 examples involving siblings between September and December - roughly one in 30 instances of all \"self-generated content\" in that time.\n\nCampaigners say livestreaming services need to do more to protect children.\n\nThe IWF, which works with police and websites worldwide to take down harmful material, said the Covid-19 pandemic had been a \"perfect storm\" for the abuse.\n\nIts chief executive, Susie Hargreaves, said there had been:\n\nThere was a \"common myth\" abuse involving siblings was limited to poorer countries - but most of the videos the IWF found featured children in the West, including from the UK, US and across Europe.\n\nGrooming often begins on social-media and gaming platforms, before offenders encourage children on to video-chat or livestreaming services where the abuse then escalates.\n\nAnd abuse of siblings typically involves an older child being coerced into abusing their younger brother or sister.\n\nOne video, shared online multiple times, involved a brother and sister aged six and three being given instructions by an abuser, the IWF said.\n\nLast December, the government set out its proposed Online Harms Bill, designed to ensure companies provide improved safeguarding measures.\n\nIt plans to give watchdog Ofcom the power to:\n\nThe proposals contained the \"strongest protections\" for children, Safeguarding Minister Victoria Atkins told BBC News.\n\n\"Encouraging siblings to enact sexual abuse demonstrates just how heinous offenders are in this space,\" she added.\n\nFacebook Messenger Rooms, a video chat service, was launched during the pandemic\n\nNSPCC online-safety-policy head Andy Burrows said it could be a \"world-leading piece of legislation\" but must follow through with its promise to give Ofcom \"teeth\" to step in and take action.\n\nIn the past year, in the race to bring video-chat and livestreaming services to market, some technology companies had prioritised profit over making their platforms safe, the charity said.\n\nAnd Mr Burrows raised particular concerns over Facebook's plans to introduce end-to-end encryption - a way of sending information so only the intended receiver can read it - across all of its messenger services.\n\nPlans to include it in its video-chat service, Rooms, launched in May, would \"significantly compromise the ability to detect child abuse\", he said.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said the changes would \"dramatically reduce [Facebook's] ability to provide law-enforcement with the evidence they need\" to prosecute alleged offenders.\n\nFacebook said end-to-end encryption \"was already the leading security technology used by many services to keep people safe\" and \"a long-term project\".\n\nIt added: \"We are committed to building strong anti-abuse measures into our plans.\n\n\"Facebook will continue to lead the industry in developing new ways to prevent, detect and respond to abuse.\"\n\nFor information and support for those affected, visit the BBC's Action Line.", "The Duke of Sussex is taking up another new role, at a think tank looking into fake news in the US media.\n\nPrince Harry will help to lead a six-month study on the state of the media at the Aspen Institute within its new Commission on Information Disorder.\n\nThe duke - who has long been critical of parts of the press - said there was \"an avalanche of misinformation\".\n\nThe announcement comes just a day after Harry also announced another new position at a mental health firm.\n\nPrince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back as senior royals almost a year ago - something he later said was partly due to the UK's tabloid media.\n\nSince then, the couple have moved to California and Harry has stepped down from his military appointments and royal patronages, although his charity work continues. The pair have also signed deals to make shows and podcasts with Netflix and Spotify.\n\nThis latest role means Prince Harry will be one of 15 commissioners working on the think tank's study into misinformation and disinformation.\n\nHis role will be part-time and involve regular meetings over the next few months.\n\nAmong the other commissioners is Kathryn Murdoch, who runs a foundation and is the wife of James Murdoch, the son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.\n\nIn a statement, the duke said: \"The experience of today's digital world has us inundated with an avalanche of misinformation, affecting our ability as individuals as well as societies to think clearly and truly understand the world we live in.\n\n\"It's my belief that this is a humanitarian issue - and as such, it demands a multi-stakeholder response from advocacy voices, members of the media, academic researchers, and both government and civil society leaders.\n\n\"I'm eager to join this new Aspen commission and look forward to working on a solution-oriented approach to the information disorder crisis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexi Robichaux: \"He's got an incredible attitude and he is filled with energy\".\n\nOn Tuesday, it was announced Harry was to become chief impact officer at the US coaching and mental health firm, BetterUp.\n\nHis new boss said he had \"a feeling he'll work out\" and the duke had \"an incredible attitude and he is filled with energy and enthusiasm\".", "Emma Homer said she thought her attacker, who was not known to her, was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\"\n\nA probationary police officer who assaulted a woman in a \"terrifying\" attack has resigned from West Midlands Police.\n\nPC Oliver Banfield grabbed and forced Emma Homer to the floor last July while drunk.\n\nHe was given a curfew sentence on Friday which sparked criticism he was not jailed.\n\nWest Midlands Police said Banfield would still face a misconduct hearing in due course.\n\nMs Homer said the attack had left her with \"anxiety, insomnia and stress\" and her family said they were \"disappointed\" with 25-year-old Banfield's sentence, a night-time curfew.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court, CCTV was shown in which Banfield could be seen shouting at Ms Homer.\n\nHe grabbed and forced her to the floor during the assault in the early hours of 26 July in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.\n\nIn her victim personal statement, which was read out in court, she said she thought he was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\".\n\nProbationary PC Oliver Banfield will still face disciplinary proceedings by his former employer West Midlands Police\n\nWarwickshire Police said it had personally apologised to Ms Homer for delays in the investigation.\n\nInitially the CPS said there was not enough evidence to bring a prosecution, but after Ms Homer appealed, further inquiries were made and Banfield was charged.\n\nBanfield, who had been suspended by his force, pleaded guilty to assault by beating at a hearing in January and at Friday's hearing received a 14-week curfew order banning him from leaving his house between 19:00 and 07:00.\n\nCriticising the non-custodial sentence in a tweet on Friday, Labour MP Harriet Harman wrote: \"He continues in post. WMPolice (West Midlands Police) must review.\n\n\"This is proof, if any needed, that system fails women and protects men.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police Deputy Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine said she had accepted Banfield's resignation on Tuesday.\n\n\"I want to stress that former PC Banfield will still face an accelerated misconduct hearing, chaired by the chief constable, in the near future,\" she said.\n\n\"I recognise the distress Emma Homer - who was assaulted and verbally abused by Banfield - has suffered during this time.\n\n\"We have spoken to her today to update her on the resignation of former PC Banfield and will continue to keep her updated.\"\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.", "NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nNurses, paramedics and domestic staff are among those who could receive the boost to their salaries.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said the average pay of a front-line NHS nurse would rise by over £1,200 a year.\n\nShe said the offer - which does not apply to doctors - recognised the \"service and dedication\" of staff during the pandemic\n\nThe settlement will be backdated to 1 December 2020 in recognition of an \"exceptional year of significant pressure\".\n\nIt follows the £500 thank you payment for all health and social care workers which was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in November.\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended plans to give some NHS staff in England a 1% pay rise.\n\nHe praised \"heroic\" health and social care workers but said the rise was as much as the government could afford during the \"tough times\" of the pandemic.\n\nMs Freeman described the Scottish government's offer as \"the biggest single pay uplift since devolution\" for NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) staff.\n\nAfC is the current grading and pay system for NHS staff. It does not include doctors, dentists, executives and senior managers.\n\nAcross cycles of economic growth and contraction, public sector pay remains stable while private sector pay is more volatile - racing ahead in the good times, taking the bigger hit and redundancies when they turn tough.\n\nSo when private employer competition for skilled workers is lower, public sector pay increases can be reined in.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government has opted to boost pay, going against that cycle and in contrast with the 1% offered to NHS staff in England.\n\nComing at the end of a three-year 9% pay deal, the cost looks to be about £135m next year, and unlike the £500 one-off NHS payment last year, it is baked in to future pay rises.\n\nNHS staff have political support, so it makes sense ahead of an election. However, with a balanced budget required, a pound spent on pay cannot be spent on others who have been at the Covid battlefront - for instance, care home workers, those in the voluntary sector, welfare benefits for unpaid carers.\n\nA further consideration in NHS pay is that demand for scarce skills is on the rise, without easy access to EU labour, with doctor retirement, many GPs working part-time and loss of medical expertise overseas. This is one sign of the measures the NHS has to take to ensure it recruits and retains the staff it needs.\n\nShe added that it would benefit 154,000 staff and including domestic staff, porters and health care support workers.\n\nThis group, which she described as \"the backbone of our services\" would see pay rises of more than £1,000, the equivalent of between 4% and 5.4%.\n\nThose on the highest salaries will receive a £800 pay rise.\n\nMs Freeman said: \"This has been an exceptionally challenging year for our health service and I am pleased that the Scottish government is able to recognise the service and dedication of our healthcare staff.\"\n\nThe announcement follows ongoing negotiations between the Scottish government, NHS employers and unions, who will now consult their members on the offer.\n\nAnd the offer is significantly higher than the pay rise proposals for other public sector workers.\n\nThis is not just a bumper pay offer for many NHS workers in Scotland, it is a powerful negotiating tool for health unions trying to prise more cash from the UK government.\n\nIt is hard to imagine nurses and other healthcare staff in England settling for a proposed 1% rise when their colleagues in Scotland are receiving 4%.\n\nThat contrast will presumably not go unnoticed by the independent pay review panel in England which is due to make its recommendations in May.\n\nIn Scotland, details of the new pay offer were released just hours before the start of the Holyrood election campaign, during which governments are obliged to avoid making big spending announcements.\n\nIt may lead to a wider debate in the campaign about how other public sector workers are rewarded and the support available to those in the private sector struggling as a result of the Covid crisis.\n\nIn her budget, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes announced a 3% rise for people earning under £25,000, with 1% for people earning up to £80,000 a year.\n\nShe called it a \"progressive and restorative approach\" but unions said it was disappointing after a year of working through the pandemic.\n\nColin Poolman, Royal College of Nursing Scotland senior officer, said: \"The timescale for negotiations was tight as a result of the forthcoming election but we have now received an offer for a one year pay deal.\"\n\nWillie Duffy, Unison regional organiser, said that each of the individual trade unions would now enter into discussions with their members on the offer.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"There will be a view that it's not enough but we managed through the negotiations to get extra money into the pay envelope.\"\n\nHe also compared the offer to the 1% offered in England by the Westminster government.\n\nHe said: \"It shows the stark difference between the two governments and their attitude to trying to deal with health service workers.\"\n\nAll of Scotland's main opposition parties have made the NHS a central part of their appeals in the forthcoming Holyrood election.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have promised to deliver an increased share of funding to GPs.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the NHS pay offer was welcome but it did not consider social care workers, whom she called \"the unsung heroes of the pandemic\".\n\nMs Baillie said Scottish Labour was committed to a wage rise to £15 an hour for the social care workforce, with an immediate increase to £12 an hour.\n\nThe Scottish Greens have pledged support for a properly funded publicly-owned NHS Scotland while the Scottish Liberal Democrats are promising a \"decent\" pay rise for NHS staff.", "David Solomon promised to enforce a rule that ensured young bankers didn't work on Saturdays\n\nThe chief executive of Goldman Sachs says it's \"great\" a group of young analysts raised concerns about working conditions at the investment firm.\n\nA group of 13 US employees mocked up a presentation in which they told of 95-hour working weeks and \"inhumane\" conditions amounting to abuse.\n\nBoss David Solomon said in a message: \"It's great that this group of analysts went to their management.\"\n\nBut he added that going an \"extra mile\" can make a big difference for the bank.\n\nIn his address to the investment bank's 34,000 staff worldwide, Mr Solomon said he expected Goldman to continue to face high demand from clients and emphasised the need to meet the challenge, saying hard work brought rewards.\n\n\"Just remember: if we all go an extra mile for our client, even when we feel that we're reaching our limit, it can really make a difference in our performance,\" he said.\n\nThe analysts sent their complaints to bosses in February, but it only became public last week.\n\nMr Solomon said: \"We want a workplace where people can share concerns freely... If there are any issues, do not hesitate to reach out to ask for help.\" He promised to improve working conditions at the firm.\n\nMr Solomon said: \"I can imagine that many of you saw the presentation that a group of analysts shared with their management recently about their lack of work-life balance.\n\n\"This is something that our leadership team and I take very seriously.\" He pledged to enforce its \"Saturday rule\" to ring-fence junior bankers' time off from Friday evening into Sunday morning.\n\nThe world of investment banking is notorious for placing high demands on its employees, with remote working during the pandemic further blurring the lines between the office and home.\n\nAt Citi, the fourth largest bank in the US, new boss Jane Fraser recently sent a memo designating Zoom-free Fridays and reminding staff to try to schedule calls within traditional working hours.\n\nShe also added a company-wide holiday at the end of May, citing \"the need for a reset\".\n\n\"I know, from your feedback and my own experience, the blurring of lines between home and work and the relentlessness of the pandemic workday have taken a toll on our well-being,\" she wrote in the memo. \"It's simply not sustainable.\n\n\"Please try to limit scheduling calls outside of what had been traditional working hours pre-pandemic and on weekends (remember those?) We are of course a global company that operates across time zones, but when our work regularly spills over into nights, very early mornings and weekends, it can prevent us from recharging fully, and that isn't good for you nor, ultimately, for Citi.\"\n\nShe told staff to speak up \"if you need more time for a reset. It's not a sign of weakness; we are all feeling the weariness\".\n\nThe long hours and high pressures of investment banking were thrown into focus in 2015 when a 22-year-old Goldman analyst, Sarvshreshth Gupta, took his own life after complaining of working 100 hours a week and working all night.\n\nThe 13 Goldman Sachs employees gave striking testimony, which began circulating on social media on Wednesday, detailing five hours sleep a night, harsh treatment by senior bankers and the effects on their physical and mental health. One said: \"I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse.\"\n\n\"This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this is inhumane/abuse,\" said another.\n\nGoldman is far from the only firm where staff are reporting burnout, as the pandemic blurs work-life boundaries.\n\nNearly 90% of workers say their work-life balance is getting worse, according to a recent survey published by the Harvard Business Review of 1,500 people across 46 countries.\n\nGoldman said last week in the light of the findings going viral that it had since taken steps to address employee burnout among this small group, and among wider teams.\n\nMr Solomon's address to staff said: \"We're accelerating our efforts to hire new junior bankers across investment banking and we're internally transferring bankers to business lines where activity levels are highest.\"\n\nHe added the firm was trying to manage its workload and reorganise some so it would be done automatically:. \"We're also being more selective about business opportunities that we pursue, and we're working to automate certain tasks in our business.\"\n\nThe investment bank reported net revenues of $44.6bn (£32.1bn) for 2020.", "Natural gas supplier, Firmus energy, has announced a 14% price increase for customers in greater Belfast.\n\nThe tariff change on 15 April will affect more than 50,000 consumers.\n\nThe firm said the move is in response to an increase in global wholesale prices. Bills for the average household will rise by £1.32 per week.\n\nFirmus said the increase follows two price reductions totalling 20% over the last 18 months.\n\nThe greater Belfast network area covers Belfast, Lisburn, Bangor, Holywood, Groomsport, Carryduff, Comber, Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus among other areas.\n\nEarlier this month, the company announced prices in its Ten Towns network would increase by 17.75% from 1 April.\n\n\"We know that price stability is important for our customers but the increase of wholesale natural gas costs on the global market, which are beyond our control, have unfortunately made this increase inevitable,\" said Michael Scott, managing director of Firmus.\n\n\"Any increase is never welcome news and we recognise this comes at a particularly difficult time for many.\n\n\"We want to assure our customers that we will continue to monitor and review our tariffs to ensure customers are getting the best prices possible.\"\n\nThe Consumer Council said the latest price rise was \"unwelcome news\" for Firmus customers, following the price rise for customers in the Ten Towns network.\n\nHowever, Raymond Gormley from the Consumer Council said his organisation understood \"the main driver for the increase is the significant rise in the cost of wholesale gas globally over the last year\".\n\n\"Consumers who are experiencing financial difficulty and are struggling to pay their energy bills should contact their supplier without delay to talk about how they can help during these times,\" he added.\n\nMr Gormley also encouraged customers to \"shop around to ensure they are on the best energy deal\".", "In a tweet earlier in the day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"One year on. Thinking today of all those who have lost a loved one to Covid, and to everyone who continues to make heartbreaking sacrifices as we continue to navigate our way through this terrible ordeal, together\"", "Intel's new chief executive has told the BBC it is not \"palatable\" that so many computer chips are made in Asia.\n\nThe majority of processors are currently manufactured in the region, with Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung the dominant players.\n\nUS-based Intel plans to set up a new division to make chips for other companies based on their own designs.\n\nUntil now, its focus had been on manufacturing its own chips in its factories across the world.\n\nPat Gelsinger has said Intel will invest $20bn (£14.6bn) in two new fabrication plants in the US state of Arizona, in addition to a major expansion of an existing Irish facility in County Kildare.\n\n\"Having 80% of all supply in Asia simply isn't a palatable manner for the world to have its view of the most critical technology,\" Mr Gelsinger said.\n\n\"Every smartphone, every telemedicine, every remote worker, every remote education, every autonomous vehicle, every aspect of humanity is becoming more digital.\n\n\"And when it becomes digital, it runs on semiconductors.\n\n\"This is the heart of every aspect of human existence going forward. And the world needs a more balanced supply chain to accomplish that. We're stepping in.\"\n\nIntel says the expansion of its facility in Leixlip, County Kildare, will create 1,600 permanent jobs\n\nHe added that Intel also intended to build a further chip-making foundry in a different European nation, but would not be drawn about exactly where.\n\nWhile these moves will be too late to tackle an existing shortage of chips which is causing problems for car-makers and others, they could help the West avert a future crisis.\n\nPoliticians in the US and the EU have called for more chip-producing factories to be built locally.\n\nThis is partly driven by concerns that Beijing aims to reunify mainland China with Taiwan, while North Korea poses a threat to its southern neighbour.\n\nHowever, Intel has repeatedly missed manufacturing targets over recent years.\n\nAs a consequence, its latest desktop processors use older transistor technology than rival silicon from AMD and Apple, putting the components at a disadvantage.\n\nMr Gelsinger must now prove his company has put these problems behind it if the new business is to thrive.\n\nThe 60-year-old only returned to Intel last month after his predecessor was ousted over concerns about falling market share, among other problems.\n\nChip manufacturing requires dust-free environments so the transistors and circuits are not damaged\n\nBut earlier in his career, Mr Gelsinger spent three decades at Intel, including a role as its first chief technical officer.\n\nOne activist investor had pressed him to go \"fab-less\", and spin off Intel's plants to concentrate on chip designs.\n\nBut Mr Gelsinger has instead chosen what looks like a tougher challenge in order to restore the company to its past glories.\n\nAnd that includes letting clients order chips that mix together their own technologies with some of Intel's own architectures for an extra fee.\n\n\"We're putting it all on the table,\" he said.\n\nThe following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Pat Gelsinger says he hopes Apple will be among third parties to get Intel to make their chips\n\nLet's start with the new Intel Foundry Services business. It sounds like you're going all out to make chips for other companies who lack the facilities to do so themselves. But why help the competition?\n\nManufacturing is a capacity game. And if you're not leading in terms of total capacity, you will fall behind. So to some degree it's a necessity. If we're going to be in the manufacturing business, we have to be a foundry for ourselves and for others.\n\nSimply put, the world needs more semiconductors.\n\nWe're in an environment where digitisation was at a strong pace of growth. And then Covid kicked us into a dramatically different gear.\n\nThe world needs more semiconductors, and we're one of the few companies that have leading-edge technologies to be able to step into that void. And to keep it for our own products simply is not the right thing for the planet, for the industry, and for a globally distributed supply chain.\n\nHow disruptive do you think it will be, coming in to take business away from Samsung and TSMC?\n\nOverall I think everybody is groaning to catch up to the overwhelming demand. And we're going to use Samsung and TSMC for some of our products.\n\nSo this is about \"co-op-petition\". We expect to have strong partnerships with them as customers, and in some cases we'll compete a little bit. But overall, this is a rapidly growing $100bn market segment that simply needs more supply.\n\nIt also needs more geographically balanced supply.\n\nToday there's a heavy bias to Asia. And as we've seen, coming out of some of the disruptions and challenges, the world needs US and European supply in a more balanced way. It's the right thing for the global supply chain requirements, for both commercial as well as for government and defence use as well.\n\nYou also have a large chip plant in Dalian, China. Are there any plans to build new ones in China?\n\nAt this point, we have no expansion plans for what we have there.\n\nThe announcement yesterday was for two new fabs in Arizona. I already have construction projects going on in Oregon, Ireland and in Israel.\n\nAnd we announced that we expect to open our next sites, in both Europe and the US, within the next year. So at this point, four major sites under construction, and I hope to add two more within the next year.\n\nWhen you say you want to build more in Europe, is that going to just be more in Ireland or Israel? Or are you looking at other countries, the UK perhaps?\n\nI fully expect that we'll open up a site in another country in Europe.\n\nI'm not going to speculate any further right now.\n\nBut just to put this in context: these are extraordinary capital investments. They're also extraordinary job generators.\n\nYou've said you hope Apple might be one of your clients, despite its decision to stop using Intel's own chips. Is that realistic?\n\nEverybody wants multiple suppliers. So we think there's very real potential. But I have to earn that business. I have to be able to go to my competitors and be able to say: \"I want you to become my customer.\"\n\nThat also includes Nvidia, Qualcomm and Broadcom, in addition to Microsoft and IBM. I want all of them to say: \"I need more technology... and I trust that Intel is going to become one of my key suppliers.\"\n\nAnd that includes Apple as one of the biggest users of advanced semiconductor capabilities.\n\nIntel is running a series of ads in which Mac computers come off worse against PCs powered by Intel chips\n\nApple can be a little thin-skinned at times. So is it wise to be running a high-profile ad campaign mocking its computers at the same time as saying we'd like to be your partner again?\n\nWe have great respect for Apple as a company. They're an innovator. They've done incredible things in the industry. Tim Cook is a great leader.\n\nAt the same time, we're going to be aggressive competitors and we're out to reinvigorate the PC ecosystem.\n\nSo we're going to enjoy ourselves. We're going to compete aggressively. And I'm also going to take care of my customers.\n\nRegarding your own chips, you say you've now mastered your seven nanometre process, which roughly equates to what TSMC and Samsung market as 5nm. But we've heard promises from Intel before, and then things have slipped. What's different this time?\n\nWe've understood the core issues. What really happened was problems with our 10nm effort caused a domino delay to 7nm.\n\nThere's an advanced manufacturing technique called extreme ultraviolet lithography. It was immature, and we bet against it. As we shifted in time, it became more mature. Now we've embraced it fully.\n\nIt's the same thing that TSMC is doing, and leveraging it aggressively.\n\nTSMC is currently the world's leading supplier of computer chips\n\nSo we feel that we're now in a very predictable pace.\n\nI have confidence that we're back on track. But not just for 7nm. Our programmes that go for several nodes beyond that are showing very good success.\n\nWe've also announced a research partnership with IBM. So, we have a rich portfolio of tricks and ideas and innovations to choose from to put us on a course for the long-term leadership of Intel.\n\nWhen you say leadership, just to be clear, do you think you could overtake TSMC and Samsung in chip-making capabilities?\n\nIntel led the semiconductor industry for 20-plus years in innovation.\n\nWe hit a pothole. We're now digging our way out of that pothole. And I'm looking forward to decades of continued leadership in this area.\n\nParity. Parity-plus. And then sustained leadership. That's the path that we're on.", "Hundreds of lecturers at further education colleges in Northern Ireland are holding a one-day strike.\n\nStaff belonging to the University and College Union (UCU) are taking the action in a dispute over pay and workload.\n\nBut the Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said the union rejected a pay offer amounting to a 7% rise.\n\nThe UCU said their members in further education colleges had only received a 3.8% pay rise since 2013/14.\n\nAbout 70,000 students attend Northern Ireland's six Further Education (FE) colleges, according to figures from the Department for the Economy (DfE).\n\nMany of those students take vocational courses and many study part-time.\n\nThe UCU said the Department for the Economy had failed to increase FE college funding so that employers could pay staff fairly.\n\nBut BBC News NI has obtained a letter from Ms Dodds to Stormont's economy committee in which she said she did not have any \"direct role\" in the dispute.\n\n\"Further education colleges are employers in their own right and are responsible for determining the terms and conditions of lecturing staff,\" she wrote.\n\nHowever, the minister claimed the UCU action would have \"a detrimental effect on some of the most vulnerable learners, many of whom are already struggling to cope with the impact of a prolonged period of online learning and social isolation\".\n\nMany students in further education take vocational courses\n\nShe told the committee the College Employers' Forum (CEF) had made an offer to trade unions of a 7% pay rise \"which they consider could be met from within existing budgets\".\n\nThe CEF is made up of the chairs and chief executives of Northern Ireland's six FE colleges.\n\n\"Trade Union Side then submitted a pay claim seeking 11.7% and advising that the 7% offer was unacceptable,\" Ms Dodds wrote.\n\nBut in a separate statement the UCU said the 7% pay offer was spread over a four-year period.\n\nUCU said it was \"barely better than pay restraint and fails to adequately compensate for the years when lecturers received no cost of living increases at all\".\n\nThe UCU official in Northern Ireland Katharine Clarke said as DfE determined funding to FE colleges they were \"clearly responsible for stagnating pay\".\n\n\"UCU members are going on strike because they have received a paltry 3.8% increase in total since 2013/14,\" she said.\n\n\"School teachers have received 11.25% over the same period.\n\n\"The offer of 7% over four years in the context of the previous capped awards equates to 1.2% per year over a nine-year period.\n\n\"No other workforce in the public sector has been subject to such a derisory increase.\"\n\nBut in Ms Dodds' letter, she said she had no authority to intervene in talks between the colleges and unions and that DfE would only become involved when agreement was reached.\n\n\"It is only when agreement has been reached through that process that a business case is submitted to the Department for appraisal,\" she said.\n\n\"Should the business case be considered to be sufficiently robust it can then be approved and consideration given to meeting any additional resource requirements.\"\n\nMs Dodds also said UCU did not represent all lecturers in FE colleges, as many were members of the NASUWT and NEU.\n\nShe also claimed unions had also rejected a previous three-year pay offer of an increase of over 10% in 2020 without balloting their members, and concluded by urging the unions and employers to resume negotiations.\n\nBut the UCU accused Ms Dodds of failing to meet them and of \"shirking her responsibility\" for underfunding FE colleges.\n\nThe union said strike action would be followed by action short of a strike unless the minister and department \"secure more funding for colleges and a proper pay rise for college lecturers\".\n\nThat action short of strike will see UCU members refusing to work overtime, and boycotting any un-agreed additional duties.\n\nMonica Goligher, a lecturer in biology at Belfast Met, is among those taking part in Wednesday's strike.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme she believes striking staff will have the support of their students and the wider public because \"they appreciate what we do\".\n\nMs Goligher said lecturers' workload had \"imploded\" since their most recent contract was negotiated in 2009, and had increased further as a result of the pandemic.\n\nStaff have taken on a \"huge administrative burden\" as well as additional teaching requirements over those last 12 years, she explained.\n\n\"That has been compounded by moving to teach online, practically in full, since last March with less than 24 hours to prepare to do that.\"\n\nMs Goligher was asked if their pay claim was justified, given that nurses who are risking their lives working on the frontline during the coronavirus pandemic have been offered a 1% pay rise.\n\n\"We are the people who will step [up] to retrain, re-skill those who have lost their jobs in industries that have been particularly impacted by Covid and the ongoing economic difficulties,\" she replied.\n\n\"Minister Dodds can decide whether that is going to be a task that she is asking of a demotivated, demoralised and exhausted workforce in further education.\"\n• None Teachers in NI to be offered 2% pay rise", "Wallwork won a Premier League title winner's medal in 2001 but left the next season for West Bromwich Albion\n\nA former Manchester United footballer fractured a man's eye socket in a row over his trainers, a court heard.\n\nRonnie Wallwork, 43, punched Alan Mulholland when he stepped on his trainers in a pub in Droylsden, Greater Manchester, on 22 December 2019.\n\nHe admitted grievous bodily harm and got an 18-month suspended sentence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.\n\nWallwork, who won the Premier League title in 2001, was further ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nHe also has to complete a rehabilitation programme and pay Mr Mulholland £500 compensation.\n\nCo-defendant David Gardner, 43, from Newton Heath, Manchester, admitted the same charge and was given the same sentence.\n\nThe court heard the assault, which lasted 25 seconds, happened after comments were made about Wallwork's white trainers.\n\nCCTV showed Gardner headbutt Mr Mulholland before Wallwork punched him several times at The Jam Works Bar.\n\nDefending, Alex Langhorn said Mr Mulholland had stepped on Wallwork's shoes just prior to the attack.\n\nJudge Tina Landale said the \"brutal attack\" was \"out of character\" for both men.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Mulholland said the attack has left him \"always looking over my shoulder worrying about being assaulted again\".\n\nThe midfielder joined United as a trainee in 1993 but struggled to command a first-team place and joined West Bromwich Albion in 2002.\n\nMr Langhorn said Wallwork, of Failsworth near Oldham, had been stabbed in 2006 and the trauma had a \"catastrophic affect on his life and still affects him to this day\".\n\nWallwork was jailed in December 2011 for 15 months for selling parts from stolen high-performance cars.\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.", "One patient was moved from Surrey to Tyne and Wear, data shows\n\nTwo patients were moved to a hospital 300 miles away, because of intensive-care bed shortages during the second UK coronavirus wave, BBC News has learned.\n\nAn unprecedented 2,300 intensive-care patients moved between UK hospitals from September 2020 to March 2021, in search of beds, data shows.\n\nFront-line doctors, speaking for the first time, say these transfers were the only way to care for patients.\n\nNHS England said the health service had responded well under intense pressure.\n\nIn January this year, the UK's four chief medical officers put out a joint statement saying: \"Without further action, there is a material risk of the NHS in several areas being overwhelmed.\"\n\nAnd measures were taken to cope with the increased demand:\n\nBut ICU staff reported specialist nurses, who normally look after one patient each, were caring for three, four or - in one instance - five.\n\nAnd data from the UK's Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) shows almost three times more patients than usual were moved to different hospitals - sometimes hundreds of miles away from their home.\n\nBetween September 2018 and March 2019, in comparison, there were just 789 such transfers.\n\nDr Mamoun Abu-Habsa says patients are transferred when it is \"the only option\"\n\nIn London, one of the \"hotspots\" for transfers, doctors set up their own schemes to organise the movement of patients.\n\nCritical-care consultant Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa was instrumental in setting up a pandemic transfer service before the second wave hit.\n\nForeseeing the pressures ICUs could face, he sourced an ambulance and equipment, and trained nurses and doctors so they could accompany patients being transferred.\n\nWhere hospitals were close to capacity, Dr Abu-Habsa said, moving patients made a huge difference to their care.\n\n\"We were taking patients across from hospitals that were close to their critical levels of oxygen supply, or the last ventilated bed, to hospitals that were under somewhat less pressure,\" he said.\n\nFew NHS staff have been prepared to speak out about the extent of patient transfers during the second wave, because of the sensitivities around moving such fragile patients because of bed shortages.\n\nBut Dr Abu Habsa wants people to know how carefully the transfers were handled - and why doctors felt they had no choice.\n\n\"No-one wants their patients to be taken away from them to complete their journey of care at another centre,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"That's not how you are wired as a medical professional.\n\n\"But they were also very acutely aware that under the circumstances the particular hospitals were under, that was the only option to preserve access to life support.\"\n\nThe latest figures show one in eight patients had to be moved from hotspots in London and the Midlands, with more than a quarter of these travelling long distances.\n\nIn January, the lord mayor of Stoke-on-Trent's chauffeur, Ashley Harvey, was admitted to the city's hospital, with severe breathing difficulties due to Covid-19.\n\nDays later, despite being in an induced coma and on a ventilator, he was transferred to Salford hospital - one hour away.\n\nHis family say they were told it was to make room for a surge of patients coming up from the South.\n\nAshley Harvey was moved from Stoke-on-Trent to Salford\n\n\"I'm aware that they had nine patients come from London, who were having a displacement of patients coming into the hospitals up and down the country - somebody would have made a difficult decision,\" Mr Harvey said\n\nHis daughter Louise was home from university when the family were told Ashley was being moved.\n\n\"They were saying that he was well enough to do that journey - and make space for someone that's worse,\" she said.\n\n\"It's insane to think that someone could be worse, because he was very poorly,\" but that \"sort of gave us a bit of hope\", she added.\n\nIn Birmingham, Dr Nitin Arora, a leading member the Intensive Care Society, said, at the worst point, 40% of ICU patients in some hospitals had to be moved - and without the transfers, more people would have died.\n\n\"We would have seen scenes like in Italy, triaging by age, scenes like New York, where some hospitals had mortality rates five times higher than others because they were working on a seven-to-one ratio,\" he said.\n\n\"The transfer service was one of the winners in this pandemic.\"\n\nWithout the transfers, Dr Nitin Arora says, more people would have died\n\nThe UK has a relatively low proportion of intensive-care beds compared with similar countries - and the pandemic pushed that capacity almost to the limit.\n\nDr Abu-Hapsa says that must now change.\n\n\"The shortage of critical care beds in the UK was absolutely felt during the pandemic,\" he said..\n\n\"There were contingencies in place to redistribute the pressure load from London to other parts of England - but none the less, the reality remains we were very close to breaking point.\"\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Each patient transfer only occurred after direct agreement between intensive-care clinicians and senior doctors that it was safe and right to do so and always happened under the supervision of a specialist transfer team.\n\n\"Being able to provide mutual support in this way is one of the advantages of having a truly national health service and prevented regions being overwhelmed, as happened in some other countries, even when our hospitals admitted more than 100,000 Covid patients in a single month.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A con artist rang Emmeline Hartley claiming to be from Barclays and told her to transfer money to a new bank account as her current one was at risk\n\nA woman who has been \"scammed out of every penny I had\" has shared her story on Twitter to try to stop others falling victim to bank fraudsters.\n\nDrama student Emmeline Hartley moved £1,000 out of her account after a man claiming to be from Barclays called.\n\nThe number appeared to be genuine, but it was a spoof. The 28-year-old's bank has now agreed to fully reimburse her.\n\nHer story has been retweeted thousands of times and others have shared their experiences in response to her post.\n\n\"I am usually very good at not falling for scams but this one caught me off-guard at a pretty vulnerable time in my life,\" the Birmingham student said.\n\n\"I thought I had done my due diligence but it was not enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emmeline Hartley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Hartley said she had been taken in by a text message scam which claimed she owed payment to Royal Mail for a package to be delivered.\n\nAs her birthday was coming up and she was in a hurry, she said she had thought nothing of it and entered her bank details.\n\nThe following day, a man called her and told her someone had tried to set up direct debits in her account to other firms.\n\nThe con-artist told her she needed a new bank account as entering her details to the text had put her online banking at risk.\n\nHe persuaded her to transfer the £1,000 - all her savings - to the new account and Ms Hartley said she had only fully realised she was being scammed when he had asked her to transfer her overdraft.\n\nWhen it did not work, she said she had broken down in tears and he had hung up.\n\n\"It was down to circumstances, I was panicked and angry at falling for the Royal Mail scam and I have always trusted Barclays,\" she said.\n\n\"This guy was plausible, professional and understanding and I just fell for it.\"\n\nMs Hartley said Barclays had started an investigation into what had happened but she felt the bank's online app could have more warnings to try to stop such a scam.\n\nShe said her bank had called her on Tuesday and told her they would be reimbursing her in full.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"No genuine bank would message you to transfer money to a 'safe account' - we advise any customers to ignore anyone who asks to do this, whether it's by phone, email or any other method.\"\n\nSince sharing her story on Twitter on Sunday, hundreds of people have commented, with many sharing their own stories of similar bank scams.\n\nPeople have offered her donations which Ms Hartley said she had refused, but she has seen scammers copying her account to try to get money out of users who have commented.\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 Welsh Conservative election candidate has removed a showreel of her TV work from YouTube where she pretended to interview two senior sportsmen.\n\nNatasha Asghar's video included clips of interviews with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and footballer David Beckham.\n\nBBC News, which recorded the Sachin Tendulkar interview in 2013, confirmed it did not give permission for its use.\n\nShe said the video was intended to practise her editing skills and not for \"any wrongful purpose\".\n\nMs Asghar is number two on the South Wales East Tory list for the 6 May Senedd election. She is the daughter of Mohammad Asghar, the Conservative MS for the same region until he died in 2020.\n\nShe told BBC Wales the video was not meant to be shown to others.\n\nIt includes some of her work as a presenter and had more than 1,000 views before it was made private on her personal channel on Tuesday.\n\nIn the clip, Ms Asghar says in a voiceover: \"Here are a few examples of my work and I hope that you like what you see.\"\n\nThe video included a clip of Sachin Tendulkar from BBC News\n\nAround a minute in, the video, dated April 2020, cuts to Ms Asghar introducing an interview while superimposed on a background.\n\n\"I am joined with the man who has just recently announced his retirement and is giving us an exclusive interview - the one and only Sachin Tendulkar,\" she said.\n\n\"Sachin why are you saying farewell to a game that loves you, and that you clearly love as well?\"\n\nThe video then shows part of an interview with the Indian international sportsman, filmed by the BBC at the time of his retirement in 2013.\n\nOriginal footage, also available on YouTube, shows Mr Tendulkar being interviewed by someone else.\n\nThe video included a clip of an interview with David Beckham in 2013, pictured here at a separate event earlier this year\n\nLater, the video shows Ms Asghar sat in a chair purporting to interview David Beckham, asking him how he would like to be remembered by his fans.\n\nThe showreel then shows a short portion of an interview with the former footballer, with a logo for the news agency Associated Press visible in the corner.\n\nThe original footage of the clip, conducted at the time of Mr Beckham's retirement in 2013, is also available on YouTube. The description says he is being interviewed by Gary Neville.\n\nIt is understood the interview involved Sky Sports News and other broadcasters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Natasha This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 response to a BBC Wales request for comment Ms Asghar said: \"It's not a secret I work in TV and have a production company where I create content.\n\n\"For over a year I have been learning to edit footage. Something I never knew how to do before and I created this demo to demonstrate my editing skills. For years I've been paying others to make my showreel.\"\n\nShe said that can cost \"a pretty penny\".\n\n\"Frankly I didn't even realise that it was visible as I was sharing it with an ex-colleague of mine who was teaching me how to use Final Cut Pro,\" she added.\n\n\"They were never intended for any wrongful purpose or ever intended to be shown to others. As I said it was just for my own development.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lamb rover: Steven \"scoots around all over\" thanks to his new wheels\n\nA newborn lamb left paralysed by an infection is able to walk again thanks to a modified dog wheelchair.\n\nSix-day-old Steven lost the use of his back legs shortly after he was born on a rescue farm in Oakworth, West Yorkshire.\n\nOwner Janet-Alison Arkwright acquired the canine contraption and adjusted it to fit the ailing ungulate's tiny body.\n\nSince being kitted out, Steven now \"scoots around all over\" with the other animals, she said.\n\n\"He keeps up with them (the other lambs) now.\n\n\"The only thing he can't do is - because he's got little wheels on - he can't go in the field.\"\n\nSteven \"plays like any other normal lamb\", although the lack of four-wool drive means his wheelchair can't go on fields\n\nMrs Arkwright, 44, whose farm is home to a variety of rescue animals, said Red Fox sheep Steven had become \"best friends\" with Lilly, an old foster dog.\n\n\"Lilly took it upon herself to protect Steven, who follows wherever she goes,\" she said.\n\n\"They've become really good friends on the yard.\"\n\nHis owner said they hoped one day he might be able to walk again without assistance\n\nShe said it wasn't clear whether Steven would regain the use of his legs, but he was \"getting stronger on his front\" and \"managing to lift his back end up even when he isn't in his wheels\".\n\n\"We're hopeful that one day maybe he'll walk again, because he wasn't born that way,\" she said.\n\n\"We will never, ever put an animal we can help to sleep, ever.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: UK may have to take action on France travel 'very soon'\n\nThe Labour chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Yvette Cooper, has asked Boris Johnson why France has not been put on the UK's red list, given the rise in cases and new variants. The prime minister explains that putting a country on the \"red list\" has consequences for the supply of medicines and foods to the UK - a nod to the huge haulage industry that sees goods crossing the channel - but the PM concedes \"we will have to look at tougher measures\" if the circumstances change. Cooper says 20,000 people are coming to the UK from France every week and two-thirds of arrivals are exempt from restrictions - she wants to know why hauliers are not being tested in the UK. Johnson says the numbers have \"massively diminished\" in recent months - but says he will \"look at the situation in the Channel\" and \"can't rule out further measures\" on people arriving from France. Why is the PM not taking action now, asks Cooper? Johnson says there is \"a balance to be struck\" given the \"very serious disruption\" that would occur to cross-channel trade. \"We will take action if necessary to protect public health\" he adds and \"we may have to do it \"very soon\".", "More oil and gas wells are to be drilled in the North Sea, the UK government has announced.\n\nThe decision has angered environmental campaigners, who say the government should refuse new licences.\n\nMinisters say permission to drill will be granted as part of a careful transition away from fossil fuels, safeguarding jobs and the economy.\n\nBut the environmentalists say that enough fossil fuels to ruin the climate have already been found.\n\nIn light of this, they say, the government should have refused the new licences.\n\nThey add that the decision undermines the UK position as leader of the vital UN climate conference in November, known as COP26.\n\nBut ministers insist that their strategy will work. So-called \"checkpoints\" will be introduced that take into account domestic demand for oil and gas, projected production levels, the increase in clean technologies such as offshore wind, and the sector’s progress in cutting emissions.\n\nThe sector will face targets to reduce emissions by 10% by 2025 and 25% by 2027. It is also committed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030.\n\nIt will be helped by joint government and private investment of up to £16bn by 2030.\n\nThis will include up to £10bn for hydrogen production and £3bn for a technology called carbon capture, usage and storage - where carbon emissions are either turned into other products such as plastics or buried.\n\nThe government says the deal should cut pollution by up to 60 million tonnes by 2030, while also supporting up to 40,000 jobs across the supply chain.\n\nMel Evans from Greenpeace said: “This is a colossal failure. The UK will make a fool of itself in the run-up to hosting the COP26 global climate talks if our energy minister signs off on new oil and gas licences that serve to rip up the Paris Agreement (the world deal to hold global temperature rise to 1.5C).\n\n“We know the government has already approved too much oil and gas extraction to meet our climate obligations under Paris, and the oil industry itself says that we’ve passed peak oil demand.”\n\nDenmark recently announced a decision to reject new licences for oil drilling in the North Sea.\n\nThe UK Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he would follow a different path: “Today, we are sending a clear message around the world that the UK will be a nation of clean energy.\n\n“We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the irreversible shift away from fossil fuels. We will power the green industrial revolution, turning its focus to the next-generation clean technologies the UK needs to support a green economy.”\n\nThe UK needs clean forms of energy such as offshore wind in order to meet its emissions targets\n\nHe was supported by Deirdre Mitchie, chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, who told BBC News: “Ongoing exploration and production is compatible with net zero emissions – we’re pleased that the government has recognised this.\"\n\nNet zero means reducing greenhouse emissions as much as possible and then balancing any that remain by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.\n\nLang Banks, director of WWF Scotland, told BBC News: “Every new licence makes it more difficult to achieve the reductions we need and risks creating an even bigger ‘cliff edge’ for oil and gas workers.\n\n“As climate science continues to be updated, it’s entirely possible that there’s going to have to be an even quicker tail-off in oil and gas production than is currently predicted.\n\n“If we want the transition to be a fair one, then instead of wasting any more time opening up new fossil fuel reserves, efforts would be better used to more rapidly harness existing skills and direct them toward the zero-carbon industries we all need.”\n\nDetails have also been given about the UK’s previously-announced plans to stop funding overseas projects that directly support fossil fuels – that will now happen at the end of March.\n\nIt will see the UK cease export finance, aid funding and trade promotion for new crude oil, natural gas or thermal coal projects.\n\nHowever, a controversial gas scheme in Mozambique will still go ahead because it has already been approved.\n\nIn the last four years, the government supported £21bn of UK oil and gas exports.\n\nThe need to protect workers in oil and gas has been stressed by an independent group studying Scotland’s transition to a clean economy.\n\nThe so-called Just Transition Commission warns that creating a near-zero carbon future means a fundamental transformation of the nation’s economy that must be implemented fairly.\n\nIt says the transition must be made by the people of Scotland, not done to the people of Scotland. And the shift must be a “national mission with social justice at its heart”.\n\nThe commission - recruited by the Scottish government from industry, trades unions and academia - says worker education and skills training will be vital.\n\nIt says the great move towards low carbon must be done in co-operation with the unions.", "Ministers are considering converting disused ferries moored off the coast to process people seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nAccording to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications were made in the UK in 2019 - down from a peak of 84,000 in 2002.\n\nDowning Street said it was looking at what other countries do \"to inform a plan for the UK.\"\n\nLabour called the proposal to process people on ferries \"unconscionable\".\n\nThe most senior civil servant at the Home Office, Matthew Rycroft, said \"everything is on the table\" when it comes to \"improving\" the UK's asylum system.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel asked officials to look at policies, including housing people who are seeking asylum offshore.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Financial Times reported the Foreign Office had carried out an assessment for Ascension Island, a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean - which included the practicalities of transferring migrants thousands of miles - and decided not to proceed.\n\nNow the Times reports that the government is giving \"serious consideration\" to the idea of buying retired ferries and converting them into processing centres, but it says the Home Office rejected a proposal to use decommissioned oil platforms in the North Sea.\n\nThe paper also says processing migrants on an island off the coast of Scotland had been considered, but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that \"any proposal to treat human beings like cattle in a holding pen will be met with the strongest possible opposition from me\".\n\nAppearing before the Public Affairs Committee, Permanent Secretary Mr Rycroft said he would not comment on leaks to newspapers, but that the department was \"brainstorming\" ideas.\n\nHe said: \"We've been looking at what a whole host of other countries do in order to bring innovation into our own system.\n\n\"No decisions have been taken. No final proposals have been put to ministers... this is in the realm of the brainstorming stage of a future policy.\"\n\nMr Rycroft said the UK would \"always comply with all of our international obligations\" and civil servants would \"assess all of the various different possible ideas out there to see which are legal and which make operational sense… so that ministers can ultimately make decisions\".\n\nHow does the government tempt fewer people to attempt a perilous crossing of the Channel to reach the south coast?\n\nWell, one idea is to make it clear that even a successful crossing won't mean getting to stay in the UK - at least in the short term.\n\nThe government is exploring \"all sorts of options\" - not my words, but those of the most senior civil servant in the Home Office.\n\nHence the recent headlines about transferring asylum seekers to a lump of British rock in the middle of the South Atlantic - Ascension Island, or buying an old ferry to house them.\n\nBut remember, although the numbers coming over the Channel in boats are at a record high, they are still a small proportion of overall asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nAnd rows about asylum are far from new.\n\nTwenty years ago, it was the then-Home Secretary, Jack Straw, found himself in a row with his own party about what the Labour government should do about the issue.\n\nSo this is an historic problem for parties of both colours.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour would oppose any move to use ferries, adding: \"Even considering this is appalling.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"lurching from one inhumane and impractical idea to another\" and claimed it had \"lost control and all sense of compassion\".\n\nThe SNP's home affairs spokeswoman, Joanna Cherry, said the leaked plans showed \"the callousness at the core\" of the government, and the plans would \"treat vulnerable asylum seekers as cattle rather than human beings\".\n\nBut Conservative MP for Gravesham in Kent, Adam Holloway, said the Home Office was \"completely right\" to be looking at other options that were \"some sort of deterrent\" for asylum seekers.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme: \"We need to break the link in people's minds that if you get to Britain you're going to stay in Britain, you're going to stay in a hotel and you're going to be accommodated.\"\n\nHe added that the UK needed to find a \"civilised version\" of the model used by Australia, which has controversially used offshore processing and detention centres for asylum seekers since the 1980s.\n\nThe discussion comes as record numbers of people are crossing the Channel to the UK, with 400 arriving in one day in September.\n\nAscension Island is more than 4,000 miles (6,000km) from the UK\n\nA Home Office source said this week that ministers were looking at \"every option that can stop small boat crossings and fix the asylum system\", but no final decisions had been made.\n\nNearly 7,000 people have reached the UK in more than 500 small boats this year - by 23 September, 1,892 migrants had arrived during the month, more than in all of 2019.\n\nBut they are still a small proportion of the asylum seekers coming to the UK.\n\nTory MP Natalie Elphicke, who represents Dover, said the government had been \"clear they are going to take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to these small boat crossings\".\n\nShe told the BBC No 10 and the Home Office were looking at a \"whole range of things\" to address the \"draw factor\" of the UK, \"from cruise ships and ferries through to offshore fast track assessment centres, through to changing the immigration law\".\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told Parliament the government was \"actively looking at the steps that we can take\" to stop illegal crossings in the English Channel so the UK can \"maintain our commitment to providing a safe haven\" but also \"safeguard our borders\".\n\nTo be eligible for asylum in the UK, applicants must prove they cannot return to their home country because they fear persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, gender identity or sexual orientation.\n\nA caseworker decides if they have a valid claim by taking into account factors such as the country of origin of the asylum seeker or evidence of discrimination.\n\nThis is supposed to be done in six months but delays in processing claims have increased significantly in the last year.\n\nWhile waiting for a decision to be made, asylum seekers are usually not allowed to work and are initially placed in hostel-type accommodation before longer-term housing is arranged.", "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has survived a vote of no confidence at Holyrood over her government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond.\n\nA Holyrood committee inquiry has concluded that there were \"serious flaws\" in the government's approach.\n\nThe confidence vote was tabled by Tory MSP Ruth Davidson, who said nobody had taken responsibility for the failures.\n\nBut MSPs voted by 65 to 31 to reject the motion, with the Greens backing the SNP and Labour and Lib Dems abstaining.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may not have got everything right\" in her handling of the matter, but insisted that she \"acted appropriately and made the right judgements overall\".\n\nAnd she told opposition parties that if they wanted to remove her they should do it in the forthcoming election on 6 May, adding: \"It is now time for the country to decide.\"\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry - which was set up in 2019 after the government conceded its handling of complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful - published its report earlier on Tuesday, stating that women had been badly let down by the failed process.\n\nA majority of members said Ms Sturgeon had misled the inquiry in her evidence, and said they found it hard to believe that she was not aware of concerns about Mr Salmond's alleged behaviour before November 2017.\n\nHowever an independent investigation by Irish lawyer James Hamilton concluded on Monday that Ms Sturgeon had not breached the ministerial code.\n\nHe said Ms Sturgeon had given an \"incomplete narrative of events\" to MSPs, but that he believed this was a \"genuine failure of recollection\" and not deliberate.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives had tabled a motion of no confidence in Ms Sturgeon before either report had been published - saying that \"overwhelming\" evidence of wrongdoing had already emerged.\n\nMs Davidson, the party's leader at Holyrood, told MSPs that \"nobody has taken responsibility for the multiple failings at every level which occurred\".\n\nShe said that Ms Sturgeon \"should not feel able to continue in post\", and that \"the honourable thing would be to resign\".\n\nMs Davidson said: \"The committee found that Nicola Sturgeon misled this parliament. Nothing can erase that fact, however inconvenient it is to the first minister and her supporters.\"\n\nThe best time for the opposition to call a no confidence vote is when they have enough support to win and can force a minister from office.\n\nThat has never been a realistic prospect for the Conservatives in their efforts to oust Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nWhen they first announced plans for a vote the day before the first minister gave evidence to the Holyrood committee, it was clear she could see off their challenge with support from the Greens.\n\nWhen she was cleared of breaking the ministerial code by the Hamilton inquiry, her position strengthened.\n\nBy pressing on regardless, the Tories managed to divide the opposition - with Labour and the Liberal Democrats refusing to vote with them and abstaining instead.\n\nThe Tories say that makes them the only party strong enough to take on the SNP.\n\nBut in enabling Nicola Sturgeon to comfortably win a confidence vote today they've given her a pre-election boost after some of her toughest weeks in office.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may not have got everything right in my handling of this situation\", but said she would \"reject entirely any suggestion of misleading this parliament\".\n\nAnd she said she would have resigned if Mr Hamilton had found she breached the code.\n\nHowever she said she had been \"cleared of any breach of the ministerial code\", and told Ms Davidson: \"If you think you can bully me out of office you are mistaken and have misjudged me.\n\n\"If you want to remove me from office as first minister, do it in an election\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had been accused of \"conspiracy against, collusion with and cover-up on behalf of Alex Salmond\", but that \"none of that is supported by evidence because none of that is true.\"\n\nThe first minister was backed by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who said the inquiry had become a \"farce\" and accused opposition members of the committee of \"destroying the credibility of their own work\".\n\nBoth Labour and the Lib Dems abstained in the final vote, meaning only the Conservatives backed the motion.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said there had been a \"litany of failures\" by the government, but said the Tories were \"only interested in getting a scalp\" and \"grubby party politics\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a day of shame for our parliament. Scotland deserves a better government and a better opposition.\"\n\nMeanwhile Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said \"nobody wins from this ugly debate\", and that the confidence debate and motion \"cannot be the end\" of the matter.", "Chancellor Angela Merkel said she took \"ultimate responsibility\" for the U-turn\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has cancelled plans for a strict lockdown over Easter, just a day after the measures were announced.\n\nCalling the plan a \"mistake\", Mrs Merkel said she took \"ultimate responsibility\" for the U-turn.\n\nThe proposed lockdown was agreed with regional leaders in talks overnight on Monday, with restrictions set to be tightened between 1-5 April.\n\nBut the plan was reversed following a crisis meeting on Wednesday.\n\nIt had been widely criticised by business leaders and scientists.\n\nThe lockdown would have been Germany's strictest yet, with most shops closed and gatherings limited.\n\nFor five days over Easter from 1 April, Germans would have been asked to stay at home and reduce social contact.\n\nIn-person religious services would have been cancelled, large family gatherings banned and almost all shops would have been closed.\n\nThe head of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Armin Laschet, told a regional parliament meeting on Wednesday that the lockdown was \"not enforceable in this form\".\n\n\"This mistake is mine alone,\" Mrs Merkel told reporters in Berlin. \"The whole process has caused additional uncertainty, for which I ask all citizens to forgive me.\"\n\n\"There were good reasons for it but it could not be implemented well enough in this short time,\" she added.\n\nThis was an extraordinary statement.\n\nChancellor Merkel said she alone bore responsibility for the plan to extend what is usually a three-day Easter holiday to a five-day shutdown.\n\nThe German leader will be conscious that - as case numbers soar exponentially - public trust in her government's pandemic response is wavering.\n\nShe was seen as a safe pair of hands who brought the country through the first wave of infections. But - as regional leaders bicker over lockdown measures - Germany's response is becoming increasingly chaotic.\n\nMrs Merkel appears to be struggling to keep the country together.\n\n\"Essentially, we have a new virus,\" Chancellor Merkel said when announcing the now-cancelled Easter lockdown.\n\nThe highly contagious UK (Kent) variant of coronavirus had become dominant, she explained, plunging the country into \"a new pandemic\".\n\n\"It is much deadlier, much more infectious and infectious for much longer,\" she claimed, adding Germany was in a race against time to vaccinate against Covid-19.\n\nThe infection rate has risen above 100 per 100,000 inhabitants in Germany. That number is critical in determining emergency decisions such as tightening lockdowns. Under the current rules, areas exceeding that infection rate over a seven-day period will not be subject to further reopenings.\n\nBut despite the numbers, the announcement of the five-day lockdown, and the subsequent ban on Easter church services, triggered dismay from religious leaders. They argued that their existing social-distancing measures made church attendance safe.\n\nThe Catholic German Bishops' Conference made clear that, following Wednesday's U-turn, its services would go ahead as planned with hygiene measures in place and video streams available to those who did not want to attend in person.\n\n\"With today's decision, a bit of reason is returning to coronavirus policy,\" the HDE association of retailers said in a statement.\n\nThe country's partial lockdown, meanwhile, has been extended until at least 18 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCoronavirus infections have been surging in some parts of Europe in recent weeks as countries scramble to vaccinate their populations despite delays in rolling out jabs.\n\nThe European Commission has proposed tougher controls on Covid vaccine exports. It has accused the UK-Swedish firm AstraZeneca of failing to honour its contract to supply EU countries.\n\nThe tougher export controls are most likely to affect countries that have higher vaccination rates than the EU, such as the UK and US.", "Police in Wales have had to enforce sometimes \"unpopular\" Covid rules, say officers\n\nFront-line police officers should have been prioritised for the Covid vaccine, according to the head of one force.\n\nChief Constable Pam Kelly said it has been one of her biggest concerns during the crisis.\n\nThe Gwent Police boss agreed that NHS staff and the vulnerable should come first, but she wanted greater protection for her staff.\n\nThe Welsh government said there is insufficient evidence to support vaccination by occupation.\n\nPolice officers often attend the same scenes as health workers but are the only ones not vaccinated, said Mrs Kelly.\n\n\"We salute NHS staff, they've been outstanding. But often you will get an ambulance worker, health worker and police officer at the same scene,\" she said.\n\n\"When there's a violent person, police officers are there trying to protect the health workers - yet it's the police officer that's not vaccinated.\n\n\"It's a real concern for me. It's all about having enough emergency workers to respond to 999 and 101 calls and the vaccination for police officers would have been a really strong voice in saying we're grateful for what you've done.\n\n\"They're not asking for money - all we're asking for is for our officers to be safe.\"\n\nChief Constable Pam Kelly wants greater protection from Covid for officers\n\nMore than 4,000 emergency workers have been assaulted in Wales over the last 20 months, she added.\n\n\"Sometimes Covid has been used as a weapon. I understand without question the need for the vulnerable to be vaccinated, but at this stage where the wider community is being vaccinated, I feel very strongly that front-line policing should be vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nMrs Kelly added that out of a 1,400 strong workforce, just 140 have had the vaccine - based purely on their age or vulnerability.\n\nBut as crime dropped around 15%, demand for policing increased significantly, she said.\n\nThe role of the police has changed during the pandemic, even checking where people are walking and with whom\n\nIn the neighbouring South Wales Police force, Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan is equally concerned about the impact the pandemic has had on staff.\n\n\"It's taken its toll. On a weekly basis I'm texting somebody who is poorly, somebody who is in hospital, I've visited families, I've been to a number of funerals. We really care about their wellbeing and welfare,\" he said.\n\nPolice officers \"absolutely\" should be prioritised for Covid vaccines, Temporary Chief Constable of Dyfed Powys Police Claire Parmenter said.\n\nShe told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales: \"I'm pleased that in recent weeks officers have started to get offered reserve vaccines where, at the end of the day, there are some vaccines leftover.\n\n\"But it's critical that we continue to support officers for the vaccination because they have no choice but to put themselves at risk.\"\n\nMany have opposed legislation giving police greater power to crack down on protests\n\nAs a border force, different rules in England and Wales added to the confusing picture.\n\nInitially the focus remained on engaging, explaining and encouraging compliance, but enforcement has increasingly been a factor.\n\nIn the last 12 months the role of policing changed significantly. While crime remained a priority, officers were asked to step in and police far more of our lives - right down to where we took a walk and with whom.\n\nPeople in Cardiff protested in January over the death of Mahmoud Hassan, who died after being released from police custody\n\nTeam that with protests - and a national focus on the way police have handled protests in a pandemic, from Black Lives Matter to women's safety demonstrations following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nHas it impacted their relationship with their community?\n\n\"I can't thank communities enough for the way they've worked with us,\" said Mrs Kelly, who was interviewed before officers in Bristol were injured during protests on Monday.\n\n\"I don't want to become the Covid police - and we've carried on tackling serious organised crime with vigour - but ultimately we have seen some fragility in terms of the relationships between policing and the community.\n\n\"We've had about 73 protests during the Covid crisis and protests are very difficult to police.\"\n\nImages of Patsy Stevenson being detained by police at a vigil for Sarah Everard in London were shared widely\n\nShe said they had worked with protesters - some had moved online, others were done in a Covid-secure way.\n\nHer south Wales counterpart Mr Vaughan, who was also interviewed before the Bristol protests, added people have the right to be heard - but the rules have changed in Covid times.\n\n\"People want their voices to be heard - and people are protesting on some really important issues,\" he said.\n\n\"In ordinary times the police would work really hard to allow those voices to be heard- to facilitate those protests, but these aren't ordinary times. They're extraordinary times.\n\n\"There comes a point after a few days of protest, and we've warned them on a number of times, that we need to take action.\n\n\"That's not for one second calling into question the right of individual's voices to be heard, or indeed the things that they want to talk about which are extremely important things, but we're being called to help protect people from a global pandemic.\"\n\nThousands of people joined anti-racism protests across Wales last summer\n\nThe Welsh government thanked officers for doing a \"fantastic job\" enforcing coronavirus regulations.\n\nHowever a spokesman said it was following the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to vaccinate according to age, as that \"remains the strongest factor\" linked to deaths and hospitalisations from the virus.\n\n\"The JCVI has looked at prioritisation by occupation but found there wasn't sufficient evidence for this,\" he added.\n\n\"It has advised that the complexity of delivering this approach would slow down the pace of the vaccination roll-out.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown anniversary: 'In the dreams I was fighting for my life'\n\nExactly one year ago Paul Henderson was seven days into self-isolation for coronavirus symptoms when his wife sought urgent help. By the end of the day he had been put into an induced coma and was fighting for his life.\n\nPaul says he can't remember his wife Lisa driving him from their home, near the village of Heriot in the Borders, to hospital in Edinburgh.\n\nIt would be weeks before she would see him again.\n\n\"I have a vague memory of making a phone call to my wife and the children, not knowing if that would be my last phone call,\" Paul says.\n\n\"And then I only remember wakening up 30 days later, unaware of what the family had been through.\"\n\nTwelve months ago, the 55-year-old was among the first of a sudden wave of coronavirus patients that filled Scotland's hospitals in a matter of weeks.\n\nDoctors were facing a race against time to save some of them from a new disease that they knew little about.\n\nPaul was one of more than 1,700 people admitted to Covid-19 intensive care in Scotland during the past year. About a third of them did not survive.\n\nHis month in ICU would see Paul hooked up to a ventilator and his body subjected to a catalogue of horrific symptoms.\n\nHe believes he may have picked up the virus in a Leith pub where he had been drinking with fellow Hibs supporters after a match was called off.\n\nPaul says: \"There was singing, there was man-hugging and 'good to see you' and stuff like that, and I was probably getting it passed to me then and I didn't know. You just never knew.\"\n\nHe says if he had known what he was to go through in the following weeks, he wouldn't have gone to the pub that day.\n\n\"I was told by all the consultants and doctors that I was lucky to pull through,\" Paul says.\n\n\"I woke up and I was hooked up to monitors and instruments, the flashing lights, a catheter, two cannulas; I had nine pads stuck to my body, with the wires that check whatever it is they check.\n\n\"I was in a bad way. I couldn't talk at first because of the tracheostomy. I had pleurisy, double pneumonia and kidney dialysis, and I had to get blood thinning because I was having clots and the kidney dialysis machine was clogging up.\n\n\"But I never knew anything until I opened my eyes 30 days later and realised the seriousness of it all.\"\n\nPaul was treated at the Western General in Edinburgh\n\nDuring those weeks, Paul had no idea of how the pandemic had taken hold in Scotland. But his mind was still busy.\n\nHe describes vivid and disturbing dreams he experienced while in the induced coma.\n\n\"The delirium was horrific, absolutely horrific,\" he says.\n\n\"In the dreams I was fighting for my life on numerous occasions. I was drowning in the hull of a boat, gasping for air.\n\n\"It was all real to me but it was in my mind.\"\n\nHe recalls one dream where he saw \"the brightest light you can imagine\".\n\nPaul says: \"I think that was it, when I was at my worst, when the consultant one night phoned my wife and said 'be prepared for the worst, he might not make it'.\"\n\nEventually he did wake up.\n\nBut his family would still become one of the thousands to lose someone to the virus. In a nursing home in Edinburgh, his elderly mother did not survive it.\n\nWhen Paul came out of the coma he was worried his mother would find out just how ill he had been.\n\nHe had not been in touch with her for 40 days and he still had a squeaky voice from the tracheostomy.\n\n\"So I phoned her and caught up with her,\" he says. \"And then four days later, she had passed away with the coronavirus.\"\n\nPaul had to focus on his own recovery. He says the NHS was fantastic during the worst times.\n\n\"I was just too scared to go to sleep,\" he says. \"I'd get upset in the middle of the night and a nurse would just come in and just sit and chat. They saved my life and they were brilliant.\"\n\nPaul says the experience has brought the family closer together\n\nSince then, the charity ICU Steps, a patient support group, counsellors and his wife have all helped him to cope with the trauma.\n\nHis ordeal will resonate with many who have survived Covid-19. But for him, the impact it has had on his family causes the deepest pain.\n\n\"I've still got scarring on my lungs. I'm deaf in one ear. Really fatigued, you know, I'm shattered at the end of the day,\" Paul says.\n\n\"But you know it's only a little to what my family went through.\n\n\"I do remember saying to my son, look after the girls. My son was only 12 at the time but he was to look after them. He was the man of the house now.\n\n\"My wife used to come out here in the middle of the night and just look at the stars and just contemplate that I might not come home.\"\n\nPaul says the experience has brought the family closer together.\n\nAnd now he's looking forward to taking his son Saul back to see Hibs at Easter Road and is grateful to be able to tell his story.\n\n\"There are seven and half thousand people dead, and I was nearly one more myself,\" he says.\n\n\"It's real and it's not going away just yet. But just bear with it. It will come good in the end.\"", "Ms Bradley asks if there are any procedural changes the prime minister would like to see to enable more women to make successful careers in Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson says technology has \"definitely been our friend\" during the pandemic. He says it is not for him to dictate, but it is for MPs and the Speaker to see how things can be improved for work and family balances. \"There are still very considerable barriers\" he states, and there are some deterrents that female MPs face, such as \"absolutely appalling\" online trolling.\n\nMs Bradley asks if there are any particular innovations which he'd like to see continue after the pandemic, such as virtual voting.\n\nMr Johnson says he doesn't want to commit to any particular change, but he says he's open to different ideas. He says he \"wants the chamber to be full again\" and he wants the public to see where the \"sentiment\" is in Parliament by seeing and hearing how MPs are responding to a debate. He also wants to see MPs be able to \"mingle again in the lobbies,\" \"voting as a communal act, together, has immense benefits,\" he states.\n\nMs Bradley asks her final question, she says the government has to provide time in Parliament to allow MPs to debate changes to how they work.\n\nMr Johnson says this is a \"necessity\" and he has \"no doubt\" that this can be organised.\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin says proxy voting has been beneficial for lots of women who often have caring responsibilities, he asks if the PM has an open mind on such things.\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to see Parliament become more family friendly.", "A paramedic finished a 12-hour night shift to find her car daubed in graffiti saying \"don't call 999\".\n\nVandals spray painted Bronwen Newbury's vehicle while it was parked at her Bristol base at the weekend.\n\nShe said she was \"angry that people think so little of us\".\n\nThe vehicle has been repaired for free after she put photos of the graffiti on Facebook. South Western Ambulance Service said the attack was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt happened outside Soundwell Ambulance Station while Ms Newbury, from Caerphilly, was on shift overnight on Saturday into the early hours of Sunday.\n\nMs Newbury (l) said she questioned her job\n\nShe said it left her \"in shock, teary, and angry\", and questioning her job.\n\n\"Twelve-hour shifts can be difficult anyway...but I'm trying to do something for the community, so coming back to that was so disappointing...I felt 'what's the point in doing this?\"\n\nAfter sharing the photos of her car on Facebook, Ms Newbury said she had 60-70 offers of help and support. A company in Bristol has removed the graffiti for free.\n\n\"It has restored my faith in humanity,\" Ms Newbury said.\n\nA South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) spokesperson added: \"Sadly our people are victim to unacceptable behaviour from a minority every day while they are serving the communities of the South West and saving lives.\n\n\"Any such incident can have a lasting impact on them, their loved ones, and other colleagues.\"\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 6,000 cases of Covid-related fraud and cyber-crime have been recorded by the UK's police forces during the pandemic.\n\nThe Action Fraud team said £34.5m had been stolen since 1 March 2020.\n\nIt covers activity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not Scotland.\n\nIn a related development, the National Cyber Security Centre has told the BBC it is tackling about 30 \"significant attacks\" a month against the country's pandemic response infrastructure.\n\nThese involves attempts to breach the NHS, vaccine producers and vaccine supply chains, among other organisations.\n\n\"There unfortunately have been a number of successful ransomware incidents against businesses - I can think of roughly around 10,\" NCSC operations director Paul Chichester said.\n\nThis is one of the scripts used to con victims to believe they were talking to their bank\n\nOther figures disclosed by City of London Police, which co-ordinates efforts to combat fraud, include:\n\nThe activity peaked between April and May 2020, and January 2021 - both times when lockdowns were in force.\n\nThe Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit, which tackles criminal gangs responsible for financial fraud and scams, worked with social media platforms to take down over 700 accounts linked to fraudulent activity in 2020, of which over 250 were money mule recruiters.\n\nBut this may be the tip of the iceberg.\n\nThe National Crime Agency estimates that just one in five fraud cases are typically reported to the police.\n\nAnd the volunteer-run Cyber Helpline told the BBC only a quarter of those who had contacted it after a cyber-attack said they had also reported the incident to the police.\n\nMany of the scams involved conning people out of their money and financial details by focusing on internet shopping.\n\nRelated fraud was 42% higher over the pandemic than the preceding year, as criminals took advantage of the fact many physical stores had been forced to close.\n\nAnna - not her real name - from Cheltenham was one of thousands of people who received an SMS message asking her to go online and rearrange a parcel delivery.\n\nShe filled in her details, but later suspected something was wrong. She alerted her bank and cancelled her bank card.\n\nAnna came close to being thousands of pounds out of pocket\n\n\"I thought, now I have nothing to worry about, everything is fine and case closed,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBut the criminals used the details they had already obtained to authorise her bank to credit her account with a £9,000 loan.\n\nAnd a short while later they called her, pretending to be the bank.\n\nNot realising the scam, Anna told them she had not taken out a loan.\n\n\"They gave me the sort code and bank account number I needed to pay back the loan, and said if I paid the £9,000 there wouldn't be any charges.\n\n\"But then I was still feeling suspicious, so I Googled the sort code, and it came up with a completely different bank.\"\n\nSo, Anna called her bank directly and realised the scammers had returned.\n\n\"I didn't lose any money but it did feel like a real burglary to be honest,\" she said.\n\nShe closed her account, and changed her email address and mobile number. But she still does not feel safe.\n\nOne in three charities suffered a cyber-attack during the first 10 months of the pandemic, according to Ecclesiastical Insurance.\n\nOne victim actually specialises in offering cyber-security advice to others.\n\nHackers got inside Charity Digital's network for seven days without being detected. They compromised its email accounts and sent false invoices to clients.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive, Jonathan Chevallier, told the BBC the breach had not been noticed in part because all his staff had been working from home.\n\nCharity Digital spent more than £10,000 investigating the attack and has produced an online webinar to help others avoid a similar fate.\n\nAnother popular type of cyber-fraud involved romance scams, in which people looking for relationships via the net often get fooled into sending money to prospective partners, who prey on their emotions.\n\nThis type of crime was 20% more common over the past year than the one before.\n\nFraudsters sometimes use \"Sim farms\" to send texts - this unit holds eight cards to quickly send multiple messages at once\n\nCity of London Police also said key workers had also been specifically targeted.\n\nIn one case, a man was arrested on suspicion of using social media to advertise bogus car insurance policies to NHS workers.\n\nThe pandemic appears, however, to have coincided with a fall in one type of cyber-crime.\n\nReported cases of computer software service fraud - in which criminals call offering fake tech support to fool victims into sharing their payment card details and other credentials - dropped by 15.5%.", "Places of worship, including St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow, have faced tough restrictions over the past year\n\nPlaces of worship in Scotland can reopen immediately after Covid regulations forcing their closure were deemed unlawful.\n\nA group of 27 church leaders launched a judicial review at the Court of Session arguing the Scottish government acted beyond their emergency powers.\n\nLord Braid agreed the regulations went further than was lawfully allowed.\n\nThe ruling was issued with \"immediate effect\" so churches - but also mosques, synagogues and temples - can open now.\n\nIt comes just two days before communal worship is due to resume under the next phase of lockdown easing.\n\nLawyers for the Scottish government had argued that it was forced to make the changes as the Kent variant of Covid was more transmissible.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would carefully consider the findings and its implications.\n\nLord Braid said those who brought the judicial review were entitled to have the regulations declared unlawful.\n\nHe said the Scottish government regulations disproportionately interfered with the freedom of religion secured in the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nHe added: \"It is impossible to measure the effect of those restrictions on those who hold religious beliefs. It goes beyond mere loss of companionship and an inability to attend a lunch club.\"\n\nHowever, the judge emphasised that he was not saying that coming together for worship was safe.\n\n\"I have not decided that all churches must immediately open or that it is safe for them to do so, or even that no restrictions at all are justified,\" he said.\n\n\"All I have decided is that the regulations which are challenged in this petition went further than they were lawfully able to do, in the circumstances which existed when they were made.\"\n\nThe judicial review was brought by 27 church leaders from a number of Christian denominations in Scotland, including the Free Church Continuing and the Baptist Church\n\nRev Dr William Philip, senior minister at the Tron Church in Glasgow, welcomed the ruling.\n\nHe said: \"From the outset we have recognised the serious decisions the Scottish Ministers had to take in response to the pandemic.\n\n\"However, its approach to banning and criminalising gathered church worship was clearly an over-reach and disproportionate and if this had gone unchallenged it would have set a very dangerous precedent.\n\n\"However well intentioned, criminalising corporate worship has been both damaging and dangerous for Scotland, and must never happen again.\"\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said she was \"thankful and relieved\" that the court had recognised what she described as a \"dangerous interference\".\n\nShe added: \"The fundamental principle of freedom has prevailed with a strong dash of good old common sense.\"\n\nAdditional party Canon Tom White's argument that the regulations were disproportionate on constitutional grounds was also found to be the case by Lord Braid.\n\nCanon White, parish priest of St Alphonsus Church in Glasgow, said: \"I'm overjoyed to hear that the court has understood the essential need to protect not only the physical and material health of our society but also its spiritual needs and therefore overturned the disproportionate, unnecessary and unlawful blanket ban on public worship.\"\n\nOn hearing that the restrictions would be lifted immediately, Canon White confirmed he would hold a Covid-safe Mass at St Mary's RC church in the east end of Glasgow on Thursday morning.\n\nCommunal worship was already due to resume from Friday in time for Passover, Easter, Ramadan and Vaisakhi.\n\nUp to 50 people will be able to attend if the place of worship is large enough to facilitate 2m social distancing, an increase from the limit of 20 people which had applied pre-lockdown.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We acknowledge this opinion and will now carefully consider the findings, its implications, and our next steps. Court proceedings are ongoing and it would be inappropriate to offer any further comment at this stage.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThe UK and EU have said they are working together to create a \"win-win\" situation and supply vaccines to all citizens, amid the row over the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab. The European Commission has proposed tougher controls on Covid vaccine exports after it accused AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish firm, of failing to honour its contract to supply EU countries. The plans don't amount to a ban - but they could inflame tensions with the UK. But late in the day, the UK and EU released a joint statement saying that co-operation was important and they are working on specific steps to expand vaccine supply. Meanwhile, the number of infections is rising in many European countries and lockdowns are being extended. At the same time, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel called off a strict five-day lockdown over Easter, saying it would be a \"mistake\".\n\nA new \"double mutant\" variant has been detected from samples in India. Officials are checking if the variant - where two mutations come together in the same virus - could be more infectious, or less affected by vaccines. India reported 47,262 cases and 275 deaths on Wednesday - the sharpest daily rise this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nA bereaved Labour MP has urged the prime minister to commit now to a full public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic, saying people \"want and deserve to understand what happened\". Manchester Gorton's Afzal Khan said his own family had lost \"an entire generation\" to the virus and he could not hold his mother's hand while she was dying. Boris Johnson said he was \"committed\" to an inquiry when it would not be an \"irresponsible diversion\" in dealing with the crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Afzal Khan MP: \"I could not hold my mum's hand as she lay dying\"\n\nJohn Lewis has said it will not reopen eight stores once lockdown eases, putting 1,465 jobs at risk. The retail giant, which has previously reported a hefty annual loss, said the shops were were \"financially challenged prior to the pandemic\". The closures include four \"At Home\" shops in Ashford and Tunbridge Wells in Kent, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and in Chester.\n\nDoes Zoom fatigue feel familiar? US investment bank Citigroup has urged its staff to limit video calls on \"Zoom-free Fridays\" in an effort to promote a better work-life balance. Chief executive Jane Fraser said it was clear changes needed to be made in response to feedback from staff. \"The blurring of lines between home and work and the relentlessness of the pandemic workday have taken a toll on our wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. We've been looking at cases of Covid-related fraud and cyber-crime recorded by the UK's police forces during the pandemic.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Zara and Mike Tindall have announced the birth of a son, who they have named Lucas Philip Tindall.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Queen's granddaughter and the former England rugby player said their third child was born on Sunday, weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nThe baby was born on their bathroom floor after they were unable to make it to hospital in time, Mr Tindall said.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are \"delighted\" at the news, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThey \"look forward to meeting their 10th great-grandchild when circumstances allow\", a spokesman added.\n\nThe child is 22nd in line to the throne.\n\nHis middle name is in honour of both Mr Tindall's father as well as Mrs Tindall's grandfather.\n\nMrs Tindall, 39, and her husband already have two children - seven-year-old Mia and two-year-old Lena.\n\nDescribing the birth on his podcast, The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, Mr Tindall, 42, said: \"Arrived very quickly. Didn't make it to hospital. On the bathroom floor.\"\n\n\"So yeah, it was running to the gym, get a mat, get into the bathroom, get the mat on the floor, towels down, brace, brace, brace,\" he added.\n\nMr Tindall said his wife's friend Dolly, who was also at the birth of their two daughters, \"recognised that we wouldn't have got to hospital in time\".\n\n\"Fortunately the midwife who was going to meet us at the hospital wasn't that far away so she drove up just as we had assumed the posit [position] and the second midwife arrived just after the head had arrived,\" he added.\n\nTheir other two children were elsewhere for the day because Mrs Tindall had been having contractions through the night.\n\nMr Tindall said Mia was \"over the moon\" and Lena had declared Lucas was \"her baby\".\n\nIt comes just a few weeks after Mrs Tindall's cousin Princess Eugenie had her son August.\n\nMrs Tindall, who is a medal-winning equestrian, is the daughter of Anne, the Princess Royal - the Queen's only daughter.\n\nIn 2018 she spoke about her experience of going through two miscarriages before becoming pregnant with Lena.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nBrora Rangers created one of the biggest shocks in Scottish Cup history as the Highland League champions knocked out Hearts in the second round.\n\nChristophe Berra appeared to have saved the Championship leaders' blushes by cancelling out Jordan MacRae's early opener with 20 minutes remaining.\n\nBut Martin MacLean replied five minutes later to book a home tie against League Two side Stranraer in the third round.\n\nHearts had been beaten finalists against Celtic two seasons running.\n\nThis time, they have lost to a part-time side whose league season has been in suspension since January because of the Covid-19 lockdown.\n• None Pars lose to Morton as Falkirk set up Celtic tie\n\nBrora manager Steven Mackay told BBC Scotland: \"In a normal season, this would be an astronomical result, but you throw in the circumstances that surrounded this game.\n\n\"We haven't played a game since the first week in January, we've had five training sessions and one friendly and that's it. We had no right whatsoever to win this game. I'm just so privileged to be manager of such an incredible team.\"\n\nHearts lead Scotland's second tier by 16 points and went into the game without a defeat in nine games while Brora have only managed three league games all season.\n\nHowever, Mackay said Brora \"had an inkling we could do something special tonight\".\n\n\"It'll be a surprise to most people, but internally to ourselves, not really,\" he said. \"I said in the dressing room I had a funny feeling we could do something and it's just an incredible feeling. It's the single biggest moment in my football career as a player and manager and I'm just so proud of the players and the performance.\"\n\nMackay praised his players for the way they responded to Hearts' equaliser.\n\n\"Jordan Macrae got us the goal and it just shot the confidence right through the team,\" he said. \"They've got a knack of producing when the odds are against them.\n\n\"These players have just got unbelievable character and I wasn't surprised we went up the park and scored again.\"\n\nMidfielder MacLean could remember much about his winning goal.\n\n\"But what an amazing feeling,\" he said. \"It hasn't sunk and I don't think it will for a few days. I'll probably be sitting thinking about it all day at work tomorrow to be honest.\"\n\nFellow scorer MacRae pointed out that, had they not won, it could have been Brora's last game of the season, with the Highland League under threat of being cancelled this season.\n\n\"I'd fancy us against anyone as we gave Hibs a good game in the League Cup, but in the circumstances with us not training much, it was going to be a tough ask and, to be honest, I don't know how we did it,\" the striker said.\n\nThoroughly deserved for Brora for the effort, the shape of the team, the intent of the team all night was unbelievable for a part-time team that has not played a lot of football.\n\nHearts will obviously be disappointed that, for all the possession they had, the lack of opportunities they created. I can only think of two or three saves Joe Mallan had to make.\n\nThe way that Brora responded when it went 1-1 was phenomenal. They just were fearless. After they went ahead again, you were expecting an onslaught from Hearts, but it just never materialised.\n• None Attempt saved. Gary Mackay-Steven (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Gary Mackay-Steven (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Goal! Brora Rangers 2, Heart of Midlothian 1. Martin MacLean (Brora Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal following a set piece situation.\n• None Martin MacLean (Brora Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Björn Wagenaar (Brora Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Micah Richards joins the boys for a new series\n• None What are the chances?:", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How this Nasa helicopter made history on Mars\n\nThe US space agency says it expects now to fly the first helicopter on Mars in early April.\n\nThe little chopper was carried to the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover, which made its dramatic landing in Jezero Crater just over a month ago.\n\nCalled Ingenuity, the 1.8kg, twin-rotor aircraft will attempt a series of short hops in Mars' rarefied air.\n\nIf successful, it would represent something of a \"Wright Brothers moment\", says Nasa.\n\nThis is a reference of course to Orville and Wilbur Wright, who in 1903 conducted the historic first heavier-than-air, powered aircraft flight here on Earth.\n\nAnd to mark the connection, the agency revealed that a postage stamp-sized piece of fabric from a wing of the brothers' plane has been taped to Ingenuity.\n\nThe Wright Brothers fabric is taped just under Ingenuity's solar panel\n\nAt the moment, the chopper is still attached to Perseverance, to its belly. A protective covering was released at the weekend and in the coming days the craft will be lowered to the ground.\n\nEngineers have identified a 10m by 10m area in Jezero that they're calling the \"airfield\".\n\nThis is at one end of a 90m \"flight zone\", inside which perhaps five sorties will be performed.\n\nPerseverance will endeavour to record everything on camera.\n\n\"We are going to do our very best to capture Ingenuity in flight,\" said Nasa engineer Farah Alibay.\n\n\"We're going to be taking images, we're hoping to take video.\"\n\nThis will be challenging, she cautioned. Both rover and helicopter function autonomously and carry separate clocks. The timing devices will need to be in sync for the photography to catch the action.\n\nIngenuity's protective cover on the rover's belly was released at the weekend\n\nIngenuity is built to be extremely light. It has to be in order to achieve lift in the thin atmosphere of Mars.\n\nIt features four specially made carbon-fibre blades, arranged into two 1m-long rotors that spin in opposite directions at around 2,400 revolutions per minute. That is many times faster than the blades would turn on a passenger helicopter here on Earth.\n\nEngineers plan for the first flight to be a simple one that sees the chopper rise to about 3m above the ground, hover and turn for about 30 seconds, before then setting back down.\n\nIf everything goes well, subsequent flights will get more complex.\n\n\"Currently, the way that we're planning is for the first three flights to demonstrate basic capability - to hover and then to traverse, going to a longer distance down the flight zone and back again,\" Havard Grip, Ingenuity's chief pilot, told BBC News.\n\n\"If everything goes really well, we might try to stretch our capabilities. But we haven't planned that in detail.\"\n\nAsked whether the team might attempt something dramatic for a final flight, he declined to speculate.\n\nThe flight zone is very close to where the Perseverance rover landed in February\n\nLori Glaze, who directs Nasa's planetary science efforts, said Ingenuity could open up possibilities for future aerial exploration.\n\n\"Could we image areas not visible from space or that a rover couldn't reach? Could a helicopter scout ahead for rovers and help plot the most efficient course for the best science? Could we support future human missions with aerial capabilities?\" she pondered.\n\n\"Those are questions for another day, but tech demos give us the leeway to be creative and test new things.\"\n\nNasa has approved a mission called Dragonfly that will use a robotic rotorcraft to fly across the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan in the 2030s.\n\nThe Soviets were the first to fly air vehicles on another world with their Vega balloons in the atmosphere of Venus in the 1980s.", "More than 80 officers took part in searches in the Carrickfergus area\n\nFive men have been arrested as part of a major anti-drug supply operation in Carrickfergus.\n\nThe operation, led by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, involved more than 80 officers and six warrants.\n\nThe men, aged 33, 38, 39, 40 and 43, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to supply Class A drugs.\n\nIt is part of a long-running operation into the alleged organised crime activities of the South East Antrim UDA.\n\nOfficers from the task force, which is made up of members of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and PSNI, are questioning the men at Musgrave Police Station.\n\nThe National Crime Task Force says the operation is \"hugely significant\"\n\nThe arrests relate to the seizure of more than one kilogram of cocaine found in two parked cars and nearby land in the Greenisland area in November 2020.\n\nNCA deputy director of investigations, Craig Naylor, said the operation was \"hugely significant\" and would have \"substantially disrupted\" the activities of the South East Antrim UDA.\n\n\"The South East Antrim UDA have long known to be involved in many forms of organised criminality, doing untold damage to the community and exerting fear in neighbourhoods,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt John McVea, the PSNI's head of criminal investigations branch, said drugs cause \"nothing but destruction and distress\".\n\nThe Paramilitary Crime Task Force had \"resilience and determination to target, disrupt and frustrate those who continue to do the greatest harm to the people living in our communities\", he added.", "The government appointed an inspector to scrutinise Liverpool City Council in December\n\nGovernment-appointed commissioners will oversee parts of Liverpool City Council following a highly critical report, the local government secretary has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick told Parliament inspectors found a \"serious breakdown of governance\" and \"multiple apparent failures\" which meant he had to act.\n\nThe authority has been under scrutiny since police began investigating building and development contracts.\n\nThe probe has seen five men, including then mayor Joe Anderson, arrested.\n\nMr Jenrick said the \"Best Value inspection\", commissioned in December, had found \"multiple apparent failures\" and a \"deeply concerning picture of mismanagement\" in some functions at the Labour-run authority.\n\nMr Jenrick said it was only the fifth time a statutory intervention had happened\n\nIn a statement to the House of Commons, he said:\n\n\"Given the gravity of the inspection findings, I must consider what would happen if the council fails to deliver the necessary changes at the necessary speed,\" he said.\n\nMr Jenrick is proposing to appoint commissioners to run some aspects at the city council for a minimum of three years.\n\nHe added it was only the fifth time a \"statutory intervention\" had happened, as the move was regarded as a \"last resort\".\n\n\"I want to underline the report is not a verdict on all the staff working at Liverpool City Council - in fact, [it] commends the hard work and dedication of many,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\nShadow local government secretary Steve Reed said the Labour party accepted the report \"in full\" and would hold a review into what he called \"severe institutional weaknesses\".\n\nHe welcomed Mr Jenrick's \"measured and appropriate approach\" to the council's problems and said he wanted \"to reassure people in Liverpool that this does not mean government ministers are coming in to run their city directly\".\n\n\"This is not, as some would put it, a Tory takeover,\" he added.\n\nThe bitter fallout from Robert Jenrick's announcement is only just beginning. From those who see this as a power grab in Labour's reddest city by a party which hasn't won an election at any level here in decades, to those furious that the behaviour described in the report may have been allowed to fester, there's a lot of anger, uncertainty and sadness.\n\nIt's rare for a government to take action in this way. It's unlikely residents will notice any difference as they go about their daily lives - the bins will still get emptied, the pot holes will still get filled in (although not as quickly as some would like).\n\nBut behind the scenes, one of the key stipulations is that the elected mayor and council might be unable to spend cash on property transactions without the formal consent of the commissioner, which could have significant ramifications.\n\nAnother dramatic change is also to come: the proposed shrinking of the council chamber from 90 to just 30 elected councillors, who would all face elections at the same time.\n\nIn a statement, a Liverpool City Council spokesman said the authority took the report's findings into its highways, regeneration and property management functions \"extremely seriously\" and was committed to addressing \"all the concerns raised\".\n\nHe added that the report made clear that since the arrival of chief executive Tony Reeves in 2018, the council had \"already taken steps to address the issues\".\n\nSteve Reed said the intervention at the council was not \"a Tory takeover\" of the city\n\nMr Reed told the BBC the public would be \"rightly shocked\" about the report.\n\nHe said Mr Jenrick made it clear that the \"vast majority\" of the council's politicians and staff were \"honest hard-working, dedicated public servants\".\n\nHe added that he was \"determined to make sure the council continues to run its own business,\" adding: \"We do not want this to define the council or the city.\"\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon said the report was \"deeply unsettling\" and she was \"truly shocked\" by the contents.\n\nBut she was \"really pleased\" at the level of commissioners coming in and \"that they are coming in at an advisory manner\".\n\nShe said it was important to \"take collective responsibility\" and for all councillors, regardless of political party, come together.\n\n\"We know it is a long road ahead to build that trust.\"\n\nMr Anderson said: \"Under my leadership of eleven years as leader and as the mayor of Liverpool, our city has been transformed... into a northern powerhouse.\n\n\"Today's headlines do not reflect the dramatic success that we have generated. I want to digest fully today's report before commenting on specific details.\"\n\nCouncillor Richard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition group at the council, said the inspection had \"exposed grotesque practices\".\n\nCouncillor Tom Crone, leader of the council's Green Party group, said the city's Labour leaders should \"resign as one\".\n\n\"Any administration with even an ounce of shame would resign immediately and allow the city to start afresh,\" he added.\n\nConservative mayoral candidate Katie Burgess said it was \"disappointing that Labour mismanagement has seen the government have to take action to protect the people of Liverpool\".\n\nIndependent mayoral candidate Stephen Yip said the findings painted an \"appalling picture\" but applauded the \"courageous and honest\" council staff who provided evidence to inspectors.\n\nHe added he was grateful there was no \"Whitehall takeover\".\n\nTrade Union and Socialist Coalition candidate Roger Bannister said while he had \"great concerns\", he was \"opposed to the imposition of unelected commissioners taking power away from democratically elected representatives\".\n\nLiberal Party candidate Steve Radford told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there were \"no great shocks\" in the report and he \"did not need a government inspector to tell me that intimidation has been going on for decades\".\n\nInspectors were sent in by the local government secretary following allegations of fraud, bribery, corruption, misconduct in public office and witness intimidation at the council.\n\nAll five men who were arrested deny any wrongdoing and have not been charged with any offence.\n\nMerseyside Police said the men were no longer on bail, but remained under investigation.\n\nMr Jenrick reiterated elections would still go ahead in Liverpool in May, with the following candidates for mayor announced so far:\n\nThe Labour party is due to announce its candidate on 29 March.\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.", "Alex Salmond is to take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.\n\nThe former first minister said Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans had failed to take responsibility for the botched handling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nHe said he had instructed his lawyers to bring proceedings in the Court of Session.\n\nThat case forced the government to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000 after its investigation into complaints by two female civil servants was found to have been unlawful.\n\nWhile the precise basis of his latest legal bid is not clear, the BBC understands the ex-SNP leader intends to sue the Scottish government for an unspecified amount in damages.\n\nMr Salmond also said he would also be making a formal complaint to the police over the leaking of details of the allegations against him to the Daily Record newspaper.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she still has confidence in Ms Evans as permanent secretary, and that the government \"made a mistake in the course of trying to do the right thing\".\n\nMs Evans had her contract extended by the first minister last year. It is due to expire in 2022.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would be \"inappropriate to comment on a hypothetical legal action or on any matter Mr Salmond may raise with the police.\n\nOn Tuesday, a Holyrood inquiry concluded that the government's handling of the two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond in 2018 was \"seriously flawed\".\n\nMSPs on the inquiry committee were critical of the way the new complaints process was drawn up and applied, and of the government's conduct in defending the judicial review proceedings brought by Mr Salmond.\n\nThe report was critical of Ms Evans, saying there had been an \"individual failing\" on her part over the judicial review and that she should have known that the \"multiple roles\" she played in the process represented \"a significant organisational risk\".\n\nA separate inquiry by a leading Irish lawyer concluded that Ms Sturgeon's involvement in the saga had not breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe first minister has since said she would have resigned if she had been found to have done so.\n\nMs Evans had her contract extended by the first minister last year and is said to retain her full confidence\n\nMr Salmond said the permanent secretary should consider her position after the court case in 2019, and renewed this call while giving evidence to the inquiry last month.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, the former SNP leader said: \"More than two years later, and despite the most damning condemnation from a committee in the history of the modern Scottish Parliament, the permanent secretary still refuses to accept real responsibility.\"\n\nHe said he had taken legal advice and would \"shortly be instructing my lawyers to bring proceedings in the Court of Session arising as a direct result of the conduct of the permanent secretary\".\n\nMr Salmond was acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate High Court trial in March 2020.\n\nAlex Salmond says he accepts the findings of the two reports this week.\n\nThat is not insignificant. Remember he said he was sure Nicola Sturgeon HAD broken the ministerial code. He now accepts the finding of the independent adviser that she didn't.\n\nIt is not clear exactly what Mr Salmond's legal action will entail. But it does mean he will be taking a government he once led to the highest civil court in the land once again. That is significant too.\n\nUltimately, Mr Salmond says he now wants to move on and urges the country to do the same. But his legal action - and a complaint to police - mean there will still be updates to this story in the months to come.\n\nMs Sturgeon was pressed earlier in the day on why \"no one has assumed responsibility\" for the failings admitted by the government, which the committee said had let down the two women.\n\nShe told MSPs that she had \"never shied away\" from the fact a mistake was made, but said it was right that complaints were investigated and not \"simply swept under the carpet\".\n\nShe said: \"What we must do now is put right the things that went wrong, so that mistakes are not made in the future. I deeply regret what happened, and I have apologised - and will continue to do so - to the women who were let down.\"\n\nLater a spokesman for the Scottish government said it would \"reflect carefully\" on the reports and \"lessons will be learned\".\n\n\"The first minister retains her confidence in the permanent secretary, who has operated at all times in line with the civil service code and legal advice received,\" he added.\n\nMr Salmond also said he would make a complaint to the police about how the story of the initial allegations against him appeared in the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nA previous Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) 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\nThe inquiry was told that the ICO was the appropriate agency to investigate such matters, and would have reported any issues to the Crown Office if they had been found.\n\nThe Scottish government spokesman said: \"For the avoidance of doubt, the Scottish government is clear that both an Information Commissioner's Office investigation and an internal leak inquiry found no evidence to support Mr Salmond's claims that there was any leak from the Scottish government about the complaints made against him.\"", "Six big UK investment firms say they will not buy Deliveroo shares after concerns over workers' rights.\n\nThe delivery company hopes to be valued at up to £8.8bn when it lists its shares in April.\n\nBut Aberdeen Standard, Aviva Investors, BMO Global, CCLA, LGIM and M&G said they were put off by factors including the working conditions of its riders and lack of investor power.\n\nDeliveroo said it had seen \"significant demand\" for stock with interest rising.\n\n\"We look forward to welcoming new shareholders next week alongside our currently highly respected existing investors,\" it added.\n\nDeliveroo riders are self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to earn a minimum wage from the company, or holiday and sick pay.\n\nRupert Krefting, head of corporate finance and stewardship at M&G, said the company's reliance on gig-economy workers made it a risk for investors.\n\nHe pointed out that Uber had recently had greater legal rights enforced by the Supreme Court for drivers previously categorised as self-employed.\n\n\"Deliveroo's narrow profit margins could be at risk if it is required to change its rider benefits to catch up with peers,\" Mr Krefting added.\n\nLegal & General Investment Management (LGIM) said it was put off by an \"unequal voting rights\" structure.\n\nDeliveroo is planning to let its founder and chief executive Will Shu have more than 50% of shareholder voting rights.\n\n\"It is important to protect minority and end-investors against potential poor management behaviour, that could lead to value destruction and avoidable investor loss,\" LGIM said.\n\nPhil Webster, a portfolio manager at BMO, said labour issues represented a \"ticking bomb on the side\" for Deliveroo, which contributed to making it \"uninvestable\".\n\nAndrew Millington, head of UK Equities at Aberdeen Standard, told the BBC's Today programme that the conditions were a \"red flag\", adding: \"We wouldn't be comfortable that the way in which its workforce is employed is sustainable.\"\n\nHe compared Aberdeen Standard's recent decision to sell off Boohoo shares, following allegations of worker exploitation at suppliers to the online clothing company.\n\nLarge institutional investors such as Aberdeen Standard can use their financial muscle to try to influence the way firms are run - such as through relationships with managers and shareholder votes.\n\nBut Mr Millington said that sometimes \"disinvesting or not investing in the first place is our only option\".\n\nHe added that it would be interesting to see whether Deliveroo can attract investors over the longer term \"without making progress\" on worker rights.\n\nOne of the biggest-ever floats on the London market of a home-grown technology company should have meant a feeding frenzy among the City's institutional investors, the companies that have the job of putting trillions of pounds of retail and pension investors money to work.\n\nFor years they have watched with envy as their US counterparts have put cash into a steady stream of technology companies.\n\nNot all have been big hits after listing their shares on public markets, but enough of them have been - think Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla and a string of others - to have made it a big source of investment returns. Deliveroo's listing, which could value the company at just short of £9bn, should have been a rare similar opportunity on the London market.\n\nInstead some big players, including Aviva Investors and Aberdeen Standard, are turning their backs, saying the way the company employs its riders is not socially acceptable, and poses a risk to its future.\n\nDeliveroo deems its riders to be self-employed, and points out that the High Court has upheld that view. What is more, Deliveroo says its riders value the flexibility that employment status gives them, although it is worth noting that Uber maintained the same thing until it eventually decided its drivers were in fact workers, not self-employed contractors.\n\nThere is no danger to Deliveroo's float - there are enough investors around who are happy to buy the shares. The buying strike by large investors could have ramifications well beyond one company, however. Does this mean that all gig economy companies are off limits? Does it signal that all companies on the London market will now have to ensure their worldwide organisations meet the best employment standards?\n\nAndrew Millington of Aberdeen Standard told the Today programme that would be the battle to come - that his firm would hold on to a company's shares as long as it was moving in the right directions, and paid proper attention to employment standards. That is a subtle warning to boardrooms that they will in future be judged by the way their treat their most junior staff.\n\nDavid Cumming, chief investment officer at Aviva, said investors were taking social responsibilities \"a lot more seriously\".\n\n\"A lot of employers could make a massive difference to workers' lives if they guaranteed working hours or a living wage, and how companies behave is becoming more important.\"\n\nA report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) - based on thousands of invoices from 300 Deliveroo riders - claims that one in three is earning less than the National Living Wage, which is currently £8.72 an hour.\n\nHowever, Deliveroo said the sample of 300 people was \"not a meaningful or representative proportion\" of their riders and that they can earn up to £13 an hour \"at our busiest times\".\n\n\"These findings [by the BIJ] raise concerns,\" said Tom Powdrill, head of stewardship at shareholder lobby group Pirc. \"Investors considering taking a position in Deliveroo should familiarise themselves with these matters and the risks and responsibilities involved along with all other relevant factors.\"\n\nMr Cumming also warned of the risk that drivers will have to be reclassified as workers, which would entitle them to rights such as sick and holiday pay.\n\n\"It's an investment risk if the legislation changes,\" said Mr Cumming.\n\nUber recently reclassified its drivers as workers after a landmark UK supreme court case last month.\n\nDeliveroo's chief executive, Will Shu, founded the business in 2013\n\nSince losing a five-year legal battle with drivers who claimed it had wrongly classified their employment status, Uber has offered holiday pay, a guaranteed minimum wage, and pensions benefits to its drivers.\n\nOther gig economy companies have been looking closely at the Supreme Court's verdict in February, although it does not directly apply to Uber Eats - the food delivery arm of the business.\n\nDeliveroo has set aside more than £112m to cover potential legal costs relating to the employment status of its delivery riders.\n\nIt warned potential investors of the risk of litigation around the world in documents setting out its plans for a stock market debut published on Monday.\n\n\"The European Commission is set to draw up new legislation governing how the gig economy model works across the bloc,\" pointed out Susannah Streeter, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"If Deliveroo is forced to change the way it classifies its riders in the future, it is likely to puncture its profits prospects, and could even derail the delivery giant.\"\n\nDeliveroo, which was founded in 2013, has said it will hand its riders bonuses of between £200 and £10,000 when it floats, depending on the number of orders they have delivered.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The giant ship is causing a traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways\n\nA giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade routes.\n\nDozens of vessels are stuck, waiting for rescue boats to free the 400m-long (1,312ft) ship, which was knocked off course by strong winds.\n\nEgypt has reopened the canal's older channel to divert some traffic until the grounded ship can move again.\n\nThe blockage sent oil prices climbing on international markets.\n\nAbout 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and provides the shortest sea link between Asia and Europe.\n\nThe Ever Given, registered in Panama and operated by the shipping company Evergreen, was bound for the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from China and was passing northwards through the canal on its way to the Mediterranean.\n\nThe 200,000 tonne ship, built in 2018 and operated by Taiwanese transport company Evergreen Marine, ran aground and became lodged sideways across the waterway at about 07:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nAt 400m long and 59m wide, the ship has blocked the path of other vessels which are now trapped in lines in both directions.\n\nThe company that manages the container ship, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), has denied earlier reports that the ship had already been partially refloated.\n\nIn a statement, it said its \"immediate priorities are to safely re-float the vessel and for marine traffic in the Suez Canal to safely resume\".\n\nExperts have warned the process could take several days.\n\nReuters, quoting local sources, says there are at least 30 ships blocked to the north of the Ever Given, and three to the south.\n\nEvergreen Marine said the ship was \"suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate... and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground\".\n\nBSM confirmed on Wednesday that all crew were \"safe and accounted for\", with no reports of injuries.\n\nEight tug boats are working to refloat the ship, and diggers on the ground have been removing sand from where it is wedged into the side of the canal bank.\n\nDr Sal Mercogliano, a maritime historian based in the US state of North Carolina, told the BBC that incidents such as this were rare, but could have \"huge ramifications for global trade\".\n\nFears that the blockage could tie up shipments of crude oil caused prices to rise by 4% on international markets on Wednesday, Reuters reported.\n\nThe Kpler energy intelligence service said that more than 20 oil tankers carrying crude and refined products were affected by the jam.\n\n\"This is the largest vessel ever to go aground in the Suez Canal,\" he said, adding that the ship got lodged in the embankment and would have lost power and its ability to steer.\n\n\"If they are unable to pull her free... in a high tide, they are going to have to start removing cargo.\"\n\nJulianna Cona, who says she is on board another ship located directly behind the Ever Given, wrote on Instagram: \"Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways looks like we might be here for a little bit...\"\n\nThe Suez Canal is an artery of world trade, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and providing an avenue for vessels to pass between Asia and the Middle East and Europe. The main alternative, a passage round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, takes considerably longer.\n\nOn average, nearly 50 vessels per day pass along the canal, although at times the number can be much higher - accounting for some 12% of world trade. It is particularly important as an avenue for oil and liquified natural gas, enabling shipments to get from the Middle East to Europe.\n\nThe nightmare scenario, then, is for this crucial route to be blocked - which is exactly what has now happened with the stranding of the Ever Given. The question now is how long the route remains impassable, as a long delay would create serious problems for shippers, delaying consignments of goods and fuel.\n\nOn this occasion, reports suggest traffic could be flowing again relatively quickly, in which case the impact will be limited, although there has been a rise in the oil price.\n\nBut the incident has shown what can go wrong when the new generation of ultra-large vessels like the Ever Given have to pass through the relatively tight confines of the canal. Although parts of it were expanded as part of a major modernisation programme in the middle of the last decade, it remains tricky to navigate - and accidents can happen.\n\nThe ship has the capacity to carry 20,000 20-ft shipping containers, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nNearly 19,000 ships passed through the canal in 2020, according to the Suez Canal Authority - an average of 51.5 ships per day.\n\nIn 2017, a Japanese container vessel blocked the canal after it ran aground following reported mechanical issues. The Egyptian authorities deployed tug boats and the ship was refloated within hours.\n\nThe Suez Canal crosses the Suez Isthmus in Egypt - a strip of land between the Mediterranean and Red Sea. The canal is 193km (120 miles) long and incorporates three natural lakes.\n\nIn 2015, Egypt's government opened a major expansion of the canal that deepened the main waterway and provided ships with a 35km (22 mile) channel parallel to it.", "Boris Johnson has told a private meeting of Tory MPs that the success of the UK's Covid vaccine programme was because of \"capitalism\" and \"greed\".\n\nBut sources said the prime minister had \"very insistently\" withdrawn his comments straight after making them during a Zoom call with backbenchers.\n\nThe remarks were not connected to the EU row over vaccine supply, they added.\n\nA government source said the PM was referring to the profit motive driving companies to develop new products.\n\nThe PM also reportedly praised work by large drug companies during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's full remarks, which first appeared in the Sun newspaper, were reported to be: \"The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends.\"\n\nWales Office Minister David TC Davies, who attended the meeting, said Mr Johnson \"made it absolutely clear it was a joke - a reference to the film Wall Street\".\n\nHe added: \"Whoever leaked that needs to take a long hard look at themselves because it was very irresponsible.\"\n\nThe remarks came as some 28.3 million people in the UK - more than half the adult population - have had at least a first dose of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines.\n\nBut the latest figures show jabs being administered across the EU at less than a third of the rate achieved so far in the UK.\n\nOver the last few days, Mr Johnson has been speaking to European leaders in an effort to dissuade them from imposing an export ban on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports to the UK when they meet on Thursday.\n\nOne MP told me the prime minister's \"greed\" comments had been intended to poke fun at the chief whip, who was gobbling his cheese and pickle while sitting next to him during the meeting.\n\nBelieve it or not, the Conservative Party's boss of discipline, Mark Spencer, has been christened with the nickname \"Big Farmer\", like \"Big Pharma\" - the pharmaceutical companies.\n\nAnd it's vehemently denied that the PM's comments were designed to stir up anything in the row with the EU.\n\nSources are adamant that Mr Johnson was not intending to be critical of the pharmaceutical companies in any way.\n\nDuring the MPs' committee meeting, Mr Johnson praised AstraZeneca for providing vaccines in the UK at cost.\n\nOne of those who attended said they had never seen anyone withdraw a comment \"so fast or so vehemently\" as the prime minister's one on procurement.\n\nMr Johnson \"realised he had messed up as soon as he had said it, and didn't mean it\", the MP added.\n\nSeveral sources said he had asked those present to \"remove that comment from your collective memory\".\n\nIt is understood the prime minister did not compare the UK's vaccination efforts with those of EU countries during his address.\n\nIn his Budget earlier this month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an extra £1.65bn to help reach the target of offering a first dose to every UK adult by 31 July.", "Many clothes retailers have been left with excess stock to sell at discount and some shops have closed for good.\n\nSharply lower clothes prices and cheaper second-hand cars caused an unexpected fall in the UK's inflation rate in February.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate fell to 0.4% last month, down from 0.7% in January.\n\nEconomists had expected inflation to rise slightly, driven by increasing fuel and energy prices.\n\nBut the impact of rising fuel costs was offset by downward pressures in other areas, including travel costs and toys.\n\nFebruary is traditionally a month where clothing prices would rise. But ONS deputy national statistician, Jonathan Athow said: \"The impact of the pandemic has disrupted standard seasonal patterns.\"\n\nClothing and footwear prices fell between January and February for the first time since 2007 and are 5.7% lower than a year before, the biggest annual decline since November 2009.\n\nThe ONS said second-hand car prices had been rising during 2020 as people sought alternatives to using public transport.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon, said that despite inflation's \"sudden drop due to temporary weakness in clothing prices\" he still expected the rate to exceed 2% later this year.\n\n\"The lockdown has left clothing retailers with considerable excess stock to shift. Clothing prices likely have rebounded this month, now that retailers have introduced new seasonal ranges,\" he said.\n\nHannah Audino, economist at PwC, said that as lockdowns ease, inflation will tick higher as consumers \"unleash some of the £150bn of excess savings on the economy\" built up during 2020.\n\n\"Businesses will also be looking to recoup lost revenues from the past year, although the extension to the VAT cut for the hospitality and leisure sector will continue to exert some downward pressure on prices,\" she said.\n\nMany economists had predicted inflation would rise slightly in February to about 0.8%, driven higher by a big rise in fuel prices.\n\nThe ONS said that between January and February petrol prices rose by 3.6 pence per litre, and diesel prices rose by 3.4 pence per litre. Fuel prices fell in the same period last year.\n\nCrude oil prices have been rising, which is expected to feed through into even higher costs at the pump, and household energy bills are also increasing after suppliers raised prices.\n\nWednesday's data came a week after the Bank of England had warned that the inflation rate would approach its 2% target level in the coming months, mainly due to energy price increases.\n\nThe BoE also left record-low interest rates at 0.1% last week and forecast that economic growth would recover towards pre-Covid levels this year.\n\nThat expectation of faster growth was underlined on Wednesday in a survey that indicated the pace of new orders being placed by companies was increasing.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index rose to a seven-month high of 56.6 in March from 49.6 in February, which was much higher than economists' forecasts. A figure above 50 denotes expansion.\n\nIHS chief business economist Chris Williamson said the surge in order activity, along with recent better news on jobs growth, \"point to robust economic growth in the second quarter, especially if virus restrictions are lifted further\".", "Pub goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, Boris Johnson has told MPs, saying it \"may be up to individual publicans\".\n\nA review is looking into whether people should have to prove they have been vaccinated, as lockdown measures ease.\n\nA government source told the BBC that the option of allowing people to show a negative test was also being looked at.\n\nBut Tory MP Steve Baker said it was a \"ghastly trap\" and unfairly penalised those advised not to have a vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, MPs will vote later on new coronavirus laws for England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nThey will also be asked to approve the government's plan to renew emergency coronavirus powers for another six months. The Coronavirus Act was introduced in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe government review of vaccine certification could report in May to coincide with the wider reopening of hospitality in England, according to a senior government source.\n\nThe review is looking at how people's vaccination and testing status could be stored securely and displayed on a mobile phone, and the circumstances under which such a system could apply.\n\nThe idea of asking pub goers to show a vaccine certificate was raised at Wednesday's House of Commons Liaison Committee hearing, when Conservative William Wragg asked Mr Johnson if vaccine certificates were \"compatible with a free society such as ours\".\n\nMr Johnson said the concept \"should not be totally alien to us\" as doctors already have to have hepatitis B jabs.\n\nMr Wragg then asked, what about \"ordinary citizens going to the pub?\" and the prime minister replied: \"That's the kind of thing that may be up to individual publicans.\"\n\nPushed further, Mr Johnson said: \"I find myself in this long national conversation thinking very deeply about it\" adding that the public \"want me as prime minister to take all the action I can to protect them\".\n\nMr Johnson also said it seemed \"wholly responsible\" for care companies to require their workers to be vaccinated and \"the principle is there\" in terms of professions requiring certain vaccines when \"entrusted with care of a patient\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Jonathan Neame, chief executive of the Shepherd Neame pub chain, said his company would not insist on vaccine certificates.\n\nHe said: \"The whole essence of a pub is that they are diverse and inclusive environments, where everybody, and families in particular, are extremely welcome.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's absolutely fine to exclude people where there is a situation of bad behaviour or drunkenness, and that's already enshrined in law, but if you're going to exclude people for what they are, or what they have not done, that's a wholly different issue which does touch on discrimination, civil liberties, and in this case data protection issues.\"\n\nPeter Marks, from nightclub owner the Deltic Group, said a vaccine certificate \"could work\" for the sector and would probably be accepted by customers already used to carrying IDs to get into venues. However, he said he was concerned introducing such a measure could delay the reopening of businesses.\n\nMinisters, and the devolved administrations, have set out plans for how the rules they imposed will be rolled back.\n\nBut there are still question marks over what will take the place of the laws we have lived with for so long.\n\nMr Johnson was happy to sketch out how that question could in part be answered, in a way that not all of his party will like.\n\nHe made clear that he was willing to countenance the idea of \"jabs for jobs\" and held open the possibility that bars might ask for \"papers for pints\".\n\nWhen tests are widely available, proof of a negative test, is also being considered as a tool to help venues open up\n\nThe government is reluctant to make any of this compulsory for everyone.\n\nBut it seems that proving our Covid status, through the vaccination, or a test, is likely to be part of our lives in the medium term.\n\nAt the Liaison Committee hearing, senior Tory backbencher Mr Baker strongly rejected the suggestion of requiring pub goers to show proof they had been vaccinated, saying: \"First they said we'll need them to watch the football, and today that it may be papers for the pub.\"\n\nHe warned that such a situation would prevent pregnant women - who have been advised not to take the vaccine - from \"taking part in society\".\n\nHe also expressed concern that business would be able to turn away customers \"from communities which have shown an unfortunate hesitancy to take up the offer of a vaccine\".\n\n\"We must not fall into this ghastly trap,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street later pointed out that pregnant women are not specifically being advised to avoid having a Covid vaccination, but to discuss it with their GP.\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality, said the sector should not be \"subject to mandatory vaccination certification\".\n\n\"It is simply unworkable, would cause conflict between staff and customers and almost certainty result in breaches of equality rules,\" she added.", "A man has been arrested after a bomb disposal team attended a report of a suspicious item in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice were called to the palace, which is the Queen's official residence in Scotland, at about 20:50 on Tuesday.\n\nA force spokesman said: \"A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\n\"There was no threat to the public and inquiries are ongoing into the full circumstances.\"\n\nHe added that the item was made safe following examination by an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.\n\nOfficers carrying long sticks were seen combing the forecourt and grass outside the palace, at the foot of the Royal Mile, on Wednesday morning.\n\nOthers looked down drains and underneath cars and some were seen putting items into clear plastic bags.\n\nPolice Scotland vehicles were stationed outside several entrances to the palace.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson had his first jab a few days ago\n\nAfter a day of silence and song, candles and condolence, when the country stopped to try to absorb the enormity of what's happened this last year, a more familiar, and easy-to-digest political fuss emerged.\n\nAfter a press conference in Downing Street where, alongside the chief medics, the prime minister was more open, in tone at least, about the things that might have gone wrong in the last year, he went off to address a group of Tory MPs in private, on Zoom, in the Cabinet Room.\n\nThe chief whip was alongside him, I'm told, having his takeaway sandwich. (He also happens to be a farmer - but more of that later.)\n\nWith an important vote on Thursday that will extend the government's powers during the coronavirus crisis, you might have expected that the PM would have been verbally pushed and shoved a little by some of his backbenchers, frustrated by the pace of easing restrictions.\n\nIn actual fact, what has got tongues wagging was remarks that Boris Johnson made about the UK's success with vaccines, first reported in the Sun newspaper.\n\nDiscussing why the programme was doing so well, he told colleagues it was down to \"greed\" and \"capitalism\".\n\nSeveral of those present have told me he quickly realised his words could be taken out of context and urged MPs to \"remove that comment from your collective memory\".\n\nHe then went on to spend much of the meeting repeatedly praising AstraZeneca, pointing out that it was providing the vaccine at cost.\n\nOne MP said: \"I have never seen anyone withdraw something so fast.\"\n\nAnother of those present told me the prime minister's \"greed\" comments had been intended to poke fun at the chief whip, who was gobbling his cheese and pickle while sitting next to him.\n\nBelieve it or not, the party boss of discipline, Mark Spencer, has been christened with the nickname \"Big Farmer\", like \"Big Pharma\" - the pharmaceutical companies.\n\nAnd it's vehemently denied that the PM's comments were designed to stir up anything in the row with the EU.\n\nDowning Street didn't want to comment and sources are adamant that Mr Johnson was not intending to be critical of the pharmaceutical companies in any way.\n\nThe UK government has no intention of stirring up a row with the EU over vaccines\n\nThe government has no desire to exacerbate the argument between the EU and AstraZeneca over vaccines.\n\nWith the notable exception of the Foreign Secretary's remarks last week in response to the EU Commission, ministers have been at pains to keep things calm.\n\nThe prime minister has been trying to prevent a dramatic bust-up in phone calls to EU leaders before their summit on Thursday.\n\nAnd officials on both sides have been talking to see if any accommodations can be made.\n\nBut while Mr Johnson's words may have been intended as a friendly jibe at a colleague, tensions are high, and any even accidental noises off are unlikely to help.\n\nPS A government source stressed on Wednesday morning that the PM was not talking about the UK vaccine programme in general. It's unusual to get any comment on private MPs' meetings, and shows how sensitive this all is.", "A bereaved Labour MP has called on the prime minister to commit now to a full public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic because people \"want and deserve to understand what happened\".\n\nManchester Gorton's Afzal Khan said his own family had lost \"an entire generation\" to the virus and that he could not hold his mother's hand while she was dying.\n\nBoris Johnson offered his \"sympathies and sorrow\" and said he was \"committed\" to an inquiry when it would not be an \"irresponsible diversion\" in dealing with the crisis.", "All UK government buildings in England, Wales and Scotland will fly the union flag every day, following new guidance from the culture department.\n\nCurrently flags are only required to be flown on certain days such as the Queen's birthday.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden described the flag as \"a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us\".\n\nGovernment buildings in Northern Ireland are covered by a separate law.\n\nThe guidance released by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport department says the union flag should be flown every day - except on those occasions where another flag is being flown. The guidance will only apply from the summer.\n\nThe announcement comes after BBC Breakfast host Charlie Stayt received criticism for joking during a TV interview about the size of the union flag behind Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could you draw the Union Jack?\n\nThe union flag first appeared in 1606, after James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne in England in 1603 to become James I.\n\nThe flag combined the two flags of England and Scotland's patron saints - the red cross of Saint George and the white cross of Saint Andrew.\n\nThe red cross of Saint Patrick was later added.\n\nBack in 2007, Labour MP Ian Lucas unsuccessfully campaigned for the Welsh dragon to be added to the flag.\n\nIn 2008, then-Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrapped a rule that said the union flag could only be flown on certain days. He said it should be left to individual public offices to decide if and when to fly flag.\n\nOther countries such as Australia and New Zealand - who are members of the Commonwealth - feature the union flag on their own flag.\n\nAnnouncing the new guidance, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"The union flag unites us as a nation and people rightly expect it to be flown above UK government buildings - this guidance will ensure that happens every day.\"\n\nMinisters are also urging all local councils to fly the flag, and buildings will also be able to fly the NHS flag without seeking planning permission.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes welcomed the move saying: \"I think we just don't fly our flag enough - if you go to capitals of other countries, around the heart of those capitals, particularly government buildings, you routinely see the flag of that country flying.\n\n\"So it does seem to me something that unifies the country, that brings us together, that allows us to share in our national pride - what's wrong with that? And after this year, bringing the country together around the flag couldn't be more apposite.\"\n\nHowever the SNP's Mhairi Black said: \"If the Tories think an overload of union jacks on buildings is the answer to promote the strength of the union, then it shows how thin the case for the union is.\n\nIn 2013, protests were triggered by the removal of the Union flag from the Belfast City Hall\n\n\"Flags won't undo the poverty and hardship the Tories have created over the last decade,\" she said.\n\nPlaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"The Tories know that independence for Scotland is inevitable and that Wales will be hot on their heels.\n\n\"Sticking flags on every street corner will not change that fact, and rather, only reveals their desperate insecurity about the future of the UK\", she said.\n\nFlag-flying is a contentious issue in Northern Ireland and in 2015 a commission was set up to help find a consensus on flags, emblems and identity.\n\nThe commission's report was delayed when devolution in Northern Ireland collapsed and although the findings have been submitted they have not yet been published - despite calls from assembly members in Stormont.", "A drone operator cycled through snow for seven kilometres to capture spectacular images as the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano spewed lava.", "The protesters were camped on College Green in the centre of Bristol before being moved on\n\nFourteen people have been arrested at a second night of protests in Bristol, police have said.\n\nOn Tuesday about 130 people demonstrating against the government's new Police and Crime Bill gathered at College Green.\n\nIt comes two days after another protest in the city turned violent, injuring several police officers.\n\nOne witness said the police had been \"quite heavy-handed\", which was \"shocking to see\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said the gathering had \"the making of a rave or a party rather than a protest\" and that it had to act due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nOne of those arrested was in connection with the disorder on Sunday, while others were arrested for offences including breaches of Covid-19 legislation and obstruction of a highway.\n\nPolice said officers will take \"proportionate action\" to disperse crowds\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said there was \"no acceptability\" for \"criminality and thuggish behaviour\".\n\n\"Protests are unlawful right now and quite frankly we have just seen more criminality and violent behaviour, which is simply unacceptable,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"We live in a democracy and obviously we uphold the right to protest but we're in the pandemic and I would urge people to continue to follow the rules and guidance.\"\n\nThere were between 200 and 250 people at the peak of the protest on Tuesday afternoon, which had been peaceful, with some of those intending to sleep in tents overnight.\n\nProtesters said they were unhappy about an element of the Police and Crime Bill, which would ban residing on any private or public land in vehicles without permission where they are causing \"significant disruption, distress or harm to local communities\".\n\nThere were between 200 and 250 protesters at the height of the demo, police said\n\nJournalist Martin Booth, who attended the protest for the Bristol 24/7 website, said he believed police had been \"quite heavy-handed\" against protesters.\n\n\"Some of them were sitting down as the police waded in and it was quite shocking to see,\" he said.\n\n\"These protesters may have been there against the law but they were not spoiling for any fight, from my perspective.\"\n\nBut, the force said, like on Sunday, it only took action after dark when people ignored instructions to leave.\n\nAbout 130 people were protesting at College Green after a demonstration started earlier on Tuesday\n\nCh Supt Claire Armes said: \"We will always attract opposing and differing views in these situations but we have successfully cleared the area and minimised any disruption to the city of Bristol.\"\n\nEarlier, she said protesters had \"insulted\" Bristol's communities, who \"have made too many sacrifices and worked so hard\" to defeat coronavirus.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Andy Marsh said: \"It had the making of a rave or a party rather than a protest...we would be having a very different conversation if we had allowed 200 people to set-up a camp on college green with music, food stalls, and human excrement.\n\n\"We have a duty to uphold the law and stop the risk of a third wave.\"\n\nOfficers from British Transport Police, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset, Dyfed Powys, Gloucestershire, Gwent and Wiltshire forces were drafted in to help.\n\nIn a tweet, police said officers had attempted to engage with demonstrators earlier in the evening and asked them to move on.\n\n\"It's disappointing we needed to take this action on a day we remember those who've lost their lives,\" the force said earlier, referring to the anniversary of the first national lockdown.\n\nPolice dogs and riot officers were called in\n\nIt's the second time in three days that we've seen riot police on the streets of Bristol.\n\nSunday felt very hostile - this didn't. There were lots of things being thrown on Sunday - bottles flying over people's heads and riot police were really under attack.\n\nThis, the police had under control by going in quite hard, I think it's fair to say.\n\nThey said they've done that because these gatherings under Covid law are illegal so they felt they need to move people on.\n\nThey had asked people earlier in the day to leave and disperse and when those people didn't engage, this happened.\n\nBut it wasn't Sunday, it was very different.\n\nThe protesters moved to Deanery Road - a short distance from College Green - where they took part in a sit down protest\n\nThe national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales said his colleagues in the city felt \"under siege\".\n\nJohn Apter said: \"I really feel for my colleagues in Bristol. There is a sense that you really feel under siege. And for some, whatever they [police officers] do, is not enough and for others, it's too much.\n\n\"My colleagues are battered and bruised, in some cases physically. We've got a number of officers who were injured on Sunday evening, some very seriously.\n\nShortly before 23:00 GMT, police said protesters had been moved off College Green but that a \"significant number\" remained on Deanery Road \"and continue to refuse to leave the area\".\n\nThe force tweeted: \"Officers will take proportionate action to disperse crowds. They are not containing anyone and we continue to urge people to move on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police\n\nA YouTube livestream appearing to be from the demonstration showed large numbers of police with some officers on horseback and others with dogs lined up.\n\nShouts of \"our streets\" and \"shame on you\" could be heard.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Avon and Somerset Police released images of 10 people it wants to trace over Sunday's disorder.\n\nIt has since arrested a total of nine people in relation to that day's events and said it was investigating assaults on 40 police officers and one journalist.\n\nCh Supt Carolyn Belafonte said the investigation will be \"substantial\" and \"has the potential to be one of the largest\" in the force's history.\n\nFollowing medical assessments on two officers taken to hospital at the weekend, neither suffered broken bones.\n\nPolice officers from neighbouring forces were called in for support\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.", "Sacha Jafri (centre) worked solidly on the painting on his own for eight months\n\nThe world's largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children's charities.\n\nJafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel's ballroom in Dubai.\n\nHe planned to sell it in 70 parts, but French cryptocurrency businessman Andre Abdoune has bought the whole work.\n\nThe price makes it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at auction by a living artist.\n\nJafri said the full $62m (£45m) would go to Dubai Cares, Unicef, Unesco and the Global Gift Foundation to help disadvantaged children in countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa.\n\nJafri took inspiration from pictures sent by children from around the world\n\nThe 44-year-old artist from London originally hoped to raise $30m (£22m). He told BBC News he was \"blown away\" to have doubled that.\n\n\"I was really overwhelmed by what happened - to raise that amount of money from one painting in one night,\" he said.\n\nJafri started by putting out an appeal for children to send him their pictures representing how they felt during the pandemic. He got responses from 140 countries, which he used for inspiration, he said.\n\n\"I was in a deep meditative state. I looked through all the [children's] work - I paint from the subconscious, and then whatever's in there comes out. Nothing's planned. There's no sketches. There were no drawings.\n\n\"I was literally pouring paint, and then putting another layer on top and another layer, another layer, another layer, just feeling my way through it until something magical happened.\"\n\nIn September, Guinness World Records recognised it as the largest ever art canvas.\n\nJafri (left) said the buyer Andre Abdoune wants to build a museum to house the painting\n\nJafri worked on his own while the Atlantis hotel was closed to visitors, and needed an emergency operation on his spine during the process, as well as injuring his pelvis and feet.\n\n\"I was on my feet but bent right down so my brush can touch the floor,\" he explained. \"So that's a pretty bad position to be in for 20 hours a day. I was in a trance, so I didn't realise the damage I was doing to my body.\"\n\nThe painting, titled The Journey of Humanity, was sold in Dubai on Monday.\n\nJafri said the money would be spent on healthcare and sanitation for \"the poorest communities in the world\" and to connect them to the internet so children can have access to educational platforms. \"The biggest divide at the moment is those with the internet and those without,\" he said.\n\nThe buyer \"has a beautiful vision\" for the work, the artist said. \"His vision now is he wants to build a museum to house the painting.\"\n\nThe pair will \"set up a foundation together\" that will \"inspire the next generation to be inspired by art, to avoid the nonsense of the art world\", he added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An Abu Dhabi investment fund has agreed to pay £800m into UK life sciences, in what could be the first of billions of pounds of investment in the UK.\n\nMubadala, one of the UAE's most active funds, will invest the money over five years.\n\nAbu Dhabi is set to invest heavily in British health, tech, green energy and infrastructure, according to the Financial Times.\n\nIt is thought investments in the other sectors will be of a similar scale.\n\nThe exact size of the total investment is not yet clear, the FT said, but could be worth up to £5bn.\n\nThe UK government said Mubadala's investment in UK life sciences would be \"deployed alongside the UK's £200m Life Sciences Investment Programme\", which was announced last year.\n\n\"This partnership will enable the UK life sciences sector to develop cutting-edge technologies and research while retaining homegrown innovation and jobs,\" said the UK Minister for Investment, Gerry Grimstone.\n\n\"It will also leverage the UK and UAE's mutual priorities in building better and stronger economies through investment.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the minister had told the FT: \"We think the future opportunities are very, very sizeable.\"\n\nAbu Dhabi is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and gas.\n\nKhaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, group chief executive of Mubadala, said: \"Mubadala is already a long-term investor in UK innovation and growth, and our new partnership now provides a platform to allocate stable capital to priority sectors as part of a future-focused investment relationship.\"\n\nThe move follows recent news that the UK is creating four regional trade and investment hubs to boost economic growth across the UK, as well as dropping tariffs on some US goods, put in place over a related dispute about US subsidies to Boeing.\n\nSecretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss said on Monday that the hubs would be located in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and Darlington.\n\nThe government says the new hubs will provide support and advice to help regional businesses to access major trade markets and boost exports, as part its efforts to boost pandemic recovery. Some experts, however, said that the choice of location was misguided.\n\nAt the chancellor's recent Budget, emphasis was also placed on investment in the life sciences, clean energy and technology industries.\n\nMr Sunak announced the creation of a national infrastructure bank that would mainly invest in green projects ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in the UK later in November.", "Karen Dakin and her husband Jeff hope to buy a new family home\n\nA school dinner lady who scooped a £1m lottery win said she had no plans to give up the day job.\n\nKaren Dakin, 53, from Nacton near Ipswich, has worked throughout the pandemic helping to look after the children of key workers.\n\nShe said the money - for matching five main numbers and a bonus ball - would allow her family to buy a house.\n\n\"I have absolutely no plans to give up being a dinner lady - I love my job, the school and all the kids,\" she said.\n\nHer lucky numbers were the ones she had always used and were based on her son Callum's date and time of birth.\n\n\"When I called the National Lottery line, I remember the man on the other end of the phone saying 'you're rather calm!', after he'd just confirmed the life-changing news,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\n\"I guess I was just in a state of absolute shock!\"\n\nThe couple are also planning to spend their winnings on a holiday\n\nThe lucky winner said it had been a tough couple of years for her family after her husband, Jeff, 60, had a serious stroke in November 2018.\n\n\"All of my family were amazing, as was the school where I work during the toughest of years, and I am looking forward to celebrating with all of them as soon as it is safe to do so,\" she said.\n\nThe couple, who have been married for 35 years, have already started looking at properties to buy.\n\n\"We love the area so will stay local but it'll mean so much - more space for us all and the peace of mind of having no mortgage. It's amazing,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\nThey are also planning a holiday for when it is safe to travel again.\n\n\"We've never been able to afford a holiday before and Callum has never actually been on one,\" said Mrs Dakin.\n\n\"After the time we've all been through we'd love to get away - maybe Center Parcs before a big trip to Disneyworld in Florida.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How one lottery winner spent his £108m jackpot", "Prince Harry and his wife have stepped away from royal duties\n\nThe Duke of Sussex is to become chief impact officer at the US coaching and mental health firm, BetterUp.\n\nPrince Harry said in a statement that he was \"really excited\" about taking on the new role. His exact duties, hours and any payment are not clear.\n\nIt is his latest job move after he and the Duchess of Sussex stepped back as senior royals in March last year.\n\nIt also comes after the duke and Meghan gave an explosive interview to Oprah Winfrey earlier this month.\n\nIn it, the couple alleged an unnamed royal family member had asked about how dark their son Archie's skin might be, before he was born.\n\nBuckingham Palace has said the claim is \"concerning\", but it will be addressed privately. Earlier this week, Buckingham Palace said a diversity review was under way across all royal households.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said his goal in his new function would be to \"lift up critical dialogues around mental health, build supportive and compassionate communities, and foster an environment for honest and vulnerable conversations\".\n\nPrince Harry will not manage employees or have people report directly to him, but he is likely to spend some time in the company's San Francisco headquarters once it is safe to do so, BetterUp CEO Alexi Robichaux told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).\n\nIn his role as the company's first chief impact officer, Prince Harry is expected to have input into initiatives including product strategy decisions and charitable contributions, and advocate publicly on topics related to mental health, the WSJ reports.\n\nPrince Harry said that when he met Mr Robichaux, they \"instantly recognised a shared passion for helping others realise their full potential\".\n\nThe chief impact officer position is relatively rare in the corporate world, notes the WSJ - it is seen more commonly in non-profit organisations such as Amnesty International.\n\nBetterUp, which was founded in 2013, provides mobile-based professional coaching, counselling and mentorship.\n\nThe firm says it has some 2,000 coaches offering services in 49 languages in 66 countries.\n\nPrince Harry has previously launched initiatives such as the Invictus Games, which aim for members of the armed forces to use sport for psychological and physical rehabilitation. He has also advocated publicly on mental health issues.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan now live in California after confirming in January that they would step back as \"senior\" royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThey announced last year that they had reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in, as well as striking a deal with music streaming service Spotify.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan Markle interview: Black women react to treatment of the American duchess", "Jewish leaders are calling for a public inquiry into whether alleged Nazi war criminals were protected from prosecution because they spied for the UK in the Cold War.\n\nIt comes after the BBC found that suspected Nazi collaborator Stanislaw Chrzanowski may have worked for MI6.\n\nGerman officials believe the Telford pensioner may have murdered more than 30 people during World War Two.\n\nBut UK police said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him.\n\nStanislaw \"Stan\" Chrzanowski grew up in eastern Poland, now part of Belarus. He came to Britain in 1946 after being taken as a prisoner of war and joining Allied forces.\n\nHe settled in Birmingham and, in 1954, met a British woman. They married and he became stepfather to her son, John Kingston.\n\nYou can read the full story about the BBC's investigation, or listen to The Nazi Next Door on BBC Sounds\n\nMr Kingston suspected his stepfather of having been involved in Nazi atrocities - including mass murder - against Jews and other people in the town of Slonim.\n\nHe spent decades trying to prove Mr Chrzanowski's guilt. He built up a dossier of evidence, including secret recordings of conversations with his stepfather.\n\nIn 1996 Mr Kingston went with a BBC film crew to Slonim - where tens of thousands of Jews were massacred during the Nazi occupation between 1941 and 1944.\n\nEyewitnesses told him they had seen Mr Chrzanowski killing people while working for the Nazi auxiliary police.\n\nUK police investigating alleged war criminals in the 1980s and 90s interviewed him, but no charges were brought.\n\nMr Chrzanowski always denied being a war criminal. He died in October 2017, aged 96. John Kingston died six months later, aged 74.\n\nBefore Mr Kingston died, he gave BBC journalist Nick Southall access to all his files, photos and secret recordings. The BBC has since found evidence to support Mr Kingston's claims.\n\nIt has also discovered news footage from the 1950s showing Mr Chrzanowski at Marienfelde refugee camp in Berlin - a known hive of spy activity - during the Cold War.\n\nFour other men photographed with him during WW2 also make an appearance in the same footage. The BBC's investigation is continuing to try to confirm their names.\n\nIntelligence experts believe Mr Chrzanowski was likely to have been working there for British secret services, and this could ultimately be why he never saw justice in the UK.\n\nIntelligence and security expert Dr Stephen Dorril thinks Mr Chrzanowski, who was fluent in four languages, was likely to have been recruited by MI6 to work at the camp.\n\n\"It just fits the pattern,\" he said. \"This is exactly what MI6 was doing. They were looking for people who would be willing to work for them, who had knowledge of these areas.\"\n\nDr Dorril said if Mr Chrzanowski was a Nazi collaborator during the war, the UK's foreign secret service would have known. He says it points to a cover-up.\n\nProfessor Anthony Glees, a security expert from the University of Buckingham, said British security services destroyed tens of thousands of files in the late 1980s and early 90s that \"almost certainly included\" details of any foreign-born Nazi collaborator who had gone on to work for UK intelligence.\n\nSenior figures within the UK Jewish community are now calling for a public inquiry.\n\nMarie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said if the revelations are true, this is \"a very dark day for Britain - and for British Jews\".\n\n\"What we need to have here is a very open and honest conversation about the whole of Britain's post-war actions,\" she told the BBC.\n\nConservative MP Robert Halfon, vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council, said the findings were \"horrific and frightening\".\n\nHe told the BBC he plans to call on the parliamentary security committee to investigate whether there were Nazi war criminals in the UK \"who ended up working for British intelligence or any other organ of the state\".\n\nHe also said any investigation should look into whether or not there was \"a real hornets' nest of other WW2 criminals\" working for the UK.\n\nThe UK government did not respond to the allegations against Mr Chrzanowski and MI6. When asked why he was not prosecuted for war crimes, it said the case was reviewed by the CPS in the 1990s but the evidence was insufficient to proceed. The CPS said there was no real prospect of a conviction.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police also said the case failed to meet the evidential test and there was no active investigation.", "Robin Swann says it is unlikely people will be able to travel abroad this summer\n\nForeign travel over the summer holiday months should be ruled out, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said Westminster and the devolved governments were discussing the so-called \"red list\" for foreign countries.\n\nHe said travel to the Republic of Ireland would be dependent on its vaccine rollout.\n\nMr Swann also said fragilities in NI's health system underlined the need for caution as lockdown eases.\n\n\"Our health and care services have had the toughest of years. They still need our protection now,\" he said.\n\nThe \"red list\" is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the UK.\n\nThe health minister said the health system in Northern Ireland had been particularly strained in recent years compared with neighbouring jurisdictions.\n\nNorthern Ireland has begun taking its first steps out of lockdown, after restrictions were re-imposed nearly three months ago.\n\nThe current rules came into force on 26 December, in a bid to suppress the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut ministers have agreed some relaxations of the rules can now be permitted.\n\nOn Wednesday, no further coronavirus-related deaths were recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, meaning the total number of deaths remains at 2,107.\n\nWhile there are no direct international flights arriving into Northern Ireland at the moment, Mr Swann said the executive was looking at establishing a hotel quarantine system for international arrivals.\n\n\"Should direct flights start, we will have that facility here as well,\" Mr Swann told a press briefing on Wednesday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of Belfast Chamber, said the health minister's comments on foreign travel would cause alarm.\n\nHe said there would be \"many in the tourism industry\" who will be \"very disappointed to hear speculative comments that have not be endorsed and backed and supported by the executive\".\n\nMeanwhile Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said a change in the advice for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to Covid-19 was planned.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride says advice for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people will ease on 12 April\n\nSince 26 December, CEV people have been advised to adhere to additional steps to keep themselves safe from exposure to the Covid-19, including advice not to attend their workplace if they can work from home.\n\nThat will now ease from 12 April.\n\n\"This is an important step to helping CEV people re-engage with everyday life with confidence,\" he said.\n\nDr Patricia Donnelly, head of NI's vaccination programme, said the target of reaching all adult age groups by the summer is \"firmly within our sights\".\n\nA total of 694,863 individuals have received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 96,254 have received two.\n\nDr Donnelly said that meant almost half of the adult population in Northern Ireland had been vaccinated.\n\nShe said the vaccination centre in the SSE Arena in Belfast would open on 29 March and more than 300 community pharmacies would also join the vaccination programme next week.\n\nCurrently, anyone over the age of 50 and those with some underlying health conditions are eligible for a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe SSE Arena will operate alongside the seven regional vaccination centres run by health trusts across Northern Ireland as well as GP practices.\n\nDr Donnelly also warned those who are trying to \"inappropriately access the service\" that \"they might travel as far as they like, they won't get vaccinated\".\n\n\"It's going to be a wasted journey for anyone who does it,\" she said.\n\nIt has emerged that hundreds of people from the Republic of Ireland have been turned away from vaccinations centres in Northern Ireland in recent days.\n\nAn online \"glitch\" has led to vaccination appointments being booked by people who are not yet eligible\n\nMeanwhile the Department of Health has said it is investigating an apparent glitch in its online vaccination booking system.\n\nIt says a number of appointments were booked by people who were not yet eligible.\n\nThe BBC understands an online link, enabling people to bypass eligibility criteria questions, was circulating on some social media platforms for some time on Tuesday.\n\nIn a tweet issued on Wednesday, the department said: \"Yesterday some members of the public in NI who are not yet eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine were able to make an appointment.\n\n\"This was as a result of an issue with the system's eligibility checker and we are looking into the circumstances that allowed this - but we want to clarify that such appointments are being cancelled.\n\n\"Ineligible appointments will in any event be turned away at the vaccination centre through checks that apply there.\n\n\"Our thanks to the vast majority of people who are using our services properly.\"", "Tracey Davies says dealing with abuse every day is exhausting\n\nA supermarket worker has received abuse \"every day\" for the past year from customers over social distancing requests.\n\nTracey Davies, who works in Neath Port Talbot, said it was \"non-acceptable\" to have to face abuse just for going to work.\n\nAn Usdaw union representative, she said members at stores across the area had reported similar experiences.\n\nOn Monday, supermarkets were allowed to resume selling non-essential goods.\n\nThe re-opening of aisles and reductions in clothing prices saw queues around the stores in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, Ms Davies told Radio Wales.\n\nShe said the situation was \"manic\", with people buying in bulk and the extra customer numbers making social distancing difficult.\n\nPeople had to be asked to maintain a two-metre gap \"all the time,\" she said.\n\n\"That is the worrying part. We continue to get abuse just simply by asking the question, can you please maintain a safe social distance?\"\n\n\"Some people come back and say mind your own business. Some people swear. It was getting to be just the norm.\n\n\"It's non-acceptable. You shouldn't have to go to work to be abused.\"\n\nAsked how often it happened she replied: \"Every day. From checkout to shop floor staff to a filler - everything. For the last year.\n\n\"It is exhausting. It just makes you think why am I bothering? I had a lady yesterday tell me she's had the two vaccines so she's totally covered and nothing is going to happen to her.\n\n\"A lot of customers have got the same sort of outlook. I don't think people read and listen to the media as much as each other.\"\n\nOne Usdaw member had contacted her on Monday in tears because she had been reported to head office after asking a customer to maintain social distancing.\n\nMs Davies added: \"She [the customer] was less than a foot from the customer in front.\"", "Tougher measures on hauliers travelling from France to the UK are to be considered to stop Covid variants being imported, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAt an MPs' hearing, the prime minister was asked why France had not been added to the UK's travel \"red list\".\n\nMr Johnson said there was a balance needed between protecting public health and keeping trade flowing.\n\nHis comments come amid concerns about the spread of South African, UK and Brazilian variants in France.\n\nThe \"red list\", which requires arriving people to pay to quarantine in a hotel, is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the country.\n\nQuestioning the PM at the Liaison Committee, Labour's Yvette Cooper said every week 20,000 people - such as lorry drivers - were coming to the UK from France - and two-thirds of them were exempt from restrictions.\n\nShe said France had up to 3,000 cases of the South African and Brazilian variants and questioned why it was not on the \"red list\" of countries from which travel is effectively banned.\n\nShe acknowledged the need for trade would mean quarantine was not appropriate for hauliers but questioned why they were not being tested for coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson said there was a balance to achieve\n\nMr Johnson said putting France on the \"red list\" was \"something that we will have to look at\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether hauliers should be tested, Mr Johnson said the decision required weighing up the efficacy of current vaccines on the variants of concern and the disruption that would cause to goods being brought across to the UK.\n\nHe pointed out that 75% of the UK's medicines and 50% of its food comes through short straits (Dover-Calais, ferry and tunnel).\n\n\"We will take a decision, no matter how tough, to interrupt those flows, if we think it is necessary to protect public health. It may be that we have to do that very soon,\" he told the committee.\n\nOn Tuesday, health minister Lord Bethell said the UK's nearest neighbours could join other nations on the country's \"red list\".\n\nThere was a \"possibility\" that every European country could face a ban, he added, but that would be done \"with huge regret\".\n\nIn December, France closed its border to arrivals from the UK including hauliers.\n\nThe two-day closure led to queues of thousands of lorries trying to cross the channel, which was eased after France agreed to allow hauliers to cross once they had a negative Covid test result.\n\nUnder lockdown rules, holiday travel is not currently allowed - either in the UK or abroad.\n\nNew coronavirus laws, due to be introduced in England on Monday, would mean a £5,000 fine for travelling outside the UK without a reasonable excuse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden promises vaccine access to all adults by May\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said he is hopeful that America can \"mark independence\" from Covid-19 on 4 July if people get vaccinated.\n\nIn his first primetime address as president, Mr Biden said he would order states to make all adults eligible for vaccinations by 1 May.\n\nMr Biden was speaking exactly a year to the day after the outbreak was classified a global pandemic.\n\nSchools have been closed, businesses shuttered and people kept apart.\n\nLast year many Americans were forced to forgo the elaborate parades, fireworks displays and parties that feature in the national holiday on 4 July, which marks independence from Britain.\n\nIn his speech, President Biden said he did not expect large events to be able to go ahead, but he hoped small groups could meet again.\n\n\"If we do this together, by 4 July, there is a good chance you, your family and friends can get together in your backyard or in your neighbourhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day,\" he said.\n\n\"After a long, hard year, that will make this Independence Day truly special - where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus.\"\n\nCelebrations on the National Mall in Washington were marked with social distancing and face masks in 2020\n\nIt was a long way from the huge crowds that normally gather, such as seen here in 2019\n\nThe US has by far the highest death toll in the world from the virus, but death and infection rates have been declining in recent weeks as the vaccine programme picks up.\n\nThe country's health system is complex and individual states are in charge of public health policy. While the federal government is responsible for getting the vaccine distributed to the states, it has largely relied on them to handle the distribution.\n\nBut as part of the plans to expand vaccinations, President Biden said the number of places where people could be immunised would be increased, with veterinarians and dentists among those also allowed to vaccinate people.\n\nMobile units will travel into local communities to provide vaccinations in underserved communities, he said.\n\nMr Biden previously set a target of 100 million vaccinations by his 100th day in office. But in his address on Thursday, he said this target would be reached on day 60, which is 20 March.\n\nHe was speaking shortly after signing a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) economic relief bill, which marks an early legislative victory for his administration. It includes a $1,400 direct payment to most Americans, along with other measures to help people out of poverty and provide additional funding to local and state governments.\n\nDespite the good news on vaccinations, Mr Biden warned that the \"fight is far from over\".\n\nHe called on people to maintain social distancing measures, hand washing and wear a mask.\n\n\"Beating the virus and getting back to normal relies on national unity,\" he said.\n\nMr Biden said last month he hoped that life would return to \"normal\" by Christmas 2021. Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, described this timetable as \"reasonable\".\n\nThe president's caution is at odds with some states such as Texas and Mississippi, which are relaxing restrictions in order to boost their economies.\n\nOne year ago, the United States joined the world in facing a brutal truth. The coronavirus pandemic was going to fundamentally alter everyday life. Businesses shuttered. Citizens sheltered in their home. Life ground to a halt.\n\nOn Thursday night, in his first prime-time televised address to the nation, President Joe Biden said there was light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe big news from his speech was that all adult Americans would be eligible for a vaccine by the beginning of May - a pace, he boasted, that was the best in the world.\n\nHis most important message, however, may have been his urging that all Americans should get the jab when it's their turn. \"I know they're safe,\" he said.\n\nA recent opinion poll showed that nearly half of Republicans are sceptical of the vaccine. If their doubt becomes inaction, Mr Biden's promises - widespread school openings, an ability to travel and Independence Day celebrations - will go unrealised.\n\nHis speech was part promise, part warning. Get vaccinated, continue social distancing, wear masks - or else.\n\n\"America is coming back,\" he said. But, he added, Americans needed to do their part.\n\nThis time last year, there were 1,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US and about 30 people had died.\n\nAll US major sport was cancelled and then-President Donald Trump suspended travel from Europe, saying he hoped the US would be open again for Easter 2020. This prediction was repeatedly revised.\n\nThe pandemic has now left more than 530,000 people dead in the US and has infected more than 29 million.\n\nIn his speech, President Biden criticised the Trump administration by saying the virus was initially met with \"denials for days, weeks, then months, that led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, more loneliness\".\n\nHe also denounced \"vicious hate crimes\" against Asian Americans, who he said had been \"attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated\" for the pandemic. Mr Trump repeatedly referred to coronavirus as the \"China virus\".\n\nCorrection 29 March 2021: An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the US Covid-19 death toll as more than the death toll from World War One, World War Two, and the Vietnam War combined. In fact the number of US deaths in all three wars exceeds half a million and so this line has been removed from the story.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League plans to have fans in grounds at the final two rounds of matches this season, says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nUp to 10,000 supporters will be allowed into stadiums from Monday, 17 May provided the government is able to stick to its scheduled roadmap.\n\nTo maintain a competitive balance and ensure all 20 clubs get to play a home game with fans present, a round of fixtures will be shifted to 18-20 May.\n\nThe final round of games is on 23 May.\n\n\"Hopefully the final two fixtures of our season will have up to 10,000 supporters in them all,\" said Masters.\n\n\"We've got to go past those first initial steps in the government's roadmap to get there, so hopefully that will be a fantastic finale to end the season.\"\n\nThe Premier League has two realistic options for the fixture shuffle.\n\nOne would be to shift the 36th round of games from Tuesday, 11 May and Wednesday, 12 May to the following week.\n\nThe other would be for those matches to be moved to the following weekend - which coincides with the FA Cup final on Saturday, 15 May - and the 37th round being nudged on by a few days to become a midweek round.\n\nSupporters returning to grounds would be a positive end to what has been a tough period for the Premier League.\n\nMasters said the absence of fans for what is going to be virtually a full season plus a quarter of the 2019-20 campaign - added to the rebate that had to be given to broadcasters due to last term's late finish - is coming at a heavy cost.\n\n\"Towards the end of this season we'll get towards £2bn lost since the start of the pandemic in matchday and broadcast revenue,\" said Masters.\n\n\"Clubs have continued to invest in competitive match-day squads and the Premier League has continued to make good all of its contributions throughout the pyramid and wider football.\n\n\"But the ramifications are that ultimately if there's less money coming into football, then there'll be less money going out in the short term.\"\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Gardeners are being urged to be on alert for the stink bug insect and other pests set to arrive in the UK.\n\nThe brown marmorated stink bug has been spotted at three places in England so far, but experts are warning that it may become more widespread.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said gardeners should be on their guard for the insect.\n\nIt could appear alongside more familiar animals such as slugs, snails and the box tree caterpillar.\n\nAndy Salisbury, principal entomologist at the RHS, said the pests and diseases that gardeners commonly face on their plots have fluctuated over the last 25 years.\n\n\"With gardens taking on a more important role in supporting wellbeing and the environment, it's important that research into management and mitigation of them continues and our rankings help inform this focus,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also imperative that we continue to anticipate future threats such as the disease Xylella, which is already present in Europe, and the marmorated stink bug, to protect our gardens for the future.\"\n\nIn the US, thousands can invade a single house\n\nThe brown stink bug is one of a number of Asian insect species that have recently established and become a pest in the US, others being the harlequin ladybird, the emerald ash borer and the Asian longhorn.\n\nOf these, only the harlequin ladybird is firmly established the UK, where it is now the most common ladybird species.\n\nInsect curator at London's Natural History Museum, Max Barclay, predicts that the brown stink bug could establish in parts of the South East of England and may spread further with climate change.\n\n\"The brown marmorated stink bug is very similar to many harmless native species, so we hope people won't go out and start squashing everything similar!\" he said.\n\n\"We are only trying to determine how widespread it is at this stage, and we are happy to identify specimens sent to the museum's Facebook group or via email. \"\n\nThe three sightings so far have been in Essex, Surrey, and in the Museum's Wildlife Garden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The slug invasion that could devastate your garden\n\nThe warning came as the RHS released its latest tally of pests plaguing gardens, with slugs and snails topping the list.\n\nThe box tree caterpillar slipped down the rankings as its march slows across England and Wales.\n\nHoney fungus topped the list of diseases, as it has for 25 years.\n\nWith more people spending time in their garden during lockdown, the RHS reported an 88% increase in pest and disease enquiries last year.\n\nThe RHS conducts research on a wide range of plant pests and disease. This work will move to new science laboratories at RHS Garden Wisley, which will be opened to the public in June.", "The singer's hits include I Can't Feel My Face, Starboy and Blinding Lights\n\nThe Weeknd has said he will boycott future Grammy Awards after being snubbed in this year's nominations.\n\nThe Canadian pop star, whose single Blinding Lights was the biggest-seller in the world last year, was not shortlisted for a single award.\n\nHe later called the lack of recognition \"an attack\".\n\nIn a new statement ahead of Sunday's ceremony, the singer said: \"I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys.\"\n\nHe said he would remain absent from the event until the Recording Academy, which organises the awards, got rid of the \"secret committees\" that decide many of the nominations.\n\nThe Grammys voting procedures are notoriously opaque, with review committees having the final say in 72 of the 83 categories.\n\nThe anonymous panels, which can include musicians, record label staff and experts, review the initial choices of the Grammy voters and have the final say over who makes the shortlist.\n\nOrganisers say they are vital to ensuring the awards are balanced, but many artists are suspicious about a procedure that means votes can be overruled.\n\nEarlier this week, former One Direction star Zayn Malik criticised the \"lack of transparency of the nomination process\", saying the current system \"allows favouritism, racism, and networking politics to influence the voting\".\n\nThe Weeknd isn't the first artist to withdraw. Drake declined to submit his 2018 album More Life for Grammys consideration, while Frank Ocean chose not to participate in 2017.\n\n\"I think the infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated,\" he said. \"I'd rather this be my Colin Kaepernick moment for the Grammys than sit there in the audience.\"\n\nResponding to The Weeknd's statement, the Recording Academy's acting chief executive Harvey Mason Jr said the organisation was \"constantly changing\".\n\nHe told the New York Times: \"We're all disappointed when anyone is upset. But I will say that we are constantly evolving. And this year, as in past years, we are going to take a hard look at how to improve our awards process, including the nomination review committees.\"\n\nThe 63rd Grammys will take place in Los Angeles this Sunday, with performances from Harry Styles, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.\n\nBeyonce leads the way with nine nominations, while Taylor Swift is favourite to pick up the coveted album of the year award, for her first lockdown record Folklore.\n\nIf she wins, Swift will become the first woman to scoop the best album prize three times. Only three other artists have done it before - Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Morgan said he \"didn't believe a word\" the duchess had said in her interview with Oprah\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has complained to Ofcom about Piers Morgan's comments about her on Good Morning Britain, the UK broadcast regulator has confirmed.\n\nOn the ITV breakfast show on Monday, Morgan said he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had told interviewer Oprah Winfrey about life in the Royal Family.\n\nThe duchess spoke about having suicidal thoughts and said she got no support.\n\nMore than 41,000 others have also complained to Ofcom about Morgan, who left the programme the following day.\n\nAn Ofcom spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm receipt of a standards complaint made on behalf of the Duchess of Sussex.\"\n\nThe watchdog has already opened a formal investigation into Monday's episode of Good Morning Britain. The duchess is also reported to have complained to ITV directly.\n\nOn the programme, Morgan picked up on Meghan's claim in the interview that her request to senior Buckingham Palace officials for help was rejected, after she told Oprah she had experienced suicidal thoughts.\n\n\"Who did you go to?\" he said. \"What did they say to you? I'm sorry, I don't believe a word she said, Meghan Markle. I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.\n\n\"The fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our Royal Family I think is contemptible.\"\n\nOn Tuesday's episode, Morgan briefly walked out of the studio after clashing with weather presenter Alex Beresford during a discussion about the interview.\n\nThe controversial host's permanent departure was announced that evening. Morgan stood by his comments the following day, saying: \"Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.\"\n\nIt was also announced on Friday that the duke and duchess have donated to a new charity that aims to help young people from diverse backgrounds get into journalism.\n\nThe PressPad Charitable Foundation has been set up to \"improve social mobility\" in the British media through bursaries, mentoring, networking and accommodation.\n\nThe duke and duchess's Archewell Foundation is among the first donors, but it is not known how much money the couple have contributed.\n\nPressPad founder Olivia Crellin told BBC News the charity had been approached by the Sussex's team \"very recently\".\n\n\"They just wanted to give a gift as a part of a couple of organisations that they are donating to,\" she said. \"They felt that our mission and our values aligned with theirs.\"\n\nPrince Harry told Oprah the UK tabloid press was \"bigoted\" and creates a \"toxic environment\" of \"control and fear\".\n\nThe couple's interview has sparked scrutiny of the media and the role race has played in its coverage of Meghan.\n\nMeanwhile, Daily Mail and Mail Online owner Associated Newspapers is reported to have written to ViacomCBS, the makers of the interview, to complain that there was \"deliberate distortion and doctoring\" in a \"misleading\" montage of British newspaper headlines that was used in the programme.\n\nMeghan recently won a High Court privacy case against Associated Newspapers over the publication of extracts from a letter to her father.\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. Richard Ratcliffe warns of the \"deep scars\" left by his wife's five-year imprisonment in Iran\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman held in Iran since 2016, needs urgent treatment for her mental health, according to a medical report sent by a charity to the UK government.\n\nThe charity worker faces a new court hearing in Tehran on Sunday, a week after her ankle tag was removed.\n\nThe report says she is suffering from major depression and PTSD.\n\nDespite her sentence coming to an end, she is still waiting to return to the UK to be reunited with her family.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for membership of organisations working against the Iranian government, allegations which she has always denied.\n\nPrior to the recent removal of the ankle tag, the dual national had been under house arrest in Tehran since being released from jail last March.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has called for her permanent release so she can return home to her husband and young daughter in the UK.\n\nThe report - commissioned by the human rights charity Redress - says she was interrogated for hours, often blindfolded, while in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence.\n\nThe Redress report was based on a medical evaluation carried out virtually by doctors while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was under house arrest towards the end of last year. It was completed last month and sent to the government on Thursday.\n\nNeither Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her husband Richard has felt able to read the report in full, but both feel that it is important to have her ordeal documented, giving the charity the go-ahead to share the details with the BBC.\n\nIn the medical evaluation, she also told doctors she suffered hair loss, had to listen to her female guard talking loudly to her child while separated from her own daughter, and developed OCD around washing.\n\nAccording to the report, her post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and obsessive stress disorder are due to \"extremely stressful, traumatising experiences in the prisons of Iran\" and the uncertainty about her fate - and warns things could worsen without her being treated and reunited with her family in the UK.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison in August 2018\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 42, was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents in Iran with her British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six years old.\n\nWhilst in solitary confinement at the beginning of her sentence, she was interrogated - often blindfolded - for eight to nine hours a day, she told the doctors who examined her online.\n\n\"The interrogations were traumatising,\" she is quoted as saying in the report. \"They were threatening to send my child away, told me my husband was a spy, that he had already left me, that he was lying to me, that he worked for the British intelligence service.\n\n\"They said he was unfaithful, they said he was not an accountant and that he had always been lying to me. They told me I had been fired from my job.\"\n\nShe says she was in a tiny cell - a 1.5 to 2-metre square - during solitary confinement. It had no window, made her feel claustrophobic and she could not tell the difference between night and day.\n\n\"The light was left on all the time there was only a dirty mat on the floor with a thin blanket to sleep on,\" she says. \"There were times I could not breathe.\"\n\nShe was only allowed one sanitary pad a month during this time.\n\nGabriella, now six, counted down the days to her mother's release\n\nMr Ratcliffe says of his wife's documented experiences: \"This is mental torture. It's a really horrific experience. And it's cumulative. And it builds up. And of course, most of it has been hidden away.\n\n\"She didn't talk about it a lot when she came out. I don't talk to the media about some of the stuff. But I think it's important to put it on the record. It's important that our government takes responsibility for protecting people.\"\n\nThe two doctors carrying out the evaluation were told that, while in prison, she developed OCD centred around cleaning rituals.\n\nMr Ratcliffe spoke to the BBC of his wife's \"need to try and control what you can, leading to a sort of obsessive control about certain things and having certain routines to cope with the other things you can't control - all the things that are completely out of your hands\".\n\nHe adds: \"And of course, Nazanin's entire life is out of her hands.\"\n\nHer interrogators tried to pressure her into co-operating with them, in exchange for clemency, she told the doctors.\n\n\"I said that I could not do, that I said I needed so much psychological help that I was not even sure I could work for myself, let alone work for my captors,\" she reported.\n\nShe told the doctors that one of her female guards would talk loudly to her child just outside her cell, while Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was separated from her own daughter.\n\n\"It was unbearable,\" Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe told the medics. \"I dreaded her shifts as I knew she would do that to torture me.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since 2016\n\nIn July 2018, she spent a week in a psychiatric hospital, accompanied by prison guards and chained to the bed by both her feet and hands.\n\nHer incarceration took a significant physical toll on her health as well, the report finds. At one point, in jail, her hair was falling out and she was too weak to climb up to the top bunk in the women's ward where she was held for most of her imprisonment.\n\nThe report details the continuing guilt and anguish she feels and says she has tried to put a brave face on her ordeal and hide her symptoms from her parents, with whom she now lives.\n\n\"She knows that her suffering traumatises her parents and that her post-traumatic symptoms, like irritation and anger, harm her parents' psychological health,\" the report says.\n\n\"She also knows that her absence might create serious traumatic problems in her daughter who is being forced to grow up without the presence of her caring mother. Her imprisonment is a huge burden on her marital relationship. As her husband is struggling to gain her freedom, these efforts also keep him in a constant state of stress and suffering instead of continuing the ordinary life of a parent and a husband.\"\n\nDr Michele Heisler, medical director of Physicians for Human Rights, is one of the doctors who conducted the evaluation for the Independent Forensic Expert Group.\n\nShe described Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a \"remarkably resilient woman\" who was \"trying to keep hope, trying to be strong\" during her evaluation.\n\nBut she said: \"Her current situation continues the psychological torture. Although she has finished five years of being imprisoned, she faces ongoing threat and uncertainty.\"\n\nShe may have spared her parents the details, but Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe reported to the doctors that she felt constant sadness, had suicidal thoughts, and suffered other manifestations of extreme anxiety - including trembling, tingling, and hot and cold sweats.\n\nConcern that lumps in her breasts could be cancerous have contributed to her anxiety. And she also has continuing neurological and muscular-skeleton problems, as a result of prolonged confinement, according to the report.\n\nThe doctors say it is \"possible that the positions in which she was handcuffed for extended periods led to nerve and joint injury\" in her right hand.\n\nAnd even once she is safely home in the UK with her family, the report makes clear that there will be a long road to recovery.\n\nShe will need medication as well as psychotherapy and treatment for her physical symptoms.\n\n\"Nazanin's healing can be only provided in the UK in the presence of her family after reunification,\" it concludes. \"In order to recover, she needs to be in a safe and non-threatening environment.\"\n\nBut it's not clear whether Sunday's court hearing will be used to block her return to the UK.\n\n\"The threat of a second trial remains very real,\" says Rupert Skilbeck of Redress, which acts as her and her husband's legal representative.\n\n\"This report is evidence of the severe suffering that Nazanin has experienced in Iran due to the mistreatment suffered and the cruelty of a legal process that has never followed the rule of law, making it impossible for Nazanin to know when she will be reunited with her family.\"\n\nHer treatment, Redress says, clearly amounts to torture.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Iran continues to put Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe through a cruel and intolerable ordeal. Nazanin must be allowed to return permanently to her family in the UK and we will continue to do all we can to achieve this.\"", "Sarah Everard has been described by her family as \"kind, thoughtful, caring and dependable\"\n\nA body found by police in woodland on Wednesday has been confirmed as that of Sarah Everard.\n\nThe 33-year-old marketing executive disappeared as she walked home in south London last week.\n\nA serving Met Police officer remains in custody having been held on suspicion of Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nIn another development, organisers of a vigil for Ms Everard lost a legal challenge at the High Court against a police ban on the event.\n\nOrganisers claimed there had been an \"about-face\" by police, who told them that Saturday's Reclaim These Streets event in Clapham would not now be permitted due to the coronavirus lockdown, having previously said the gathering could go ahead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vigil organiser Anna Birley: \"There's something we need to be angry about and stand up for as women\"\n\nMs Everard was last seen on 3 March walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear whether she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nOn Friday evening, Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick took part in a walkabout on Clapham Common.\n\nShe walked with police officers and spoke to members of the public in the park close to Clapham Common Tube station.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said the arrest of a police officer had caused anger within the Met and with the general public\n\nFlowers have been laid at Clapham Common near to where Sarah Everard was last seen\n\nEarlier, speaking outside New Scotland Yard, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave gave a televised update on the police inquiry.\n\n\"As you know, on Wednesday evening detectives investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard discovered a body secreted in woodland in Kent,\" he said.\n\n\"The body has now been recovered and formal identification procedure has now been undertaken.\"\n\nHe said specialist officers remained in constant contact with Ms Everard's family and that hundreds of officers were working \"round the clock\" to establish the full circumstances of her disappearance.\n\n\"I know that the public feel deeply hurt and angry and I speak on behalf of all my colleagues when I say that we too are horrified,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave: \"We have hundreds of officers working round the clock\"\n\nForensics officers have been searching a home in Deal\n\nThroughout the week, searches have been carried out in Clapham, where Ms Everard was last seen, as well as at a home in Deal and the woodland in Ashford.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Met officer was arrested in Kent on suspicion of Ms Everard's kidnap and was later rearrested on suspicion of her murder.\n\nThe man, who is in his 40s and works with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was taken to hospital on Thursday suffering from head injuries he sustained while alone in his cell.\n\nHe was treated, discharged and returned to the police station where he is being held, after an application to extend his detention was granted by magistrates.\n\nFlowers have been laid at the site near where Ms Everard's body was found\n\nA woman in her 30s, who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail until mid-April.\n\nThe Met is facing an investigation by the police watchdog into its handling of a separate allegation of indecent exposure against the arrested officer.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is to look at whether officers \"responded appropriately\", after the Met received two complaints that a man had exposed himself at a fast food restaurant in south London on February 28 - three days before Ms Everard went missing.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rules on meeting people outdoors in Scotland have been relaxed.\n\nUp to four adults from two different households are now able to meet in any outdoor space, including in private gardens - an increase from two adults from two households.\n\nRestrictions on young people have also been eased, with four people aged between 12 and 17 able to meet even if they are all from different households.\n\nOutdoor non-contact group sports for people aged over 12 can resume.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that children under the age of the 12 will now be able to start outdoor contact sports such as football and rugby.\n\nUnder-18s can also travel across local authority boundaries to attend a club.\n\nFriday marked the first anniversary of the first confirmed Covid death in Scotland. A UK-wide minute's silence will be held on 23 March, the anniversary of the first lockdown.\n\nProminent buildings and landmarks throughout the UK will be illuminated to mark the anniversary, with the Kelpies, Wallace Monument and Ness Bridge among those in Scotland.\n\nThe government's previous plan for easing lockdown said that allowing four people from two households to meet outdoors was unlikely to happen before 15 March.\n\nBut First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the \"modest\" easing that came into force on Friday was the result of the progress the country was making in suppressing the virus.\n\nPeople should only go into someone's else's home if it is essential to reach a back garden, or to use the toilet.\n\nAnd the overall requirement to stay at home remains in place, except for specific purposes.\n\nThe latest statistics showed that a further 682 people have tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began to 208,429.\n\nThe deaths of a further 17 people who had previously tested positive for the virus have been recorded, bringing the total by that measure to 7,500.\n\nBut National Records of Scotland figures released earlier this week showed that the total number of deaths from confirmed or suspected cases of the virus is now well over 9,000.\n\nThere are 512 patients in hospital with a confirmed case of the virus, a decrease of 13 on the previous day, while the number of Covid patients in intensive care units has fallen by two to 38.\n\nThe number of people who have received their first vaccine dose has increased by 18,836 since Thursday, and now stands at 1,844,636 - with 149,409 having received their second dose.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' leader Douglas Ross said the new easing measures showed that \"the government got it wrong originally\" and that the \"overly-cautious approach\" was not matched by the data.\n\nMr Ross said all pupils should be returning full-time from Monday rather the current plan, which will see some secondary pupils have less than two hours a week in the classroom.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the current lockdown had to be the last one.\n\nHe added: \"We have got to get the vaccination programme right and strengthen our testing and tracing systems.\n\n\"The virus is still not going away and we are only using around a third of our testing capacity every day.\"\n\nEarlier this week Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that new cases of the virus, the number of people being admitted to hospital and deaths were all \"still higher than we would want\".\n\nHowever, she said there was a clear \"positive trend\" in figures, alongside \"excellent progress with the vaccination programme\".\n\nAlthough the number of vaccines being administered each day has has fallen in recent weeks, the first minister said supplies would soon increase to \"allow for a very significant acceleration\" of the programme.\n\nThe Scottish government has been considering accelerating its exit plan out of lockdown, which currently says that the country will return to a levels system towards the end of April.\n\nIt emerged earlier this month that new rules are set to make it harder for areas to drop down to lower tiers of these restrictions.\n\nIt is also expected that non-essential retail, hospitality and services such as gyms and hairdressers will reopen as part of the levels system.\n\nBut business leaders have said a return to this framework would be \"devastating\" and have called for more clarity on how the system would work.\n\nHow will you be affected by the relaxation of restrictions in Scotland? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The number of motor insurance claims settled last year dropped by 19%, as vehicles sat idle with drivers staying at home.\n\nThe total amount paid out fell by 6% compared with the previous year, the data from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) shows.\n\nBut the average price paid by drivers for new comprehensive car insurance fell by only 1%.\n\nThe ABI said that insurers had faced other costs when supporting customers.\n\nWith so many fewer journeys taking place during the various Covid lockdown restrictions across the country in 2020, it was inevitable that there would be fewer accidents, thefts and insurance claims.\n\nThere were still 2.1 million claims settled, down 19% on the previous year.\n\nAverage payouts did rise, particularly for personal injury. However, there was still a cut of 6% in total payouts made by insurers, to £8.3bn.\n\nMotorists may have hoped to see these savings reflected in lower premiums. The cost of new comprehensive motor insurance did fall to a four-year low, but only dropped by 1%.\n\nThe ABI said this was the result of various factors, some - but not all - of which were the result of the impact of the pandemic.\n\nIt said that some insurers had been altering existing policyholders' deals owing to their lower mileage, which had included offering rebates.\n\nExtra services had also been included, without charge, such as automatic cover for those driving to and from work, or delivering medicines or groceries. Drivers who are financially stretched have also been given the option to pay premiums in instalments.\n\nThere is no guarantee that prices will get any cheaper in the future, despite new controls on whiplash claims.\n\n\"As we edge back to some form of normality, cost pressures remain, such as increasing vehicle repair costs, reflecting ever more complex vehicle technology,\" said Laura Hughes, the ABI's general insurance manager.", "Volunteer Brian Shepherd says he's pleased to \"do his bit\"\n\nScientists from UK Biobank have embarked on a major study to determine Covid-19's long-term health impacts.\n\nUK Biobank is a biomedical database with medical images, genetic data and health information on 500,000 people.\n\nAbout 1,500 people who have had Covid will be scanned again to check how organs are affected by infection.\n\nIts chief scientist, Prof Naomi Allen, said it was the only study able to compare patient data before and after they have had Covid.\n\nProf Allen added: \"We knew at the beginning of the pandemic that Covid-19 was largely a respiratory illness. And now what we also know is that it seems to affect other parts of the body as well - the heart, the liver, the kidneys, and even the brain.\n\n“So researchers will be able to investigate the direct effects of coronavirus infection on changes in both the structure and the function of these organs.”\n\nThe study will look at people with asymptomatic Covid, and others who had severe disease.\n\nBrain scans will also be carried out to try to aid understanding of long Covid.\n\n“It will enable researchers to investigate whether the effects of the virus on different organs of the body vary between how severe your infection was in the first place,” explains Prof Allen.\n\nDetailed scans of 1,500 Biobank members who have not been infected will also be recorded.\n\nBrian Shepherd, 71, from Gateshead, is one of those taking part.\n\nIn November he spent five days in hospital after catching Covid.\n\n“The worst thing was when I got in the ambulance, with my wife standing on the pavement, and you think 'will I ever see her again?'.\"\n\nBut after five days of treatment, Brian was allowed home. He has recovered well, but still has some symptoms.\n\nHe hopes his scans - and those of the other Biobank volunteers - will help us to learn more about the after-effects of the disease.\n\n“We're all very proud of taking part in it, and feel that our little bit can help somewhere along the line for the rest of the world.”\n\nScience is still in the early stages of understanding the long-term effects of Covid.\n\nResearch has already started to chart its impact. Scientists have discovered scarring on the lungs, inflammation and muscle damage of the heart, and kidney injuries.\n\nThe virus can also affect the brain, and some long Covid sufferers have said they are experiencing “brain fog” - problems with memory and concentration, dizziness and depression.\n\nThe hope is the study could pinpoint some of the neurological changes that may have taken place.\n\nProf Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist from Imperial College London, said: “The brain scans can tell us more general things about the brain structure. Whether there's evidence for inflammation in the brain that may be persisting, and whether there's been damage enough to to actually kill nerve cells in the brain that may cause some shrinkage.”\n\nThese scans will be repeated over the coming years - and made available to researchers all around the world.\n\nThe team says our understanding of the health legacy of Covid is just beginning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The creator of the web says coronavirus has highlighted the importance of internet connectivity as a basic right.\n\nSir Tim Berners-Lee says too many young people do not have internet access and the digital divide has widened during the pandemic.\n\nHe called on governments to invest to provide universal broadband by 2030.\n\n\"We can't afford not to do it,\" he wrote in his annual letter to mark the anniversary of the world wide web.\n\nSir Tim first conceived of the web while working at the Cern particle research lab in 1989.\n\nHe says over the last 12 months, it \"has proven to be a lifeline that allows us to adapt and carry on\".\n\nBut, he says, one-third of young people do not have any internet access and many more lack the quality of connection needed to work or learn from home.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, he said that as the web became more powerful, the digital divide between the haves and have-nots had grown wider.\n\n\"That's always been the case,\" he says.\n\n\"Now working from home, and learning at home, have made it much more clear.\"\n\nHe says this applies in the UK as well as in developing countries.\n\n\"The UK cannot be complacent,\" he says.\n\n\"A shocking number of kids in the UK don't have meaningful connectivity.\"\n\nThe computer scientist is calling for an acceleration of the push to bring fibre broadband and better mobile connections to rural areas.\n\n\"It should be a much higher priority of both businesses and government,\" he says of his home country.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Secretary of State for Digital, Oliver Dowden, said the government was working \"tirelessly\" with broadband companies to extend access to hyperfast broadband.\n\n\"Two years ago, we were about 7% [of premises with] gigabit-capable broadband. We're now up to about 30%, and I'm confident by the end of the year that we'll get to 50%.\n\n\"I will be prioritising the hardest-to-reach places, and we will be setting out a broadband action plan in about a month or so.\"\n\nSir Tim's letter, written with the co-founder of the Web Foundation Rosemary Leith, calls for a global push to connect young people.\n\nIt quotes a figure of $428bn (£306bn), which the Alliance for Affordable Internet initiative says would need to be invested by governments and the private sector to achieve this aim by 2030.\n\nBut, the letter says, this would deliver huge economic benefits for the developing world and concludes \"we cannot afford not to do it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Newsround spoke to Freddie and Abdullah about their experiences\n\nSir Tim also expresses concern about misinformation and abuse on the web, particularly that aimed at young women.\n\nBut he says the pandemic has offered the opportunity to think again about improving his creation for everyone.\n\n\"There's a very positive energy about people fixing things, and building a better world,\" he says.", "The Cabinet Office is to move at least 500 civil servant jobs to Glasgow by 2024 to work at a new secondary headquarters, the BBC understands.\n\nAn internal letter at Michael Gove's department said it would \"strengthen its commitment to Scotland\".\n\nThe jobs include senior roles and ministers would be expected to spend \"some time\" in Scotland.\n\nIt comes amid ongoing efforts by the UK government to bolster support for the union.\n\nThe Financial Times reported one official as saying the move would \"bring the engine room of the UK government to Scotland\".\n\nA number of other government offices are expected to set up headquarters in other parts of the UK.\n\nThese include offices for the Treasury in Darlington and for Housing, Communities and Local Government in Wolverhampton.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Decision makers should be close to the people they serve and we want to see opportunity, jobs and investment fairly distributed across the country.\n\n\"That's why we've committed to relocating civil service roles out of central London, building on the thousands of civil servants we already have working across the United Kingdom.\"\n\nDetails of the move to Glasgow came in a letter to staff from Alex Chisholm, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe department, which has the role of supporting the prime minister and cabinet, currently employs about 8,500 staff.\n\nA large number of civil servants already work close to Glasgow, as the Department for International Development (now part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) has for many years been based in East Kilbride.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' conference is taking place this weekend, as the party prepares for the Holyrood election on 6 May.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is expected to visit Scotland next week", "To mark British Science Week the Queen has taken part in a virtual event with experts and schoolchildren.\n\nDuring the video call, hosted by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, she was shown pictures from Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, a meteorite that fell to Earth and rockets made by schoolchildren as part of their science project.", "Senedd candidates have been banned from delivering leaflets\n\nDelivering election leaflets will be allowed in Wales from Monday.\n\nBut Wales' first minister said door knocking by activists will not be permitted yet.\n\nMark Drakeford's latest decision followed criticism from some election candidates on a ban on the delivery of leaflets during lockdown.\n\nHe said that full preparations for the elections are underway for 6 May, with the criteria for postponing the election not met.\n\nThe Senedd has passed but has not used legislation that would allow for a delay to the Senedd election.\n\nMinisters from the UK, Scottish and Welsh government have asked voters to take their own pens and pencils to the polls, if they choose to vote in person.\n\nPostal and proxy voting is also available. Wales will begin easing many of its restrictions this weekend.\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh government would be publishing guidance for campaigning for the Senedd and Police and Crime Commissioner elections due to take place in May.\n\n\"It's got to be done sensibly and properly,\" he told a press conference.\n\nHe said allowing door-to-door canvassing would not be advisable \"from a public health perspective\" and people would not understand it.\n\n\"You cannot meet members of your own family but you can meet a political canvasser, I don't see that being easy to explain,\" he said.\n\nDoor-to-door campaigning for England's local elections has been allowed since 8 March and activists can canvas and leaflet there as long as they work alone.\n\nGroups of six canvassers are due to be allowed in England from 29 March.", "The rate of twins born worldwide has gone up by a third since the 1980s\n\nMore twins are being born than ever before but the world may now have reached peak twin, researchers say.\n\nAbout 1.6 million twins are born each year worldwide, with one in every 42 children born a twin.\n\nDelayed childbearing and medical techniques such as IVF have seen the rate of twin births rise by a third since the 1980s.\n\nBut it could be all downhill from here as the focus shifts to one baby per pregnancy, which is less risky.\n\nAccording to a global overview in the journal Human Reproduction, the peak was reached because of large increases in twinning rates in all regions over 30 years - from a 32% rise in Asia to a 71% rise in North America.\n\nThe researchers collected information on twinning rates from 165 countries for 2010 to 2015, and compared them with rates for 1980 to 1985.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Six pregnancies, one street: \"It's so nice to connect with other women going through a similar experience\"\n\nThe number of twins born per thousand deliveries is now particularly high in Europe and North America - and worldwide it's gone from nine per 1,000 deliveries to 12.\n\nBut twin rates in Africa have always been high and haven't changed much over the past 30 years, which could be due to population growth.\n\nAfrica and Asia make up about 80% of all twin deliveries in the world at present.\n\nProf Christiaan Monden, the study's author from the University of Oxford, said there was a reason for that.\n\n\"The twinning rate in Africa is so high because of the high number of dizygotic twins - twins born from two separate eggs - born there,\" he said.\n\n\"This is most likely to be due to genetic differences between the African population and other populations.\"\n\nTwinning rates in Europe, North America and Oceanic countries have been catching up - and the increasing use of medically assisted reproduction since the 1970s - for example IVF, ICSI, artificial insemination and ovarian stimulation - have been the main reason.\n\nGiving birth to twins is riskier for the mother and the babies\n\nThese techniques all increase the likelihood of a multiple birth.\n\nWomen choosing to start families later in life, increased use of contraception and lower fertility overall also play a role, the review says.\n\nBut the emphasis is now on singleton pregnancies, which are safer, says Prof Monden.\n\n\"This is important as twin deliveries are associated with higher death rates among babies and children, and more complications for mothers and children during pregnancy, and during and after delivery,\" he says.\n\nTwins have more complications at birth, are more often born premature and have lower birth weights and higher still birth rates.\n\nThe review found that the fate of twins in low and middle-income countries was more of a concern.\n\nIn sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, many twins will lose their co-twin in their first year of life - more than 200,000 each year.\n\n\"While twinning rates in many rich Western countries are now getting close to those in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a huge difference in the survival chances,\" said Prof Jeroen Smits, a study author.\n\nLooking ahead, the researchers say India and China will play a major role in future twinning rates.\n\nDeclining fertility, older mothers at birth and techniques like IVF will all have a bearing on the numbers of twins in years to come.", "Uber and rival app Lyft plan to share with each other the names of US drivers they ban from their platforms because of \"serious\" safety incidents, such as sexual assault.\n\nThe two firms said the programme, to be managed by a background check company, was aimed at improving industry safety.\n\nThey said other US firms could opt to participate.\n\nBoth Uber and Lyft have faced scrutiny and legal action over their handling of sexual assault and other safety issues.\n\nThey have responded to the criticism by introducing measures such as recurring background checks and new features, such as emergency buttons in their apps.\n\nThe new programme, which is only active in the US, will also allow the two firms to share information about drivers involved in certain serious incidents such as rape and non-consensual kissing, as well as non-sexual physical assaults.\n\nScott Berkowitz, president and founder of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, said the effort meant \"perpetrators will no longer be able to hide or escape accountability by simply switching ridesharing platforms\".\n\n\"By putting aside competition, they are placing users first and building a safer rideshare community for all,\" he said in the announcement shared by the companies on Thursday.\n\nLawyer Kristen Barton of Estey & Bomberger, which represents women who have sued the ridesharing companies for inadequate protections from sexual violence, called the programme a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nBut she cautioned that the database's usefulness would be limited by its focus on drivers that the companies have banned.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that when a report against a driver is lodged that that is being followed up on and resulting in deactivation by the companies,\" she said, adding that only a small number of people who are assaulted even report the incident.\n\n\"While it is a good start, it's just not going to capture enough information to stop assaults from occurring,\" she said.\n\nIn 2019, Uber said it had received nearly 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the US in the previous two years. It said problems arose in a tiny fraction of the 2.3 billion rides during that time.\n\nIt later clashed with state regulators in California, who wanted access to the reports, ultimately leading to a fine.\n\nLyft has delayed publication of a similar report, citing the privacy disagreement. The company is also facing lawsuits from dozens of women in the US, who say they were harmed after the firm failed to protect passengers from its drivers.\n\nLyft is active in the US and Canada. Uber, which operates in 71 countries around the world, said the data-sharing initiative was limited to the US, with no plans to expand at this time.\n\nThe firm has faced concerns over its handling of safety incidents outside the US as well.\n\nIn the UK, Uber had its London licence suspended, in part because of safety concerns. However, in September last year, Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled the firm could continue operating, saying it had improved its record despite \"historical failings\".", "Belfast City Hall will be the venue for an event marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament\n\nOfficial events to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland will include a special post-mark, an international church service and a plan to plant a tree at every school.\n\nThe programme of events also includes an investment conference, a concert and a centenary rose.\n\nThe prime minister said the events would reflect on what makes Northern Ireland \"the great place it is today\".\n\nNorthern Ireland was created in May 1921 after the partition of Ireland.\n\nA total of £1m has been awarded to 39 community projects connected to the centenary, through a shared-history fund in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nThere will also be a number of academic events at Queens' University Belfast, examining the historical context of the centenary.\n\nThe centenary rose will be a mix of rose pink, ivory and yellow\n\nHe said: \"The UK government's centenary programme of events provides an opportunity for us all to reflect on the history of Northern Ireland and to take pride in all this fantastic place has to offer the UK and the world.\n\n\"In its 100th year, the people of Northern Ireland can build on their spirit of togetherness and recognise their enormous achievements over past decades.\"\n\nThe events will reflect on the past and the people of Northern Ireland, says Boris Johnson\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"2021 marks 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland, which has paved the way for the formation of the United Kingdom as we know it.\n\n\"Our centenary programme will reflect on the past and on the people and developments that make Northern Ireland the great place it is today.\n\n\"The activities will pay tribute to all those who have worked tirelessly to support Northern Ireland throughout the pandemic, and will champion the incredible young people in Northern Ireland who offer so much to the shared success of our United Kingdom.\"\n\nOn the same day as the international church service, some historic buildings across the UK are set be lit up.\n\nThe colour of the centenary rose is a blend of rose pink, ivory and yellow.\n\nA decorative rose pin has been designed, to be worn by VIPs at centenary events and given to programme participants.\n\nFull details of the programme, including dates, have yet to be finalised due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said a proposal for the House of Commons to hold a sitting in Northern Ireland would be \"terrific\".\n\nAccording to a Daily Telegraph report, Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg is considering plans for MPs to meet in a devolved region each September.\n\n\"It would be a historic occasion, it would be wonderful to see that happening in our centenary year if it were possible,\" Sir Jeffrey told BBC NI's The View programme on Thursday.\n\n\"I would certainly be making a bid for Northern Ireland to have first crack of the whip and to host a meeting of the House of Commons here in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe Lagan Valley MP said it would be \"good for the United Kingdom\" for parliament hold proceedings outside London.\n\nHowever former SDLP leader Mark Durkan described the proposal as a \"gimmick\" which would come with cost and logistical challenges.\n\n\"This is just the latest in this game of uber-unionist leapfrog that is being played by ministers in London,\" he told the programme.", "BBC Two's topical comedy show The Mash Report has been cancelled after four series.\n\nThe BBC said it had needed \"to make difficult decisions\" in order \"to make room for new comedy shows\".\n\nThe Sun welcomed the cancellation of the series, which it said was \"preachy, self-righteous [and] left-wing\".\n\nBut fans and comedians complained, saying it was \"the best UK topical comedy show for decades\" and \"genuinely held the government to account\".\n\nIts supporters included Richard Herring, who said it was \"a very bad decision to axe 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 Richard K Herring This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor and writer David Schneider said it was \"a show that dared to satirise the government\", while Jolyon Rubinstein of BBC Three's The Revolution Will Be Televised said it had been \"too good\" at \"highlighting the absurdity of the political climate\".\n\nTV critic Toby Earle said it was \"a platform to many new voices both in front of and behind the camera\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Toby Earle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the show has attracted significant criticism since its 2017 debut.\n\nThe Spectator's Tom Slater said: \"The Mash Report broke new ground for liberal sanctimony and woke hectoring... It was comedy that only works if you agree with the sentiment being expressed, and even then isn't actually funny.\"\n\nTalkRADIO presenter Kevin O'Sullivan tweeted: \"Oh happy day! Maybe some comedy instead?\"\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"We are very proud of The Mash Report but, in order to make room for new comedy shows, we sometimes have to make difficult decisions and it won't be returning.\n\n\"We would like to thank all those involved in four brilliant series and hope to work with Nish Kumar, Rachel Parris and the team in the future.\"\n\nSome press reports linked the decision to BBC director general Tim Davie's promise to \"renew our commitment to impartiality\".\n\nWhen he took up the job last September, Mr Davie signalled the commitment would extend beyond news to comedy programmes, in an effort better represent all sides of the political divide.\n\nHe dismissed reports that he could axe comedy shows that were seen as too left-wing as \"ridiculous\", but said he did want \"to nurture brilliant writers from all kind of perspectives\".\n\nAfter the news emerged, host Kumar tweeted: \"A lot of people are asking me for a comment and here it is.\" He posted a grab of a 2019 episode in which he showed the words \"Boris Johnson is a liar and a racist\" on a screen.\n\nThe Mash Report began as a spin-off of The Daily Mash website, and its last series went out in April and May 2020.\n\nIt was also confirmed on Friday that quiz show Eggheads will be leaving the BBC and moving to Channel 5.\n\nIn a statement, host Jeremy Vine said: \"I can't wait to be reunited with the mighty Eggheads and see new teams try to take them on. I'm sure fans of Eggheads will share in my delight that it has found a new home on Channel 5.\"\n\nVine already presents a daily mid-morning news and debate programme for the network, after taking over the slot from The Wright Stuff in 2018.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We sometimes have to make difficult decisions in order to grow new shows and we would like to thank the Eggheads and host Jeremy Vine for their time on the BBC and wish them well with their next chapter.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The captain of a trawler which swamped a small boat, causing it to sink and three men to drown, has been jailed.\n\nMircea \"Mitch\" Ilie, 40, Irinel Popovici, 41, and Treaiam Dumitrache, 50, died on an overnight fishing trip on the James 2 in August 2017.\n\nWater engulfed their boat when it was passed by a vessel skippered by David Marr, off Shoreham, West Sussex.\n\nMarr, from Aberdeenshire, was jailed for 12 months after being convicted of not keeping a proper lookout.\n\nThe 55-year-old, from Peterhead, was sentenced following a trial at Lewes Crown Court, which was sitting at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nA boat tracking systems shows the two vessels on a collision course\n\nSole survivor Elvis Cojocariu was found alive by a fisherman after the sinking, suffering from hypothermia.\n\nThe four Romanian friends had been on board the James 2, when Marr's trawler, called the Vertrouwen, \"passed extremely close to it\", the jury was told.\n\nThe Vertrouwen, a scallop trawler, left the port of Shoreham at 00:07 BST on 6 August 2017, with four crew on board.\n\nMarr, who had 35 years of experience, took the first watch.\n\nMircea Ilie (left), Irinel Popovici (centre) and Traiam Dumitrache (right) all drowned off Shoreham\n\nAt 00:24 he sent a WhatsApp message to a friend, and a minute later, unknown to Marr, the trawler passed the James 2, swamping it and causing it to sink.\n\nMr Cojocariu told the court the crew had seen the Vertrouwen from about 1km (0.6 miles) away, and all four had been signalling \"like mad\" as it approached, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nHowever the trawler carried on in the same direction and at the same speed and the boat was swamped by waves, a CPS spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Cojocariu described having a \"clear view of the Vertrouwen's deck as she passed by and that he couldn't see anyone there,\" she said.\n\nDavid Marr, who was on watch on the Vertrouwen, sent a WhatsApp message one minute before it swamped the smaller boat\n\nMarr claimed he had not seen the smaller vessel's navigation or cabin lights, or the head torches of the men on board.\n\nThe jury was told Marr had been unaware that the boat had sunk until a crew member told him \"there was an incident off Shoreham the night before\".\n\nLibby Clark, from the CPS, said: \"Instead of constantly checking to ensure he knew what was out there, it appears [Marr] was doing other things and, even after his actions caused the James 2 to sink, he continued to sail on, oblivious to the fact that three men were about to die as a result of his not keeping a proper look out.\n\n\"The evidence showed that he would have been able to see the lights on the boat for six minutes before the near-miss, yet he continued to sail directly towards the boat with tragic consequences.\"\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.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 March.\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\nMaking a splash: \"Male chases female goosander to get a bit of her fish supper,\" says Gus Traill of this image taken on the River Nith in Dumfries.\n\nAre you kidding? Three wild goats born on Langholm moor were spotted by Caroline Blackie.\n\nPretty patterns: These \"stunning colours\" were found in the woods near Dunfermline by David Boyle.\n\nStriking scene: \"Lovely stroll through Princes Street Gardens on Saturday morning,\" says Neil McRobie. \"Fountain looking amazing.\"\n\nI need direction: Michael Stewart came across this \"helpful sign\" on the coastal path between Inverbervie and Johnshaven.\n\nColourful character: A heron, taken at Scone Park, by Nick Yeats.\n\nTake your pick: A climber caught at sunset at Ben Macdui by Karolina Samerek.\n\nAnd they're off: Alex McSorley took a walk up to Kelso racecourse and captured this photo of the horses.\n\nSpring scene: Crocuses in Stow sitting in the sunlight were snapped by Derek Brown.\n\nIndustrial setting: Rab Smith saw these oil platforms moored in the Cromarty Firth.\n\nOut and about: A sunny weekend in the Pentlands from Rachael Fleming.\n\nStarry night: Stuart Gilbert sent in this view over the East Neuk of Fife.\n\nDoonhamer's delight: Devorgilla Bridge reflections on the River Nith in Dumfries from Susan McCormick.\n\nOn the road: \"A photo through the ears of my pony Dolly at Loch More, Caithness,\" says Cath Whittles.\n\nDusk descends: Photography student Murronrose Dunn caught this scene at New Lanark Mill.\n\nCan you dig it? \"This is a picture of my son Arran Morris at Westport Beach by Campbeltown,\" says Kathryn Nelson.\n\nOver the fence: Julie Macrae sent in this image of 95-year-old neighbour, Rene Cook, in Inverness.\n\nTake it to the bridge: Crossing the Clyde at Dalmarnock/Rutherglen from Lynsey Fraser.\n\nFeeding time: \"Taken whilst on a walk just outside Kilmarnock with my friend Angela Murray,\" says Roslyn McCourty.\n\nPerfect poise: Marie-Pierre Garroway of High Burnside saw this \"beautifully balanced\" goldfinch while out walking.\n\nBobbing along: A morning paddle at Rosemarkie beach in the Highlands for Olivia Philips.\n\nLockdown traffic jam: Busy times on the Union Canal in Edinburgh from Graham Paton.\n\nLooking up: \"A lovely whispering cloud formation adorns the skies above Spean Bridge,\" says Mark Reynolds.\n\nClear day: Kirsty Hunter sent in this crisp view from the River Avon Heritage Trail with the unused Westfield Viaduct in the distance.\n\nWonderful walk: Jim Hughes says there is \"always something to photograph\" along the Water of Leith.\n\nKeeping warm: Janina Dolny spotted Greyfriars Bobby in some new gear on her walk to work.\n\nUnder the rainbow: Ed Jones saw this scene one afternoon in Portobello.\n\nSeeing double: A reflective picture of the Dutch Village at Craigton Park, St Andrews from Ian Morton.\n\nHome sweet home: \"Saw this wee cottage on a walk round Muir of Dinnet nature reserve the red really stood out against the grey skies,\" says Stewart Culross.\n\nTwo's a crowd: \"This guy was enjoying the view before I disturbed him,\" says Bobby Hughes of this image on Dumgoyne.\n\nEffort rewarded: \"The walk to the top of Calton Hill was totally worth it for this stunning sunset over Edinburgh,\" says Steven Thom.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin has refused to meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe party described his trip on Friday as a publicity stunt.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"always happy to meet all sides\" but had been told Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin was \"otherwise engaged\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster urged him ditch what she called the \"intolerable\" post-Brexit arrangements known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIt came into effect in January as part of the Brexit deal and means Northern Ireland remains in the EU's single market for goods, while the rest of the UK has left, so checks are required on some goods crossing the Irish Sea.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Mrs Foster said the protocol was unworkable, had the backing of no unionist parties and created societal division and economic harm rather than protecting the Belfast Agreement that effectively brought to an end Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nArlene Foster says she urged Boris Johnson to \"stand up\" for Northern Ireland\n\n\"Whilst grace periods have been extended unilaterally, we need a permanent solution so business can plan and the integrity of the United Kingdom internal market can be restored,\" said Mrs Foster, speaking after meeting the prime minister at a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.\n\nMr Johnson said the government's action to postpone the full implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol was \"lawful and indeed right in view of the impact on the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement and the need to have consent from both communities\".\n\n\"The most important thing about the protocol is that it should guarantee the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement,\" he said.\n\n\"There's got to be an east-west consent... as well as a north-south consent so that's what we're doing.\"\n\nMs O'Neill, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, said she and her party's president Mary Lou McDonald had a \"long-standing request\" to meet Mr Johnson.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived at the vaccination centre at Fermanagh Lakeland Forum with NI Secretary Brandon Lewis\n\nThey wanted to discuss \"commitments which he and his government have reneged on\" as well as his \"reckless and partisan approach to the Irish protocol\", she said.\n\n\"He did not facilitate the meeting,\" added Ms O'Neill. \"I have no plans to meet with him today.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP John Finucane went further, describing the prime minister's visit as a \"very superficial PR exercise\".\n\nThis visit feels like the first step in the prime minister's own pathway to recovery as he seeks to repair badly damaged relations with unionists.\n\nIt was no surprise that pathway included an early trip to Fermanagh - the home of Arlene Foster.\n\nEven before he arrived, his advance party had set the stage releasing details of events to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nBut it will take more than a special postmark, a concert and a centenary rose to heal the unionist hurt.\n\nFar from being the union's chief cheerleader, Boris Johnson is regarded by many unionists as the prime minister who betrayed Northern Ireland by agreeing to the protocol which created the Irish Sea border.\n\nIt is going to be a tricky visit for the prime minister labelled a \"lousy unionist\" by an Orange Order leader.\n\nIt is no surprise that much of the visit's focus was on the battle against Covid-19 and the successful rollout of the UK's vaccine programme.\n\nBut until he comes up with a political vaccine to eradicate the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Boris Johnson pathway to unionist recovery will not be smooth.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the success of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccine programme \"shows the strength of the union\".\n\nBut the UUP MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) warned that the Northern Ireland Protocol had brought challenges, particularly in terms of medical supplies.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Johnson commended the military and emergency response teams at Aldergrove in County Antrim for their work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe PM met military personnel in his first engagement of the day\n\nArmy medics were deployed to hospitals in Northern Ireland to assist staff dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases over the winter.\n\nMr Johnson thanked them for their \"incredible\" work in Belfast's Nightingale Hospital, where some of them gave patient care.\n\nThe prime minister also met scientists involved in vaccine research at Queen's University Belfast.\n\nHis last engagement in Northern Ireland was at medical 3D printing company Axial 3D in Belfast on Friday evening.\n\nThe prime minister last visited Northern Ireland in August - his first trip since power sharing was restored in January 2020 after a three-year hiatus.\n\nOn that trip, he held talks with Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill at Hillsborough Castle and also addressed criticism of plans to celebrate Northern Ireland's centenary.\n\nBefore his visit on Friday, Mr Johnson announced official events to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the events would reflect on what made Northern Ireland \"the great place it is today\".", "The Welsh Retail Consortium said the pre-Christmas lockdown \"dealt a hammer\" to Welsh retail.\n\nWelsh retailors had a \"disastrous end of year\" because of the coronavirus pandemic, an industry body has said.\n\nFootfall was down 52.3% in December compared to the previous year, more than the UK average decline of 46.1%.\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium said businesses had been dealt a \"hammer blow\" with the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nDebbie Corkish, who runs Wizarding Boutique in Llandudno, Conwy, said \"it will take years\" for her business to recover from lockdowns.\n\nWales went into a national lockdown on 20 December, following a surge in coronavirus cases, requiring all non-essential shops to close.\n\nWales saw the most pronounced year-on-year shopping centre footfall decline of all UK regions, at -59.1%, while footfall in Cardiff decreased by 54% compared to December 2019, according to BRC-ShopperTrak data.\n\nSara Jones, head of Welsh Retail Consortium, said: \"It was a disastrous end to the year for Welsh shops, with the nation experiencing the UK's greatest fall in shopper footfall.\n\n\"Any hopes of a golden quarter for Welsh retail were dealt a hammer blow by the early pre-Christmas lockdown, forcing Welsh shops to shut during what should have been their busiest period.\n\n\"With the nation now in full lockdown, and so called non-essential shops remaining shuttered, it is time for decision makers to re-group, to re-assess and to identify ways to revitalise the Welsh retail industry given the key role we can play in the economic recovery of the nation.\"\n\nDebbie Corkish said it is her loyal customers and online sales that kept her afloat in the summer\n\nWizarding Boutique owner Ms Corkish said the financial compensation from the Welsh Government of £3,000 will not cover her losses for the Christmas week alone.\n\n\"After the English lockdown ended in December, we took a third of what we had the previous Saturday.\n\n\"It's like people forgot that they wanted to shop locally after summer [and] went into Manchester and Liverpool for their Christmas shopping.\n\n\"The week before Christmas should have been our busiest day but then lockdown was announced.\n\n\"It will take years to recover from last year. Being a tourist town, without tourists businesses just can survive. I dread to know what Llandudno is going to look like when all of this is over.\"", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nSarah Everard's family have paid tribute to her, saying she \"brought so much joy to our lives\".\n\nHuman remains were found in woodland in Kent on Wednesday in the search for the 33-year-old, who was last seen in south London over a week ago.\n\nA serving Met Police officer in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of Ms Everard's murder remains in custody.\n\nThe Met has referred itself to the police watchdog over allegations the officer indecently exposed himself.\n\nHe is also being questioned over the separate indecent exposure allegation, which the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said happened at a fast-food restaurant in south London on 28 February.\n\nMs Everard was last seen on 3 March walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear if she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nAfter extensive searches, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick confirmed \"human remains\" were found in woodland near Ashford on Wednesday.\n\nA woman in her 30s, who was arrested in Kent on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail until mid-April.\n\nPolice are continuing to search land near Great Chart Golf Leisure Country Club in Ashford\n\nThe arrested man, who works with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was earlier taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.\n\nHe was being monitored in a custody cell by CCTV and received immediate first aid, the Met said.\n\nAfter going to hospital the officer was treated, discharged and returned to the police station where he is being held after an application to extend his detention was granted at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe IOPC said it was investigating whether Met officers responded appropriately to the report of indecent exposure.\n\nIt is one of five investigations being carried out by the watchdog in relation to the disappearance of Ms Everard.\n\nThe others include the serving officer being arrested, injured in custody and the Met's actions responding to the initial report of Ms Everard going missing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cressida Dick: \"Detectives and search teams have found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains\"\n\nFormer Durham University student Ms Everard, who is originally from York, was wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers when she went missing.\n\nIn a statement, her family appealed for more information to \"help solve this terrible crime\".\n\n\"Sarah was bright and beautiful - a wonderful daughter and sister. She was kind and thoughtful, caring and dependable. She always put others first and had the most amazing sense of humour,\" they said.\n\n\"She was strong and principled and a shining example to us all. We are very proud of her and she brought so much joy to our lives.\"\n\nThe marketing executive's family also thanked friends and the public for supporting them.\n\n\"We are so grateful to the police and would like to thank them for all they are doing,\" they added.\n\n\"We are now pleading for additional help from the public.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid near to where human remains were found in Kent\n\nThe case has prompted an outpouring of shock and anger as women across the country share their own experiences of feeling unsafe.\n\nEarlier, Labour MP Jess Phillips read out the names of almost 120 women killed in the UK where a man has been convicted or charged as the primary perpetrator.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\", adding: \"We must work fast to find all the answers to this horrifying crime.\"\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\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.", "Artist's impression of how the new mine will look\n\nA public inquiry has been announced into plans for the first new deep coal mine in the UK for decades.\n\nThe government had previously decided not to intervene in the project near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which was in the hands of local officials.\n\nBut ministers have taken control because of \"increased\" controversy.\n\nGreen campaigners say the mine will increase carbon emissions and send the wrong signal in the run-up to a UK-hosted climate conference in October.\n\nThe Woodhouse Colliery would extract coking coal for the steel industry from the seabed off St Bees, with a processing plant at Kells, in Whitehaven.\n\nCumbria County Council councillors, who have been assessing the project since 2017, gave it the go-ahead last March - but have since decided to review the application.\n\nLast month it was reported that the government's climate tsar, Alok Sharma, was apoplectic the plans for the coal mine had not been stopped.\n\nMr Sharma, who is in charge of preparations for the COP26 UN climate conference, has faced calls to resign over the issue.\n\nHe told MPs only last month that the mine was a \"local issue\" and would be decided by the council.\n\nBut the government has now decided to \"call in\" the application, meaning Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick will get the final say over it.\n\nIn a letter to Cumbria County Council, Mr Jenrick said the application had raised issues of \"more than local importance\".\n\nHe added the reversal had also been prompted by new advice on carbon emissions from government climate advisers published in December.\n\nHowever, a public inquiry will first be held by independent planners at the Planning Inspectorate. The inquiry process could take a number of months.\n\nAsked on Friday whether the government backed the mine or not, Boris Johnson said he couldn't get involved as it was now a \"qausi-judicial planning decision\".\n\nMP Trudy Harrison, whose Copeland constituency would include the mine, is a ministerial aide to the prime minister and has described opponents of the mine as being in \"cloud cuckoo land\".\n\nMs Harrison has yet to comment on the decision to hold an inquiry, but the Tory MP for nearby Workington, Mark Jenkinson, called the decision a \"capitulation to climate alarmists\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cumbria, he said the \"screeching U-turn\" could open a \"Pandora's box\" over how the UK's contribution to climate change is measured.\n\nHe added there was \"nothing on the horizon\" to replace coking coal in the process for making steel, a sector that is due to play an important role in the UK's \"green recovery\".\n\nThe government could still decide to approve the mine, but given the amount of anger it's caused that seems unlikely - at least until after the UN climate conference.\n\nLocal Conservatives strongly supported the scheme and the employment it would bring.\n\nBut the government's climate advisers, along with a crowd of green groups, warned it would increase carbon emissions when the UK's committed to cutting them.\n\nWhat's more, it would harm Britain's international reputation before the UN conference, they said.\n\nOne of the world's leading climate scientists, the American James Hansen, warned Boris Johnson risked humiliation over the mine.\n\nThe US climate envoy John Kerry warned against it on Monday. And yesterday Alok Sharma was again rebuked by MPs over the plan.\n\nIt was too much pressure.\n\nProf Rebecca Willis and Prof Mike Berners-Lee from Lancaster University say the mine would produce 8.4m tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to the emissions from more than a million households.\n\nSupporters of the mine say that by producing coal to be used in Europe, the mine will reduce emissions from shipping coal from Australia or the USA.\n\nBut the mine proposal comes at a time when the government wants every sector of the UK economy to reduce CO2 emissions - not find new sources of carbon.\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary Ed Miliband said the government should \"block\" the mine and \"provide alternative jobs in the green industries of the future\".\n\n\"We owe people a long-term secure employment situation, the mine isn't the answer,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe added that whilst there was a \"current need\" for coking coal in steelmaking, \"all experts say over time the industry's going to need to move towards hydrogen as the answer\".\n\nLib Dem Tim Farron, MP for nearby Westmoreland and Lonsdale, said: \"In the year that Britain hosts COP26, it is blindingly obviously that we won't be taken seriously on the world stage with this coal mine hanging round our neck.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope this public inquiry leads to these plans finally being axed, and the government instead looks at bringing well-paid, long-term, green jobs to Cumbria.\"", "Bulgaria has administered about 300,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine\n\nCountries should not stop using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine over fears it causes blood clots as there is no indication this is true, the World Health Organization says.\n\nBulgaria, Denmark and Norway are among the countries that have paused its use.\n\nBut on Friday a WHO spokeswoman said there was no link between the jab and an increased risk of developing a clot.\n\nMargaret Harris said it was an \"excellent vaccine\" and should continue to be used.\n\nAround 5 million Europeans have already received the AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThere have been about 30 cases in Europe of \"thromboembolic events\" - or developing blood clots - after the vaccine was administered. There were also reports that a 50-year-old man had died in Italy after developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT).\n\nThe WHO is investigating the reports, as it does any safety questions, Ms Harris said.\n\nBut no causal relationship had been established between the shot and the health problems reported, she said.\n\nOn Friday, AstraZeneca said the recorded number of blood clots in vaccinated people was \"significantly lower... than would be expected among the general population\".\n\n\"An analysis of our safety data of more than 10 million records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBulgaria's decision to pause its rollout followed similar steps by Denmark, Iceland and Norway as well as Thailand. Italy and Austria have stopped using certain batches of the drug as a precautionary measure.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency, the EU's medicines regulator, said earlier there was no indication the jab was causing the blood clots.\n\nOther countries, including the UK, Germany, Australia and Mexico, have said they are continuing their rollout.\n\nWhile vast numbers of people are being vaccinated at pace around the world, some of them will still get sick with other things unrelated to the vaccine.\n\nThese pauses for the AstraZeneca vaccine are not because it is unsafe to give. It's to allow time for experts to explore why a small number of people who were recently give the shot also developed blood clots.\n\nWhen an illness occurs shortly after vaccination, it is right to question whether the shot might have contributed in any way.\n\nThere is no indication or evidence, however, that the vaccine was linked or responsible.\n\nIn the UK, more than 11 million people have already received at least one dose of the vaccine and there has been no sign of excess deaths or blood clots occurring. Europe's drug regulator has also backed the vaccine, saying its benefits are clear. Covid can be deadly and vaccination saves lives.\n\nGermany's Health Minister Jens Spahn said he disagreed with the countries suspending the vaccinations.\n\n\"From what we know so far, the benefit... is far greater than the risk,\" he said.\n\nThe temporary suspensions come as a setback for a European vaccination campaign that has stuttered into life, partly due to delays in delivery of the doses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nIn the latest upset, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz complained that the EU was not distributing coronavirus vaccines fairly among member states - according to population size, as agreed.\n\nHe said some countries were striking side deals with vaccine makers instead of leaving procurement to the European Commission.\n\nThe German health ministry acknowledged in January that Germany had signed a deal for 30 million doses with Pfizer BioNTech in September.\n\nAlso on Friday, the WHO approved Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine. It followed EU approval which was given on Thursday, while regulators in the United States, Canada and South Africa have also backed the drug.\n\nAfter cases declined in recent months, several European countries are now seeing a resurgence of the virus. France, Italy, Poland and Turkey have seen the highest numbers in recent weeks.\n\nThe whole of Italy is braced to enter the country's strictest lockdown measures over the Easter weekend, 3 to 5 April.\n\nUnder rules set to be confirmed by the government, residents will only be allowed to leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies. All non-essential shops will be closed as will bars and restaurants. School lessons must be held online.\n\nThe total number of deaths in Italy rose to 100,000 on Monday - the highest toll in Europe after the UK. Officials say infection rates are rising as new variants of the virus take hold.", "Teachers' grades will be used instead of exam papers this summer\n\nParents are emailing teachers to lobby for higher GCSE and A-level grades, warn head teachers - with teachers' grades replacing exams this summer.\n\nRichard Sheriff, president of the ASCL heads' union, warned of parents with \"pointy elbows and lawyer friends\".\n\nHe suggested it was particularly schools in affluent areas where parents would try to sway teachers.\n\nMr Sheriff said it \"really worries me\" that this pressure could widen the social divide in exam results.\n\nGeoff Barton, the heads' union's general secretary, gave an example of a teacher who had been emailed by parents over the high grades needed for their daughter's ambition to become a doctor.\n\n\"We have to protect individual teachers,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nThis summer's GCSE and A-level exams have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and instead teachers will submit grades for pupils, based on evidence such as coursework, essays and assessments set by exam boards.\n\nMr Barton said that \"raises the spectre\" of parents trying to intervene on behalf of their children.\n\nHe urged schools to remind parents that exam boards would issue results - and not teachers - and that the boards would carry out spot checks on how grades were being decided.\n\nHe criticised the idea that the pupils' grades would be a \"negotiation\".\n\nThis should not be about parents who \"shout the loudest to get their child the furthest\", said Mr Sheriff, an executive head teacher in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.\n\nSimon Lebus, acting chief exam regulator, this week warned the Education Select Committee that parents could make teachers feel \"uncomfortable\" with an \"intrusive interest\" over exam grades.\n\nThere have also been concerns about grade inflation, if teachers are too generous in their grade estimations.\n\nSpeaking ahead of ASCL's annual conference, being held online, the head teachers' leaders also raised concerns about the risks of Covid being spread by young people meeting and mixing outside of school.\n\nMr Sheriff said schools \"only have control over a small part of the day\" - and that outside school, young people seem to \"have taken licence\" to start socialising.\n\n\"Young people, particularly teenagers, are gathering, they're meeting in each other's homes,\" said the North Yorkshire head.\n\nThere were warnings too about confusions over the rules of Covid testing - but head teachers said so far there seemed to be low numbers of positive cases being reported from the mass testing running in secondary schools this week.\n\nBut there had been isolated cases of pupils being sent home - including a third of one year group who had been in contact with a pupil who had tested positive.\n\nThis week millions of pupils have returned to school in England, and some younger children in Northern Ireland, and the heads reported \"very high levels of attendance\".", "The BBC has announced plans to continue providing learning support to teachers and pupils into the summer months.\n\nA three-hour Bitesize Learning Zone will be launched on CBBC and BBC iPlayer on school days, including new episodes of Bitesize Daily.\n\nIt is designed to assist teachers in classrooms, as well as for use at home.\n\nPatricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children's and Education, said programmes will be \"full of fun to help kids learn and catch-up\".\n\nThe plans will target those with limited access to the internet, bringing new educational programming to TV.\n\nThe Bitesize Learning Zone will show new episodes of Bitesize Daily until the end of the school year, with shows again split into age groups - five to seven, seven to nine and nine to 11.\n\nLaunching in April, the Bitesize Learning Zone will initially feature archived content before the new shows start in May,\n\nAnd from June, Bitesize Learning Zone will include new episodes of Bitesize Daily Primary, focusing on maths and English, offering primary school children detailed catch-up lessons in these subjects.\n\nThe episodes will include lessons from teachers and will also see a dedicated well-being day, designed to encourage good mental and physical health.\n\nMs Hidalgo said the goal was to continue to support teachers now the majority of students were returning to schools across the UK.\n\n“Over the last year, we have seen millions turn to BBC Bitesize for home-schooling and now the schools are open again, we want to continuing supporting teachers and parents.\n\n\"Bitesize Learning Zone on CBBC will offer three hours of curriculum-based programming full of fun to help kids learn and catch up on their education,\" she added.\n\nEpisodes of Bitesize Daily Secondary will also continue to be available on BBC iPlayer and for students in years 10 and 11.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in spring 2020, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular television channels.\n\nThe move to TV came after concerns many families were struggling to provide the technology and internet connections for their children to take part in online learning.", "Pupils in years one to three will not return to remote learning on 22 March\n\nPupils in pre-schools, nurseries and primary one to primary three in NI who were due to revert to remote learning from 22 March will be allowed to remain in class, the executive has agreed.\n\nMinisters backed a proposal from Education Minister Peter Weir to scrap the original plan.\n\nThat date will see post-primary pupils in years 12 to 14 return to classrooms.\n\nHowever no decision has been taken yet on when all other pupils should to return to school.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the full return of pupils to schools would be discussed at the executive's first formal review of the regulations on Tuesday 16 March.\n\n\"I would have liked to have moved further in relation to other cohorts but the Covid taskforce is looking at this in a strategic way and we'll make announcements next week,\" she told a news conference.\n\nNew proposals for schools from Peter Weir were discussed by Stormont ministers\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir had proposed that students in primaries four to seven should return on 22 March, with all other post-primary students returning after the Easter break on 12 April, subject to health advice.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said he had wanted to move further but recognised he would not have had consensus from all other executive parties.\n\n\"I ideally want to bring all ministers with me on this issue,\" he told the BBC's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"I will not rest until we reach a point that we have all pupils back in school... but how quickly we do that remains to be seen.\"\n\nHe also said officials were continuing work on how testing might be rolled out across schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nSome testing kits will arrive with the Education Authority on Friday and there will be a programme to roll that out for older pupils, primarily in years 12 to 14 in post-primaries, he added.\n\nMichelle O'Neill says the Kent coronavirus variant accounts for about 80% of cases in Northern Ireland\n\nDeputy First Minister Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised schools, students and parents needed \"notice\" about the return to school and that she hoped the executive could provide dates on Tuesday.\n\n\"We have made progress today and we did say this would be a staged and phased approach,\" she added.\n\nBoth ministers said their priority was ensuring the return of all pupils to schools as quickly as possible.\n\nIt is understood the executive was advised by health officials that the decision to \"prioritise and accelerate face-to-face learning must be supported by the retention of other existing restrictions at least until after the Easter holidays\".\n\nOn Thursday nine more Covid-19-related deaths and another 223 cases of the virus were recorded in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were 10 deaths recorded in the Republic of Ireland, with 592 confirmed new cases of the virus.\n\nMs O'Neill said the more transmissible Kent variant of coronavirus is now thought to account for about 80% of all cases in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Where people are having more contact the epidemic will grow faster than it has done previously, and this is something we all need to be cognisant of as we gradually ease out of restrictions,\" she added.\n\nThe transmission rate of the virus - or R-number - for the community in Northern Ireland is \"consistently below one\", said the first minister.\n\nShe said she hoped that the drop in figures meant that the executive would be able to make more announcements next week about easing other restrictions.\n\nMs O'Neill said there would be \"no major shifts\" before Easter but that the executive wanted to allow people time to plan for the coming weeks and months.\n\nMrs Foster also said she recognised that people were facing into a second year with many being unable to spend Mother's Day with their loved ones.\n\nArlene Foster says people should celebrate Mother's Day within their own household\n\n\"Many of us will be relying on cards and phone calls to carry out our love and appreciation,\" she said.\n\nShe also urged anyone wanting to celebrate Mother's Day or St Patrick's Day to do so with their own household.\n\nMs O'Neill said Northern Ireland was \"on the cusp of brighter days\" but warned that going to parties or gathering in groups posed a \"serious risk to a fragile situation\".\n\nMeanwhile, Stormont ministers have also agreed additional funding to support businesses and jobs during the pandemic.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy had proposed extending rates relief for another 12 months for almost 30,000 businesses, in a package worth £230m.\n\nHis plan means that for the second year running businesses in the following sectors will not pay any rates:\n\nThe executive also announced a Covid-19 support scheme for travel agents experiencing difficulties as a result of the pandemic, worth £1.175m.\n\nIt includes a flat payment of £10,000 to travel agency businesses operating from commercial premises or a £3,500 payment to self-employed travel agents working from home.\n\nThe scheme will open next Friday for a limited time until 26 March.", "An Islamist insurgency in north-east Mozambique has driven more than half a million people from their homes in the past year.\n\nAid agencies are calling it an urgent and forgotten humanitarian crisis. In a world exclusive, a BBC team reached the besieged town of Palma at the heart of the conflict – the first international journalists to do so.", "Sarah Everard was last seen in south London on 3 March\n\nA silent vigil planned for this weekend in Cardiff after the death of Sarah Everard will now move \"entirely online, say organisers.\n\nPolice have confirmed remains found in woodland in Ashford, Kent, are those of Ms Everard and a serving police officer has been charged with her murder.\n\nThe decision on the Cardiff event was taken after organisers of a vigil in London lost their legal challenge in the High Court against a police ban.\n\nThat vigil has now been cancelled.\n\nHowever, a Carmarthen vigil is set to go ahead.\n\nOrganisers of the Cardiff vigil took to Facebook to share their \"great disappointment that we have had to make the difficult decision to move this event entirely online for tomorrow, as opposed to in person\".\n\n\"After careful consideration (and much much bigger numbers than we ever expected!) we must respect that we are still under lockdown restrictions and in a pandemic, and neither one of us want anyone to put their health or the health of those they love at adverse risk,\" they said.\n\nThey added the online candle vigil would be held at the same time, including the same speakers and discussions.\n\nThe Welsh Government said Ms Everard's killing \"has invoked a strong and passionate response\" and that testimonies received from women who have experienced violence and abuse were \"a stark reminder about why there is still more to do.\"\n\nBut a government spokesperson added: \"We are in the middle of public health emergency.\n\n\"For everyone wishing to hold peaceful vigils this weekend, we would ask people to follow the rules which have protected us all from coronavirus and consider holding online events until larger gatherings can be held.\"\n\nWomen have been sharing their own experiences and fears of sexual violence since 33-year-old Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nNUS Wales president Becky Ricketts says women felt a sense of \"grief\" but not surprise\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, the National Union of Students Wales president Becky Ricketts said women across the UK were feeling a sense of \"grief\", but not surprise.\n\n\"We're still being told the same messages. We're still being told to contact our friends when we get home, making sure we dress in bright clothing, making sure we don't walk in dark areas, we walk home in groups,\" she said.\n\n\"The conversation around safety of women is so focused on women that we don't think about the role men have to play in this as well.\"\n\nCerys Furlong says most women do not know a woman who has not been a victim of sexual abuse or violence\n\nMost women \"don't know a woman who hasn't faced some sort of abuse or sexual violence in their life\", according to Cerys Furlong, chief executive of gender equality charity Chwarae Teg.\n\nShe said one in five girls and women aged 14 to 21 have experienced sexual harassment in public since the start of lockdown.\n\n\"We need to look quickly and clearly at why there are so few convictions and why as a society we don't have confidence in women and believe them when they speak out,\" Ms Furlong told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThe chief constable of North Wales Police said Sarah Everard's death has \"brought into sharp focus the fact that everyone, wherever they are, should be able to live, work and walk our streets without fear of harassment, abuse or violence\".\n\nCarl Foulkes urged women to report \"any concerns about behaviour in complete confidence that the police will deal with that concern\".\n\n\"Tackling abuse and violence in all its forms is a priority for us. We are absolutely committed to doing all we can to prevent this and to prosecute those who commit or attempt to commit such offences,\" he said.\n\nSarah Everard's family have paid tribute to her, saying she \"brought so much joy to our lives\"\n\nThere have been calls from some for men to be given curfew in the wake of Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he was not considering a curfew on men after a row over comments he made on BBC Breakfast television.\n\nOn the show he said a curfew would not be not be \"top of the list\" to combat sexual harassment, he would be willing to \"consider all options\" if there was a \"crisis\".\n\nHe said the Welsh Government changed the rules over the winter to allow people to exercise with one other person to help keep people safe.\n\nAlthough the Welsh Parliament can create offences in areas controlled from Cardiff, most criminal law is controlled from Westminster.\n\nAfter Welsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said such a curfew would be \"barmy\", Mr Drakeford tweeted: \"We are NOT introducing a curfew for men in Wales - or even considering it. This is misleading and deliberately misses the real issue.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA serving Met Police officer has been charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, who disappeared as she walked home in south London.\n\nThe 33-year-old's body was found in woodland in Kent more than a week after she was last spotted on 3 March.\n\nWayne Couzens, 48, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later charged with her murder.\n\nDurham University has paid tribute to Ms Everard, describing her as a \"beloved graduate\".\n\nMs Everard was last seen walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear whether she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nHer body was found by police searching woodland near Ashford, Kent, on Wednesday.\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said Ms Everard's family had been \"informed of this development and remain supported by specialist officers\".\n\n\"I would like at this stage to pay tribute to Sarah's family for their fortitude and forbearance through what can only have been the most intensely difficult few days, our thoughts remain with them as this matter progresses,\" he said.\n\n\"The investigation continues, of course, supported by hundreds of officers from across the Met, as well as colleagues in Kent Police.\"\n\nBefore the charges were confirmed, Mr Couzens was taken to hospital for a second time in two days after being found with head injuries inside his cell.\n\nHe has since been discharged and returned to his cell, the Met said.\n\nEarlier on Friday evening, Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick took part in a walkabout on Clapham Common.\n\nShe walked with police officers and spoke to members of the public in the park close to Clapham Common Tube station.\n\nA vigil planned by Reclaim These Street, due to take place on Clapham Common later, near to where the 33-year-old was last seen alive, has been cancelled.\n\nAnna Birley, from the group, said it could not bear the personal risk of Covid-19 fines or prosecution.\n\nFlowers have been laid at Clapham Common near to where Sarah Everard was last seen\n\nMs Everard's disappearance when she was walking home along a main road in Clapham on 3 March has prompted a public debate on women's safety.\n\n\"Sarah was a popular and lively member of our college community and retained a large Durham University friendship group,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nMr Couzens joined the force in September 2018 and was initially based in the Bromley area, the Met said.\n\nIn February last year he moved to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was uniformed patrols, mainly at a range of embassies in the capital.\n\nOn Thursday, a woman in her 30s who was arrested at the same time as Mr Couzens on suspicion of assisting an offender, was bailed to a date in mid-April.\n• None Sarah Everard murder case: What happens next?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 3,000 UK email servers remain at risk from the global Microsoft Exchange email flaw, officials believe.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre said it estimated 7,000 servers had been affected by the flaw in the UK and only half had been secured.\n\nIt said malicious software had been detected on 2,300 machines but it had helped businesses remove it.\n\nThe agency said it was \"vital\" that all affected businesses took action to secure their email servers.\n\nThe announcement reveals the scale of the problem among UK companies for the first time since the global security flaw emerged last week.\n\nRansomware groups have begun using the flaw to install their malicious programs, the NCSC warned - though there was no evidence of widespread ransomware attacks on UK companies so far.\n\nOnce installed, ransomware locks away a user's data behind strong encryption, making the computer system unusable. The group then demands payment to unlock it - and if demands are not met, will steal or delete the data.\n\nThe security flaw affects Microsoft's widely-used Exchange email system, which powers the email of major corporations, small businesses and public bodies worldwide.\n\nThe NCSC is particularly concerned about small and medium-sized businesses that may not have heard about the issue.\n\nInitially, the flaw was being exploited by a hacking group to gain remote access to email servers, from which it could steal sensitive data.\n\nBut after Microsoft warned the world it had identified the problem, and urged all its users to download the latest security updates, other hacking groups quickly became familiar with the flaw.\n\nThe result is a widespread free-for-all as multiple hacking groups all try to find unpatched email servers to attack.\n\n\"We are working closely with industry and international partners to understand the scale and impact of UK exposure, but it is vital that all organisations take immediate steps to protect their networks,\" NCSC's director for operations Paul Chichester warned.\n\n\"While this work is ongoing, the most important action is to install the latest Microsoft updates.\"\n\nHe also urged all organisations to \"familiarise\" themselves with the guidance surrounding ransomware attacks - and to search for any signs of their systems already being compromised.\n\nThe true scale of this problem is still emerging with thousands of systems vulnerable in the UK alone.\n\nWhat is not yet entirely clear is the overall impact.\n\nWhile many systems are still at risk and thousands had malicious software installed, the number of cases where we know this was actually used to steal emails or lock people out with ransomware is still fairly low.\n\nThat may change in the coming days as more reports come in.\n\nWhat is clear is that multiple hacking groups have piled in to exploit the vulnerability and those working on the defensive side are likely to stay busy for some time to come.", "Coronavirus infections may be levelling off in some of the UK, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe figures for the week up to 6 March suggest new cases continue to fall in England and Wales, but not in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nThe UK's latest R number - 0.6 and 0.8 - suggests the outbreak is shrinking.\n\nIt means that, on average, every 10 people infected in the UK will infect between 6 and 8 other people.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has reported 6,609 cases of coronavirus and 175 Covid deaths in the latest 24-hour period. More than 23 million people have had a first dose of coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAccording to the ONS statistics, there are around 231,400 people in the community with the virus, or around one in every 280 people in the UK is infected.\n\nThat's an improvement on last week's figure of one in every 230.\n\nIt is too soon to predict, from these statistics, what effect the reopening of schools might have on infection rates going forward, say experts.\n\nThe ONS results, based on tests from people whether or not they had symptoms, show:\n\nThere are \"early signs\" of a possible increase in the percentage of people testing positive in the South East and South West of England, says the ONS.\n\nRates have decreased in the North East, North West, East Midlands, East of England and London, and the trend is uncertain in Yorkshire and The Humber and the West Midlands.\n\nBut caution should be taken in over-interpreting the small changes, it says.\n\nThe estimates for people testing positive for the virus are:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The law aims to give protection for individuals around their sexuality and gender identity, among other protected characteristics\n\nThe legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups with a new offence of \"stirring up hatred\".\n\nIt was passed by 82 votes to 32 a day later than expected, after MSPs ran out of time on Wednesday while debating a raft of amendments.\n\nOpponents of the bill said they still have concerns about a possible chilling of free speech.\n\nThere were four abstentions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"I am delighted Holyrood has backed this powerful legislation that is fitting for the Scotland we live in.\n\n\"Parliament has sent a strong and clear message to victims, perpetrators, communities and to wider society that offences motivated by prejudice will be treated seriously and will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill was first introduced last April in response to an independent review of Scotland's hate crime laws by Lord Bracadale, but has sparked fierce debate.\n\nUnder the bill, offences are considered \"aggravated\" - which could influence sentencing - if they involve prejudice on the basis of age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or variations in sex characteristics (sometimes described as \"intersex\" physical or biological characteristics).\n\nIt also creates new offences of \"stirring up hatred\" - which previously applied only to race - and abolishes the offence of blasphemy which has not been prosecuted in Scotland for more than 175 years.\n\nAn earlier draft of the bill was criticised by the Law Society of Scotland for having a perceived low threshold for prosecution.\n\nA number of groups including religious and cultural groups, writers, journalists, campaigners and police raised concerns about its impact on free expression.\n\nMr Yousaf said the bill makes clear the government is listening to victims\n\nThe Scottish government responded by modifying the wording and strengthening freedom of expression provisions.\n\nThe changes meant \"stirring up hatred\" would only be considered an offence if it was intentional.\n\nOn Wednesday, two amendments designed to further strengthen the protection of free speech were passed unanimously by MSPs.\n\nDuring the final debate on Thursday, Humza Yousaf argued that those provisions were strong enough to prevent criminalisation.\n\nHe said: \"To those who think they may accidentally somehow fall foul of the law... because they believe sex is immutable, or they believe an adult man cannot become a female or they campaign for the rights of Palestinians... or those that proselytise that same-sex relationships are sinful, none of these people would fall foul of the stirring up of hatred offence for solely stating their belief - even if they did so in a robust manner.\n\n\"Why? Because solely stating any belief, which I accept may be offensive to some, is not breaching the criminal threshold.\n\n\"This bill makes clear that we are listening to the victims of hate crime.\"\n\nIt was described in a heated five-hour debate as \"the most controversial\" piece of legislation ever considered by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nFrom its troubled beginnings, the Hate Crime Bill has been altered significantly. Changes were made during cross-party efforts in what some MSPs described as \"Holyrood at its best\".\n\nYet even with that scrutiny, concerns remain. Offences can now be committed even in private, an abandonment of an earlier \"dwelling defence\" in race hate law.\n\nEven with the Scottish government's insistence that the bar for prosecution is high, there are those who still believe this is an example of interference in private and family life. Why should any government, they ask, decide what can and can't be said in the privacy of one's home?\n\nWhat is the difference, though, if one intends to encourage others into action against a vulnerable section of the community, whether that encouragement is in public or in private? That's the position of the Scottish government.\n\nAnd then there is the issue of sex. Some - including Labour's Johann Lamont - say the bill should have done more to protect women. She referred to the violence and abuse women suffer at the hands of men.\n\nThis debate goes to the heart of how individuals identify themselves and asks how the authorities might permit them to discuss their place in society. MSPs have found themselves trying to strike a delicate balance between freedom of expression and freedom from persecution. Have they succeeded? Opinions vary.\n\nSo, having said all that, what does all this actually mean for you? Well, it depends on who YOU are and - crucially - how you're defined by this new law.\n\nHowever, Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr said there was \"inherent ambiguity\" in the language of the legislation.\n\nHe claimed it did not strike the right \"balance\" between free expression and protection from hate.\n\nAnother amendment from MSP Johann Lamont that would have included women as a protected group under the legislation was defeated.\n\nThe government has instead set a working group to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.\n\nThis group, led by QC Baroness Helena Kennedy, is due to report within a year.\n\nJohann Lamont said she would not support the bill\n\nScottish Labour's Neil Bibby agreed with Ms Lamont that the legislation was \"flawed\" because sex was not included as a protected characteristic.\n\nHowever he said we \"ultimately have to recognise this bill will give protection to minorities\".\n\nHe said: \"It makes sense that we should seek to consolidate, modernise and reform Scotland's hate crime laws. We need this bill because hate crime has become more widespread. Society has become more polarised and divided.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur also said he thought it was \"anomalous\" to leave out sex as a protected characteristic.\n\nHe said his concerns had \"not wholly disappeared\" but he had been \"persuaded on balance\" to vote for the bill.\n\nMSP John Finnie from the Greens dismissed suggestions from opponents that family dinners could be \"ruined by a flurry of arrests\" if people made controversial comments.\n\nHe said: \"The bill, like others, is about balance, and I think the balance between the freedom of expression and the right to private life has been struck by this bill, and countless organisations agree.\"", "Sarah Everard \"always put others first and had the most amazing sense of humour\", her family says\n\nThe Met Police is to be investigated over its handling of an allegation of indecent exposure against the officer suspected of murdering Sarah Everard.\n\nThe police watchdog will consider if officers \"responded appropriately\" to the alleged incident.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was last seen in Clapham, south London, on 3 March.\n\nThe case has prompted an outpouring of shock and anger as women across the country share their own experiences of feeling unsafe.\n\nOrganisers of a \"Reclaim These Streets\" vigil planned for Saturday evening on Clapham Common claim the police say it cannot go ahead because of pandemic lockdown restrictions, and are preparing to go to the High Court.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson \"completely understands the strength of feeling\" around Ms Everard's disappearance, his spokesman said, but is urging people to continue to abide by the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the Sarah Everard case “has to be a turning point”\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she would use her role \"to protect women and girls\".\n\nWriting a comment piece for the Sun, she said: \"Every single woman and girl should be free to walk our streets without the slightest fear of harassment, abuse or violence.\"\n\nPolice have been searching land near Great Chart Golf Leisure Country Club in Ashford\n\nPolice looking for the missing marketing executive said human remains had been found in woodland in Kent on Wednesday, but detectives have not yet confirmed their identity.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had launched an investigation after receiving five referrals from the Met Police in relation to its handling of the case.\n\nThe watchdog says it will examine how officers responded to a report that a man had exposed himself at a fast food restaurant in south London on 28 February - three days before Ms Everard's disappearance.\n\nMs Everard's family said it was out of character for her to disappear\n\nThe other referrals to the IOPC were over the arrest of a serving officer on suspicion both of kidnap and murder, the Met's actions after Ms Everard was reported missing, and the injury of the suspect while in custody.\n\nThe arrested man, who is in his 40s and works with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was taken to hospital on Thursday suffering from head injuries.\n\nHe was treated, discharged and returned to the police station where he is being held after an application to extend his detention was granted at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe Met later said he had sustained the injury while alone in his cell and received immediate first aid. The officer was arrested in Kent on Tuesday.\n\nMs Everard was last seen on 3 March walking alone down a main road in Clapham at 21:30 GMT, with police saying it was unclear whether she reached her home in Brixton.\n\nThe former Durham University student, who is originally from York, was wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers when she went missing.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, her family appealed for more information to \"help solve this terrible crime\".\n\n\"Sarah was bright and beautiful - a wonderful daughter and sister. She was kind and thoughtful, caring and dependable. She always put others first and had the most amazing sense of humour,\" they said.\n\n\"She was strong and principled and a shining example to us all. We are very proud of her and she brought so much joy to our lives.\"\n\nA woman in her 30s, who was arrested in Kent on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail until mid-April.\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.", "Liz Truss said the government was committed to LGBT equality\n\nEqualities Minister Liz Truss says the government will bring forward plans to ban gay conversion therapy \"shortly\".\n\nA No 10 source later said there had been no change in government policy.\n\nBut after a week of confusion over how far the government would go in stopping the practice, campaigners cautiously welcomed the change in tone.\n\nJayne Ozanne - who quit as a government LGBT+ adviser over the issue - welcomed the commitment, but said she was \"holding [her] breath\" for the outcome.\n\nAsked if a ban should be put into law, Boris Johnson said people should \"be in no doubt we will deal with this issue\".\n\nBut speaking after Ms Truss, he did not go as far as promising legislation, adding: \"It's technically complex to deal with, but we're determined to take further steps to stamp it out\".\n\n\"Conversion therapy\" refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe practice is already outlawed in Switzerland and parts of Australia, Canada and the US.\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and his predecessor, Theresa May, have made pledges to ban gay conversion therapy in the UK, with the current PM calling it \"absolutely abhorrent\".\n\nBut when the issue was debated in Parliament on Monday following a petition calling for a ban, MPs reacted angrily after no timeline was set out to bring it into law.\n\nIn her response to the debate, Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch also did not use the word \"ban\" - instead saying while the practice had \"no place in a civilised society\" - there were \"robust\" laws already in place to deal with the most troubling examples.\n\nShe added that the government did not \"intend to stop those who wish to seek spiritual counselling as they explore their sexual orientation\".\n\nThe comments were followed in the week by a string of resignations from the government's LGBT+ Advisory Panel - with accusations the Conservatives were creating a \"hostile environment\" for those in the community - and calls for Ms Badenoch to resign.\n\nSpeaking to reporters about the issue for the first time this week, Ms Truss said the government was \"very committed to LGBT equality\".\n\nShe added: \"We've recently brought forward plans to improve health care for transgender people, and will shortly be bringing forward plans to ban conversion therapy, which is an abhorrent practice.\"\n\nMs Ozanne said she would be \"looking carefully\" at what the government brought forward.\n\nShe added: \"I'm glad to hear her commit to a ban. However, I am holding my breath to see what that means.\n\n\"Kemi Badenoch, in her speech the other day, seemed to be leaving the stable door open so the primary form of conversion therapy, in religious settings, could continue to happen.\"\n\nLBGT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, who has accused the government of \"dithering\" over its pledge, also said he would \"not let up until we see the details and timetable of the new law\".\n\nHe added: \"The ban must protect trans people and apply to religious practices. It is time to stop dithering and get this done.\"\n\nJayne Ozanne quit as a government adviser on LGBT+ issues over the government's handling of the conversion therapy issue\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC there had been no change in government policy since Monday's debate, meaning it is still unclear whether a law to ban the practice will be introduced in Parliament or not.\n\nDuring a visit to Queen's University Belfast, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I think this practice is repulsive and I think it's abhorrent, and I'm sorry these advisers have gone, but be in no doubt that we will deal with this issue.\n\n\"It is technically complex to deal with but we're determined to take further steps to stamp it out.\"", "Students at the University of Manchester have passed a vote of no confidence in its vice-chancellor.\n\nDame Nancy Rothwell faced opposition over the university's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAbout 89% of the students who took part in the non-binding vote agreed the student body had \"no confidence\" in the vice-chancellor and other leaders.\n\nThe university said the vote had a 13% turnout and said it had \"full confidence\" in Dame Nancy.\n\nA spokesperson for the student-led campaign group said the positions of the vice-chancellor and her team had become \"completely untenable\".\n\n\"It's apparent to anyone that the mistreatment of students and mishandling of the pandemic by the university over the past year has become an exemplar of how not to run a university,\" they said.\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) general secretary Jo Grady said the \"overwhelming vote\" was \"no surprise\" and said Dame Nancy had treated students \"shamefully.\"\n\n\"She irresponsibly brought students back to campus to secure income from fees and rent and then locked them in their accommodation,\" she said.\n\nStudent relations with the university hit a low when fences surrounded Fallowfield campus\n\nIn November, Dame Nancy told BBC Newsnight she had apologised in writing to 19-year-old student Zach Adan, who was allegedly racially profiled by security guards as he returned to his halls of residence.\n\nWhen it emerged that this had not happened, she apologised again, saying she was \"devastated that I made the wrong remark on national television\" and had \"written to sincerely apologise to the student\".\n\nThe incident came amid ongoing protests by students who were campaigning for rent reductions after their face-to-face classes were halted.\n\nProtests also erupted on campus during the autumn term as the second lockdown began when a wire fence was erected overnight around accommodation without students being consulted.\n\nStudents pulled down the barriers on the University of Manchester's Fallowfield campus in protest.\n\nThe referendum was held by the students' union after a petition met the threshold number of signatures to trigger a vote.\n\nIn a statement, the university's board of governors said it had \"full confidence\" in the senior leadership \"to lead the university forward\".\n\n\"Whilst our senior leaders haven't got everything right, where that has been the case, they have led from the front by apologising and have always taken action to ensure lessons are learnt and improvements are made,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Beckett and Laura Pidcock were taking part in a virtual meeting\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has apologised for a remark she made during a Labour meeting that has upset some in the party.\n\nThe MP, who chairs Labour's national executive, reportedly called former MP Laura Pidcock a \"silly cow\".\n\nMs Beckett told the BBC she had \"muttered something\" during a virtual meeting without realising her mic was on, but had apologised immediately.\n\n\"I deeply regret the remark which was unjustifiable,\" she added.\n\nThe veteran MP for Derby South, who was a whip for Labour in the 1970s, and rose to cabinet level positions during the Tony Blair era of government, remains a big player in the party.\n\nMs Pidcock, who was a shadow minister on Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench, lost her North West Durham seat in the 2019 election but remains a well-known figure on the left.\n\nShe has been approached for a comment.\n\nA number of members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) took to Twitter after the meeting on Thursday to criticise Ms Beckett's actions.\n\nHoward Beckett, who represents the Unite union at the NEC, said it was \"truly shocking\", while local party representative Mish Rahman called it \"embarrassing... and deeply inappropriate\".\n\nAnother local Labour representative who was at the meeting, Gemma Bolton, said the incident was \"completely unacceptable, even more so from the NEC chair\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"As women in the movement, we build each other up, not tear each other down.\n\n\"When we disagree, we do so with courtesy. We do not call each other names.\"\n\nAsked about the incident by BBC Online, Ms Beckett said: \"I muttered something to myself in exasperation and my microphone was on.\n\n\"I apologised immediately and have done so again.\"\n\nShe added: \"I deeply regret the remark, which was unjustifiable.\"\n\nThe row comes days after a council leader was suspended from the Welsh Labour Party after being recorded calling a Senedd member a \"cow\" - although the BBC understands there were other contributing factors to his suspension.", "Leon Briggs's mother said she was \"disappointed\" the jury had not returned a verdict of unlawful killing\n\nThe way in which police officers restrained a father-of-two contributed \"more than minimally\" to his death, an inquest jury found.\n\nLeon Briggs died in November 2013 after being detained at Luton police station under the Mental Health Act, having been held face-down in the street.\n\nHis primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\".\n\nA jury found a number of serious police and ambulance failures.\n\nIt recorded a conclusion that his death was \"contributed to by neglect\".\n\nMr Briggs's mother, Margaret Briggs, said the conclusion of neglect did not \"reflect the evidence\".\n\n\"I am disappointed that the jury did not return a verdict of unlawful killing,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leon Briggs: Witness saw 'police on top of him'\n\nBedfordshire Police said the jury had \"identified a number of significant failings by the police\" for which it was \"truly sorry\", adding the force had made \"extensive changes\" since.\n\nOfficers were called to Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November due to concerns about the 39-year-old's erratic behaviour.\n\nAfter being restrained face-down, handcuffed and placed in leg restraints, he was lifted into a police van \"like he was a bag of potatoes\", witness Wendy Hamilton said.\n\nAs Mr Briggs was carried into the police station, the lorry driver was shouting and screaming in distress.\n\nHe was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT. Mr Briggs became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest, held in Milton Keynes, was told Acting Sgt Loren Short and PC Geoff Bennett restrained Mr Briggs.\n\nThe officers said they \"wanted to do the best (they) could\" while he was \"shouting, struggling, and kicking out\", but the lawyer for Mr Briggs's family accused them of \"telling a pack of lies\".\n\nThe jury was told that Mr Briggs was having \"an acute mental health crisis\" during the incident\n\nWitnesses said they heard Mr Briggs call out \"please help me\" while he was restrained face-down in a \"dangerous position\" on the concrete for more than 13 minutes.\n\nThe jury found that \"inappropriate weight\" was used against him, though police officers did \"reasonably believe\" it was appropriate.\n\nA secondary cause of death was given as coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nBefore the inquest, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) paramedics who attended the call had admitted a failure to check Mr Briggs's vital signs or take him to hospital in an ambulance for medical treatment.\n\nTwo paramedics who watched him being restrained \"did not even speak to Leon\" or \"offer medical advice to police\", Lewis Andrews, EEAST clinical general manager, told the inquest.\n\nJurors said Mr Briggs had been experiencing psychotic disorder, caused by high usage of amphetamines, resulting in erratic and irrational behaviour and his subsequent detention.\n\nOfficers failed to recognise he was in a state of medical emergency and did not monitor him in the police van and cell, which also contributed to his death, the jury said.\n\nThe jury heard officers were \"laughing\" as Mr Briggs was motionless and lying face down in the cell. Officers later called out his name and asked \"are you all right?\".\n\nMargaret Briggs says she hopes \"those responsible will be brought to justice eventually\".\n\nIn a statement after the inquest, Mrs Briggs said: \"Why did the police choose to treat my son, who was mixed race, as if his life had no value? They took away his human rights.\n\n\"To this day, those police officers still have their jobs and livelihoods and no one has been punished for Leon's death.\n\n\"There has been no accountability or justice.\"\n\nIn 2018 the CPS said no officers would be charged over Mr Briggs's death.\n\nMrs Briggs said she had \"been truly shocked by the brutality of the treatment\" of her son and \"by how he suffered in his last hour of life\".\n\n\"He committed no crime and yet he was restrained face down on the floor - with force used against him - and he was shackled,\" she said.\n\nBedfordshire Police Deputy Chief Constable Trevor Rodenhurst said Mr Briggs's loved ones had \"to wait far too long to hear all the facts surrounding his death\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs \"was suffering a drug-induced psychosis triggered by amphetamine levels described by one expert as being 'off the scale'\".\n\n\"Unbeknown to officers he also had a serious underlying heart condition,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no easy way of managing such a situation.\"\n\nLeon Briggs was detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station\n\nPC Peter Baron, who assisted officers during the restraint, told the inquest the way Mr Briggs was moved from the ground to the police van went against the \"approved technique\".\n\nEmma Carter, secretary of Bedfordshire Police Federation, said she disagreed with the jury's conclusion that Mr Briggs was restrained in a dangerous way, and said officers \"did their very best\" to deal with \"a very tragic incident\".\n\nMs Carter added that \"six colleagues were suspended from duty for more than five years as part of this process\".\n\nAt the time misconduct proceedings were dropped against five officers in February 2020, more than £1m of public money had been spent on their pay while they had been suspended.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nHundreds of workers at the DVLA have voted for industrial action over Covid health and safety concerns.\n\nThe office in Swansea has seen more than 500 Covid cases since September in what a union described as \"the worst Covid workplace outbreak\" in the UK.\n\nMembers of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) backed strikes by 71.6% on a turnout of 50%.\n\nA DVLA spokesman said it had followed Welsh Government guidance at \"every single point throughout the pandemic\".\n\nA coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre in the Clase area of Swansea in December after 352 cases in the space of four months.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said in January that UK government officials had been \"working flat-out\" at the DVLA's 16 storey HQ.\n\nThe UK's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said it was \"shameful\" workers were having to strike because they felt \"unsafe\".\n\nMore than 6,000 people work at the site and the PCS union said more than 2,000 staff have been going into the workplace every day, despite the scale of the outbreak.\n\n\"This result is a damning indictment on DVLA management in their abject failure to keep staff safe,\" said PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka.\n\n\"Our members have sent a loud and clear message that they are not safe at their place of work.\n\n\"The strength of feeling amongst staff comes as no surprise, given the management's disregard for the safety of their workers.\n\n\"Our members have been forced into this position and industrial action will take place unless management immediately implements all necessary changes to ensure staff are safe at work.\"\n\nThe Swansea contact centre has seen more than 300 Covid cases since September\n\nThe union will seek to meet with management of the DVLA - the UK government-run Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - before deciding its next move.\n\nPCS said it wants to see the numbers on site reduced to hundreds - and vulnerable people sent home, to either work from home or have special paid leave.\n\nThe DVLA said it had \"consistently worked with\" Public Health Wales, Environmental Health and Swansea Bay University Health Board to introduce a wide range of safety measures.\n\n\"This has enabled DVLA staff to continue to deliver essential services to the public right across the UK in a Covid-19 secure way.\" added a spokesman.\n\n\"Any industrial action is likely to have a detrimental impact on motorists as we begin the first stages of the road map out of lockdown and the UK vaccination rollout programme is in full swing.\n\n\"We hope that PCS will consider this impact when deciding how it wishes to proceed.\n\n\"Cases of Covid-19 among DVLA staff remain low, and currently there are just five positive cases, including those working from home, out of a workforce of more than 6,000.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary in Westminster has urged the UK government to \"sort out this mess\".\n\n\"It is shameful that staff are having to strike because of Tory ministers' failure to keep them safe from Covid in a government building,\" said Jim McMahon.\n\n\"The transport secretary has failed to explain why he ignored warnings about this, and how a government agency appears to have become the site of the largest workplace outbreak of the virus.\n\n\"He must act immediately to sort out this mess of his own creation.\"", "Wales' first minister said he did not “change” his mind on the timetable for reopening non-essential retail.\n\nMark Drakeford said at the last lockdown review that discussions would be had with the sector “to see how we might begin” the reopening of shops.\n\n“Three weeks ago I said that I hoped today we would be able to begin to reopen non-essential retail and that is exactly what we have been able to do,” he said.\n\n“Supermarkets and other shops that are already open will from the 22nd of March be able to sell the full range of essential and non-essential goods.\n\n“For many people that will mean that they will be able to purchase things that they’ve had to manage without for many, many weeks.\n\n“Those shops who are not already open will now have a definite timeframe to do all the things that they will need to do in order to be able to reopen successfully.\n\n“People need to be able to bring staff back from furlough, they need to be able to restock so that they can open with their shelves with things on them for people to buy, they will need to demonstrate that they are able to meet the new standards, the legally required standards that we have put in place here in Wales in response to the new variant of coronavirus,” he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nEx-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been found guilty of ordering banned testosterone in 2011 \"knowing or believing\" it was to help dope an unnamed rider.\n\nA medical tribunal ruled Freeman ordered Testogel with the knowledge \"it was to be administered to an athlete to improve their athletic performance\".\n\nIt added that Freeman's actions were \"incapable of innocent explanation\".\n\nBritish Cycling said the finding was \"extremely disturbing\".\n\nFreeman had previously admitted 18 of 22 charges against him but denied the central charge about the purpose of the Testogel order.\n\nThe hearing will resume on 17 March, when the tribunal will consider if Freeman's \"fitness to practise is impaired\".\n\nDuring the tribunal, which has lasted for more than two years, Freeman said he was bullied into ordering the drug by former British Cycling and Team Sky performance director Shane Sutton to treat his erectile dysfunction.\n\nSutton denied those claims, and claimed Freeman was lying. The tribunal ruled Freeman's claims were an \"elaborate falsehood\".\n\nIt ruled the motive for Freeman's actions was to \"conceal his conduct\". Only one charge was found not proved - that he knew the Testogel was not \"clinically indicated\" for Sutton.\n\nIn the tribunal's written reasons, it said: \"In May 2011, Dr Freeman, the team doctor for a team of elite cyclists and a member of the anti-doping working group, ordered a doping 'drug of choice' for that sport.\n\n\"Upon its arrival he was dishonest about why it had been sent, removed it from the velodrome, and it was never seen again. The tribunal found that Dr Freeman has been dishonest in its regard ever since.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport's Laura Scott after the ruling, Sutton said he was \"saddened\" by the verdict and maintained British Cycling \"ran the cleanest programme in the world\".\n\n\"I just think it casts a shadow over great athletes,\" said Sutton, adding it was \"absolutely ludicrous\" people were \"calling for the head\" of Sir Dave Brailsford, general manager of Team Sky (now Team Ineos) and former performance director of British Cycling.\n\n\"Unfortunately I was a scapegoat on the journey,\" said Sutton. \"Now it's over I can sit there and feel vindicated.\n\n\"But its scars I will carry for the rest of my life, that's for sure, because it's been one hell of a two years.\n\n\"I would have no problem standing up and saying if I had a medical condition and it was for me. I would not want to put Dr Freeman and everybody else through this if I had a medical problem. I'd be one of millions of people around the world with that condition that needed treating.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, he said: \"I'd like to stress that neither I nor Sir Dave Brailsford knew about the testosterone order. But I think it's important to find out who the doctor ordered it for.\"\n\nTeam Ineos said Freeman \"fell short of the ethical standards required of him as a doctor and acted dishonestly\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"However, the team does not believe that any athlete ever used or sought to use Testogel or any other performance-enhancing substance.\n\n\"No evidence has been provided that this ever happened or that there has been any wrongdoing by any athlete at any point.\n\n\"We will continue to give our full support and co-operation to UK Anti-Doping, as we have done throughout this process, as they continue to investigate his conduct.\"\n\nBritish Cycling chief executive Brian Facer said: \"The wider actions of Dr Freeman described in the tribunal fall a mile short of the standards we expect.\"\n\nHe added substantial changes had been made to medical services and governance at the body since Freeman's suspension four years ago.\n\nWorld Anti-Doping said it noted the verdict \"with concern\" and would support authorities \"to ensure that all possible lines of enquiry are exhausted\".\n\nUK Sport said the case \"must send a clear message to staff, athletes and sports fans that doping will not be tolerated\" while the British Olympic Association pledged to support the \"pursuit of the truth.\"\n\n'The verdict they were dreading' - analysis\n\nThis is the verdict that many involved in British Cycling and Team Sky were dreading.\n\nDr Freeman was the top medic at both organisations during a period of unprecedented success on both the road and track.\n\nFor years he worked closely with some of British sport's biggest names - from Sir Bradley Wiggins and Sir Dave Brailsford to psychologist Dr Steve Peters.\n\nThere has been no suggestion of wrongdoing by any of them connected to this, or any other case.\n\nBut for the former chief medic to have been found guilty of ordering a banned substance to help a rider to cheat - a year before London 2012 - is a devastating blow to the reputation of one of the country's most successful and best-funded sports, the driving force behind Team GB's Olympic revival.\n\nIt leaves uncomfortable questions; who was the rider? Who else knew? And will Dr Freeman now have more to reveal?\n\nCycling has tried to move on from this scandal, and previous controversies. The national governing body has brought in reforms, codes of conduct and new leadership.\n\nTeam Sky became Team Ineos in what was a much-needed fresh start. But moving on from the past just became much harder and today's news raises more questions about the so-called medal factory.\n\nAfter an unedifying and drawn-out tribunal featuring a cover-up, a damaged laptop, feuds, and chaotic medical record-keeping, that reputation for excellence lies in tatters.\n\nAnd just a few months before the Tokyo Games, the timing could not be worse.\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nFreeman, who was simultaneously employed by British Cycling and Team Sky between 2009 and 2015, resigned from British Cycling in October 2017 because of ill health. He had already left Team Sky.\n\nHis medical tribunal began in November 2019 after he was accused by the General Medical Council (GMC) of ordering 30 sachets of Testogel to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester in May 2011, \"knowing or believing\" the banned drug was intended to boost an athlete's performance.\n\nHe admitted 18 of 22 charges against him, including initially lying to try to cover up the order, and misleading a Ukad investigation.\n\nBut Freeman denied the remaining four charges, including the accusation he helped to dope a rider, saying he was bullied into ordering the drug by Sutton.\n\nFreeman failed in his bid to have the four remaining charges thrown out, but the tribunal chair said there was a \"case to answer for all outstanding matters\".\n\nThe tribunal was then repeatedly adjourned on medical grounds, with his lawyer Mary O'Rourke QC saying Freeman, who has bipolar disorder, was too unwell to attend.\n\nIt eventually resumed in October 2020. Giving evidence for the first time, Freeman said he used \"a screwdriver or blunt instrument\" to destroy a laptop which may have contained medical data crucial to the investigation for fear that information could be hacked.\n\nHe told the tribunal he had secretly taken the package of Testogel home on the night it was delivered to the National Cycling Centre and washed it down the sink.\n\nHe later claimed he was unaware of testosterone's performance-enhancing benefits, and insisted the issue of doping had never arisen between himself and former British Cycling medical director Dr Steve Peters.\n\nHis cross-examination by GMC QC Simon Jackson lasted for seven weeks.\n\nOn 26 November, his tribunal was once again adjourned to resume on 22 January 2021, extending it into a third year.\n\nFreeman then requested a further adjournment so that he could help deliver the Covid-19 mass vaccination programme but his request was denied.\n\nFinal submissions were completed at a hearing in February. The verdict had been due on 2 March, but was pushed back to 12 March after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said further time was required.\n\nFreeman has been at the centre of a number of controversies.\n\nIn 2017, Ukad closed a 14-month investigation into a 'mystery' medical package delivered for Sir Bradley Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011, having been unable to establish what the package contained.\n\nFreeman insisted it had been a legal decongestant and denied any wrongdoing, despite allegations of the misuse of anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone.\n\nWiggins was also granted therapeutic use exemption (TUEs) to take triamcinolone shortly before three major races - the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHowever, Freeman - who applied for those TUEs on Wiggins' behalf - said it was always within the rules.\n\nWiggins, British Cycling, and Team Sky (now Team Ineos) have always denied wrongdoing.\n\nIn February, Freeman was charged by Ukad with \"possession of a prohibited substance\" and \"tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control\".\n\nA charge of tampering would cover an attempt to subvert any aspect of doping control, including an investigation.\n\nFreeman is understood to have contested part of the charges, and requested a hearing.\n\nIf found guilty by an independent national anti-doping panel, Freeman could face a four-year ban from sport.\n\nAttention will turn to the Ukad inquiry once his medical tribunal ends.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead said: \"While the charges are pending, Dr Freeman is subject to a provisional suspension from all sport.\"\n• None 'My lowest point? When I had to pull out my own teeth'", "Four further cases of the Covid variant of concern first found in Brazil have been identified in England, bringing the total in the UK to 10.\n\nThree cases of the P.1 variant are in South Gloucestershire and are said to be close or household contacts of the two existing cases in the area.\n\nThe other new case was identified in Bradford.\n\nScientists previously said the variant appears more contagious and there were concerns over its response to vaccines.\n\nBut Dr Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said last week it was hoped that vaccines would have a strong impact on reducing hospitalisations and deaths in cases of the new variant.\n\nThe new Bradford case tested positive for Covid-19 in late February after travelling back from Brazil via Paris on 14 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nSubsequent genomic sequencing identified the case as the P.1 variant, Public Health England said in a statement.\n\nThousands of positive Covid cases, from all across the UK, are sent for this further sequencing every week as scientists aim to identify any variants of the virus.\n\nThe new South Gloucestershire cases were uncovered when people were offered testing in response to the initial cases found in the area last month - and those who tested positive had their results sent on for further analysis.\n\nSpecialist contact tracing teams are working to identify any further contacts and additional testing has been in place since the initial cases were identified.\n\nContact-tracers have advised close contacts of the individual in Bradford to isolate and get a test.\n\nThere are now seven cases of the P.1 variant in England and three in Scotland, all of which have links to travel or to a previously confirmed case that has travelled to Brazil.\n\nIt was always known more cases of the P.1 Brazil variant were coming.\n\nWhen it was confirmed 11 days ago the variant was here, it was known two household members of the original South Gloucestershire cases had tested positive for Covid.\n\nThe results of the genomic sequencing to check which variant they had was not yet complete, but the expectation was it would be P.1.\n\nWhere does this leave us? A quarter of all Covid cases are being checked for variants and all the indications are that they are not spreading.\n\nThe new P.1 cases brings the total to 10, while there have been just over 300 cases of the South African variant and another 113 cases where the UK virus has acquired the E484 mutation which allows it to escape some of the immune response.\n\nThere will be more variants out there that have not been detected, but given that overall week-on-week Covid infection levels are lower we can be confident the variant is not taking hold.\n\nMonitoring this though is crucial to help the UK decide if vaccines updates are needed ahead of next winter.\n\nSeparately, Public Health England said a new variant identified in the UK was designated a \"variant under investigation\" on 4 March. It is not known where this variant first emerged.*\n\nIt said the variant - known as VUI-202103/01 - contains the spike mutations E484K and N501Y, both usually associated with so-called \"variants of concern\".\n\nBut it added that \"it does not feature specific deletions that would lead to a designation as a [variant of concern]\".\n\nNo additional cases have yet been found.\n\nIn other developments, rough sleepers and other homeless people in England will be prioritised to receive a coronavirus vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nIt comes after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said people who are homeless or sleeping rough were likely to have underlying health conditions and should be offered jabs alongside those in priority group six - people aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality.\n\nThey should also be offered the vaccine without the need for an NHS number or GP registration, the JCVI added.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in the UK has risen compared with recent days, after a further 6,753 cases were reported, according to the latest data.\n\nAnother 181 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have also been recorded.\n\nAs of 10 March, some 23,053,716 people had received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 1,351,515 had received a second dose.\n\nNews that the Brazil variant had been found in the UK was released in February. Three cases were initially found in England, and separately three in Scotland.\n\nThe three cases in Scotland were all oil workers who were returning to their families from Brazil, via Paris and London.\n\nIn England, two of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire who tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February.\n\nThe third case in England - now confirmed to be in Croydon - prompted intensive tracing efforts in the region as the identity of the person was initially unknown as he or she failed to register their test properly.\n\nBut that person was found at the end of last week and it was confirmed that he or she had \"stayed at home\" and there was no sign of any onward transmission.\n\nUnder current Covid restrictions, holiday travel is not allowed in the UK or abroad. Anyone travelling abroad has to fill in a \"Declaration to Travel\" form, stating a valid reason for leaving the country, such as education or work, and journeys within England are only allowed for limited reasons.\n\nThere are also travel bans on 33 countries \"where the risk of a new variant is greatest\", including Brazil and other South American nations.\n\nHowever, the ban on travellers from South America came into effect on 15 February, after one case of the Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK. The latest Bradford case is also a person known to have travelled from Brazil via Paris just before that change came in.\n\n*This story has now been updated to reflect new information on UK variants on the Public Health England website. PHE previously reported two cases of the VUI-202103/01 variant had been found in the south-east of England in individuals who had recently been in Antigua. PHE now says: \"Despite the travel history of these cases there is no scientific evidence to determine where this variant first emerged.\"", "Osbourne and Morgan were both judges on America's Got Talent\n\nSharon Osbourne has issued an apology for comments she made about racism while defending Piers Morgan on her US chat show The Talk.\n\nThe star was one of the first people to voice support for Morgan after he left Good Morning Britain over his criticism of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nOn Wednesday, she angrily challenged her Talk co-host Sheryl Underwood to identify when Morgan had been racist.\n\nBut she has now said she \"panicked, felt blindsided [and] got defensive\".\n\nOsbourne's statement followed criticism on social media that she had appeared to belittle a black woman's experiences of, and perspective on, racism.\n\nIn Friday's statement, she apologised to \"anyone of colour that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused, or let down by what I said\". She explained that she had \"allowed my fear and horror of being accused of being racist take over\".\n\nMorgan himself was not impressed. \"Sharon's been shamed and bullied into apologising for defending me against colleagues accusing me of racism because I don't believe Meghan Markle,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I demand an apology from those @TheTalkCBS bullies for their disgraceful slurs against ME.\"\n\nThe row began when Osbourne spoke in defence of Morgan, her former colleague on America's Got Talent, after he left Good Morning Britain on Tuesday.\n\n\"@piersmorgan I am with you. I stand by you,\" she tweeted. \"People forget that you're paid for your opinion and that you're just speaking your truth.\"\n\nWhen Underwood raised the tweet with her on Wednesday's episode of The Talk, Osbourne said: \"I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist.\"\n\n\"For me at 68 years of age to have to turn around and say, 'I ain't racist', what's it got to do with me? How can I be racist about anybody… or anything in my life?\"\n\nAs she grew increasingly frustrated, her language was bleeped out and Underwood took the programme to a commercial break.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sharon Osbourne told BBC News: \"He has a right to his opinion.\"\n\nWhen they returned, Osbourne tearfully asked Underwood in a raised voice: \"I will ask you again Sheryl... And don't try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me... Where you have heard him say racist things? Educate me. Tell me.\"\n\nUnderwood replied: \"It is not the exact words of racism, it's the implication and the reaction to it.\n\n\"To not want to address that because she is a black woman, and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is, that's what makes it racist.\"\n\nShe added that Osbourne was her friend, and she didn't think of her as racist.\n\n\"I think it's too late, I think that seed's already sown,\" Osbourne said.\n\nThe clip circulated widely on social media. \"This is Sharon Osbourne, telling a black woman not to cry and demanding a definition of racism, as she sobs over Piers Morgan who walked off his job bc [because] a mixed black coworker calmly challenged his fixation on Meghan Markle,\" comedian Rae Sanni wrote.\n\n\"No one should be surprised by Sharon Osbourne's behaviour,\" added pop culture commentator Shar Jossell. \"She has been consistently loud in her willful stupidity (about race) throughout the years.\n\n\"The public gaslighting might be a new lil twist tho.\"\n\nIn her lengthy apology, Osbourne referred to her original tweet about Morgan, saying: \"Please hear me when I say I do not condone racism, misogyny or bullying. I should have always have been more specific about that in my tweet.\n\n\"I will always support freedom of speech, but now I see how I unintentionally didn't make that clear distinction.\n\n\"I hope we can collectively continue to learn from each other and from ourselves so we can all continue to pave the way for much-needed growth and change.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sharon Osbourne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeparately, Morgan thanked the 200,000 people who have signed a petition calling for his return to Good Morning Britain, but said he wouldn't be coming back.\n\n\"Normally, people start petitions to have me fired or deported, so this is a pleasant surprise,\" he said.\n\nHis former co-presenter Alex Beresford, whose on-air criticism caused Morgan to storm off the show hours before he announced his permanent departure on Tuesday, has also addressed the matter for the first time.\n\n\"I didn't want him to quit, but I did want him to listen,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"Over the last few years, Piers and I have had a lively, cheeky on-air relationship.\n\n\"We both wanted to be on the show on Tuesday morning, and, from our very public conversations on Twitter, we both knew how strongly our opinions differed on the treatment of Harry and Meghan pre and post the interview that has split the world.\n\n\"I hoped we could reach a place of understanding. It's sad that we weren't able to get there, but challenging his opinion was not an outrage. On this occasion, we have to agree to disagree.\"\n\nHe concluded by praising the presenter: \"Personally, Piers has always supported my growth. He's given me advice on several occasions and for that I am grateful. I wish him well.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William says Royal Family is \"very much not racist\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said the royals are \"very much not a racist family\" in his first comments after accusations by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a TV interview.\n\nPrince William also said he had not yet spoken to his brother but would do so.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry said a royal had expressed concern over \"how dark\" their son Archie's skin might be.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the claim was \"concerning\" but it would be addressed privately.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace said \"recollections may vary\" but that the Sussexes would \"always be much loved family members\".\n\nDuring a visit to a school in Stratford, east London, on Thursday, Prince William was asked by a reporter: \"Is the Royal Family a racist family, sir?\"\n\nThe duke replied: \"We're very much not a racist family.\"\n\nAsked whether he had spoken to Prince Harry since the Oprah interview, Prince William said: \"No, I haven't spoken to him yet but I will do.\"\n\nPrince William's visit is not the first appearance by a senior royal since the interview aired - the Prince of Wales carried out an engagement earlier this week.\n\nDespite Prince William's team making clear to reporters he wouldn't be answering questions, he must have known they might come. One wonders if he had planned to engage or whether the answers were impromptu.\n\nWilliam will be well aware that anything he utters will be headline news.\n\nThe first question alluded to the rift between the two brothers. In the Oprah interview, Prince Harry said their relationship is \"space\" at the moment but that \"time heals all things hopefully\".\n\nWe don't know when they last spoke but we do now know that William does intend to speak to him.\n\nAs for the second and more direct question - \"Is the royal family a racist family, sir?\" - William could have ignored it. But, despite the Queen's statement saying the race issue would be dealt with privately, the prince clearly felt he had to push back on what has become a very public and damaging allegation.\n\nRemaining silent, he felt, was not the best option.\n\nIn the TV interview, Meghan told Oprah there were \"concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he was born\".\n\nBoth Prince Harry and Meghan refused to say who made the comment - but Harry later clarified to Oprah that it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nDuring the interview Harry also said it hurt him that his family never spoke out about the \"colonial undertones\" of news headlines and articles.\n\nAnd asked by Oprah if the couple left the UK because of racism from the tabloid media, Harry replied: \"It was a large part of it.\"\n\nThe visit was to mark the rollout to secondary schools of a mental health project Kate launched in primary schools in 2018\n\nIn the interview, Harry also spoke about his relationship with his family - especially with his father, the Prince of Wales, and brother Prince William.\n\nAt one point after stepping back as senior royals, Harry said Charles \"stopped taking my calls\".\n\nAnd of William, Harry said: \"The relationship is 'space' at the moment. And time heals all things, hopefully.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace issued a response to the interview earlier this week following crisis meetings involving senior royals.\n\nFigures from US TV network CBS suggest that nearly 50 million people around the world have watched Oprah's interview with the couple.\n\nThe fallout from the interview has also seen broadcaster Piers Morgan leave his role as host of Good Morning Britain, after his comments about Meghan attracted 41,000 complaints.\n\nMeanwhile, the head of the Society of Editors - an industry body for the UK press - resigned after a row over its reaction to Harry's comments about the tabloid media.", "Royal Mail is to trial Sunday parcel deliveries for major retailers amid an online shopping boom.\n\nInternet sales were already on the up before the coronavirus crisis, but the pandemic caused huge growth in 2020.\n\nRoyal Mail said the trial would open the door to parcel deliveries seven days a week.\n\nThe postal service has been hit by coronavirus delays, but a spokesperson said it was \"working hard\" to make deliveries.\n\nRoyal Mail said an increasing number of customers were shopping online and expected to get their purchases as soon as possible after placing their orders.\n\nIt said that \"a number of retail brands are trialling the service\" but declined to name them as yet.\n\nRivals such as DPD and Hermes already make Sunday deliveries for major retailers such as Amazon.\n\nNick Landon, chief commercial officer at Royal Mail, said: \"The last year has reset so many customer expectations and the desire for even more convenient and even more frequent parcel deliveries has certainly been one of them.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said it had \"processed unprecedented parcel volumes\" in the past year as non-essential retailers were closed during lockdowns.\n\nHowever, its customers were hit with postal delays over Christmas due to \"exceptional\" volumes of post, while delays continued into the New Year as its workforce was affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe postal service still has advice on its website about delays which says: \"Some areas of the country may experience a reduction in service levels due to higher volumes of mail, the ongoing impact of Covid-related staff absences and necessary social distancing measures at local mail centres and delivery offices.\"\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"Our first priority throughout this pandemic has been the safety of our people and our customers.\n\n\"We have worked hard to deliver the most comprehensive service we can, including retaining around 10,000 temporary workers to help us deal with the increased demand.\"\n\nIn addition, Royal Mail is building a second parcel hub in Daventry, which will be larger than its existing hub in Warrington, to meet the growth in demand, it said.\n\n\"Once complete, the new hub will be the size of more than 10 football pitches and have the capacity to process over one million parcels per day, making it the largest Royal Mail parcel hub in the UK,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nRoyal Mail piloted Sunday parcel deliveries in 2014, but took the decision not to roll out that service.\n\nThe Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"We were early adopters with the 2014 Sunday trial, which was limited to within the M25 area.\n\n\"Since that time, there has been a seismic change in consumers' online behaviours.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said that customers were making more online purchases than ever before and expected deliveries seven days a week.\n\n\"This trial is responding to those changing demands for even higher levels of convenience across the UK,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"With the e-commerce boom continuing through the latest lockdown, online shoppers have come to expect seven-days-a-week delivery as standard.\n\n\"Launching a Sunday delivery service is clearly an attempt to seize the moment and capitalise on the snowballing momentum the group has picked up over the past four months.\n\n\"This week, Royal Mail again upgraded its profits forecasts because of the surge in home deliveries and renaissance of letter writing during the pandemic.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Streeter said that whether it would be a success or not \"is far from signed, sealed and delivered\", adding that there had \"long been under-investment in automation\" in the service.\n\n\"Royal Mail needs to show it has the capacity to meet this unprecedented demand.\"\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said: \"This expansion into Sunday parcel deliveries will certainly be a challenge for Royal Mail which has struggled with the increase in demand during the pandemic, and has been outshone by some of its competitors.\n\nHowever, she said that Royal Mail remained one of the largest couriers in the UK, and the introduction of two parcel hubs in the UK \"shows its commitment to modernising\".\n\n\"Now the long-running dispute over pay and conditions with the union is over, it can focus on investing in its parcels division.\"\n\n\"Although the move may be out of necessity rather than the business being fully prepared, consumer shopping habits have now shifted. Royal Mail needs to stamp its authority and deliver on its commitment or face being bottom of the pile.\"", "Hundreds of UK companies have been compromised as part of a global campaign linked to Chinese hackers.\n\nCyber-security firm Eset said more than 500 email servers in the UK may have been hacked, and many companies are not aware they are victims of the attack.\n\nIt comes as governments around the world warn organisations to secure their systems.\n\nBut some experts fear it may be too late, as at least 10 hacking teams are capitalising on the chaos.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre has joined US authorities in issuing warnings about the hack, but says it is still assessing the situation for UK businesses.\n\nMeanwhile, the Norwegian cyber-authority is actively scanning for at-risk companies in the country and warning them directly.\n\nThe hacking campaign was first announced by Microsoft on 2 March and blamed on a Chinese government-backed hacking group called Hafnium.\n\nMicrosoft said the group was using four never-before-seen hacking techniques to infiltrate the email systems of US companies.\n\nThe attackers targeted the popular email system Microsoft Exchange Server, used by large corporations and public bodies across the world.\n\nMicrosoft released software updates for the so called \"zero-day\" exploits and urged customers to install them to protect themselves.\n\nHowever, the hacking has escalated from straightforward espionage to crisis levels, with some reports estimating tens of thousands of organisations could be affected.\n\nAccording to cyber-security researchers at Eset, as many as 10 different hacking groups are now actively using the zero-days exploits to target companies in 115 different countries.\n\nCyber-researchers at FireEye also confirmed they had detected multiple groups, likely to be based in China, using the exploit in different waves.\n\n\"As always, it is complex but it is very likely that Hafnium gifted these 'zero days' to government-sanctioned groups to actively use the flaws once they were rumbled,\" Jake Moore at Eset said.\n\n\"The race is now on for all of those affected to patch immediately and then painstakingly check for any recent compromises and make sure no webshells are installed on the servers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The factory brought to its knees by ransomware hackers\n\nA webshell is a piece of computer code that can act like a backdoor into a computer network.\n\nOnce installed, hackers have a foothold in a network and can either steal or spy on email messages, or use the access to launch more crippling cyber-attacks.\n\nGlobally, Eset says it has detected the backdoors on 5,000 separate servers - and more than 500 of them are in the UK.\n\nCyber-security responders are racing to find out which companies have been hacked, and remove the webshells to kick the hackers out of their systems.\n\nCyberGuard Technologies says it is dealing with 42 separate cases where hackers have installed webshells, with the number rising by the hour.\n\nThe companies range from financial institutions, manufacturing and retail.\n\nSean Tickle, head of CyberGuard, said: \"It's widespread and very much a case of hackers hosing their attacks at as many targets as they can before companies can secure their systems.\n\n\"It only takes someone to alter this approach to drop a more malicious malware package and we're going to see some real hurt for the companies that fall behind.\n\n\"There's already rumblings that these shells are being used, and I think we're going to see mass ransomware attacks happen as a second wave of this.\"", "Gavin Williamson was asked by head teachers about his own \"wellbeing\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has talked to head teachers about how he has coped with the personal pressure over his often-criticised handling of schools in the pandemic.\n\n\"Not every day has been brilliant,\" he told a head teachers' online conference.\n\nHe said that his \"supportive family\" and getting a puppy had helped him.\n\n\"A combination of a family and dogs are probably the things that keep you sane,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\n\"One thing about pets is that they're always going to be pleased to see you,\" he told the annual conference of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\n\"I think leadership, as for so many head teachers, has sometimes been quite an incredibly challenging experience and often a very lonely experience,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\nThe education secretary has faced tough criticism over problems such as last year's exams, prompting calls for his resignation and speculation about being reshuffled out of his post.\n\nASCL's president Richard Sheriff said mental health had become a bigger concern.\n\nHe asked the education secretary: \"How have you managed your own wellbeing over the past year, because you must have had some pretty tough days in the office to try and recover from?\"\n\nMr Williamson said the \"thing that's made the biggest difference\" had been his family - \"having them around, having them to talk to\".\n\n\"And probably like a lot of families, we seemed to have made an investment in a puppy,\" he told head teachers.\n\nMr Sheriff, a head teacher in North Yorkshire, said school leaders recognised the intense pressures of decision making during the pandemic, including for politicians.\n\n\"There are leaders who have led before Covid - and then there are leaders who have led through Covid, who have had an experience that no one else could understand,\" said the ASCL president.\n\nBut Mr Williamson said he also faced questions about the education department at home from his wife, who is a teaching assistant.\n\n\"I obviously get quite a bit of lobbying,\" he said. \"You know our pillow talk is maybe a little bit different.\n\n\"She's always highlighting various issues where maybe the Department for Education hasn't always got it perfect all the time.\"\n\nThe education secretary paid tribute to how schools and teachers had responded to the \"unprecedented demands\" created by the pandemic.\n\n\"Everyone in this country has a far greater and deeper appreciation of the teaching profession,\" he told the conference.\n\nThe pandemic has led to the cancellation of written exams this year, for the second year in a row, and Mr Williamson was asked whether there would be changes to the exam system in the future, such as scrapping GCSEs.\n\nMr Williamson ruled out any removal of the exams, saying: \"We're absolutely going to be keeping GCSEs.\"\n\nHe said many students changed school or college at the age of 16 and it was \"really important that we have something that captures their attainment and their progress so far\".\n\n\"We're certainly not looking at getting rid of age 16 assessment, so I think GCSE is going to be there for an awful lot longer.\"", "A Sarah Everard vigil could still be held tomorrow in London even though a judge this evening refused to intervene in a legal challenge against it being currently banned from going ahead.\n\nMr Justice Holgate refused to grant a specific order against the Metropolitan Police, which yesterday had said the event planned for Saturday evening in London would be unlawful. But he left the door open for new talks between demonstrators and senior officers.\n\nThe judge’s ruling came after the force told the court it recognised that it could not have a blanket ban on protests under the coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe conclusion of Friday's High Court action means that while the judge said he could not get involved in what had happened so far, Scotland Yard has also accepted it must consider the legal right to protest before deciding whether to ban protests under coronavirus health regulations.\n\nThat raises the prospect of the organisers reaching an agreement with the police that would allow a demonstration in London and other places around the country.\n\nAt the outset of the hearing, lawyers for four women organising the vigil under the Reclaim These Streets banner told the court that the Metropolitan Police had said there was nothing they could do to allow the protest to take place.\n\nSenior officers had said their \"hands were tied\" by the Covid lockdown laws which banned all gatherings outdoors.\n\nBut as the hearing continued, the force's own lawyer denied that it had a blanket ban on protests during the pandemic - but it was concerned about the health implications of a large gathering.\n\nThe judge said: \"There may well be further communication between the claimants and the police to deal with the application of the [Covid] regulations and [the rights to protest]. But that is not a matter on which the court should comment.\"", "Queens Park Rangers said on Friday it had now removed Football Index sponsorship from its shirts.\n\nIt's been sleepless nights and cold sweats for customers of Football Index, the gambling company whose collapse into administration has left people facing huge losses.\n\n\"I feel embarrassed and cheated,\" Ben told the BBC. He's not alone. Social media and online chat threads are alight with anger and dismay at the rapid demise of one of the UK's fastest growing betting firms.\n\nIn the couple of weeks before Football Index called in administrators to run the business, Ben, aged 22, lost more than £4,000 in seven days, £1,400 of which disappeared in 24 hours. It's now possible he will lose all his £6,500 deposit in the firm.\n\n\"I'm employed, I live at home, and I've not got many overheads. I'm only responsible for myself right now, but there are people out there with families who have been hit a lot worse.\"\n\nLike other people who spoke to the BBC - young, male and red-faced at losing so much money - Ben did not want to disclose his surname.\n\n\"The crash has affected me mentally,\" he said. \"Everyone affected by this wants to say how disappointed they are with the leadership of Football Index.\"\n\nThe Jersey-based company styled itself as a \"stock market of football\". Gamblers, which it called punters, bought and sold \"shares\" in professional footballers, earning dividend payments depending on the players' performance and rising - or falling - value.\n\nLaunched in 2015, it soon became a fixture of the sports betting sector and was a sponsor of Queens Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest football teams, which have removed branding.\n\nNow, Football Index risks becoming the biggest failure in UK gambling history. Reports suggest punters stand to lose up to £100m. Law firm Leigh Day is investigating whether there are grounds to take legal action against the platform on behalf of affected punters.\n\nJack, 24, told the BBC: \"I have always been really into football. But I was never interested in traditional football betting. Football Index had a stock market element, which attracted me. It combined my interest in analysing the game.\"\n\nHe has already lost £5,000, and fears his remaining £2,500 locked up in the business will go. \"I earn a modest public sector wage, so £7,500 goes a long way.\"\n\nHe says that, with hindsight, there were signs Football Index had been \"going downhill for a while\". But things turned really sour on 5 March.\n\nThe company cut dividend payouts on players, sparking a crash in their \"share\" value. There's also concern that Football Index had recently issued \"shares\" in new players, which encouraged people to \"invest\".\n\nWhat angers customers is that these were corporate policy changes, and nothing to do with footballers' performances. \"We all knew that if a footballer broke a leg or moved to China, that would affect the value,\" he said. \"This was different.\"\n\nAnother Football Index customer put it this way: \"If I'd put £1,000 on the 3.15 at Ascot and it came last, that's my fault. I'll take the hit.\" But Football Index \"moved the goalposts in the middle of the game\", he believes.\n\n\"£20,000 is a lot of money to lose. I have been putting money into Football Index since 2016, when I was 18. A year ago my portfolio was 100% up.\n\n\"The drop in value of my portfolio sets me back a lot. Most of it was savings. I've seen Football Index as my savings account.\n\n\"I will have to think about what to do without that substantial money and I have made cutbacks in my personal life. I've moved out of London and back into the family home. I used to be quite free with my spending but now I tell myself that I can't spend anything.\n\n\"I would have wanted to buy property with the money - put it down as a deposit.\n\n\"Mentally, football doesn't give me the same enjoyment. I put a lot of energy into my portfolio. After five years of putting energy into it, it's all been sucked out.\"\n\nJack says it was almost a relief when management called in administrators to try to salvage something from the business.\n\n\"For days (before the collapse) I'd been struggling with what to do - pull out what money was left, hang on for an upturn,\" he said. \"There's been talk of legal action. I've considered that. Now the decisions have been taken out of my hands. It's lifted a worry.\"\n\nSome critics argue Football Index was akin to a Ponzi scheme. \"To pay out dividends, it required more customers to deposit money. When that dried up, the problems started\", said Matt Zarb-Cousin, of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling and a former gambling addict.\n\n\"Football Index is an unsustainable business model. They created a stock market out of assets they themselves created. The football players on the market had no underlying value,\" he said.\n\nBen saw £4,000 of his money evaporate within days\n\nJack thinks the Ponzi comparison is unfair. Gamblers knew what they were getting into - they just didn't expect Football Index to suddenly change its terms, he said.\n\n\"The concept is still brilliant. It was fun. If there was a change of management I'd be willing to give them a second chance - but I'll definitely reduce my (financial) stake,\" he said.\n\nJack, and Mr Zarb-Cousin, agree on one thing, though: the Gambling Commission (GC) has a lot of questions to answer.\n\n\"Football Index should never have been given a licence. Did the Gambling Commission really understand what they were approving? They should certainly have acted earlier,\" Mr Zarb-Cousin said.\n\nJames Grimes, an ex-gambler and founder of the The Big Step campaign group, said: \"It comes as little surprise to many of us harmed by gambling that another company has failed to protect its customers from immeasurable harm.\n\n\"The immediate financial impact on the people caught up in this failure is devastating, but the damage to mental health and affected others is too much to contemplate, especially when gambling-related harm incurs such a high suicide risk.\"\n\nThe GC declined to comment, instead referring the BBC to its statement last week and suspension of the company's gambling licence after Football Index called in administrators. This statement said the GC had concerns Football Index was not operating \"in accordance with a condition of its licence\".\n\nFootball Index also declined to comment. In a statement last week, the company's parent, BetIndex, said its \"goal\" was for Football Index to re-open for trading once a restructuring was completed. It also said remaining cash balances were being held in a \"segregated account\".\n• None What has happened to Football Index?", "Georgina had joined hundreds of other people at Clapham Common on Saturday evening\n\nA woman who attended a vigil for Sarah Everard in south London says she was ignored when she tried to report a case of indecent exposure to police.\n\nGeorgina was on her way home from Clapham Common on Saturday when she was confronted by a man exposing himself.\n\nShe told the BBC she tried to speak to a group of police but a male officer told her they had \"had enough with the rioters tonight\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was looking into the report.\n\nThe force has faced criticism for the way it handled the vigil after officers handcuffed and forcibly removed a number of women from the event.\n\nGeorgina, who only wants to be known by her first name, was among hundreds of people who had gathered to pay their respects to 33-year-old Ms Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nOn her way, she said she walked past a man who was standing on a pavement with \"his genitals out of his fly\".\n\nShe told the BBC she went up to a group of \"about five or six police officers\" to ask them if they could address the situation as she was feeling \"very uncomfortable\".\n\n\"The female officer said 'ok, fine, we'll go' and she was about to go when a male colleague said 'we're not dealing with this anymore, no, we've had enough with the rioters tonight, we're not dealing with it',\" she said.\n\nThe Met has faced criticism for the way the vigil was policed\n\nShe added she had been left \"shocked\" by the police's reaction.\n\n\"It's such a huge challenge that women don't feel they have a safe space to even speak on these things let alone that these things even happen and continue to happen,\" she said.\n\nTwo female officers from the Met have since visited Georgina and the force has said it was looking into her report.\n\n\"We are aware of a report that she tried to report this incident at the time to officers in the area - this will be looked at,\" the Met said.", "A year on, France is still dealing with the Covid crisis, and seeing around 25,000 new cases a day... Image caption: A year on, France is still dealing with the Covid crisis, and seeing around 25,000 new cases a day...\n\nExactly a year ago, France announced that it was going into lockdown because of Covid.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron made an evening appearance on national television, telling people that the country was now “at war” with the virus.\n\nInitially, the confinement was to be for just two weeks.\n\nMore than half of France’s entire population - 35 million people, a record - watched President Macron on the evening of 16 March telling them what most suspected was coming: that from noon the next day, they were to be confined to their homes.\n\nThe previous days had seen a growing sense of foreboding, as first schools were shut, then cinemas - then bars and restaurants. On the morning of Tuesday 17 March, there was a rush on the trains, as Parisians and other city-dwellers sought refuge with relatives in the country.\n\nAnd then the uncanny stillness descended. It was to last not two weeks - as President Macron initially announced - but two months.\n\n...and the country is still under night-time curfew, with some areas - like here in Nice - still under weekend lockdowns Image caption: ...and the country is still under night-time curfew, with some areas - like here in Nice - still under weekend lockdowns\n\nA year on, France has been through a second lockdown, and is now under a night-time curfew. The number of daily new cases is around 25,000, and in some areas, like Paris, the number of Covid patients in critical beds is reaching saturation point.\n\nThe vaccination programme is slowly moving into gear, with five million people so far having received at least one jab; but President Macron’s promise to inoculate all those who wish to be inoculated by the end of the summer will require a very rapid increase in the pace.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua and Tyson Fury's world heavyweight title showdown has moved a step closer with Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn saying a two-fight deal has been signed.\n\nThe winner of the all-British bout will become the undisputed heavyweight champion.\n\nThe locations and dates are yet to be confirmed.\n\nJoshua, 31, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts, while Fury, 32, has the WBC title.\n• None 5 Live Boxing with Costello and Bunce: How close is Joshua-Fury bout to a date and a venue?\n• None Fight Talk: Anthony Joshua v Tyson Fury is 'signed,' but can we get excited yet?\n\n\"All parties have now put pen to paper and we will be working hard over the next few weeks to confirm the site and date for the biggest fight in boxing,\" Hearn told Sky Sports on Monday.\n\nFury said on Friday that he had stopped training because a deal was \"nowhere near\" being finalised.\n\nHearn told ESPN on Monday they are aiming to get a venue \"confirmed in the next month\" and that they have already had offers from \"eight or nine sites\" across \"multiple countries in the Middle East, Asia, eastern Europe and America\".\n\nThe fight between Joshua and Fury will see all four belts contested in a heavyweight bout for the first time.\n\nThe last undisputed heavyweight champion was Britain's Lennox Lewis from 1999 to 2000, before a boxer had to also hold the WBO belt to be recognised as undisputed champion.\n\nJoshua has a record of 24 wins and one defeat from 25 professional bouts. He lost his three world titles in a shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in June 2019 before regaining them in a rematch in December that year.\n\nHe defended them by knocking out mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev at Wembley Arena in December.\n\nFury is unbeaten in his 31 professional fights, having survived two knockdowns to draw with American Deontay Wilder in 2018 before taking the WBC title by winning their rematch in February 2020, the last time Fury fought.\n\nHe won the WBA, IBF and WBO belts by beating Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 before nearly three years out of the sport during which he overcame depression and also accepted a backdated two-year UK Anti-Doping ban.\n\nAnalysis - 'As big as anything in British boxing history'\n\nThere are still hurdles to be overcome but all signs are positive and this fight promises to be as big as anything in British boxing history - certainly bigger than anything I've covered - and with global significance.\n\nNo heavyweight has ever held all four recognised versions of the world title and that could be put right when these two finally walk up the ring steps.\n\nThere seems to be a general move towards the rematch being in the UK but the first fight is highly unlikely to be in the UK and the Middle East is still the favourite.\n\nI'm told the money for the first fight would be split 50/50 and then 60/40 in favour of the winner of the first fight for the rematch.\n• None Ridley Scott's tale of an isolated and murderous expedition\n• None Understanding what it means in the UK today", "Dame Rachel de Souza has promised to be a \"fearless\" advocate for children\n\nThe new children's commissioner for England wants to \"rebuild childhood\" after the disruption of the pandemic.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza says the scale of the challenge is like reconstructing the social security system in the wake of World War Two.\n\nShe also wants short-term measures - such as free school meals - being extended into the summer holidays, and not \"dropping\" Universal Credit levels.\n\nDame Rachel says she will be \"fearless\" in representing children's interests.\n\nThe new children's commissioner is launching what is claimed to be England's biggest survey of children - the \"Big Ask\" - which will gather children's views on the impact of the pandemic, and what they think are the barriers to children's ambitions\n\nThe online survey, to be sent to all schools and also children in youth custody, children's homes and mental health units, will provide information for a \"once-in-a-generation\" review of how children's lives might be improved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children’s commissioner: How can children learn if they’re hungry?\n\nIt takes its \"spirit and the ambition\" from William Beveridge's 1942 report, which laid the foundations for the post-war welfare state, identifying the five great challenges as \"want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness\".\n\n\"Our response to the trauma of the Second World War was to create a blueprint for a social service system and a National Health Service that improved our lives. We have the chance to do the same again now for children,\" says the children's commissioner.\n\nDame Rachel, who ran schools in Norfolk and Suffolk, wants a 10-year plan to emerge from her review - with the promise of tackling a political system which can \"often short-change children\".\n\nSchool pupils have lost months of learning in the classroom\n\nFor more immediate challenges, on whether free school meals should run across the summer holidays, she told the BBC: \"I absolutely want to see free school meals extended.\n\n\"And I'm very concerned about suggestions of dropping Universal Credit. If it was dropped down again, I'd like to see services provided in its place, but I'd rather it wasn't dropped.\"\n\nA former teacher, head teacher and chief executive of a school academy trust, Dame Rachel promised to be an \"independent voice, there to fight to protect and promote the rights of children\".\n\nIf government was \"doing something wrong\", she said, \"I will be fearless in exposing that and challenging them\".\n\nThe review will consider how children will recover from so much disrupted education - calculating that collectively pupils in England have lost 840 million days of in-person schooling since the start of the pandemic, representing about 19 weeks each.\n\nIt will address the \"social fault lines\" and inequalities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, between generations, the wealthy and the disadvantaged, by ethnicity and geography.\n\nFree school meals should be extended, says Dame Rachel\n\nThis includes how the gulf between rich and poor and young and old has widened, with older, higher earners increasing their savings in the lockdown, while poorer families and younger people have faced job losses and increasingly fragile finances.\n\nToday's young people are the first post-war generation to be less well-off than their parents, says the report launching the children's commissioner's review.\n\n\"As we emerge from the Covid pandemic, this is the moment for something big, for children to recognise the sacrifices they have made,\" said Dame Rachel.\n\n\"I have seen first-hand the effect of this crisis on young people's hopes and dreams, and sometimes our answers simply have not been good enough.\"\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green said: \"Over the last decade the Conservatives have overseen record numbers of children being pushed into poverty, a worsening mental health crisis and an 18-month gap in learning between disadvantaged children and their peers at GCSE.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"We know that children and families have faced unprecedented challenges during the pandemic.\n\n\"We've expanded frontline charity support and provided new resources for schools and teachers to support children and young people's mental health.\n\n\"Our £1.7bn investment in recovery support will help tackle the impact of any lost learning and we are investing an additional £79m to increase the number of mental health support teams working with schools and colleges.\"", "Spike Lee was originally supposed to head the jury last year\n\nSpike Lee has again been asked to chair the Cannes Film Festival jury after last year's event was cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing director will be the first black film-maker to take on the prestigious role.\n\nLee has premiered seven films at the festival. \"Cannes will always have a deep spot in my heart,\" he said in a video message.\n\nThis year's event is due to take place in July instead of its usual May slot.\n\n\"Book my flight now. My wife Tonya and I, we're coming,\" the director added.\n\nBut with Covid-19 cases still at high levels in France, there is a chance that the event could be called off again.\n\n\"Throughout the months of uncertainty we've just been through, Spike Lee has never stopped encouraging us,\" festival president Pierre Lescure said in a statement.\n\n\"We could not have hoped for a more powerful personality to chart our troubled times.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spike Lee on George Floyd's death and his new film Da 5 Bloods\n\nLee first made an impact on the film industry at Cannes in 1986 with She's Gotta Have It, which won the youth award. He returned to the festival three years later with Do The Right Thing, his landmark film about one day of charged race relations in Brooklyn.\n\nOther Lee films to have been screened at Cannes have included Summer of Sam and BlacKkKlansman, while he is also known for Malcolm X and his latest release, Da 5 Bloods, about a group of US Army veterans returning to Vietnam.\n\nThe official selection for this year's festival, along with the rest of the jury, are due to be named in early June.\n\nHong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai is the only Asian to have been president of the Cannes jury, while French-Algerian actress Isabelle Adjani was the first of African descent to preside in 1997.\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\nThe Duke of Edinburgh is said to be in good spirits on leaving hospital after a month-long stay for treatment.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, was admitted to King Edward VII's hospital in central London on 16 February after feeling unwell.\n\nHe later underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at another London hospital - St Bartholomew's.\n\nThe duke has now returned to Windsor Castle.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Buckingham Palace said the duke was discharged \"following treatment for an infection and a successful procedure for a pre-existing condition\".\n\n\"His Royal Highness wishes to thank all the medical staff who looked after him... and everyone who has sent their good wishes,\" the statement said.\n\nPrince Philip left through a side entrance of the hospital in a wheelchair and was helped into the rear passenger seat of a waiting car.\n\nSpeaking during a visit with the Duchess of Cornwall to a pop-up vaccination centre in London, Prince Charles, who visited his father during his stay in hospital, told reporters it was \"very good news\" and he was \"thrilled\" that his father had gone home.\n\nHe also confirmed that he had spoken to the duke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles said it was \"very good news\" that the duke had left hospital\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson \"continues to wish Prince Phillip a speedy recovery,\" his spokesman said, adding the PM was \"of course\" pleased to see the duke return to Windsor.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, 94, have spent the most-recent lockdown in England living at the Berkshire residence with a small group of household staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.\n\nThe couple, who have been married for 73 years, received their first Covid-19 jabs in January.\n\nThe exact reason for his initial admission to hospital was not disclosed, but the Palace said at the time it was not related to coronavirus.\n\nAfter being admitted to King Edward VII hospital, Prince Philip was transferred to Barts for specialist treatment and underwent a heart operation on 3 March.\n\nHe later returned to King Edward VII's hospital - a private clinic which has treated the Queen on several occasions as well as the duke and other senior royals.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family continued with their official duties during his 28-night stay - his longest-ever in hospital.\n\nThe duke, who retired from royal duties in 2017, has received treatment for other health conditions over the years, including a bladder infection in 2012 and exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013.\n\nPrince Philip returned to Windsor Castle where he has been living with the Queen during the recent lockdown\n\nThe Queen performed her first face-to-face event of the year last month when she knighted a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\n\nShe also attended numerous virtual meetings, including with scientists, members of the armed forces, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, and kept up her weekly audience with Mr Johnson via telephone.\n\nPrince Philip's hospital stay coincided with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which allegations of racism and a lack of mental health support were levelled at the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace said in a statement afterwards that the issues were concerning, and while \"some recollections may vary\", the matter was a family one that will be dealt with privately.\n\nIn the interview, Meghan told Oprah that she phoned the monarch directly \"just to check in\" after hearing the duke had been taken to hospital.\n\nUS TV presenter Gayle King said on Tuesday that she had spoken to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and was told discussions between Harry and his brother, Prince William, and father, Prince Charles, were \"not productive\".\n\nMs King told CBS This Morning that despite the talks not bearing fruit, the couple were \"glad\" that conversations had begun.\n\nShe added: \"I think what is still upsetting to them is that the Palace keeps saying they want to work it out privately, but yet they believe these false stories are coming out that are very disparaging against Meghan still - no one in the Royal Family has talked to Meghan yet.\"", "Northern Ireland continues to edge closer to the lifting of lockdown.\n\nThe how and when is a decision for the executive but what do the statistics associated with the pandemic tell us?\n\nFor weeks now, things have been going - if not well - a lot better than they were when we entered 2021.\n\nInfection rates are down, there are fewer people in hospital, and while there have been days when the number of deaths has risen, the death rate remains relatively low.\n\nAdded to that is the ongoing rollout of the vaccination programme - this has been going well and is expected to step up to another level in the next few weeks with opening of the mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast.\n\nThe infection rate in Northern Ireland has fallen to about 64 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nWales has the lowest infection rate in the UK.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all very similar - although, while Scotland and England's have fallen in recent days, Northern Ireland's infection rate has actually risen slightly.\n\nHowever, the rates remain relatively low.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has a slightly higher infection rate at the moment and has risen marginally over the past few days.\n\nHere are the seven-day infection rates for the UK and Ireland up until March 12:\n\nOver the past few weeks, increasing numbers of people have been getting tested in Northern Ireland - more than 30,000 a week now - and over the same period of time, we've seen a drop in the number of positive cases.\n\nIn the past week, about one in every 25 people tested have received a positive result for Covid-19; compare that with the start of January, when more than one in four people were getting a positive result.\n\nOr here's another way of looking at this - on average fewer than 200 people are testing positive for the virus in Northern Ireland each day.\n\nThat is a massive change from our peak in January when there was an average of more than 1,800 positive results per day.\n\nGiven that we're now testing roughly the same number of people each day as we were back in mid-January, the comparison is fairly straightforward.\n\nDespite the overall low infection rate for Northern Ireland, there are places where the rates are higher.\n\nFor example, based on Department of Health data, Mid Ulster has still the highest infection rate of all the council areas in Northern Ireland, and it's risen slightly over the past week.\n\nIt's not alone in seeing rising infection rates.\n\nAntrim and Newtownabbey; Belfast; Causeway Coast and Glens; Lisburn and Castlereagh; and Newry, Mourne and Down have all seen small increases in their infection rates.\n\nHowever, the department indicates that the Ards and North Down Borough Council area has seen a substantial rise in its rate of virus spread - by about 50%.\n\nIts infection rate is now above 80 cases per 100,000 population, making it the third worst in Northern Ireland (Belfast is in second spot).\n\nMore localised analysis suggests higher infection rates in areas around Strabane, Dundonald, Holywood and parts of south Belfast.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, certain border areas have seen a decrease in infections - most notably Cavan and Leitrim.\n\nDonegal, Monaghan and Louth have all seen falling rates, although Louth still has one of the higher infection rates in the Republic.\n\nThe number of people in Northern Ireland's hospitals with Covid-19 is now below 200. The last time the figure was this low was in early October.\n\nThe daily admissions have been similarly falling.\n\nThe current seven-day rolling average for daily hospital admissions in Northern Ireland is 10.\n\nFor context, at the peak in January, we could expect nearly 100 Covid-positive patients to be admitted into hospital each day.\n\nThese low admission numbers, along with lower infection rates indicate that the numbers of inpatients with Covid should continue to fall, at least in the short term.\n\nBear in mind that these numbers could start to rise, especially if localised increases in infection rates become more widespread.\n\nStill, our hospitals remain under quite a bit of pressure, with occupancy at 95%. The yearly average hospital occupancy in Northern Ireland has consistently been about 84% for a number of years.\n\nNorthern Ireland currently has fewer than 30 patients with Covid in intensive care units (ICU) - at 23, it's the lowest number for this measure in five months.\n\nThe number of ICU patients is important, as it gives some idea of how many people with the virus are very seriously ill.\n\nA recent report by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) reveals some details of the type of patients that have been in ICU in Northern Ireland over the course of the pandemic.\n\nThe report looks at data from the start of the pandemic until 31 August and then from 1 September to 4 March.\n\nIt shows that about 70% of ICU patients with Covid have been men. The vast majority of ICU patients with the virus have been classed as overweight.\n\nThe age profile of ICU patients with Covid has been around 60 on average.\n\nAnd the figures in the report indicate that the poorest people in society have been more likely to end up in ICU suffering from Covid-19.\n\nThis is consistent with many other trends in health statistics which show that the most deprived are frequently the most adversely affected.\n\nNorthern Ireland's death rate has increased slightly since the start of March.\n\nBy the beginning of the month, the seven-day rolling average death rate had dipped to two - equivalent to the start of October, before the winter surge started in earnest.\n\nOver the past week it has been sitting at four.\n\nThe general downward trend in the death rate has been reflected for six weeks in a row by the figures published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra).\n\nBased on the deaths counted by health departments across the UK (deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 result) Northern Ireland has had the fewest deaths by population since the start of the pandemic:\n\nThe Republic of Ireland records deaths slightly differently than the health authorities in the UK - probable and possible deaths are included in Ireland, which makes it much more akin to the weekly number recorded by Nisra.\n\nHowever, based on the number published by the Irish government, 90 people have died for every 100,000 in the state - less than half the rate of the United Kingdom.\n\nThis indicates that Ireland has had a lower death rate than the UK, but Northern Ireland's is closer to the Republic of Ireland's than to Britain's.\n\nAnother way of looking at deaths is to examine the number of fatalities in comparison to the number of people who test positive for the virus.\n\nThis measure reinforces the picture of the island of Ireland having had a different death rate than Britain:\n\nThe UK's rolling average death rate has now fallen below countries such as France and the United States.\n\nHowever, the UK still has one of the world's worst recorded cumulative death rates for the whole pandemic.\n\nMore than 600,000 people in Northern Ireland have now received a vaccine - and that number continues to climb.\n\nMeasured by sheer volume, the vaccination programme continues to be a success.\n\nAbout one in three people in Northern Ireland have had a Covid vaccine jab.\n\nThis is slightly less than the comparative percentages for the rest of the UK, but is still very impressive in the space of three months.\n\nIn terms of Northern Ireland's adult population, almost 43% has received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's vaccination is still some way behind Northern Ireland's.\n\nAbout 8% of the population in the Republic of Ireland has been vaccinated.\n\nIt's worth noting that Ireland has adopted a different strategy to the UK, and has not concentrated so much on first doses.\n\nMore than a third of those vaccinated in the Republic have already received their second dose.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the numbers of people receiving their second dose each day have not been predictable, but it looks like the numbers are starting to increase, albeit from quite a low base.\n\nSo far, almost 50,000 people in Northern Ireland have had their second dose of vaccine.\n\nThis week, the Department of Health launched a new dashboard specifically to record the progress of the vaccination programme.\n\nAt the minute, it mostly brings together data that was available from a variety of other platforms, but there are plans to improve it, according to Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\n\"It is the first step in plans to publish detailed daily data on vaccinations and a more comprehensive dashboard is currently in preparation,\" he said.\n\n\"I am committed to improving the regular flow of information on the programmes because this will help us to chart our progress as the programme advances through the various age groups.\"\n\nIt's worth noting that almost half the vaccines given out in Northern Ireland have been administered by GPs.\n\nThe main bits of new data on the dashboard are the numbers of healthcare workers who have received a vaccine - about 125,000.\n\nAt the time the dashboard was launched, healthcare workers and care home workers accounted for about one in four of the first dose vaccines administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new dashboard does not give any data on uptake rates, however - that is, the number of people who were offered a vaccine; numbers of those who took it; and numbers of those who didn't.\n\nThis data, once available, will give decision makers the ability to try to target particular areas or groups in attempts to improve the uptake of vaccines.", "Queens Park Rangers has now removed Football Index sponsorship from its shirts.\n\nA group of MPs has written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden calling for a public inquiry into the collapse of gambling website Football Index.\n\nThey say it is \"a scandal\" and shows the need to reform the gambling sector.\n\nThe firm has suspended operations and appointed administrators, sparking an outcry from punters whose money is still locked up in the business.\n\nThere are reports gamblers could lose more than £90m, with some now seeking legal advice about possible claims.\n\nIn their letter, the MPs on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Related Harm estimate that Football Index punters have lost £3,000 each on average.\n\n\"This can only be termed a scandal,\" said chair Carolyn Harris. \"It underlines the need for wholesale reform of the gambling industry and raises significant questions of the Gambling Commission, given they saw fit to licence this platform and failed to enact adequate oversight.\"\n\nNot only does there need to be a urgent inquiry, it is more evidence of the need to create a Gambling Ombudsman to help protect consumers, she said.\n\nBen, aged 22, estimates the collapse in the value of his Football Index portfolio will cost him close to £6,500.\n\n\"I feel embarrassed and cheated,\" he told the BBC. \"The crash has affected me mentally.\"\n\nHe lives at home and has no dependents, so thinks he got off lightly. \"There are people out there with families who have been hit a lot worse; lost far more than me.\n\n\"I'll never trust Football Index again. I will go elsewhere and enjoy my love of football with other companies and probably bet in a more conventional way. But it will make me think twice before putting money into other companies.\n\n\"Everyone affected by this wants to say how disappointed they are with the leadership of Football Index.\" Punters feel the company has \"stitched up their loyal fan base\", he said.\n\nFootball Index hit serious financial problems earlier this month. The company cut dividend pay-outs on players, sparking a crash in their \"share\" price value.\n\nThis change in the terms and conditions meant the value of gamblers' portfolios plummeted, with many users taking to social media to report losses of thousands of pounds - even tens of thousands.\n\nSeveral punters contacted the BBC with reports of the impact on their finances, and called for action against the company and the regulator, the Gambling Commission.\n\nA group of gamblers has formed an action group, and on Tuesday it was announced that law firm Leigh Day is looking into possible legal action against Football Index parent company BetIndex on behalf of the thousands of people who have lost money.\n\nGambling reform campaigner Matt Zarb-Cousin is working with lawyers and Football Index customers about possible legal action.\n\nLeigh Day partner Nichola Marshall said the role of the Gambling Commission will also come under scrutiny.\n\nMs Marshall said: \"Whilst it is very early days in our investigations on behalf of the thousands of people who have lost money, there are serious questions which will need answering regarding what has happened at Football Index and what the Gambling Commission understood of Football Index's activities.\"\n\nMatt Zarb-Cousin of the Clean Up Gambling campaign, who is working with Football Index customers and Leigh Day, said: \"Football Index ended up in a situation where they needed new customers to honour the dividend payments to existing users.\n\n\"It was a business run in an entirely unsustainable way, which people do not expect of a licensed operator in a regulated sector. The Gambling Commission has been asleep at the wheel.\"\n\nFast-growing Football Index launched in 2015 and allowed users to buy what it called \"shares\" in professional footballers. The firm paid users \"dividends\" according to player performances.\n\nIf a player performed well or transferred to a bigger club, the transfer value went up and so did the \"share price\".\n\nThe aim for users was to identify rising stars, buying shares in them while still relatively cheap before selling at a profit after their values rose.\n\nFootball Index called itself a \"challenge to traditional bookmakers\" and an alternative to the regular stock market which it said could \"seem intimidating and inaccessible\".\n\nBut although it used the terminology of the stock market, Football Index was regulated by the Gambling Commission, not the Financial Conduct Authority.\n\nIn an update on Tuesday about the administration, BetIndex said it still hoped the company could \"be rescued as a going concern\". It added: \"Our priority is to safeguard the interests of our customers and to seek the best outcome for our community with the goal of continuing the platform in a restructured form.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Gambling Commission for comment. Last week the regulator said it was carrying out its own inquiries, pointing out it had concerns Football Index was not operating \"in accordance with a condition of its licence\".", "UK experts say there will be a big increase in the number of people being offered Covid vaccinations in the coming days.\n\nThe number of shots given is expected to top 4 million this week, nearly double what has been achieved per week recently, NHS sources say.\n\nIt should mean all over 50s will have been given at least one dose by the end of the month.\n\nThat would put the NHS rollout two weeks ahead of schedule.\n\nThe increase has been made possible by a large shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute in India, which has arrived and passed safety checks.\n\nSo far more than 24 million people have already received a first dose of Covid vaccine in the UK.\n\nVaccination teams are now working their way through the priority list of people in their 50s and younger adults with disability.\n\nOnce this are completed it will mean all nine of the priority groups in the first phase of the programme will have received a dose.\n\nThere are just over 30 million people in these groups, which also include frontline health workers.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said the vaccination programme was proving to be \"tremendously successful\".\n\n\"Those first nine priority groups included 99% of all hospitalisations and deaths, certainly in wave one of the pandemic, so we're feeling very optimistic.\n\n\"We're seeing a very sharp reduction in the deaths and hospitalisations throughout the country.\"\n\nThe UK reported 5,089 new cases of Covid on Monday, with a further 64 new deaths within 28 days of positive coronavirus test.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Campbell talks to BBC Newsnight about his case.\n\nA man with learning difficulties who admitted to a murder 30 years ago should have his conviction quashed because he confessed to police without a lawyer present, his solicitor says.\n\nCampbell, who was 19 at the time, says he was \"put under pressure\" to \"admit to something that I didn't do\".\n\nPolice say the interviews were fair, while a judge ruled them admissible.\n\nMr Mullinger believes officers failed to tell him that his client - who was accused of shooting dead a London shopkeeper - had waived his right to a solicitor because they realised that he would try to change Campbell's mind.\n\nHe told Newsnight: \"The police did not have anything like sufficient evidence, probably even to get a prosecution off the ground, let alone a conviction without something more. And the more was going to be a confession.\"\n\nCampbell, 50, who suffered a brain injury when he was eight months old, has always protested his innocence and has been fighting his conviction for many years. He was released from prison on life licence in 2002.\n\nOn 22 July 1990, two men entered a shop in east London intent on robbery. The owner, 42-year-old Baldev Hoondle, pressed a panic alarm before one of the men pulled out a gun and shot him in the head at close range.\n\nNewsnight approached Mr Hoondle's family but they did not wish to participate in the programme.\n\nShopkeeper Baldev Hoondle was murdered in his off-licence in July 1990\n\nCampbell - a local teenager - was arrested on suspicion of robbery and murder and brought in for questioning at Hackney police station.\n\nOn 1 December 1990, Mr Mullinger attended a police interview with his client alongside an appropriate adult from social services who was there because the police accepted that Campbell was mentally vulnerable.\n\nMr Mullinger and the appropriate adult left at around 6.30pm thinking interviews were over for the day, with Mr Mullinger saying that police officers had agreed to call him back if that changed.\n\nThe police say Campbell then decided to confess to murder and had waived his right to a solicitor.\n\nOfficers then brought his foster mother in to the police station and she agreed to become the appropriate adult for the new interview, which went ahead without Mr Mullinger's knowledge.\n\nHe told Newsnight he was misled and believes the police realised that getting a confession would be less likely if Campbell was legally represented.\n\nHe said: \"The officer should have telephoned me and said, 'I think Oliver wants to speak to me. Will you come over to be part of the interview?' And I would have said, 'yes, of course'… And we would have had the interview.\n\n\"I don't know how that interview would have panned out, but it would have been undoubtedly a fair interview.\"\n\nArthur Mullinger believes Campbell's conviction should be quashed because the confession would be ruled inadmissible today\n\nCampbell's foster mother, who was a magistrate, was so shocked by his confession to murder that she was physically sick. She said at the time that she felt manipulated by the police.\n\nNewsnight obtained the original tapes of the police interviews conducted and traced the senior officer who interviewed Campbell in 1990.\n\nThe officer, who the BBC is choosing not to name, denies that the interview was unfair and told Newsnight he suspects Campbell is \"in denial of murder\", adding: \"When he was interviewed by me, he had the assistance of a solicitor or an appropriate adult to look after him...\n\n\"It is correct he did not have a solicitor present when he confessed. However, his appropriate adult was present throughout and he had waived his right to have his solicitor.\"\n\nHe added: \"His interview tape recordings were played at his trial and the jury had ample opportunity to consider whether or not his confession was genuine\", and said this was \"not the only evidence which incriminated him\".\n\nThe officer said the interviews were tape recorded and conducted in accordance with the Codes of Practice issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act which applied at that time.\n\nBut Mr Mullinger and Campbell's current legal team say his conviction should be quashed because the confession would be ruled inadmissible today.\n\nGlyn Maddocks and Michael Birnbaum have been fighting to clear Campbell's name for the past 20 years.\n\nOliver Campbell was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder in 1991\n\nMr Maddocks said: \"Oliver Campbell is a mentally disabled person who was no match for a group of experienced and manipulative police officers.\n\n\"The 'admissions' Oliver made were inconsistent, varied noticeably from the evidence and in some places were quite absurd.\"\n\nMr Birnbaum QC said: \"I can't prove this - this is a strong suspicion [but] I think they realised that they were never going to get an admission from him if a solicitor was present.\"\n\nCampbell's confession statements were ruled admissible at his trial in 1991. Mr Birnbaum QC told Newsnight: \"The trial judge conducted a hearing about whether to admit that statement - declare it admissible - and said that there had been no impropriety by the police.\n\n\"But I don't believe the defence counsel brought up any of these to my mind pretty obvious points that could be made about the unfairness of the police conduct.\"\n\nThe prosecution relied on three main strands of evidence apart from Campbell's confession:\n\nBut Campbell's lawyers say his confession was key, and there was no solicitor present for that.\n\nCampbell was released from prison after serving 11 years in 2002 and is now living in sheltered accommodation in Suffolk. He is still a convicted murderer, a label he says is ruining his life.\n\nHe told Newsnight that the police questioning was unfair, adding: \"I was put under pressure… to say things that I didn't want to say at the end of the day… to admit to something that I didn't do. And I felt scared at the time.\"\n\nSome of the police interview tactics were later described by an independent psychologist as \"highly manipulative and relentless\", while one of the questions lasted almost three minutes.\n\nThe case is now being reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) for the second time. In 2005, it decided not to refer it back to the Court of Appeal. A key reason for this was that it argued that many of the apparent weaknesses in evidence had already been considered by the courts.\n\nMr Birnbaum QC says there are fresh grounds today, both on the detail of the evidence and the circumstances surrounding Campbell's confession.\n\nHe said: \"The law and practise in regard to the way that mentally challenged suspects and defendants are treated has changed very considerably in their favour.\n\n\"Today his interviews would never be heard by a jury because of the unfairness of the police questioning and because I don't think the prosecution could prove that he understood the implications of being interviewed without a solicitor.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said: \"The case was fully investigated at the time with a range of evidence brought before a jury who convicted the defendant in 1991.\n\n\"We are aware this matter is with the Criminal Cases Review Commission and therefore it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nWatch the full report on Newsnight at 22:45 GMT on Tuesday 16 March on BBC 2 or later on iPlayer.", "Boris Johnson has promised to help make the UK \"match-fit\" when he unveils his plan for modernising the armed forces and foreign policy.\n\nThe prime minister said there would be \"more investment\" in infrastructure and skills around the country.\n\nHe also announced that 500 Foreign Office jobs would be moving from London to East Kilbride.\n\nThe government publishes its Integrated Review of the UK's defence and foreign relations capabilities on Tuesday.\n\nBut a group of MPs has warned that \"general ineptitude\" over the last 20 years has undermined attempts to re-equip the Army.\n\nThe Integrated Review, first announced in 2019, will set out the UK's defence and foreign affairs priorities for the next decade or so, during which cyber warfare in particular is expected to become a greater threat.\n\nSome details are being pre-released, including the plan to move 500 jobs to the Foreign Office's East Kilbride hub - which follows news that the Cabinet Office will transfer at least 500 civil servants to nearby Glasgow by 2024.\n\nThe government has promised \"further commitments\" to \"strengthening the UK's core industrial base\" in the Integrated Review, including building ships in Scotland and armoured vehicles in Wales.\n\nThere will also be a focus on lithium mining in Cornwall and manufacturing satellites in Northern Ireland, it added.\n\nThe Integrated Review is billed as the most radical reassessment of Britain's place in the world since the end of the Cold War.\n\nBut the prime minister wants the new strategy to make a difference at home as well as abroad. He is promising new investment in domestic industries such as defence, science and technology.\n\nAnd, crucially, he argues that this will provide jobs across the United Kingdom.\n\nMinisters argue it's only by combining the resources of the union that the UK is able to respond to global challenges and project its influence abroad.\n\nThe test will be whether that argument is accepted by those calling for a fresh independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The foundation of our foreign policy is who we are as a country: our values, our strengths and - most importantly - our people.\n\n\"So I am determined to ensure we have a foreign policy that delivers for those people.\"\n\nHe added that the UK's \"international ambitions must start at home\", with investment in regional industry \"ensuring the UK is on the cutting-edge of innovation and creating an entire country that is match-fit for a more competitive world\".\n\nThe government has said \"further jobs\" will be created outside London by the establishment of the National Cyber Force HQ in the North of England.\n\nIt has also promised an increase in spending on defence of 2.6% above the rate of inflation between 2019/20 and 2020/21, with the overall figure expected to rise to £41.5bn during this time.\n\nFrom 2010 to 2017, annual defence spending fell by £6.6bn in real terms, but, since then, it has increased by £3bn in real terms.\n\nA report by the Commons Defence Committee, published on Sunday, warned that the Army was at \"serious risk\" of being outmatched by the UK's adversaries.\n\nIt described efforts to modernise its fleet of armoured fighting vehicles as \"woeful\" and criticised what it called \"bureaucratic procrastination\" and \"general ineptitude\" over the past two decades.\n\nIn a speech last month, Labour's shadow defence secretary, John Healey, said the Integrated Review should \"refocus our defence efforts on where the threats are\".\n\nHe added that unless it confirmed a reduction in potential dangers to the UK, it would be \"very hard to accept the case for reducing the strength of our full-time forces\".", "Mike Hill was elected as the MP for Hartlepool in 2017\n\nHartlepool Labour MP Mike Hill has resigned \"with immediate effect\", prompting a by-election.\n\nMr Hill was due to face an employment tribunal later this year into claims of \"sexual harassment and victimisation\". He has denied the allegations.\n\nShadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said there was an ongoing investigation relating to his resignation that the party took \"very seriously\".\n\nMr Hill, 57, had served as the MP for the town since 2017.\n\nLabour held Hartlepool at the 2019 General Election, when the Conservatives came second by fewer than 4,000 votes.\n\nThe by-election could be held on 6 May to coincide with local and mayoral elections in England, and will pose the first electoral test of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership since taking over from Jeremy Corbyn last year.\n\nThe constituency Labour Party said it wanted a candidate in place \"quickly\".\n\nIn September 2019, Mr Hill was suspended from the party following an accusation of sexual harassment.\n\nThat was later dropped, he had the whip restored and took the seat in the December election.\n\nSpeaking in October 2019, Mr Hill said he \"completely rejected\" the allegations and it had been a \"very difficult time\" for his family, friends and staff.\n\nHartlepool has long been a Labour stronghold but the Conservatives and Brexit Party made inroads in 2019\n\nThe upcoming by-election will be framed as the first litmus test of Sir Keir Starmer's Labour leadership.\n\nBut politics in the North East coastal town can be more labyrinthine than a simple popularity contest between Labour and Conservative.\n\nHartlepool gave the Brexit Party its first council leadership, when a group of Independent councillors switched allegiance in September 2019 only to revert to being independents four months later.\n\nIt famously elected its football club mascot H'Angus the Monkey as mayor in 2002 and re-elected the man in the costume, Stuart Drummond, twice more before the post was abolished.\n\nQuestions about how this by-election will play out provide intrigue.\n\nWho will claim the 10,000 votes cast for the Brexit Party at the 2019 General Election?\n\nHas the local Labour Party - so riven with in-fighting it lost control of Hartlepool Council before a vote was cast in 2019 - been able to restore order sufficiently to mount a robust defence of the seat?\n\nWill big regional announcements like the Teesside Freeport or Darlington's treasury campus send voters towards the Tories?\n\nHow will a rare all-out council election affect the poll, if it does take place on the same day?\n\nIt's going to be fascinating, but then politics in Hartlepool frequently is.\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 British army is already the smallest it's been in 400 years. And it's about to get even smaller.\n\nA cut in the number of troops is expected in a defence review, due to be published next month.\n\nOptions include losing up to 10,000 soldiers from the regular Army's notional strength of 82,000 in order to help fund its modernisation.\n\nMinisters have made clear there will still have to be painful decisions for the armed forces, despite the extra £16.5bn given to the Ministry of Defence over the next four years.\n\nA senior Army officer has told the BBC that technology will allow the Army to become \"leaner and more agile\".\n\nBut it comes amid warnings that the Army is already too small, and that more cuts will worry allies and limit its ability to fight.\n\nOver the past year the Army has been preparing for a radical transformation.\n\nIt wants to embrace new technologies - from drones and robots to artificial intelligence.\n\nBrig John Clark, the head of Army strategy, insists no decision on troop numbers has yet been made.\n\nBut he says by harnessing technology \"you're able to achieve the same effect with fewer people\".\n\nHowever, Jack Watling, of London's Royal United Services Institute warns of \"the excitement of new capabilities coming at the expense of traditional hard military power\".\n\nRemember, the majority of soldiers in a modern army are there to support and sustain a fighting force.\n\nThe tip of the spear, the combat element, is often about a third of an army's total strength.\n\nThe rumours in Whitehall suggest the Army will be losing several infantry battalions, part of the fighting force.\n\nMr Watling says an army of just 72,000 should still be able to take and hold \"a small town\", bearing in mind the British army struggled to secure the Iraqi city of Basra, when it was 100,000 strong.\n\nIt might appear to be a contradiction, but the Army believes even if it's smaller, it can still have a bigger presence around the world.\n\nIt's embraced the government's mantra of \"global Britain\".\n\nFor the Army it'll mean operating from a number of \"global hubs\" in parts of the world where it already has a presence - such as Kenya, Oman and Brunei.\n\nBrig Clark says: \"We see those as launchpads through which we can routinely send more of the British army out to train, develop and demonstrate.\"\n\nHe says by being forward-deployed the Army will be able to respond and manage threats \"more rapidly and decisively\".\n\nHe describes it as prevention rather than cure.\n\nIt signals a shift in the way the Army wants to operate.\n\nBrig Clark talks of \"smaller teams that can go out there and compete beneath the threshold of conflict\" - the so-called \"grey zone\" where militaries operate discreetly in the blurred lines between war and peace.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said: \"I see a clear aspiration to do more with the Army further away, but forces cannot be everywhere at once.\"\n\nThere are certainly questions as to whether a smaller army, spread around the world, will be able to meet its existing commitments to Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).\n\nIn theory, the UK can deploy a war fighting division to defend Europe.\n\nMr Watling of Rusi says among the components of a division would be around 200 main battle tanks.\n\nThe British army is likely to have half that number.\n\nMr Barry, of the IISS, says allies in eastern Europe are left wondering whether the British army of the future will be sending \"armour and infantry or aggressive algorithms\" to help defend them.\n\nThe Army's plans do include updating increasingly obsolete armoured vehicles and the addition of more potent long-range artillery systems.\n\nBrig Clark insists the Army will still be able to field a warfighting division.\n\nBut the Army's definition of a division appears to be changing.\n\nThe UK already has one of the smallest armies of any major European nation.\n\nAnd that worries its closest military ally, the United States.\n\nUS General Mark Milley's plea to the British army at a London conference just a few years ago was that \"you don't get any smaller\".\n\nKim Darroch, the former British ambassador to Washington, recently said the message from the Pentagon was \"…do not go down any further and expect to retain your current credibility\".\n\nThe truth is that the British Army's credibility had already been damaged in the eyes of the US.\n\nAmerica had to come to the rescue of the British army in both Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nMr Barry and Mr Watling also question whether an army of 72,000 could do another Helmand - a long, enduring campaign.\n\nBut the British army has a recent history of biting off more than it can chew.", "The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a five-step plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nUnlike plans announced in England and Scotland, NI's blueprint does not include a timetable.\n\nProgression for each of the nine pathways - across social and business settings - will depend on certain public health criteria being met.\n\nThe executive must review its coronavirus restrictions regularly, with the next due on 16 March.\n\nThe Executive Office said the plan - Moving Forward: The Executive's Pathway Out Of Restrictions - was a \"gradual easing of the current restrictions\".\n\nHowever it does not include specific detail on how the executive will measure when it is safe to reopen certain sectors.\n\nStep one represents the current lockdown restrictions, with steps two to four allowing an easing of the rules and the final step entitled preparing for the future.\n\nHere are the details of the plan and what it means for different sectors.", "Bakery chain Greggs is to open 100 new shops in 2021 as it bets on a post-pandemic recovery.\n\nThis is despite the chain reporting its first loss for 36 years in 2020 after sales fell by a third amid coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nGreggs said it had ramped up deliveries, wholesale, and click-and-collect as High Street sales fell.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside added that Greggs had \"made a better-than-expected start to 2021\".\n\nHe added that the chain was \"well placed to participate in the recovery from the pandemic\".\n\nSales at company-managed shops fell by more than 36% last year as footfall in city centres and travel hub sites fell substantially during lockdowns.\n\nThis was partly offset by deliveries through Just Eat, which is one of the world's biggest food delivery platforms.\n\nGreggs reported a pre-tax loss of £13.7m, its first since listing on the stock market in 1984.\n\nNevertheless, the chain is planning to open about 100 net new shops this year, adding to the 2,078 it already operates.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the pandemic \"tore a huge chunk off business as it turned once bustling city centres into ghost towns\".\n\n\"Although the crisis is likely to prove a temporary interruption to our insatiable demand for sausage rolls rather than a sign of dramatically changing tastes, it is quite a sustained break, and it's going to take a toll. Greggs has previously said it doesn't expect a return to pre-Covid levels of operations until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nJohn Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said: \"The High Street is likely to be a very different place when lockdown restrictions are fully ended, with many empty spaces and chains such as Pret re-focusing on suburban areas - the traditional heartland of Greggs.\n\n\"While these factors cannot be underestimated, the company is in good shape, with a solid balance sheet, and has a great record of rising to the challenge.\"\n\nGreggs chairman Ian Durant said 2020 was \"not the year that any of us planned for\".\n\nHe said the firm had started the year strongly but then temporarily closed its shops in March due to the Covid outbreak. It then reopened shops in the middle of the year.\n\nTo get through the pandemic, Greggs arranged financing both from the government, which it has since repaid, and from lenders.\n\n\"Government support has been essential to mitigate the impact of Covid and protect as many jobs as possible through this period,\" Mr Durant said.\n\nHe said it had been \"sad to say goodbye\" to staff whose roles had been cut by the firm \"to reflect the reality of the trading environment\".", "People are being urged to spot signs that members of their families are viewing indecent images online.\n\nCalls to a confidential helpline to prevent online abuse in the UK have increased by nearly 50% during the pandemic, say reports.\n\nStop it Now! said spending more time together in lockdown may have revealed signs in some households.\n\nSarah - not her real name - from Wales has shared her story in the hope it will help others.\n\nHer husband of 25 years was arrested nearly five years ago for possessing indecent images of children.\n\n\"I had no idea what he was doing until the police raided our house early one morning as I was upstairs getting ready for work,\" she said.\n\n\"He must have realised the implications, but he kept on saying to me, 'I'm not a paedophile'.\"\n\nPolice took her husband for questioning and removed all electronic devices from the house.\n\nLater that day, Sarah was able to speak to him alone at the police station, which was when he confessed to viewing pornography for 10 years, including illegal material for the last two years.\n\n\"When I learned what my husband had done, it immediately meant the end of our marriage.\n\n\"Many women choose to stick with their partners, but I knew our marriage could never be the same again.\"\n\nSarah thought her husband was just reading about interests such as sport\n\nSarah initiated divorce proceedings as she felt she could not trust him any more.\n\nIt also put her in an awkward position with her career as a teacher, while she had to break the news to their teenage daughters, who were studying at university.\n\n\"It was horrible telling my daughters, which I had to do by phone because they were both away studying,\" she said.\n\n\"I was afraid that, if I didn't act quickly, they might hear through social media.\n\n\"The police had arrived in marked cars and had also been to my husband's place of work to remove his computer, so I didn't know what was known in the local community.\"\n\nBoth daughters have managed to rebuild their relationship with their father, however Sarah, who has since remarried, said he is now \"depressed\" and living \"a pretty impoverished\" life.\n\nSarah thought something was wrong, with a number of warning signs\n\nShe said it is important people are able to recognise the signs.\n\nHer husband had a long history of depression and low self-esteem, he struggled at work and was always worried he might be forced out of his job.\n\nSarah had a niggling suspicion something was not right and, a few weeks before his arrest, had called his line manager to express her concerns.\n\nShe mistakenly thought his late nights on the computer and struggles with sleeping were because he was reading about his interests, such as sport.\n\n\"I wish now that I'd been less naïve and trusting, and more suspicious,\" Sarah said.\n\n\"The abused children are the real victims of these crimes.\"\n\nShe said it is really important people act on any suspicion and praised the support she received from the Stop it Now! charity.\n\nIt is the UK's first confidential and anonymous helpline dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse by supporting adults concerned about their own sexual thoughts and behaviours.\n\nHelpline director Donald Findlater urged anyone who suspects a loved one of viewing sexual images of an under-18 online to call.\n\n\"Due to Covid and people working and living more closely, I think that's part of the reason we've had an increase to the helpline. People are either more self-consciously aware or a loved one has noticed,\" he said.\n\nIn 2020, 114 people from Wales contacted the helpline about their own or someone else's behaviour, with 2,750 viewing the self-help website.\n\nMr Findlater added: \"Due to the pandemic, feelings of isolation, stress and general uncertainty, over the last year in particular, are often what leads to our callers' escalating pornography habits, and in turn, illegal online behaviour.\n\n\"It can be really tricky to spot the signs but they can include, becoming much more secretive with online devices, using them at odd times - such as early in the morning and feeling guilty or uneasy the next day.\"\n\nNational Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, Chief Constable Simon Bailey said: \"Anyone who is having inappropriate thoughts about children, or anyone who believes a family member may be, should seek help from Stop It Now!, otherwise they should expect a visit from police officers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Photographs seen by BBC Wales showed a lack of social distancing between beds\n\nAn Army camp housing asylum seekers in Pembrokeshire is set to close within days, a UK government minister says.\n\nIt comes after inspectors said the camp at Penally and Napier Barracks in Kent were \"run-down and unsuitable\".\n\nThe Home Office said it gave \"safe and secure accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute\".\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the Home Office had agreed to return Penally to the Ministry of Defence by 21 March.\n\nBBC Wales has been told the remaining asylum seekers will be gradually moved out before then.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at Penally from September last year.\n\nBut some people housed at the camp claimed the conditions were unsafe and it had put them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, appeared to show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, and beds in communal rooms positioned less than 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, the Home Office had said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nIt also attracted protests from people living in the area and complaints about costs incurred by Pembrokeshire council and Dyfed-Powys Police.\n\nIn a letter to local residents, Mr Hart said he was \"deeply conscious\" that the manner in which the use of Penally for asylum seekers had come about \"caused much frustration and anger\".\n\nHe said while the Home Office recognised this, it stressed it \"had little option at the time\".\n\nInspectors raised concerns over cleanliness at Penally, and said some areas were filthy\n\nThe Welsh Labour government and Plaid Cymru had previously called for the camp to be closed.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts MP claimed it was \"thanks to the hard work of Plaid Cymru police and crime commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn and councillor Jon Preston that the Home Office finally bowed to pressure and agreed to close the camp - but it should have never come to this\".\n\nShe added: \"The institutional failures of the Home Office over Penally camp are a scandal that must not be brushed under the carpet. We now need binding guarantees that a situation like this can never happen again.\n\n\"We need an asylum system that puts the welfare of those seeking asylum first, and for communities to be at the heart of decision making.\"\n\nSome asylum seekers housed at Penally have protested about conditions there\n\nMr Llywelyn added: \"The Home Office's use of the camp, especially during a global pandemic, has put immense strain on local people, services and the residents themselves.\n\nNaomi Phillips, director of policy and advocacy at the British Red Cross, said military barracks were \"completely inappropriate and inhumane as housing for people fleeing war, persecution and violence\".\n\nThe Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants called the closure \"amazing news\" and said the Home Office now \"must shut Napier barracks too\".\n\n\"No-one should have been placed in these inhumane Covid traps in the first place,\" it added.\n\nThe Home Office said Penally \"provided emergency capacity in response to pressures put on the asylum estate during Covid\".\n\nIt added: \"As those pressures have eased we have decided not to extend emergency planning permission beyond six months. Napier will remain in operation in accordance with current needs.\n\n\"The home secretary will soon bring forward her plan to fix our broken asylum system and that plan will address the government's asylum estate.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Defence spending a boost for \"safety of the British people\"\n\nA \"once-in-a-generation modernisation\" of the armed forces is required to extend British influence and protect the public, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs a new four-year funding deal would protect \"hundreds of thousands\" of jobs and create 40,000 new roles.\n\n\"I have decided that the era of cutting our defence budget must end, and it ends now,\" he said.\n\nLabour welcomed more defence spending but asked how it would be funded.\n\nOutlining the new package in the Commons, the PM - speaking over video link as he is self-isolating - said the benefits \"will go far beyond our armed forces\".\n\nMr Johnson described the increase in defence spending as being worth £16.5bn in new money over four years.\n\nHowever economist Ben Zaranko, from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said that while this represented a big rise in spending, the figure of £16.5bn was a \"misleading way to present this announcement\".\n\nHe continued: \"It would be more accurate to say that by 2024-25, defence spending will be £7bn higher than it would have been under previous plans.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Our plans will safeguard hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry, protecting livelihoods across the UK and keeping the British people safe.\"\n\nThe PM pledged to end defence budget cuts, protect shipping lanes that supply the country, press on with renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent and restore Britain as \"the foremost naval power in Europe\" with a \"renaissance of British shipbuilding across the UK\".\n\nHe also said the funding would allow investment in new technology such as:\n\n\"From aerospace to autonomous vehicles, these technologies have a vast array of civilian applications opening up new vistas of economic progress, creating 10,000 jobs every year - 40,000 in total - levelling-up across our country and reinforcing our union,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nThis is a big win for Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who's been fighting hard for a significant increase in defence spending and a long-term financial settlement to end what he calls a cycle of overambitious, under-funded defence reviews of the past.\n\nThe Treasury had been arguing for a much smaller annual increase. But Mr Wallace found an ally in the PM, who says his first priority is defence of the realm.\n\nBoris Johnson also believes it'll boost Britain's place in the world and create jobs.\n\nThe extra money will be used to modernise the armed forces with more spent on robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nDespite the palpable relief inside the MoD it still has to fill a £13bn black hole in its equipment budget. Difficult decisions about cutting old equipment to fund the new are still to be made.\n\nThe MoD, which doesn't have a strong track record of balancing its books, now has to prove it can spend wisely.\n\nAnd good news for defence might also mean bad news for other government departments - there's already speculation the international aid budget could be cut.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of making a \"spending announcement without a strategy\" and asked whether the money would be raised through cuts or tax rises, or both.\n\nMr Johnson did not respond to the question but said Sir Keir's record of support for the armed forces was \"very thin indeed\".\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt urged Mr Johnson \"not to listen to any voices in his ear\" saying that cutting international aid could help to fund the increase in defence spending.\n\nAnd Labour MP Sarah Champion, chairwoman of the international development committee, asked Mr Johnson to \"quash rumours and confirm his manifesto commitment\" of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, \"now and going forwards\".\n\nThe PM responded by telling the Commons: \"I think we can all be proud of our record on overseas aid and that will continue.\"\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the announcement.\n\n\"But of course we're also conscious that living through this Covid crisis, the armed forces have stepped up to the plate to provide some of the resilience that the nation has needed,\" he added.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said the \"extraordinary announcement\" would be very good for morale\n\nEarlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"letting go\" of some older weapons would create \"headroom\" for new investment.\n\nHe added: \"When I looked across at the armed forces today I saw them with equipment that was out-of-date, I saw our adversaries across the world having better equipment, the ability to attack us and harm us getting wider and wider from our capabilities.\"\n\nThe funding announcement is part of the first conclusions of the government's Integrated Review which looks at security, defence, development and foreign policy.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said the extra money would give \"a welcome and long-overdue upgrade to Britain's defences after a decade of decline\".\n\nConservative MP and defence select committee chairman Tobias Ellwood said: \"This is a lot of money but ultimately there are still huge financial pressures facing our armed forces.\"\n\nBut he said the \"key takeaway\" for him was the \"message this sends to the British people, to the MoD as well, that we want to be back as a strong power capability\".", "Sarah Everard went missing from Clapham on 3 March\n\nA probationary Met officer involved in the search for Sarah Everard has been removed from duties for allegedly sharing an \"inappropriate graphic\".\n\nThe force said a graphic was shared via social media on Friday and was reported by a number of officers \"who were concerned by its content\".\n\nThe PC has been placed in a non-public facing role and a referral has been made to the police watchdog.\n\nThe Met said it expected officers \"to behave professionally at all times\".\n\nThe constable had been deployed as a cordon officer supporting the search operation in Kent, but they have been \"placed in a non-public facing role while inquiries continue\".\n\n\"Given the context of the officer's duties at the time, a voluntary referral has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in relation to this matter,\" the force said.\n\nThe probationary officer had been deployed to Kent as part of the search operation for Sarah Everard\n\nThe Met added that the graphic did not \"contain photographic images, no images of Sarah, nor any other material obtained from or related to the investigation into Sarah's murder\", but her family had been made aware of what had happened.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said the force \"expects its officers to behave professionally at all times and this includes how they use social media.\n\n\"I take allegations that any officer or officers have failed to observe these standards very seriously and have referred this matter to the IOPC,\" he added.\n\nThe force has faced criticism for the way it handled a vigil for 33-year-old Ms Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nHer body was later found in woodland in Kent and Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nThe IOPC confirmed it would be \"investigating the conduct of a probationary police constable\" and said it had also started a separate investigation looking at how Mr Couzens had sustained two head injuries while in custody last week.\n\nIn a statement the police watchdog said it had so far \"completed assessments into four further matters linked to the tragic death of Sarah Everard\".\n\nHowever, the IOPC said it would not be investigating the actions of officers at the Clapham Common vigil, as called for by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, as \"this type of investigation is not within our remit\".\n\n\"We have discussed this further with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service (HMICFRS) to consider how concerns might be included in work being undertaken by HMICFRS,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is pledging to shift its focus towards countries such as India, Japan and Australia, after a year-long review of its foreign policy.\n\nThe government said it would boost alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, describing it as \"increasingly the geopolitical centre of the world\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would work with China on issues such as climate change.\n\nAnd he warned against adopting a \"Cold-War mentality\" with the country.\n\nThe review, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out later in the House of Commons, also paves the way for an increase in nuclear warheads.\n\nLabour says the strategy will leave the UK \"woefully unprepared\".\n\nThe publication of the review comes amid growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China over issues such as its clampdown on Uighur Muslims and democratic rights in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Raab said there were \"positives\" to the UK's relationship with China, including over trade and investment. He added that it would also not be possible to \"shift the dial\" on climate change without co-operating with the country.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said there would also be \"difficult issues\" to manage, including over protecting UK industrial secrets and telecoms infrastructure.\n\nBut he warned: \"It wouldn't make sense, I don't think it would be feasible to go into some old, outdated Cold War mentality with China.\"\n\nPressed on whether the UK should toughen its stance on the country, as advocated by so-called China hawks, Mr Raab replied: \"China is here to stay.\"\n\nMr Raab also said more nuclear warheads could be required as part of the Integrated Review, as they represented the \"ultimate insurance policy\" against global threats.\n\nFor years Britain's place in the world was defined by its membership of the European Union and its relationship with the United States.\n\nIt was often seen as a bridge between the two.\n\nBut Brexit changed all that. So now the government is looking for Britain to play a new global role.\n\nThe big idea of the so-called Integrated Review of foreign policy is a new focus on the Indo-Pacific.\n\nThe government wants to boost Britain's trade, security and diplomacy in a region that is seeing fast economic growth.\n\nBut it also wants to build new partnerships as Britain recalibrates its relationship with the biggest player in Asia, namely China.\n\nThe question is what this new \"Indo-Pacific tilt\" will actually mean in practice and whether it will come at a cost of not focusing enough on repairing relations with the EU.\n\nThe long-awaited integrated review of foreign and defence policy will also set out plans for a White House-style situation room built in the Cabinet Office.\n\nIt will also include plans for a new counter-terrorism operations centre, intended to improve the speed of response to terrorist incidents.\n\nSir Alex Younger, a former head of MI6, told Today the gap between western nations and China had closed in important ways during the coronavirus pandemic, and a new approach was now needed.\n\nWhile he said there was \"no sense declaring a new Cold War\", Sir Alex admitted both China and the Russian government presented \"generational\" threats to Britain.\n\nWhile the government says Nato remains the bedrock of defence and security in the Euro-Atlantic sphere, it wants to work alongside allies to \"shape a more open international order in which democracies flourish\".\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the aim of the review would be to showcase offensive as well as defensive capabilities, suggesting high-tech investment in fields like artificial intelligence will help modernise the military, maintain Britain's power and bring economic growth at home.\n\nBut he said becoming a technology \"superpower\" and competing with the likes of China was no easy task.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there was a \"yawning chasm\" between the government's words and actions and said government policy had \"left our defences down in our own backyard\".\n\nThe publication of the review comes months after Boris Johnson announced a £16.5bn increase in defence spending over the next four years.\n\nAt the time, he said the funding would allow for investment in an agency dedicated to artificial intelligence and a \"space command\" capable of launching the UK's first rocket by 2022, as well as a cyber corridor across the north of England which would include headquarters for the new National Cyber Force.\n\nBut MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee have warned the extra funding could be swallowed up by a \"black hole\" in department finances, with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facing a potential £17bn shortfall in its current equipment programme.\n\nThe committee said a further £20bn the military wanted to invest has not been included in the budget and the MPs also accused the MoD of making unrealistic claims about future efficiency savings.\n\nIts chair, Meg Hillier, said it was crucial that the extra money for defence was not eaten up by the \"constant debilitating\" budget overruns that \"have been eroding our national defence and security for years\".\n\nThe MoD said the increased funding would \"restore financial sustainability\".", "Sales executive Moira, who was 40 when she was murdered in May 2008, and her mother Bea\n\nThe mother of a woman who was abducted and murdered in Glasgow has expressed her concern for Sarah Everard's family.\n\nBea Jones said she had been left \"distressed\" by the similarities between the case and what happened to her own daughter, Moira, in 2008.\n\nAnd she has urged the public to keep Sarah's loved ones in mind.\n\nBea wrote: \"We send love to them all and wish them all the strength they need to get through all the dark days ahead.\"\n\nMoira Jones was randomly abducted yards from her home and forced into nearby Queen's Park, where she was raped and beaten to death.\n\nSlovakian national Marek Harcar was jailed in 2009 for the murder and the judge set the punishment part of his life sentence at 25 years.\n\nLord Bracadale said the crime had \"shocked the nation\" and told Harcar: \"Your conduct that night reflects a level of wickedness very rarely encountered.\"\n\nIn a bid to cope with her loss, former teacher Bea wrote a harrowing diary, which last year featured in BBC Scotland documentary The Dark Shadow of Murder.\n\nShe also set up a charity, The Moira Fund, to help bereaved families.\n\nBea, from Weston, Staffordshire, decided to write a letter outlining her fears about the Sarah Everard case after receiving multiple media approaches for comment.\n\nMs Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, vanished as she walked home alone in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in Kent woodland.\n\nSarah Everard has been described by her family as \"kind, thoughtful, caring and dependable\"\n\nBea wrote: \"We have been very distressed by what has happened to Sarah, similar in many respects, to Moira's ordeal.\n\n\"I really could not face talking about this and thought that perhaps one open letter would suffice.\"\n\nShe said her main concern was for Sarah's family and loved ones.\n\nShe wrote: \"They are totally devastated and bewildered and vulnerable. They cannot fully take in what has happened and the permanence of what has occurred.\n\n\"They have experienced nightmare on top of nightmare as events have unravelled and their beautiful missing daughter became another murder victim. And there seems no end to it.\"\n\nBea says she can understand the reaction and response from women nationwide to the shocking crime and believes Sarah's family may have been comforted by the thought that \"so many were grieving with them\".\n\nBut she continues: \"Now it has all escalated into a media frenzy more representative of individual anger than of shared grief.\n\n\"I am very concerned that events have developed to such an extent that those who matter most, Sarah and her family, are being totally swamped and further traumatised by what is going on around them, adding trauma to trauma.\n\n\"How can they cope at all? There is only so much that a head can absorb and a heart can cope with and they have so much more to find out in the weeks and months ahead as dreadful details of Sarah's death are revealed to them.\"\n\nA stone marks the spot in Queen's Park where Moira's body was discovered\n\nBea says the family need to be protected from media intrusion and then turns her thoughts towards Sarah's mother, whom she says will have a head full of questions about what happened to her daughter and what she went through.\n\nDrawing on her own experiences, she lists several, including: \"Did she know how very much we loved her?\"\n\nBea continues: \"There are no answers to these questions, there never will be, but she will keep on asking them, over and over torturing herself. I ask them still - not so often but after 13 years I ask them still.\n\n\"Sarah's mum needs time and space to ask them too, to run all sorts through her head before an avalanche of other information descends.\n\n\"Her family have lived with the joy of Sarah for 33 years and the loss of that joy will affect them for the rest of their lives. It will be a long time before they can even get past the trauma, to start processing the awfulness of it all and being able to grieve. There really are no words to describe that awfulness.\"\n\nNotes and ribbons were tied to the gates of Queen's Park in Glasgow's southside\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"struck\" by this tribute left in Glasgow's Queen's Park to Moira Jones, who was murdered in 2008. She also tweeted a picture of a candle lit to remember \"Sarah, and all the others\"\n\nAs part of the nationwide events, ribbons and messages have been tied to the gates of Queen's Park including many which mention Moira, 40, by name.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also paid tribute to the sales executive on social media at the weekend and said she thought of Moira every time she walked through the park in the south side of the city.\n\nBea said she had been moved by the fresh messages of support for her \"darling girl\", who moved from London to Glasgow in 2003.\n\nThe campaigner has previously described how she cannot bear to say the name of the man who killed Moira.\n\nHu and Bea Jones outside court after the verdict was delivered\n\nBea also called on the media to focus on Sarah Everard as opposed to Met police officer Wayne Couzens, who is accused of murdering and kidnapping the marketing executive.\n\nShe concludes her letter by pledging to continue to support those who have been bereaved by violence and urges the public never to forgot the pain they go through.\n\nShe wrote: \"We frequently read and hear of murder cases in the news but it is rare indeed for us to read of the plight of those left behind, whose lives that are changed forever by the violent death of a loved one.\"\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. Hairdressers and garden centres set to open in Scotland\n\nHairdressers and garden centres will be allowed to reopen in Scotland from 5 April, days after the \"stay at home\" lockdown order will be lifted.\n\nPeople will still have to stay inside their own local authority areas until 26 April, when the travel ban will be lifted within Scotland.\n\nThat date will also see all shops, gyms and tourist accommodation reopen, as well as some indoor hospitality.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that \"brighter days are ahead of us\".\n\nThe \"stay at home\" order, which has been in place since December, will be lifted on 2 April - although Ms Sturgeon said people would be encouraged to \"stay local\" for a further three weeks.\n\nOther changes - including the reopening of hairdressers, click and collect services and homeware shops and the resumption of outdoor contact sports for 12 to 17-year-olds - will be phased in from 5 April.\n\nAll children should return to school full-time after the Easter break, which for some will be from 12 April.\n\nThe first minister said the government was on track to hit the target of giving a first dose of vaccine to all priority groups - including \"a significant majority of Scotland's adult population\" - by mid-April.\n\nShe said this would \"give us confidence to ease restrictions much more significantly from 26 April\".\n\nIt is expected that all areas which are under level four restrictions will move down to level three from that date, and that:\n\nA decision has not yet been taken on whether people will be allowed to meet indoors from 26 April, with Ms Sturgeon saying the situation would be kept \"under ongoing review\".\n\nShe told MSPs that four people from two households would be allowed to meet indoors from 17 May at the latest.\n\nOther changes from mid-May could include the return of cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls, along with adult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercises.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said that to come up with precise dates for other changes - like \"normal family gatherings where we can hug our loved ones, sporting events, gigs and nightclubs\" - would involve \"plucking it out of thin air\".\n\nHowever, she said she was \"optimistic\" that these things could be possible by summer, particularly as the vaccine programme continues.\n\n\"This is certainly the most hopeful I have felt about the situation for a long time,\" she said.\n\nRestrictions on journeys between Scotland and other parts of the UK are likely to be lifted on 26 April, or \"as soon as possible thereafter\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that international travel would not be possible until at least mid-May due to the risk of importing new cases of the virus.\n\nShe said that \"our view is that it may well not be possible for a further period after that\" - and that pre-departure and post-arrival testing would likely remain in place \"for some time to come\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the statement was overdue, but welcome.\n\nHowever, she said there had been no mention of measures like reopening more court services and certain NHS treatments.\n\nAnd she called for the reopening of gyms to be brought forward so women in particular can \"get out of the house and do basic exercise without fear\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the current lockdown must be the last one, and that the government needed \"effective testing and tracing\" systems to keep infections low.\n\nHe called for more backing for businesses to recover from the pandemic, saying that \"transitional support must be available over the longer term to avoid businesses having to close\".\n\nData not dates was to be the key to lockdown easing in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister now seems confident enough in the trend in coronavirus suppression data to give indicative dates for when traditional freedoms should be restored.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson did this a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon was criticised by some for being overly cautious and insufficiently optimistic.\n\nToday, there's caution still - all easing depends on keeping down the virus and keeping up the vaccination programme.\n\nBut the first minister said this was the \"most hopeful\" she had felt for a long time and that \"something much closer to actual normality\" might be achieved as we move into summer.\n\nThe change in tone feels significant and this timetable comes just a week before the first anniversary of the original lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government had to make \"careful, cautious, sensible and sometime unpopular decisions\" to make sure the exit from lockdown kept moving \"steadily and in one direction\".\n\nThe final payments of a range of business support grants are due to be paid in March and April, but Ms Sturgeon acknowledged the \"need for medium term-support\". She said the government had continued rates relief for the worst-hit sectors for the whole of the coming financial year.\n\nScottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone said the lifting of restrictions was \"most welcome for everyone\", but voiced a concern about a slight increase in daily cases and called for more testing on university and college campuses.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that \"any time we open up and people start to come together there is greater opportunity for transmission\", and that \"we need to get all of the pieces of this in balance as much as we can\".\n\nScottish Lib Dem Willie Rennie pressed for more information about the \"indicators that will allow people to understand when they will be moving from one level to the next in their area\".\n\nThe first minister said everything was \"predicated on the data going in the right direction\", and that \"all bets are off\" if case numbers rise sharply again.\n\nShe told MSPs that her \"hope and ambition\" was that all of Scotland could be in level one by early June, and then the bottom tier - level zero - from the end of that month.", "Chocolate maker Thorntons has said none of its stores will reopen after coronavirus lockdowns are lifted.\n\nThe decision to close its 61 shops will put more than 600 jobs at risk.\n\nThe company said it had been badly hit by the pandemic, which forced its stores to shut their doors during the crucial Christmas and Easter holidays.\n\n\"The obstacles we have faced and will continue to face on the High Street are too severe,\" said Thorntons retail director Adam Goddard.\n\n\"Despite our best efforts we have taken the difficult decision to permanently close our retail store estate.\"\n\nThorntons has been on the High Street for more than a century but these days history isn't enough to guarantee survival.\n\nIt was losing its way in the early 2000s with newer players, like Hotel Chocolat, entering the scene. It also embarked on a strategy of selling more chocolates through supermarkets and closing unprofitable shops.\n\nItalian food giant Ferrero bought the business in 2015 and has been trying to turn it around ever since. Over the last five years, it's shrunk from 252 to 61 stores.\n\nBut Ferrero has now thrown in the towel on Thorntons stores altogether, betting that the brand's future is now online and on the supermarket shelves.\n\nThis pandemic has created brutal trading conditions for so many traditional retailers. And the high street shakeout is still far from over.\n\nThorntons said it had spent £45m transforming the business with changes to the way stores operate and the introduction of new cafes but its plans had been thrown off course by the pandemic.\n\nThe company, which was founded in Sheffield in 1911, said it would continue to sell its chocolate online and try to sell more through supermarkets.\n\nSince the beginning of the crisis, sales through its website have increased by more than 70% compared to the previous year, it said.\n\nIt will also try to expand the range of products made at its factory in Alfreton, Derbyshire and increase international sales.\n\nIn 2011, Thorntons announced plans to massively reduce the number of stores it had on the High Street and in shopping centres.\n\nIt said it would close up to 180 of the 364 stores it had at the time, following a strategic review.\n\nSince then, the number of stores has dwindled to 61.\n\nIn 2015, Italian food giant Ferrero bought the chocolate chain for £112m.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We remain committed to this iconic British brand and will continue to invest further in the future potential of Thorntons to ensure we evolve with the times.\"\n\nThorntons is just the latest well-known name to suffer the impact that rolling lockdowns have had on the High Street as more people take to shopping online.\n\nMore than 17,500 chain stores and other venues closed in Great Britain last year, according to figures from the Local Data Company. That is an average rate of 48 closures a day.\n\nLast week, department store chain John Lewis announced plans to close more stores. Other casualties have included PSir Philip Green's retail empire, Arcadia, which included Topshop and Dorothy Perkins.\n\nAre you a Thorntons employee? 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.", "It is a year since the first person died with Covid-19 in Wales\n\nA public inquiry into the Welsh government's handling of Covid-19 needs to be held when the \"pandemic is behind us\", the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said the outbreak did not have to be \"all over\" before an investigation was held.\n\nBut he said ministers needed to be \"confident that we are emerging from it unambiguously\".\n\nThe Conservatives said they would hold an inquiry as soon as possible if in power after May's Senedd election.\n\nPlaid Cymru said a Wales-specific inquiry \"must begin while memories are fresh\".\n\nOn the anniversary of the first reported death with coronavirus in Wales, Mr Drakeford has announced the creation of two new woodlands \"as permanent living memorials to all those who have died\".\n\nThe exact locations of the two sites will be announced in the coming weeks, with one in the north and one in the south.\n\nOn Monday, Public Health Wales reported a total of 5,454 Covid-19 deaths in Wales.\n\nBut the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show Covid was mentioned on 7,592 death certificates up to 26 February.\n\nThe ONS data gives a bigger picture and includes deaths where Covid is confirmed or suspected by doctors and covers deaths in all settings, including care homes, hospices and people's homes.\n\nAn assessment of the number of deaths from all causes compared with what we would normally expect to see shows there were 5,447 deaths more than the five-year average.\n\nWhen looking at death rates in local areas, Wales has four areas in the worst 20 across England and Wales - Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Neath Port Talbot.\n\nMark Drakeford said the inquiry should be held 'when we can be confident the pandemic is behind us\n\nThe first minister said Covid-19 would \"leave a mark that will last for many years\".\n\nHe said that was because of the thousands of families who have lost somebody during the pandemic, but also because of the way it would \"change the way we think about our own futures, about the way we work, about the precautions we take when global events of this sort can have such a profound impact on us locally\".\n\nLast June, Welsh ministers agreed an independent inquiry should be held into their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut the government said it should be part of a probe into the response to the crisis across the UK.\n\nMinisters did not commit to a timetable for an investigation despite opposition parties' calls at the time for the inquiry to report before May's Senedd election.\n\nPeople in Wales have been subject to major changes to their day-to-day lives\n\nAsked when an inquiry might be held, Mark Drakeford said: \"It needs to be at the point when we can be confident that the pandemic is behind us.\n\n\"I don't mean necessarily all over, but we are confident that we are emerging from it unambiguously.\n\n\"And then it needs to be an inquiry that is not simply Welsh because so much of what has happened to us in Wales has been linked to the wider UK picture.\n\n\"So, it needs to be at a time when we can draw all those threads together and then it will be absolutely right that we look back and learn the lessons of what has taken place,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have said there should be inquiries \"at both a UK and a Wales level\", with the party committing to one in Wales after the election if they are in power.\n\nRaising the issue at First Minister's Questions in the Senedd, Tory group leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"I want to see a public inquiry as soon as possible make progress and, rather than lose it in a wider UK public inquiry, have a Wales-specific public inquiry.\"\n\nIn reply, Mr Drakeford said he felt a Wales-only inquiry \"would not be able to grapple with a long list of issues that will be fundamental to being able to draw the lessons from what has happened\".\n\nHe said a UK-wide public inquiry \"will, absolutely properly, look at the decision making of the Welsh Government as well.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"No-one can say when this pandemic will be behind us, so Wales must not be kept waiting to learn the lessons of the last year.\n\n\"In those 12 months we saw a failure to ensure universal testing of care home residents, failure to provide adequate PPE for health and care staff, and a failure to utilise Welsh testing capacity when it was most needed.\"", "Mark and his son Henry, when he was a baby, outside the shop in Allestree, Derbyshire.\n\nMark Rees and his wife Katy run a chain of gift shops with the Thorntons name in big letters above the door.\n\nAnd they pay £7,000 a year for the privilege.\n\nSo imagine their shock when the chocolate maker told them it would be issuing a global press release announcing its plans to close all of its 61 stores.\n\nWhat that announcement didn't say is that Thorntons' more than 100 franchisees - who, together, account for the bulk of its High Street presence - have no intention of closing.\n\nIn a subsequent statement to the BBC, Thorntons said: \"We proactively communicated with all our franchise partners this morning to reassure them that we remain committed to supporting them and continuing to supply their business with our Thorntons range.\"\n\nBut the couple have faced questions from staff who thought they were losing their jobs and customers who thought their shops would not reopen after lockdowns are lifted.\n\nFor Mark, it is the latest blow in a relationship that has seen him \"rode roughshod over\" for 15 years by Thorntons.\n\nHis parents started the chain of shops 30 years ago when they spent tens of thousands of pounds to become a Thorntons partner.\n\nAnd it wasn't easy. To this day the chocolate maker has absolute say over what lighting Mark uses to illuminate its products and even what he puts on the floor in front of them.\n\nBut for his parents, it was worth it. Then, Mark says, it was a privilege to stock Thorntons products and it made their stores a destination for chocolate lovers.\n\nBut that changed in 2004, shortly after Mark took over the business.\n\nThe chocolate maker took its franchise partners by surprise by announcing that it would start selling its products in supermarkets and beyond. That meant Thorntons' loyal customers could get their Continental Selection boxes elsewhere - and for less.\n\nWhile Mark says he had to adhere to strict rules about how the product was displayed and how much he could charge, those same boxes were being \"bunged on to shelves\" at petrol stations and discount retailers.\n\n\"And yet, we are actually policed,\" Mark says. \"We could have our franchise agreement taken away, if we do not abide by the rules of the contract.\"\n\n\"They've ruled by fear in many ways,\" he says.\n\nThorntons shops that look like this will not reopen once lockdown restrictions are eased\n\nMeanwhile, Mark was able to walk into Wilko and buy Thorntons products for less than he was paying to the chocolate maker itself.\n\n\"It's damaging for us because customers see us as expensive, but we just simply cannot afford to sell the product any cheaper,\" Mark says.\n\nLast year, he was selling Easter eggs for £8 that he was buying from Thorntons for £5. At Wilko, that same egg was being sold for £3.\n\nThat meant Mark was often forced to stock up at the discount retailer, rather than his \"supposed partner\", which is how he refers to Thorntons.\n\n\"You can imagine the damage and the hurt that that causes you,\" he says.\n\nKaty thinks the franchise partners, who are often family-run businesses that helped build the Thorntons brand in the 90s, have been \"completely forgotten and now left to fight for their survival\".\n\nMeanwhile, she accuses Thorntons of \"flooding\" supermarket shelves with its chocolates and cheapening the brand that franchisees like her and Mark pay so much to buy in to.\n\nAs a result, the couple have decided to rebrand their stores to Henry & Co, named after their son.\n\nThe Rees family in their newly-rebranded Henry & Co shop\n\n\"We have decided that the alliances that we have with these brands, is actually damaging us and not benefiting us at all,\" Mark says.\n\n\"We're going to break away from the shackles of dealing with these big brands and the onerous contracts and constraints that that brings with it.\"\n\nA Thorntons spokeswoman said: \"In addition to our own retail estate, we work closely with around 100 other franchise stores that sell Thorntons product within a broader retail store environment - such as cards stores, gift stores and post offices.\"\n\n\"Our franchise partners, alongside our grocery partners and e-commerce, remain a key part of our strategy for the future of Thorntons. The Thorntons website store locator will continue to reflect the franchise stores available to customers.\"", "Left-right: Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan and Riz Ahmed are all nominated\n\nSacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya and Sir Anthony Hopkins are among the British stars nominated for this year's Oscars.\n\nVanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman and Riz Ahmed are among the other UK nominees.\n\nIt's also the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nAnd two women were nominated for best director - the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards' 93-year history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Film critic Clarisse Loughrey shares her thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations\n\nChloe Zhao is nominated for directing Nomadland, and Britain's Emerald Fennell is recognised for Promising Young Woman.\n\nOther nominated stars include Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman.\n\nMank, the black-and-white drama starring Oldman as Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz, leads the overall field with 10 nominations.\n\nThis year's winners will be announced on 25 April at a delayed ceremony that will take place at both the Dolby Theatre, the ceremony's normal home, and Los Angeles' main railway hub, Union Station.\n\nOlivia Colman and Sir Anthony Hopkins are both nominated for The Father\n\nDaniel Kaluuya is nominated for playing Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah\n\nThe eight British acting nominees range from Ahmed, who receives his first Oscar nomination for playing a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal, to Sir Anthony, whose performance as a man who loses his grip on reality in The Father earns him his sixth nomination.\n\nAt 83, he is the oldest person ever to be nominated for best actor. Sir Anthony and Ahmed are joined on the award's five-strong shortlist by Oldman, who won the trophy three years ago for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.\n\nColman will hope to repeat her 2019 success with The Favourite after being nominated this year for her role in The Father.\n\nCarey Mulligan is nominated for Promising Young Woman despite being shut out by this year's Baftas. The revenge thriller also earns Fennell - best known for her acting in Call the Midwife and The Crown - nominations for best picture and best original screenplay as well as best director.\n\nKirby, who also made her name on The Crown, is nominated for playing a traumatised mother in Pieces of a Woman, while Kaluuya and Baron Cohen are up for best supporting actor for Judas and the Black Messiah and The Trial of the Chicago 7 respectively.\n\nOther British nominees include singer Celeste for best song, for her contribution to The Trial of the Chicago 7; and Aardman's A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, which is up for best animated film.\n\nSteven Yeun (left) and Yuh-Jung Youn (second left) are up for acting awards for Minari\n\nSix black actors and actresses are nominated, equalling the record set in 2017. This year, Kaluuya, Boseman and Davis are joined by US stars Andra Day, LaKeith Stanfield and Leslie Odom Jr - who is also up for best original song.\n\nDavis is shortlisted for playing a 1920s blues singer in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - the fourth nomination of her career, making her the most-nominated black actress ever.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Riz Ahmed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAhmed is the first actor of Pakistani descent to get an Oscar nomination and the first Muslim to be up for best actor; and Yuh-Jung Youn is the first South Korean actress to get an Oscar nod.\n\n\"Never in my dreams did I ever think a Korean actress would be nominated for an Oscar, and I can't believe it's me!\" she said. She will be joined at the ceremony by Steven Yeun, her Korean-American co-star in Minari, who is nominated for best actor.\n\nMinari is also up for the Academy Awards' top prize, best picture, which is given to a film's producers. Its rivals for that award include Judas and the Black Messiah, which is the first best picture nominee to have an all-black line-up of producers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Viola Davis, who stars in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, says Chadwick Boseman was an 'artist'\n\nBoseman is nominated alongside Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - his final role before he died of cancer at the age of 43 last year.\n\nThe much-loved star, who is also known for his role in Black Panther, is the favourite to be given the best actor award.\n\nIf he does, he will be only the second posthumous best actor winner after Peter Finch for Network in 1976.\n\nOnly five women had been nominated for best director before, and only one has won - Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.\n\nThis year, two of the five contenders are female, with Chinese-born, US-based Zhao the hot favourite for her story of a woman, played by Frances McDormand, who lives a nomadic life in a van.\n\nZhao is up for a total of four awards this year - best picture, best adapted screenplay and best editing, as well as best director. If she wins them all, she will equal a record set by Walt Disney, who is the only person to have won four Oscars in the same night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Emerald Fennell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFennell is the first British woman to be up for best director. Some predicted a third female best director nominee this year, with Regina King tipped for One Night in Miami. She won an Oscar for her acting for If Beale Street Could Talk in 2019, but will not get a directing award to go with it this year.\n\nOverall, a record 76 nominations went to women this year, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the awards.\n\nThe 73-year-old has her eighth Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed, prosthetic-nosed grandmother in Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy.\n\n\"I dedicate this honour to all the grandmothers in the world who fight to give their children a better life,\" she said.\n\nHer previous nominations have come for films like The World According to Garp, Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons. She has never won. So could this finally be her year?\n\nProbably not - the favourites for best supporting actress are Yuh-Jung Youn and Maria Bakalova, the Bulgarian newcomer who is rewarded for playing Borat's daughter in Baron-Cohen's comedy sequel.\n\nPlus, Hillbilly Elegy was panned by many critics, and Close now has the dubious honour of being only the third person to be up for an Oscar and a Razzie (for the worst films of the year) for the same performance.\n\nMank, about the making of Citizen Kane, may have the most Oscar nominations with 10, but it is highly unlikely to win best picture.\n\nCrucially, it failed to land a screenwriting nomination. In the past 55 years, the only films to have been named best picture without one are The Sound of Music and Titanic - a musical and a film that relied on spectacle rather than script.\n\nIt has also missed out in best editing, a category in which, since 1981, every best picture winner has been nominated - apart from Birdman, which gave the appearance of not having been edited.\n\nMank's omission in these categories suggests it is a film the Academy admires, rather than loves.\n\nIt would appear to be destined for the same fate as the film it is about, which nominated for best picture at the 1941 Oscars, but lost out to How Green Was My Valley.\n\nI have the favourite as Nomadland, which has already been a winner at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards. However, it has one thing going against it - the Academy almost never rewards female-fronted films. Last year, 68% of Oscar voters were men and of the last 15 best picture winners, only one (The Shape of Water) even managed a best actress nomination.", "Police will be able to cross-reference data from the tags to new crimes\n\nProlific burglars, robbers and thieves are to be tagged with GPS trackers in a bid to stop them reoffending.\n\nOffenders will be automatically tagged for up to 12 months after being released from prison, under a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) pilot.\n\nGwent, Avon and Somerset, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Humberside and West Midlands police forces are all taking part.\n\nThe MoJ said tracking offenders 24 hours a day would act as a deterrent.\n\nIt estimated 250 offenders, who have served a year in prison, will be fitted with the tag in the first six months of the scheme, as part of their licence conditions.\n\nPolice will be able to cross-reference the GPS data with reports of new thefts, robberies and burglaries to see if offenders were in the area at the time.\n\nDiane Titmus says she has stopped claiming on her insurance\n\nBurglars broke into Diane Titmus's hair salon, stealing about £2,000 of stock and all of her stylists' hairdryers and straighteners, in December last year.\n\nThe break-in was the 12th time the Newport salon had been broken into in 30 years.\n\n\"They just took the most expensive items, they knew what they were doing,\" said Ms Titmus.\n\n\"The first time it happened was some years ago. I came in on the Christmas weekend, our biggest weekend, they had taken every single item.\n\n\"I had to run around to all my friends and borrow dryers, scissors, just to be able to work that day.\n\n\"I was really very, very upset, but also angry. How dare they? I worked really hard all my life to have this, just for someone to come in and take it.\"\n\nMs Titmus said it had happened so many times she no longer made claims on her insurance because of the increase it would mean to her premium.\n\n\"Other times they've cost me £500 when they break a window and they probably had about 30p in pennies that were left in the drawer,\" she said.\n\n\"We just have to write it off as a loss. We work hard for a week to pay the burglar - that's how it works out.\"\n\nMore than half of those convicted of theft reoffend within a year of being released\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, the number of theft and burglary offences in England and Wales fell as many people stayed at home.\n\nMinister for Crime and Policing Kit Malthouse said, with levels expect to return to those seen before Covid-19, the tagging pilot was \"critical\".\n\n\"We want to make sure we help those offenders get back on the straight and narrow,\" he said.\n\n\"We think 24-hour-a-day supervision, through this tag on their ankle, will help them to realise that they're effectively being watched, and therefore choose something else to do, other than go back to their former crime.\n\n\"It's a rigorous supervision in a way that we haven't really seen before and we think it will have a big impact.\"\n\nKit Malthouse said the tags would help catch repeat offenders\n\nMore than half of those convicted of theft reoffend within a year of being released from prison, according to MoJ figures.\n\nIt said these types of crimes cost the public an estimated £4.8bn a year, yet 79% of theft cases and 62% of robbery cases resulted in no suspect being identified - compared with an average of 24% in all other cases.\n\nFollowing the pilots, the MoJ said it planned to roll out the scheme, run by the National Probation Service, to a further 13 forces in September.\n\nTags have already been introduced in parts of England and Wales to monitor whether offenders who who were convicted of committing crimes while fuelled with alcohol, have been drinking.\n\nThe \"sobriety tags\" monitor sweat levels of the wearer every 30 minutes to see whether they have drunk alcohol. The probation service is then alerted if they have had a drink.\n\nAmanda Blakeman said she hoped targeting serial offenders would reduce crime in the area\n\nGwent's Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman said a small number of offenders were committing thefts, burglaries and robberies.\n\n\"Offenders tend to be serial offenders doing quite a lot of these types of crime over a short period of time, that can be very forensically aware, they can locate premises that aren't overlooked so there aren't any witnesses and then it becomes very difficult to pull those clues together to solve that particular crime.\n\n\"Obviously with the ability to be able to tag our persistent offenders it means we're able to see where they are and if they're in proximity of offences that have occurred,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kotto as Dr Kananga giving Roger Moore's James Bond a grilling in Live and Let Die\n\nYaphet Kotto, best known for playing a villain in 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die, has died at the age of 81.\n\nThe actor also played a crew member in 1979 sci-fi movie Alien, and starred in US TV police drama Homicide: Life on the Street.\n\nKotto's other credits included the 1980s action films The Running Man and Midnight Run.\n\nHe also received an Emmy nomination for playing former Ugandan President Idi Amin in the 1977 movie Raid on Entebbe.\n\nHis TV career also included roles in the A-Team and Law and Order, and he played Lieutenant Al Giardello in seven series of the gritty Homicide: Life on the Street, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter.\n\nHe died on Monday in the Philippines, his wife Sinahon Thessa said on Facebook. \"You played a villain on some of your movies but for me you're a real hero and to a lot of people also,\" she wrote.\n\n\"A good man, a good father, a good husband and a decent human being, very rare to find. One of the best actors in Hollywood, a Legend. Rest in Peace Honey, I'm gonna miss you everyday, my best friend, my rock.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Yaphet Kotto This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nTributes came from Hollywood figures including Ava DuVernay, who said he was \"one of those actors who deserved more than the parts he got\", and fellow director Edgar Wright, who described him as \"a brilliant magnetic presence\".\n\nKotto was born in New York to a Cameroonian immigrant father and a US Army nurse, and studied acting from the age of 16. At 19, he made his professional theatre debut in Othello, and later performed on Broadway in The Great White Hope.\n\nHis first few film projects included Nothing But a Man in 1964 and The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968.\n\nKotto drew plaudits for his role as the first black Bond villain Dr Kananga - an evil Caribbean diplomat whose alter ego was a New York drug lord - in Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore.\n\nKotto then had roles in 1974's Truck Turner and 1978's Blue Collar. In Ridley Scott's Alien, he took the role of the space ship's engineer Dennis Parker.\n\nYaphet Kotto had a varied career in film and TV\n\nFollowing the film's success, Kotto turned down a role in Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back because he was wary of becoming typecast in the sci-fi genre.\n\n\"I wanted to get back down on Earth,\" he said in an interview. \"I was afraid that if I did another space film after having done Alien, then I'd be typed.\n\n\"Once you get one of those big blockbuster hits, you better have some other big blockbuster hits to go with it too and be Harrison Ford, because if you don't… you place yourself right out of the business.\"\n\nHe also said he turned down the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the character made famous by Sir Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation.\n\n\"I should have done that, but I walked away,\" he admitted in 2015. \"When you're making movies, you'd tend to say no to TV. It's like when you're in college and someone asks you to the high school dance. You say no.\"\n\nKotto went on to play a supporting role in Brubaker in 1980, and then appear as a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987's The Running Man, and as an FBI agent in Robert De Niro's Midnight Run the following year.\n\nHis other film credits also included Bill Cosby's Man and Boy (1971), Across 110th Street (1972), Report to the Commissioner (1975), The Star Chamber (1983), Warning Sign (1985), Eye of the Tiger (1986) and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991).\n\nKotto's other TV roles included appearances in For Love and Honor, Murder She Wrote and Death Valley Days.\n\nMost recently, he reprised his role as Lieutenant Giardello in Homicide: The Movie in 2000, and voiced his Alien character Parker in the Alien: Isolation video game.\n\nKotto is survived by six children and had been married three times.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sarah Everard has been described as \"beautiful, thoughtful and incredibly kind\"\n\nA Met police officer is due to go on trial in the autumn accused of the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nThe 33-year-old marketing executive vanished as she walked home alone in Clapham on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in Kent woodland.\n\nWayne Couzens, of Deal, appeared at the Old Bailey via a videolink from Belmarsh Prison.\n\nThe judge set a plea hearing date for 9 July and a provisional trial for 25 October.\n\nThe court heard the provisional trial could last up to four weeks.\n\nProsecutor Tom Little QC said the circumstances of the case had led to a \"very significant and wide-ranging investigation\".\n\nHe told the court the case had attracted \"almost unprecedented media and public attention\".\n\nIn the short hearing, Mr Couzens spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nThe 48-year-old wore grey tracksuit bottoms, a red top and appeared to have two cuts on his head.\n\nNo bail application was made by defence barrister James Sturman QC, who also said legal aid was yet to be granted.\n\nMr Couzens was charged on Friday and appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nWayne Couzens appeared at the Old Bailey via videolink from Belmarsh Prison\n\nMs Everard had visited a friend in the Clapham Junction area on 3 March and left at about 21:00 GMT to make what was roughly a 2.5-mile (4km) journey home.\n\nShe never arrived and was reported missing by her boyfriend the next day.\n\nHer body was found a week later inside a builder's bag in an area of woodland in Ashford and was identified through dental records.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place but no cause of death has been released.\n\nAn inquest into the death of Ms Everard is likely to be opened later this week, Kent County Council has said.\n\nMr Couzens joined the Met in September 2018 and was initially based in the Bromley area.\n\nIn February last year he moved to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command where his primary role was uniformed patrols, mainly at a range of embassies in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Secondary pupils went back to masks and Covid testing\n\nThe first attendance figures since schools in England returned last week show high levels of pupils back in the classroom.\n\nIn primary schools, 95% of pupils were in classes at the end of last week.\n\nThe return has been staggered in secondaries to allow Covid testing, but 89% of pupils were in last Monday.\n\n\"Certainly for primary schools, the return of all pupils appears to have gone smoothly,\" said the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nThis is the highest proportion of secondary school pupils in school since the first lockdown began a year ago - with a further 2% waiting for a phased return this week.\n\nSecondary schools have been carrying out Covid tests on pupils, screening them as they return, with the attendance figures showing how they were filtered back, with numbers rising from 30% to 89% through the week.\n\nAmong the 1% of pupils not in school because of Covid, the greatest numbers were self-isolating because of a potential contact with a positive case.\n\nThere were about 12,000 pupils absent because they were a confirmed or suspected case - but 33,000 were self-isolating because of a potential contact in school, such as someone in their bubble, and another 31,000 because of a potential contact at home.\n\nThe ASCL head teachers' union leader, Geoff Barton, welcomed the \"very high levels of attendance\" and said schools \"deserve huge credit for setting up what are essentially medical facilities\".\n\nBut he warned that in terms of future outbreaks in schools, \"we are not out of the woods yet\".\n\nHe added: \"We must sound a note of caution over what attendance levels will look like for what remains of this term, because we are picking up reports of positive Covid cases and close contacts having to be sent home to self-isolate.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said he expected the government to \"keep a very close eye on the emerging data and assess the impact of the wider re-opening\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said he did \"not underestimate the preparation that has taken place to ensure our children could return safely\".\n\nHe added: \"It is fantastic to see the overwhelming majority of children have now returned to the classroom, with all the benefits that face-to-face contact with their teachers and friends is proven to bring.\"", "Ford has announced that diesel engines for a new generation of its Transit Custom van will be built at its factory in Dagenham.\n\nThe company says the move will help to safeguard jobs at the site, which currently employs 1,900 people.\n\nThe engines will be exported to Turkey, where the vans themselves will be assembled by Ford's local joint venture company, Ford Otosan.\n\nLast year, Ford closed its other major UK engine plant at Bridgend in Wales.\n\nThe Transit Custom is a medium-sized version of Ford's well-known commercial workhorse. The company plans to launch a new version of it in 2023.\n\nFord Otosan, a joint venture between the American giant and Turkish company Koç Holding, will manufacture the new van at its plant in Kocaeli, in Northwestern Turkey.\n\nDagenham will build diesel engines for the new model - which will also be available as an electric van, as well as in various hybrid forms.\n\nAlthough moves to electrify passenger cars are proceeding rapidly, Ford says it expects diesel to continue to play an important role in commercial vehicles for many years.\n\nDemand from Ford Otosan, which will also build a similar-sized van on behalf of Volkswagen, is expected to account for up to 60% of Dagenham's diesel engine production by 2025.\n\nFord said the trade agreement reached between Turkey and the UK in late 2020 was \"extremely significant\" for its business - pointing out that Ford and Ford Otosan together account for more than 10% of the trade volume between the two countries.\n\nFord closed its Bridgend plant last year, as part of a drastic overhaul of its European business.\n\nThe factory, which opened in 1977, was unable to obtain enough new work after two major engine programmes ended in 2019.\n\nFive other factories in Europe were also shut, and some 10,000 workers were laid off.\n\nTransit vans were once built at a plant near Southampton, but in 2013 the factory was closed and production was moved to Turkey, where Ford said production costs were much lower.\n\nThe International Trade Minister, Ranil Jayawardena, described Ford's announcement as \"great news for Ford and its 7,500 workers across the United Kingdom\".", "Almost 17,000 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests have been cancelled during the pandemic to date, the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann told the NI Assembly that between 17 March 2020 and 5 March 2021, 16,938 procedures, operations and diagnostic tests had been postponed.\n\n\"It's important to note that includes cancellations for all reasons, not just Covid-related,\" he said.\n\n\"Procedures are often cancelled for a myriad of other reasons.\"\n\nMr Swann said these included clinical circumstances, patients cancellations or staff pressures.\n\nBut he added: \"I am assured that every attempt is made to protect the most urgent appointments where this is achievable, and the postponed test procedures and operations will all be rescheduled as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMore than 4,000 red flag cancer procedures were among the cancellations.\n\nThese are operations that can have an impact on a person's outcome from treatment.\n\nMr Swann said that the five health trusts were currently compiling three-month plans for April to June which, it is hoped will be published shortly.\n\nHe said the department hoped to publish \"activity projections\" alongside the plans.\n\nThe health minister also told Stormont that he had been \"blindsided\" by the manner in which he found out about the Republic of Ireland's decision to pause the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine following reports of a small number of cases of blood clots.\n\nMr Swann said he heard this through the media and he had asked the chief medical officer to engage with his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland \"to make sure that we realise the full operational value of that memorandum of understanding\".\n\n\"It doesn't help either of us when either of us are actually blindsided by a decision that has been taken in either jurisdiction,\" he said.\n\nHealth officials in Northern Ireland have said they will continue to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nEarlier, Mr Swann stressed the importance of avoiding a \"free-for-all\" situation as coronavirus restrictions are eased and recommended a gradual approach.\n\nThere was also a stark message about signs of \"increased harmful alcohol consumption, more snacking and increased sedentary behaviour as a result of the pandemic\".\n\nHe said as society begins to re-open, he said he would encourage people to spend more time outdoors and agreed \"the risk is very much lower outdoor than indoors\".\n\nHowever, the minister added that potentially associated activities such as sharing cars to deliver children to sporting activities do pose a greater risk of transmission.\n\nThe Executive was told that research carried out by Ernst and Young indicated that watching and participating in sport were two of the top nine things people missed during the initial lockdown period.\n\nMr Swann said evidence gathered to date highlights concerns around mental health and domestic violence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis used a special freedom of speech power to make the claims in the House of Commons\n\nConservative MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to criticise the Scottish government's handling of allegations against Alex Salmond.\n\nThe former minister told MPs during a Commons debate that there had been a \"concerted effort\" by SNP officials to encourage complainers to come forward.\n\nMr Davis also suggested Scottish government officials knew earlier than previously acknowledged of the claims.\n\nA spokesman for Nicola Sturgeon has dismissed the allegations.\n\nMr Davis accused the Scottish government of ignoring its own procedures and \"actively withholding information\" from the Holyrood inquiry which has been tasked with looking at the issue.\n\nDuring the debate he also said: \"I have it on good authority that there exists from 6th Feb 2018 an exchange of messages between civil servants suggesting that the first minister's chief of staff is interfering in the complaints process against Alex Salmond.\n\n\"If true this suggests the chief of staff had knowledge of the case in February, not April as she has claimed.\"\n\nMr Davis said he had been passed messages from the telephone of a senior SNP official by a whistleblower.\n\nHe read some of the messages out in the Commons and said they \"show that there is a concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints\" after the criminal investigation into Mr Salmond had started.\n\nAlex Salmond took the Scottish government to court, and won, over its handling of harassment complaints against him\n\nThe intervention from Mr Davis came on the day a leading QC asked to examine the government's procedures - after it conceded its handling of complaints against Alex Salmond was \"unlawful\" - published her findings.\n\nLaura Dunlop made a range of recommendations about how complaints against serving ministers could be investigated but said probes concerning former ministers should be independent.\n\nMs Dunlop's report came ahead of two other keenly anticipated reports relating to the bungled civil action against Mr Salmond.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into what went wrong and an independent investigation of whether Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code in her contact with her predecessor are both due to report back in the coming weeks.\n\nA spokesman for First Minister Ms Sturgeon said: \"As with Mr Salmond's previous claims and cherry picking of messages, the reality is very different to the picture being presented.\n\n\"Every message involving SNP staff has been seen by the committee previously. Their views have been widely reported as dismissive of them.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Holyrood inquiry committee published a further submission from a former government staffer, Lorraine Kay, supporting Mr Salmond's claims.\n\nThe former first minister has said he was passed the name of one of the complainers during the investigation, while meetings between himself and Ms Sturgeon were being arranged.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she does not accept that this happened, but Ms Kay told MSPs that she was also told the name by Mr Salmond's former chief of staff, Geoff Aberdein.\n\nTwo other allies of the former first minster - Kevin Pringle and Duncan Hamilton - have also backed this account, which opposition MSPs say would be an \"extraordinary breach of confidentiality\".\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon told the inquiry that she believed Mr Salmond was already aware of who the complainers were, and that what was said to Mr Aberdein was \"a matter of contention\".", "From 26 April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was expected all parts of Scotland currently in level 4 would move down to a \"modified\" level 3. The island communities currently in level 3 will have the option to move at that stage to level 2 but this could have implications for travel and will be discussed further. The new \"modified\" level 3 from 26 April would see cafes, pubs and restaurants allowed to open until 20:00 indoors (no alcohol) and 22:00 outdoors (alcohol permitted). Up to four people from two households can socialise indoors in a public place such as a café or restaurant. Up to six people from up to three households can socialise outdoors. All remaining retail premises and close contact services will re-open. Gyms can open for individual exercise. Indoor attractions and public buildings such as galleries, museums and libraries can open. Funerals and weddings including post-funeral events and receptions can take place with up to 50 people (no alcohol). From 17 May, it is hoped that all level 3 areas - or as many as possible - will move to level 2. This will see hospitality venues open until 22:30 indoors (alcohol permitted, two-hour dwell time) and 22:00 outdoors (alcohol permitted). Up to four people from two households can socialise indoors in a private home or public space. Cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls can reopen. Outdoor adult contact sport and indoor group exercise can restart. From early June, the ambition is for all of Scotland will move to level 1 - which will allow for a further easing of restrictions. Up to six people from up to three households will be able to socialise indoors in a home or public place. Up to eight people from three households can socialise outdoors. Eight 12-17 year olds can meet socially from eight households outdoors. Hospitality can remain open until 23:00. Indoor non-contact sport can take place. By the end of June, it is hoped that all of Scotland will move to at least level 0. This could mean a phased return of some office staff. The Scottish government will be assessing the situation on an ongoing basis, with a view to restoring as much normality as possible.", "The Curiosity rover has found extensive evidence of hydrated minerals at Mars' Gale Crater\n\nIt's a longstanding mystery: how Mars lost the water that flowed across its surface billions of years ago.\n\nScientists now think they have an answer: much of it became trapped in the planet's outer layer - its crust.\n\nThe ancient water exists in the form of minerals contained within Martian rocks.\n\nThe findings have been discussed at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and are published in Science journal.\n\nThe study used measurements gathered from Mars-orbiting spacecraft, rovers and meteorites.\n\nResearchers then developed a computer simulation of how water was lost from the planet over time.\n\nMore than four billion years ago, Mars was warmer and wetter - possibly with a thicker atmosphere. Water coursed through rivers, cutting channels in the rock, and pooled in impact craters.\n\nThe Red Planet could have held enough water to cover its entire surface in a layer measuring between 100m and one kilometre deep.\n\nAround a billion years later, Mars had made the transition to the colder, desolate planet we recognise today.\n\n\"We have known for a long time that Mars was much wetter in its early history. But, the exact fate of that water has been an ongoing problem,\" said planetary scientist Dr Peter Grindrod, who was not involved with the latest study.\n\nDr Grindrod, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News: \"We already know from studies of the atmosphere of Mars that some of that water was lost to space, and ice deposits on and just below the surface tell us that some water became frozen.\"\n\nEarth has a magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, that helps prevent the atmosphere from escaping. But Mars' magnetic shield is weak and could have allowed elemental components of water to escape from the planet.\n\nBut the rate at which hydrogen - one chemical constituent of water - escapes from that atmosphere today suggests this can't be the whole story.\n\nIf it's assumed that the current loss rate for hydrogen was the same in the past, \"it's a pretty small amount of water that you would have lost through this escape process\", said co-author Eva Linghan Scheller, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.\n\nIn other words, most of the water must have gone elsewhere.\n\nNasa's latest rover will explore a geological feature called a delta, laid down in the presence of flowing water\n\nThe results of the team's computer modelling work show that between 30% and 99% of Mars' initial water was incorporated into minerals and buried in the planet's crust.\n\nCo-author Prof Bethany Ehlmann, also from from Caltech, explained that, \"by studying data from Mars missions, It became clear that it was common - and not rare - to find evidence of water alteration\".\n\nShe continued: \"When the crust becomes altered, it takes water - like liquid water - and sequesters it in a hydrated mineral that has water in its structure so that it is effectively trapped.\"\n\nThe authors suggest that most of the water was lost between about 4.1 and 3.7 billion years ago - during a stretch of Martian history known as the Noachian Period.\n\nDr Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars exploration program, said: \"The original overarching role of Mars exploration has been to follow the water, since it plays such a central role in the geology, climate and life of the planet.\n\n\"This is a very important paper to understand how much water was on Mars, how it might have been lost and where it might be today.\"\n\nDr Grindrod added: \"What this new study tells us is that a lot of that water, possibly the majority, could have actually been locked into the rocks on Mars. This process of hydration is capable of storing large volumes of water, up to an amount equivalent to a global layer a kilometre deep.\"\n\n\"Although most of the liquid water had probably disappeared after about one and a half billion years after Mars formed, we see evidence of hydrated minerals at the surface today, in areas like Jezero Crater, which is currently being explored by the Perseverance rover.\n\n\"The early climate of Mars remains one of the most important topics in planetary science, and this study will help our understanding of the processes responsible for water loss.\"", "People aged 50 or over in Northern Ireland can now book their Covid-19 vaccine appointment, Health Minister Robin Swann has announced.\n\nThose who are eligible and wish to receive the vaccine can booking it online or be contacted by their GPs.\n\nBooking slots are available at the seven regional vaccination centres.\n\nThere was some frustration about the length of time some people were having to wait in the queue to book their slot on Monday.\n\nHowever, Mr Swann told the assembly that in the first three hours of the slots opening 30,000 people had booked vaccines.\n\nThe centres will primarily be using the AstraZeneca vaccine for first doses, to maximise available vaccine supplies.\n\nAnyone who received the Pfizer vaccine as a first dose will still receive the Pfizer vaccine for their second dose.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister told the assembly that the \"benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks\".\n\nIt comes after health officials in Northern Ireland said they would continue to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after its suspension in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe temporary suspension of the vaccine is already having an impact on the republic's immunisation programme.\n\nAbout 30,000 vaccination appointments for health staff and those at high-risk might be delayed, according to RTÉ.\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly described its move as \"precautionary\", after reports of serious blood clotting events in adults in Norway.\n\nAstraZeneca has said there is no evidence of a link between the vaccine and increased risk of clotting, while Northern Ireland's Department of Health has said it would continue to use the vaccine after receiving guidance from the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nThe latest figures show that across Northern Ireland 629,461 people have now received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 54,636 have received two.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health recorded a further 121 cases of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nOne additional death was reported, bringing the department's total number of deaths with Covid-19 to 2,099.\n\nFor a second day in a row, no additional deaths were reported in the Republic of Ireland, where there have a total of 4,534 Covid-19-related deaths.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's health department said there were 575 more confirmed cases, which brings that total to 227,316.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister said vaccination was a \"bridge to better, safer and more normal times for everyone\".\n\nChief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the more people are vaccinated then \"the more we are all protected\".\n\nHe received his first jab on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marie-Louise Connolly - Look Forward. #FightBack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Marie-Louise Connolly - Look Forward. #FightBack\n\n\"Vaccination alone will not provide 100% protection but it will change the balance in our favour against this virus.\n\n\"When your turn comes, don't delay, get the jab. Protect yourself and others,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster also urged those eligible to take up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) have been very clear that it is safe to take the AstraZeneca vaccine,\" said the DUP leader.\n\n\"I am looking forward to taking it, either this week or next week, depending on when I am able to get my vaccine booked for, but it is very important that people continue to take the vaccine.\"\n\nOn Monday, Dr Alan Stout, the chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) NI GP committee, said it was the large supply of AstraZeneca jab that allowed the vaccination programme to continue at the speed it is.\n\nHe advised people that it was safe to receive, and there was also a risk of blood clotting with things like long-haul air travel, the contraception pill, and some forms of surgery.\n\n\"These are world experts that we have in these regulators bodies and they are all saying the same thing, and they are all saying it is safe,\" he said.\n\nDr Stout said he was \"hopeful\" jabs would be offered to the over-40s age group by Easter, mirroring the situation reportedly happening elsewhere in the UK.\n\nWhile health officials in the Republic of Ireland are choosing to pause the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, in Northern Ireland they're accelerating the programme. So who should we trust?\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the vaccine is safe. That message has been reinforced by the British Medical Association.\n\nIt's hard to ignore that the MHRA has said that it has received a small number of reports of blood clots relating to the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut it does seem that health officials in the Republic are being excessively cautious - Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and the country's deputy chief medical officer have said as much themselves.\n\nRelations between the EU and AstraZeneca are somewhat toxic at present with the Republic of Ireland, where the vaccine is reportedly in short supply, having been let down so many times on delivery of the vaccine.\n\nWhile people in the Republic will be rolling down their sleeves, in Northern Ireland an even greater number are preparing to roll them up.\n\nThe rollout will continue to be prioritised based on age, in line with Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) guidance aimed at protecting the most vulnerable, the Department of Health has said.\n\nVaccines are being dispensed in parallel by GP practices and vaccination centres.\n\nNorthern Ireland has seven regional vaccination centres: Royal Victoria Hospital, Ulster Hospital, South Lake Leisure Centre, Seven Towers Leisure Centre, Foyle Arena, Omagh Leisure Centre and Lakeside Leisure Centre.\n\nPlans are also being finalised for community pharmacies to join the programme in the coming weeks, the department added.\n\nAn additional regional mass vaccination centre will open at the end of March at the SSE Arena in Belfast.\n\nThe vaccination centres are now offering bookings to:\n\nCarers who have not already booked a vaccination appointment can email their health trust carer co-ordinators and they will make the necessary arrangements.\n\nThe latter clinically vulnerable (CV) group is expected to largely mirror those who receive the winter flu vaccine each year because of their medical conditions.\n\nCEV and CV individuals aged 16 and 17 years of age cannot receive the vaccine being used in GP practices.\n\nThese individuals will receive a letter from their GP and are able to book a vaccination slot at one of the vaccination centres.\n\nPeople who want to book a vaccination centre appointment are asked to do so online if it all possible.\n\nIf online booking is not possible, then the telephone booking number is 0300 200 7813.\n\nThe booking line is open 08:00 GMT until 20:00 Monday to Friday.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of 47 cancer charities says that without urgent action, the UK's cancer death rate will rise for the first time in decades.\n\nNHS figures suggest tens of thousands fewer people started cancer treatment since the first lockdown compared to normal times.\n\nOne Cancer Voice says that the NHS needs more resources.\n\nThe government says cancer treatment remains a top priority and urges people to see their GP if they have symptoms.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat has spoken exclusively to One Cancer Voice about the impact of coronavirus on cancer care.\n\nThe group of charities also wants to see more staff available to diagnose and treat cancer, with greater NHS access to private facilities in order to \"clear the backlog\".\n\n\"We are calling on the government to invest more money in ensuring the backlog of cancer cases is reduced and eliminated,\" says Michelle Mitchell, the boss of Cancer Research UK, which heads up One Cancer Voice.\n\n\"We could face, in this country today, the prospect of cancer survival reducing for the first time in decades. That's why urgent action is required by the government.\"\n\nGeorge says: \"We'll see how we go on chemotherapy. And if it stops working, or slows down, we have a few other options\"\n\nOne Cancer Voice estimates that millions of people have had their cancer care affected in some way by the pandemic. Newsbeat's spent the last three months speaking to some of those.\n\nGeorge Hatfield, 20, was told by doctors he's one of the youngest patients ever diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.\n\nHaving been on different treatments of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, George, from Hampshire, was considered for surgery because of the \"good response\" he was showing.\n\nBut he says in the pandemic, that all changed, with doctors hesitant to press ahead.\n\n\"They didn't want to put me at an even higher risk of catching Covid and getting seriously ill. I was already immunosuppressed by my drugs.\"\n\nGeorge admits thinking about how things might have been different without a pandemic, which has effectively taken away a treatment option.\n\n\"When having lots of options is your positive thing and suddenly one gets taken away, it's quite worrying,\" he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeorge says his future is very much a case of taking \"every day as it comes\" and not looking too far ahead.\n\n\"I look a bit further now. When I first started, I didn't look past three weeks but now I look at what plans I've got for the end of the year.\"\n\nHe feels his experience has been made worse by things he was looking forward to being stopped.\n\n\"Occasionally, I do get very frustrated with everything. And it feels like the entire universe is out to get you and make things as difficult as possible for you.\n\n\"But I think sometimes you just have to not dwell on things too much and take things as they come.\"\n\nCraig says: \"It just isn't right. It's not part of the natural order that you see somebody at that age, going through what she went through\"\n\nIt was being well-managed by chemotherapy, according to Craig, but because of the pandemic, she was advised to have a 12-week break in her treatment due to the risk of catching the virus at hospital.\n\nShe died 12 weeks later, aged 31, leaving behind her now seven-year-old son, Finnley.\n\n\"From Kelly's point of view, chemotherapy was keeping her alive so it was best to deal with that first,\" Craig, from Macclesfield, says.\n\n\"We believe staying on the chemotherapy may have given her a month, three months, six months or longer.\n\n\"When you've got a young son, that's all the time in the world.\n\n\"You should never hear somebody of that age, especially somebody you love, coming out with the words that they don't want to die and they're terrified.\"\n\nKelly's son Finnley was six when she passed away\n\nCraig says Kelly would be angered by the way the pandemic has hit other people's cancer care.\n\n\"First of all, obviously, Kelly's care was impacted, and in my opinion, led to her premature death.\n\n\"She fought for the rights of cancer patients to be heard and treated. At the moment neither is happening.\n\n\"In my view, the government has completely neglected cancer patients in this country.\"\n\nThe government says: \"Cancer diagnosis and treatment has remained a top priority throughout the pandemic, with 1.86m urgent referrals and over 477,000 people receiving cancer treatment between March 2020 and January 2021.\n\n\"We continue to urge people to come forward to their GP if they have symptoms. As part of our additional investment in the NHS, an extra £1bn is being used to boost diagnosis and treatment across all areas of elective care in the year ahead.\"\n\nOne Cancer Voice estimates at least 43,700 fewer people got treatment for cancer from April 2020 compared to the equivalent period before the pandemic.\n\nThat's based on stats from the health services in England (April to January 2021), Wales (April to December 2020), Scotland and Northern Ireland (both April to September 2020).\n\nSophie's been having cancer treatment since 2015\n\nSophie Mulligan from Liverpool is in remission from leukaemia.\n\nHer joints have been left damaged, meaning she lives in a lot of pain and is facing a long wait for surgery.\n\nThe 24-year-old's white blood cells had to be flown to America for treatment. Normally, the process for cells would take around four weeks, but Sophie had to wait longer.\n\nShe was concerned about whether her cancer would spread in those extra few weeks.\n\nSophie's treatments have left her with bone tissue damage\n\n\"I saw people moaning about trivial things, like not being able to go out and see friends or go to the pub,\" she says.\n\n\"And I'm thinking, this is a life or death situation for me, that is totally different.\"\n\nWith all the treatments she's had over the years, Sophie has developed a condition called avascular necrosis - which is the death of bone tissue.\n\n\"And that affects my hip joints, shoulder joints, elbow and wrist.\n\n\"It means that I am very restricted in mobility, I suffer from horrendous pain and it affects my day-to-day life.\"\n\n\"I'm not a normal 24-year-old by any means,\" says Sophie\n\nThe pandemic means that there's a long wait for the surgery, and instead, Sophie is having to manage with painkillers and not leaving her house.\n\nAnd while lots of people Sophie's age will be thinking about the country emerging from lockdown, she just wants to be pain-free.\n\n\"I'm more bothered about going back into hospital to have surgery so that I can live some form of a normal life again.\"\n\n\"I think I'm an example of how the NHS should actually be working,\" Toyin says\n\nBut not every cancer patient has had a bad experience during the pandemic.\n\nToyin Coker was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer the week before her 28th birthday, but is now in remission.\n\n\"I haven't had any appointments rescheduled, I haven't had any issues at all, every single treatment was right on time,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nWhen the pandemic hit, Toyin, from London, admits to feeling \"absolutely petrified\".\n\n\"You think about if the surgery or treatment is postponed, and how your body would react to that.\n\n\"You don't know if the delays will make your cancer worse, because I've never dealt with it before.\"\n\n\"It's the fear of not knowing what's going to happen\"\n\nSo she understands the fear many other cancer patients have felt during this time.\n\n\"It's very scary to hear the issues that other people are facing, because this is a life-or-death situation.\n\n\"You've got family members that are worrying as well. So it's a lot more than the person dealing with cancer.\"\n\nFor now, Toyin feels stronger \"and in a very good place.\n\n\"And I'm just really happy to be to be given the all-clear. I'm grateful and feel blessed.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Portugal will be removed from the \"red list\" of countries from where travel to England is banned after 04:00 GMT on Friday, the Department for Transport has announced.\n\nIt means returning travellers will be able to quarantine at home, rather than in a hotel at a cost of £1,750.\n\nBut Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will be added to the travel ban list.\n\nUnder the current rules, foreign travel from the UK is banned apart from for exceptional reasons.\n\nThe earliest date people from England will be able to travel abroad for a holiday is 17 May, when the government hopes to move to step three of its lockdown exit plan.\n\nHowever, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last week warned it was still too early to book foreign summer holidays, saying there were \"lots of questions\" to answer about \"how safe it will be in June to travel\".\n\nThe \"red list\" is part of travel regulations aimed at stopping Covid variants entering the country.\n\nAfter the changes come into force, British and Irish citizens or residents arriving in England from Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar will have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days, and any other visitors will be refused entry.\n\nA ban on commercial and private planes travelling from Oman, Ethiopia and Qatar will also come into force on Friday to reduce the risk of importing \"variants of concern\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Transport added that Portugal had been removed from the red list, including Madeira and the Azores, following evidence that showed the risk of importing a variant \"had reduced\".\n\nMauritius will also be removed from the red list.\n\nMeanwhile, Portugal has extended until 31 March a ban on commercial or private flights between mainland Portugal and the UK, as part of continued restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nPortugal's government has said that only flights \"of a humanitarian nature\" are allowed to and from the UK.\n\nQatar's international airport is popular for people returning to the UK on connecting flights from countries in Asia and Australasia, so its addition to the red list will have a significant impact.\n\nA travel ban is already in force for the United Arab Emirates, which is another Gulf hub.\n\nUnder current lockdown rules, people arriving in the UK now have to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining, and some must pay to self-isolate at a hotel.\n\nThere are concerns existing vaccines may not work quite so well against some variants of coronavirus, including the South Africa and Brazil variants.\n\nAs such, there are currently travel bans on countries \"where the risk of a new variant is greatest\".\n\nUK residents and Irish nationals arriving in England from red list countries have to quarantine in hotels selected by the government.\n\nRule-breakers face stricter penalties, including a prison sentence of up to 10 years for those who lie about having been in a banned \"red list\" country.\n\nThe UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus restrictions, meaning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own travel rules, which differ slightly.", "Nicola Sturgeon is to set out dates for the end of the \"stay at home\" rule and the reopening of shops and hospitality in Scotland, in a speech at Holyrood.\n\nSome measures could be phased in from 5 April, with further changes later in the month and more to follow in May.\n\nThe first minister said things were set to \"get a fair bit better in the weeks and months ahead\" as restrictions ease.\n\nHowever, she warned that she would not \"throw caution to the wind\" and risk Covid-19 cases running out of control.\n\nMs Sturgeon will address MSPs on Tuesday afternoon after discussing the latest scientific evidence and advice with her cabinet in the morning.\n\nOpposition parties have called for greater clarity about what changes will be made and for the government to give people more hope for the future.\n\nSome lockdown restrictions have already begun to be eased, with people allowed to meet in larger groups outdoors and pupils returning to Scotland's schools.\n\nA \"stay at home\" rule remains in force, but Ms Sturgeon said she would announce the proposed date for this to be lifted.\n\nShe has also pledged to set dates for the reopening of non-essential shops, the return of first outdoor and then indoor hospitality, and further relaxations to the rules around meeting other households.\n\nThese changes are likely to be staggered over a number of weeks, or even months, with Ms Sturgeon stressing the importance of pausing to evaluate the impact of easing measures on the spread of the virus.\n\nHairdresser and director of Rainbow Room International in Ayr, Ricardo Corvi, said his sector was ready to go as soon as the word was given.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"All the infrastructure's in place, training's already been in place and we're ready to go.\n\n\"The sooner any business - whether it's hairdressing or whether it's beauty or whether it's pubs or clubs - everybody's just desperate to get their business and get their doors back open.\"\n\nThere has been a slight increase in new infections over the past week, and the first minister said she could not rule out that this was linked to the easing of restrictions and schools reopening.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said that Scotland will go back into a regional levels-based system of local restrictions once the national lockdown is lifted.\n\nMeanwhile, leading public health expert Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, has said she is \"optimistic that much of what we have lost over the last few months we will regain by mid-June\".\n\nSpeaking at a Covid briefing on Monday, the first minister said \"hope for the future\" would need to be \"tempered a bit with continued caution\".\n\nShe said: \"That relaxation of restrictions is something that all of us desperately want to see. But we can't afford to simply throw caution to the wind.\n\n\"The virus is still out there. We've seen that in the past week with a slight increase in cases, and of course the virus is more infectious now than when we came out of lockdown last year,\n\n\"So taking care, being cautious, being sensible really matters if we are to avoid letting the virus run ahead of the vaccine.\"\n\nOpposition parties will have the chance to question Ms Sturgeon following her statement, and have been pushing for more detail about her plans.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has challenged Ms Sturgeon to \"stop putting Scotland's future on hold\" and \"publish the full plan that we're all waiting for\".\n\nHe said: \"We expect a roadmap that tells everyone to get ready - because we're getting our normal lives back.\n\n\"The Scottish people expect to be treated as adults, and honestly told - here's what to expect. They know that dates aren't chiselled in stone, but they deserve more clarity.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, meanwhile, has said the government must focus on improving the test and trace system as well as the vaccine programme if the virus is to be contained at low levels.\n\nAnd he has called for better recovery plans for the post-pandemic period, saying: \"Even when lockdown ends, and the virus is almost eliminated, we will still have to pick up the pieces and rebuild the country we love.\n\n\"Because the last year has torn through the very fabric of our society. The effects of the pandemic have hit us all, but it has also exposed the deep inequalities in our communities.\"\n• None Covid in Scotland: 'Normal' life by end of June", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"If you get the call, get the jab\"\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe, the health secretary has said, after some European nations paused its use amid concern over blood clots.\n\nMatt Hancock urged people to \"listen to the regulators\" and to \"get the jab\" as soon as they got the opportunity.\n\nSome 13 countries have suspended use of the vaccine while they seek further clarification on its safety.\n\nBut the UK's medicines watchdog, the MHRA, has said that evidence \"does not suggest\" the jab causes clots.\n\nThe EU's regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is expected to release the findings of its investigation into cases of blood clots in vaccinated people on Thursday.\n\nHowever, it said previously that it was still \"firmly convinced\" the benefits of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine outweighed the risks and there was \"no indication\" the jab causes blood clots.\n\nAbout 17 million people across the EU and the UK have received a dose of the vaccine, with fewer than 40 cases of blood clots reported as of last week, the manufacturer AstraZeneca said.\n\nIt said the number of cases of blood clots reported was lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population.\n\nIn a bid to reassure the British public, Mr Hancock stressed that the MHRA, the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency all believed the vaccine was safe.\n\n\"We keep the effects of these vaccines under review all the time and we know that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is saving lives in the UK right now so if you get the call, get the jab,\" he said.\n\nAsked if there had been evidence of people declining the jab after the European suspensions, the health secretary said there were still \"huge numbers of people vaccinated every day\" and that \"enthusiasm for getting the vaccine is incredibly strong\".\n\nDowning Street has also defended the safety of the vaccine, with the PM's official spokesman insisting that Boris Johnson would be happy to take it when it came to his turn.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duchess of Cornwall revealed on Tuesday that she had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab earlier this year.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a pop-up vaccination centre in London with the Prince of Wales, Camilla joked that it \"didn't matter\" which jab she was given because \"I hate injections so much\".\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall revealed she received the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab during a visit to a vaccination centre on Tuesday\n\nIt was announced in mid-February that Prince Charles, 72, and the duchess, 73, had received their first Covid jabs. Their ages meant they were included in the fourth priority group for the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nThe latest government figures show that 24,839,906 first doses of a Covid vaccine have now been given in the UK, with some 1,663,646 people receiving a second dose.\n\nCountries across Europe are seeking further clarity on the jab's safety, amid criticism of their decision to suspend its use.\n\nDenmark was first to pause its use of the vaccine, followed by Norway and Iceland. Germany, France, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Latvia and Sweden are the latest to follow suit.\n\nGermany, France and Italy have said they are awaiting the outcome of the EMA investigation.\n\nThey said they had opted to pause their use of the drug as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nOther countries, including Austria, have halted the use of certain batches of the jab, while Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine said they would continue to administer it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's damaging confidence in the vaccine\"\n\nDr Phil Bryan, vaccines safety lead at the MHRA, said that people \"should still go and get their Covid-19 vaccine when asked to do so\".\n\n\"We are closely reviewing reports but given the large number of doses administered, and the frequency at which blood clots can occur naturally, the evidence available does not suggest the vaccine is the cause.\"\n\nThe WHO, which is also investigating the reports, says there is no evidence that the clots were linked to the vaccine and it has urged countries not to pause their vaccination programmes.\n\nProf Jeremy Brown, a member of the UK government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said concerns about blood clots were \"overblown\" as they were unlikely to be linked to the jab.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme pausing its use would cause more illness and deaths than would be prevented \"by the unlikely situation that there's an increased risk of a very rare event occurring as a consequence of the vaccine\".\n\nSir Kent Woods, former chief executive of the MHRA and former chair of the EMA, told BBC Breakfast there would have been a \"denting of public confidence because of the disorderly situation in Europe\" and by suspending the use of the jab countries were \"increasing the risk to the population\".\n\nDr Jess Harvey, a GP in Shropshire, said she had received several calls from patients concerned about the possibility of blood clots linked to the vaccine.\n\nShe said she had not had any appointments cancelled yet but was worried about no-shows.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health England said on Tuesday that it was investigating a new coronavirus variant previously reported by the Philippines, after two cases were identified in England.\n\nIt said one case was linked with international travel, while the other was still under investigation.\n\nPHE also said that two cases of the P.1 variant of concern first found in Brazil had been identified in England - with one in the West Midlands and another in Haringey, London.\n\nThis variant has a mutation - known as E484 - that means it can escape some of the immune response, which may mean vaccines work less effectively against it.\n\nBoth cases were linked with international travel to Brazil, PHE said, and bring the total number of UK cases of the variant to 12.", "\"Immediate steps\" aimed at improving safety for women and girls in England and Wales have been announced by No 10 after Sarah Everard's death.\n\nAmong them is an additional £25m for better lighting and CCTV as well as a pilot scheme which would see plain-clothes officers in pubs and clubs.\n\nCampaigners say the money is not enough and called for institutional changes.\n\nLabour said meaningful changes to law are needed rather than plans involving \"police officers in skinny jeans\".\n\nIt comes after hundreds of people protested in central London on Monday.\n\nMs Everard went missing while walking home from a friend's house on 3 March.\n\nHer body was later found in woodland in Kent and Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with the 33-year-old marketing executive's kidnap and murder.\n\nFollowing a meeting of the government's Crime and Justice Taskforce on Monday evening, Downing Street said it would take \"immediate steps\" to give \"further reassurance\" to women and girls in the wake of the killing of Ms Everard.\n\nNo 10 said it would double the size of the Safer Streets fund - which provides local measures such as better lighting and CCTV - to £45m.\n\nUndercover police will be sent to clubs, bars and popular nightspots to relay intelligence about predatory or suspicious offenders to uniformed officers, in pilots of so-called Project Vigilant, rolled out across the country.\n\nSafeguarding minister Victoria Atkins said undercover officers working in the night-time economy would feed intelligence to uniformed officers.\n\nShe said the government would work with businesses and police to ensure, as the industry reopened following the coronavirus lockdown, \"that women can feel safe in our streets\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - who chaired the meeting - said the government was bringing in \"landmark legislation\" to toughen up sentences and put more police on streets.\n\nHe said: \"Ultimately, we must drive out violence against women and girls and make every part of the criminal justice system work to better protect and defend them.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow domestic violence minister Jess Phillips told BBC Breakfast that in her years of experience, she had not come across experts or victims calling for more CCTV in public spaces.\n\nShe accused ministers of being \"caught on the hop\" and rolling out plans involving \"police officers in skinny jeans\" rather than meaningful changes to legislation regarding street harassment, or a detailed review of how rape is prosecuted in England and Wales.\n\nThe shadow home secretary, Labour's Nick Thomas-Symonds, said the measures were \"nowhere near good enough\" and called for \"urgent action\" on issues like harassment of women, domestic homicide sentencing and more support for victims of rape.\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme more funding for better street lighting was not unwelcome, but \"it really just doesn't understand what the issues are\". She said measures focused on policing nightspots do not recognise \"that women get abused, assaulted and intimidated in all sorts of places\".\n\nDr Ellie Cosgrave, a lecturer in urban innovation and policy at University College London, said it was right that the government consider lighting as a way to help make cities safer, but added: \"You can't just shove a light in and hope that the public space will be better.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that \"over-lighting\" some areas in a city can make other areas feel less safe.\n\nDr Cosgrave said the best action ministers can take to make cities safer is to understand the \"social dynamics\" of an area by conducting surveys, speaking to people, and implementing change based on what they say.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC Breakfast it was good news that more women were feeling more confident to report rape allegations, but he added \"we still haven't done well enough to get the evidence that can secure convictions\".\n\nA spokeswoman for organisation Reclaim These Streets said it welcomed additional funding but did not believe funding alone would create the structural changes which were \"so important\".\n\n\"Women won't be able to trust that they are safe until misogyny and racism are tackled at an institutional level within government, police and the criminal justice system,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dania Al-Obeid: \"All I wanted was to stand with other women\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel had warned against holding vigils, and has launched a review into the policing of a gathering over the weekend in south London in memory of Ms Everard.\n\nDuring that event, officers handcuffed and removed several women after crowds gathered on Clapham Common to lay flowers and pay their respects.\n\nOn Monday, hundreds marched across central London in what was said to be a meeting by Sisters Uncut, which describes itself as an \"intersectional feminist direct-action collective\", with many of those in attendance carrying placards.\n\nFour people were arrested - three on suspicion of breaching coronavirus regulations and a fourth on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker. A further two people were issued with fixed penalty notices, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nProtests will be able to legally resume on 29 March, when the coronavirus \"stay at home\" order lifts in England.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said demonstrations will continue to be subject to Covid-secure precautions such as appropriate measures to maintain social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, MPs will continue debating the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill later, which would change how protests are managed, including allowing police to impose conditions such as start and finish times.\n\nLabour has criticised the bill saying it did \"nothing to help women feel safer\", and imposed \"disproportionate\" controls on freedom of speech.\n\nMs Patel said the bill would end the halfway release of those convicted of sexual offences such as rape and also said the Domestic Abuse bill was on track to receive royal assent by the end of April, which she said would \"transform our collective response to this abhorrent crime\".", "Caroline Wiseman applied for retrospective planning permission for placing the sculptures on the beach\n\nArtist Sir Antony Gormley has formally objected to a set of his sculptures being displayed on a beach, saying their positioning is a \"misrepresentation\" of his work.\n\nThe four iron bollards were placed on the beach at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, by owner Caroline Wiseman, in August.\n\nShe retrospectively applied for planning permission last month, to which Sir Antony has objected.\n\nMs Wiseman said if the plans were rejected she would have to sell them.\n\nPublicity about the planning application last month led to mixed reviews about the artwork on social media.\n\nWhile their owner described them as \"fine works\" in her application to East Suffolk Council, some compared the works to \"sex toys\" or \"giant dog poo\" .\n\nOwner Ms Wiseman described them as \"fine works\"\n\nIt was brought to the attention of their creator, Angel of the North sculptor Sir Antony, whose representative lodged an objection with the council, as first reported in the Telegraph.\n\nThe four artworks - titled Oval, Peg, Penis and Snowman - were bought from an official Gormley exhibition in 2001 by art collector Ms Wiseman.\n\nLast year, she moved them to the beach in front of her gallery.\n\nSir Antony Gormley's agent said the placement of the sculptures \"compromises their purpose as a piece of street furniture\"\n\nThe Gormley sculpture is made up of four cast iron pieces, half buried in the shingle beach\n\nHer retrospective application was submitted as she said she had not realised permission might be needed to place them there.\n\nA letter from Sir Antony's representative stated the artist objected on the grounds that the bollards were \"functional pieces of urban design\" and were meant to \"stand upright\".\n\n\"The change of orientation and configuration of the bollards completely compromises their purpose as a piece of street furniture and the artist's original intention behind the work,\" the letter said.\n\nMs Wiseman said she had tried to stand the 220lb (100kg) pieces upright, \"but the pebbles wouldn't support them\".\n\n\"We laid them down, instead, and people have said how beautiful they are,\" she added.\n\nThe design has been named Quartet (Sleeping) by Ms Wiseman\n\nSir Antony also objected to Ms Wiseman changing the name of the group to Quartet (Sleeping), 2001 - which Ms Wiseman said was done partly because they were displayed lying down.\n\nShe said: \"When you buy a work of art you're able to display it how you want it - it's called an 'intervention' in the art world.\"\n\nIf permission to keep them on the beach was refused, she said she would have to auction them and thought they would sell in the region of £5,000 a piece.\n\n\"But they are there for the enjoyment of all the people of Aldeburgh and Suffolk, and it will be a very sad thing if they have to go,\" she said.\n\nSir Antony is most famous for his Angel of the North sculpture in Gateshead\n\nEast Suffolk Council's planning committee is due to consider the application at a later date.\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 last St Patrick's Day parade in Belfast was in 2019\n\nSt Patrick's Day celebrations will once again be different this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTraditional parades in Belfast and Dublin have been cancelled for the second year in a row, with many events across the island again moving online.\n\nPolice have warned that anyone breaking Covid-19 regulations in NI will face a \"robust\" response.\n\nBut while large gatherings are mostly ruled out, attempts have been made to celebrate in style around the world.\n\nWhen the Global Greenings initiative was first launched, just the Sydney Opera House and the Sky Tower in Auckland took part\n\nSince 2010, landmarks around the world have gone green in honour of St Patrick and this year, a record number of places are taking part.\n\nSome 670 sites in 66 countries will take part in Tourism Ireland's Global Greenings initiative.\n\nThe quirkiest additions to this year's list include an abandoned sauna in Finland and a Smurf statue in Brussels.\n\nHere's how other places in Northern Ireland and further afield are planning to mark the occasion:\n\nBelfast has an array of virtual events for people to enjoy from the comfort of their own homes throughout the month of March.\n\nAn online disco, Irish language festivals and a virtual guided tour of the city's street art are just some of the events on offer.\n\nSeveral live music events will also be streamed throughout St Patrick's Day, showcasing the city's talent.\n\nSt Joseph's Church in Sailortown is one such venue celebrating with an eight-hour live-streamed event.\n\nThe St Patrick's Centre in Downpatrick, County Down is celebrating with a number of online events for St Patrick's Day and also to mark its 20 year anniversary.\n\nA new show about St Patrick, a children's virtual art competition and a series of podcasts from former BBC politics correspondent Martina Purdy and ex-barrister Elaine Kelly, who are pilgrim guides on the new St Patrick's Way, are just some of the events on offer.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Ms Purdy said that some of the guests involved on the podcast are journalist and presenter Eamonn Holmes, as well as Irish cellist Patrick Dexter, who has found online fame with his open-air recitals, shot outside his cottage in County Mayo.\n\n\"I was probably less aggressive than I was previously with some politicians,\" she said.\n\nIt is claimed that St Patrick is buried outside Downpatrick Cathedral. A large granite stone marks the spot, placed there in the early 20th century.\n\nThe council's Spring and St Patrick's Day programme promises to \"bring some colour\" to the city and district, according to mayor Brian Tierney.\n\nHe thanked event organisers for a programme that \"strikes a balance between giving the public something to look forward to and celebrate, while also keeping everyone safe\".\n\nEvent organiser Jacqueline Whoriskey said: \"While we will not be holding any public events or gatherings, we have focused in on how we can creatively bring the spring spirit to our streets with artwork and installations, with fairy dwellings and artistic sculptures that can be enjoyed by everyone when out getting some fresh air and exercise\".\n\nArmagh's At Home With St Patrick Festival includes events such as online wreath making and an Irish dancing master class.\n\nAll events are free of charge, however, some do require registration in advance.\n\nThe council is marking Irish Language Week and St Patrick's Day with a series of online performances and storytelling.\n\nAll events have moved online and the festival includes music and dance performances, streamed live from the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh and the Ardhowen Theatre in Enniskillen.\n\nThe council is streaming a series of craft workshops, musical entertainment and dance performances live on social media channels throughout the day.\n\nHundreds of extra PSNI officers are set to be deployed across Northern Ireland for St Patrick's Day\n\nPolice in Northern Ireland have appealed for anyone celebrating St Patrick's Day to ensure that they adhere to all public health regulations.\n\nHundreds of extra PSNI officers are set to be deployed across Northern Ireland on Wednesday, through to the early hours of Thursday.\n\nThe substantial policing operation will see officers patrolling beauty spots and the Holyland area of south Belfast.\n\nPolice said that a number of gatherings have already been broken up by officers in south Belfast ahead of St Patrick's Day.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said that people know the rules and those breaking them could face fines.\n\nSaint Patrick lived in the 5th Century AD and is understood to have played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.\n\nWhile St Patrick really existed, and some of his writings survive, his value does not really come from historical details but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.\n\nHe is traditionally associated with the shamrock plant, which he used to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity.\n\nThe city's St Patrick's Festival runs from 12 to 17 March, with more than 100 online events around the theme of Awaken Ireland.\n\nOrganisers have partnered with Irish national broadcaster RTÉ for the virtual parade.\n\nThe celebrations will be broadcast around the world to a potential audience of 80 million people, organisers said.\n\nThe Queen has extended her best wishes to the people of Ireland for St Patrick's Day, 10 years after she visited.\n\nIn her message to Irish President Michael D Higgins, she said: \"We share ties of family, friendship and affection, the foundation of our partnership that remains as important today as ten years ago.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The bowl will be placed on President Joe Biden's desk during his meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders will discuss, among other things, combating Covid-19 and supporting political and economic stability in Northern Ireland, according to the White House.\n\nJoe Biden posing for a photo with residents in Ballina, County Mayo, in 2016\n\nMr Biden, who has strong links to Mayo and Carlingford, will no doubt want to celebrate his Irish roots.\n\nBefore a visit to the land of his forefathers in 2016, the then US vice-president said: \"Being Irish, without fear of contradiction, has shaped my entire life.\"\n\nIn Chicago, officials had cancelled the annual colouring of the Chicago River event but the city's mayor was determined to continue with the tradition, minus the fanfare.\n\nChicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted: \"Happy St. Patrick's Day Weekend, Chicago! Although we didn't gather, we were able to honor long-standing tradition by dyeing the Chicago River green, thanks to the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mayor Lori Lightfoot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's chief medical officer has said he is \"wholly confident\" in the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nA number of European countries have suspended use of the vaccine amid fears that it may cause blood clots.\n\nHowever, watchdogs including the World Health Organisation have found no link between the jab and an increased risk of developing a clot.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said he would \"categorically state that we remain confident\" in the vaccine programme.\n\nAnd First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people to continue to come forward for appointments when invited, saying they provide \"significant protection\" against the virus.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has joined countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Denmark and Norway in pausing their use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThere have been about 30 cases in Europe of \"thromboembolic events\" - people developing blood clots - after the vaccine was administered.\n\nHowever, with almost five million people having been given a first dose of the vaccine across Europe, AstraZeneca said this number of clots was \"significantly lower... than would be expected among the general population\".\n\nBoth the WHO and the European Medicines Agency have said there is no indication that the jab was causing the blood clots.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said studies had found \"no causal link\" between the vaccine and blood clots\n\nThe use of vaccines in the UK is governed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which has backed the continued use of the AstraZeneca jab.\n\nAt the Scottish government's daily Covid-19 briefing, Dr Smith said there had been \"no causal link between any of these incidents and the AstraZeneca vaccine\".\n\nHe said: \"What we can say at this point in time is that looking at the data about blood clots both in Europe and the UK, it is no more common to have an episode of a blood clot than you would see in the general population - in fact it is somewhat less.\n\n\"Between one and two people in a thousand would suffer a blood clot in any given year. Among the 17 million or so vaccinations given with the AstraZeneca vaccine so far, we have not seen any signal coming through whatsoever to suggest there are any more blood clots than expected in that population.\n\n\"People in that population are going to continue to become ill anyway - they will have events that they would have had whether they had had the vaccine or not.\n\n\"What we are looking for in this data, what the MHRA will be looking for, is any signs of those events being over or above what is expected - and they are not seeing that.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the pace of the vaccine programme should \"pick up significantly\" in the coming days\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would be happy to be given the AstraZeneca jab, and urged others to continue to come forward.\n\nThe first minister said she was in the age group that should be given a first dose of the vaccine by mid-April, saying she was \"hoping to see my blue envelope appear at some point in the next couple of weeks\".\n\nShe added: \"As soon as I get that, I will be there without hesitation, regardless of which of the vaccines I am being offered. And I would urge everybody getting an invitation to be vaccinated to be vaccinated, because it provides you and people you live with significant protection.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"virtually all\" Scots over the age of 65 had now had a first dose of vaccine, as had 53% of 60-64 year olds, 41% of 55-59 year olds and 33% of those aged 50 to 54.\n\nShe said the pace of vaccination should \"pick up significantly\" in the coming days, with supplies expected to be available for 400,000 doses to be administered over the course of the week.\n\nThis is projected to continue into next month, with the government \"on track\" to hit its target of completing all priority groups - including over-50s, unpaid carers and adults with underlying health conditions - by mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That will be a really significant milestone, if and when we meet that target. It provides all of us with firmer grounds for hope for the months and weeks ahead.\"\n\nThe first minister will set out plans for further easing of lockdown restrictions at Holyrood on Tuesday, with moves to re-open shops and hospitality venues and lift the \"stay at home\" order expected to be scheduled through April and into May.\n\nIn his speech to the Scottish Conservative conference, leader Douglas Ross challenged Ms Sturgeon to \"stop putting Scotland's future on hold\" and \"publish the full plan that we're all waiting for\".\n\nHe said: \"The Scottish people expect to be treated as adults, and honestly told - here's what to expect. They know that dates aren't chiselled in stone - but they deserve more clarity.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for a \"balanced\" approach, saying: \"We have to make sure this is the last lockdown.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's not just think the silver bullet is the vaccine - it is one part of trying to drive down the virus, but if we are going to truly have an elimination strategy we have got to suppress the virus to next to zero levels and isolate it at those small levels.\n\n\"In order to do that we've got to up the level of testing, and then alongside that we need to isolate the virus using our tracing system in a more effective way.\"", "The foreign secretary has warned democracy is \"in retreat\", in a speech setting out his vision for the UK's role in the world.\n\nDominic Raab argued democracies face their greatest threat since the end of the Cold War.\n\nHe said that is why countries like Britain should try to be a \"force for good in the world\".\n\nIt comes as the government faces criticism over the UK's future relationship with China.\n\nThe Integrated Review of foreign and defence policy set out by the government yesterday plans to increase the cap on the UK's stockpile of nuclear weapons.\n\nIt also said Britain would shift its focus towards Indo-Pacific countries, while pledging to tackle the \"systemic challenge\" of China.\n\nSpeaking to the US Aspen Security Forum, Mr Raab predicted in the next decade, the combined wealth of autocratic regimes is likely to exceed that of the world's democracies.\n\n\"Think about what that means for a second,\" he said.\n\n\"Tyranny is richer than freedom, and that matters to us here at home.\n\n\"Because stable, freedom-respecting democracies are much less likely to go to war, house terrorists or trigger large scale flows of migrants and they are generally, not always, but generally easier to trade with, and easier to cooperate with to solve our shared problems.\"\n\nHe said the UK has \"a moral responsibility and an indivisible stake in our planet, our global economy, our global ecosystem and the conditions of peace and stability that underpin them\".\n\nAnd he argued that the UK \"can and should help alleviate the worst suffering in the world\".\n\nResponding to the review on Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the Conservatives of overseeing an \"era of retreat,\" with armed forces cuts \"every year for the last decade\".\n\nAnd he also said the UK's policy towards China had been \"inconsistent\" and accused the government of turning \"a blind eye\" to human rights abuses in the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Raab has faced criticism after apparently telling officials the UK should trade with countries not meeting European Convention on Human Rights standards, in a leaked clip obtained by HuffPost UK.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the recording was selectively clipped to distort the comments of the foreign secretary who, it said, had emphasised the importance of promoting human rights.\n\nThe government is facing internal Conservative pressure to harden its stance on China over issues including its clampdown on Uighur Muslims and democratic rights in Hong Kong.\n\nThe review said the UK should \"continue to pursue a positive trade and investment relationship\" with the country - prompting some criticism from backbenchers.\n\nSenior Tory Julian Lewis took issue with its description of China as a \"partner,\" adding it suggested suggested the \"grasping naivety\" of the party's approach under David Cameron and former chancellor George Osborne, when it actively sought Chinese investment, \"still lingers on\".\n\nBut giving evidence to a Lords committee on Wednesday, Mr Osborne defended his approach, arguing the UK should not take a \"dramatically different\" stance on Chinese investment.\n\nHe told peers the UK was \"more likely to get a hearing\" over its human rights concerns by \"engaging\" with China economically.\n\nHe added that forcing China to \"engage with the world\" was likely to improve British security in the long-run.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng also defended the government's approach, arguing that to \"pull up the drawbridge\" would not be \"productive\" when it comes to rights issues.\n\n\"You can trade with a country and at the same time make very strong representations about their mistreatment of minorities and their human rights abuses,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.", "A new approach to making jet fuel from food waste has the potential to massively reduce carbon emissions from flying, scientists say.\n\nCurrently, most of the food scraps that are used for energy around the world are converted into methane gas.\n\nBut researchers in the US have found a way of turning this waste into a type of paraffin that works in jet engines.\n\nThe authors of the new study say the fuel cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 165% compared to fossil energy.\n\nThis figure comes from the reduction in carbon emitted from airplanes plus the emissions that are avoided when food waste is diverted from landfill.\n\nThe aviation industry worldwide is facing some difficult decisions about how to combine increased demand for flying with the need to rapidly cut emissions from the sector.\n\nResearchers at the NREL lab in the US distilling the new fuel\n\nIn the US, airlines currently use around 21 billion gallons of jet fuel every year, with demand expected to double by the middle of the century. At the same time, they have committed to cutting CO2 by 50%.\n\nWith the development of battery-powered airplanes for long haul flights a distant prospect at this point, much attention has focussed on replacing existing jet fuel with a sustainable alternative.\n\nIn fact the UK government has just announced a £15m competition to encourage companies to develop jet fuel from household waste products.\n\nCurrent methods of making green jet fuel are based on a similar approach to making biodiesel for cars and heavy goods vehicles.\n\nIt normally requires the use of virgin vegetable oils as well as waste fats, oil and grease to make the synthetic fuel.\n\nAt present, it is more economical to convert these oils and wastes into diesel as opposed to jet fuel - which requires an extra step in the process, driving up costs.\n\nNow, researchers say that they have developed an alternative method able to turn food waste, animal manure and waste water into a competitive jet hydrocarbon.\n\nMuch of this material, termed wet-waste, is at present is turned into methane gas. However, the authors found a way of interrupting this process so it produced volatile fatty acids (VFA) instead of CH4.\n\nThe researchers were then able to use a form of catalytic conversion to upgrade the VFA to two different forms of sustainable paraffin.\n\nFood waste is a global problem and a major cause of global warming emissions\n\nWhen the two forms were combined they were able to blend 70% of the mixture with regular jet fuel, while still meeting the extremely strict quality criteria that Federal authorities impose on aircraft fuels.\n\n\"There's exciting jet fuels that rely on burning trash and dry waste but this actually works for those wastes that have high water content, which we normally dispose of in landfill,\" said Derek Vardon, a senior research engineer at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the lead author on the study.\n\n\"Being able to show that you can take these volatile fatty acids, and that there's a really elegant, simple way to turn it into jet fuel - that's where I see the broader applicability of this one, and folks can continue to develop and refine it.\"\n\nThe new fuel has a potentially significant impact on emissions as it not only limits the CO2 that comes from fossil sources used by the airlines, but it also gets rid of the methane that would bubble up from landfill if the waste food was just dumped.\n\nAnother major advantage is that this new fuel produces around 34% less soot than current standards. This is important because soot plays a key role in the formation of contrails from airplanes which adds a powerful warming effect to CO2 coming from the engines.\n\nEmissions from flying are set to rise rapidly over the next two decades\n\n\"That's where we see the most potential for this technology is that you're preventing methane emissions, and dramatically lowering the carbon footprint of jet fuel. And you just can't do that with fossil fuels without getting into things like offsets,\" said Derek Vardon.\n\nThe research team say they are planning to scale up the production of the new fuel and aim to have test flights with Southwest Airlines in 2023.\n\nMany environmental groups are sceptical about attempts to develop sustainable aviation fuels, believing that it amounts to green-washing. They argue that people should just fly less.\n\n\"Sustainable aviation fuel is not a silver bullet,\" Derek Vardon says.\n\n\"So we do want to definitely emphasise that reduction is the most important and most significant change you can make. But there's also pragmatism and need for aviation solutions now, so that's where we want to strike a balance as we need a basket of measures, to really start getting our carbon footprint down in a variety of sectors, including aviation.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).", "For rugby fans this year, the Six Nations has really been the home internationals\n\nRugby fans have been reminded to watch Wales' Grand Slam decider at home to avoid a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nWales will claim a fifth Six Nations Grand Slam in 16 years if they beat France in Paris on Saturday evening.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"The last thing we want is to mark a potential Grand Slam weekend with a surge in Covid cases.\"\n\nPolice fear it will be a \"temptation\" for some people to mix but officers have warned of \"robust\" action.\n\n\"Let's not become a sick nation while winning the Six Nations,\" said Gwent Police Ch Supt Mark Hobrough.\n\nTwo households can mix outdoors in Wales - including in gardens - but socialising indoors is not allowed.\n\nWales' final Six Nations clash with Paris in France kicks off at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, just after the south Wales football derby between Swansea City and Cardiff City, which starts at 17:30.\n\nSports fans usually go out to celebrate such big days in the Welsh sporting calendar but with Wales still in lockdown, authorities have warned people against mixing or face a fine.\n\nWales rugby fans have celebrated four Grand Slams since 2005\n\nLee Llewellyn from Neath will be watching the game with friends over Zoom \"to create a bit of an atmosphere\"\n\n\"Normally on a weekend like this we'd see clubs, restaurants, pubs, city centres, towns and villages all full of people celebrating and coming together,\" said Ch Supt Hobrough.\n\n\"You'd also see people going into each others' houses and celebrating - but this is going to be a very unusual year where we can't actually do that.\n\n\"Rugby is embedded in Welsh culture and understandably there's a lot of people happy about the success of the Welsh team in times that have been really challenging.\n\n\"But let's enjoy the game and stay safe and to respect and act within the law.\n\n\"It's not often we have a possible Six Nations Grand Slam and the temptation must be there to celebrate - but celebrate within your own household.\"\n\nHe said officers will be \"highly visible\" and will \"tackle the lack of Covid compliance robustly\".\n\nCardiff is usually full of celebrating fans on a rugby Grand Slam day\n\nSteve Round, partner Kelli Priest and daughter Trinity are looking forward to watching the game at home in Newport\n\nWith the Covid infection rate falling to 43 cases per 100,000 people and more than a third of people in Wales vaccinated, officers have warned against public complacency.\n\n\"The legislation has been around for a year now and this message goes to those who might think they are exempt if you've had the vaccine,\" said Ch Supt Hobrough.\n\n\"You can still get or transmit the virus. Let's all enjoy this weekend in the realms of the law as we can see a light at the end of the tunnel - let's make sure we eliminate this virus as soon as possible.\"\n\nLiverpool fans celebrate their 2020 Premier League title win outside their home ground Anfield\n\nCrowds gathered in the centre of Glasgow to celebrate Rangers winning the 2021 Scottish Premiership\n\nA number of sporting celebrations in the past year have drawn criticism, with arrests and fines given after Glasgow Rangers fans celebrated their first Scottish Premiership title in 10 years earlier this month.\n\nWhile thousands of Liverpool fans flocked to Anfield after the club won a first English league title in 30 years in June.\n\nWelsh health bosses have pointed out that there are \"still 1,000 patients in our hospitals across Wales\" and while the R rate is dropping, people are still catching the virus.\n\nWales have already won the Six Nations Triple Crown this season - now they're going for the clean sweep\n\n\"You shouldn't be going to someone's house to watch it,\" said Dr Kelechi Nnoaham, director of public health for Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\n\"You can watch it, watch it in your own home and not go into other people's homes to watch it - I really want to get out that message, please don't mix with people who are not in your household beyond what has already been allowed since last Saturday.\n\n\"Because there is still a reservoir of this infection, and it is still likely to pass on if we lose.\"", "Friday was a record day for Covid vaccinations in the UK, with a combined 711,156 first and second doses given to members of the public.\n\nIt means that half of all UK adults - some 26,853,407 people - have now received a first dose of a vaccine.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the latest milestone in the rollout marked a \"phenomenal achievement\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - one of those to receive a first dose on Friday - also hailed the landmark.\n\nA total of 2,132,551 people have also received their second dose of a vaccine, government figures show.\n\nAnother 96 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have also been recorded in the UK, as have a further 5,587 cases.\n\n\"Vaccinating over half of all adults is a phenomenal achievement and is testament to the mammoth efforts of the NHS, GPs, volunteers, local authorities and civil servants in every corner of the UK,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\nThe news comes after the government confirmed a shipment of about five million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab would be delayed, resulting in an expected reduction in the number of first doses - including for the under-50s - given during April.\n\nMeanwhile, European countries, including France, Germany and Italy, have begun offering the Oxford jab again after a pause over safety fears.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to reveal the UK had reached the vaccination milestone.\n\nHe added: \"It's a huge success and I want to say many, many thanks to all those involved, including the half of all adults who have come forward.\"\n\nMr Johnson - who received his first dose on Friday - added he was \"immensely proud of the progress we have made so far in rolling out vaccinations\".\n\n\"There is still further to go and I encourage everyone to take up the offer when asked to do so,\" he said.\n\nDespite the progress of the UK's vaccine rollout, a scientist advising the government has warned overseas holidays would be \"extremely unlikely\" because of the risk of travellers bringing Covid variants back to the UK.\n\nThe UK faced a \"real risk\" if people travelled abroad in the summer, Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, which feeds into Sage, said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"too early to tell\" when holidays abroad would be allowed.\n\nUnder the current roadmap for easing restrictions, the earliest date people in England could holiday abroad would be 17 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"The 17th of May is the very earliest for international travel\"\n\nWith all over-50s now able to take up the offer of a vaccine dose, the vaccination programme approaches a target to offer a vaccine to the top nine priority groups, as determined by scientific advisers, by mid-April.\n\nThese included frontline health and care workers, people who were clinically vulnerable and those with an increased risk of hospitalisation - covering 99% of those at risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland and some areas of Scotland, people in their 50s were already being offered a Covid vaccine. Parts of England may already have started offering it to this age group too, with Wales targeting an offer of one dose to all over-50s by mid-April.\n\nThe most-recent issues with supplies meant the vaccine rollout would be \"slightly slower than we might have hoped but not slower than the target we had set ourselves\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said on Friday.\n\nThose with appointments for second doses should attend as normal and it is expected April could see more second doses than first doses for the first time.\n\nAlongside the Oxford vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, the UK has also approved a third vaccine - from Moderna - which is due to start being rolled out in late spring.\n\nA vaccine from Novavax has shown promising results and will be made in north-east England, and a single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has also been shown to be effective.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds United's all-time record goalscorer Peter Lorimer has died aged 74, the club have announced.\n\nThe former Scotland international scored 238 goals in 705 appearances for Leeds over two spells spanning 23 years.\n\nHe won two league titles, the FA Cup and League Cup with Leeds under legendary manager Don Revie.\n\nLeeds announced \"with great sadness\" Lorimer had died on Saturday morning \"following a long-term illness\".\n\nA statement read: \"Peter's contribution to Leeds United will never be forgotten and his passing leaves another huge hole in the Leeds United family.\n\n\"He will always remain a club icon and his legacy at Elland Road will live on.\"\n\nLorimer also won 21 caps for Scotland and played in all three of their matches at the 1974 World Cup, scoring in the 2-0 win against Zaire.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter the Scottish FA said it was \"are deeply saddened\" at the news of Lorimer's death.\n\nLorimer became Leeds' youngest ever player when he made his debut against Southampton in September 1962 at the age of 15 years, 289 days.\n\nAs an attacking midfielder, he would go on to become a key member of Revie's team that became a dominant force in English football, winning the League Cup in 1968, the First Division in 1969 and 1974, the Charity Shield in 1969 and the FA Cup in 1972.\n\nThey also tasted European success with victory in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971, as well as reaching the 1973 European Cup Winners' Cup final and the 1975 European Cup final.\n\nHe thought he had scored in the European Cup final, but his goal was controversially disallowed, and Leeds lost to Bayern Munich.\n\nMany of Lorimer's goals were smashed into the net with such force he was given the nicknames 'Hotshot' and 'Lash' by the supporters.\n\nHe left Leeds in 1979 for spells with Toronto Blizzard, Vancouver Whitecaps and York City before returning to Elland Road in 1983 at the age of 37, when the club were in what was then the Second Division.\n\nHe scored a further 19 goals in 87 appearances to break the club's scoring record before moving to Whitby Town in 1985.\n\nHe retained his links with Leeds following his retirement as a player, serving as a director and a club ambassador.\n\nHe also worked as a pundit for BBC Radio Leeds, had a column in the Yorkshire Evening Post and wrote a column in the club's match day programme until as recently as last month's Premier League game against Aston Villa.\n\n'A legend we all aspire to be like' - tributes\n\nLorimer's former Leeds team-mate Eddie Gray told Football Focus: \"Peter was a truly great player, but he was also a great man.\n\n\"Peter could do anything. He could go by people; he was a great crosser of the ball. People think about him and his tremendous shot, which he did have, but he was also a great goalscorer and great footballer.\n\n\"He will be sorely missed by all the Leeds United fans.\"\n\nCurrent Leeds captain Liam Cooper paid tribute to Lorimer, tweeting: \"Fly High Peter. A legend that we all aspire to be like. Sending all our love to Peter's family.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Stuart Dallas also wrote on Twitter: \"After the high of last night, we learn of such sad news this morning. My thoughts are with Peter's family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nLeeds chairman Andrea Radrizzani tweeted: \"Another Legend left us. My prayers with the family - it has been an honour to meet you and host you at Elland Road, your home.\"", "All coastal towns in England will be eligible for government funding to help them reopen as restrictions are eased, under new plans set out by ministers.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the £56m fund would also \"spruce up\" high streets and help councils welcome visitors back safely.\n\nPubs can put up marquees in their gardens for longer and there will be a crackdown on \"cowboy parking firms\".\n\nLabour said it was a \"drop in the ocean\" in terms of what areas needed.\n\nEngland's current \"stay at home\" regulations are expected to be lifted on 29 March, with most restrictions eased in various steps by the 21 June, based on certain conditions being met at each stage.\n\nAnnouncing the latest tranche of funding, Mr Jenrick acknowledged it had been \"an incredibly difficult period for retail and hospitality\".\n\nHe said the government would do everything it could to help businesses reopen safely.\n\nThere has been concern about how coastal areas in particular will cope with an expected influx of visitors.\n\nWhen the first lockdown was eased last June, seaside resorts were gridlocked, with Bournemouth declaring a \"major incident\" as people flocked to the beach.\n\nPeople travelled to Bournemouth from as far away as Birmingham\n\nMr Jenrick said that this time, £6m of the £56m Welcome Back fund would be specifically allocated to support coastal areas.\n\nThe remaining £50m will be distributed by central government to councils for things such as improving green spaces and providing more outdoor seating areas, markets and food pop-ups.\n\nHe also announced the government would be \"cutting red tape\" to allow pubs to erect marquees in their gardens for \"the whole of the spring and summer\", rather than the 28 days currently permitted, so people can meet up with their family and friends \"whatever the weather\".\n\nAnd in a bid to attract more shoppers to the high street, ministers have announced a crackdown on cowboy parking firms.\n\nThere will be a new appeals process to try to curb unfair tickets and caps will be introduced on private parking fines.\n\nThe struggles of the hospitality sector amid multiple lockdowns have been well documented. And the independent retailers' trade body Bira says the past 12 months have been the worst of its members' lives - with crucial in-person Easter and pre-Christmas trade lost.\n\nOnce non-essential shops can open again, from 12 April in England, any help to attract people back will no doubt be welcome. Businesses will want to make the most of pent-up demand in a safe way.\n\nThe same goes for hospitality. While social distancing will still be in place at least to start with, maximising outdoor space will be crucial for venues which have it - especially during the first phase of their reopening when only outdoor service will be permitted.\n\nPackages like these for high streets and towns won't fix the long-term challenges facing town centres: shoppers going online, leaving big high street stores increasingly empty. Some customers have grown so used to internet shopping during a year of lockdowns that the habit will stick.\n\nThe hope will be, however, to make this a summer to remember after a winter to forget.\n\nGovernment officials say this will \"give drivers more confidence in heading into town knowing they won't be unfairly penalised by rogue operators\".\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"As we move to the next stage on the road map out of lockdown, we are all looking forward to being reunited with friends and family outdoors and making a safe and happy return to our favourite shops, cafes, pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"Our Welcome Back Fund gives every city, town and high street support to prepare for a great summer. This funding will help councils and businesses to welcome shoppers, diners and tourists back safely.\n\n\"As soon as the road map allows, we need to get behind our local businesses and enjoy all that this country has to offer and that we've been missing so much.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the Conservatives of presiding over \"decades of decline\".\n\nThe shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, said: \"This is just a drop in the ocean compared to how much the Conservatives took away over a decade when they pushed our high streets and seaside towns into deep decline - and it's not clear which areas will benefit.\n\n\"The Conservatives have done nothing to level the playing field between high street shops and online retailers. Now they want to hollow high streets out by selling off temporarily closed shops to wealthy developers so they can never reopen as shops again. \"", "The elections watchdog has contacted the Conservative party with questions over the funding of renovations to Boris Johnson's official flat.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it was trying to establish whether any of the spending needed to be examined within its own remit on political donations.\n\nThe Daily Mail has reported that £60,000 of party funds were used to help cover the work's £200,000 cost.\n\nNo 10 said all appropriate codes of conduct were followed.\n\nThe PM's press secretary Allegra Stratton has previously insisted that no party funds were being used to pay for any refurbishments to the Downing Street estate.\n\nThere have been ongoing reports about the cost of the refurbishments to the Downing Street flat where the prime minister lives with his fiancée Carrie Symonds.\n\nLike several of his recent predecessors, the PM is living in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, the chancellor of the exchequer's official residence.\n\nMr Johnson and Ms Symonds moved into the four-bedroom flat back in July 2019, and welcomed their son Wilfred in April 2020.\n\nThe flat, which is much larger than the one above No 10, was extensively refurbished by David and Samantha Cameron in 2011 at a cost of £30,000.\n\nThe Daily Mail reported on Saturday that the Electoral Commission had contacted the Tory party to check whether any funds linked to the refurbishment should have been declared in adherence with the laws on political donations.\n\nAn spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said in a statement: \"We are in contact with the party to establish whether any sums relating to the renovation works fall within the regime regulated by the commission.\"\n\n\"If so, they would need to be reported according to the rules specified in law, and would then be published by the commission as part of our commitment to the transparency of political finance.\"\n\nA Conservative party spokesperson said: \"All reportable donations to the Conservative party are correctly declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them and comply fully with the law.\n\n\"Gifts and benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in government transparency returns.\n\nDesigner Lulu Lytle (L), pictured here with Prince Charles on a visit to her firm's workshop, is involved in the upgrade\n\nSources previously told the BBC that interior designer Lulu Lytle had been involved in the upgrade of the PM's flat.\n\nInterior designer Ms Lytle is a co-founder of Soane Britain, an upmarket London-based interior design firm which specialises in traditional craft methods.\n\nAccording to the company's website, its furniture can be found in hotels, restaurants, private members' clubs, yachts and private houses.\n\nLondon's Connaught and Claridges hotels, the Somerset Georgian manor Babington House and Shoreditch House private members' club are listed as clients.", "There has been a phased return to school for pupils in Wales after they were closed during lockdown\n\nPermanently changing term times and school hours could help pupils to catch up on teaching missed during the pandemic, a leading academic says.\n\nSchool hours could be condensed into four longer days to give time for extra support, said Gareth Evans, of the University of Wales Trinity St David.\n\nHe added shorter summer holidays could also help children from more disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nThe education minister said there are no current plans to change term dates.\n\nBut Mr Evans, director of education policy, argued more should be done to capitalise on lower Covid rates in the summer.\n\n\"The infection rates are likely to remain around for some time and Covid is not going to go away,\" he said.\n\n\"If we can repackage school term times to accommodate a slightly shorter summer break and a slightly longer Christmas break, I think that will do us no harm in terms of mitigating Covid.\n\n\"There's also a very key educational reason for doing this, we know that learners don't benefit from a six-week break over the summer period.\n\n\"It's not natural to break learning up for that long and children from more disadvantaged backgrounds tend to suffer the most.\"\n\nAll pupils are expected to return to the classroom after Easter, following a phased return and months of remote learning.\n\nMr Evans said tweaking the hours of the school week could also help schools find extra time for catch-up work or for teacher and pupil well-being.\n\nGareth Evans believes the school day could be changed to allow for more \"bespoke learning\"\n\n\"I think these are extreme circumstances and they demand radical and innovative responses,\" he said.\n\n\"An asymmetric week - or a four-day school week as it's sometimes known - is also something that we should definitely explore.\n\n\"Schools can have a reduction in break times and start slightly earlier to accommodate them having an earlier finish on a Friday, or an afternoon off here and there to support more bespoke individual learning and catch-up.\"\n\nMr Evans said that if school hours were mostly condensed into four longer days, then it could also allow learners and staff to make up for lost time in other parts of life.\n\n\"I think what it could do is create more time for independent learning, more time for one-to-one learning support and give pupils the chance to spend more time catching up socially with their peers and at home with their families,\" he added.\n\n\"I think we'll be doing very much the right thing by our learners and supporting school staff as well, because let's not forget that they have been through an awful lot this past year themselves. They will need time to recover and repair.\"\n\nDafydd Trystan, who previously sat on the independent panel tasked with \"re-imagining schooling\" by the Welsh government, agreed that the pandemic presented an opportunity to change the system.\n\n\"We have a pattern of schooling in Wales today that is based on 19th Century practices,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's high time we at least reach the 20th Century, I hope for the 21st Century.\n\n\"I think by looking at the school day, certainly at school terms, there's a way to do that.\n\n\"Potentially you could reduce the length of the summer holidays which are a challenge for parents, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\n\"Maybe you have six terms with gaps of two to four weeks between them.\"\n\nUK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson previously said longer school days and shorter holidays were being looked at there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How could pupils in Wales catch up on lost learning?\n\nHowever, Mary van den Heuvel, from the National Education Union Cymru, said it was \"unhelpful and a distraction\" to consider changing school patterns when some pupils had not yet had the chance for a full return to school.\n\n\"What we've really got to remember is that children and young people have had a really difficult year too,\" she said.\n\n\"Any kind of focus on catch-up is going to really be about ensuring their well-being is supported.\n\n\"I think it's really difficult to judge how long we're looking at in terms of catch-up.\n\n\"I think we are going to need to see some support over the summer, but we've already got things like SHEP (School Holiday Enrichment Programme) which is obviously an enrichment programme to support children and young people.\"\n\nMs van den Heuvel said one option could be to pay local authorities to provide extra support during the holidays, using staff who are \"able to work over the summer and who aren't desperate for a break because they've been working really incredibly long hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, there have been calls to \"scale-up\" opportunities for children to take part in sports and arts activities over the summer.\n\nThe children's commissioner for Wales, the Urdd and Sport Wales all argue there needs to be \"a stronger emphasis\" on holiday activities for children.\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh government said: \"There will be no changes to term dates this academic year.\n\n\"However, the minister has a long-standing view that we should consider long-term changes to the rhythm of the academic year to address issues such as learning loss, improved opportunities for community activities and shorter terms to support pupil and teacher well-being.\n\n\"She established a panel to review this, and hopes that work can restart soon.\"", "The prime minister has received his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and has urged the public to do the same, saying he \"did not feel a thing\".\n\nBoris Johnson was given the vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital in central London, where he was treated for Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAfter being vaccinated, the PM said: \"I cannot recommend it too highly\".\n\nIt comes as several European countries said they would resume using the jab.\n\nLeaving hospital, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I literally did not feel a thing. It was very good, very quick - I cannot recommend it too highly.\n\n\"Everybody, when you do get your notification to go for a jab, please go and get it, it is the best thing for you, best thing for your family and for everyone else.\"\n\nThe PM was given the vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital in central London\n\nMore than 26 million people have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, according to the latest government figures. About two million people have had a second dose.\n\nIn England, 22,337,590 people had been given a first jab as of 18 March, according to NHS England, the equivalent of 50.5% of the population aged 18 and over.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi also received his vaccination at a pharmacy in Lewisham, south-east London, earlier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said England's road map out of lockdown will not be disrupted by vaccine supply issues\n\nMeanwhile countries including France, Germany and Italy began restarting their vaccine programmes with the AstraZeneca jab - reversing earlier decisions to suspend them over blood clot concerns.\n\nThe resumption of the use of the vaccine comes after the European Medicines Agency confirmed it was \"safe and effective\".\n\nThe regulator reviewed the jab over fears about blood clots, but said it was \"not associated\" with a higher risk of such events, and that the benefits outweighed any risks.\n\nThe World Health Organization and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have said the jab is safe and have encouraged people to take up their vaccine appointments.\n\nThe WHO's advisory committee on vaccine safety issued a statement on Friday saying the vaccine \"continues to have a positive benefit-risk profile, with tremendous potential to prevent infections and reduce deaths across the world\".\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister reiterated that the jab was safe and urged people to take the vaccine if they were offered it.\n\nHe said: \"The thing that isn't safe is catching Covid, which is why it's so important that we all get our jabs as soon as our turn comes.\"\n\nHe also insisted that delays to the UK's Covid vaccine supply in April would not affect people getting their second doses, or England's road map out of lockdown.\n\n\"The way to ensure this [lockdown easing] happens is to get that jab when your turn comes, so let's get the jab done,\" he said.\n\nIn other developments, ONS figures suggest infection levels have continued to fall across England and Wales but have \"levelled off\" in Northern Ireland and increased in Scotland.\n\nAn estimated one in 335 people in the UK had Covid-19 in the week to 13 March, according to the figures, down from one in 280 last week.\n\nOn Friday, the UK reported a further 101 deaths and 4,802 cases, according to the government's separate daily coronavirus figures.", "The Republic of Ireland temporarily suspended the use of the vaccine as a precaution\n\nThe Republic of Ireland is to resume administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this weekend.\n\nThe country's National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended the move after an review by The European Medicines Agency (EMA).\n\nIt follows a temporary suspension of the vaccine in Ireland after reports of blood clotting in adults in Norway.\n\nOn Friday, 10 more Covid-19 related deaths were reported in the Republic, taking its death toll to 4,576.\n\nA further 507 cases of the virus were also recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 229,306.\n\nThere are currently 336 Covid-19 patients in hospitals in the Republic, of which 87 are in ICU.\n\nUK and EU regulators conducted a \"thorough and careful review\" of all blood clotting events occurring with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to determine if there is a possible safety risk.\n\nOn Thursday, the EMA concluded that the benefits of the vaccine in combating the threat of Covid-19 \"continue to outweigh the risk of side effects\".\n\nMore than 117,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIreland's Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said administration of the vaccine will resume this weekend.\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.", "Claire Vessey and David McQueen said they were keen to marry after a difficult year\n\nWedding businesses say there is \"no light at the end of the tunnel\" and are relying on personal savings to survive.\n\nCouples who have planned, cancelled, then re-planned their special day say they are hoping to say \"I do\" instead of \"what can I do?\" as lockdown eases.\n\nBut with no date set for wedding receptions, there remains confusion over whether plans for 2021 will fall foul of future guidelines.\n\nThe Welsh government said the law had changed to expand the range of venues.\n\nA week ago First Minister Mark Drakeford set out how various sectors in society would be reopened - like non-essential shops, hairdressers and outdoor sports - but weddings were not mentioned in his plans.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh government said as long as case rates remained low and vaccination numbers continued, weddings would be \"considered\" from 22 April.\n\nAt present receptions are banned and the number of ceremony guests depends on how many people from different households a venue can safely keep 2m apart.\n\nKris Agland, managing director of venue St Peter's Hall in Cardiff, said the guidance around weddings was \"being handled appallingly\" and called for more dialogue between the hospitality industry and those in power.\n\n\"There's no clear guidance. It's been a kind of one-size-fits-all approach,\" he said.\n\n\"Come and see what we're doing - do you feel safe? Why can't someone from the trade be part of their conversations?\"\n\nPhotographer Mary Watler-Thomas said her hours had been cut for weddings because receptions could not be held\n\nHe said he spent about £10,000 making Covid-compliant additions to the venue, which usually hosts 50 to 60 wedding receptions each year.\n\n\"No-one will book anything until they know what the guidance is,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything is based on what-ifs. Financially as a business it's crippled it. Personally, it's just got me further and further into debt just like everybody else who owns hospitality businesses.\n\n\"When things do come back they're going to come back with such a boom that you've got to see yourselves through to that position. But at what stage do people say, 'well I can't see it through'?\"\n\nWedding photographer Mary Watler-Thomas, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, said some ceremonies had been \"surreal\", including couples being told to wear masks during the ceremony.\n\n\"Last year I was set to cover 20 [weddings] but I had quite a few postponed so ended up doing 10. But this year I'm set to do 27, fingers crossed,\" she said.\n\n\"When people want to postpone they're worried they won't be able to have all their guests there, they want to postpone but I'm not available for their new date.\n\n\"Because they haven't given a date for hospitality [couples are] reducing the day to just the ceremony. I've had to reduce the time to two hours where I used to cover 12 hours so it's had a massive impact on income because you're reducing the day by 10 hours.\n\n\"There's been so much confusion... a lot of questions in the minds of those planning what it'll look like in Wales, so it would be very helpful to have a roadmap in Wales.\"\n\nClaire Vessey's mother Maureen died at the start of the first lockdown\n\nClaire Vessey, 46, from Treboeth, Swansea, and her fiancée David McQueen, 54, from Morriston, have been together for nine years and put off getting married while caring for Claire's elderly mum, Maureen.\n\nWhen Maureen, 86, died at the start of the first lockdown, the couple - who had previously had a blessing at the Sacred Heart church in Swansea - decided to make her dream come true.\n\n\"The wedding would be one thing she would want us to do,\" said Ms Vessey, an administration manager for fire protection services.\n\n\"Us being happy together, that's what she would have loved.\n\n\"We incorporated what she would want too, so we can feel like she's there. She loved butterflies so that's part of our theme. She's a massive part of the day.\"\n\nBut Covid restrictions meant the couple had to plan for various outcomes. They still have not confirmed their guest list.\n\n\"We booked it for 15 May. It has been so hard with all the restrictions and so many obstacles put in our way,\" said Ms Vessey.\n\n\"It's like we have been planning two weddings. One for original plans - church wedding with a late reception - and also back-up plans if restrictions do not lift, which is looking like what we will have to go with.\n\n\"But these plans are all still not confirmed. Everything is up in the air and the weeks are flying by - we never thought it would be so stressful.\"\n\nDespite the stress, the couple said there were benefits to keeping the wedding simple.\n\nMs Vessey said: \"When people planned weddings in the past, they planned this big wedding with all these people, but when you break it down it's about two people that really love each other. He's my first real boyfriend and my first love.\n\n\"It's about David and I now. We've concentrated on what's important for us two, which is what it's really about.\"\n\nBridal boutique owner Helen Pembridge said brides were \"desperate\" to buy dresses in case there was another lockdown\n\nIn Scotland, wedding receptions - but without alcohol - can take place with up to 50 people from 26 April.\n\nWedding ceremonies in Northern Ireland are currently limited to 25 people and receptions are banned. But dates for lockdown easing reviews are set for 15 April, 13 May and 10 June.\n\nFrom 29 March in England, weddings can be attended by a maximum of six people. This will rise to 15 after 12 April if Covid rates remain low, increasing to a limit of 30 after 17 May. Receptions are included in the plans, but only in certain venues.\n\nHelen Pembridge, who runs a bridal boutique in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, said many brides who had already had to cancel appointments three or four times were \"desperate\" to get dresses in case there was another lockdown.\n\n\"Brides I'm getting calls from are not even getting married until October 2022, but they want to get their dresses now because they're afraid they won't be able to if we have to shut again for a couple of months,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government has already set out different rules for weddings at different alert levels.\n\nAt alert level four, for instance, receptions are banned but at alert level two a maximum of 30 people can attend an indoors reception and 50 outdoors, and venues are still subject to any additional rules set at that time on hospitality.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We know many couples have made the difficult decision to postpone their wedding because of the ongoing pandemic.\n\n\"The current restrictions allow for the legal marriage ceremony to take place and we have changed the law to expand the range of venues where ceremonies can be performed.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone, especially those working in the events and hospitality sector, but with everyone's help, better times are ahead of us.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nHow to follow on Saturday: Watch live coverage & highlights on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, Connected TV's and online; listen on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and BBC Sounds; text coverage on the BBC Sport website and mobile app.\n\nWales rugby fans are all set for another potential Grand Slam Saturday - but it will be a day unlike any others.\n\nScotland host Italy and England travel to Dublin as the Six Nations appetisers before the main course in Paris with only France and unbeaten Wales still able to win the tournament.\n\nA win would clinch Wales' fifth Grand Slam of the Six Nations era.\n\nBut because of Covid-19 this would be the first without fans at the game or in pubs and rugby clubs across Wales.\n\nWhether events will be resolved on 'Super Saturday' remains to be seen with Scotland still to travel to Paris on 26 March, six days after the anticipated end of the tournament.\n\nThe original game in February was called off because of Covid-19 cases in the France camp which has potentially spoiled the concept of everything being finalised on the last day.\n• None What Wales need to do to win the Six Nations - permutations & standings\n• None 'He is like Superman' - Jones sets for Grand Slam history bid\n• None Boom and bust Wales chase more Grand Slam glory in France\n\nWales draw and they are crowned champions while there is a scenario where they could lose but still claim the title, if they pick up a bonus point and France do not. After that it could get complicated and go to the final fixture.\n\nWhat is not in doubt is Wayne Pivac's men can take away all the uncertainty by triumphing in Paris and winning a 13th Grand Slam to equal England's tally.\n\nThere has been something special about Six Nations finales in Wales. After all, Cardiff has had a lot of practice in hosting this defining day in recent years, with Wales winning more Six Nations Grand Slams than anybody else.\n\nThe pubs would normally be full and streets thronging with supporters celebrating the achievements of their rugby heroes.\n\nFew will forget the sun-soaked magical March day in 2005 when hundreds of thousands of people crammed into Cardiff.\n\nThere were supporters clambering up trees outside City Hall to get a glimpse of the game on a large screen as the nation went crazy to mark the end of a 27-year wait for a Grand Slam.\n\nNot on this occasion. No congregating in the Principality Stadium, on the city streets or rugby clubs across Wales.\n\nNo hugging random strangers decked in red, no singing the plethora of Welsh rugby anthems, no shoes sticking to the floor of packed pubs.\n\nInstead, witnessing the prospect of a fifth Grand Slam victory in 16 years, fans will be confined to their living rooms across the country for this sofa-bound rather than stadium-bound Six Nations spectacular.\n\nIt is 50 years since Wales last completed a clean sweep away from Cardiff when all-time greats Barry John, Gareth Edwards and JPR Williams helped the class of 1971 defeat France in Paris.\n\nSince those heady times, the Grand Slam carnival days have all been at home, with six successes in the Welsh capital from 1976 to 2019.\n\nFour of those wins came against France, with two victories in 2005 and 2019 against Ireland, and they made legends of favourites such as Edwards, Phil Bennett, Gethin Jenkins, Gavin Henson, Shane Williams, Martyn Williams and Alun Wyn Jones.\n\nToday the streets in cities, towns and villages in Wales will be largely quiet with Pivac's team having to travel to Paris achieve the Grand Slam goal.\n\nThey will have to complete the feat in the intimidating Stade de France stadium, although minus the 81,000 French crowd. The arena will be only populated by players, backroom teams, stewards and a handful of media.\n\nWales captain Jones says the players will be thinking about the country when singing the anthems.\n\n\"It's not lost on you, there is a slight difference with it being away,\" said Jones.\n\n\"I, as an individual, and the team have not needed reminding of what everyone is facing and what we are representing.\"\n\nIt is also a Grand Slam day few had expected after a disappointing 2020 where Wales finished fifth in the Six Nations and Autumn Nations Cup, and only won three out of 10 games.\n\nPivac found it tough replacing fellow New Zealander Warren Gatland, who had overseen three Grand Slam successes and two World Cup semi-finals.\n\nDifficult calls have been made. Pivac parted ways with his defence coach and long-time ally Byron Hayward last November with Gethin Jenkins taking over.\n\nHe dropped George North in the autumn campaign and then brought him back into the fold and switched him from wing to centre.\n\nIn this tournament North has surpassed 100 Wales caps and today is part of the nation's most experienced side in history led by world record cap holder Alun Wyn Jones.\n\nThe coach also blooded young players such as Kieran Hardy, Louis Rees-Zammit, Callum Sheedy and James Botham who have featured in this Six Nations campaign.\n\nPivac will also admit Wales have had their share of luck with some labelling it the \"Jam Slam\" and questioning the quality of their campaign so far.\n\nThe opening two victories against Ireland and Scotland were achieved against 14 men with Peter O'Mahony and Zander Fagerson sent off, while there were two controversial tries awarded against England.\n\nThe fortune argument fails to recognise the 17 tries scored in four games or a record 40 points amassed against Eddie Jones' 2020 champions.\n\nWales' 2021 Six Nations success so far is due to firmer foundations with a solid set-piece, clinical finishing and outstanding discipline. And they have a remarkable record in recent Grand Slam showdowns.\n\nThe stars continued to align for Wales when England managed to do them a favour by defeating France, leaving Pivac's side as the only team that could complete the clean sweep.\n\nSo despite all the doubters and detractors, if events unfold in Wales' favour in Paris, a Six Nations Grand Slam will still be wildly celebrated. Just perhaps not in the same traditional fashion as years gone by.", "Tesla CEO Elon Musk questioned the wisdom of companies spying on foreign governments\n\nElon Musk, the chief executive of the US electric carmaker Tesla, says his firm would be \"shut down\" if its vehicles were used for spying on China.\n\nHis comments came in response to reports that China's military had banned Tesla cars from its facilities.\n\nThe military had raised security concerns about the data collected by cameras installed in the cars.\n\nChina is Tesla's largest market after the US, accounting for about a quarter of the firm's global sales in 2020.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Musk said if a business did engage in spying on a foreign government, \"the negative effects for that company would be extremely bad\".\n\n\"There's a very strong incentive for us to be very confidential with any information,\" Mr Musk told an influential Chinese business forum via video link. \"If Tesla used cars to spy in China or anywhere, we will get shut down.\"\n\nTesla CEO Elon Musk played down Chinese and American concerns over commercial espionage\n\nThere has long been unease about the presence of big American companies operating in China and vice versa.\n\nRelations between China and the US - the world's biggest two economies - are at their most strained for years.\n\nEarlier this week, officials from both countries traded angry words in the first high-level talks between the Chinese government and the administration of US President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Musk urged greater mutual trust between China and the US, where Tesla is based in California.\n\nHe sought to downplay concerns over companies sharing sensitive data with their home governments, referencing the case of the Chinese-owned video platform TikTok.\n\nLast year, former President Donald Trump threatened to ban TikTok in the US over concerns that users' data could be handed over to the Chinese government.\n\n\"Even if there was spying, what would the other country learn and would it actually matter?,\" Mr Musk said.\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\nChina is the world's largest car market and its government has been heavily promoting the adoption of electric vehicles. This demand helped Tesla make a profit of $721m (£519m) in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The Model 3 could be a make or break product for Tesla", "Up to 100mm (four inches) of rain is forecast for Sydney\n\nEmergency authorities in Australia are warning of \"life threatening\" flash floods as torrential rains batter parts of the country's east coast.\n\nDozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters, and residents in many low-lying communities of New South Wales have been ordered to leave their homes.\n\nPolice say hundreds of people have flocked to evacuation centres in areas north of the city of Sydney.\n\nMajor roads have been shut. Footage has emerged of a house being swept away.\n\nWarragamba dam in Sydney, the city's main water source, has begun to overflow for the first time since 2016, and WaterNSW warns others are also expected to spill over.\n\nUp to 100mm (four inches) of rain is forecast for Sydney, and as much as 300mm for the lower Blue Mountains, west of the city.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by WaterNSW This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 in uncharted territory,\" water expert Ian Wright at Western Sydney University told outlet News.com.au, saying many more people live next to Warragamba dam than during previous flooding.\n\nSydney residents posted pictures on social media of flooded roads and rising waters nears their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ruby Cornish This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAgata Imielska from the Bureau of Meteorology warned of localised intense rainfall and damaging winds, saying the public should be aware of \"dangerous conditions\" that can change quite quickly.\n\nPeople in Sydney have had to be rescued from rising flood waters\n\n\"If you don't need to travel, if you don't need to head out today, this is the day to stay at home,\" Ms Imielska was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nMore storms are forecast in the coming days, and parts of eastern Australia could receive up to a metre of rain in the space of just a week, the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The driver was stopped by police near Junction 23 of the M5\n\nA motorist who was stopped by police for driving at 122mph, told officers that he was travelling back from Wales after getting a haircut.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said they arrested the man after stopping his car near Junction 23 of the M5 in Somerset on 18 March.\n\nThe 29-year-old was arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs after a roadside test.\n\nHairdressers opened in Wales on Monday but remain closed in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Avon and Somerset Police\n\nTravelling to Wales for a haircut is not allowed under current lockdown rules in England which require people to stay at home unless it is for a number of permitted reasons such as exercise, outdoor recreation or work.\n\nHairdressers and barbers are scheduled to open in England on 12 April under the government's roadmap setting out dates of lockdown easing.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nNo international fans will be permitted at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJapanese authorities told the Olympic and Paralympic committees it was \"highly unlikely\" that entry to the country could be guaranteed.\n\nOrganisers said the move now gives \"clarity\" to ticket holders and helps ensure \"a safe and secure Games for all participants and the Japanese public\".\n\nThe Games are due to begin on 23 July.\n\nThe Paralympics follow the Olympics a month later, from 24 August.\n\nOrganisers said the \"challenging\" Covid-19 situation in Japan and many other countries, global travel restrictions and emergence of variant strains of the virus had led to the decision and that ticket holders would be refunded.\n\nThe Olympics were postponed by a year in March last year because of the growing spread of coronavirus across the world.\n\n'Difficult decisions need to be made'\n\nIt is the first time in the event's history it has been postponed, with more than 11,000 athletes from about 200 countries scheduled to take part in 2020.\n\nThomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said the move is a \"great sacrifice for everybody\".\n\n\"We share the disappointment of all enthusiastic Olympic fans from around the world, and of course the families and friends of the athletes, who were planning to come to the Games,\" he said. \"For this I am truly sorry.\n\n\"Every decision has to respect the principle of safety first. I know that our Japanese partners and friends did not reach this conclusion lightly.\n\n\"We stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the side of our Japanese partners and friends, without any kind of reservation, to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 a great success.\"\n\nInternational Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said \"difficult decisions\" had to be made with safety the \"top priority\".\n\n\"It goes without saying that in an ideal world we would prefer to have international spectators at the Games,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the moment we must acknowledge that due to the global pandemic we are not living in an ideal world.\"\n\nThe British Olympic Association said that while it is \"a very disappointing situation\", it highlights the \"determination to stage\" a safe event during the pandemic.\n\n\"This is very sad news, not only for British fans but particularly for the family and friends of athletes,\" a BOA statement continued.\n\nThe exclusion of international fans comes as another major financial blow to the Tokyo Games.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 but organisers have consistently ruled out a delay.\n\nEarlier this year, Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the Games would be \"safe and secure\" and could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".\n\nHowever, a poll at that time by national broadcaster NHK showed the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nJapan has also encountered problems unrelated to the pandemic, with the head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee Yoshiro Mori resigning after he was criticised for making \"inappropriate\" remarks about women.\n\nThe Tokyo Games' creative chief then also resigned after suggesting a female comedian could appear as an \"Olympig\" at the opening ceremony.\n\n'A dream for nearly 40 years' - fans with tickets speak to BBC Sport\n\nAlex Blaney said it is \"a sad day\", and he is \"devastated\" not to be able to help his 74-year-old father fulfil a long-held ambition.\n\n\"When I was seven in 1984, we were watching Daley Thompson's high jump and my dad turned to me and said he would 'love to go to an overseas Olympics',\" Blaney said.\n\n\"I've remembered that dream of his for nearly 40 years. We've got 30 tickets for all of us to make the dream come true. This was probably the last chance we had, as he now has dementia. Maybe we might make Paris [2024 Olympics], but it won't be the same.\"\n\nKevin Grant said attending the Paralympics was something for his autistic son - a wheelchair basketballer who is \"fascinated with Japan\" - to \"look forward to and plan for\" after a difficult year.\n\n\"He will be devastated, I am sure, but as he struggles to express feelings it will be hard to know the true impact,\" Grant said.\n\nGill Ludlow said her husband and son - who got the tickets as a birthday gift - had been set to go on \"a trip of a lifetime\", but they \"totally understand\" the decision.\n\nPhilip Davis organised his tickets in 2019, \"before the word Covid was even known\", and said the announcement \"isn't a surprise\", although he has \"tried to stay positive\" and hopeful.\n\n\"I personally have been a bit on the fence about it but would've been happy to go nonetheless,\" he said. \"I'll definitely still watch from home though.\"\n\nHannah Chambers, who was set to attend with her boyfriend and hoping to watch a friend who is in contention to compete in Tokyo, said: \"It's disappointing but understandable given that the world is in turmoil.\"\n\nJohn Riggs said \"planning starts for Paris\" after the announcement, adding: \"We appreciate that there are more important things going on in the world at the moment, as there probably always are, but it still leaves you disappointed.\"\n\nFor Dej Mahoney it will be the first Games since 1992 that he has missed.\n\nAfter watching Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt win eight gold medals over the years, he said he will \"revel in those memories and not feel too hard done by\".\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "Forensic officers are at a flat in Derrycoole Way where one woman was killed\n\nA double murder investigation has been launched after three people died at two homes in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, on Friday.\n\nPolice believe a man stabbed his mother and girlfriend at separate properties before killing himself.\n\nA woman was found at a flat in Derrycoole Way just after 22:55 GMT following a report of a stabbing.\n\nAnother woman and a man were then found a short time later at a house on Glenville Road.\n\n\"An unconscious male was located in the property. Despite the provision of first aid, the male was pronounced dead,\" said Det Ch Insp John Caldwell.\n\nPolice were at the scene of both properties in Newtownabbey on Saturday morning\n\n\"On searching the property, another deceased female was located.\n\n\"While we have launched a murder investigation, we are not looking for anyone else in connection with these incidents which we believe are connected.\"\n\nSDLP Deputy Mayor for Antrim and Newtownabbey Noreen McClelland, who is also an ambassador for Women's Aid, said she was \"numbed and shocked\" by what had happened.\n\nShe said the community would rally around the families affected.\n\n\"Families are going to be absolutely distraught,\" she said.\n\n\"I know that neighbours, friends, the whole community is just going to be horrified that this has happened on their doorsteps.\n\nSinn Féin MP for North Belfast, John Finucane, said the local community was stunned.\n\n\"These brutal killings highlight once again the need to oppose all violence against women and the need for a Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy in the north,\" he said.\n\nNorth Belfast DUP assembly member Paula Bradley said it was \"extremely sad news\" to hear of the deaths.\n\n\"It just brings that reality home again to us in Northern Ireland that violence against women and girls cannot be tolerated,\" she added.", "Builder David Howells was described as a \"loving gentle giant of a man\"\n\nA woman has described how she \"begged\" in vain to see her husband before he died in hospital.\n\nDavid Howells, 57, spent two weeks on wards at Nottingham City Hospital after being admitted with complications relating to a heart condition.\n\nExemptions to Covid restrictions allow for some compassionate visits, but Mr Howells' wife Sharon and daughter Kim's requests were refused.\n\nThe hospital trust said it believed its policies were applied correctly.\n\nMrs Howells, 58, said: \"What we can never forget, understand or forgive is the fact he was denied any contact even in his darkest, scariest moments of life.\"\n\nMr Howells had the \"fighting spirit taken out of him\" in hospital, said his wife\n\nMr Howells, a father of three, was admitted to hospital in January with complications caused by a condition known as cardiomyopathy.\n\nHowever, his health did not improve.\n\nHe also tested positive for coronavirus, which his family believe he picked up in hospital.\n\nMr Howells' wife said he sent them texts and videos showing he was struggling mentally and physically, and that they \"begged\" doctors to see him.\n\nAt one point Mrs Howells said she and her daughter Kim were on a ward just feet away, but were not allowed any further.\n\nShe said she accepted it may not have been considered an \"end of life\" situation, but that she was told there was a \"good chance\" he would not return home.\n\n\"If this was not a compassionate situation, what is?\" she asked.\n\n\"Had we been allowed just five minutes with him under supervision, he would still be here.\n\n\"The fighting spirit was taken out of him.\n\n\"It was cruel, it shouldn't have happened.\"\n\nMr Howells died of heart failure on 8 February, after sending a final text.\n\nIt read: \"I'm really not good. I don't think I'm going to make it. They're not listening.\"\n\nHis family were called in as his health deteriorated, but were not able to get there in time, despite Mrs Howells rushing to the hospital in her pyjamas.\n\nSarah Moppett, interim chief nurse at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"This is clearly a tragic and hugely difficult time for the Howells family.\"\n\nThe trust said it believed its visiting restrictions policy was applied appropriately at the time.\n\n\"Our staff have to make difficult decisions every day, and always try to do what is best for patients and their families,\" Ms Moppett said.\n\n\"Where a patient deteriorates very rapidly, it is not always possible to predict when they are approaching the end of their life.\n\n\"In the case of Mr Howells, we contacted the family at the earliest opportunity, but very sadly the family could not get to Mr Howells before he passed away, due to the very sudden and rapid deterioration in his condition.\"\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 resting lion... The lions at this park are known for their ability to climb trees\n\nSix lions have been found dead and dismembered after a suspected poisoning in one of Uganda's most famous parks.\n\nThe lions were found in Queen Elizabeth National Park with their heads and paws hacked off, and their bodies surrounded by dead vultures, officials said.\n\nThe Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said it \"cannot rule out illegal wildlife trafficking\".\n\nAn investigation has now been launched, with conservationists working with local police at the scene.\n\nThese particular lions are known for their ability to climb trees.\n\nIn a statement, UWA's communications manager Bashir Hangi said they were \"saddened\" by the killings.\n\nHe added that nature tourism is an important part of Uganda's economy, contributing about 10% of its GDP, and plays a vital role in the conservation of animals.\n\n\"UWA strongly condemns the illegal killing of wildlife because it does not only impact negatively on our tourism as a country, but also revenue generation, which supports conservation and community work in our protected areas,\" he said.\n\nThere have been a number of previous incidents where lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park were believed to have been poisoned.\n\nIn April 2018, 11 lions - including eight cubs - were found dead after a suspected poisoning. A similar incident led to the deaths of five lions in May 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2018, the BBC looked at why lions were being poisoned in Uganda", "A White House spokeswoman told reporters President Joe Biden is \"doing 100% fine\" after he stumbled while boarding Air Force One.", "The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, has said banning international fans from the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics is a \"great sacrifice for everybody\".\n\nWe reported earlier that the Games - due to start in July - would not be open to foreign spectators.\n\nBach said: \"We share the disappointment of all enthusiastic Olympic fans from around the world, and of course the families and friends of the athletes, who were planning to come to the Games. For this I am truly sorry.\n\n\"Every decision has to respect the principle of safety first. I know that our Japanese partners and friends did not reach this conclusion lightly.\n\n\"We stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the side of our Japanese partners and friends, without any kind of reservation, to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 a great success.\"\n\nInternational Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said \"difficult decisions\" had to be made with safety the \"top priority\".\n\n\"It goes without saying that in an ideal world we would prefer to have international spectators at the Games,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the moment we must acknowledge that due to the global pandemic we are not living in an ideal world.\"", "Fighting Ducks forward Sedona Prince is competing for the championship\n\nA video from a US college basketball player has gone viral for showing the inequalities between the equipment given to male and female players.\n\nUniversity of Oregon forward Sedona Prince showed the fully-stocked weight room given to men's teams for the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament.\n\nBut women were only given one small rack of exercise weights.\n\n\"Wow - come on now!\" tweeted NBA superstar Steph Curry, copying in the March Madness and NCAA Twitter accounts. \"Yall trippin trippin.\" The championship tournaments are known as March Madness and began this week.\n\nWomen are playing their tournament in San Antonio, Texas, while the men's games are taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana.\n\n\"This is outrageous, @NCAA It needs to be fixed. Now,\" tweeted top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sedona Prince This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 think there's this big misconception that women don't need weights as much as men,\" Ms Prince, 20, told BBC World Service on Friday.\n\n\"And this is so false because our bodies are just important as theirs.\"\n\n'We need recovery. We need to be strong. The sport we play is extremely physical,\" she said adding, that the lack of workout equipment made it \"apparent how little care there was\" for women athletes.\n\nIn a conference call with coaches and team administrators ,\" NCAA VP of women's basketball Lynn Holzman acknowledge \"we fell short\".\n\nShe also pledged that the women's facilities would be upgraded by the weekend.\n\nMs Prince said that she is grateful for the league's apology.\n\n\"It does mean a lot that they are acknowledging it and talking about it and then realising that they made a mistake,\" she said.\n\n\"It means a lot that they're recognising that now.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLate goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne broke Everton's resistance as Manchester City kept their quest for the quadruple on course by reaching the FA Cup semi-finals for a third successive season.\n\nA fiercely contested quarter-final looked like it was heading for extra time as Carlo Ancelotti's side defended resolutely and went close in the first half when Yerry Mina's header was cleared off the line.\n\nDespite dominating possession at Goodison Park, City struggled in front of goal for most of the game, with Raheem Sterling's poorly hit shot tipped round the post by Everton's third-choice keeper Joao Virginia.\n\nAfter Pep Guardiola brought on Riyad Mahrez and De Bruyne, they finally breached Everton's well-marshalled defence when Gudogan headed in with six minutes remaining after Aymeric Laporte's shot was tipped onto the bar.\n\nDe Bruyne then fired in with a crisp shot to ensure their progress in the 90th minute, meaning City have won 25 out of their past 26 games in all competitions.\n\nFor Everton, who still threatened despite having little of the ball, it was a sterling attempt to try and stop the City juggernaut.\n\nDespite missing out on a first FA Cup semi-final since 2016, they will now focus on their league campaign in an attempt to reach Europe next season.\n\n\"We competed well for 80 minutes against, in my opinion, the best team in the world,\" said Everton boss Ancelotti.\n\n\"The fact we competed, the fact we defended really well and didn't concede great opportunities to them for 80 minutes, I'm proud of my players.\n\n\"Manchester City is not a normal team, they are the best.\"\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola said: \"When you have won a lot of games in four months, you are able to adapt and adjust and that is what I am pleased about the most, it is the most difficult thing.\n\n\"It is the mental strength to be ready for every single game. November to March is the toughest period in England and what we have done is more than remarkable, it is incredible.\n\n\"It is one of the greatest achievements we have done together for a long time.\"\n\nCity's pursuit of an unprecedented quadruple has looked seamless at times this season and the late substitutions showed the armoury they can call upon.\n\nHaving cruised through the previous stages of the FA Cup, scoring three goals in each of the previous three rounds, Guardiola's side found it hard to break down a resolute Everton defence, who were missing Michael Keane and had Virginia making only his second start in goal because of injuries to Jordan Pickford and Robin Olsen.\n\nPhil Foden looked most likely to make a breakthrough as he battled it out with Lucas Digne on the right wing, and was perhaps too honest when staying on his feet as he rode a first-half tackle by Mason Holgate. A brilliant take and shot by the winger was inches wide of the post after 65 minutes.\n\nCity, who made six changes to the team which beat Borussia Monchengladbach to reach the Champions League last eight, did not trouble Everton for much of the game despite enjoying 74% possession.\n\nWith the clock ticking into the final stages, and Everton digging in, Guardiola was able to bring on Mahrez and De Bruyne to change the game.\n\nDe Bruyne had a hand in Gundogan's opener, as he powered into the box before Laporte let fly, with the German midfielder nodding in his 16th goal in a brilliant season.\n\nWith Everton then chasing an equaliser, the game opened up, allowing De Bruyne to make City's progress safe.\n\nA third successive FA Cup semi-final for the first time since 1934 is a fine achievement, but Guardiola's team will not be happy unless they finish their campaign with silverware.\n\nGiven they are 14 points clear at the top of the Premier League, and face Tottenham in next month's League Cup final, a domestic treble is now a step closer.\n\nEverton's abject home form in the league has amounted to losing five of their past seven games, but it has been boosted by FA Cup successes including a thrilling 5-4 win over Tottenham in the fifth round.\n\nThis was a more tactical battle, with the hosts picking three centre-backs and attempting to pick off a dominant Manchester City on the break or via set-pieces.\n\nIt is a formula which has worked for Ancelotti's side this season and after defending deep and remaining patient, they had the best chance of the first half when Mina's header from a corner was cleared off the line by Oleksandr Zinchenko just before the break.\n\nIn the surprising absence of unused substitute Keane, the Colombian was colossal in defence, and he marshalled Holgate and Ben Godfrey either side of him, and Allan, who was also impressive in front of the backline.\n\nGiven their threat from set-pieces, it was the type of performance that looked like it might bring success, or at least take the game to extra time. From two centres, the ball fell to Richarlison, who fired wide when well placed, while Andre Gomes hit a clean shot over the bar from outside the box.\n\nAs Everton tired, the difference in the respective teams' benches was made clear as Mahrez and De Bruyne were introduced to turn the tie City's way.\n\nWith Ancelotti's team seventh in the Premier League, their quest for Europe will motivate a team that lost a seventh home game in 12 in all competitions.\n\nHowever, Everton's wait to win a trophy for the first time since 1995 goes on.\n• None Everton have lost their past seven meetings with Manchester City in all competitions, their longest losing run against an opponent since a run of nine v Manchester United between 1999 and 2004.\n• None Everton have lost five of their past six FA Cup games against fellow Premier League opponents.\n• None Everton's possession figure of 26% was their lowest in a single game in all competitions since March 2018, when they registered 18% against Manchester City in a Premier League match.\n• None Ilkay Gundogan has scored 16 goals in all competitions this season, at least three more than any Manchester City player. He's scored in three consecutive matches for the Citizens for the first time.\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been involved in nine goals in his past eight FA Cup appearances, scoring four and assisting five.\n\nAfter the international break, Everton return to Premier League action on Monday, 5 April at home to Crystal Palace (18:00 BST). Manchester City travel to Leicester City on Saturday, 3 April (17:30).\n• None Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodrigo with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson.\n• None Goal! Everton 0, Manchester City 1. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None André Gomes (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows lava flowing from the volcano south-west of Reykjavik in Iceland\n\nA volcano which erupted on Friday night near Iceland's capital Reykjavik seems to be subsiding, scientists say.\n\nLava at Fagradalsfjall burst through a crack in the Earth's crust hundreds of metres long and a series of small fountains turned the night sky red.\n\nIcelanders had been bracing themselves for an eruption for several weeks, after the island nation recorded more than 50,000 recent earthquakes.\n\nMeteorologists said the eruption was small and no-one was in danger.\n\nThe last eruption there was some 800 years ago.\n\nIn 2010, the eruption of another volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, brought air traffic to a halt across Europe.\n\nHowever, the eruption of Fagradalsfjall has not spewed out much ash, so no major disruption is expected.\n\nThe biggest threat was pollution from the gases that had been released, and nearby residents were asked to keep their windows shut.\n\nBut the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said in a report on Saturday that the pollution was likely to have little effect on the health and well-being of the area's inhabitants.\n\nOfficials quoted by AFP news agency said that the area of the eruption was open to the public, but could only be accessed by a difficult hike of several hours from the nearest road.\n\nThe lava burst through cracks in the Earth's crust\n\nThere is also a potential danger from sulphur dioxide gas.\n\n\"Currently gas pollution is not expected to cause much discomfort for people except close up to the source of the eruption. The gas emissions will be monitored closely,\" the IMO said.\n\nThe IMO said the eruption of Fagradalsfjall began at about 20:45 GMT on Friday, and was later confirmed via webcams and satellite images.\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to survey the area, about 30km (19 miles) from Reykjavik.\n\nIt then sent first images of the lava snaking its way down after the eruption.\n\n\"I can see the glowing red sky from my window,\" said Rannveig Gudmundsdottir, who lives in Grindavik, 8 km (5 miles) from the eruption.\n\nA magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 1.2 km from Fagradalsfjall just several hours earlier.\n\nIceland frequently experiences tremors as it straddles two tectonic plates, which are drifting in opposite directions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people are taking part in the protests, police say several arrests have been made\n\nThousands of people have attended anti-lockdown demonstrations in London, after MPs urged the government to allow peaceful protest during lockdown.\n\nCrowds marched from Hyde Park to Westminster, with at least 33 arrests by police, mostly for Covid breaches.\n\nScotland Yard said the number of people attending Saturday's demonstrations exceeded expectations.\n\nThe Home Office said it was still illegal for people to attend protests under the current coronavirus rules.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor told the BBC more people than previously expected were at Saturday's protests, but the Met has not given a formal estimate of the number in attendance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy Assistant Commissioner said the intention is always to balance the right to protest with public health requirements\n\nBBC correspondent Marianna Spring, reporting from the anti-lockdown protests, said the atmosphere was \"animated\" and a number of people appeared to be angry about restrictions on peaceful protest.\n\nLater, in Hyde Park, police officers were forced to run back to their vans, as protesters threw bottles and cans at them.\n\nPA Media reported that some members of the public then left the park, with small children carried by their parents.\n\nSome protesters carried signs against the current lockdown restrictions\n\nThe march disrupted traffic on Park Lane, near Hyde Park\n\nThe anti-lockdown protests came after a vigil following the death of Sarah Everard in south London last week resulted in arrests, as police enforced Covid and public order laws.\n\nEarlier, more than 60 MPs and peers wrote to the home secretary calling for laws to be changed to allow peaceful protests during lockdown.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey blamed the scenes at the Clapham event on a lack of clarity putting police \"in an impossible position\", adding that the right to protest was a \"basic freedom\".\n\nThousands of tightly-packed anti-lockdown protesters marched up Whitehall with some chanting \"freedom\" to the beat of a drum.\n\nOne man carried a placard bearing the words \"no more NHS and Gov lies\".\n\nI have seen very few demonstrators wearing masks and there's no attempt at social distancing. So far the police - who are here in large numbers - have been taking a hands-off approach, though I have seen at least one arrest on Whitehall.\n\nAmong the crowd there are undoubtedly some conspiracy theorists, with some accusing the mainstream media of pushing fake news. But that is by no means everyone here.\n\nOne woman, who did not want to be named, told me she knew Covid was bad. \"I had it myself last March,\" she said. \"But this lockdown is too much.\"\n\nThe letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, organised by campaign groups Liberty and Big Brother Watch, urged her to issue guidance to police forces on \"facilitating\" protests.\n\nThe initial organisers of the Sarah Everard vigil effectively lost a High Court battle to hold it lawfully the day before, resulting in its cancellation.\n\nBut hundreds attended Clapham Common to gather around tributes left on a bandstand - the Met Police said the gathering became unlawful after people began delivering speeches to the crowd.\n\nThe event also increased interest in plans to give officers more precise powers to restrict demonstrations in a new sweeping Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill debated by MPs.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, told MPs earlier this month that protests elsewhere had not resulted in a spike in infections and that outdoor gatherings were safer than indoors, though not risk free.\n\nHe said: \"It is the case that it is difficult to see how things like large beach gatherings and so on can cause a spike. The same was the case in a protest march in New York; they did not really see any spikes after that.\n\n\"It is lower risk, but the other thing that can happen with outdoor events, and so on, is that, when indoor things are also open, you start to get people congregating indoors around that. That can increase risk, but outdoors itself is lower risk.\"", "\"I did a double take,\" said Cleopatra Browne of Welsh Marine Life Rescue\n\nA walrus has been spotted at the bottom of a Welsh cliff, just days after one was seen off the coast of Ireland.\n\nThe creature was seen near Broad Haven South beach, Pembrokeshire, on Friday before it managed to get back into the sea.\n\nIt is thought the animal may have been the same one that was seen off the County Kerry coast.\n\nCleopatra Browne of Welsh Marine Life Rescue was called to the scene where the walrus was \"sat there, chilling\".\n\n\"It was about the size of a cow,\" said Ms Browne, of St Davids, Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"It was a whopper. I've seen them on telly and the news but it was huge.\"\n\nShe said it looked \"underweight\" possibly because it had \"just swam miles across the ocean.\"\n\nWalruses are more often seen in the Arctic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West said the \"big, beautiful animals never usually venture so far south\"\n\n\"I did a double take,\" Ms Browne said.\n\n\"You go around the coast path and go, 'woah'. It's not what you expect - it would be like seeing a penguin in your lounge.\"\n\nMs Browne watched the walrus from about 40m (130ft) away and believed it was a young animal as its tusks were \"about 3in long\".\n\n\"There is a tale going around that it fell asleep on an iceberg and ended up drifting across and woke up in Ireland,\" said Ms Browne.\n\n\"And then ended up in Wales on the way home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Browne's colleague Terry Leadbetter said: \"Hopefully he is heading toward Cornwall. It's been to Ireland and Wales.\"\n\nPhotographer Amy Compton said she \"couldn't believe\" what she was seeing, adding she had \"definitely\" not seen anything like it before.\n\nThe RSPCA urged people to keep away from the animal if they see it\n\nRSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West, who checked the animal, said: \"He was resting and, although appearing slightly underweight, thankfully he wasn't displaying any signs of sickness or injury.\n\n\"This is an incredibly rare sighting and these big, beautiful animals never usually venture so far south. We believe this may be a juvenile who has travelled down this way in search of food.\"\n\nShe urged people to \"keep their distance\" and not approach the animal.\n\n\"I will certainly never forget this day, in fact it's still sinking in that I've been monitoring a walrus on the Pembrokeshire coast today,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been absolutely amazing. As a keen rugby fan, it's possibly the only reason I would miss the rugby.\"", "Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for Covid-19, the country's health minister has said.\n\nThe 68-year-old is \"self-isolating at home\", the minister, Faisal Sultan, tweeted.\n\nMr Khan, a former captain of the national cricket team who became prime minister in August 2018, received his first vaccination two days ago.\n\nPakistan has recorded 13,799 deaths and 623,135 cases during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nVaccination helps develop immunity to the virus that causes Covid-19 but it usually takes a few weeks for protection to develop, and the person getting the jab remains vulnerable during that time.\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\nThe prime minister has been attending regular meetings, including at a security conference in the capital Islamabad that was attended by a large number of people, Reuters news agency notes.\n\nHe addressed that conference without wearing a mask, and attended another gathering to inaugurate a housing project for poor people on Friday, the agency reports.\n\nImran Khan was tested for coronavirus after developing a \"slight cough\", according to one of his senior advisers, and he now has a mild fever.\n\nHe received his first dose of the Chinese-produced Sinopharm vaccine on Thursday. The former cricketing superstar is generally in good health, and his adviser described him as remaining \"hale and hearty.\"\n\nVaccine hesitancy has been a major concern in Pakistan, and the prime minister's decision to broadcast footage of himself receiving the jab was praised as an attempt to encourage others to do the same. It seems certain Mr Khan had already been infected prior to the vaccination, but there are fears the episode will boost vaccine scepticism.\n\nPartial lockdown restrictions have recently been reintroduced in parts of the country following a rise in cases.\n\nPakistan began vaccinations for the general public on 10 March, starting with elderly people.\n\nAlong with Sinopharm, the country has approved the CanSinoBio, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines for emergency use.", "Paris police showed photos of the find on Wednesday\n\nThis week police in Paris announced a \"fruitful investigation\" and a raid netting MDMA and ecstasy with a street value of over €1m ($1.2m; £860,000).\n\nBut it has turned out to be fruitful in a different way.\n\nSources close to the investigation now say the pink powder was in fact ground up sweets.\n\nOr more specifically, \"crushed Tagada strawberry\" made by Haribo, AFP reports, one of the most popular brands of sweets in France.\n\nA suspect faces prosecution as police also found stolen mobile phones, as well as a machine used to manufacture ecstasy tablets, Le Parisien reports.\n\nBut it is not clear why the original haul was reported to be illegal drugs, nor why seemingly large amounts of an innocuous sweet had been ground into powder.\n\nDrug seizures can be misidentified - last year what was initially claimed as Thailand's largest ketamine bust was found to be a type of cleaning agent.", "The Queen and Duchess of Cornwall have thanked volunteers for supporting people during the pandemic, saying they have been a \"great help\".\n\nThey took part in a video call to thank members of the Royal Voluntary Service to mark one year since it launched the NHS Volunteer Responders Scheme.\n\nThe Queen, patron of the RVS, said they had done \"wonderful work\", including delivering books to people.\n\nNearly one million volunteers have been recruited to the scheme.\n\nThey have helped with tasks such as picking up prescriptions and doing food shopping for those shielding and unable to leave their homes, as well as taking part in check-up calls.\n\n\"I think it's wonderful work,\" said the Queen. \"Thank you to everybody - and all the others too who have been volunteering. It has been a great help.\"\n\nOne of those on the call was retired police officer Tracy Clarke, who spoke about her work with the RVS Gateshead Home Library Service. She told them that the delivery of books had become a lifeline during the pandemic for those who loved reading.\n\nThe Queen said this must have been a great comfort and \"very helpful\", as \"books are very important to people\".\n\nCamilla, who is president of the RVS, told the volunteers: \"Thank you all very much for all you've done throughout the year, throughout the pandemic. We couldn't have done without you.\"\n\nThe call was hosted by RVS chief executive Catherine Johnstone (top row, middle) and included volunteers Anderson (middle row, left) and Tracy (middle row, right)\n\nRVS chief executive Catherine Johnstone, who hosted the call, told the Queen and duchess of her pride at how the UK had stepped forward to volunteer during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOne of the volunteers the royal pair spoke to was Anderson Akponeware, from Middlesbrough, who has also been studying for his PhD and home-schooling during the past year.\n\nHe told them: \"People have been living in their own small bubbles, and I wouldn't have known how isolated those small bubbles could be until I took on this role.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has been taking part in check-in calls with members of the public during the pandemic\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including Camilla, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Countess of Wessex, have taken part in RVS \"check in and chat\" calls with those living alone or shielding during the pandemic.\n\nAhead of this week's call, Camilla said she had had \"lots of happy conversations\" with Doris Winfield, 86, who she met through the scheme and who died earlier this year. The pair were able to meet in person last year at the Royal Voluntary Service Lunch Club in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is in regular contact with 85-year-old Len Gardner from Batley, Yorkshire, who she first spoke to last May through the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme, while the Countess of Wessex has been speaking to 89-year-old Edna Farley from Liverpool every fortnight.\n\nThe Queen has been patron of the RVS since 1952, when it was known as the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS).\n\nMeanwhile, Clarence House has said Camilla and the Prince of Wales will travel to Greece next week for an official two-day visit.\n\nDuring their visit to Athens, arranged at the request of the government, they will attend Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations, a reception at the National Gallery of Greece, a wreath-laying ceremony and a traditional military parade.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland lost their Twenty20 series decider to an India side that followed a batting masterclass with some wonderful bowling in Ahmedabad.\n\nVirat Kohli anchored India with 80 not out from 52 balls, allowing Rohit Sharma (64 from 34), Hardik Pandya (39 not out from 17) and Suryakumar Yadav (32 from 17) to blaze around him.\n\nThe hosts' 224-2 was their highest T20 score against England and set the tourists what would have been their second-highest successful chase in the shortest format.\n\nThey were on course at 127-1 after 12 overs, only for Bhuvneshwar Kumar to bowl a brilliant 13th, conceding three runs and crucially having Jos Buttler caught at long-off for 52.\n\nDawid Malan remained, but when he was bowled by the impressive Shardul Thakur for 68, 83 from the final five overs was a huge ask.\n\nEngland ended on 188-8, losing by 36 runs, with India taking the series 3-2.\n• None Archer's elbow injury has 'got worse', placing his IPL participation in doubt\n\nEngland wanted this series to test them before the World Cup, with the decider delivering the stiffest of challenges.\n\nAfter the India assault, Jason Roy was bowled swiping at Bhuvneshwar from the second ball of the chase, only for Malan to arrive with a fluency that was missing in the previous four games.\n\nButtler was typically powerful, and with Malan driving and deflecting, their partnership of 130 had England in the hunt.\n\nHowever, on a run-filled pitch, it was the performance of Bhuvneshwar that proved the difference. With no great pace, he held his nerve with accuracy and trickery to return incredible figures of 2-15 from his four overs.\n\nThakur supported with his own changes of pace. Around the time of Buttler's wicket, England went 22 deliveries without finding the boundary.\n\nJonny Bairstow, Malan and Eoin Morgan fell for two runs in the space of seven deliveries, all to slower balls, and England ground to a halt.\n\nKohli's decision to open alongside Rohit united India's best two players, with devastating and thrilling results.\n\nThe languid Rohit played beautifully, driving and pulling with awesome force. A wild hack to inside-edge a Ben Stokes slower ball on to the stumps was the first mistake he made.\n\nThe first-wicket stand of 94 came in only nine overs, but there was no respite for England, with Suryakumar hitting two glorious lofted drives for sixes off Adil Rashid from the second and third balls he faced.\n\nKohli was the anchor, taking only 25 from his first 23 balls, then 55 from the next 29. He was joined for the final assault by Hardik, who muscled boundaries off the back foot.\n\nEngland were almost powerless in the face of such destruction on a superb surface, but at times the bowling lacked variety.\n\nStill, Chris Jordan's outrageous moment of brilliance to remove Suryakumar will live long in the memory. Sprinting round the long-on boundary, he was in perfect control when he held Suryakumar at waist height in his right hand, the catch completed when Jordan under-armed to Roy, who could only laugh in disbelief.\n\nWhat about the World Cup?\n\nEngland have been keen to emphasise the importance of this series, with the World Cup in India now only seven months away.\n\nMorgan even said it might be the last time he gets his first-choice side together before the squad for that tournament is named.\n\nEngland have learnt that the express pace of Mark Wood is a huge asset in the powerplay, while Malan gave a reminder of why he is rated as the world's number one batsman after a run of low scores.\n\nThe tourists only won games when batting second and there are questions over the quality of their back-up bowling. Jordan and Sam Curran struggled to make an impact, while Moeen Ali never made it on to the pitch.\n\nThere is also a suspicion they are not finding the best way to utilise Stokes in the shortest format.\n\nHowever, England's power-packed batting means they will always carry a threat. India will probably start the World Cup as favourites, but England are still to be feared.\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"[It has been] Extremely productive. To play a strong India team in their own conditions was fantastic. Ideally we would have played on wickets that turned more just to get that exposure. Regardless of the result we are looking to grow and get better. We played some really good cricket. There are a lot of positives to build on.\"\n\nEngland T20 bowler Tymal Mills: \"It was an excellent performance all-round from India. They held their nerve when Buttler and Malan were flying. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's third over was ultimately the one that swung it India's way.\"\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"It was a complete game for us. We totally outplayed the opposition. The fact Rishabh and Shreyas didn't get the chance to bat and still got close 230 is testament to how we did with the bat.\n\n\"I have batted in different positions in the past but I feel we have a solid middle order now. Now it is about the two best players getting the maximum number of balls in T20 cricket. I would like to partner Rohit at the top.\"\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "Riyad Mahrez joined Manchester City for £60 million in the summer of 2018\n\nA man who used a bank card belonging to Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez to go on a £175,000 spending spree has been jailed for fraud.\n\nSharif Mohamed, 32, admitted he spent the footballer's money on clothes for his children and drinks in high-end bars in Ibiza.\n\nBut he claimed he was part of a wider gang of people who accessed the card and had been made \"the fall guy\".\n\nHe was jailed for three years and eight months at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nMahrez' bank card was used at a casino in London, for hotels stays, at a nail salon and for meals at Nando's and Greggs, prosecutors said.\n\nThe court heard the gang made \"hundreds of transactions\" of varying amounts in an \"incredibly intense\" period of spending.\n\nMahrez only spotted that the large amounts had been drained from his card in September 2017, after the scam had been going on for a month.\n\nHis bank was forced to reimburse him £175,830.\n\nSentencing Mohamed, of Forest Gate, east London, Judge Laurence West-Knights QC said that \"staggering sums\" of money were stolen.\n\nHe said: \"You knew jolly well that you had handed the card over to the rest of your group and they would go off and spend a great deal of money on it.\n\n\"The essence of this fraud was that it appears to have been one perpetrated on an individual with a great deal of money, somebody who in fact would not spot these vast sums disappearing from the account, at least not straight away.\"\n\nRiyad Mahrez was playing for Leicester City at the time Sharif Mohamed raided his bank account\n\nIn August 2017, when Mr Mahrez was playing for Leicester City, an individual called his bank requesting a replacement card, according to information provided by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe card was not sent to the player's address and Mr Mahrez did not receive it, the court heard.\n\nThe card's usage was cross-referenced with CCTV at cashpoints in a Stratford shopping centre and Leicester Haymarket, which showed Mohamed withdrawing money about 10 times.\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. Aerial footage shows lava flowing from the volcano south-west of Reykjavik in Iceland\n\nA volcano has erupted south-west of Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the country's meteorological office says.\n\nIt says the fissure is about 500-700 metres long (1,640-2,300ft) at Fagradalsfjall on Reykjanes peninsula. The last eruption there was some 800 years ago.\n\nIceland has recorded more than 40,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks.\n\nIn 2010 the eruption of another volcano at Eyjafjallajokull brought air traffic to a halt across Europe.\n\nHowever, the eruption of Fagradalsfjall is not expected to spew out much ash, so aviation should not suffer disruption.\n\nThe Icelandic Meteorological Office says the eruption of Fagradalsfjall began at about 20:45 GMT on Friday, and was later confirmed via webcams and satellite images.\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to survey the area, about 30km (19 miles) from Reykjavik.\n\nIt then sent first images of the lava snaking its way down after the eruption.\n\n\"I can see the glowing red sky from my window,\" said Rannveig Gudmundsdottir, who lives in Grindavik, 8 km (5 miles) from the eruption.\n\n\"Everyone here is getting into their cars to drive up there,\" she said, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 1.2 km from Fagradalsfjall just several hours earlier.\n\nIceland frequently experiences tremors as it straddles two tectonic plates, which are drifting in opposite directions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Tyrone and Alina appear to share a kiss but they are played here by a real-life couple\n\nWhen Tyrone and Alina stole a kiss in Friday's episode of Coronation Street, many viewers will have been rightly left wondering how they filmed it following social distancing guidelines.\n\nActors Alan Halsall and Ruxandra Porojnicu were filmed talking before their kiss, but did not get within two metres of one another, ITV bosses said.\n\nInstead, regular Corrie extra Alex Mulvaney and his wife Hannah then stepped in for the romantic moment.\n\n\"My agent said that Coronation Street needed extras who were in a support bubble, and because I used to be an extra three times a week and they knew half of my family had done extra work on the show, it worked out perfectly,\" explained Mulvaney.\n\n\"My partner Hannah hadn't done any extra work before, but my agent knew she had dark hair like Alina's so I asked her if she wanted to do it,\" he added.\n\nAlex Mulvaney and his wife Hannah are body doubles with a difference\n\n\"Hannah was nervous at first, but she is a big Coronation Street fan. I had been on set many times before, and I was able to talk her through what to expect - she was a bit star-struck when she saw the actors.\"\n\nLike most other shows, Coronation Street stopped filming during the first national lockdown in March 2020 and resumed filming in a restricted manner several months later.\n\nPorojnicu, who plays Alina, said the (non) kissing scene was a \"challenge\" but one she \"really enjoyed\".\n\nAlan Halsall and Ruxandra Porojnicu keep their distance during filming\n\nAlthough their characters look like they are sitting together, the actors were filmed having the conversation separately. The footage was composited together during post-production, giving the illusion they were next to each other.\n\nThe design department taped a pair of sunglasses onto a telescopic radio aerial to ensure the actors had the correct eye line, so they would appear to be looking into each other's eyes.\n\n\"It was difficult not being able to look into each other's eyes for the emotion of the scene but Coronation Street came up with a clever way to cheat that with sunglasses on an aerial,\" the actress said.\n\n\"Everything that's been said in the scene leads to the kiss which is very important for Alina because it is the first time that she has said out loud to Tyrone that she is falling for him.\"\n\nProducer Iain MacLeod praised the popular programme's writers, cast and crew for having \"cleverly worked around\" restrictions, for the best part of a difficult year.\n\nWhen the characters Debbie and Kevin were trapped in a fridge, the actors were tested for Covid beforehand and were placed in a bubble for the three days of filming, as were Alya, Yasmeen and Geoff for the dramatic rooftop scenes for the 60th anniversary show in December.\n\n\"We have therefore told the same stories throughout the pandemic that we would have told in 'normal' times,\" said MacLeod.\n\n\"But it just felt wrong to tell a story of an illicit liaison, where someone betrays their partner based on lust and sexual attraction, only for us not to see any of the chemistry and closeness.\n\n\"Hence the smoke and mirrors here.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Bill Nelson on the campaign trail in Florida during the 2018 mid-term elections\n\nBill Nelson, a US senator and one-time astronaut, has been nominated to be the next head of Nasa.\n\nThe 78-year-old is seen as a moderate Democrat, and his nomination by President Joe Biden on Friday drew bipartisan praise.\n\nHe will need to be confirmed in the Senate before he can take up the role.\n\nMr Nelson said he was \"honoured\" to be picked to lead the US space agency, adding that he would \"help lead Nasa into an exciting future\".\n\nIn a statement, the White House said he was \"known as the go-to senator for our nation's space programme\" for many years. \"Almost every piece of space and science law has had his imprint,\" it said.\n\nThe Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, said: \"I cannot think of anyone better to lead Nasa.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Nelson said Nasa's workforce \"radiates optimism, ingenuity and a can-do spirit.\" He added: \"The Nasa team continues to achieve the seemingly impossible as we venture into the cosmos.\"\n\nMr Nelson was a driving force behind Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which was conceived in the wake of an Obama-era overhaul of the US space programme.\n\nHe will succeed Jim Bridenstine, who led the agency for almost three years under the Trump administration.\n\nMr Bridenstine earned widespread praise for his efforts to promote Nasa programmes - in particular, its Artemis venture, which will see astronauts return to the Moon in the 2020s before mounting a mission to Mars.\n\n\"Bill Nelson is an excellent pick for Nasa Administrator,\" Mr Bridenstine said, adding that the former Florida senator had the \"political clout\" to collaborate with different government offices as well as members of Congress.\n\n\"He has the diplomatic skills to lead an international coalition sustainably to the Moon and on to Mars,\" he said. \"The Senate should confirm Bill Nelson without delay.\"\n\nMr Nelson was among those who initially criticised Mr Bridenstine's confirmation in 2018, saying: \"The administrator must be a leader who has the ability to bring us together... on a shared vision for future space exploration.\"\n\nThe Oklahoma Congressman had no formal qualifications in science and engineering, and there were concerns he would politicise the non-partisan agency.\n\nBut following Mr Bridenstine's successful tenure at Nasa, the Biden administration has opted to appoint another politician as the agency's head - albeit a former astronaut with a long history of working on space issues.\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\nMr Nelson served in Florida's state legislature during the 1970s, representing the district that's home to Nasa's Kennedy Space Center.\n\nAfter his election to the House of Representatives in 1978, he became the second sitting member of Congress to travel into space when he flew as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986.\n\nAfter he won election to the Senate in Florida in 2000, Mr Nelson continued to be closely involved in formulating space policy.\n\nIn 2010, he said he believed President Barack Obama had \"made a mistake\" by cancelling the Constellation programme. That programme was former President George W Bush's effort to return astronauts to the Moon.\n\nThe decision to axe Constellation - which, at the time, was over budget and behind schedule - sparked a backlash in Congress, not least because it jeopardised thousands of space jobs in southern states.\n\nNelson unveils the design of the SLS in 2011, as then-Nasa chief Charles Bolden looks on\n\nAlong with a Republican Senator for Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mr Nelson insisted that Nasa be mandated to build a new heavy-lift rocket in the agency's 2010 Authorization Act.\n\nThe SLS gave Nasa the capability to launch its Orion crew vehicle to the Moon and other deep space destinations, while securing a base of engineering expertise across the south.\n\nBut the programme was criticised by those who believed the agency should move to launching spacecraft entirely on commercial rockets, like those built by Elon Musk's company SpaceX.\n\nMr Nelson lost his last re-election bid and his Senate term ended in 2019.\n\nIn a statement, the acting Nasa administrator Steve Jurczyk, said: \"Bill has a proven history of supporting our work here at Nasa, and has helped advance America's position in human exploration, science, aeronautics, and technology.\"", "The fire on Thursday spread from the family's car to a caravan and then to the roof of their home\n\nA teacher and ex-Royal Marine said his family is lucky to be alive after a suspected arson attack which destroyed their home in County Durham.\n\nSean Ivey, from Wingate, fled to safety with his wife and two children after a fire broke out early on Thursday.\n\nMr Ivey, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, believed he was targeted after standing up to anti-social behaviour.\n\nTwo men have been arrested and Durham Police issued a 48-hour dispersal order in the area.\n\nThe family's home was destroyed by the fire\n\nMore than £50,000 has been raised to help the family start again\n\n\"I just woke up in bed and felt the need to look out of the window,\" Mr Ivey said.\n\n\"I shouted to my wife that the car was on fire, go and get the kids.\"\n\nIt broke out around 01:45 GMT. Flames from the car then spread to a caravan parked on the driveway, before spreading to the roof of the bungalow.\n\nA second fire broke out during the early hours of Friday. Nobody was inside at the time.\n\nDurham Police are treating them as suspected arson.\n\nSean Ivey believes he was targeted for standing up to anti-social behaviour\n\nMr Ivey, who served with 45 Commando, said young people had been spotted riding around the area on quad bikes wearing balaclavas, \"terrorising\" other road users.\n\n\"[There have been] burglaries, car fires, this is quite extreme but these aren't isolated incidents,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm just absolutely fed up of the anti-social behaviour, the lack of respect, the lack of discipline, and where does it stop?\"\n\nFootball memorabilia as well as Mr Ivey's Royal Marines medals perished\n\nOn Wednesday, hours before the first fire, Mr Ivey posted on social media that his parents had been robbed when four men burst into their home.\n\nHe said he had a run-in last weekend with a young biker \"riding like a lunatic\" and saw another in the main street of the former mining village pulling wheelies and mounting the paths.\n\nHe also called out gangs gathering outside a local takeaway.\n\nA fundraising campaign has raised more than £50,000 to help the family, whose home was not insured because a policy had run out.\n\nPhotographs, medals and Mr Ivey's Royal Marines uniform have also been lost.\n\nMr Ivey woke up to find his car on fire before fleeing from the property with his family\n\nTwo men, aged 22 and 25, have been arrested. Police said they were continuing to carry out lines of inquiry in relation to the second fire.\n\nInsp Emma Kay said it had had \"a huge impact\" on the family and the wider community.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone with information no matter how small it may be to come forward and help us bring the offenders to justice,\" she said.\n\nPatrols are being increased and the dispersal order will be in place over the weekend, meaning anyone failing to leave when asked will face arrest.\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.", "Emma Homer said the attack had left her with \"anxiety, insomnia and stress\"\n\nA probationary police officer who assaulted a woman in a \"terrifying\" attack has been given a curfew, prompting criticism he was not jailed.\n\nWest Midlands Police PC Oliver Banfield grabbed and manhandled Emma Homer last July while drunk. He has been suspended and faces disciplinary action.\n\nThe investigating force has apologised for delays in the prosecution.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman wrote on Twitter: \"Must have been terrifying for her... but no prison sentence.\"\n\nMs Homer said the attack had left her with \"anxiety, insomnia and stress\" and her family said they were \"disappointed\" with 25-year-old Banfield's sentence, a night-time curfew.\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court, CCTV was shown in which Banfield could be seen shouting at Ms Homer.\n\nHe is seen grabbing her and forcing her to the floor during the assault in the early hours of 26 July in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.\n\nIn her victim personal statement which was read out in court, she said she thought he was \"fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy\".\n\nDescribing the assault, Ms Homer, 37, said: \"I often ask myself if the impact of the attack would have been so severe if my assailant was not a police officer.\n\n\"During the assault as I struggled to get to safety, I was sure this drunk man was fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy.\n\n\"To be verbally abused with misogynistic slang, grabbed by the neck, and forced to the floor on a dark road by a drunk man a foot taller than me is terrifying, but to then find that he was a police officer shook my belief system to its core.\"\n\nShe said: \"I considered myself a confident, relaxed, and independent wife and mother, but since the attack I live with constant anxiety.\n\n\"I have changed simple things like my route home, and I have had to ask my family not to discuss the case as it sends me into a panic attack - indeed whenever the subject is brought up I feel a rush of anxiety and a tightening at my throat.\"\n\nWarwickshire Police said it had personally apologised to Ms Homer for delays in the investigation.\n\nInitially the CPS said there was not enough evidence to bring a prosecution. But after Ms Homer appealed, further inquiries were made and Banfield was charged.\n\nWarwickshire's Chief Superintendent Ben Smith said the force recognised \"the strength of feeling that has come about as a result of Sarah Everard's tragic death and understand the concerns relating to violence against women and girls nationally\".\n\nAnd he added: \"We acknowledge that, due to internal process errors, the initial response to the report of the assault was not as swift as it should have been and an apology has been issued with regards to this.\"\n\nBanfield pleaded guilty to assault by beating at a hearing in January and at Friday's hearing received a 14-week curfew order banning him from leaving his house between 19:00 and 07:00. He was also ordered to pay his victim £500 compensation as well as a victim surcharge and court costs.\n\nMs Homer's family said a night-time curfew during lockdown was \"not really a punishment at all\".\n\nCriticising the non-custodial sentence in a tweet, Ms Harman wrote: \"He continues in post. WMPolice (West Midlands Police) must review.\n\n\"This is proof, if any needed, that system fails women and protects men.\"\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Police said Banfield, of Bidford-on-Avon, had been suspended from duty and would now face charges of gross misconduct.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine said: \"Our role is to protect the public, who should be able to trust us. We therefore hold all our officers to the highest standards and we will take appropriate action against anyone whose actions fall below what is expected.\"\n\nThe West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson said he had asked Chief Constable Sir David Thompson to brief him on steps taken by the force.\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. Mourners gathered in Dar es Salaam as President Magufuli's body was transported to lie in state\n\nThousands of mourners have been filing past the coffin of Tanzania's ex-President John Magufuli, who died on Wednesday aged 61.\n\nHis coffin, draped in the national flag, is lying in state at the Uhuru stadium in the main city Dar es Salaam.\n\nOpposition politicians say that Magufuli contracted Covid-19, but this has not been confirmed.\n\nHe was a Covid sceptic who at times denied the virus had affected Tanzania.\n\nA requiem mass has been held for the late president\n\nMagufuli's coffin was brought to the stadium on Saturday in a procession that was led by his successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan.\n\nIt will be taken to several different locations for public viewing before his burial in his hometown of Chato on Friday.\n\nPresident Magufuli's coffin was carried through the streets of Dar es Salaam\n\nMagufuli was the son of a peasant farmer and went on to became Tanzania's president in 2015.\n\nSome residents wept and threw flowers on the coffin which was pulled by a military vehicle on Saturday.\n\nPresident Samia, who was sworn into office on Friday, led the government procession in which many wore black or green and yellow to represent the colours of the ruling party.\n\nShe is Africa's only current female national leader - the Ethiopian presidency is a largely ceremonial role - and joins a short list of women on the continent to have run their countries.\n\nMourners wept at the state funeral procession of Magufuli\n\nThe government announced on Wednesday that Magufuli had died from a heart condition after he had been missing from public for several weeks.\n\nHis position on coronavirus ranged from stating it did not exist in Tanzania to saying the country had beaten the pandemic through prayer.\n\nBut in February, after a number of senior politicians died from the virus, he conceded it was circulating in Tanzania.\n\nKnown as the \"bulldozer\", before the pandemic Magufuli was praised for his no-nonsense approach and hailed for his anti-corruption stance and his distinct dislike for wasting money.\n\nOn Friday President Samia spoke of the \"heavy load\" on her shoulders and urged for the \"burying of differences\" and unity during the mourning period.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIreland produced by far their best performance of the Andy Farrell era to beat a sorry England 32-18 in the Six Nations in Dublin.\n\nKeith Earls and Jack Conan scored superb first-half tries while Johnny Sexton kicked 22 points with Lions coach Warren Gatland watching on.\n\nLate touchdowns from Ben Youngs and Jonny May after Bundee Aki's red card did not mask a dismal English display.\n\nEddie Jones' side are now set for a fifth-place finish.\n• None We need to reset England team - Jones\n• None Reaction as Ireland cruise to victory over England\n\nIreland's win moves them up to second in the table but their final standing will not be decided until France and Scotland meet next week in their re-arranged fixture that will end this season's competition.\n\nRegardless of their final position, the manner of the win over England, a first in five attempts, will live long in Irish memories in addition to vindicating Farrell's constant insistence that this is a team travelling in the right direction.\n\nAs for England, their lifeless and ill-disciplined display after such an engrossing win over France a week ago is arguably a new low for a side who only a year-and-a-half ago reached the World Cup final.\n\nSince taking over from Joe Schmidt, Ireland head coach Farrell has made no secret of his desire to replace a system built on minute detail and structure with a more free-flowing approach.\n\nThe ambition has been at odds with some of Ireland's performances in this tournament, during which they have seemed stuck for ideas and imagination when in possession.\n\nAgainst England on Saturday they clicked, and in the first 40 minutes produced a display that was by some distance the closest thing we have seen to the swashbuckling style Farrell has envisioned.\n\nIt started ominously with all the trademarks of England's recent thumping wins over Ireland which have seen them dominate the fixture since 2018, namely a Maro Itoje turnover and an effortless drive into the corner that saw England held up over the line.\n\nFrom the scrum Kyle Sinckler went early, as England's machine suddenly faltered, allowing Ireland an out.\n\nOwen Farrell and Sexton traded penalties before a high-risk, high-reward set-piece paid off for Ireland, as Rob Herring's deliberately overthrown line-out was patted down by Jack Conan straight into the hands of Earls, who showed a stunning turn of pace to step around May and score.\n\nAn energetic Ireland, led by the relentless Robbie Henshaw, had their tails up while England's forwards continued to cough up cheap penalties with Mako Vunipola twice penalised at the scrum, offering Sexton the chance to extend his side's lead.\n\nWith three minutes to go in the first half, Hugo Keenan won an aerial dual with Elliot Daly, restored to full-back after Max Malins withdrew from the squad with an injury, to bring Ireland deep inside the 22.\n\nFrom there they found quick ball and did not allow England's defence to set, switching the ball left before a Conan pick-and-go extended their advantage to 20-6 at the break.\n\nFor all their side impressed, there would have been few Irish fans resting on their laurels at half-time against an England side who have been their chief tormentors in the past two years.\n\nDespite their worst fears, they need not have worried, because England barely threw a single punch.\n\nTwo minutes into the second half Daly produced a brilliant chase to win a penalty and again send England into the corner, only for the visitors to give away a penalty off their own throw.\n\nTheir spells in Irish territory were brief and they never found the relentless forward momentum that has typified their most unplayable performances under Jones.\n\nInstead they were disjointed and ill-disciplined, turning over the ball and allow Ireland to release any pressure.\n\nEarls nearly had a glorious second, acrobatically grounding Sexton's cross-field kick only for the play to be pulled back for an earlier Cian Healy knock-on.\n\nIreland's breakdown work, highlighted as one of their biggest improvements this year, lived up to its billing with Tadhg Beirne once again front and centre.\n\nThey were given a jolt in the 64th minute when Aki's red card, for making contact with the head of Billy Vunipola, was followed immediately by Youngs darting down the short side and clawing back five points.\n\nBut at no point did England look likely to claw back the deficit as Sexton responded with two more penalties.\n\nMay's try in the corner with two minutes remaining was the final act, as both sets of players now return to their clubs to conclude their seasons and make a final push for a place on the Lions tour.\n\nReplacements: Healy for Kilcoyne 20, Kelleher for Herring 71, Porter for Furlong 64, O'Mahony for Van der Flier 64, Baird for Henderson 64, Larmour for Stockdale 78\n\nReplacements: George for Cowan-Dickie half-time, Genge for M Vunipola half-time, Stuart for Sinckler 66, Hill for Ewels 56, Earl for Wilson 53, Robson for Farrell 56, Martin for B Vunipola 64, Marchant for Ford 53\n• None A talented young drummer is pushed to his limits in this psychological drama\n• None Football, music and culture from the Premier League with Jermaine Jenas", "Justin Bieber's performance aired on the same day that he released his album, Justice\n\nJustin Bieber and the Duke of Cambridge were among famous faces who took part in this year's Red Nose Day on BBC One.\n\nThe Canadian singer gave this year's Comic Relief charity fundraiser an exclusive performance of his latest song Hold On.\n\nPrince William thanked the public for its \"compassion and generosity\".\n\nComic Relief had raised £52m by Saturday morning to help tackle hunger, homelessness, domestic abuse and mental health stigma.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Comic Relief This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking about mental health in a recorded video message, the duke said: \"This is a subject that is very close to my heart and it's wonderful to know that your support tonight will make sure that there is help at hand when things become too much for people.\"\n\nBieber - who released his album, Justice, earlier on Friday - asked viewers who could to donate to \"help those who need it most\".\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge took part in a spoof Zoom call with Stephen Fry for the BBC's Big Night In last year\n\nOther stars to take part included Daniel Craig and Catherine Tate.\n\nCraig's James Bond came face-to-face with Tate's Nan character in a sketch that saw Nan cleaning an office in MI6 before accidentally video-calling 007.\n\nHis character then introduces himself as \"Bond. James Bond\", to which Nan quips: \"Well make up your mind, son. Why are you introducing yourself backwards?\"\n\nBy the end of the sketch, Nan is revealed as a villain, telling Bond: \"It's me, 0075. I have got a bus pass and a licence to watch the BBC and I have finally caught up with you.\"\n\nMichael Sheen, Keira Knightley and KSI starred in 2020: The Movie, a parody based on recent world events.\n\nAnd Dawn French made a return as the Vicar of Dibley, opening the show with a rendition of Lizzo's song, Juice.\n\nCatherine Tate and Daniel Craig in character as Nan and James Bond\n\nFormer Doctor Who star Tennant also appeared with Sheen in a special episode of their Zoom-based comedy series Staged.\n\nJack Whitehall, meanwhile, had his own battles with Zoom in another star-studded sketch that featured Olivia Colman, Anya Taylor-Joy and others.\n\nMcGuinness and his fellow Top Gear presenters faced awkward questions from children in a comedy segment hosted by BBC Radio 1's Jordan North.\n\nThere was also a \"mash-up\" of BBC Three hits Fleabag and Normal People, featuring stars Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Andrew Scott.\n\nIn the scene, Scott's Fleabag character Hot Priest heard confession with Normal People's Connell and Marianne simultaneously as they talked about their relationship issues.\n\nMeanwhile, comedians including Caroline Quentin, Jennifer Saunders and Alex Brooker performed Nessun Dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot after being coached by the English National Opera and soprano Charlotte Church.\n\nThroughout the night of entertainment, viewers were shown films outlining how their donations could change lives in the UK and around the world.\n\nThey included a number of films that had been co-produced with local film-makers in India, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.\n\nLast year Comic Relief said it would stop sending celebrities to Africa after criticism that such films promoted a \"white saviour\" narrative.\n\nYouTuber and rap star KSI features in 2020: The Movie, billed as \"part biopic, part disaster film\"\n\nThis year's fundraising had already seen charity challenges featuring Alex Scott, Jermaine Jenas and double leg amputee Billy Monger.\n\nOne Show stars Scott and Jenas competed in an epic Red Nose and Spoon Race, while Monger took on a triathlon-inspired challenge that saw him walk, cycle and kayak 140 miles across England.\n\nMonger said he was \"speechless\" when presenters told him he had raised £2,376,183, adding: \"That's completely out of what I thought was possible, so thank you everyone.\"\n\nThe theme of this year's Red Nose Day has been Funny Is Power, with the aim of empowering people to do good through humour.\n\nSir Lenny rounded off the programme by saying: \"After a year of lockdowns, we hope we have given you laughter and joy.\"\n\nThe last Comic Relief fundraiser in March 2019 raised £63m by the end of the evening.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many experts say equitable access to vaccines is essential for global population immunity\n\nWealthy countries - including the UK - are blocking proposals to help developing nations increase their vaccine manufacturing capabilities, documents leaked to BBC Newsnight show.\n\nSeveral poorer countries have asked the World Health Organization to help them.\n\nBut richer nations are pushing back on provisions in international law that would enable them to achieve this.\n\nThis is according to a leaked copy of the negotiating text of a WHO resolution on the issue.\n\nAmong those richer nations are the UK, the US, as well as the European Union.\n\n\"Where we could have language in there that would make it easier for countries to produce more vaccines and more medicines within their country, it would include initiatives that would finance and facilitate that. The UK is on the opposite side of the argument of trying to remove those kinds of progressive proposals from the text,\" says Diarmaid McDonald, from Just Treatment, a patient group for fair access to medicines.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government says \"a global pandemic requires a global solution and the UK is leading from the front, driving forward efforts to ensure equitable access around the world to Covid vaccines and treatments\".\n\nThe spokesperson says the UK is one of the largest donors to international efforts to ensure over one billion doses of coronavirus vaccines get to developing countries this year.\n\nIf and when governments should intervene to ensure affordable supplies of medicines is a long-standing issue.\n\nBut the ability of different countries to source vaccines and drugs has been highlighted by the pandemic.\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\nMany experts say equitable access to vaccines is essential to prevent cases and deaths and to contribute to global population immunity.\n\nBut the global capacity for producing vaccines is about a third of what is needed, says Ellen t'Hoen, an expert in medicines policy and intellectual property law.\n\n\"These are vaccines that are produced in wealthy countries and are in general kept by those wealthy countries.\n\n\"Developing nations are saying we need to have a share of the pie, not only the share of the vaccines, but also the share of the right to produce these vaccines,\" she adds.\n\nTo make a vaccine you not only need to have the right to produce the actual substance they are composed of (which is protected by patents), you also need to have the knowledge about how to make them because the technology can be complex.\n\nThe WHO does not have the authority to sidestep patents - but it is trying to bring countries together to find a way to bolster vaccine supplies.\n\nThe discussions include using provisions in international law to get around patents and helping countries to have the technical ability to make them.\n\nBut the drug industry argues that eroding patents would hinder its ability to invest in future treatments for Covid and other illnesses.\n\nEarlier this month, representatives of the US drug industry wrote to US President Joe Biden to share their concerns.\n\n\"Eliminating those protections would undermine the global response to the pandemic,\" they wrote, including ongoing efforts to tackle new variants.\n\nIt would also create confusion that could potentially undermine public confidence in vaccine safety, and create a barrier to information sharing, the representatives said.\n\n\"Most importantly, eliminating protections would not speed up production,\" they added.\n\nOthers agree. Anne Moore, an expert in vaccine immunology, worries about what impact undermining patents will have on future research.\n\n\"Over time we see fewer and fewer organisations and commercial companies being in the vaccine field because there's so little return on it,\" she says.\n\nDrug companies point out they have also donated financially and given medicines to help tackle the pandemic.\n\nBut campaigners argue that about £90bn ($125bn) of public money has gone into developing Covid treatments and vaccines so the public should have a stake. Once the pandemic ends, there is a lot of money to be made, they say.\n\n\"It's obvious that there are longer-term plans to increase the price of these vaccines once the most urgent phase of the pandemic is over. So that is another reason why developing countries are saying we need to gain the ability to produce these vaccines ourselves now,\" Ms t'Hoen says.", "Former Crewe manager Dario Gradi has apologised for \"not recognising signs of abuse\" carried out at the club by paedophile Barry Bennell.\n\nBennell - who worked at Crewe in the 1980s and '90s - is serving a 34-year sentence after being convicted of child sexual abuse five times.\n\nOn Wednesday an independent review found Gradi, Crewe's manager from 1983 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2011, \"should have done more\" to investigate concerns about Bennell, but said he was not involved in a cover-up.\n\nIt is the first time Gradi has issued an apology on the matter and came after the Offside Trust, a support organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in football, called for him to be stripped of his MBE.\n\n\"I wish to express my deepest sympathy for the survivors and their families,\" Gradi, 79, said.\n\n\"I sincerely and personally regret that the harm being caused to these young people was not discovered at the time.\n\n\"I apologise for not recognising any signs of abuse at the time.\"\n\nThe review, led by Clive Sheldon QC and commissioned by the Football Association in 2016, focused on the abuse of children within football between 1970 and 2005.\n\nOn Thursday, League One Crewe Alexandra apologised to all the survivors of Bennell's abuse and acknowledged \"more could have been done to monitor\" him.\n\nGradi's statement on Friday added: \"I am of course satisfied with the findings of the review in which it is acknowledged by Clive Sheldon QC that I did not act improperly towards children at any time and that I was unaware of the unlawful activities of Barry Bennell.\"\n\nSheldon said that when working with the club's former youth coach Bennell, Gradi \"was not aware of any allegations of abuse by Bennell and did not see anything done by Bennell\".\n\nThe report added: \"But what he did know was rumours about Bennell and he did know that boys were regularly staying over with Bennell, and I've concluded that Dario Gradi ought to have monitored what was going on, and he ought to have spoken to the boys who were staying with Bennell to see if they were OK. Had he done that it may well be that they would have told him of the abuse that they were suffering.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Offside Trust released a response to Gradi's statement, saying that \"more than three decades late, his three sentences of apology are welcome\" but criticising \"six paragraphs of self-exoneration and excuses\".\n\n\"After decades of being lied to and having the truth covered-up, survivors deserve better,\" the statement said.\n\nIt added that there is a \"world of difference\" between Crewe and Gradi's \"self-serving\" response to the review compared to that of the FA and most clubs who were found to have employed staff that abused young players.\n\nGradi denies he is banned from football\n\nGradi - who has always denied wrongdoing - said it was \"disappointing\" sections of the review \"have been taken out of context by the media in a series of soundbites\".\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham said on Wednesday that Gradi was \"effectively banned for life\" from football, but could not go into the reasons.\n\nThe FA's director of legal and governance, Polly Handford, said it was \"for safeguarding reasons\" but that was \"as far as we can go\".\n\nHowever, Gradi has denied he is banned from all football-related activity.\n\n\"I would like to make it clear that this is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"I am suspended indefinitely from certain specified activities with players under the age of 18 years and whilst I do not agree with it, I understand how the decision was arrived at.\"\n\nGradi was suspended in 2016 pending an FA investigation and retired from his position as director of football at Crewe three years later.\n\nThe report stated Gradi \"did not consider a person putting their hands down another's trousers to be an assault\", but that he changed his mind after Sheldon insisted it was.\n\nGradi said he was \"uncertain of the definition of what can amount to an assault and when Mr Sheldon clarified this I corrected myself\".\n\n\"Under no circumstances do I condone or excuse the behaviour of placing hands beneath the clothing of another or believe that it is anything other than wrong and unlawful,\" he said.\n\nGradi also said it is \"of note\" Sheldon's review did not find he failed to report allegations against Chelsea coach Eddie Heath in 1975, although it said he should have done more.\n\nA previous report accused Gradi - then a coach at Chelsea - of failing to tell more senior club staff about an allegation regarding the sexual conduct of Heath, brought to him by the parent of a young player.\n\n\"Although this was almost 50 years ago, I have always maintained that I took the matter further in reporting it,\" Gradi said.\n\n\"We now live in very different times and education and information regarding risk to young persons has significantly advanced, but I welcome the recommendations of the review.\"", "An amateur boxer has been jailed for three years and three months for assaulting two directors of the former Quinn group of companies.\n\nBernard McGovern, 24, from Springtown Road in Kinawley, County Fermanagh, admitted attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly at a service station in County Cavan on 1 February 2019.\n\nHe was sentenced on Friday.\n\nMr Lunney and Mr O'Reilly were having lunch in Ballyconnell when they were attacked.\n\nCavan Circuit Court was told that McGovern punched Kevin Lunney up to eight times in the face, leaving the chief operating officer with a broken nose and swollen eye.\n\nHe also threw a cup of hot tea in the face of Mr O'Reilly, the chief financial officer.\n\nThe previous day McGovern's father had been fired from his job as a driver with the company.\n\nThe court was told McGovern had no involvement in subsequent events in September 2019, when Mr Lunney was abducted and tortured by a gang.\n\nThe judge described the attack as the two men were having lunch as \"callous and premeditated\".\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, the judge said McGovern had been motivated by a desire to avenge a grievance.\n\nHe said the prize-winning boxer had caused very serious injuries through \"the vicious use of his fists\" and had thrown a cup of recently-boiled water in the face of Mr O'Reilly.\n\nThe judge said the offences were at the upper end of the scale when it came to assault causing harm, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.\n\nHe added that although the accused had pleaded guilty, that was in the context of the overwhelming case against him.\n\nThe Quinn group of companies - of which Kevin Lunney and Dara O'Reilly were directors - was rebranded last year\n\nThe judge said he would give McGovern some credit for his young age and no previous convictions.\n\nHe said \"his first experience of prison will no doubt be hard on him\".\n\nMcGovern was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for assault causing harm for the attack on Mr Lunney, and five months for assaulting Mr O'Reilly, to be served concurrently.\n\nMcGovern will receive credit for six-and-a-half months already spent in custody.\n\nThe judge said the offer of €1,000 (£854) compensation to Mr Lunney as a token of his remorse was not appropriate in this case, given the severe nature of the injuries.\n\nHe said he had also considered suspending a portion of the sentence but had decided it was not appropriate to do so.", "The noise was heard across south-west England at about 15:00 GMT\n\nA sonic boom-type noise has been heard across the south west of England which made homes and windows shake.\n\nPeople took to social media at about 15:00 GMT to report the \"huge bang\" that lasted several seconds.\n\nIt was heard in the Dorchester and Weymouth areas in Dorset and also Taunton, Bridgwater and Wellington in Somerset and parts of Devon.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said the noise was not believed to be linked to any RAF aircraft.\n\nOllie Peart, of Dorchester, managed to capture the noise on his security camera and described it as a \"massive bang\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ollie Peart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 posted on Twitter that their homes and windows shook.\n\nBBC reporter Linzi Kinghorn, who was on the Isle of Portland at the time, said: \"It was a very loud, sounded like thunder and lasted about 10 seconds.\"\n\nPolice forces including Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and Avon and Somerset Police said they had no incidents reported which related to the noise.", "More than 60 MPs and peers have written to the home secretary calling for a change in Covid-19 legislation to allow protests to happen during lockdown.\n\nThe letter, organised by campaign groups Liberty and Big Brother Watch, says there is a human right to protest.\n\nUnder England's current lockdown regulations, protests are not listed as a \"reasonable excuse\" for leaving home.\n\nIt comes as further protests are planned for Saturday by anti-lockdown campaigners.\n\nThe Home Office said it was still illegal for people to attend protests at a time when regulations that are in place to prevent wide transmission of Covid require people to stay at home at all times, except for a limited number of exceptions.\n\nLast weekend, police were criticised for arresting women attending a vigil following the killing of Sarah Everard.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has instructed the police watchdog, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), to \"conduct a lessons-learned review into the policing of the event\".\n\nA day earlier, campaigners attempted, without success, to persuade the High Court that the vigil should be exempt from the coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe judge hearing the case decided not to intervene but did suggest that the human rights of expression and gathering might be considered reasonable excuses in some circumstances.\n\nThe letter to Ms Patel was signed by several Conservative MPs - including Steve Baker, and Sir Christopher Chope - as well as Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and a number of Labour MPs and peers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Organisers said they cancelled a vigil originally planned at Clapham Common because police did not \"constructively engage\" with logistics\n\nIt demands that the home secretary issue guidance to police forces on \"facilitating\" protests to clear up the legal confusion surrounding the issue.\n\nIt calls on Ms Patel to act in order to avoid a situation where organisers and the police have to \"decipher precisely what is required\".\n\n\"The absence of clear guidance on these issues has created an entirely unsatisfactory situation, which has persisted to varying degrees for almost a year now,\" the letter says.\n\n\"The police have no legal certainty as to their duties and powers, protestors have no legal certainty as to their rights, and there is inconsistent application of the Regulations across the country. This cannot continue,\" the letter adds.\n\nIn response, the Home Office maintained its position that it would be illegal to to leave home without a reasonable excuse until coronavirus rules change on 29 March.\n\nIt added: \"While we are still in a pandemic we continue to urge people to avoid mass gatherings, in line with wider coronavirus restrictions.\"\n\nReacting to reports of more protests planned this weekend, the Metropolitan Police said a \"significant policing operation\" would be in place throughout the day to \"engage\" with people who are in breach of the regulations.\n\nIt added: \"Those gathering will be encouraged to return home. If they do not they face necessary and proportionate enforcement action. This could be a fixed penalty notice or arrest.\"\n\nThe legal confusion grew following last week's Court of Appeal case - during which the force appeared to accept that it did not have a policy of blanket bans on protests, because that would breach human rights.\n\nHowever, when those attending the vigil in memory of the 33-year-old marketing executive surrounded a bandstand on Clapham Common, a decision was taken to attempt to remove them.\n\nThere were confrontations with the police and arrests were made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dania Al-Obeid, who was arrested at the vigil: \"All I wanted was to stand with other women\"\n\nSilkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said: \"The harrowing scenes of police officers using force against women at Clapham Common recently were avoidable and wrong. Over the past week, many more demonstrators and even legal observers have been arrested or fined.\n\n\"This stain on our democracy is a direct consequence of this government's disrespect for the most basic of British democratic freedoms.\"\n\nSam Grant from Liberty said: \"Last week, the police conceded protest is not banned under the lockdown regulations, but used them to threaten then arrest demonstrators anyway.\n\n\"The home secretary must immediately issue guidance to all police forces to ensure socially distanced protests can go ahead and create an explicit exemption for protest in the current regulations.\"", "The vial was stolen from the vaccination centre in Morrison Street, Edinburgh\n\nA multi-dose vial of Covid-19 vaccine has been stolen from a vaccination centre in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice said they were pursuing a \"positive line of inquiry\" after being alerted to the theft on Saturday.\n\nThe single vial was taken at around noon from the city's main centre on Morrison Street.\n\nPolice Scotland have issued a safety warning for people to be vigilant to offers of the vaccine from people not unauthorised to administer it.\n\nCh Insp Neil Wilson said: \"We were made aware of an isolated incident of theft of a Covid-19 vaccine from the vaccination centre at Morrison Street in Edinburgh around 11:50 on Saturday 20 March.\n\n\"A police investigation is ongoing, and officers are working closely with NHS Lothian and following a positive line of enquiry.\n\n\"Members of the public are reminded to remain vigilant to fraudulent offers of vaccine, which pose a risk to public health.\"\n\nHe reminded the public that vaccines should only be administered by healthcare professionals as part of the national NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme.\n\nAnyone who is offered a vaccine outside the health setting is advised to contact police immediately.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the move will be a \"very serious breach of the devolution settlement\"\n\nA move by the UK government to compel Stormont to implement abortion laws will have \"serious consequences for devolution\", a DUP MP has said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said it would be a \"very serious breach of the devolution settlement\".\n\nWestminster is planning to give Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis new powers to take such action.\n\nNorthern Ireland's abortion laws changed last March after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution.\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster programme, the DUP leader in the House of Commons, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the action should be a concern even for those who support the provision of abortion services.\n\nHe said people \"should recognise the danger of what the secretary of state is doing here\" and \"if he can do it on this, then it could happen on many other areas\".\n\nBBC News NI understands that Northern Ireland's attorney general advised the Stormont executive that commissioning abortion services could be regarded as a controversial matter under the terms of the ministerial code.\n\nThe code states issues which are \"significant or controversial\" must be brought to the executive.\n\nSome Stormont parties had been calling on Health Minister Robin Swann to commission the services.\n\nBut he has maintained that it requires the support of the whole executive.\n\nIt is believed Attorney General Brenda King gave the advice to Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey, who asked her whether Mr Swann was required to get approval of the executive before setting up abortion services through the Department of Health.\n\nIt is understood Ms King's view was that if Mr Swann acted without consensus of the full executive, there was a risk of a legal challenge.\n\nA statement issued earlier by the Department of Health reflected this, and stated that Mr Swann's position was that the issue of abortion services was controversial and required the support of the whole executive.\n\n\"He does not believe that a ministerial decision to commission and fund abortion services would be defensible in court in the absence of executive approval,\" it added.\n\nWhile the law was passed last March, commissioning of full services has been stalled due to differences within the five-party executive.\n\nThis latest development, first reported by the Guardian, will see the NI secretary lay new regulations in Parliament early next week.\n\nThe move will let him direct Northern Ireland's Department of Health to commission the services.\n\nStormont and Westminster are also facing legal action from the Human Rights Commission over the delay.\n\nThe law changes meant abortion laws in Northern Ireland altered significantly last year, with terminations available in all circumstances of the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is legal in other circumstances up to 24 weeks and beyond that for cases of non-fatal fetal disabilities and fatal fetal abnormalities.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis will lay new regulations in Parliament early next week\n\nAlliance Party assembly member (MLA) Paula Bradshaw said the responsibility for providing abortion services lay with the health minister.\n\nShe said he had the power, responsibility and legal duty to provide a \"comprehensive framework for our healthcare professionals to operate within\".\n\nMs Bradshaw said while she believed in devolution, she welcomed the intervention of the NI secretary.\n\nAgriculture Minister Edwin Poots, of the DUP, wrote on social media the UK government \"would do well to listen to first minister on this issue\" and that there was anger among assembly members at \"this act of destruction on the devolution settlement\".\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 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader, Steve Aiken, said the \"controversial\" issue of abortion should be dealt with by the whole executive.\n\n\"Any unilateral decision by the health minister to commission and fund new abortion services without executive approval would be a breach of the Northern Ireland Act and the Ministerial Code,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was \"deeply regrettable that some political parties are seeking to score points on such a sensitive issue\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a \"matter of regret\" the executive had not been able to \"commission services in line with its legal obligations\".\n\n\"The SDLP has been warning for weeks that this British government has shown no restraint when it comes to interfering with the devolution settlement,\" he said.\n\nMs Hargey said it was \"unfortunate and unnecessary\" that the action was not able to be taken locally.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MLA said the \"executive as a whole, and certainly those parties who are blocking the commissioning of these services, need to be implementing them as soon as possible\".\n\nShe said she had unsuccessfully tried to have the issue placed on the agenda for the executive last week, and would try again for next week.\n\nThe Church of Ireland said the move was \"unjustified\" now Stormont was sitting again.\n\nArchbishop of Armagh John McDowell said it was \"clearly a devolved matter\".\n\nThe Presbyterian Church said it would \"seriously undermine\" devolution and called on Mr Lewis to withdraw the proposal.\n\nAt present health trusts are carrying out interim services for early medical abortions up to 10 weeks, meaning women seeking a termination beyond that are required to travel to England.\n\nThe DUP, which opposed the changes to the abortion laws by Westminster, has proposed a piece of legislation at Stormont seeking to restrict abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities.\n\nIt passed its second reading on Monday with the support of a number of parties.\n\nSinn Féin abstained on that vote but has separately called for the Department of Health to commission full abortion services as required under the regulations.\n\nThe Alliance Party, the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists view the issue as a matter of conscience for individual assembly members.", "Nicola Sturgeon has said she stands by \"every word\" of her evidence to the Alex Salmond committee amid renewed pressure from political opponents.\n\nA spokesperson for the first minister accused the committee of politically-motivated smears and rejected some of the findings which have emerged from the unpublished report.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for Ms Sturgeon to resign.\n\nThe committee's convener has expressed \"dismay\" at the leaks to the media.\n\nThe full report is due to be published on Tuesday.\n\nThose parts which are critical of Ms Sturgeon were agreed by five votes to four, with the SNP members on the cross-party committee voting against.\n\nThe committee said it was \"hard to believe\" that Ms Sturgeon did not know of concerns of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Salmond before November 2017 - which is when she says she was first alerted to any issues.\n\nThe BBC understands that the report will say that if Ms Sturgeon did have such knowledge, then she should have acted upon it.\n\nThe report also concluded that Ms Sturgeon gave an \"inaccurate account\" of what happened when she met Mr Salmond at her home on 2 April 2018, and had misled the committee.\n\nThe report says permanent secretary Leslie Evans should have been informed earlier\n\nAnd the committee said it was concerned that Ms Sturgeon did not notify the government's permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, about that meeting until 6 June 2018.\n\nThe report says: \"She should have made the permanent secretary aware as soon as possible after the 2 April 2018 meeting, at which point she should have confirmed she would cease contact with Alex Salmond.\"\n\nThe report is also expected to be highly critical of Ms Evans.\n\nA spokesperson for the first minister said on Friday that she had told the truth to the committee, and stood by \"every word of her evidence\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the suggestion that the committee had found it \"hard to believe\" that she did not previously know about allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Salmond was \"not supported by a single shred of evidence\".\n\n\"On this, the committee appears to have resorted to baseless assertion, supposition and smear - that is not how serious parliamentary committees are supposed to work, and in behaving this way they are simply exposing their base political motives,\" said the statement.\n\nThe spokesperson also accused the committee of ignoring and suppressing evidence which supported Ms Sturgeon's evidence that she told Mr Salmond in April 2018 that she would not intervene on his behalf.\n\nHowever, the Scottish Conservatives say that if the first minister does not resign by Tuesday, they will seek to hold a vote of no confidence in her on Wednesday.\n\nThe party's Holyrood leader Ruth Davidson said: \"If Nicola Sturgeon has a shred of integrity, she should be considering her position. She has every opportunity to do the right thing and resign.\n\n\"No first minister is above the fundamental principles of honesty and trust. There is no question that Nicola Sturgeon has misled parliament and broken the promises she made to tell the truth.\n\n\"The SNP's erratic outburst today against the committee shows the panicked spiral they are now in.\"\n\nAlex Salmond gave evidence to the committee last month\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not \"prejudge\" the outcome of the report\n\nBut he said that if the report found the first minister had misled parliament, and potentially broken the ministerial code, then it would be \"incredibly serious\".\n\n\"The code itself is clear, if the code has been breached the individual should resign,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the process had \"turned into a complete farce\", with \"party politics over-riding the public interest\".\n\nWithin a week, Holyrood will be on a break for the election and a six-week campaign for votes will be under way.\n\nWe know there will be arguments over coronavirus recovery and indyref2, but there will also be another major theme: truth and trust.\n\nThat debate will feed off the two reports due in the next few days on the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond.\n\nWhen the Holyrood committee publishes its findings on Tuesday, we know the opposition majority will conclude that Nicola Sturgeon gave them a misleading account, which the first minister denies.\n\nA separate independent investigation by Ireland's former prosecution chief, James Hamilton, will decide whether or not the first minister broke conduct rules and recommend sanctions, if required.\n\nThe Conservatives have already decided Ms Sturgeon lied to parliament and should resign, and they intend to hold a vote of no confidence in her on Wednesday if she does not quit.\n\nWith the continued support of the Scottish Greens, the first minister can survive what she regards as a nakedly political attempt to oust her and let the public decide whether she should remain in office.\n\nThere has never been a Holyrood election campaign curtain-raiser anything like this.\n\nThe committee's convener, SNP MSP Linda Fabiani, expressed her anger that \"accounts of the conclusions of the draft report\" had been leaked to the media.\n\n\"I am dismayed by the damage this may do to the value of the committee's work, which I have long hoped would improve the treatment of the complainers of sexual harassment,\" she said.\n\n\"The selective leaking of particular committee recommendations has shifted the focus away from these goals, and the recommendations which seek to achieve it, and onto party political terrain which will likely frustrate, not assist, the women at the heart of this.\"\n\nThe inquiry is examining the Scottish government's botched handling of sexual harassment complaints made against Mr Salmond by two female civil servants.\n\nThe former first minister was awarded more than £500,000 in legal expenses following a judicial review, and was subsequently acquitted of sexual assault charges in a High Court trial.\n\nA separate inquiry into whether Ms Sturgeon breached the ministerial code is being carried out by James Hamilton, a senior Irish lawyer. He is also expected to publish his report in the coming days.", "Most of those infected are students at the University of Dundee\n\nMore than 30 Dundee University students have tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak linked to a party.\n\nA total of 36 cases have so far been identified following a gathering at a private residence.\n\nThe university said it had issued \"further strong reminders\" to students to comply with the rules on social distancing and meeting up.\n\nAn incident management team is working with the university to contain the outbreak.\n\nThe Dundee Evening Telegraph reported that the party took place at a student flat last Sunday, just metres from the main university campus.\n\nOf those confirmed to have contracted Covid so far, 34 are understood to be students.\n\nProf Iain Gillespie, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Dundee, said: \"We are deeply concerned by this outbreak of cases among some of our students, which has been linked to a gathering in a private residence.\n\n\"We are working with NHS colleagues to manage the situation and hopefully prevent further spread of the virus.\n\n\"We will support any students affected and are urging all those who may be contacted by test-and-trace to fully engage with that process.\n\n\"We have been constantly reminding all students of the need to follow all of the Covid guidelines, particularly around social gathering and the limits which are in place for us all, and we have issued further strong reminders in light of this outbreak, with the support of the Students' Association.\"\n\nNHS Tayside said a multi-agency incident management team (IMT) had been set up.\n\nPublic health consultant Dr Kirsty Licence, who chairs the IMT, said: \"A number of students who have tested positive for Covid-19, and their close contacts are self-isolating.\n\n\"Contact tracing is continuing and it is really important that all students who have been identified as close contacts, and anyone who develops symptoms, self-isolates and books a PCR test as soon as possible.\"\n\n\"I would also urge students who test positive to provide information about all their recent contacts when called by Test and Protect. This information will help our contact tracing efforts to track and limit the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We are continuing to work closely with our colleagues to respond to this situation and to ensure there is support in place for students should they need it.\"\n\nLast week St Andrews University in Fife said it was dealing with a \"sudden and significant\" rise in Covid cases among students, with more than 40 self-isolating.", "Sarm Heslop has not been seen since 8 March\n\nFriends of a British woman missing in the Caribbean have questioned an apparent nine-hour delay in reporting her disappearance to the coastguard.\n\nSarm Heslop, 41, was last seen on board boyfriend Ryan Bane's boat off the coast of St John in the US Virgin Islands on 8 March.\n\nPolice said US citizen Mr Bane reported her missing at 02:30 local time.\n\nFriends said they could not fathom why the coastguard was only informed at about noon the same day.\n\nMs Heslop's best friend Andrew Baldwin said the timeline \"doesn't make sense\".\n\n\"She would not just disappear, leaving no trace. She is savvy and sensible, it's not like her at all, it just doesn't add up,\" he said.\n\nMs Heslop, originally from Southampton, went for dinner with Mr Bane on Sunday 7 March, before returning to catamaran Siren Song and going to bed.\n\nHer bank cards and mobile phone were still on board when she vanished.\n\nSearches around the coast of St John in the US Virgin Islands have been taking place since she vanished\n\nVirgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) spokesman Toby Derima said officers had performed an \"initial land search\" after speaking with Mr Bane and had instructed him to contact the US coastguard.\n\n\"Soon after reporting Ms Heslop missing, Mr Bane acquired the services of an attorney,\" he said.\n\n\"Upon his attorney's advice, Mr Bane exercised his constitutional right to remain silent and denied officers' requests to search the vessel.\"\n\nMr Baldwin, one among several of Ms Heslop's friends who has urged police to carry out an \"urgent\" search of the catamaran, said they couldn't understand why Mr Bane's lawyer had denied officers' requests to search the boat.\n\nFriends said she had been staying aboard Siren Song for a couple of weeks\n\nMs Heslop's family has said they will \"never give up looking for Sarm and still have hope of finding her safe\".\n\nFriends in the UK have set up a Missing Sarm Heslop Facebook page to share information about her disappearance.\n\nVirgin Islands Police Department said officers remained \"committed to locating Ms Heslop\", and investigations continue.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A volcano has erupted south-west of Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the country's meteorological office says.\n\nIt says the fissure is about 500-700 metres long (1,640-2,300ft) at Fagradalsfjall on Reykjanes peninsula. The last eruption there was some 800 years ago.\n\nAerial footage shows lava snaking its way down after the eruption.", "Dame Vera helped raise morale during World War Two - and sent out messages of hope during the pandemic\n\nForces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn will be remembered with a memorial on the white cliffs of Dover, under plans to be unveiled by her family and an MP.\n\nDame Vera, whose songs helped to raise morale in World War Two, died last year, at the age of 103.\n\nShe was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to the troops.\n\nPlans for the memorial, set to cost at least £1.5m, are understood to have support from Dover council and fundraising is to begin next week.\n\nOne of Dame Vera's most famous songs, The White Cliffs of Dover, immortalises the National Trust site in Kent that looks over the English Channel.\n\nSouthend MP Sir David Amess, a friend of Dame Vera's family, who will launch the campaign on Friday, said the sculpture would be created by the sculptor Paul Day. He said an exhibition centre had also been suggested.\n\n\"A lot of people don't know what she did,\" he said. \"She came from an ordinary background like myself in the East End of London.\n\n\"She had tough times and hard times and she was always down-to-earth - never grand, and always kind and generous.\n\n\"These days, many celebrities are grand and remote but Vera was never like that. And she never forgot the sacrifices made by the troops in the Second World War.\"\n\nThe memorial, which also has the support of Dover MP Natalie Elphicke, is to be paid for by donations and public subscription.\n\nDuring World War Two, she was told the best thing she could do was be an entertainer\n\nLast year, as the country went into coronavirus lockdown, Dame Vera, who lived in Ditchling, Sussex, compared the challenges that lay ahead to \"the darkest of times\" in World War Two. She used her birthday and VE Day to give messages of hope.\n\nOn VE Day, she quoted from her most well-known song and said: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nThe wartime song had also been echoed by the Queen in a special televised address in April - when she acknowledged the hardship Britons were facing during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nAn image of Dame Vera was projected on to the White Cliffs after she died last year\n\nDame Vera, the daughter of a plumber, was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 in the London suburb of East Ham, and discovered her talent for singing at an early age.\n\nHer stage name, Vera Lynn, came from her grandmother's maiden name.\n\nLater, when she volunteered for war work, she was told the best thing she could do was to keep on being an entertainer.\n\nFollowing her death, tributes from around the world included Prime Minister Boris Johnson describing her as a \"truly great Briton\".\n\nA promotional video to be released next week will include contributions from Katherine Jenkins, Sir Tim Rice, Sir Paul McCartney and Anthony Andrews.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rangers\n\nRangers' Glen Kamara insists he was racially abused by Ondrej Kudela and said the Slavia Prague player's denial is \"a complete utter lie\".\n\nThe Finland international was visibly distressed at a comment made late in the 2-0 Europa League loss at Ibrox.\n\nKamara said: \"I was shocked and horrified to hear such racist abuse from a professional football player.\"\n\nIn a statement via his lawyer, Kamara claims Kudela covered his mouth, swore and used a racially offensive term.\n\nBecause of their offensive nature, the BBC are not reproducing the words.\n\nKudela admitted swearing while covering his mouth but not the \"disgusting accusation\" of racism.\n\nKamara added: \"As a player I do not expect myself, nor any other to have to tolerate racial hatred on or off the pitch in 2021.\n\n\"The vile racist abuse by Ondrej Kudela took place on the international stage and any failure to act by Uefa will be viewed as a green light for racism.\n\n\"There is no place for racism or any form of bigotry in football. Since the summer many of us have taken the knee in solidarity with those who have lost their lives to racial violence.\n\n\"If Uefa genuinely wants to 'show racism the red card', then it's time to stop the tokenism and take a zero-tolerance approach.\"\n\nSlavia Prague complained that Kudela was the victim of a \"brutal attack\" after the game and have said they are progressing with a criminal complaint.\n\nAs for Kudela's version of events on the pitch, Kamara described that as \"a complete utter lie, which does not stand up to any form of scrutiny\", adding that it was loud enough for team-mate Bongani Zungu to overhear.\n\n\"I am grateful for the unconditional support of my team, our club and especially our manager Steven Gerrard,\" Kamara added.\n\n\"I want to thank not just our Rangers fans, but the many fans from across the football community and beyond, for calling out racism not just against myself, but also fellow player Kemar Roofe, who was subjected to a tirade of racist bile on Instagram.\n\n\"We as black players are sick of the freedom that such bigots are given to parade their hatred on social media and wonder when the likes of Instagram will start to take action.\"\n\nSlavia say their criminal complaint details a list of witnesses, including Rangers manager Gerrard.\n\nA statement explained that the Czech Embassy in London will officially file the club's grievance but a Police Scotland spokesperson said on Friday: \"No reports of criminality have been made by either club in connection with last night's match.\n\n\"Police Scotland has contacted club officials and assured them that should any allegation be received it will be investigated thoroughly.\"\n\nSlavia assert that the alleged post-match assault on Kudela was \"thought out, including deliberately covering the cameras at the scene of the incident\", adding that the \"brutal attack was carried out with full intensity in order to injure and cause physical damage\".\n\nThey say delegates of European governing body Uefa and members of their own staff witnessed the incident, along with Gerrard.\n\nFurthermore, Slavia have said they will also make a criminal complaint and start and investigation after a image appeared of fans of the club holding a racist banner referencing Kamara.\n\nRangers managing director Stewart Robertson said his club expect a \"robust and unequivocal response\" on the matter from Uefa.\n\nUefa has already confirmed it will conduct an investigation into the events at Ibrox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\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 meteor lit up the sky over Somerset\n\nThe hunt is on for meteorite fragments that are likely to have fallen to Earth over England on Sunday night.\n\nMany people across Northern Europe saw a fireball in the sky shortly before 22:00 GMT, and the streak of light was also caught on special cameras.\n\nScientists think some pieces will have survived the intense heat of atmospheric entry and hit the ground.\n\nA computer model that analysed the camera data suggests the probable site of impact is just north of Cheltenham.\n\n\"We can track the fireball really well, but the 'black magic' starts when it goes dark - when the light goes out and it still has another 10-20km to reach the ground,\" explained Dr Ashley King from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFAll) and London's Natural History Museum (NHM).\n\n\"Strong winds can blow the object off course of where you think it's going to land, and that's what we're working on now. But, yes, somewhere north of Cheltenham, out towards Stow-on-the-Wold,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe fireball produced a sonic boom as it hurtled across the southern England sky. Eyewitness accounts describe the object breaking up into several defined streaks just before going dark.\n\nAny fragments that made it to the ground will be small, smaller than an orange, say, and are likely to be dark and shiny.\n\nAnyone who finds what they think might be a meteorite is asked to photograph it in situ, noting the GPS co-ordinates from a phone, if that's possible.\n\nThe object should then be bagged without direct handling. And the absolute no-no: do not put a magnet near the object. This could destroy important information needed to study the rock.\n\n\"We've learned over the years that most meteorites carry a kind of intrinsic magnetic record within them from when they were in space,\" said Dr King.\n\n\"We can actually study that and learn about where these things came from and how they formed. But if you put a magnet on the object, it's a little bit like wiping your credit card with a magnet. We lose all of that information.\"\n\nSome of the trajectory work from the camera data has already suggested the object originated in the outer asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter.\n\n\"Most of the asteroids further away from the Sun tend to be these carbonaceous type that have got water and volatile materials in them but until we actually get our hands on some fragments, we can't say for certain,\" Dr King told BBC News.\n\nScientists from the UKFAll and meteorite experts from the universities of Glasgow and Manchester and the NHM are interested to hear from anyone who thinks they may have found something of interest.\n\nEven if you just have a photo or video of the event, the researchers request you upload and share it.\n\nBetween 10 and 20 meteorites are estimated to fall to the ground in the UK each year, but it's rare that any fragments are actually picked up.\n\nThe last recovered fall was in 1991 - the so called Glatton Meteorite, because it fell in the village of Glatton near Peterborough.\n\nMr Arthur Pettifor was tending his onions in his garden when a 10cm rock fell into his hedge.\n\nMr Pettifor would show off the Glatton Meteorite at the village fete", "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.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nWarning - this article contains an image that some people may find distressing\n\nLeading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has been temporarily banned from racing in Britain after being pictured sitting on a dead horse.\n\nElliott, 43, has apologised after the photograph circulated on social media.\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has started an investigation and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has banned him until it is completed.\n\n\"It is an interim decision which the BHA regards as proportionate in these circumstances,\" it said.\n\nElliott, who is licensed in Ireland, is one of the sport's most successful trainers after numerous triumphs at the Grand National and Cheltenham Festival.\n\nCheltenham, which is the pinnacle of jump racing and where Elliott finished as the leading trainer in 2017 and 2018, starts on 16 March.\n\nElliott has also won the Grand National three times, including twice with Tiger Roll. The Aintree festival takes place on 8-10 April.\n\nElliott said in a statement that he took a phone call and sat down on the horse \"without thinking\", adding the image was taken \"some time ago\".\n\nOn Monday, he told the Racing Post it was \"indefensible\" and that he was prepared for any punishment from the racing authorities.\n\n\"It was a moment of madness that I am going to have to spend the rest of my life paying for and that my staff are suffering for,\" he said.\n\n\"It absolutely breaks my heart to read and hear people say that I have no respect for my horses. That couldn't be further from the truth.\"\n• None From Grand National win at 29 to photo shame - Elliott's extraordinary rise and fall\n\nThe BHA said it was \"appalled\" by the photograph and that Elliott's behaviour \"deeply undermined\" the industry's welfare values.\n\n\"We can't say we're looking after horses and giving them dignity when we're clearly not,\" eight-time champion jump jockey Peter Scudamore told BBC Sport's Laura Scott.\n\n\"There are people out there who don't like the sport and I can't argue with them when I see a picture like that.\"\n\nAsked to recall his reaction to seeing the image, 62-year-old Scudamore added: \"It just hit the bottom of my stomach.\n\n\"I think everybody in racing I know hoped it was fake, and then there was a slow realisation that it's not a fake. It's desperate sadness on so many fronts.\n\n\"It is just such an appalling image and I'm very sad about it. It was an act of crass stupidity.\"\n\n'We need to give dignity back to the horses'\n\nScudamore said he did not want to speculate on what he thought would be suitable punishment for Elliott, although there have been calls from some for the authorities to ban the Irishman.\n\nThe BHA's interim move has put Elliott's participation at the upcoming Cheltenham and Grand National meetings in doubt.\n\nOwners of horses currently trained by Elliott are allowed to transfer them to a different trainer and run them at a British meeting \"providing they comply with the relevant rules\".\n\n\"I can't see a round of applause if his horse comes into a winners' enclosure,\" added Scudamore, who is now the assistant to leading trainer Lucinda Russell.\n\n\"Let's have an act of contrition, a massive donation to a horse charity. I don't know. I hardly know Gordon Elliott, but I don't think revenge is the answer.\n\n\"I just want some good to come out of it, give the dignity back to these creatures.\"\n\nElliott, who is based in County Meath, has apologised \"profoundly\" for the photograph.\n\n\"I can categorically state that the welfare of each and every horse under my care is paramount and has been central to the success that we have enjoyed,\" he said.\n\n\"The photo in question was taken some time ago and occurred after a horse had died of an apparent heart attack on the gallops.\n\n\"At what was a sad time, which it is when any horse under my care passes away, my initial reaction was to get the body removed from where it was positioned.\n\n\"I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it. Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured to wait until I was finished.\n\n\"Such background information may seem trivial at this time and will not allay the concerns of many people both within and outside the world of horse racing.\"\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nMichael O'Leary has said Gigginstown, who own Tiger Roll and a number of other horses trained by Elliott, will \"continue to support him and his team, as they work to recover from this deeply regrettable incident\".\n\nHe says the photo is \"unacceptable\" and \"grievous\" but calls it a \"momentary lapse of judgement\", adding \"we all make mistakes\" and that Gigginstown accepts Elliott's apology.\n\nCheveley Park Stud, who own several horses trained by Elliott including the unbeaten Envoi Allen, say they are \"truly horrified\" by the photo but will not comment further until the investigation by the IHRB is over.\n\nThe Jockey Club, which owns Cheltenham and Aintree racecourses, said: \"Clearly this is totally unacceptable and not reflective of the respect and care that racehorses receive from participants in our sport.\n\n\"The anger and upset across racing says it all. We understand the authorities are reviewing this as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nBetfair said on Monday it had chosen to end its relationship with Elliott, who had been an ambassador for the betting company.\n\n\"While we recognise that Gordon deeply regrets and apologised unreservedly for his poor judgement, his actions are completely at odds with the values of the Betfair brand and that of our employees,\" a Betfair spokesperson told the BBC. \"With that in mind, we have decided to discontinue our association with Gordon with immediate effect.\"\n\nThe charity World Horse Welfare said: \"This photo looks abhorrent. We understand the trainer has apologised and there is an investigation ongoing.\"\n\nGreat British Racing, the promotional body of British racing, said: \"Respect for our horses is at the heart of everything that we stand for in British racing and the shocking image is counter to that and betrays the work of thousands of people loving and caring for our horses on a daily basis - we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nAn IHRB spokesman said on Sunday: \"The investigation is ongoing and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHorse Racing Ireland also condemned the picture and supported the IHRB investigation, adding: \"From a disciplinary perspective, the matter is in process, so any further comment on the matter or the detail of the case at this time would not be appropriate.\"\n• None Weezer, Green Day and more on the ultimate pop-rock mixtape", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eurovision's Martin Osterdahl said travelling to Rotterdam \"wouldn't be a holiday trip\"\n\nArtists from 41 countries will appear live at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands under plans set out by the event's organisers.\n\nExecutive supervisor Martin Osterdahl told the BBC it was \"necessary\" for participants to travel to Rotterdam.\n\n\"This isn't a holiday trip, this is actually a job that needs to be done,\" he said, adding that a decision had yet to be made on a possible live audience.\n\nLast year's event was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe contest is due to take place in Rotterdam in May this year. Dutch singer Duncan Laurence won the competition in 2019 with the song Arcade.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, Mr Osterdahl said the latest plans were developed following discussions with organisers of other international live events.\n\n\"We have been in close contact with organisations like Formula 1, the tennis tour, the golf associations, and learned from best experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"We've compared our plans to the likes of the IOC [International Olympic Committee].\"\n\nMr Osterdahl said it had not yet been decided if an audience should attend the live event, but that organisers were hoping for \"the most normal Eurovision song contest that we can\".\n\n\"Hopefully we'll have some audience, it makes a huge difference to the atmosphere of the broadcast if we have some people present.\"\n\nHe said, however, that delegations would be smaller than usual - limited to 20 people, down from an average of 38 - and that health and safety measures to be put in place were \"very thorough\".\n\nEurovision presenters like Graham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC coverage, will broadcast from ventilated commentary booths under the plans.\n\nContestants had earlier been asked to produce a \"live-on-tape\" performance ahead of the competition, with the videos to be used if artists were unable to travel due to the pandemic, or forced to quarantine at the venue.\n\nDuncan Laurence, representing the Netherlands, won the contest in 2019 in Tel Aviv\n\nAll 41 countries who were scheduled to compete in 2020 will return this year, as will many of the contestants who were supposed to take part last year. However, all artists will be required to perform a different song.\n\nReturning entrants include Ireland's Lesley Roy and Iceland's Dadi Freyr, who was tipped as a potential winner.\n\nNew coronavirus cases have been falling in most European countries, however some are seeing a rise in infections.\n\nLockdown measures - including travel restrictions and quarantine requirements - were tightened in many of the worst-affected countries over the winter, but some restrictions are now being lifted.\n\nThe Netherlands has recorded more than a million cases of Covid-19 and 15,775 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nThe Rugby World Cup 2021 is set to be postponed until next year following a recommendation by governing body World Rugby.\n\nThe tournament is currently scheduled to be held in New Zealand between 18 September and 16 October.\n\nA final decision is expected after the Rugby World Cup board and World Rugby's executive committee consider the recommendation on 8 and 9 March.\n\nWorld Rugby said the \"challenging Covid landscape\" influenced its decision.\n\nIt added: \"It has become clear in recent discussions with key partners including New Zealand Rugby, the New Zealand government and participating unions, that, given the scale of the event and the Covid-19 related uncertainties, it is just not possible to deliver the environment for all teams to be the best that they can be on the sport's greatest stage.\"\n\nThe country's borders are currently closed to almost all travellers and cases have recently emerged in Auckland, one of the country's host cities.\n\n\"We are naturally disappointed but understanding of the decision,\" said Nicky Ponsford, the Rugby Football Union's head of women's performance.\n\n\"Player welfare has to be prioritised and ensuring teams both qualify on the pitch and can perform to their best at the tournament is also vitally important for the game.\"\n\nAnthony Eddy, Irish Rugby's director of women's rugby, added: \"We're obviously disappointed.\n\n\"We have always put player welfare at the heart of everything we do and that's never been as important as it has over the past 12 months.\"\n\nCharlotte Wathan, the Welsh Rugby Union's general manager, women's rugby said, \"We're obviously very disappointed for the players and staff who have supported the development of the programme towards RWC 2021.\n\n\"Ultimately, player welfare and public health must come first at this time.\"\n\nNew Zealand has always been viewed as one of the best places on the planet to be hosting a major sporting event in 2021, with some of the lowest Covid numbers in the world.\n\nHowever, hosting an additional 11 arriving Test sides and agreeing suitable quarantine arrangements has proved too much.\n\nIt is the first time the women's tournament has been hosted by a southern hemisphere nation, and it's thought the event will be rearranged for 2022.", "Radek Kotlarek said he refused to give his name to police because he did not think he had committed a crime\n\nA man who was arrested after police suspected he had breached Covid rules by going to the beach has claimed he was strip-searched while in custody.\n\nRadek Kotlarek, 39, from Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, was arrested on Sunday after driving more than 20 miles to Talacre, Flintshire, with his wife and son.\n\nMr Kotlarek was released without charge and has not been fined for breaching Covid regulations.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the officers behaved in a \"calm and reasonable way\".\n\nNow posts from September and January on Mr Kotlarek's Facebook page have emerged in which he appeared to claim coronavirus was \"fake\".\n\nNorth Wales Police said officers arrested Mr Kotlarek after he refused to give his name when they suspected he had breached coronavirus regulations.\n\nMr Kotlarek said he took his wife, Marta, and teenage son to the beauty spot - which is about 22 miles (35km) from their home - for a \"mental break\", with concerns their son was struggling in lockdown and because of the \"trauma\" of missing seriously ill family members in Poland.\n\nIn a video posted on social media the couple are heard telling the officers their trip was essential.\n\nMr Kotlarek is heard shouting \"stop it\" at the officers before one responds by saying: \"Stop shouting at me or I will arrest you.\"\n\nHe is then handcuffed after telling the officer: \"You are harassing us.\"\n\nCh Supt Nigel Harrison of North Wales Police said: \"The person was spoken to at Talacre beach as officers reasonably suspected he had committed an offence, which in this case was a breach in coronavirus regulations.\n\n\"The man, who is from the seaside town of Rhos-on-Sea, some 22 miles away, was arrested because his details could not be ascertained at the time in order to be reported for the suspected breach.\"\n\nWales' lockdown rules state all exercise must start from home and travel must only be for essential reasons.\n\nCoronavirus legislation states it is an offence to contravene an instruction given by an enforcement officer.\n\nSpeaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Kotlarek insisted he was not a \"Covid-denier\", despite the posts made on his Facebook account.\n\nThe public relations worker said government measures to tackle the infection were \"disproportionate\" and the \"media narrative over-exaggerated\".\n\nHe said: \"It's not like I am against the vaccines, they're great, but people should be given a free will whether they want to accept it or not.\"\n\nHe also strongly denied he had planned the confrontation with the police.\n\nTalacre beach is about 22 miles (35km) from the Kotlarek family's home in Conwy\n\nAfter being arrested and taken to custody in St Asaph, Mr Kotlarek claimed he was told he would be released if he gave his name, but refused to do as he believed he had not committed a crime.\n\n\"They took me to an interrogation room and said if I didn't give my name they would strip-search me,\" he said.\n\nAllegations that Mr Kotlarek was strip-searched while in custody were put to the force, but it did not respond.\n\nIt was only when an officer went for scissors to cut his clothes off that Mr Kotlarek claimed he voluntarily undressed and put on a paper suit he had been supplied with.\n\nHe said the incident followed recent family problems, with his wife's brother seriously ill in Poland, as well as other relatives dying.\n\nMr Kotlarek was released after about three hours in custody and said he was considering bringing a formal complaint against North Wales Police.\n\nCh Supt Harrison added: \"The officers behaved in a calm and reasonable way as I would have expected.\n\n\"As is always the case, if the individual wishes to query or complain about the way they were treated then of course we will review the full circumstances.\"", "Taylor Swift took to Twitter to criticise Ginny and Georgia, calling its joke about her \"deeply sexist\"\n\nTaylor Swift has accused a Netflix show of \"degrading\" women for featuring a joke she branded \"deeply sexist\".\n\nThe pop star tweeted to criticise the joke, which was in the season finale of comedy-drama Ginny and Georgia.\n\nIn one scene, main characters Ginny Miller and her mother Georgia argued about relationships.\n\nAsked whether she had broken up with her boyfriend, Ginny said: \"What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.\"\n\nThe line incurred the wrath of Swift's fans, prompting criticism of the show and its cast members on social media. Some Swift fans even called for a boycott of the series.\n\nOn Monday, Swift herself addressed the controversy in a tweet, writing: \"Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetflix has not yet commented on the criticism, nor has anyone associated with Ginny and Georgia.\n\nSwift's love life has long been in the media spotlight.\n\nSwift has been in a relationship with 30-year-old British actor Joe Alwyn for several years.\n\nThe couple have largely kept their relationship private -although Alwyn is considered to be the subject of her 2019 track London Boy, in which she sang about her experiences in the city.\n\nThe actor has also co-written songs on Swift's two most recent albums, Folklore and Evermore, under the pseudonym William Bowery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Monday's tweet, Swift also referenced her documentary Miss Americana, which was released on Netflix in January 2020.\n\nCovering several turbulent years during her career, the documentary revealed intimate details of Swift's life, exploring how her relationships had been dissected by the public and press.", "Three women were fined for getting their hair dyed in a car park at Langland Bay\n\nThree women who had their hair dyed in a car park next to a popular beach were among hundreds of people in south Wales to be fined for breaching Covid rules.\n\nThey were fined for having their hair dyed in the car park of Langland Bay on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it issued 370 fixed penalty notices over the weekend, with sunnier weather leading to people \"flocking\" to beauty spots.\n\nThe force's chief superintendent urged people to follow the rules.\n\nOther fines were issued to people travelling to visit seaside areas including Southerndown and Penarth, in Vale of Glamorgan, and Bracelet Bay in Mumbles, Swansea.\n\nA large portion of the fines were issued to people who attended house parties, including 105 to those who went to one of eight gatherings in Cathays, Cardiff.\n\nOver the weekend, car parks at beauty spots were closed to discourage people from visiting.\n\nOn Monday, at the Welsh Government coronavirus briefing, First Minister Mark Drakeford called for more \"responsible\" behaviour.\n\nUnder Wales' lockdown rules, people can only leave home for exercise or for an essential reason.\n\nSome car parks at Swansea beaches were closed over the weekend to deter visitors\n\nCh Supt Andy Valentine of South Wales Police said: \"We know it's been a very challenging few months for our communities, and we can understand that people will have wanted a change of scenery in order to enjoy the good weather at the weekend.\n\n\"But the reality is coronavirus remains a very real threat to us all, and the whole of Wales continues to be under level four restrictions for a reason.\n\n\"The roll out of the vaccine and the recent publication of plans to ease restrictions provides us all with much-needed hope, but I would urge our local communities to continue following the rules that are currently in place.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus \"variant of concern\" first detected in Brazil has now been found in the UK.\n\nThree cases have been detected in England and separately three in Scotland.\n\nIn England, officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant.\n\nThe three Scottish residents had flown to north-east Scotland from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.\n\nExperts believe this variant (P1) - first detected in travellers to Japan from Manaus in northern Brazil in January - could be more contagious.\n\nThere are also concerns vaccines may not be as effective against it - but NHS England's Prof Stephen Powis said vaccines could be \"rapidly adapted\".\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England (PHE), said the UK was more advanced than many other countries in identifying the variants and mutations and therefore able to act quickly.\n\nIn England, the first two cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February - five days before the government's hotel quarantine rule came into force.\n\nTwo other people in the same household have also since tested positive for Covid - but tests are still ongoing to check if it is the same variant, so they are not included in the overall UK total of six.\n\nPHE said officials are now tracking down passengers who were on the same flight from Sao Paulo to Heathrow, via Zurich.\n\nThe third case identified in England is not linked to the other two cases and the whereabouts of that person are still not known.\n\nPHE said the person did not complete their test registration card so follow-up details are unavailable.\n\nOfficials are asking anyone who took a test on 12 or 13 February and who has not received a result or has an uncompleted test registration card to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nMeanwhile, testing is being ramped up in South Gloucestershire - on the outskirts of Bristol - with people living in five postcode areas invited to get tested even if they do not have symptoms. The postcodes fall within Bradley Stoke, Patchway and Little Stoke.\n\nRegarding the cases in Scotland, the government said the three people had tested positive while self-isolating.\n\nOther passengers who were on the same flight from London to Aberdeen are now being contacted.\n\nThe Brazil variant is something officials are worried about because it shares similar mutations to the South Africa variant of concern.\n\nBoth have undergone genetic changes that could make them more contagious and perhaps less easy to stop with our current vaccines.\n\nThe coronavirus jabs being given to people now were designed around earlier versions of the pandemic virus, not these new variants.\n\nScientists believe they should still protect, although perhaps not quite as well.\n\nWork is already under way to redesign or tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of these new \"variants of concern\".\n\nThese updated vaccines could be ready within months, meaning the UK would have millions of doses ready to give people a booster shot before next winter to make sure the population is protected.\n\nThere will be more cases out there of new variants that have not yet been identified.\n\nWhile it may not be possible to eliminate them, the determination is there to slow the spread of coronavirus, including new variants. Sticking to the social distancing rules will help.\n\nBoth PHE and the Scottish government said the variant had been designated \"of concern\" as it shares some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa (known as B.1.351).\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies. It is also possible that this variant may respond less well to current vaccines, but more work is needed to understand this.\n\nIn January, a coronavirus variant from Brazil was found in the UK - but it was not this variant of concern.\n\nPHE said the \"risk to the wider community is considered low\" but as a precaution extra community testing is be rolled out in some postcodes north of Bristol.\n\nIt urged people to keep following the coronavirus measures.\n\nExtra testing in the community has already been carried out for other variants elsewhere in the country\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said the news of the variant was \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"It is now vital that we do everything we can to contain it,\" he said.\n\n\"But this is further proof that the delay in introducing a hotel quarantine was reckless and the continuing refusal to put in place a comprehensive system leaves us exposed to mutations coming from overseas.\"\n\nThe hotel quarantine rule came into force on 15 February. It means that travellers coming to England from 33 countries - including Brazil - must pay to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days, while in Scotland the rule applies to travellers from all countries.\n\nBefore that date, travellers arriving in the UK still needed to self-isolate in their homes for 10 days.\n\nAll travellers to the UK also need to present a negative Covid test taken a maximum of 72 hours before their departure.\n\nHome Affairs Committee chairwoman Yvette Cooper said on Twitter it was \"notable\" that the pre-flight tests first brought in by the government in January did not catch six cases.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced another 6,035 cases of coronavirus and reported that a further 144 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nBut a milestone in the vaccination programme was reached, with more than 20 million people having received their first dose of the vaccine.", "There has arguably never been a moment in living memory where business and government need each other more than now. Clinging together like the passengers in the front car of a rollercoaster - this Budget is the moment the photo is snapped after the sickening plunge, grimaces fixed for the ride ahead.\n\nBusiness needs the government to go on another massive spending splurge to get us to the other side of lockdown.\n\nIn many ways, the \"roadmap\" out of lockdown already told us the most important stuff that will be in the Budget. Furlough, the business rates holiday, additional grants and VAT deferrals and cuts for hospitality are all pretty much guaranteed to the end of June, when the government hopes firms will be able to operate with few restrictions.\n\nAfter that, the roles start to reverse.\n\nWestminster will need help from businesses to preserve and create millions of jobs. Companies will need incentives to invest, build, hire and train - particularly younger workers who have suffered the most and on whose economic future the success of this moment may be judged for decades.\n\nGovernments can encourage, but ultimately it is businesses which create.\n\nIncreased capital allowances, the expansion of youth training programmes and subsidies like the Kickstart Scheme are all expected in a speech behind which the mantra \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" will be almost audible from the Treasury building.\n\nThe tight embrace between government and business seems a long way since the concerns of business were swatted away with a four-letter \"swish\" by a prime minister who saw them as an irritant in the project of getting Brexit done.\n\nThe UK is in more debt than it's been in for more than 50 years. At over £2 trillion, it is equivalent to 100% of its entire annual income for the first time since the early 1960s, when debt was still on a downward trajectory from spending on World War Two.\n\nBy far the most powerful weapon against debt is growth: it has a doubly positive effect. It increases the denominator (the bottom number) of the debt to GDP ratio, while reducing the numerator (the top bit) by keeping the bill for benefits like Universal Credit lower.\n\nThat is why the next twist on this rollercoaster ride is the most perilous. No-one really knows how many of the almost five million workers still on furlough have a job to go back to. More than anything, this Budget is about how many of them can return to, or find new, work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors could shape Rishi Sunak's thinking in his 2021 Budget?\n\nThere will be some eye-catching whizzes and bangs as the government experiments with ideas like freeports, drums up extra funding for start-ups and proposes looser stock market listing rules to grow new firms and attract international investors.\n\nBut sooner or later - and I suspect the emphasis will be later than recent headlines suggest - the government will need businesses help to pay off some the UK's enormous debts.\n\nCorporation tax will rise slowly. But this is perhaps a good example of how little politics figures in this Budget. The chancellor arguably has more to fear from his own backbenches than he does from a Labour party, who find themselves in the unusual position of siding with the very MPs in their opposition on tax rises on businesses - who already enjoy the lowest rates in the G8.\n\nBut corporation tax is pretty small beer anyway. It contributes less than 8% of all tax collected by the government, compared with the 45% it receives from income tax and National Insurance from individuals who have - you guessed it - jobs, jobs, jobs.\n\nThe government is also scared that the \"free money\" window may be closing. Ever since the financial crisis, governments have been able to borrow at close to zero rates of interest.\n\nThere are signs that is changing. A 1% rise in borrowing costs will cost the government five times more than it will get by raising the corporation tax rate by 1%.\n\nThat is why the government and businesses will need to hold each others' hands on a ride they really are in together.", "One BBC reporter, Juliana Gragnani, was on a flight arriving to Heathrow around the same time as the other flight into London from Brazil, which has been the focus of some of Public Health England's investigations as they try to trace the Brazil variant.\n\nShe talked about travellers’ experiences at the time, here.\n\nNow, Juliana tells us how she has been sent a kit to test for Covid, along with other passengers on her flight:\n\n\"I had to travel last year to Brazil due to urgent family matters. I quarantined before I returned, took a test, and flew back to the UK, arriving in Heathrow on February 10th, via Paris. Both flights were packed.\n\nI interviewed a few people who told me they were returning hastily before the hotel quarantine was put in place. My flight, AF1580, arrived around the same time as the São Paulo-Zurich-London flight, where the case from Gloucestershire was traced back to.\n\nBorder control was very busy. Passengers from different flights, including at least one from Italy, another from India, and both from Brazil (via Paris and Zurich) were in a queue for three hours with no social distancing.\n\nAfter quarantining for more than two weeks (just to make sure), this afternoon I got a call from Test and Trace. They’re sending me a Covid kit and said this is being done with all passengers in my flight - AF1580. They also asked if I had taken a test after arriving in England.", "Channel 4 has said it will not work with Ant Middleton again due to his \"personal conduct\".\n\nLast year, the SAS: Who Dares Wins star faced criticism over comments about the Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus.\n\nIn a statement, the channel said: \"It has become clear that our views and values are not aligned.\"\n\nAnt Middleton has also posted, saying he's \"really excited about the future and what's coming this year\".\n\nSAS: Who Dares Wins sees civilians put through gruelling military training exercises to test their physical and mental strength.\n\nThe former soldier faced a backlash for his comments about coronavirus and Black Lives Matter protests\n\nThe full statement from Channel 4 says: \"Ant Middleton will not be taking part in future series of SAS: Who Dares Wins. Following a number of discussions Channel 4 and Minnow Films have had with him in relation to his personal conduct it has become clear that our views and values are not aligned and we will not be working with him again.\"\n\nThe 40-year-old said on social media he had \"decided it's time to move on from SAS Who Dares Wins UK\".\n\nHe added: \"Big respect to my fellow DS - it's been a journey I'll never forget. Thanks to everyone that took part and made the show what it is.\"\n\n\"Really excited about the future and what's coming this year.\"\n\nIn June, he apologised after referring to Black Lives Matter protesters as \"absolute scum\" as he complained about the \"extreme left\" and the English Defence League's \"extreme right\" taking to the streets.\n\nAnt Middleton said he was \"anti-racist and anti-violence\" after deleting the tweet.\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\nIn March last year, he backtracked on comments he made about the coronavirus pandemic after he urged people to \"carry on as normal\".\n\nHe told his social media followers to not \"be a sheep\" and said he did not believe Government advice to self-isolate applied to him because he is \"strong and able\".\n\nThe former soldier later said he had been \"a bit insensitive towards the magnitude, the scale, of the crisis that's happening in the UK\".\n\nAs well as SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ant Middleton also presented the programme's celebrity spin-off, which has featured famous faces including 1Xtra presenter Yasmin Evans, reality star Joey Essex and ex-footballer Wayne Bridge.\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. Lewis Reed says he wants better support for young players\n\nA footballer endured a \"living hell\" at a football academy he joined aged 16 that left him suicidal, he revealed.\n\nLewis Reed, from Swansea, wants better support for young players after his experiences at Ipswich Town FC.\n\nNow aged 19, the Covid pandemic led to Mr Reed's contract not being renewed, but his time away from the game has given him \"the confidence\" to speak up.\n\nIpswich Town said it was \"disappointed\" to hear of his concerns and was seeking a meeting with Mr Reed to discuss them.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has said it was \"saddened to read Lewis Reed's account of his experience within football and applaud him for speaking out so candidly\".\n\nMidfielder Mr Reed said he went from \"such a high\" to \"feeling so low\" at the club, in a matter of months.\n\nHe told the BBC it hit his parents \"really hard\" especially, because they had been used to seeing their son every day as someone who was \"absolutely loving life as everything was going his way\".\n\n\"[But then they had gone to] not seeing him and in that time of not seeing him for his life to become a living hell.\n\nLewis Reed joined Ipswich Town's academy at the age of 16\n\n\"[My mum would] come off the phone and say to my dad that would be the last time she'd speak to her son… they were concerned suicide might have been on my mind, and at times it was.\"\n\nMr Reed described feeling \"invisible\" to coaching staff and disappointed that he \"didn't get the opportunity to play\" more frequently at the club.\n\nAnd after struggling with \"extreme pain\" from an in-growing toenail, Mr Reed said he was told to \"man-up\".\n\n\"Every time my parents rang they thought it might be the last time they would speak to me,\" he said.\n\nHis family decided to approach the club for help and Mr Reed later attended a counselling session.\n\nBut he declined the offer of more as he didn't feel like it had helped.\n\n\"I actually got more support from the security guard on the gate,\" Mr Reed continued.\n\n\"Me and him would have a chat for 30-40 minutes and I felt he was more supportive than some of the coaches at the club.\"\n\nWhen his contract was not renewed last year, he said he received no communication from the club.\n\n\"We are 16, 17, 18 out of school straight into a tough environment, it's all we've known, football, football and more football, there's no guidance on what the next step is going to be,\" he said.\n\nThe PFA said it had contacted Mr Reed to offer him support.\n\n\"We know that a career in football can be challenging for all players and their families, but particularly young players,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Over the past decade, the players' union has led the way in putting mental health firmly on football's agenda, providing 24/7 wellbeing support and encouraging personal development.\"\n\nMr Reed, who is now interning at his family's business, is calling for a change in the academy system with more support for young players away from home, and on release from contract.\n\nIn a statement, Ipswich Town said they were \"obviously very disappointed\" to hear of Mr Reed's comments and were currently arranging a meeting with him.\n\n\"Our Academy is very highly regarded and we have been assured by all the authorities including the PFA that we have met and exceeded all the protocols around player welfare,\" the club said.\n\n\"We will be issuing a much broader statement in due course but if there are any lessons to be learnt from speaking to Lewis, we want to take them on board.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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 Scottish Parliament's inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond is continuing to hear from witnesses.\n\nThe former first minister successfully took the government to court over its investigation of harassment complaints against him.\n\nIn January last year MSPs agreed to set up the special Holyrood committee. However, it was put on hold after criminal charges were brought against Mr Salmond - which culminated in him being acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault.\n\nThe committee takes evidence each Tuesday while the Scottish Parliament is sitting.", "Peter Whittingham started his career at Aston Villa before joining Cardiff FC in 2007\n\nAn ex-Cardiff City player hit his head and died after falling down stairs at a pub in a pretend fight with friends, an inquest heard.\n\nMidfielder Peter Whittingham, 35, who played for the club from 2007 to 2017, suffered a traumatic head injury at the Park Hotel, Barry, on 7 March 2020.\n\nHe did not regain consciousness and died in hospital 11 days later.\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes recorded a verdict of accidental death at the inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court.\n\nThe hearing was told how Mr Whittingham had been drinking for hours while watching Wales v England in the Six Nations.\n\nHe was out with his brother-in-law and a friend when the incident happened just after 21:30 GMT.\n\nMr Whittingham's wife Amanda said he had not eaten since breakfast as he had been in a \"rush\" to watch the game when he left home at 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe midfielder played for Cardiff until 2017\n\nCCTV footage showed him in a pub corridor engaging in \"horseplay\" before appearing to lose balance and walking through a fire door off camera, where he fell down eight steps and hit his head.\n\nRobert Williams, Mr Whittingham's brother-in-law, told Pontypridd Coroner's Court they had been drinking lager, bitter and tequila through the afternoon and evening along with friend Ryan Taylor, and the evening was a \"blackout\" in his memory.\n\nHe described finding the footballer lying at the bottom of the stairs with his face to the side, but when he tried to lift him, Mr Whittingham's body was limp.\n\nMr Taylor said he remembered people wanting to take pictures with Mr Whittingham in the corridor but also had no memory of play fighting or the fall.\n\n\"I walked over to him to offer my hand, thinking he would just take it and I would help him back up to his feet. When I looked more closely at Peter, I could see he wasn't moving and something was wrong,\" he told the court.\n\nMr Taylor said Mr Whittingham's eyes were \"wide open and were almost completely white\" having rolled to the back of his head.\n\nHe was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff but his condition deteriorated and he died on 18 March.\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes, who recorded a conclusion of accidental death, said Mr Whittingham had \"consumed a quantity of alcohol that has likely impacted on his demeanour and steadiness\" before he fell.\n\nHe said: \"During a period of horseplay with a friend and a relative he appeared to have lost his balance, travelled through or caused to open the fire door, fallen, and as he did so his head has come into contact with the steps.\n\n\"This has led to a traumatic head injury.\"\n\nAfter leaving Cardiff in 2017, Mr Whittingham, originally from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, ended his career with Blackburn Rovers in 2018 before moving back to south Wales.\n\nHe was living in Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, with Amanda and his young son when he died.\n\nMrs Whittingham gave birth to their second son two months after his death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nFormer Liverpool and Scotland forward Ian St John has died at the age of 82 after a long illness.\n\nSt John joined Liverpool from hometown team Motherwell in 1961 for a club record £37,500 and played 425 games for the Anfield side, scoring 118 goals, during a decade of service.\n\nHe won two top-flight titles and scored the decisive goal as Liverpool lifted their first FA Cup in 1965.\n\nSt John also earned 21 Scotland caps and managed Motherwell and Portsmouth.\n\nHe latterly enjoyed a successful career as a TV pundit, teaming up with former England striker Jimmy Greaves to front the hugely popular 'Saint and Greavsie' show which ran until 1992.\n• None Obituary: 'An iconic Liverpool figure who went on to illuminate TV screens'\n\nThe St John family's statement said: \"It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that after a long illness we have lost a husband, father and grandfather.\n\n\"He passed away peacefully with his family at his bedside. We would like to thank all the staff at Arrowe Park Hospital for their hard work and dedication during these very difficult times.\"\n\nPremier League champions Liverpool are \"deeply saddened\" by the loss of a \"true Anfield legend\".\n\n'We can't afford not to buy him'\n\nSt John's finishing prowess was evident from his early days at Motherwell, the club he had watched as a supporter lifting the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1952 before joining five years later.\n\nHis prolific scoring record earned him international recognition and a move to Liverpool under fellow Scot Bill Shankly where he soon became a fans' favourite.\n\nIt has gone down in Liverpool mythology that when the board were reluctant to spend a record fee on the player, Shankly's reply was: \"We can't afford not to buy him.\"\n\nSt John quickly began to prove his worth, scoring a hat-trick on his debut, a 4-3 defeat to Everton in the Liverpool Senior Cup. Within 12 months his 22 league goals had helped Liverpool secure the Second Division title.\n\nHe matched that total in season 1963-64 as the Anfield men won their first top-flight crown in 17 years, with a second title following two years later.\n\nPerhaps his most iconic moment in the red shirt came at Wembley in 1965 when his headed winner in extra time overcame Leeds United 2-1 to give Liverpool their first FA Cup.\n\nA Scotland international by age 20, St John netted nine times in his 21 appearances for his country.\n\nAfter leaving Liverpool he had shorts spells with South African sides Hellenic and Cape Town City either side of a season with Coventry City, before ending his playing days at Tranmere Rovers.\n\nHe returned to Motherwell as manager in 1973, then moved on to Portsmouth before embarking on a successful career in broadcasting.\n\n'St John helped make Liverpool what it is today' - reaction\n\nFormer Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher, and current Scotland skipper and Anfield full-back Andy Robertson, were among those to pay tribute.\n\n\"RIP Ian St John,\" Carragher wrote. \"One of the players along with Bill Shankly who made this club what it is today.\"\n\nRobertson added: \"A man of warmth, humour, knowledge, wisdom and joy. Scotland and Liverpool has lost a true giant. My love goes to his family. Rest in peace Ian St John.\"\n\nAnother former Liverpool skipper, Steven Gerrard, heard the news during his Rangers press conference.\n\n\"I'm devastated,\" the Rangers manager said. \"He's a fantastic guy, really insightful in terms of his career and experience at Liverpool and trying to pass on a lot of knowledge and expertise.\n\n\"He's a legend and an iconic figure at the club and someone I've got incredible respect for.\"", "Events planner Chantelle Spindle has seen her career take some unexpected turns during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAfter being furloughed, then made redundant by one company, she landed another job less than a week later with entertainment and event staffing agency RubyLemon.\n\nBut since the start of February, she has been put on furlough again.\n\n\"It is worrying,\" says Chantelle, 26, from Essex. \"But the company are confident about how they're growing right now and building the brand.\"\n\nChantelle's latest furlough has come as pressure mounts on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the wage subsidy programme when he delivers his Budget on 3 March.\n\nThe furlough scheme has slowed down the number of redundancies, but at present, it is due to finish at the end of April.\n\nBoris Johnson was this week criticised for not confirming whether it would continue as he unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown - something Labour said left people in limbo.\n\nBut the prime minister did say \"we will not pull the rug out\".\n\nFurlough has cost the Treasury almost £50bn so far and Chancellor Rishi Sunak is understandably reluctant to give an open-ended commitment to financing it indefinitely.\n\nBut the price of not extending it would be a further big rise in unemployment, which has already reached a rate of 5.1%.\n\nLast week, RubyLemon took a new team photo for the company's relaunched website. \"I was included in it, so that makes me think I'm going back,\" says Chantelle.\n\nShe works on the entertainment side, with responsibility for hiring musicians and dancers for events, and was working three days a week when her latest furlough began.\n\nShe says the scheme has been a lifeline. But while she hopes to be back full-time with the company once the pandemic is under control, she worries about the performers.\n\nMost of the 1,500 artists who work for RubyLemon across the UK are freelancers, who can't be furloughed and will continue to struggle as they wait for business to restart in June.\n\n\"I think once things are eased and go back to normal, everyone will want to party again,\" Chantelle tells the BBC.\n\n\"It just depends on whether these musicians or entertainers are in the same industry.\"\n\nIndustry and unions alike are prevailing on Mr Sunak to maintain furlough until at least the end of July, with the CBI, the TUC union and the British Chambers of Commerce all arguing for an extension.\n\nAlthough the number of people still on furlough has fallen considerably from the peak of nearly nine million, those still on the scheme are hoping that it will see them through until the pandemic eases and the economy reopens.\n\nBut many began on furlough only to be made redundant - and large numbers of them are still looking for work.\n\nAlison, from West Yorkshire, was furloughed by the hotel group she worked for between March and October. Then it let her go.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who was due to give birth to her first child in December, was not entitled to any redundancy money. Her employer also resisted paying her statutory maternity leave at first but relented after conciliation service Acas told her she was entitled to it.\n\nThe money only just keeps the household going when combined with her husband's income and it will run out in April, so she needs to find a new job by then.\n\n\"I started looking for jobs in January, a month after having my baby. You wouldn't normally do that but I know some people have had it worse,\" Alison tells the BBC.\n\nShe adds: \"I would love to find part-time work and spend more time with my son but I will need to work full time to support the household.\"\n\nLockdown brought the hospitality industry to a standstill, and while restrictions on hotels should start to lift in May, things won't be back to normal for some time.\n\nAlison is open to roles outside her sector but feels pessimistic given the state of the job market: \"If I don't find anything our finances will be put under a lot of stress.\"\n\nShe wants Mr Sunak to do more support hospitality; she'd also like to see more generous maternity leave and redundancy rules to protect women.\n\nAs well as supporting existing jobs, Mr Sunak is being urged in this year's Budget to do more for those still trying to enter the job market, particularly young people.\n\nThere are calls to overhaul the Kickstart programme, which which provides subsidised work placements for young people who have been out of work for at least six months.\n\nSince launch in September, fewer than 2,000 work placements having been started due to Covid restrictions, despite 120,000 roles having been created.\n\nMr Sunak has also been urged to offer more support for apprenticeships after uptake fell sharply last year.\n\nOliver Holt, from Blackpool, says he wants to be an apprentice mechanic as working for a garage \"would be a dream\".\n\nHe secure four months' work experience at a local garage last year, but that came to an end when staff were put on furlough.\n\nSince then the 20-year-old, who has already passed his level 2 in mechanics at college, has not managed to find anyone to take him on, despite countless applications.\n\nHe says the pandemic has made apprenticeships hard to come by, while another issue is that he suffers from mild attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism.\n\n\"An employer might think that I could be a liability, which isn't the case,\" he told the BBC. \"I'm super-keen and I have a positive approach.\"\n\nIn the meantime, he has washed cars to pay for driving lessons. After a post of his went viral on Facebook, well-wishers boosted his efforts by donating more than £300 worth of cleaning products.\n\n\"I was fed up of being inside and not doing anything,\" he says. \"It gave me a better work ethic and a better approach.\"\n\nSince August the government has offered businesses £2,000 for each apprentice aged under 25 they take on, and a payment of £1,500 for those older than 25.\n\nBut this is due to end on 31 March, and bodies such as The Construction Leadership Council want Mr Sunak to extend it.\n\nThe government promised to continue helping people \"to find new jobs, acquire new skills or start new businesses\" as the country comes out of lockdown.\n\nIt also said it would \"carefully tailor\" the level of job support it gave to individuals \"to reflect the changing circumstances as restrictions ease and the economy is gradually reopened\".\n\nIt said Mr Sunak would give more details in the Budget on 3 March.", "The Marco Polo was built in the 1960s and was one of the world's last surviving ocean cruise liners\n\nTwo UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated.\n\nShips at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK.\n\nBut months after being sold at auction to buyers outside the UK they were then sold on as scrap for double the price.\n\nAs they were set to be used for further trading when they left UK waters, their arrival in India does not break UK law.\n\nAn investigation by the BBC's File on 4 programme found at least 13 other ships, mostly cargo ships, linked to the UK had arrived at the scrapping beaches of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since the start of 2020.\n\nThe Marco Polo and the Magellan were sold at auction in November after their owners Cruise and Maritime Voyages went into administration.\n\nThe Marco Polo was built in the 1960s and was one of the world's last surviving ocean cruise liners. It was scheduled to take UK passengers to the Amazon and Norway this year, but its final voyage was to Alang in India.\n\nThe ship-breaking yards of Alang dominate a stretch of muddy beach just up the coast from Mumbai in north-west India, referred to as the world's largest ship graveyard.\n\nThe ship was bought at auction for around £2m by offshore company Highseas Ltd. After the sale, it was released from UK waters on the condition it would be used for \"further trading\".\n\nHighSeas Ltd said the cruise ship would be used as a floating hotel in Dubai.\n\nBut two months after taking ownership of the Marco Polo, it was sold as scrap for around £4m.\n\nHighSeas Ltd director Rishi Arggawal said it was always their intention the Marco Polo would be sold to new owners \"but regrettably, the intended buyers in Dubai refused to take delivery\".\n\nMr Arggawal said they tried to find new work for the Marco Polo as a cruise ship or a hotel without success, before selling to \"Indian interests\".\n\nIt is a similar story for the Magellan, which was meant to be used as a floating hotel in Liverpool for the 2021 Grand National.\n\nIt was bought at the auction by a Greek ship owner. Brokers say it was sold on for scrap after no new buyer was found.\n\nThe cruise ship industry do send old ships to be scrapped safely at EU-approved yards, but when sold at auction, which often happens when a company goes into administration, this decision is taken out of the previous owner's hands.\n\nThere are serious concerns about the environmental impact and working conditions in the ship-breaking industry across south Asia.\n\nEach year around 800 ships come to the end of their lives and need to be broken apart and recycled.\n\nAlthough this work can be carried out in the UK and other EU-approved ship-breaking yards, around 70% of the world's ships end up on the beaches of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as these yards offer much higher prices for scrap steel.\n\nThe organisation Ship-breaking Platform has documented the deaths of more than 400 workers on these beaches since 2009.\n\nIt has recorded fatal accidents in the yards from workers falling from height and being killed in gas explosions, as well as longer-term sickness from exposure to toxic materials such as asbestos.\n\nThere are serious concerns about the environmental impact of the ship-breaking industry across south Asia\n\nShip-breaking Platform's director, Ingvild Jenssen, said despite laws in place making it illegal for developed countries like the UK to send hazardous waste such as old ships to developing countries, they continue to arrive\n\n\"There is a lot of value in these vessels because they contain large amounts of steel,\" she said. \"But they also contain large amounts of hazardous materials: asbestos; heavy metals; lead, and many materials you need to take large precautions when you're dealing with them.\"\n\nShip recycling consultant Merijn Hougee from Sea2Cradle says asbestos is not treated as a hazardous material in India.\n\n\"If you have a vessel built in the 60s, it is likely there are larger amounts of asbestos on board. There's a ban on asbestos in Europe, but in India, it's freely being traded and sold and used as second-hand building materials.\"\n\nA ship-breaking worker in India who spoke to the BBC said they \"pump waste, like oil and petrol, into the sea when clearing out a ship, or we use it to burn other materials on the shore\".\n\nHe said he has been badly burned on two occasions and did not receive sick pay while recovering.\n\nOnce he had to be driven an hour away to hospital as the one near the yards did not have the facilities to deal with serious injuries.\n\nUK shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard believes tighter, global regulation is needed to ensure that British-owned ships end up being recycled by approved ship-breaking yards.\n\n\"I don't think the public want to see ships that were owned by British companies polluting beaches all around the world. I think they want to see them properly disposed of, properly recycled.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"The illegal export of waste is a significant threat to the global environment, and those convicted could face two years in prison or an unlimited fine.\"\n\nShipping's Dirty Secret is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 GMT and later on BBC Sounds", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces part-time return for all secondary pupils in Scotland from 15 March\n\nAll secondary school pupils in Scotland will return to classrooms part-time from 15 March, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nIt had previously been announced that those in S1 to S3 would not return to school until April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said all secondary pupils will now get some in-school time before the Easter holidays.\n\nPupils in S4 to S6 who are studying for national qualifications are being prioritised for face-to-face learning.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that children in primary four to seven will return full-time from 15 March.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the Scottish government would be considering if it was possible to speed up its plans to exit lockdown.\n\nThe first minister said there was a \"clear expectation\" that all secondary school pupils will return full-time after the Easter holidays.\n\nShe said the safety of staff and pupils was a \"key priority\", and that two-metre social distancing would continue in secondary schools until Easter.\n\nMasks will have to be worn in secondary schools\n\nFace coverings will need to be worn at all times, and schools are working to improve ventilation. Lateral flow tests will continue to be offered twice a week for all school staff as well as pupils in S4 to S6.\n\nSome senior phase pupils have already returned to school on a limited basis to complete work for their qualifications, while P1 to P3 pupils have returned full-time.\n\nMs Sturgeon thanked all school leadership teams and staff, as well as parents, for all their efforts over the last few months.\n\nShe said: \"My thanks to children and young people - I know how hard it must be to be separated from friends and teachers but you have all responded magnificently to all the difficulties of the last year and I hope you're looking forward to getting back to school later this month.\"\n\nShe added that local authorities would have \"flexibility\" to implement the phased return of pupils.\n\nWhen presented with three options on schools, the Scottish government has opted for the one which covers the broadest ground.\n\nIt could have decided to send all pupils back at the same time in the middle of March, but this would have meant abandoning social distancing in secondary schools earlier than they would like.\n\nIt could have kept S1 to S3 out of class until the middle of April as originally planned, but this would have added to growing claims these youngest secondary pupils were being left behind.\n\nInstead, it has decided to allow all pupils at least some time in class. So, for the first time, plans made last summer for so-called blended learning, which were never used, will be dusted off and put into practice in schools across the country - if only for a few weeks.\n\nIt's a more complicated option, but it's one the government thinks balances the wants and needs of young people and their families and the dangers and problems posed by the virus.\n\nThe latest figures showed that a total of 542 new positive cases of Covid-19 had been reported, 4.4% of those tested.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the data this week was \"much more encouraging\" than it was last week, when the decline in case numbers had appeared to slow down.\n\nShe said the average daily cases were now at their lowest level since October, average test positivity had fallen below 5% and hospital admissions were falling.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped to confirm changes to level four restrictions next week.\n\n\"Between now and then... we will be considering if it might be possible to accelerate the exit from lockdown in any way,\" she said.\n\nRuth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives at Holyrood, said pupils \"deserve better than guesswork based on the SNP's drip feeding of partial information\".\n\nShe welcomed the accelerated return of pupils, but said that observing Covid rules with full school buildings would pose \"logistical questions\".\n\nShe asked the first minister what solutions would be provided for campuses that did not have the space or staff to allow for two-metre social distancing.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government was continuing to work with schools to ensure there was \"good provision of remote learning\", adding the funding available for local authorities would cover a range of improvements on top of ventilation.\n\nNew Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said more than 1,500 children were on waiting lists for mental health support, and asked when the government would set out a national recovery plan for pupils.\n\nMs Sturgeon said transforming and redesigning child and adolescent mental health services had already begun before the pandemic, but that now had to be intensified.\n\nAlison Johnstone, from the Scottish Greens, called for clarification on when additional support needs staff would be vaccinated, but Ms Sturgeon said deviating from the government's age-based approach would make decisions \"political\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the \"last-minute change\" on schools had been made without issuing any fresh guidance, and said this had \"dumped the problem on teachers to fix\".\n\nMeanwhile Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, said an \"over hasty\" return to full time schooling could risk a reversal of the progress made.\n\nGeneral secretary Larry Flanagan said the plan to return younger secondary pupils to blended learning did not recognise workload pressures this would create for \"already exhausted\" staff.\n\nHe added: \"The announcement of a planned full return after Easter would suggest that physical distancing requirements currently in place for senior phase students may be removed despite the scientific evidence of the need for this mitigation.\n\n\"This will place those young people, and their teachers, at significant additional risk.\"", "A painting by former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, which was owned by Angelina Jolie, has sold for £7m at auction in London.\n\nThe sale price was almost four times the top pre-sale estimate and beat the previous record for a Churchill painting, which was just under £1.8m.\n\nThe Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, painted in Marrakesh during World War Two, was sold to an anonymous buyer.\n\n\"Aside from its distinguished provenance, it is the only landscape he made during the war,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nChurchill, a keen artist, took inspiration from the Moroccan city and painted The Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque oil work following the Casablanca Conference in 1943.\n\nHe went on to give the finished piece to fellow wartime leader, US president Franklin Roosevelt.\n\nBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bought some significant pieces of art when they were together\n\nThe work eventually found its way into the hands of actress Angelina Jolie when it went on sale in New Orleans in 2011.\n\nFrenzied bidding at Monday's sale, much of it over the phone, led to the auction gavel coming came down at the record £7m sale price, smashing the pre-sale expectations of £1.5 to £2.5m.\n\nChristie's said the sale figure with commission was more than £8.2m.\n\nTwo more of Churchill's paintings also went under the hammer, with the three works together fetching £9.43m.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Christie's This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore entering politics Churchill was a career army officer and started to paint relatively late, at the age of 40.\n\nHe found a passion for the translucent light of Marrakesh in the 1930s when most of Morocco was a French protectorate.\n\nChurchill created his painting from the balcony of the city's Villa Taylor, beloved by the European jet set of the 1970s, after the historic conference in Casablanca, where the allies declared they would accept nothing less than Germany's \"unconditional surrender\" in the war.\n\nThe painting depicts the minaret of the mosque behind the ramparts of the old city, with mountains behind and tiny colourful figures in front.\n\nAfter the US delegation left the conference, Churchill stayed on an extra day to paint his work. He then sent it to Roosevelt for his birthday.\n\n\"This is Churchill's diplomacy at its most personal and intense,\" said Nick Orchard, Christie's head of modern British and Irish art.\n\n\"It is not an ordinary gift between leaders. This is soft power, and it is what the special relationship is all about.\"\n\nA second Churchill landscape, Scene in Marrakesh, painted on his first visit to Morocco in 1935, previously sold for £1.5m.\n\nJolie's former partner Brad Pitt is known to be an avid art collector and, during their marriage, the couple bought some notable works, including some by Banksy and Neo Rauch.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nicole was worried people would think that the fake account was real\n\n\"I felt so shocked, I was scared of what everyone would think of me.\"\n\nWhen Nicole Peterkin received a message from an old friend on Instagram asking about her account she thought it was a mistake.\n\nBut the 20-year-old retail worker from Aberdeenshire soon discovered photographs of herself on an account she did not recognise, and it was advertising sex work.\n\n\"I was just scared for family members finding out about it, people I went to school with, even work colleagues,\" she told BBC Scotland's The Nine programme.\n\n\"What would they think of me?\"\n\nMs Peterkin found pictures she posted on her personal Instagram account were being used in a fake social media profile that impersonated her. It advertised a scam website promising explicit images of Ms Peterkin in exchange for money and personal information.\n\n\"I don't have anything against anyone associated with stuff like that, but I don't want people to think I do that,\" she said.\n\nInstagram said it does not allow inauthentic activity on its site and blocks \"millions of fake accounts every day\".\n\nBut the scam Ms Peterkin fell victim to was made simple through the use of social media and free website services, and is affecting more and more young women.\n\nNicole says she was shocked by how easily scammers can impersonate people online\n\nScammers search social media for public profiles they want to copy, downloading the photos to use later.\n\nUsing free website services like Wix they create a page that poses as a sex work site such as OnlyFans or AdmireMe, promising explicit images in exchange for money and personal information. These explicit images do not exist.\n\nScammers use social media platforms such as Instagram to sell the page by impersonating the original account.\n\nMs Peterkin's account was public at the time of the scam and the fake account was removed, but although she has now made her account private, she wants social media companies to do more to prevent these scams.\n\n\"I do feel a relief it's gone, but I still get people messaging me to this day, like total strangers. They say, 'I'll send you money if you send me some pictures and videos'\", she said.\n\n\"It does have a really bad effect on me. They need to look into it and do something about it because there are heaps of people making fake profiles of young girls and using our images.\"\n\nJess McBeath advises young people on how to stay safe online\n\nOnline safety consultant Jess McBeath, who represents the UK Safer Internet Centre in Scotland, said sexual content often drives new technologies online, and new scams.\n\n\"The person who's had the imagery stolen - if we think about the impact on them, that could be quite profound in terms of how they feel about themselves, how other people view them,\" she said.\n\n\"As well as the fact that they've got images out there and they have no control over them.\"\n\nMs McBeath explained that while these women were able to report the fake accounts and have them taken down, proving illegal activity is difficult.\n\n\"Bringing somebody to justice is probably a more complex matter,\" she said.\n\nAnnabel Turner says these crimes affect women more often than men\n\nFormer barrister and founder of CyberSafe Scotland, Annabel Turner, said the law does not protect young women like Nicole whose identity was impersonated.\n\nShe said fraud would be committed if someone paid money or gave information to the fake profiles, but it was not clear what other crimes were involved.\n\nShe said: \"The people that society should be most concerned to protect, in this case the young women whose identities have been copied and misused, they don't really have any choice apart from trying to get that material removed as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The scale of it surprises me, not that it's happening.\"\n\nHeather uses her social media accounts for work with different companies\n\nHeather MacFarlane, who grew up in East Lothian but now works for a technology company in Manchester and promotes brands on social media, said she never expected to be the victim of this type of scam.\n\nBut in August last year, the 23-year-old started receiving messages from friends which pointed to a fake account using her photos to offer sex work.\n\n\"People actually did think that I was promoting it and that I made a separate account because maybe I didn't want my family to see it,\" she said.\n\nThe account impersonating her was removed after she and her friends reported it.\n\nBut Ms MacFarlane is worried that without more protection, it will happen again.\n\n\"It's horrible that it happens and it shouldn't happen, but this is the world we live in,\" she said.\n\nHeather wants social media firms to do more to protect people from becoming victims of these scams\n\nShe said those behind the scam \"saw an opportunity to exploit me and other young women that it's happened to, which is very sad to see\".\n\nShe added that social media sites like Instagram need to force users to verify their identity before they can make an account on the platform.\n\nA spokesperson for Facebook, the company which owns Instagram, said: \"We do not allow inauthentic activity on Instagram and we block millions of fake accounts every day.\n\n\"If someone is being impersonated on our platform, we encourage them to report the account using our in-app tools or online form, so we can take action.\"\n\nWix have not responded to a request for comment.", "World Cup 2030: UK and Republic of Ireland associations back UK government support for bid Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWembley Stadium will host the final of Euro 2020 in July 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is the \"right time\" for the UK and Republic of Ireland to launch a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup. The UK government will reportedly pledge £2.8m to kick-start the process in Wednesday's Budget. The football associations of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland say they are \"delighted\" with the government's commitment. \"We are very, very keen to bring football home in 2030,\" Johnson said. In an interview with the Sun, he added: \"I do think it's the right place. It's the home of football, it's the right time. It will be an absolutely wonderful thing for the country. \"We want to see a bonanza of football in the years ahead.\" A feasibility study will continue before the formal World Cup bidding process begins in 2022. Aston Villa is one club who will offer full support for any bid and plan to upgrade Villa Park to ensure it meets Fifa guidelines for the tournament. Villa Park has a rich tradition of hosting major occasions, including three games at the 1966 World Cup, four Euro 96 games and a total of 16 internationals. It was the first English stadium to host internationals across three different centuries and has also staged a record 55 FA Cup semi-finals as well as the 1999 European Cup Winners' Cup Final between Mallorca and Lazio. A joint-statement from the football associations of England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland read: \"The football associations and government partners of the UK and Ireland are delighted that the UK government has committed to support a prospective five-association bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup. \"The FAs will continue to undertake feasibility work to assess the viability of a bid before Fifa formally opens the process in 2022. \"Staging a Fifa World Cup would provide an incredible opportunity to deliver tangible benefits for our nations. \"If a decision is made to bid for the event, we look forward to presenting our hosting proposals to Fifa and the wider global football community.\" Johnson also told the newspaper the UK was prepared to host additional Euro 2020 games, after the government last week unveiled plans to end all restrictions on social contact in England by 21 June. The Euros were postponed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and are now set to take place across 12 host cities this summer. It is understood that Uefa still intends the tournament to go ahead in this way. Wembley will host seven games - including the final and semi-finals - of Euro 2020, while Glasgow and Dublin will also host games. England is also hosting the postponed Women's European Championship in 2022. The last major men's football tournament played in the UK was the 1996 European Championship, which England hosted 30 years after staging its only World Cup. England failed with a bid - fronted by former captain David Beckham, Prince William and former prime minister David Cameron - to host the 2018 World Cup, which went to Russia. World Cups from 2026 onwards will be contested by 48 teams, beginning when the US, Canada and Mexico host the tournament. A joint bid from Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is expected for the 2030 competition, while Spain, Morocco and Portugal are also considering a joint bid. 'Some will question if it's worth it after 2018 humiliation' - analysis Government support for the idea of a UK and Ireland bid for the 2030 World Cup is nothing new. Former prime minister Theresa May said in 2018 that she would back an effort to stage the tournament. The following year, on the eve of the general election, her successor Boris Johnson said he would put his \"heart and soul\" behind such a bid. Now he has repeated that message. Ministers are known to be keen to host as many major sports events as possible to help promote Britain in the post-Brexit era, and with London, Glasgow and Dublin set to stage Euros matches this summer, a World Cup bid will enjoy support. But others will wonder if it is wise use of public money after England's last bid for the 2018 World Cup ended in humiliation, securing just two votes, despite spending £21m. In the wake of its great corruption scandal, Fifa has reformed the way in which it decides hosts, with more transparency and each national association given a vote, not just its executive committee. But even if this appears to boost UK/Irish chances, there are other hurdles to overcome. Backing from Uefa is deemed essential. But its president, Aleksander Ceferin, has said he favours just one bid from Europe, and a joint effort from Spain and Portugal is being prepared. The FA has been on a charm offensive in recent years in an attempt to tackle perceptions of English arrogance, and Johnson's latest reference to football 'coming home' may not have helped build bridges. But regardless of which bid Uefa supports, it would face stiff competition from an expected joint South American effort from Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. With 2030 marking the centenary of the first World Cup held in Uruguay, many believe it would be an appropriate choice, although there are concerns over infrastructure and stadia. China would also provide formidable opposition if Fifa changed its host rotation policy and allowed another Asian World Cup so soon after Qatar stages next year's tournament.\n• None From O.J. Simpson to the LA riots: How the helicopter changed the news\n• None Office drone Brian is transported to a strange new world...", "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.", "The three people who tested positive flew into Aberdeen airport from Brazil via Paris and London Heathrow\n\nAn enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after the Brazilian variant of Covid-19 was detected in Scotland.\n\nThree Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.\n\nNational clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said they were oil workers who were returning to their families.\n\nOther passengers who were on the same British Airways flight from London on 29 January are now being contacted.\n\nExperts believe this variant (P1) - first detected in northern Brazil in January - could be more contagious.\n\nHowever Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said there was \"currently no reason to believe\" the variant was circulating in the community in Scotland.\n\nA total of 20 passengers who were on flight BA1312 have already been contacted, and Ms Freeman said work was under way to get in touch with others.\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Scotland's The Nine that situation in Aberdeen had been \"well-handled\" by the individuals, their families and employer.\n\nAsked if he was concerned the north-east was a gateway to new variants via the oil industry, he said: \"It's certainly a part of the country we need to be concerned about\".\n\nThree other cases have also been detected in England, but they are not linked to the Scottish cases.\n\nOfficials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant in England.\n\nThe three travellers to Scotland had all tested negative for Covid-19 before leaving Brazil\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the three Scottish travellers had arrived in Aberdeen in early February, before new rules on hotel quarantine came into force.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme they had isolated together for 10 days after arrival in accommodation provided by their employer.\n\nThey tested positive while in isolation, having developed symptoms after arriving there.\n\nMs Evans said that health protection specialists were now following up \"contacts of their contacts\" in an effort to ensure that any further cases were found quickly.\n\nAnyone traced will be offered a Covid-19 test.\n\n\"That's not standard procedure, that's going one stage further,\" she said.\n\n\"But of course they have been quarantined for 10 days in managed isolation for that period of time, so you would think that they wouldn't have many contacts to follow up.\n\n\"Nonetheless, that's an added precaution that's been taken by health protection specialists.\"\n\nProf Leitch, said it was the first time the Brazilian variant had been detected in Scotland, but told BBC Scotland there was \"no evidence\" of community spread.\n\nHe said the three travellers had tested negative before leaving Brazil.\n\n\"The measures that were in place at the time of this were really quite rigorous,\" he said.\n\n\"These individuals self-isolated. They were from a high risk country, so they followed the instructions and there is no suggestion of any blame or concern about their behaviour. I think that's very important.\"\n\nProf Leitch added that \"enhanced\" contact tracing was necessary in this case because of concerns about the Brazil strain's resistance to immunity.\n\n\"The reason why we're worried scientifically is we're not absolutely certain that this version is amenable to the natural immunity some people already have and the artificial immunity we are creating with vaccination,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything we know says it's still very effective, but we just can't be sure yet because it hasn't been around long enough and the trials haven't completed.\"\n\nBoth the Scottish government and Public Health England said the variant had been designated \"of concern\" as it shared some important mutations with the variant first identified in South Africa - known as B.1.351.\n\nOne of these mutations - called E484K - may help the virus evade parts of the immune system called antibodies.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said it was important to be \"vigilant\" for changes to the virus, with the vaccine programme placing greater pressure on it.\n\nHe said: \"We must continue to suppress transmission to the lowest possible level - the more virus there is around, the more likely these mutations are to appear.\"", "Prince Philip, pictured last summer, was admitted to hospital on 16 February\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been transferred to St Bartholomew's Hospital for continued treatment, after 13 nights at another London hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 99, is being treated for an infection and doctors will also carry out testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe duke is responding to treatment and \"remains comfortable\", it added.\n\nHe is expected to remain in hospital until at least the end of the week.\n\nPrince Philip, who turns 100 in June, was taken to King Edward VII's hospital in London on 16 February as a precaution, after feeling unwell. A palace source at the time said the duke had walked into the hospital unaided.\n\nOn Monday morning, someone was screened from journalists' cameras by umbrellas as they got into an ambulance outside the hospital in Marylebone.\n\nPrince Philip was transferred about three miles (5km) to St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as Barts, Uniformed officers from the City of London police were positioned at the hospital entrance.\n\nBarts is a centre of excellence for cardiac care, its NHS site says.\n\nStaff held up umbrellas to screen someone as they left the hospital on Monday\n\nThe exact reason for Prince Philip's initial admission has not been disclosed, but his stay is not related to coronavirus.\n\nBoth the duke and the Queen, 94, received Covid-19 vaccinations last month.\n\nAside from the fact that the duke is 99 years old there are two, further, causes for concern.\n\nThe first is that he is still not home; this is his longest recorded stay in hospital. A reasonable expectation was that he would be heading back to Windsor by now.\n\nInstead he has gone into St Bartholomew's Hospital for further treatment. The infection that sent him to King Edward VII's hospital is still being treated.\n\nThe second is the worry over his heart. The duke had a stent fitted following a blocked coronary artery in 2011. As far as we understand it has not played up since then. Now there are concerns - so there will be tests and observation in a hospital renowned for cardiovascular treatment.\n\nBecause he has retired from public life we hear little about the duke other than his rather infrequent visits to hospital. When he was last seen in public, in July last year, he looked in good shape. But this extended stay in hospital will be a cause for heightened concern.\n\nThe Prince of Wales visited his father for about 30 minutes, the weekend after he was admitted.\n\nTwo days later the Duke of Cambridge said his grandfather was \"OK\" and that doctors were \"keeping an eye\" on him.\n\nThe following day, on 23 February, Buckingham Palace said Prince Philip was being treated for an infection and was not expected to leave hospital for several days. The Earl of Wessex added his father was feeling \"a lot better\" and appreciated the \"lovely messages\" from the public.\n\nBBC health correspondent Hugh Pym said the nature of the duke's pre-existing heart condition had not been made public, and speculated that it might be related to the stent operation in 2011 or that the infection had somehow exacerbated an existing heart condition, such as heart rhythm issues.\n\n\"Certainly he will be monitored extensively, with some of the best specialists in the country at Barts Heart Centre.\n\n\"But I think, probably, it's more than just monitoring. I think he has gone to this specialist centre because of the possibility - no more than that - that the doctors feel there may be a need for an intervention or procedure to be carried out.\"\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Queen, have continued with their official duties during the duke's hospital stay.\n\nThe Queen has unveiled, virtually, a statue of herself for the first time, speaking to officials in Australia from Windsor Castle.\n\nIn a video of the call, made on Wednesday but released on Monday evening, the monarch joked that visitors to Government House in Adelaide might be alarmed to think she had paid them a surprise visit.\n\nHer other engagements over the past two weeks have included hosting a video call with health officials leading the UK's Covid vaccine rollout, and knighting a royal aide during a private socially-distanced ceremony at Windsor.\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 has attended over 22,000 solo engagements and given 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.", "Restrictions will come into force at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday\n\nA 21-day \"circuit-breaker\" lockdown has been announced to limit the spread of Covid-19 on the Isle of Man, the chief minister has said.\n\nThe island has seen a rise in cases in recent days, with some stemming from an infected ferry crew member.\n\nHoward Quayle said an increase in other - unexplained - cases indicated there was transmission \"that we cannot see and do not understand\".\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight.\n\nUnder the new measures, people are required to stay at home unless for exercise or essential travel, avoid mixing with other households and socially distance when outside.\n\nSchools are shut to most pupils and non-essential businesses are required to close.\n\nAnd all hospitality and leisure venues have also shut their doors to customers although takeaway and delivery services are still allowed.\n\nPeople are required to stay at home except for exercise or essential travel\n\nEdward Cox, who owns the Front Porch bar in Douglas, said the lockdown was the right decision but it was \"absolutely gutting\".\n\nHe added that he felt the government was not \"prepared enough\" for another outbreak and the island \"should never have got to this position\".\n\nThe £1,500 in government support offered would \"not touch the sides\" and he would be forced to throw out large quantities of fresh food, he added.\n\nUnlike the January lockdown, construction work is allowed to continue provided it is outdoors or in a vacant property.\n\nFinancial support measures, which were put in place during the island's previous two lockdown periods, have been reactivated.\n\nIn recent days, the island has seen a small number of confirmed Covid-19 cases where the source is not known, one of them in a school.\n\nBill Shimmins MHK said the government's response to the current cluster of cases was \"akin to a slow-motion train crash\".\n\nHe added that, had measures been imposed earlier, it would have avoided \"this incredibly damaging lockdown\".\n\nMore than 40 Covid-19 cases have been linked to the cluster involving the ferry crew member, who tested positive for the virus on 18 February.\n\nOfficials believed it was largely under control, but five unexplained cases have been identified since Friday.\n\nMr Quayle said there was insufficient data to support measures being taken earlier and the response had to be \"proportionate\".\n\nThere are currently 52 active cases of Covid-19 on the Isle of Man.\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.", "John Swinney said the advice would be released to counter \"false claims\"\n\nThe Scottish government has agreed to release key legal advice from its court battle with Alex Salmond after MSPs threatened a vote of no confidence.\n\nHolyrood has twice voted to urge ministers to publish advice they were given after the former first minister took the government to court.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney previously argued that such legal advice should remain confidential.\n\nBut on Monday he confirmed that the advice would be released to MSPs.\n\nThe move came after all opposition parties indicated they would back a motion of no confidence in Mr Swinney if he did not comply, with the SNP government facing defeat.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives had lodged a one-line motion and were pushing for debate on Tuesday - but said they would withdraw it if the advice was released.\n\nMr Swinney said he would be handing \"key\" papers over to an inquiry committee \"to counter the false claims being made by some\" about what advice the government had been given and when.\n\nThe row centres on legal advice that was given to the Scottish government after Mr Salmond launched judicial review proceedings in 2018 over the way harassment complaints against him had been handled.\n\nThe government ended up admitting it had acted unlawfully because its investigating officer had had prior contact with the two complainers, and had to pay the former first minister more than £500,000 in legal expenses as a result.\n\nThe Holyrood inquiry investigating the botched probe has been keen to examine exactly what advice the government was given during the row, with Mr Salmond claiming that officials were told by lawyers that it was unlikely to win the case months before actually conceding defeat.\n\nThe former SNP leader said he had \"absolute reason to believe\" that counsel had informed the government on 31 October 2018 that they were facing defeat - only for the case to continue into January 2019.\n\nMr Swinney appeared to push back on this while confirming the advice would be published, saying: \"Serious allegations have been made - this material allows people to confirm that these allegations are false.\"\n\nThe SNP does not have a majority at Holyrood, and what became clear today was they would lose a vote of no confidence.\n\nWith that threat hanging over the deputy first minister, the government blinked and decided to take the highly unusual step of releasing the legal advice.\n\nIn fact, the Scottish government has never before handed legal advice over to a parliamentary committee with the expectation it will be published.\n\nThey're doing that because of political pressure - although they also say they are concerned that Alex Salmond's claims have threatened the integrity of the justice system.\n\nThis is happening the day before the Lord Advocate is due to give evidence, and two days before Nicola Sturgeon is due to appear in person. This is a massive week for this inquiry.\n\nMr Salmond successfully challenged the internal investigation of two harassment complaints in Scotland's civil courts\n\nMSPs twice voted to demand the inquiry was given access to all legal advice from the civil case.\n\nThe committee was given sight of a memo summarising key advice from the row, but continued to call for more detail - particularly after Mr Salmond's evidence session on Friday.\n\nOn Sunday, the Conservatives said they were giving Mr Swinney 24 hours to hand over the advice or face a motion of no confidence.\n\nAnd on Monday they published a motion stating that \"the parliament has no confidence in the deputy first minister, in light of the government's continued failure to publish legal advice called for in two resolutions of the parliament\".\n\nAll opposition parties backed the move, meaning the minority SNP government could have been heading for defeat - with Tory leader Douglas Ross saying the deputy first minister was \"out of options - release the legal advice or lose his job\".\n\nMr Swinney confirmed on Monday evening that \"the key legal advice that underpinned the Scottish government's defence of the judicial review\" would be released on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"In normal circumstances, government legal advice is not released. Indeed, such is the importance of being able to get frank, private advice, it is almost unheard of for the legal advice to be released.\n\n\"But we have to acknowledge that the issues at stake now are not normal. The very integrity of the legal system is being questioned.\n\n\"Serious allegations have been made. This material allows people to confirm that these allegations are false.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Conservatives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIndependent MSP Andy Wightman - a member of the inquiry committee - said it was \"not for the government to determine what is key legal advice\", saying the motion of no confidence should be kept on the table.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives then tweeted that \"we will not remove the no confidence motion until we know John Swinney will fully publish the legal advice\".\n\nThe inquiry committee is to take evidence from Lord Advocate James Wolffe - the government's top legal advisor - on Tuesday.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will then follow on Wednesday, with the first minister saying she is looking forward to putting her side across.", "One of reggae's most important voices, Bunny Wailer, has died at the age of 73.\n\nThe musician, from Kingston, Jamaica, was a founding member of The Wailers alongside his childhood friend, Bob Marley.\n\nTogether, they achieved international fame with reggae classics like Simmer Down and Stir It Up, before Wailer left to go solo in 1974.\n\nHe went on to win three Grammys and was given Jamaica's Order Of Merit in 2017.\n\nHis death was confirmed by manager Maxine Stowe, and Jamaica's Culture Minister, Olivia Grange.\n\nThe cause of death is unknown, but he had been in hospital since having a stroke in July 2020.\n\nTributes have already poured in for the musician, with fans and fellow musicians describing him as a legend.\n\n\"This is one of the lowest moment in the history of our culture,\" wrote dancehall artist Shaggy on Facebook. \"You have made us proud king. Rest well.\"\n\n\"Oh man, god bless Bunny Wailer,\" wrote Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea. \"What a true rocker and noble man. I love him.\"\n\nAndrew Holness, Jamaica's prime minister, also paid tribute, calling his death \"a great loss for Jamaica and for reggae\".\n\nThe original incarnation of The Wailers, circa 1964 (L-R): Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh\n\nThe star, whose real name was Neville O'Riley Livingston, had been the last surviving member of The Wailers, following Bob Marley's death from cancer in 1981, and Peter Tosh's murder during a robbery in 1987.\n\nBorn on 20 April 10, 1947, Livingston spent his earliest years in the village of Nine Mile, where he was raised by his father, Thaddeus, who ran a grocery store.\n\nThat was where he first met Marley, and the toddlers soon became firm friends, making their first music together at Stepney Primary and Junior High School.\n\nFollowing the death of Marley's father in 1955, his mother, Cedella, moved in with Livingston's father. The boys were essentially raised as step-brothers, especially after Cedella and Thaddeus had a daughter together, Pearl.\n\nAfter moving to Trenchtown in Kingston, they met Peter Tosh and formed a vocal group called The Wailing Wailers - because, Marley said: \"We started out crying.\"\n\nThe area was poor and afflicted by violence. Livingston later remembered building his first guitar from \"a bamboo staff, the fine wires from an electric cable and a large sardine can\".\n\nBut singer Joe Higgs, aka \"the Godfather of Reggae\", lived nearby and took the boys under his wing. Under his tutelage, they refined their sound, adding vocalist Junior Braithwaite and backing singers Beverly Kelso and Cherry Green before shortening their name to The Wailers.\n\nIn December 1963, the band entered Coxsone Dodd's infamous Studio One to record Simmer Down, a song Marley had written calling for peace in the ghettos of Kingston.\n\nFaster and harder than the music The Wailers later became known for, the song was an immediate hit, reaching number one in Jamaica. They followed it up with the original version of Duppy Conqueror, before releasing their debut album The Wailing Wailers, in 1965.\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 Nelson Reggae 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\nSoon after, the band went on hiatus as Marley got married and moved to the USA, and Livingston served a year in jail for marijuana possession. But they still managed to release 28 singles between 1966 and 1970, before releasing their second album, Soul Rebels.\n\nTheir international breakthrough came three years later with Catch A Fire - the first record they made for Chris Blackwell's Island Records.\n\nThe collaboration came about almost by accident. The Wailers had been touring the UK with Johnny Nash - who'd had a hit with a cover of Stir It Up - but found themselves unable to pay for their trip home.\n\nBlackwell offered to sign the band to Island, paying them an advance to cover their air fares and cost of recording an album in Jamaica.\n\nMuch to the band's displeasure, some of the songs were overdubbed to make them more palatable to an international audience.\n\n\"I felt the way to break the Wailers was as a black rock act; I wanted some rock elements in there,\" Blackwell later told Rolling Stone. \"Bunny and Peter didn't want to leave Jamaica, so Bob came to England when we did the overdubs.\"\n\nThe album was not a major seller and failed to chart in both the US and UK - but it has become widely recognised as a classic. Rolling Stone magazine recently placed it at number 140 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, writing \"the Wailers' ghetto rage comes across uncut\" in songs like Concrete Jungle and Slave Driver.\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 Bob Marley 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\nCommercial success followed with 1973's Burnin', which featured classic cuts like I Shot The Sheriff, Small Axe and Get Up, Stand Up.\n\nHowever, it was to be the Wailers last album to feature the original Wailers line-up.\n\nTensions already present were exacerbated by Island marketing their albums under the name Bob Marley and The Wailers, and a touring schedule that kept Livingston away from his family.\n\nHe eventually left in 1973, saying the touring lifestyle clashed with his Rastafarian beliefs - citing the pressure to eat processed foods and play \"freak clubs\". He later said fame was the enemy of creativity.\n\n\"Music is based on inspiration and if you're in an environment where you are up and down, here and there, that's how your music is going to sound,\" Livingston told The Los Angeles Times in 1986.\n\n\"People get taken away in getting themselves to be a star and that is a different thing from getting yourself to be a good writer, musician, producer and arranger.\"\n\nThe star was known as an elder statesman of reggae\n\nFree from the band, he began to work on his solo album Blackheart Man, which included classic songs like Dreamland and Fighting Against Conviction, which was inspired by his stint in prison.\n\nHe went on to release several acclaimed albums, including 1981's Rock 'n' Groove and 1980s's Bunny Wailer Sings The Wailers, which saw him revisit some of the band's classic material.\n\nIn the 1990s, he won the Grammy award for best reggae album three times - with each of those records extending and preserving the legacy of Marley and the Wailers: 1991's Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley, 1995's Crucial! Roots Classics, and the 1997's all-star Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary.\n\n\"I'm satisfied with knowing that I'm serving the purpose of getting reggae music to be where it's at,\" he told the Washington Post in 2006. \"I'm proud to be part of that.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Pontins at Southport has been used for mass Covid testing during lockdown.\n\nPontins has agreed to change its working practices after disclosure it had a list of Irish surnames it used to screen out bookings for its holiday parks from Gypsies and Travellers.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigated after being contacted by a whistleblower.\n\nA spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said such discrimination was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nPontins said it had agreed with EHRC change in its working practices.\n\nNews of the investigation was first reported by the i news website.\n\nThe EHRC said Pontins had an \"undesirable guests\" list on its intranet of mainly common Irish names to identify people it did not want at its parks.\n\nAccording to the i, there were 40 names on the list, including Boyle, Keefe, Gallagher, O'Donnell, McGuiness, Murphy, and O'Reilly.\n\nIt said staff monitored calls and refused or cancelled bookings made by certain people with an Irish accent or surname, and Pontins' commercial vehicle policy excluded Gypsies and Travellers from its holiday parks.\n\nBy declining to provide its services to guests of a certain race or ethnic group, Pontins was \"directly discriminating on the basis of race\" and breached the 2010 Equality Act, the EHRC said.\n\nPontins, which is owned by Britannia Jinky Jersey, has six holiday parks across England and Wales.\n\nThe EHRC declined to say how long Pontins had the policy in place, but according to the i, the list was used for at least six years.\n\nAlastair Pringle, executive director at EHRC, said: \"It is hard not to draw comparisons with an 'undesirable guests' list and the signs displayed in hotel windows fifty years ago, explicitly barring Irish people and Black people.\n\n\"Banning people from services based on their race is discrimination and is unlawful. To say that such policies are outdated is an understatement.\"\n\n\"It is right to challenge such practices and any business that believes this is acceptable should think again before they find themselves facing legal action.\"\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it is: \"Completely unacceptable to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity. It is right EHRC and Pontins have investigated this.\"\n\nThe Traveller Movement, a charity that promotes inclusion for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, said the Pontins policy was \"truly shocking\" but that it was \"not surprised\".\n\n\"We frequently hear of Gypsies and Travellers being turned away from holiday parks because of their ethnicity,\" said its chief executive Yvonne MacNamara.\n\n\"This happens across the country on a regular basis; it is unlawful and completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe charity hopes the agreement between the Pontins owner and EHRC leads to better practices, \"and we also hope other holiday providers will think twice about enacting similar policies,\" Ms MacNamara added.\n\nSarah Mann, director at charity Friends, Families and Travellers, said it was \"shameful\" for Pontins to have acted in this way.\n\n\"Our thanks go to the Pontin's whistle-blower for doing the right thing and to the Equality and Human Rights Commission for using their powers.\n\n\"We all have a choice when we see discrimination - to stand by or to challenge it. Nobody should be treated differently because of their ethnicity.\"\n\nResearch by the charity suggested that nearly half of adults in the UK express negative attitudes toward Gypsies, Roma and Traveller people with hate crime being the most common issue reported to the police.\n\nThe Pontins owner said it would \"enhance staff training and procedures\" at the firm, and would take measures \"to promote equality throughout its business\".\n\nAs part of the agreement, Pontins must investigate the \"undesirable guests\" list, take appropriate action and ensure lessons are learned.\n\nIt must commission a review into its booking and commercial vehicle policy and consider any recommendations, and provide equality and diversity training for staff each year.\n\nThe EHRC started a probe in February 2020 after complaints from the whistleblower and Travellers. Its Pontins agreement is binding from 22 February 2021.\n\nIn 2017 EHRC said that Gypsies and Travellers were \"one of the most deprived groups in the Britain\" in terms of health and education.\n\nIt said in some areas of the UK \"local authorities have pioneered ways of meeting the needs of these nomadic groups to preserve their traditional lifestyle, while accessing health and education services and maintaining good relations with other communities.\"\n\nHowever, in other areas of the UK \"Gypsies and Travellers continue to be the focus of social tension with accommodation issues at the core. People living near unauthorised sites often object to developments without planning permission or where the environment is being damaged.\"", "Sanjeev Gupta, who has been called the \"saviour of steel\"\n\nUnion sources have told the BBC that they are very concerned about the potential risk to thousands of UK steel and engineering jobs.\n\nTheir fears follow the emergence of financial problems for the owner of plants at Rotherham, Stocksbridge, Newport and Hartlepool.\n\nCalled the \"saviour of steel\", Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Group bought up the struggling UK steel businesses.\n\nHis GFG Alliance company said it had \"adequate funding\".\n\nThere are 3,000 direct steel employees and a further 2,000 in engineering businesses within the group.\n\nOne of Mr Gupta's primary sources of finance is a group called Greensill Capital, run by former investment banker Les Greensill who counts former Prime Minister David Cameron among his paid advisers.\n\nGreensill's exposure to Mr Gupta's business prompted the Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse to freeze withdrawals from up to £10bn worth of funds held as security.\n\nSources close to the situation told the BBC that Greensill was in serious financial trouble and that it would \"not be wrong to surmise that it was likely to go into administration\".\n\nThe sources added that there was a direct link between Mr Gupta's financing difficulties and risks to thousands of industrial jobs in the UK.\n\nA spokesperson for steel union, Community, said: \"There's no doubt these reports are concerning and, on behalf of our members, we are pressing the company for answers. Liberty Steel UK is a crucial strategic business and we are ready to work with the company and the government to secure the business and protect jobs.\"\n\nMr Gupta was hailed as saving thousands of UK jobs when he stepped in to buy up plants and processing facilities that seemed on the brink of going bust.\n\nBut his financial arrangements have always been shrouded in secrecy and controversy.\n\nConnections between Greensill Capital and international money manager GAM saw a senior manager at GAM forced to resign over allegations of poor risk management and due diligence over billions in loans to Mr Gupta's empire.\n\nGFG Alliance is a collection of global businesses and investments owned by Sanjeev Gupta and his family. A spokesman said: \"GFG Alliance has adequate funding for its current needs and its refinancing plans to broaden its capital base and obtain longer term funding are progressing well.\n\n\"Our global efficiency drive means that our core businesses are operationally strong. We are benefiting from a recovery in steel and aluminium markets which means that most of our businesses are running at near full capacity to meet high demand and are generating positive cash flows.\"\n\nHarish Patel from Unite told the BBC what many in the industry have feared for some time: \"Unite has always been concerned about the financial basis that Liberty Steel is based on.\n\n\"The latest concerns about the future of Greensill and Sunjav Gupta's refinancing difficulties are deeply alarming and Unite will be seeking urgent reassurances about the health of the business units in the UK.\"", "Last of Us 2 has been nominated for a number of awards including best game\n\nWith a record-breaking 13 nominations, The Last of Us 2 leads the field at the Bafta Games Awards.\n\nIt's the most nominations any game has received in the awards' history, beating last year's record of 11 by two titles: Control and Death Stranding.\n\nGhost of Tsushima, an action-adventure game, also received 10 nominations, including for best game and multiplayer.\n\nThe winners will be announced on 25 March.\n\nThe awards will again be held online, a year on from being the first major awards to be held virtually.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition to its 13 nominations, The Last of Us 2 is also up for a new award - EE Game of the Year, which is the only category to be voted for by the public.\n\nThe Bafta Games Awards has been recognising achievements in the gaming industry for more than a decade.\n\nAnd while there might not be a traditional red carpet, champagne reception or live audience, organisers will be hoping to retain some of the magic of a live event.\n\nOn paper it might be a surprise that a game set in the midst of a world altering global pandemic became so successful in 2020. Not much escapism in that.\n\nIt's less of a surprise to anyone who's played The Last of Us Part 2.\n\nThe shock would have been if the game did not dominate the BAFTA nominations.\n\nIt's already won big at the 2020 Game awards and was crowned BBC Sounds podcast Press X to Continue's game of 2020.\n\nDespite controversies over its depiction of violence, divisive plot twists and character portrayals (dancing very carefully around spoilers here) the title had an overwhelmingly positive reaction from players and critics.\n\nThe praise for its storytelling, diverse cast and sheer jaw-dropping emotional moments have also clearly won the BAFTA nominations panel over.\n\nUsually a place where independent games thrive - this year the awards look like they could be dominated by PlayStation exclusives made by big studios.\n\nNot only does The Last of Us Part 2 have the most nominations for in history, but other PS only titles like Ghost of Tsushima (10), Spiderman: Miles Morales (7) and Dreams (6) have landed a hatful of nominations too.\n\nBafta has announced the show will be a 90-minute online live stream, hosted by presenter and journalist Elle Osili-Wood.\n\nSee the full list of nominees here.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "More than one million people were overcharged by energy firms during the process of switching suppliers, the regulator Ofgem has said.\n\nWhen a customer decides to switch, the rules state they should be protected from price rises while moving - which could take up to three weeks.\n\nThey are refunding the money and making extra payments in some cases, taking the compensation total to £10.4m.\n\nThe biggest names in the sector - including British Gas, E.On, EDF, Npower, Scottish Power, SSE and Octopus - made the mistakes, with Ovo Energy and Shell the worst offenders.\n\nThey failed to protect customers who switched tariffs or suppliers after price rises were set between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAlthough the average amount overcharged was only £6.27, the sums would be higher for those with the biggest bills, and Ofgem said companies did not have the \"adequate arrangements\" in place to prevent overcharging.\n\nSeveral companies had self-reported the issue to Ofgem, which then required all suppliers to check their records.\n\nAnna Rossington, interim director of retail at Ofgem said: \"Customers should have confidence in switching and not be overcharged when doing so.\n\n\"This case sends a strong message to all suppliers that Ofgem will intervene where customers are overcharged and ensure that no supplier benefits from non-compliance.\"\n\nIn changes made last year by Ofgem, customers receive automatic compensation of £30 if their switch to a new provider goes wrong.\n\nPayments are made if the switch is not completed within 15 working days. A mistaken switch or a failure by the old supplier to provide a final bill within six weeks also qualify for compensation.", "A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England shows.\n\nThe Public Health England data showed the effect kicked in three to four weeks after vaccination.\n\nIt was based on people aged over 80 who were the first to receive the jab.\n\nGovernment scientists hailed the result, but stressed that two doses were needed for the best protection.\n\nIt comes after similar findings were published by Scottish health authorities last week, which they hailed as \"spectacular\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told a Downing Street briefing on Monday the latest vaccine results were \"very strong\".\n\nHe added: \"They may also help to explain why the number of Covid admissions to intensive care units among people over 80 in the UK have dropped to single figures in the last couple of weeks.\"\n\nAlso speaking at the news conference, England's deputy chief medical officer - Prof Jonathan Van-Tam - said the data offered a glimpse of how the vaccine programme \"is going to hopefully take us into a very different world in the next few months\".\n\nBut he said it was \"absolutely critical\" that second doses \"are still part of the course of immunisation against Covid-19 and no less important\".\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed there was a \"significant likelihood\" that a second dose of a vaccine would \"mature your immune response, possibly make it broader and almost certainly make it longer than it would otherwise be in relation to a first dose only.\"\n\nMore than 20 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a vaccine - over a third of the adult population.\n\nMeanwhile, another 104 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus have been reported in the UK, and a further 5,455 new cases, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe PHE data, which has not been peer reviewed, also suggested the Pfizer vaccine, which started being rolled out a month before the AstraZeneca vaccine, leads to an 83% reduction in deaths from Covid. This was based on people over the age of 80 who had died.\n\nThe data also showed vaccination cuts the risk of people over 70 developing any Covid symptoms by around 60%, three weeks after an initial dose.\n\nProf Van-Tam said the decision to give the AstraZeneca vaccine to older people was \"clearly vindicated\".\n\nSome European nations have refused to give it to the over 65s because data from the trials was mainly on its effect among younger adults.\n\nProf Van-Tam said the judgement made by the UK authorities was that it was simply \"not plausible\" the vaccine would only work on younger adults.\n\nHe said other countries would doubtless be \"very interested\" in the data coming out of the UK.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisation, said there was growing evidence that the vaccines were working to reduce infections and save lives.\n\n\"While there remains much more data to follow, this is encouraging and we are increasingly confident that vaccines are making a real difference,\" she said.\n\nHowever, more evidence is needed to know how well the vaccines protect against the Brazil variant that has recently been identified in the UK.\n\nThis variant has a mutation - E484 - that could reduce some of the effectiveness of the vaccines.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that six new variant cases - three in England and three in Scotland - had been found through testing.\n\nHealth officials have been able to contact all but one of these people. The whereabouts of the remaining individual is unknown as they did not complete their test registration card.\n\nIt has prompted an appeal for anyone without a result from a test on 12 or 13 February to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nThe health secretary has denied that delays in imposing quarantine hotel measures on travellers to the UK put lives at risk, as officials continue to seek the individual.\n\nMr Hancock said there was \"no evidence\" the infected person had not followed home quarantine rules.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK has \"one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the world for stopping people coming in to this country who may have variants of concern\".", "Students have faced much disruption to their studies\n\nA university has been ordered to pay a student £5,000 in compensation for lost teaching time during England's first lockdown, a complaints watchdog says.\n\nThe Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) has released a number of complaints students have made about the impact of Covid on their studies.\n\nThey include concerns over disrupted learning, accommodation and missed practical elements of courses.\n\nThe cases show the \"complex situations\" the pandemic brings, the OIA says.\n\nThe OIA is an independent body that reviews student complaints about universities and other higher education providers in England and Wales under the Higher Education Act 2004.\n\nIts complaints scheme is offered free to students.\n\nIn 2020, the OIA received 2,604 complaints, 500 of which related to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAmong the complainants was an international medical student who had been studying at an undisclosed university and paying course fees of £38,000.\n\nThe student was awarded £5,000 after the university stopped all clinical placements as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, meaning the individual had lost out on practical experience.\n\nThe OIA said it was awarded due to the \"severe disappointment and inconvenience\" the student had experienced because the final year of studies had been \"less valuable\" than expected.\n\nA healthcare student has also been awarded £1,500 for the \"inconvenience and significant disappointment\" they faced due to the cancellation of a lab-based research project as part of their Master's degree course.\n\nThe student had been moved to remote learning by the university in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe student said this meant missing out on the practical techniques that employers looked for, disadvantaging them when applying for jobs.\n\nThe OIA concluded that while the institution had taken a \"number of steps\" to ensure students were not disadvantaged academically, it could not deliver the promised lab work.\n\nAnother student was given £200 after missing out on 14 hours of learning time because of industrial action that took place over November and December 2019, along with disruption caused by coronavirus.\n\nAnd another case saw the lifting of an international student's accommodation penalty, imposed after they were found to be breaching social-distancing rules when a friend visited their room.\n\nThe student, who has a mental health condition, was excluded from the accommodation despite giving reasons for the friend's visit.\n\nThe OIA said it considered the penalty \"harsh\" and that the university had agreed to reduce the penalty to a formal warning.\n\nBut not all complaints were upheld by the adjudicator.\n\nOne student was not given a refund by the watchdog after paying university accommodation fees in three instalments before the first lockdown was enforced.\n\nThe student had asked to be refunded fees paid in March 2020 after the institution got in touch to say they should consider returning home.\n\nThe university had decided not to ask any students to pay the third instalment when it became due in April, but refused to refund the amount the student had paid for the six-week period before that.\n\nThe OIA ruled that the university had adopted a \"fair approach\" in a \"very challenging\" situation by giving the option for students to stay at the accommodation during the lockdown.\n\nTwo other students did not have their complaints over issues around teaching arrangements and exam-marking criteria upheld.\n\nIndependent adjudicator Felicity Mitchell said: \"The case summaries reflect the hugely challenging and complex situations that students and providers have faced as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Where possible we try to reach a settlement, and we are pleased that in many cases providers and students have been very open to this.\n\n\"The summaries illustrate our approach to deciding what is fair and reasonable in these kinds of situations. We hope they will be helpful to providers and students.\"\n\nThe group Universities UK says students should \"speak to their universities in the first instance\" if they have a complaint.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Universities are developing plans to support students to have the fullest possible experience when they return to campuses. \"\n\nIn February, England's Universities Minister Michelle Donelan announced an extra £50m for student hardship funds, on top of £20m agreed in December, in recognition of the disruption students have faced during the pandemic.\n\nHer announcement came as the vice-chancellors of seven universities called for the interest on student loans in England to be scrapped for 15 months.", "Jim Ashworth-Beaumont lost his right arm after he was run over by a 40-tonne truck whilst out cycling last year.\n\nPrior to the accident, he spent 20 years working as a prosthetist and orthotist for the NHS.\n\nHe is trying to raise £300,000 for a new bionic arm, which he hopes will allow him to go back to work.\n\nJim spoke to BBC Breakfast's Tim Muffett about the surgery, which would be one of the first to take place in the UK.", "A fire officer has told an inquiry he \"felt ashamed to be a firefighter\" after being held back from responding to the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nThe first fire engine did not arrive at the scene until two hours after the explosion that killed 22 people.\n\nDuty command officer Alan Topping said firefighters were \"angry\" they were not able to help in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nHe said crews felt they \"let the people of Greater Manchester down\".\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\nOn the night, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) crews were sent to Philips Park Fire Station, two miles (3km) from the arena.\n\nWatch manager Andrew Simister told the inquiry it was a \"massive decision error\".\n\n\"We wanted to go the arena because that's our job, ride a fire engine. We have got first aid capabilities. After an explosion people are in distress and it's our job to go.\n\n\"I thought we were going there (Philips Park) because they had a plan. There was no plan.\"\n\nCounsel to the inquiry, Paul Greaney QC, read a statement from a firefighter who recalled a paramedic who was \"pleading with us to go and help\".\n\nIn tears, the paramedic asked firefighters why they were \"stood around\" at the station instead of helping casualties at the arena.\n\nTwenty-two people died in the attack and hundreds more were injured when a bomb was detonated at the arena\n\nMr Topping, who was a group manager for GMFRS, said he was shocked when he found \"a lot of firefighters hanging around\" at Philips Park fire station.\n\n\"They were impatient, they wanted to go,\" he told the hearing.\n\nAfter the attack, Mr Topping said he attended a de-briefing where some firefighters turned their backs on a senior officer who had been unable to explain why they had been held back.\n\nHe said some firefighters were brought to tears because they felt \"such shame and disappointment\".\n\n\"I had never seen firefighters cry at a debrief,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't respond and we didn't do our jobs to make a difference. It took me a couple of days to put my shirt back on such was the strength of my feelings.\n\n\"I felt ashamed to be a firefighter. I felt we had let the people of Greater Manchester down.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing is hearing evidence covering the emergency response\n\nThe inquiry has heard previously that police declared a marauding terrorist firearms attack amid erroneous reports of gunfire but failed to inform the fire and ambulance services.\n\nAnd none of the three blue light services met at a rendezvous point to discuss a planned response.\n\nMr Topping said senior incident commanders were not working properly together and were \"too secretive\".\n\nWhen he arrived at the scene, he wrote in his feedback he felt like he was \"gate-crashing\".\n\nMr Topping, who worked for GMFRS for 32 years, said he did not believe that things within the service had improved sufficiently when he retired in September.\n\nHe agreed with John Cooper QC, representing the bereaved families, that the scene at the fire station a mile from the arena \"felt wrong\" because important resources and services his colleagues could have provided were \"simply wasted\".\n\nHe said there was \"a lot of anger, upset, confusion\" among the crews who were impatient at being kept away from the scene.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusiness support including furlough and the VAT cut for hospitality firms will continue \"while lockdown persists\", the business secretary has said.\n\nWith Covid-19 restrictions set to end by June at the earliest, Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC it was important not to \"crush\" any potential recovery.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's Budget, Rishi Sunak said he would protect jobs using the \"full firepower\" at his disposal.\n\nBut he also promised honesty about his plans to \"fix\" the public finances.\n\nHe faces a potential row with some Conservative MPs if he imposes tax increases, amid warnings they could stifle economic growth. And Labour is urging him to abandon planned council tax rises in England.\n\nIn his Budget statement, which is due to get under way at around 12.30 GMT on Wednesday, the chancellor will commit the government to doing \"whatever it takes to support the British people and businesses through this moment of crisis\".\n\nHe is set to extend the £20-a-week top up to universal credit for six months to help struggling households, a government source told the BBC.\n\nThe chancellor spoke to people who have benefitted from government schemes to support employment from the Treasury\n\nOther support is expected to include:\n\nHe is also expected to set out his plans to tackle the huge hole in the government's balance sheet - caused by the high levels of borrowing and debt built up during the pandemic, and the hit to tax revenues from the closure of many sectors of the economy.\n\n\"Once we are on the way to recovery, we will need to begin fixing the public finances - and I want to be honest about our plans to do that,\" he is expected to say.\n\nThe Budget won't just be about carrying on the emergency support, with a hefty dollop of Brand Sunak, with a TV press conference and sofa chat on Wednesday evening, on top of the traditional red box doorstep and green bench moments.\n\nIt will also be about how he hopes to return the Tories to their more traditional trademark - being careful with the country's cash.\n\nThere won't be a return to the kind of political argument over the deficit and the debate that David Cameron and George Osborne dominated in the early part of the last decade.\n\nAs one Treasury minister said: \"Austerity? You just can't do it now.\"\n\nThe Budget comes at a very difficult time for businesses and government finances.\n\nOfficial figures show the UK economy contracted by 9.9% last year and unemployment rose to 5.1% in the three months to December - the worst rate since 2015.\n\nWith its takings down and its spending up, the government is expected to borrow £394bn during the current financial year - the highest figure seen in peacetime.\n\nThe furlough scheme, currently paying up to 80% of six million people's salaries, is scheduled to stop at the end of April.\n\nBut the prime minister's \"roadmap\" for easing Covid-19 restrictions says the final legal limits on social contact and business activity will end no earlier than 21 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors could shape Rishi Sunak's thinking in his 2021 Budget?\n\nAsked on BBC Breakfast if the job support scheme would continue, Mr Kwarteng said the chancellor had \"already indicated that we will be extending furlough\".\n\nAnd he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think it's a fairly good assumption that, while lockdown persists, there will be additional support.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng said there would \"perhaps be an extension\" of the reduced - 5% - rate of VAT for the hospitality sector, also due to end in 31 March.\n\nIf vaccines continued to be rolled out \"efficiently\" and the roadmap was followed, there was \"every chance that the economy can bounce back\", he argued.\n\n\"We can see strong growth at the end of 2021, and that will be the best way to deal with the growing deficit or to try and reduce it,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nThe chancellor will promise help to save endangered pubs\n\nMr Sunak is reportedly planning to increase corporation tax to as much as 25%, from the current 19%, to reduce pressure on public finances.\n\nSome Conservative MPs, including former Brexit Secretary David Davis, say this would impede recovery and are warning they will resist this or any similar moves.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Lord Hague wrote in the Daily Telegraph that, after 12 months of heavy public borrowing to pay for furlough and other schemes, \"at least some business and personal taxes\" would have to rise.\n\nFor Labour, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said now was \"not the time\" for tax rises, but has signalled the opposition could support an increase in corporation tax in the future.\n\nShe has said the planned council tax rise of up to 5% in England in April should not go ahead at a time \"when people are losing jobs\".", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nIrish amateur jockey Rob James says he is \"heartbroken\" at the \"damage\" he has caused after being filmed climbing on to the back of a dead horse.\n\nA video on social media shows James mount the animal at a gallops while some present can be heard laughing.\n\nThe Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board said it was aware of the video and the matter was under investigation.\n\n\"I would just like to apologise for my actions which were wholly inappropriate and disrespectful,\" said James.\n\nSpeaking to the Irish Field, James added: \"I sincerely apologise to the owners of the mare, the staff who cared for her, the horseracing industry and all followers of horse racing for my actions.\n\n\"To try defending my stupidity at the time would add further insult and hurt to the many loyal people that have supported me during my career. I have caused embarrassment to my employers, my family and most importantly the sport I love.\n\n\"I am heartbroken by the damage I have caused and will do my best to try and make amends to those hurt by my conduct.\"\n\nJames, who rode Milan Native to victory at the Cheltenham Festival last year, said the mare in the video died after suffering a cardiac arrest on a gallops in April 2016.\n\nHis apology comes a day after Irish trainer Gordon Elliott was temporarily banned from racing in Britain after being pictured sitting on a dead horse.\n\nElliott, 43, apologised for a photograph circulating of him sitting on a dead horse and was later temporarily banned by the British Horseracing Authority, pending the outcome of an IHRB investigation.\n\nThe IHRB board will meet on 5 March to hear evidence.\n\nElliott said the image was captured \"some time ago\" and was a \"moment of madness that I am going to have to spend the rest of my life paying for\".\n\nThere has been widespread criticism from within racing of Elliott, who has saddled the winner of the Grand National three times.\n\nOn Tuesday, Cheveley Park Stud told BBC Sport's Laura Scott they will move their eight horses from Elliott's base and house them with Irish trainers Henry de Bromhead and Willie Mullins.\n\nLeading Cheltenham Festival contender Envoi Allen moves to the De Bromhead team, along with Ballyadam, Malone Road, Quilixios and Guily Billy.\n\nMullins will take charge of Sir Gerhard, Grangeclare West and Classic Getaway.\n\nElliott's yard sponsor, eCOMM Merchant Solutions, has also terminated its sponsorship contract with him.\n• None From O.J. Simpson to the LA riots: How the helicopter changed the news\n• None Office drone Brian is transported to a strange new world...", "Up to 40,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine could be administered every week at the SSE Arena mass vaccination centre.\n\nThe centre in Belfast is planned to open on 29 March, according to the director of the South Eastern Trust's vaccination programme.\n\nRoisin Coulter said these numbers will increase by May.\n\nMs Coulter said it was expected that everyone in NI will have been offered a first dose by mid-summer.\n\nLast week, Health Minister Robin Swann announced the arena would be used as a mass vaccination site for NI's adult population, with the expectation it would open in April for people aged 60 and under.\n\nRegional centres and GP clinics will still offer vaccines.\n\nSince April 2020, the SSE Arena car park has also been used as a mass testing facility.\n\n\"We're confident that we can open the SSE Arena on the 29th of March,\" Ms Coulter told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster on Tuesday.\n\nMs Coulter currently operates 18 vaccination stations at the Ulster Hospital, but said the SSE Arena move \"will enable us to go up to 60 stations\".\n\nThe plan is for this to operate seven days a week, between 12-14 hours a day.\n\n\"We will be able to administer up to 40,000 doses of the vaccine every week,\" Ms Coulter continued.\n\n\"We will staff it in a twin track approach, from all of our existing experienced vaccinators and support teams from the South-Eastern Trust and then we are already working actively to try and draw in as many people as possible from the health and social care public workforce appeal.\"\n\nRoisin Coulter said anyone in NI can book appointments when the SSE Arena vaccine centre opens\n\nPeople who received a first dose of the vaccine at the Ulster Hospital should return there for a second dose, she added.\n\nFrom mid-May the plan is for the service to fully move to the SSE Arena where it is hoped \"we will really push the numbers up\".\n\n\"All our vaccination slots are full in the Ulster Hospital vaccination centre and we're doing 1,200 a day, so going by that I would expect the level of interest to be constant and to fill the available slots.\"\n\nPeople will be able to book their vaccine online and since Monday the programme has been extended to 60 to 64 year olds.\n\n\"You don't have to come from Belfast, in fact anyone in Northern Ireland at the minute can book onto any of the centres across the province,\" Ms Coulter added.", "The freed schoolgirls were taken to a government building in Zamfara state in a fleet of minibuses\n\nGirls among the nearly 300 who were kidnapped from a school in north-western Nigeria have been describing their ordeal following their release.\n\n\"Most of us got injured,\" one of the schoolgirls told the BBC, adding that gunmen threatened to shoot them.\n\nThe girls were abducted by unidentified assailants from their boarding school in Jangebe, Zamfara state, on Friday and taken to a forest, police said.\n\nThe state's governor said on Tuesday that the 279 girls had been freed.\n\nSuch kidnappings are carried out for ransom and are common in the north of the country.\n\nOn Tuesday, dozens of the girls were seen gathered at a government building in Zamfara after they were taken there in a fleet of mini-buses.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one of the schoolgirls said that some of those kidnapped had found it difficult to continue walking when instructed to do so by the gunmen because of their injuries.\n\n\"They said they [would] shoot anybody who did not continue to walk,\" she said. \"We walked across a river and they hid us and let us sleep under shrubs in a forest.\"\n\nAnother of the girls, aged 15, said that some of her classmates found it difficult \"walking in the stones and thorns\" and had to be carried.\n\n\"They started hitting us with guns so that we [would] move,\" she told Reuters news agency, adding: \"While they were beating them with guns, some of them were crying and moving at the same time.\"\n\nThe girls were reportedly made to walk a long distance into the forest after their kidnapping\n\nSome of the fathers who had arrived to see their daughters for the first time since their abduction told reporters they were \"very happy\" at the news of their release.\n\nThe group's release was secured through negotiations between government officials and the abductors, authorities in Zamfara state told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It is like I was born just now\" - hear from the fathers of three of the released girls\n\nLocal authorities said that an earlier figure provided by police of 317 for the number of girls kidnapped was not accurate.\n\nOne official told Reuters that the discrepancy was because of the fact that some girls had fled shortly after being abducted.\n\nNigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said he felt \"overwhelming joy\" at the news of the girls' release. \"[I am] pleased that their ordeal has come to a happy end without any incident,\" he said.\n\nThe governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, tweeted that it \"gladdens my heart to announce the release of the abducted students\".\n\n\"This follows the scaling of several hurdles laid against our efforts,\" he added. \"I enjoin all well-meaning Nigerians to rejoice with us as our daughters are now safe.\"\n\nMr Matawalle has denied paying for the girls to be released, but last week President Buhari admitted state governments had paid kidnappers \"with money and vehicles\" in the past and urged them to review the policy.\n\nIt is believed that schools have started to be targeted as such abductions attract a lot of attention - putting more pressure on the authorities to negotiate with the armed criminal group responsible.\n\nThe authorities rarely admit to paying ransoms - but some observers say it is unlikely that the gunmen would release their victims without some sort of exchange, either of money or the release of their members who are in jail.\n\nBesides, kidnapping for ransom is a widespread criminal enterprise across the country - people are seized by gunmen on almost a daily basis - with both the rich and the poor falling victims. Security personnel have been held too. People often speak of how they have managed to secure someone's release by raising funds from friends and relatives - or even selling their assets.\n\nBut ransom payments are controversial. It may save someone's life, yet some observers say paying ransom only fuels the problem. President Buhari agrees, saying today ''ransom payments will continue to prosper kidnapping''.\n\nHe has repeatedly said his government will not negotiate with the armed criminal gangs. But many believe the failure of his administration and those at the state level to provide security is to blame. There are growing calls for the authorities to provide security for thousands of schools across the country - many of which are unfenced and do not have adequate security guards.\n\nThe 2014 kidnap of 276 schoolgirls in the north-eastern town of Chibok by Islamist militants Boko Haram brought global attention to the scourge of raids on schools in Nigeria, but a surge in recent attacks is suspected to be the work of criminal gangs.\n\nThe raid in Zamfara state was the region's second kidnapping in recent weeks. Some 27 students were kidnapped from a boarding school in Kagara in the north-central state of Niger last month before they were released on 17 February.\n\nNo group has said they were behind the Zamfara kidnappings.\n\nArmed groups operating in the state often kidnap for ransom but when gunmen took more than 300 boys from Kankara in neighbouring Katsina state in December last year, some reports said Boko Haram, which operates hundreds of miles away in the north-east, was behind the attack.\n\nThe reports were later disputed and the boys released after negotiations.", "Willie Rennie says: \"The three weekly review has changed to a weekly review.\"\n\nThe Scottish LIb Dem leader says there is no guidance ready for schools and teachers have been left to clear up this issue and make it work.\n\nMr Rennie points out teachers are exhausted and asks with two thirds of a class at home, how will they juggle the additional workload.\n\nThe first minister insists the government has always said the timetable would be accelerated if the data allowed.\n\nMs Sturgeon points out the data is slightly more promising than last week, which allows the assessment of doing more things earlier than anticipated.\n\nShe says she has huge gratitude for what teachers have done in the last year and she says we owe them a huge amount.\n\nMs Sturgeon insists the government must be able to take decisions as quickly as it can.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Action is needed \"to see the building come back into use\"\n\nThe future of a north Wales mansion, dubbed the Welsh Versailles, is at risk if more is not done to preserve it, campaigners have warned.\n\nKinmel Hall, near Abergele, Conwy, was built in the 1870s, and is believed to be Wales' largest country home.\n\nThe Friends of Kinmel Hall said enforcement was needed to stop the now-empty building becoming derelict.\n\nConwy council said owner, Acer Properties Ltd BVI's, has pledged to spend money on the repairs.\n\nThe council said the pledge made by Acer Properties, which has owned the Grade I listed hall for the past 10 years, means it did not think enforcement action was needed at this time.\n\nThe French chateau-style building has not been occupied since the turn of the century.\n\nThe building has been empty for years but Conwy Council says it has \"regular discussions\" with the owners about repairs\n\nTim Vince, of The Friends of Kinmel Hall, said: \"Any building that is left effectively unoccupied for 20 years without any life within, without any heating, will deteriorate.\n\n\"There has been vandalism. Some of the lead has been taken from the roof, some of the treasures have been taken from within. It's a very sad story.\"\n\nKinmel Hall was built by the Hughes family, whose wealth was generated from copper mining on Anglesey.\n\nThey only occupied the house, which also boasted a stunning garden designed by the same designer who laid out London's Regent's Park, for a couple of generations.\n\nThe building was then leased out and used for a variety of different purposes through much of the 20th Century and was home to Clarendon Girls' School for about 30 years.\n\nThat ended when a fire swept through much of Kinmel Hall in 1975.\n\nTim Vince said a \"detailed plan\" was needed to save the building\n\nMr Vince's father Eddie stepped in, spending £2m of his own money in the 1980s helping to restore the site with the help of public money.\n\n\"He made a great commitment to the hall and there were many volunteers from the local area who helped with the restoration,\" said Mr Vince.\n\n\"It also received about £500,000 from the Historic Buildings Council of Wales, which became CADW, so there's quite a stake from Wales into this wonderful building.\"\n\nHaving risen from the ashes, The Friends of Kinmel Hall argue a detailed plan of action is now needed if it is not going to fall into a permanent state of decline and disrepair.\n\nThe group estimates about £1m needs to be spent just to make the building secure and it may take £30m to restore it to the point where it can have a use that helps meet the ongoing maintenance costs.\n\nThe Friends of Kinmel Hall said some public money would probably be needed as part of a partnership approach involving the current owners, the council, support groups and national government to safeguard its future.\n\nIt has not been possible to contact Acer Properties, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, but the council has the role of enforcing rules aimed at protecting listed buildings.\n\nA fire in 1975 caused a great deal of damage to the building\n\nIt said: \"We are in regular discussions with the owners and they are in the process of making arrangements to carry out repairs.\n\n\"At the moment, the owners are taking positive steps and are in the process of making arrangements to carry out repairs to the property and although the matter is under review we do not consider that enforcement action is necessary at this present time. \"\n\nThe condition of Kinmel Hall has attracted the attention of a range of conservation experts who also believe action is needed to save the site.\n\nAmong them is Peter Hare who has worked on a number of conservation and restoration projects, including Windsor Castle following the fire there in 1994.\n\n\"It's now listed as one of the 10 most at-risk Victorian buildings in the the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"The price of fixing it is constantly going up. The longer it's left, the more the fabric is being destroyed and the less we've really got left of it. And it's awful.\"", "Nearly a year after Sir Keir Starmer became Labour leader, he is being accused of not listening to grassroots activists and not being strident enough in opposition.\n\nThe focus of the discontent is his reluctance to call for an increase in corporation tax amidst the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThose on the party's left are now publicly critical, but some current shadow ministers are privately worrying whether the party's positioning on the issue is right.\n\nIan Lavery and Jon Trickett were shadow ministers under Jeremy Corbyn. They share Sir Keir's call for any council tax increases to be scrapped.\n\nBut in a document to be published on Tuesday morning, they argue that corporation tax hits the profits of big businesses, rather than hard-pressed families.\n\nAnd in a pre-Budget speech on Monday, another former shadow cabinet member, Richard Burgon, declared that unless Labour is bolder, it could be outflanked on business taxes by the Conservatives.\n\nNow one thing that unites all three former shadow ministers was their dismissal from the frontbench when Sir Keir assumed the leadership.\n\nThe left of the party have been increasingly critical of Sir Keir - especially over the suspension of former leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut they are now becoming more vocal on policy and positioning rather than personalities.\n\nThere are now concerns that as the country emerges from the pandemic, some of the radical policies on which Sir Keir was elected by his membership - including increasing taxes on the better off - will be diluted.\n\nSome of those who know the Labour leader well suggest that these concerns are misplaced.\n\nThe shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, has signalled that Labour is open to increasing taxes on business in future.\n\nMore immediately, the relatively new Labour leadership want to prove their pro-business credentials and to give a clear, unmuddied message that securing the recovery is the party's priority.\n\nMr Lavery and Mr Trickett say they have consulted more than 1,000 activists and are giving the grassroots a voice.\n\nSupport for wealth taxes runs strong amongst Labour supporters, they say, and the leadership needs to hear those views rather than make policy behind closed doors.\n\nBut supporters of Sir Keir are sceptical that a sample of opinion selected by his critics is representative of the views of the wider membership.\n\nOn Tuesday, Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw tweeted that Labour MPs had supported Sir Keir's stance at a meeting of the parliamentary party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt Wednesday's budget, Sir Keir will set out his dividing lines with Rishi Sunak, when he responds to the chancellor in the House of Commons.\n\nBut he will know his own party is not completely united behind his approach.", "When Matthew Legg deferred his university studies because of depression, a phone call with his cousin Ian McKenzie helped to change his life.\n\nInspired by the power of football to engage people emotionally, the two cousins founded FC Not Alone, one of the world's first mental health football clubs.\n\nTheir journey so far has taken them from five-a-side tournaments to meeting royalty at Wembley, all part of their mission to get more men talking about their mental health through football.\n\nAs Legg, 23, looks back on his most difficult days, he remembers how \"there were times when I thought I was near giving up in my fight to recover\".\n\nThis is not uncommon for young men. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Every week, 125 people in the UK take their own lives, 75% of whom are male.\n\nReflecting on his state of mind during that period in 2017, Matthew says football and friendship were the things that made him feel better.\n\n\"The depression was taking over every part of my psyche and life, and there were constant problems to tackle,\" he said.\n\n\"Football was massive. I had stopped playing out of shame, lack of energy and embarrassment.\n\n\"But I did play with Ian, and it showed that all was not lost. Each time I played, I gained a glimmer of hope that I could tackle this problem, and I began to enjoy it again.\n\n\"These small glimpses of enjoyment, something that had left my life for so long, were so important to inspire me to keep fighting and try to beat my depression and gave me belief that I could do so.\"\n\nFootball has a growing role to play in opening up the discussion around men's mental health, according to McKenzie, co-founder of the club.\n\n\"Football is the biggest conversational topic among men in the UK and in many countries over the world, and it is used as escapism,\" said McKenzie, 28.\n\n\"When it comes to a match day - playing or watching - you will see men being the most emotional beings they probably ever are in their life. This shows us that men are capable of having emotional connections and conversations on a daily basis.\"\n\n'Using football to show everyone has struggles'\n\nDespite awareness of these issues being raised within football - helped by the Football Association's Heads Up campaign - there is still a long way to go to normalise discussion and action around men's mental health.\n\n\"That's where we hope to help, using football to show that everyone has struggles and if you are feeling isolated, here are other people who have felt the same,\" said McKenzie.\n\n\"Thankfully, football was the turning point for Matt. Getting back out and playing matches around London with the Footy Addicts community helped him immensely.\"\n\nThe cousins were inspired by a campaign from the mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) and set out to raise funds and awareness through the game.\n\n\"Being huge football fans and with the 2018 World Cup around the corner, Matthew and I set up the team in April 2018, and then decided we would throw our own Mental Health World Cup in support of the charity,\" added McKenzie.\n\n\"It was a 36-team, one-day tournament, and it went better than we could have expected. Rhian Brewster [the emerging Liverpool striker now at Sheffield United] turned up and his team won. Things just took off from there.\"\n\n'We are a club everyone can support'\n\nDespite being impressed by the good work of leagues, teams and players around mental health, McKenzie and Legg felt there was room for a club dedicated solely to the issue.\n\nBased in north west London, FC Not Alone compete in an amateur 11-a-side league against local teams. Games are held on weeknights, and balanced alongside the professional lives of their players and managers. The squad is a combination of old and new friends, and some scouted local talent, who have come together to play and support the cause.\n\n\"Mental health was not a topic I was really aware of beforehand,\" said Danny Taeidy, who joined the squad last season.\n\n\"Just being involved in this team has helped me understand a little more about it, and importantly the little things we can all do to help people around us.\n\n\"Yes we are playing in a local league, but this feels much bigger than just the 11-a-side team. There is a lot more that we can achieve.\"\n\nMcKenzie added: \"What we want a 'mental health football club' to be is a platform where we create friendly footballing scenarios for people from all walks of life to enjoy, and we continue to facilitate stories surrounding mental health.\n\n\"Fundamentally, it is about becoming a useful resource for people struggling with their own mental wellbeing. We do have a dream to go far in the football pyramid, but our core value is to promote positive men's mental health.\"\n\n'At Wembley with Prince William… I never thought life would take us there'\n\nSince launching, FC Not Alone have designed and launched their first kit, set up their 11-a-side team and hosted panel discussions and events on football and mental health. Along the way, they have rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in British football.\n\n\"One of the highlights for us was being part of the FA's Heads Up campaign, where many celebrities, footballers and role models spoke openly about their experience,\" McKenzie said.\n\n\"My cousin and I had the honour of meeting the Duke Of Cambridge in the dressing rooms at Wembley, and Gareth Southgate at Abbey Stadium in Cambridge.\n\n\"To see how quickly Matthew's fortunes had turned in the space of the year was a nice feeling. I never would have thought when I first reached out to speak to him during his struggles that life would take us there. That was a great moment and has inspired us to keep going.\"\n\nWith mental health firmly in the public eye, in part because of the impact of coronavirus, a lot has changed since FC Not Alone was formed.\n\n\"Over the past few years since we've been active, the awareness has definitely increased,\" McKenzie said.\n\n\"There have been many pivotal figures who have been part of the conversation. Danny Rose, Tyson Fury, Raheem Sterling [speaking about racism and how it has affected him] have all paved the way.\n\n\"I'd like to see the big clubs continue to invest in initiatives for their players and fans but personally our focus is on facilitating more football than ever once the virus allows, so people from all walks of life can continue to enjoy the beautiful game together.\n\n\"Now more than ever I think people need to be entertained, they need something to do, they need a laugh and they need their friends.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by any issues raised in this article, support and information is available at BBC Action Line. You can also contact the Samaritans on a free helpline 116 123, or visit the website.\n• None Fast-living, expensive exploits and fallouts await in this hit new drama\n• None The former president on his cautious optimism for the future and more", "The controlled explosion of a World War Two bomb in Exeter has left a crater in the ground and properties with \"structural damage\".\n\nThe 2,200lb (1,000kg) German bomb was blown up on Saturday after thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.\n\nDoors and windows of nearby properties were blown out of their frames, while further damage was done to roofs as debris was fired more than 250m (820ft) through the air.\n\nAll residents were allowed to go back to their homes on Tuesday but some of the properties were \"uninhabitable\" according to Exeter City Council.", "Alex Salmond was awarded £500,000 in legal costs after the government conceded its investigation of him had been unlawful\n\nScottish government lawyers had \"reservations\" about its court battle with Alex Salmond more than two months before it conceded the case.\n\nThe judicial review was examining whether the government's handling of harassment complaints against the former first minister was legal.\n\nMr Salmond has said the government was told in October 2018 that it was likely to lose the case.\n\nBut it did not admit it had acted unlawfully until January 2019.\n\nThe government ultimately had to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000 on top of its own costs.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney has now admitted that concerns were raised ahead of the government admitting defeat.\n\nBut he insisted there were \"good public policy arguments and reasonable grounds\" to continue contesting the case for a further two months.\n\nThere have been claims that continuing to contest the case after being given legal advice that it was unlikely to succeed would be a waste of public money and potentially a breach of the ministerial code.\n\nThe government is to release key papers - including external legal advice - to the Holyrood inquiry committee that is investigating the saga, with Mr Swinney saying the unusual move was to \"counter false claims being made by some\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said they would press ahead with a vote of no confidence in the deputy first minister, saying he was \"releasing only the evidence he wants us to see\".\n\nThere has been a long-running row over the legal advice given to the Scottish government after Mr Salmond launched judicial review proceedings in 2018 over the way internal harassment complaints against him had been investigated.\n\nThe government admitted in January 2019 that its approach had been unlawful, because its investigating officer had had prior contact with the two complainers - in breach of a newly-designed procedure.\n\nMr Salmond had claimed that ministers were given legal advice on 31 October 2018 which \"indicated that on the balance of probability, the government was going to lose the judicial review\".\n\nHe said that \"if the case was continued in the knowledge of the first minister against that legal advice, that would be a breach of the ministerial code\".\n\nThe Holyrood committee investigating the government's botched handling of the complaints has been pushing to see the full legal advice for some time, and MSPs have twice voted to say it should be handed over.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Swinney confirmed that key papers would be handed over - after it became clear that all opposition parties were set to back a motion of no confidence in his position.\n\nJohn Swinney may still be facing a vote of no confidence\n\nHe confirmed that concerns had been raised about the issue which ultimately collapsed the government's case, but insisted there were other reasons to fight on.\n\nThe committee has previously been shown a memo summarising legal advice, which said external counsel had threatened to resign on 28 December 2018 and that Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans was told the next day that \"the only sensible and defensible position is to concede the petition\".\n\nIn a letter to the committee published on Tuesday, Mr Swinney said: \"The documents confirm that, whilst reservations were raised about the judicial review following the identification of the issue of prior contact with the complainers in late October, there were good public policy arguments and reasonable grounds for the government to continue to defend the judicial review and to seek a determination from the court on the matters raised, until the events of late December 2018.\"\n\nMr Swinney also told the committee that the documents being released should be with them by Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHowever the Scottish Conservatives said they would not be withdrawing their motion of no confidence until the committee was satisfied that all of the advice had been handed over.\n\nLeader Douglas Ross said: \"Recklessly continuing with the judicial review when it was doomed would clearly be a breach of the ministerial code. The public deserve to know exactly what mistakes were made.\n\n\"John Swinney is not getting away with releasing only the evidence he wants us to see. We will press ahead with the vote of no confidence until all the legal advice is published.\"\n\nIn his letter, the deputy first minister said that the release of the material meant \"the Scottish government will have responded to all of the committee's requests for specific documents within our legal and other obligations\".\n\nHe said he hoped that it would \"assist the committee in fulfilling its remit and address some of the allegations that have been raised, without evidence, in the past few days\".\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe has given evidence to the inquiry on several occasions\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Lord Advocate James Wolffe - the government's top legal advisor and head of the prosecution service - mounted a defence of the role of the Crown Office in the various rows over Mr Salmond's submissions.\n\nMr Wolffe told the inquiry committee that \"any suggestion from any quarter\" that the prosecution service had not acted independently \"would be wholly without foundation\".\n\nHe said the parliament had been \"right\" to redact one of Mr Salmond's written statements after the Crown Office raised concerns that \"certain parts of the submission were liable to be a breach of a court order\".\n\nHe added: \"Mr Salmond has stated that the Crown has tied his hands in respect of the use of information that he holds - it is the law, not the Crown, that stays his hands\".\n\nThe Lord Advocate also denied that there was a conflict between his post combining the roles of government minister and independent prosecutor, saying: \"My fundamental responsibility is to the rule of law and the administration of justice - that fundamental principle underpins all of the functions I have.\"", "Bankhouse, an assisted living facility, was designed by renowned architect Norman Foster\n\nWhat is described as the UK's first retirement community celebrating LGBT+ people is set to open.\n\nThe 19 flats at Bankhouse in Vauxhall, central London, will be available on a shared-ownership basis, with residents expected to move in by mid-summer.\n\nThe apartments were bought by Tonic Housing with a £5.7m loan from the mayor of London.\n\nSadiq Khan said: \"Londoners deserve to enjoy their later years surrounded by a supportive community.\"\n\nTonic Housing hopes Bankhouse will be the \"first of many LGBT-friendly retirement communities\" to open in the UK\n\nThere has been growing interest in retirement homes aimed specifically at LGBT+ communities. A recent national survey found as people grew older and were in care homes, some felt they could not be open about being LGBT, and felt scared.\n\nThe one and two-bedroom flats which overlook the River Thames are in an existing development run by One Housing. It provides assisted living for elderly residents, with a restaurant, bar, floating garden and roof terrace.\n\nTonic Housing's CEO Anna Kear said the additional services offered would be \"genuinely aimed at the needs and desires of LGBT+ people\".\n\nShe added: \"The existing residents are already a diverse bunch, requesting casino nights and a drag show. They are looking forward to new ones moving in.\"\n\nPrices are expected to reach £135,000 for a one-bedroom flat with a 25% ownership share, and £180,000 for a two-bedroom flat.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James Wolffe is the current holder of the post of Lord Advocate\n\nThe role of the Lord Advocate of Scotland has been brought into the spotlight as the Scottish Parliament continues its investigation into the mishandling of complaints against Alex Salmond. Who holds the post and what does he do?\n\nControversy over the professional double life led by whoever holds the position of Scotland's Lord Advocate is nothing new.\n\nTheir responsibility for prosecuting crime is said to have been enshrined in an act of parliament in 1587, the year Mary Queen of Scots had her head chopped off.\n\nMore than four centuries later, the incumbent performs a dual role as head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and as a minister in the Scottish government and its principal legal advisor.\n\nHe or she is appointed by the Queen on recommendation of the first minister, with the support of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe wearing of two hats - one non-political and independent, the other at the heart of government - was the subject of criticism when the Scottish Parliament came into being in 1999.\n\nIn 2007 the then first minister, Alex Salmond, decided to depoliticise the job by reducing the number of occasions when the Lord Advocate would attend Cabinet meetings.\n\nIn 2018, the Scottish Conservatives raised concerns that that policy had fallen away, with the current Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC attending a majority of those meetings. The Scottish government said his attendance reflected how many legal issues were coming before the Cabinet.\n\nNow an almighty row has broken out over the Crown's intervention in the affair that is rocking Scottish politics.\n\nA Holyrood committee is trying to investigate the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament Corporate Body chose to publish Mr Salmond's submission on whether his successor Nicola Sturgeon had breached the Ministerial Code.\n\nThe Crown then raised \"grave concerns\" about its publication, in the belief that some of its contents could amount to a contempt of court.\n\nThe move appeared to raise the mind-bending prospect of Scotland's prosecution service dragging the Scottish Parliament in front of three judges in Scotland's High Court. Organisations found guilty of contempt face an unlimited fine and individuals can be jailed for up to two years.\n\nHolyrood's corporate body withdrew the document and published a redacted version, prompting a furious response from opposition parties, and Mr Salmond.\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\nIn response, Mr Wolffe has repeated his position that he has had no personal involvement in decisions involving the former first minister. He stressed the independence of senior Crown Office lawyers who are taking these decisions and even felt the need to tell MSPs he has no party political affiliations.\n\nMr Wolffe said the Crown's \"sole interest\" had been securing compliance with the contempt of court order laid down in the High Court and designed to protect the anonymity of the women involved in the case.\n\nThis is the second of two storms currently facing the Crown Office.\n\nDespite its daily work in securing convictions in the courts, its reputation has been battered by the failed prosecution of individuals linked to Rangers FC and the payment of tens of millions of pounds in damages. At some point in the future, that will be the subject of another inquiry.\n\nAs for the Lord Advocate, if Scottish politicians believe his dual role should come to an end, they'll have the opportunity to put that to voters at the next general election.", "Secondary pupils will be asked to take a rapid test twice a week when they return to the classroom\n\nRegular testing of secondary pupils will be a \"game-changer\" in giving confidence that schools are safe, a government science adviser has said.\n\nProf Calum Semple told the BBC better ventilation and face masks would also contribute to a safe reopening in England from 8 March.\n\nRates of infection in schools had been \"quite low\", he said.\n\nBut a school leaders' union warned the testing demands may mean a staggered return for many.\n\nSecondary pupils in England will be asked to take a rapid lateral flow test twice a week to help identify anyone who might be infectious.\n\nPupils are required to be given three initial tests at school or college before moving to home testing. There is no testing planned for primary school pupils.\n\nProf Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told BBC Breakfast: \"The good news is we're finding quite low rates of active infection within the schools.\"\n\nHe said 1.2% of secondary students and 1.6% of teachers had tested positive, quoting a survey published on Monday by the Office for National Statistics. The ONS tested about 12,000 pupils and teachers in early December.\n\nIn some areas, only 0.4% of the tests came back positive, Prof Semple said.\n\nThe introduction of regular testing would be \"a game-changer, it is giving confidence that schools are safe,\" he said.\n\nProf Semple said there was \"more and more evidence that children are not the primary drivers of transmission within the community\" unlike with flu.\n\nAntibody tests which showed who had been infected in the past suggested that primary school pupils were about half as likely to have had the virus as teachers, while secondary school students were about two-thirds as likely, he said.\n\n\"I think we're now at the stage where we can open the schools with extra measures: improved ventilation is going to be so important, face masks will help, and the lateral flow tests to identify the most infectious children,\" the professor said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does Covid testing in schools look like?\n\nProf Semple said that a detailed examination into how teachers caught the virus suggested that they were more likely to be infected by another adult in the staffroom than by a pupil in class.\n\n\"It's the interaction with other adults which poses the greater risk. Like doctors and nurses, they have to be just as careful in the coffee room and canteen as they are in the workplace environment of the classroom,\" he said.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told the BBC that the testing regime would \"inevitably\" mean a staggered start for secondary school pupils.\n\n\"Those young people won't be able to go into their classroom until the first of those tests has been done,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would depend on how much space each school has to conduct the initial tests, but suggested that the week of 8 March would be a \"transitional week\" for many, with a more normal level of attendance from 15 March.\n\nAnnouncing the testing regime last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would offer \"even greater reassurance\", although he said the evidence showed \"schools are safe and the risk posed to children by Covid is vanishingly small\".\n\nReopening schools has been the government's first priority as it eases England's lockdown.\n\nDowning Street said regular testing will be voluntary and kits to perform the tests at home will be available within the first couple of weeks.\n\nSecondary pupils will also be asked to wear masks in classes, as well as in corridors and communal spaces as before, the prime minister's official spokesman said. He added that the issue will be reviewed after Easter.\n\nProf Semple said that the experience so far is that after undergoing tests a couple of times under supervision, children \"get used to\" the swabs - which go in the nose or the back of the throat.\n\nHe suggested the tests were also giving pupils an example of science in action.\n\n\"Perhaps we're generating a new generation of scientists in the process,\" he said.", "BBC Three is set to return as a TV channel\n\nBBC Three will return as a fully-fledged TV channel in January 2022, six years after it moved online.\n\nThe channel has since been responsible for major hits including Fleabag, Normal People and Killing Eve - prompting calls for its resurrection.\n\nLast year, BBC research concluded there was a \"strong case\" for it to come back as a regular TV channel, focusing on younger audiences.\n\nMP Julian Knight said the move showed the BBC had \"failed\" those viewers.\n\n\"I question whether putting the clock back five years is the right way to win over 18-35s,\" said Mr Knight, who chairs the select committee for the department for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS).\n\n\"The BBC needs to back success and make sure its programmes reach as many young people as possible wherever they live in the UK,\" said the BBC's chief content officer, Charlotte Moore.\n\n\"So regardless of the debates about the past, we want to give BBC Three its own broadcast channel again.\"\n\nAs announced in the BBC's Annual Plan last year, the channel's budget will also be doubled over the next two years - a decision that was also criticised by Mr Knight, who accused the BBC of putting extra investment into programmes while \"those over 75 are being chased to pay up for their TV licences\".\n\nThe BBC ended the provision of free TV licences for most over-75s last year, after the government decided to stop paying for the benefit.\n\nRuPaul's Drag Race UK, currently in its second season, has proved a runaway success\n\nWhen it returns, BBC Three will be targeted at audiences aged 16-34, broadcasting from 19:00 to 04:00 each day.\n\nAs a result, CBBC's broadcast hours will revert to closing at 19:00 - as was the case before 2016. It currently runs until 21:00.\n\nThe move will still need approval from media regulator Ofcom before it can go ahead.\n\nSeven years ago the BBC announced that BBC Three would become digital only. The main reason given was the need to save money. The public narrative was: Young audiences congregate online rather than watch linear TV, so there's no point providing a linear service.\n\nSince then, three things have happened. The flight of young audiences to digital platforms, and away from scheduled TV, has accelerated. BBC Three has produced a big range of huge, global hits. And the pressure on the BBC, not least from Ofcom, to prove that it still appeals to young people has grown sharply.\n\nThis last point is critical. The BBC commissioned research showing that there is still a market of young people - albeit smaller than years ago - on linear platforms. Given the success of the shows commissioned by BBC Three, the feeling at the top of the organisation was that putting them back on a linear platform would create upside in terms of audience numbers, for relatively low cost.\n\nDespite the need for more savings today, that cost can be justified because when the BBC negotiates with the government over the future of the licence fee, it needs the strongest possible argument on its relevance and universal appeal.\n\nBBC Three was originally taken off air in March 2016. The corporation said the move would save £30m a year, helping it to reduce its spending after cuts imposed by the government in 2010.\n\nMuch of the budget was reallocated to fund drama on BBC One, while BBC Three was expected to target younger audiences online.\n\nBut the plans caused controversy, prompting the Save BBC Three campaign which saw more than 300,000 people sign a petition to keep it on air.\n\nJournalist and founder of the campaign Jono Read said the channel's return was \"great news\".\n\n\"It became clear that the decision to to take it off air was a counter-productive move that bosses had taken to sacrifice the station under the guise of budget cuts, and one that was deeply unpopular with its audience.\n\n\"Nonetheless the online move has shown real potential for BBC Three and I think it will thrive when it is once again given the chance to combine traditional and new media when it returns to TV in 2022\", he says.\n\nMany of BBC Three's commissions have ended up on linear TV, with shows like Killing Eve and Fleabag attracting huge audiences on BBC One.\n\nNormal People, about the tangled love lives of two Irish teenagers, also became the breakout hit of the first lockdown. It was requested on the BBC iPlayer 62.7 million times last year, more than any other programme.\n\nOther hit shows on the channel include Man Like Mobeen, This Country, Ru Paul's Drag Race UK and the Jesy Nelson documentary Odd One Out.\n\nIn its online incarnation, BBC Three has won a raft of awards, including RTS Channel of the Year in 2017 and Digital Channel of the Year 2019 at the Edinburgh TV Festival. It is currently Broadcast Digital Channel of the Year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kashmir, 64, and her eldest daughter Paramjeet, 43, both died in hospital from the virus\n\nA mother and her daughter died when 11 members of the same family caught Covid-19 after meeting on Christmas Day.\n\nKashmir Bains, 64, and Paramjeet, 43, of Wolverhampton, fell seriously ill after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe daughter died on 5 January, the day after she was taken to hospital, and her mother died four weeks later.\n\n\"It's been devastating for us as a family,\" said Indy Bains, their son and brother.\n\nMr Bains said the family considered not meeting at Christmas but decided to because his sister, who has learning disabilities, had been suffering in isolation with her mental health.\n\nThey gathered on Christmas Day, adhered to the government's three household rule and \"played safe\", only meeting for a few hours. Mr Bains and his family, and his younger sister and her family, met up with his mother, father and older sister.\n\nDays after Christmas, all 11 tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMr Bains said: \"We didn't meet anyone else beforehand, no-one had any symptoms, we still don't know who brought the virus into the family, into the house, but it's happened and it's something we'll have to live with for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nIndy Bains has started a fundraiser in memory of his mother and sister\n\nWhile most had mild symptoms, Mrs Bains and her daughter fell seriously ill.\n\n\"When the ambulances took them away, we just thought, 'Well they're in the right place, they'll get treatment,' we never thought once that they wouldn't return home,\" Mr Bains said.\n\nBoth mother and daughter spent time in intensive care at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\n\"Because of her [Paramjeet's] learning disability she didn't really understand what was happening to her, and I guess she thought that the mask was just obstructing the air flow rather than helping her and she kept pulling it off.\n\n\"We spent the last few hours pleading, begging her to keep it on, so that she could get the oxygen that she required... but she just couldn't do it, and kept pulling it off, it was heartbreaking for us to see.\"\n\nMr Bains has set up a JustGiving page in memory of his sister and mother to raise funds for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Charity. It has already raised more than £10,000.\n\nHe said the treatment his family received by hospital staff was \"humbling\".\n\n\"I think they [hospital staff] deserve all the respect and gratitude we can give them.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The statue was thrown into Bristol Harbour after being pulled down and rolled through the city's streets in June\n\nFour people have denied causing criminal damage to a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and will face trial in December.\n\nThe bronze figure of the slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest and thrown into Bristol Harbour on 7 June.\n\nThey were bailed and a trial is due to start on 13 December.\n\nMr Skuse, of Farley Close, Bristol; Ms Graham, of Colston Road, Bristol; Mr Ponsford, of Bishopstoke, Hampshire; and Mr Willoughby, of Gloucester Road, Bristol, were charged with causing criminal damage in December.\n\nA hearing will take place on 8 November for administrative purposes.\n\nFrom left to right: Mr Skuse, Ms Graham, Mr Ponsford and Mr Willoughby's trial is set to start on 13 December\n\nAfter being pulled down during the June rally, the statue was dumped in Bristol Harbour and recovered by Bristol City Council on 11 June.\n\nThe council said the statue, worth £3,750, would be preserved and placed in a museum, along with placards from Black Lives Matter protests.\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Colston Hall music venue was formally renamed the Bristol Beacon in September.\n\nSome venues bearing Colston's name have been changed\n\nAhead of the hearing, London-based law firm Hodge Jones & Allen, which is representing three of the four defendants, said it would fight the charges \"vigorously\".\n\n\"We are committed to defending them and their right to a fair trial in this important case. We ask that their privacy is respected,\" a statement said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The guest on this week's That Peter Crouch Podcast is none other than Prince William.\n\nAs president of the Football Association, the Duke of Cambridge has been keen to use his role to start conversations around mental health, including helping to rename the 2020 FA Cup final the Heads Up FA Cup final.\n\n\"We're hoping that renaming it is a big enough statement that the UK will show the world, and the football world in particular, that mental health really matters,\" William - making his first appearance on a podcast - tells Crouch.\n\nThe podcast team met William at Kensington Palace before lockdown - and even shared a curry - before a follow-up Zoom call this month.\n\nHere are the highlights:\n\nFootball is more important to him now he's a parent\n\nAsked if football is his \"release\", William replies: \"It is now. Since becoming a dad, without a doubt, football has become way more important than it used to be.\n\n\"I need to go and be amongst other guys and let out some steam, shout a bit,\" he explains, joking he stops short of abusing the referee. \"I'm the president of the FA and I can't do that!\"\n\nWilliam adds: \"It has become a lot more relevant to me and I need it. Talking about football helps a lot.\"\n\nLater in the podcast, he says: \"This period of time has allowed us to all revalue things. The thing about lockdown is that it has been a little bit of an awakening that we maybe take our lives a bit for granted sometimes and there's a lot of things out there that can wobble all of us at any time.\n\n\"I think particularly now, as a parent, it starts to make you look a bit more to the future at what kind of world we are going to hand over to the next generation. There's been a lot of time to think - and you can also have too much time to think, and that's also what worries me.\"\n\nHe is in the 'yes to crowd noise' camp\n\nWilliam says he really missed football during its hiatus.\n\n\"I was trying to pretend I didn't care too much it wasn't around,\" he says. \"But by the end of the third weekend, I was really missing it. It just goes with the weekend.\"\n\nAnd he's all for having crowd noise in empty stadiums.\n\n\"It's better than hearing the players puffing and swearing at each other,\" he says.\n\nWhat are among the things a royal worries about during lockdown? Home-schooling and keeping young kids entertained, apparently.\n\n\"I found it pretty testing, trying to keep the children engaged and interested in some sort of work,\" he says. \"It's been an interesting few months.\n\n\"I've learned my patience is a lot shorter than I thought it was! That's probably the biggest eye-opener for me, and my wife has super patience.\"\n\nHe goes on to admit he's struggled with year two maths. Comforting.\n\nHe chose Aston Villa because he didn't want to be a glory hunter\n\nPrince William is famously a Villa fan. He says he fell in love during his first trip to an FA Cup game - Villa against Bolton - when he was 11.\n\n\"I sat there among all the Villa fans and I loved it. I thought the atmosphere was great,\" he recalls.\n\nHe says at the time he \"desperately\" didn't want to support \"someone like Manchester United or Chelsea\" - like everyone else at school did.\n\nHe was also attracted to Villa's proud history - William was born in 1982, when they, as English champions, won the European Cup.\n\n\"I felt a real connection with the club,\" he says. \"I felt Villa was a very proud Midlands club and it felt very special.\n\n\"Only in the last few years have I got a grip of Villa as my real team and I watch them a lot and I get into the stats.\"\n\nAfter being put on the spot, William says he's the only person in his team who wears shin pads.\n\n\"In school, I basically got targeted the whole time,\" says William, who says he usually plays at right-back.\n\nApparently, aged 15, he once asked a police officer with him to use a laser pen and 'red dot' one of the opposition players.\n\n\"I kept saying to him, 'see, he's following you',\" William laughed: \"It put him off for about 10 minutes!\"\n\nHe wants Grealish in the England squad\n\nWhen Crouch and the team ask William if - in his role as president of the FA - he might get rid of Gareth Southgate were England to have a bad run of games, he concedes that \"that might be a bit difficult!\".\n\n\"Gareth is a legend, I really like Gareth and I think he's doing a great job with the England team,\" he says.\n\n\"That's not to say that conversations haven't been had where I give him a little nudge and say: 'Why isn't Grealish in the England squad?'\" he jokes.\n\nHe doesn't play Football Manager because he thinks he'd get too addicted\n\n\"That would be the end of my life - you'd never see me on a balcony again,\" he says. \"I'd be locked in.\"\n\nHe met Ian Holloway on a stag do\n\nWilliam tells a great story about watching Blackpool, then managed by Ian Holloway, on a stag do with friends from the Royal Air Force.\n\nApparently the manager came to meet the group at half-time, which William says surprised him - given he should probably have been delivering his team talk at that point.\n\n\"He was just like, 'there's no point doing a team talk, they're not listening anyway',\" William says.\n\nHe bought binoculars as a present for Kate\n\nWhen the team talked about bad presents they had given their wives, William admitted he once bought the Duchess of Cambridge a pair binoculars, despite her not being a keen birdwatcher.\n\n\"That was early on in the courtship. I think that sealed the deal,\" he jokes.\n\n\"I even tried convincing myself by saying: 'These are amazing, look how far you can see.'\"\n\nAsked about Kate's reaction to the gift, he said: \"Kate opened them and said: 'But they're binoculars, what's going on?''\"\n\nHe's not allowed to tweet from the official @KensingtonRoyal account\n\n\"They deliberately keep me away from that. When Liverpool won that amazing Champions League semi-final against Barcelona [in May 2019], I grabbed hold of the Twitter thing and just posted.\n\n\"It was an amazing match, I was blown away by it. It was one of the best games of football I've ever seen. I got completely out of control. I was like: 'Tweet that! Get it out!'\n\n\"And nearly every Villa match we've won - which isn't many this season - I've been trying to get hold of it, but they keep it away from me now.\"\n\n\"I've met a lot of players. It's very interesting, how different sports and different teams behave in a changing room,\" William says.\n\n\"Whenever I go into the England dressing room there does always feel a lot more pressure. I don't know what it is, but you do notice guys find it much more difficult to relax.\n\n\"We talk about physical fitness. We never really talk about mental fitness. We all need to stay mentally fit, none more so than professional athletes who - under special circumstances playing for England under huge pressure - have got to have their heads razor sharp as well as their feet and legs.\"\n\nAnd the answer to the question you never realised that you had always wanted to know. It would be Queen, wouldn't it?\n\n\"It's one of the few songs I know all the lyrics to,\" he explains.", "The search for an individual infected with the Covid variant first found in Brazil has narrowed to 379 households in south-east England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe said the batch of home testing kits in question had been identified and each household was being contacted.\n\nIt is one of six cases of the P.1 variant found in the UK in February.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs the UK's current vaccines had not yet been tested against this variant.\n\nBut work is already under way to tweak the vaccines to make them a better match for some of these new \"variants of concern\".\n\nUpdated vaccines could be ready within months, enabling people to get a booster shot in the autumn.\n\nPreliminary data from Manaus - the Amazonian city hit hard by the P.1 variant - suggest it is more contagious and may evade immunity provided by past Covid infection.\n\nThis raises questions about how well current vaccines, which were designed around earlier versions of the virus, might work.\n\nMr Hancock said the variant had caused \"significant challenges\" in Brazil.\n\nHe added: \"We're doing all we can to stop the spread of this new variant in the UK, to analyse its effects, and to develop an updated vaccine that works on all these variants of concern and protect the progress that we've made as a nation.\"\n\nThe search comes as the UK recorded 6,391 new coronavirus cases, down 33% on last Tuesday.\n\nThe number of daily deaths reported has also fallen to 343 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, down 60% on last week.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the government was \"on track\" to meet its target of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top nine priority groups, including all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions, by 15 April and all adults by the end of July.\n\n\"Although the day-to-day figures of supply are lumpy, we have some bumper weeks ahead later this month,\" he added.\n\nIt almost went unnoticed with all the focus on the Brazil variant, but during his statement to the House of Commons Mr Hancock made an uncharacteristically confident prediction about vaccine supply.\n\nHe said there are some \"bumper\" weeks to come. It contrasts with the policy to date, which has been to not talk about supply or, when pushed, to keep referring to it as lumpy.\n\nSo why the change of tack? It is mainly related to production at AstraZeneca's two UK plants which are now both fully up-to-speed.\n\nIt could mean around four million doses a week could be given in the second half March - compared to between two and three million in recent weeks. Soon after that supplies of a third vaccine, Moderna, may start arriving in the country.\n\nMinisters often refer to the programme as a race - the vaccine against the virus. Well, if that's the case, the vaccination programme could soon be at full throttle.\n\nThe person infected with the variant who has not been traced used a home testing kit but did not complete their contact details, Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"Incidents like this are rare and only occur in around 0.1% of tests,\" he added.\n\nNews of the mystery case prompted an appeal for anyone without a result from a test on 12 or 13 February to come forward immediately by calling 119.\n\nThe case is not linked to five other cases of the Brazil variant in the UK and Mr Hancock said all these individuals quarantined at home as they were legally required to.\n\nTwo of the cases are from the same household in South Gloucestershire. They tested positive after someone returned from Brazil on 10 February - five days before the government's hotel quarantine rule came into force for arrivals high-risk countries.\n\nEveryone in five postcode areas of South Gloucestershire is now being invited to take a Covid test, even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nMr Hancock said testing and sequencing in South Gloucestershire was being stepped up \"as a precaution\" and there was \"no information to suggest the variant has spread further\".\n\nTwo other people in the same household have also since tested positive for Covid - but tests are still ongoing to check if it is the same variant.\n\nPHE has said officials are tracking down passengers who were on the same flight - from Sao Paulo to Heathrow, via Zurich - as the two South Gloucestershire cases.\n\nA BBC reporter, Juliana Gragnani, was on another flight arriving at Heathrow from Brazil around the same time on 10 February.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she had been has been sent a Covid test kit, along with other passengers on her flight.\n\n\"After quarantining for more than two weeks, just to make sure, this afternoon I got a call from Test and Trace,\" she said. \"They're sending me a Covid kit and said this is being done with all passengers in my flight - AF1580.\n\n\"They also asked if I had taken a test after arriving in England.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said tougher border controls should have been in place sooner.\n\nHe asked: \"How on earth can a test be processed that doesn't collect the contact details and what mechanisms will be put in place to fix this in the future?\"\n\nThe other three cases are Scottish residents who flew to Aberdeen from Brazil via Paris and London, the Scottish government said.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said there was no reason to believe the variant is in circulation in Scotland.\n\nHowever, she urged all those who were on board the BA1312 flight from Heathrow to Aberdeen on 29 January to contact the NHS National Contact Tracing Centre, because the correct details were not available for all passengers.", "There has been a \"spike\" in the number of footballers in England seeking mental health support since the start of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn the first quarter of this year, the Professional Footballers' Association said 299 players had accessed support, compared to 653 in the whole of 2019.\n\nPFA director of player welfare Michael Bennett said he is \"worried\" now the situation has \"hit home\" for players.\n\nSome have financial worries, while there are also concerns over gambling.\n\n\"When you're used to a particular structure and you're not able to follow that, and you're stuck in day in, day out - I'm concerned about players emotionally and mentally,\" Bennett told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's key for them to understand that when something doesn't seem right that they seek the relevant support.\n\n\"We had an idea that the first week or two would be a bit of a honeymoon period, where people would be at home and spending time with the family.\n\n\"But we always thought the longer it went on that's when it would hit home.\"\n\nElite football in England - the Premier League and three divisions that make up the English Football League - is currently suspended indefinitely, having first been paused on 13 March.\n\nThe Premier League and EFL both hope to play the current season to a conclusion, but how or when that might happen remains uncertain.\n\nSome players 'caught up in panic buying'\n\nEarlier this week, the EFL and PFA proposed that clubs in League One and League Two defer up to 25% of players' wages.\n\nAfter an initial \"trickle\" of players approaching the PFA to talk about financial problems, Bennett said more and more were now coming forward to seek help.\n\n\"As soon as we put that proposal forward we made sure players were aware they could access support via our benevolent funds if they had any kind of financial hardship,\" he said.\n\n\"In the first week or so we even had a number of players calling up because they'd been caught up in the panic buying, overspent money they didn't really have and then had to struggle through.\"\n\nBennett added that \"with the boredom factor now kicking in\" he was concerned about an increase in gambling among players too.\n\nThe leading UK charity for problem gamblers has said addicts may be at greater risk during the current pandemic but that it was \"too early\" to tell if it was on the rise.\n\nThe PFA has seen a year-on-year increase in the number of members making use of Sporting Chance Clinic's network of therapists and confidential helpline.\n\nThe 653 players seeking help in 2019 was up from 438 in 2018 - and if the rest of 2020 follows the same pattern as the first three months of the year nearly 1,200 would end up using their services.\n\nWith social distance measures in place, the PFA has been putting sessions for players on Skype and Zoom to ensure they still have access to whatever support they need.\n\n\"We've also put a questionnaire out to all of our members asking about their mental health and how they've been coping over the last two weeks and whether they want or need support,\" added Bennett, a former Charlton Athletic and Brentford winger.\n\n\"We're getting a trickle of responses to that now so we'll continue to monitor the data and put in any additional support as and when it's needed.\"", "A £5bn scheme for High Street shops and hospitality firms in England has been unveiled, with Rishi Sunak promising more support to come for the economy.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's Budget, the chancellor said the grants, worth as much as £18,000 per firm, will help them reopen as England eases lockdown.\n\nIt was broadly welcomed by firms but some groups said it was not enough.\n\nDespite concerns about the country's debt, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Marr show his priority was still jobs and firms.\n\nThe chancellor said public finances faced \"enormous strains\" due to the pandemic. \"I want to level with people about the challenges we face,\" he said.\n\nBut the new £5bn grant scheme would help people \"reopen their businesses\" and is \"the right thing to do now\", Mr Sunak said.\n\nHe said it had been an \"incredibly difficult year\" for the High Street and hospitality sectors, and the grants would give them the \"support they need to get them through, get them back on their feet\".\n\nIt was, he said, part of a range of support measures since the start of the pandemic and would continue. \"We went big, we went early - and there's more to come,\" he told Marr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the shock to the economy cannot be fixed overnight\n\nThe chancellor has faced calls to raise taxes from some parts of the Tory party, while Labour and other Conservative MPs have opposed increases.\n\nThere are newspaper reports this weekend suggesting Mr Sunak could freeze some income tax thresholds for three years and raise corporation tax. However, the chancellor would not comment on tax measures, saying more would be disclosed in the Budget.\n\nThe government has so far borrowed £271bn this financial year - up £222bn on 2019-20. This has pushed the national debt to £2.13 trillion.\n\nNearly 700,000 shops, restaurants, hotels, hair salons, gyms and other businesses in England, will be eligible for the so-called \"restart grants\", to be distributed directly to firms by local authorities from April. It will replace the current monthly grant system.\n\nThe funding takes the total spent on direct grants to businesses during the pandemic to £25bn, the Treasury said. The devolved nations will receive equivalent extra funding.\n\nNon-essential shops in England, along with outdoor hospitality, will be allowed to reopen from 12 April at the earliest.\n\nOther announcements ahead of Mr Sunak's annual economic speech on Wednesday, have included:\n\nMike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, welcomed the \"much-needed lifeline\" provided to businesses by the grants, but called for the chancellor to set out more funding \"for those that have been excluded from income support throughout this crisis\".\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said businesses were \"crying out for the cash\" and urged the grants to be paid as soon as possible.\n\nAnd Helen Dickinson, of the British Retail Consortium, which represents chain stores, said the latest money was a \"vital injection of funding\" but warned it would \"only provide temporary relief\" if the business rate holiday did not continue.\n\nOther groups called for the extension of the furlough scheme and the temporary reduction in value added tax (VAT) on hospitality sales.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the pandemic accelerated the move towards online shopping, with more than 180,000 jobs lost in retail alone, according to the Centre for Retail Research.\n\nSome Conservative MPs, such as former Brexit secretary David Davis, have spoken out against attempts to increase taxes. But Conservative former chancellor Lord Clarke has encouraged Mr Sunak to consider raising VAT, national insurance and income taxes in order to repair the public finances.\n\nLabour has said it opposes tax rises in the short-term and has called for a £20 uplift in universal credit to be kept. The party also called for more help for young people to avoid a \"lost generation scarred by unemployment\".\n\nOn Sunday, economists at the respected EY Item Club said it was right for the chancellor to continue nursing the economy through recovery rather than introduce Budget measures to re-build the country's battered finances.\n\nMartin Beck, senior economic adviser to the Item Club, said: \"Despite an almost unprecedented peacetime deficit, serious action to repair the public finances can wait. The chancellor's focus should still be on supporting the economy through the pandemic and premature fiscal tightening could undermine recovery.\n\n\"With the cost of government debt still historically low, there is no evidence yet of any significant constraint on government borrowing.\"\n\nAre you a small or medium business owner? 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.", "Bank of Ireland operates across the Republic of Ireland and the UK\n\nBank of Ireland has announced it will close 15 branches in Northern Ireland, which is more than half of its 28 branches currently operating in NI.\n\nIt is part of a wider cost-cutting exercise that includes the closure of 88 banks in the Republic of Ireland, where 169 banks will remain open.\n\nThe Dublin-based bank operates across the Republic and the UK. It is one of NI's \"big four\" banks.\n\nThe bank's UK head office will also relocate from London to Belfast.\n\nThe bank has been reviewing its Northern Ireland operations and there had been speculation that it could withdraw from the market.\n\nThat has not happened, but Chief Executive Francesca McDonagh said the Northern Ireland business will undergo \"a material restructure\".\n\nThe branch closures will affect the roles of about 120 staff in Northern Ireland but will not result in compulsory redundancies, according to Ian McLaughlin, Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland UK.\n\nA geographical breakdown of Bank Of Ireland branches earmarked for closure in Northern Ireland\n\nThe branches earmarked for closure are:\n\nThe bank would work to identify staff who could be redeployed to other roles within the company, as an alternative to redundancy, said Mr McLaughlin.\n\nBranch closures will not start for 12 weeks and customers will be contacted individually about the changes, he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nAside from closing 15 branches, the restructuring of its Northern Ireland business will include simplifying its range of products with a greater focus on car finance and mortgages.\n\nThe bank will also continue with its strategy of withdrawing from less profitable lending across the UK.\n\nIt said this would mean its UK loan book shrinking by about 10% during 2021.\n\nBank of Ireland said its customers' usage of cash and branch services is falling substantially\n\nThe bank's UK division made a loss of £15m in 2020, compared to a profit of £152m in 2019.\n\nThe loss was due to impairment charges - money which must be set aside to cover loans which may not be repaid in full.\n\nAll banks have seen increased impairment charges due to the economic impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe bank as a whole showed an annual loss of €760m (£657m), again due to impairment charges.\n\n\"We've announced some rather eye-watering numbers this morning, like most banks,\" Mr McLaughlin told Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"It's been a really tough time and anyone who tells you differently isn't really paying attention, but we've got a really solid business here,\" he insisted.\n\nMr McLaughlin added that the relocation of the bank's UK office to Belfast was \"really good news and a sign of our commitment to Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the branch closures were in response to changes in customer behaviour over the last four years.\n\nHe argued that as the popularity of digital services like online shopping had increased, banks could not be \"insulated\" from the switch to digital.\n\n\"Our customers are using our branches less and less and we've reached a bit of a tipping point,\" Mr McLaughlin said.\n\n\"Our cash usage and customer visits in the closing branches is down 70% since 2017 and commensurately our digital banking up 50% over the same period so we need to adapt and we need to change.\"\n\nRetail NI Chief Executive Glyn Roberts said the number of closures \"seems a step too far\".\n\nAcknowledging \"the significant increase in online banking\", Mr Roberts said Monday's news will have a \"negative impact\" on high streets across Northern Ireland when the lockdown ends.\n\n\"I have also particular concerns of the impact on rural communities, with further reduced ATM provision and the ability to access cash,\" he added.\n\nThe Consumer Council has said the closures risk isolating consumers by removing access to essential services.\n\nFinancial Services Director Scott Kennerley said many consumers and small businesses still rely on face-to-face banking.\n\n\"We know that some consumers in Northern Ireland still prefer to use cash so the decision by Bank of Ireland to close half of its branch network will have a negative impact on consumers and their access to cash services,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to engage with Bank of Ireland to understand how it is supporting consumers affected by this decision.\"\n\nBank of 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